Agenda
(IN)TANGIBLE
Yiftach Belsky, Digging Project (2008), preformance documentation, fourth hour
Curators: Fernando Salicrup and Christine Licata
The Taller Boricua presents “(IN)TANGIBLE,” curated by Fernando Salicrup and Christine Licata. This group exhibition of 11 contemporary New York artists whose work blurs the boundaries between states of permanence and permeability, collapsing the distinctions within the visible and invisible forces that surround our lives.
Art has the ability to coexist within the realms of both perception and reality, offering a limitless vantage point of the influential forces of both the natural world and the culture through which we define it. It gives shape and substance to the intangible ideologies that drive society such as theology, politics, science and aesthetics. Alternatively, art also deconstructs the tangible manifestations of these same discourses, for example those of religion and ritual, social and government practices, technological devices and material commodities.
The participating artists explore these collective dialogues and critical reflections through various mediums: new/multi-media, photography, installation and video. Challenging our expectations and preconceived notions, their work examines both deep within and far beyond the confines of physical form. British writer and painter John Berger once wrote, “The relation to what we see and what we know is never settled.” The exhibition “(IN)TANGIBLE” exists within this unresolved, provocative experience.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Kristin Anderson is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited internationally including the USF Contemporary Art Museum (Florida), Lancaster Museum of Art (Pennsylvania), Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel), The Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art (Colorado), Kasia Kay Art Projects (Chicago), Gigantic Art Space (New York), Pablois Birthday (New York), The Darklight Festival (Ireland), and ISEA 2002 (Japan). She has been awarded residencies by chashama (New York) and Herzliya Center for the Creative Arts (Israel).
Yiftach Belsky is a multimedia artist who currently lives and works in Israel. Belsky graduated from Hadassh College and received his MFA in photography and related media from the School of Visual Arts. He has also exhibited at the Ramat-Gan Museum (Israel), Museum on the seam
(Israel) and the 'Souvenir art' - Markers 7 project in the 2009 Venice Biennale (Italy).
Helen Dennis was born in the UK, now lives and works in New York City. Using the photographic process to produce images, Dennis’ artwork sits on the boundary of photography and drawing, challenging the conventional reading of a photographic image. Dennis received her MFA from Hunter College in 2005 and has exhibited at international and national venues including China, United Kingdom, New Jersey, and New York City.
Andy Doro is an artist and designer from New York City working primarily with interactive and kinetic pieces that utilize technology to address hidden information systems. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Rhizome, We Make Money Not Art, Makezine, Core 77, Neural.it, Engadget and Art World (China), and has shown at ISEA 2008, NIME 2008, Bent Festival, and Conflux.
Gina Fuentes Walker is a photographer and multi-media artist based in New York City. Informed by an academic background in anthropology and documentary media, Fuentes Walker's work has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Smithsonian Institution, Chashama and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has had solo exhibitions in Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina and in Germany, where a one year exhibition and a site-specific video installation was recently on view at Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne.
Ann Oren was born in Israel, lives and works in New York City, working primarily with video installations. She received a BFA in Film and Video as well as an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, NY. Oren also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited at The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), WRO 13th Media Art Biennale (Wroclaw, Poland), PS122 Gallery (New York City), “Festival du Cinema de Paris” (Paris, France), and APEXART (New York City). Residencies include Spiro Arts (Utah). Oren is a grant recipient from The Jerome Foundation, The Visual Arts Fund, The School of Visual Arts and the National Board of Reviews, NY.
Fernando Salicrup was born and raised in New York City. Salicrup has been working in digital media for over twenty years. A graduate from the School of Visual Arts, Salicrup has exhibited in many solo and group exhibits at institutions such as El Museo del Barrio, the Cayman Gallery, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the University of Texas Austin among others. Salicrup most recently exhibited at the Nuyorican Poets Café this past summer. Apart from being an artist, he is also a political and cultural activist. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Taller Boricua.
Erik Sanner uses new media to create “moving paintings,” installations in which dynamic video is projected onto prepared surfaces such as oil paintings. Sanner’s work has been widely exhibited in New York and Tokyo for over a decade. He has been twice awarded Manhattan Community Arts Fund grants, for his public art projects ”Chess” (2007) and “How to Enjoy Traffic Cones” (2009). Sanner currently lives and works in New York City.
Barbara Sullivan is a multimedia artist and photographer. She holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC, and has studied at International Center of Photography, and abroad at the Carmen Oberst Foto Kunst in Hamburg. She has exhibited in various galleries in Germany and the United States. Her work has also been featured in the areas of music, film, fashion and theater. Sullivan currently lives and works in New York City.
Kazue Taguchi is a sculptor and installation artist who works with light and reflection. Originally from Japan she now lives and works in New York. Taguchi received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. She also studied at the The Barcelona Glass Foundation in Barcelona, Spain and the Joshibi University of Art and Design in Kanagawa, Japan. She has also been exhibited in Madrid, Vermont, Dusseldorf, and New York.
Richard A. Wager is a conceptual performance artist based in New York City. He received his MFA in sculpture from SUNY Albany and his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona. Wagner has exhibited throughout New York at venues including Chashama, Exit Art, University of Albany Museum, ABC No Rio, Sara Meltzer Gallery, Empire State College, and Postmasters. He has also engaged in a variety of conceptual performances in New York City; Brooklyn, NY; and Hoboken, NJ.
