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Front Room: Melissa Pokorny �Useful Things (For Getting Lost)� - 9 Mar 2012 to 15 Apr 2012 Current Exhibition |
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Melissa Pokorny
�Useful Things (For Getting Lost)� |
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The Front Room is Proud to Present: Melissa Pokorny “Useful Things (For Getting Lost)” March 9 – April 15 Reception March 10, 7-10 Front Room is pleased to present “Useful Things (For Getting Lost)”, a solo exhibition of new work by Melissa Pokorny. As the title suggests, this show is about looking--for things, at things, or through things. It’s about the pleasure that can be had from getting lost, as well as the anxiety that can produce in those left behind. These new photo/collage/sculptural works reveal the extraordinary beauty hidden in the guise of the quotidian. Domestic objects gleaned from estate sales are combined with photographs and casts of utilitarian things--hammers, flashlights, pin cushions and coat hooks, to create evocative tableau that blur the boundaries between the domestic sphere and the natural world, the animate and the inanimate, the magical and the mundane, and remembered or invented memories of places and things. Melissa Pokorny’s sculptural work examines connections between “things” as potent containers of memory, capably representing loss and estrangement, and the deeply metaphorical, haunted landscape of the everyday. Drawing on traditions of assemblage, these sculptural tableau and wall mounted forms address the status of marginal objects and things. Narratives that incorporate these occulted objects allude to the allure of magical thinking, and the collapse of boundaries between the animate and inanimate. Williamsburg Afterhours Saturday, March 10th, from 7-10pm This year, during the Brooklyn Armory Night, Saturday March 10th, Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn will be hosting an exciting series of artist exhibitions, special video screening and performances at a variety of venues throughout the area. Williamsburg and Greenpoint will be featuring presentations of international and national artists, both home-grown and imported in an explosion of exhibitions, events, screenings and other projects. Everywhere you turn, you’ll find galleries with exhibition openings and special events, restaurants and bars screening artists’ videos, and mobile artist projects. Galleries will be open until 10pm, with special events at participating venues throughout the evening, followed by the Brooklyn Armory Night Afterparty at the art house theatre, indieScreen. AT FRONT ROOM Slanted Walk by Chris Jordan, 2012. This interactive projection installation examines public space through the use of light and movement. The installation combines live recordings of passerbys with color and texture through the use of projection and camera. By highlighting the individual in the urban landscape, Slanted Walk attempts to reexamine the effects of light and interactivity within the city.and"Untitled #2," Site Specific Video Projection by Jeremy Slater THE FRONT ROOM IS PROUD TO PARTICIPATE IN: Fountain art fair New York 2012 Location: 69th Regiment Armory 68 Lexington Avenue @ 25th Street March 9 - March 11, 2012 General Hours: Saturday, March 10 & Sunday, March 11, 1pm–7pm Hours & Special Events: Friday, March 9, 1pm–7pm – VIP & Press Preview Friday, March 9, 7pm–11pm – Artlog presents: Fab 5 Freddy (DJ set) Saturday, March 10, 7–11pm – Art For Progress presents: Saturday Night Party |
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