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Manifest Creative Research Gallery: SMALL is BIG | CODE_D - 9 Mar 2013 to 5 Apr 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Catherine Kehoe (small is big), 2009
Schmata Head 7� x 5� oil on paper |
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Manifest Presents SMALL is BIG Thirty Paintings by Catherine Kehoe, Tim Kennedy, Ken Kewley, Eve Mansdorf, and EM Saniga Main Gallery Opening Friday, March 8, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: March 9 - April 5, 2013 Catherine Kehoe (Roslindale, Massachusetts) Tim Kennedy (Bloomington, Indiana) Ken Kewley (Easton, Pennsylvania) Eve Mansdorf (Bloomington, Indiana) EM Saniga (Nottingham, Pennsylvania) This group exhibition is one of six proposals selected from among 150 submitted for consideration for Manifest's ninth season. Three of these artists have participated in Manifest projects in the past. Numerous students of Mansdorf's and Kennedy's at Indiana University have often made the final jury cut in Manifest's highly competitive national and international projects. Manifest is proud to showcase this group of 30 small paintings by a powerful recognized group of active painters. On March 9th and 10th Tim Kennedy will be offering a workshop on 'The Bay Area Technique (Taking Temperature)' at Manifest's Drawing Center. Learn more about the workshop here. http://www.manifestgallery.org/studio/workshops/kennedy Excerpt from the Artists' exhibition concept written by Tim Kennedy: Small paintings that stand on their own – as a category distinct from painted studies – are capable of producing a powerful effect on viewers. Paintings done on small scale communicate intimacy. The viewer becomes intensely aware of his or her own space as well as the space in the painting. Viewing a small painting one can feel the contradictory sensations of nearness and distance experienced simultaneously. We see the artist’s hand in the marks on the surface of the panel or canvas that magically transform themselves at the same instant into a house or a flower – and then back again. It is an endless circuit that produces the hypnotic illusion of stopped time. Veracity and sincerity are also qualities that paintings of modest scale convey exceptionally well. Painting on a small scale implies the role of witness on the part of the artist and the ability to truthfully record the perceived world – but it is truth honed with feeling. Small works permit the pleasure of touch. Small scale allows the artist to vicariously caress the things he or she paints. Small is Big is intended to celebrate the virtues of painting on a small scale through the work of five of its practitioners. CODE_D (new media) Drawing Room and Parallel Space Opening Friday, March 8, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: March 9 - April 5, 2013 Curated by Jason Franz Art and Science are intertwined throughout history. New media in art arise from a variety of places– sometimes the artist's lab, sometimes the scientist's and engineer's, and other times from someplace completely unexpected. Inevitably this is driven by curiosity, a need for new means of expressing complex ideas, and often the simple desire to create something novel. As part of its ongoing effort to survey various approaches to art making, expression, and creative discovery Manifest offered CODE_D as an invitation to artists to share works of New Media. In calling for submissions from around the world we had no predetermined expectations for what would constitute 'new' media. While the title of the project plays off the concept of the digital, that was by no means the defining parameter for works to be considered. Works submitted to this peer-juried exhibit could be of any media, style, or genre, and represent New Media in any number of widely interpreted ways which, as visitors to this intriguing exhibit will see, they did. We set out on this project eager to present and document a broadly compelling exhibition, a collection of works of New Media revealing the excitement, mystery, and intellect behind the leading edge of creativity in the world today. For this exhibit 114 artists from around the world submitted 227 works for consideration. Seventeen works by the following 15 artists from 11 states and 4 countries (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, and the countries of England, Germany, and Spain) were selected for presentation in the gallery and catalog. The exhibit includes several short video-based works which will be screened on an ongoing basis througout the four-week exhibition. Wilson Borja Fayetteville, Arkansas James Curran Littleton, Massachusetts Ronan Devlin (with David J. Knowles) Conwy, England Santiago Echeverry Tampa, Florida Juan Escudero Oviedo, Spain Hwayong Jung Brooklyn, New York Ryan Mandell Boise, Idaho Jessye McDowell Auburn, Alabama Mark Nystrom Boone, North Carolina Bethany Pipkin Greenville, North Carolina Nick Reszetar Milan, Michigan Ying-Fang Shen Richmond, Virginia Anne Spalter Providence, Rhode Island Tore Terrasi Arlington, Texas Marcelina Wellmer Berlin, Germany The fifth of the new Manifest Curatorial Talks to be led by Tim Parsley will be held on Sunday, March 24th at 3:00pm. 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. |
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