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Manifest Creative Research Gallery: REWORK - Sculpture by Aristotle Georgiades LOST HORIZON - Art About History - 9 Nov 2012 to 7 Dec 2012 Current Exhibition |
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Aristotle Georgiades, Extension, 2009
repurposed aluminum ladder 96" x 24� x 28� |
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REWORK Sculpture by Aristotle Georgiades Main Gallery Opening Friday, November 9, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: November 10 - December 7, 2012 This solo exhibition of Artistotle Georgiades' sculptures is one of six selected from among 150 proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest's 9th season. REWORK is presented, fittingly, alongside LOST HORIZON (art about history), a group show of fourteen artists' works exploring history. Aristotle Georgiades received a B.F.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work ranges from issues of male identity, labor economics, and more recently, the changing American landscape in a post-industrial economy. He works in wood, metal, and recycled architectural materials. Georgiades lives and works in Stoughton, Wisconsin. Georgiades has exhibited his sculptural works nationally and internationally in both curated group and solo exhibitions. His work has been reviewed in various publications including Art In America, Sculpture Magazine and The Chicago Tribune. He is also part of the collaborative public art team Actual Size Artworks which has been producing large scale permanent and temporary public works for over fifteen years. Of his work Georgiades states: In today's economy more modest ideals abound and one must be prepared to find alternative means to an end. In my new projects and those planned for the future I find my selection of materials to be based more on common objects and materials that are approaching obsolescence and are of little value in their present state. Most of my current works have an intention or ambition that has been redirected for one reason or another; the emotional content of this change in direction is the subject of this new work. The second of the new Manifest Curatorial Talks to be led by Tim Parsley will be held on November 29, at 7p.m.. These once-per exhibit free public events will not be ordinary art historical 'lectures' per se, but rather will provide a guided experience and discussion of the exhibitions on view through the point of view of the philosophy of the Manifest organization. This will give the public new in-depth insight into their neighborhood gallery for the world, nine times each year. LOST HORIZON (art about history) Everything that has ever happened, ever, has led to this moment... Drawing Room and Parallel Space Opening Friday, November 9, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: November 10 - December 7, 2012 Curated by Tim Parsley A small slice of the leading edge of the wave of time is documented, encapsulated, and frozen in the form of human history. They say that history is written by the winners. Perhaps it is more true to say that it is written by those who survive, and only for the brief time in which they can still talk (or make art) about it. That, we suppose, would be the collective 'us.' History is generally divided into two philosophies, speculative and critical. Regardless of which, key words apply, and include terms such as progress, truth, fact, civilization, cycles, patterns, society, past, direction, humanity, linear, evolution, and so on. Inevitably, history is a view of humanity across time. How do artists reflect upon, and even participate in history? Surely some do it consciously, as a subject of focus. Others may have it in mind, without the intention of feeding into or addressing it at all. Whatever the case may be, Manifest offers Lost Horizon as a survey of how artists working today make art which is in one way or another about history. Manifest received 626 entries from 273 artists in 41 states and 16 countries around the world for this project. The exhibit features sixteen works by artists from eleven states and the countries of Canada, England, and Israel. Lost Horizon features works by: Zach Cohen But-Yam, Israel Catherine Dreiss Des Moines, Iowa Alexandra Emberley Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Ivan Fortushniak Indiana, Pennsylvania Melissa Furness Denver, Colorado Zach Koch Bloomington, Indiana Hanna Kozlowski-Slone Sterling, Kansas Adam Mysock New Orleans, Louisiana Sara Pearce Cincinnati, Ohio Justin Plakas Athens, Georgia Doug Russell Laramie, Wyoming Laura Spalding Best Tempe, Arizona Adele Vallance Ampthill, England Jave Yoshimoto Polk, Nebraska |
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