Posts Tagged "Honorable Mention"
SARAH CUSIMANO MILES
(Photo credit: Heron (Ardea goliath) with pomegranate by Sarah Cusimano Miles)
Photographer Sarah Cusimano Miles was recognized by juror Karen Irvine as an Honorable Mention in the Center’s “Animalia” exhibition. Her photographs Heron (Ardea goliath) with pomegranate and Gull (Larus argentatus) with artichoke were both selected for exhibition. Both images display arranged animal specimens in a manner that suggests the institutional cataloging of animalia as seen through the gaze of art history.
Discussing her photographs, Cusimano Miles’ artist’s statement reads:
I am interested in collections of objects and our relationships to them. These photographs explore the “not on view” public collection at the Anniston Museum of Natural History located in Alabama. They represent the excess of the collection; the specimens that are acquired and then shelved for long periods of time … By portraying these objects through the tradition of the still life, I hope to comment on the still present issue of decadence in our culture, while illuminating the unheralded beauty of that which is held in stasis.
(Photo credit: Gull (Larus argentatus) with artichoke by Sarah Cusimano Miles)
RED // JUROR’S SELECTIONS
Last week, the Center announced juror Amber Terranova’s selections for the “Red” exhibition, which will be on display in the Main Gallery from April 23 – May 22, 2010.
Today on PERSPECTIVES, the Center shares with you the Amber’s choice for the Juror’s Selection as well as her two Honorable Mentions.
Juror’s Selection (Blurb Book award winner):
(Photo Credit: Sasha, Moscow 2007 by Natalia Engelhardt)
Juror’s Honorable Mentions:
(Photo Credit: Untitled (Couples) by Roger Generazzo)
(Photo Credit: Flurries by Shayne Lynn)
ELEMENTS OF WATER // GINA LEVAY
(Photo Credit: Concrete Forms in Water Tunnel by Gina LeVay)
Concrete Forms in Water Tunnel, a photograph from Gina LeVay’s Sandhog Project, was selected for the Director’s Honorable Mention in the Center’s “Elements of Water” exhibition. LeVay’s series had a large-scale installation at Grand Central Terminal in 2006 and was published last fall by powerHouse Books as a book entitled Sandhogs.
What are Sandhogs, you ask?
LeVay describes them as the following in her artist statement:
“Sandhogs are miners who are 800 feet below the streets of Manhattan, tunneling bedrock to create the largest capital project in NYC’s history–the 60 mile long City Water Tunnel #3. The future of Gotham depends on the efforts of these unseen miners. This new water channel will supplement the two existing, decrepit tunnels and prevent a catastrophic water shortage in the city. Their imminent completion of the tunnel will ensure that fresh, clean water continues to flow to every resident of the city. Soon, 1.5 billion gallons of water will flow through the channel daily, delivering water to the entire city. My project not only sparks the public’s imagination and interest of the subterranean and sandhogs but celebrates this historic and monumental feat of engineering.”
More of Gina’s work can be found at:
http://www.ginalevay.com/
NEW VISIONS // ERIK PATTEN
(Photo Credit: Athletes in Putty by Erik Patten)
“[In the Silly Putty series,] I examine black and white newspaper images, which appear to have no great value to the story they illustrate, except as filler. They belong to a venerated system of representation, but now relate to that only incidentally.”
Featured artist Erik Patten uses his work “to flesh out the character” of usually overlooked objects. Patten’s Athletes in Putty diptych, which is from his Silly Putty series, lifts newspaper images of sports stars and gives them new meaning. By spreading silly putty onto printed media, the images are transferred—and flipped horizontally—onto the putty. Ideally, the series uses a nostalgic childhood pastime to project popular culture. The mirrored subjects become both confined and displaced on the synthetic putty membrane. The flesh-like quality of the putty suggests humans enclosed within an unnatural environment. Patten was selected for the Juror‘s Honorable Mention in the Center’s “New Visions” exhibition.
(Photo Credit: Erik Patten)
More of Erik’s work can be found at:
http://www.erikpatten.com/
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NEW VISIONS // MASSIMO CRISTALDI
(Photo Credit: Refinery Flock Triptych (Panel 1) by Massimo Cristaldi)
“This project, [which] starts from the utilitarian relationship between flocks of birds and the heat emitted by a Refinery, investigates [the] precarious equilibrium between industries and animals—between manmade artifacts and Nature.”
Massimo Cristaldi’s photograph Rifinery Flock Triptych (Panel 1) from his Refinery Flocks series was given the Director’s Honorable Mention in the “New Visions” exhibition. Cristaldi’s series depicts the fluid intuitions of bird swarms. In his own words, Cristaldi uses his series to present “a certain ‘synergy’ between the monstrous products of progress and natural species.”
More of Massimo’s work can be found at:
http://www.massimocristaldi.com
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