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Manifest Creative Research Gallery: HEAD FIRST | FIRST CONTEXTS - 25 Sept 2010 to 22 Oct 2010 Current Exhibition |
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HEAD FIRST Exploring the Human Head Main Gallery + Drawing Room Opening Friday, September 24, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: September 25 - October 22, 2010 We consciously and unconsciously categorize identity based on the human head. It is, for most people, their social thumbprint, the �I� in first person statements. Technology exacerbates people�s retreat into the upper limb of their body, encouraging portraiture on a mass scale in the form of social networks such as Facebook, facial recognition tools which help sort photos of friends and family based on images of their face, and video conference calling. Some say even the soul has migrated from the central chest cavity all the way up to the head, as if altitude were really divine. While the body is still not expendable (yet), the center of humanity has nevertheless coalesced into the mind, behind the face. When we think of each other, we usually start with the head first. So to launch Manifest�s seventh season we offered this call to artists for works that address the human head in some way. While portraiture is certainly welcome, this is not intended to be a show exclusively about that genre, nor just the front of the head. All manner of interpretations, explorations, and machinations involving the human head were invited and considered. For this exhibit 262 artists submitted 523 works for consideration. Twenty-four works by the following 16 artists from twelve states were selected by our two-part jury/curatorial process for presentation in the gallery and catalog. Ivan Albreht (Palmetto Bay, Florida) Nikki Arnell (Jonesboro, Arkansas) Thomas Butler (Long Beach, California) Valerie Escobedo (Findlay, Ohio) Carl Gombert (Maryville, Tennessee) Elana Hagler (Englewood, Colorado) Anna Kipervaser (Chicago, Illinois) Steven Labadessa (Joplin, Missouri) Paul Loehle (Cincinnati, Ohio) Douglas Malone (Royal Oak, Michigan) Gwen Manfrin (Orinda, California) Francoise McAree (Providence, Rhode Island) Zinna Mussmann (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Eric Penington (West Lafayette, Indiana) Elena Peteva (Oak Park, Illinois) Melissa Wilkinson (Bono, Arkansas) FIRST CONTEXTS Where Art Comes From Parallel Space Opening Friday, September 24, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: September 25 - October 22, 2010 Curated by Tim Parsley Where does a work of art begin? Historically, the artist�s studio has served as the crucible of creation for works of art, a zone of creativity for the artist to test, fashion, produce, refine, and otherwise translate their visual ideas into concrete form. Ranging from spare rooms in the corner of a basement, to renovated barns and garages, to sun-bathed lofts with high-ceilings, the studio is the artist�s escape from the demands of life, a retreat from the fray, so that new artworks have a chance to be born. Artist Daniel Buren has called the studio "the first frame of the work," and likened it to the filter artists put their work through before letting it loose into the world. However, some artists have found the traditional studio, with its marginal position divorced from daily life, a disconnected and false context for creativity. Instead, they operate out-of-doors, literally, with their �studios� being fields upon which they plant their plein air easels, city streets where they walk and interact in dynamic give-and-take fashion, and site-specific spaces that serve as both context of origin and public display. As Robert Storr has noted, �The bottom line is that artists work where they can and how they can.� Manifest invited artists and designers of any media to submit works that explore, depict, challenge and interpret this �first frame� of creativity: the context from which art is made. Whether that originating zone is a traditional studio, an open field, a social atmosphere, or a computer screen... we invited artists to show us where it all starts. For this deliberately intimate and highly selective exhibit 40 artists submitted 83 works for consideration. Eleven works by the following 9 artists from across the United States, Canada, and England were selected by our two-part jury/curatorial process for presentation in the gallery and catalog. Brett Eberhardt (Macomb, Illinois) Robert Groh (Ontario, Canada) Rupert Hartley (Surrey, England) Alma Levia (Richmond, Virginia) Lorrie McClanahan (Fort Worth, Texas) Daniel O�Connor (Cincinnati, Ohio) Emil Robinson (Cincinnati, Ohio) Jim Shirey (Athens, Ohio) Sean Stewart (Ontario, Canada) GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday through Friday 2 � 7:00 p.m., Sat. 12 � 5 p.m. or by appointment for groups - school groups welcome. LOCATION: 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45206 (Just south of Madison Rd. at DeSales Corner in East Walnut Hills.) PARKING: On street and parking across the street in DeSales Business Parking Lot CONTACT: Jason Franz, Manifest Executive Director at [email protected] GALLERY PHONE: 513-861-3638 FOR MORE INFO: http://www.manifestgallery.org FULL COLOR EXHIBIT CATALOG WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE: http://www.manifestgallery.org/manifestpress |
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