The Taller Boricua presents “(IN)TANGIBLE,” curated by Fernando Salicrup and Christine Licata. This group exhibition of 11 contemporary New York artists whose work blurs the boundaries between states of permanence and permeability, collapsing the distinctions within the visible and invisible forces that surround our lives.
Art has the ability to coexist within the realms of both perception and reality, offering a limitless vantage point of the influential forces of both the natural world and the culture through which we define it. It gives shape and substance to the intangible ideologies that drive society such as theology, politics, science and aesthetics. Alternatively, art also deconstructs the tangible manifestations of these same discourses, for example those of religion and ritual, social and government practices, technological devices and material commodities.
The participating artists explore these collective dialogues and critical reflections through various mediums: new/multi-media, photography, installation and video. Challenging our expectations and preconceived notions, their work examines both deep within and far beyond the confines of physical form. British writer and painter John Berger once wrote, “The relation to what we see and what we know is never settled.” The exhibition “(IN)TANGIBLE” exists within this unresolved, provocative experience.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Kristin Anderson is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited internationally including the USF Contemporary Art Museum (Florida), Lancaster Museum of Art (Pennsylvania), Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel), The Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art (Colorado), Kasia Kay Art Projects (Chicago), Gigantic Art Space (New York), Pablois Birthday (New York), The Darklight Festival (Ireland), and ISEA 2002 (Japan). She has been awarded residencies by chashama (New York) and Herzliya Center for the Creative Arts (Israel).
Yiftach Belsky is a multimedia artist who currently lives and works in Israel. Belsky graduated from Hadassh College and received his MFA in photography and related media from the School of Visual Arts. He has also exhibited at the Ramat-Gan Museum (Israel), Museum on the seam
(Israel) and the 'Souvenir art' - Markers 7 project in the 2009 Venice Biennale (Italy).
Helen Dennis was born in the UK, now lives and works in New York City. Using the photographic process to produce images, Dennis’ artwork sits on the boundary of photography and drawing, challenging the conventional reading of a photographic image. Dennis received her MFA from Hunter College in 2005 and has exhibited at international and national venues including China, United Kingdom, New Jersey, and New York City.
Andy Doro is an artist and designer from New York City working primarily with interactive and kinetic pieces that utilize technology to address hidden information systems. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Rhizome, We Make Money Not Art, Makezine, Core 77, Neural.it, Engadget and Art World (China), and has shown at ISEA 2008, NIME 2008, Bent Festival, and Conflux.
Gina Fuentes Walker is a photographer and multi-media artist based in New York City. Informed by an academic background in anthropology and documentary media, Fuentes Walker's work has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Smithsonian Institution, Chashama and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has had solo exhibitions in Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina and in Germany, where a one year exhibition and a site-specific video installation was recently on view at Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne.
Ann Oren was born in Israel, lives and works in New York City, working primarily with video installations. She received a BFA in Film and Video as well as an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, NY. Oren also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited at The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), WRO 13th Media Art Biennale (Wroclaw, Poland), PS122 Gallery (New York City), “Festival du Cinema de Paris” (Paris, France), and APEXART (New York City). Residencies include Spiro Arts (Utah). Oren is a grant recipient from The Jerome Foundation, The Visual Arts Fund, The School of Visual Arts and the National Board of Reviews, NY.
Fernando Salicrup was born and raised in New York City. Salicrup has been working in digital media for over twenty years. A graduate from the School of Visual Arts, Salicrup has exhibited in many solo and group exhibits at institutions such as El Museo del Barrio, the Cayman Gallery, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the University of Texas Austin among others. Salicrup most recently exhibited at the Nuyorican Poets Café this past summer. Apart from being an artist, he is also a political and cultural activist. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Taller Boricua.
Erik Sanner uses new media to create “moving paintings,” installations in which dynamic video is projected onto prepared surfaces such as oil paintings. Sanner’s work has been widely exhibited in New York and Tokyo for over a decade. He has been twice awarded Manhattan Community Arts Fund grants, for his public art projects ”Chess” (2007) and “How to Enjoy Traffic Cones” (2009). Sanner currently lives and works in New York City.
Barbara Sullivan is a multimedia artist and photographer. She holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC, and has studied at International Center of Photography, and abroad at the Carmen Oberst Foto Kunst in Hamburg. She has exhibited in various galleries in Germany and the United States. Her work has also been featured in the areas of music, film, fashion and theater. Sullivan currently lives and works in New York City.
Kazue Taguchi is a sculptor and installation artist who works with light and reflection. Originally from Japan she now lives and works in New York. Taguchi received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. She also studied at the The Barcelona Glass Foundation in Barcelona, Spain and the Joshibi University of Art and Design in Kanagawa, Japan. She has also been exhibited in Madrid, Vermont, Dusseldorf, and New York.
Richard A. Wager is a conceptual performance artist based in New York City. He received his MFA in sculpture from SUNY Albany and his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona. Wagner has exhibited throughout New York at venues including Chashama, Exit Art, University of Albany Museum, ABC No Rio, Sara Meltzer Gallery, Empire State College, and Postmasters. He has also engaged in a variety of conceptual performances in New York City; Brooklyn, NY; and Hoboken, NJ.
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