One of Srividya Kannan Ramachandran's photographs will be included in the juried show "Stories through Photography" at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts in California from July 22 to Sept 17, 2017.
Srividya Kannan Ramachandran showing 3 paintings at fashion show + art show + live painting + barbecue charity event. One night only!.
The Set NYC presents: CoutureMask: Bikini Block Party. An event to help end NYC depression and poverty. The mission of The Set NYC is to empower and build people up from poverty situations to sustainable living. Friday, June 304pm - 10pm 21 and over event
Chelsea Manhattan296 9th Ave.
CoutureMask & Bradley Douglas Jordan Bikini Fashion Show. Also showcasing Swim Suit fashion shows, Bikini Bottom Show, Outdoor Meat Grill, Outdoor VEGAN grill, Keg Beer, Outdoor Mural Live Painting, MERMAID Fashion Show, Sea Creatures, Art Exhibitions, Live Bands. $25 unlimited BBQ and keg beer. $30 at door.
Poetry and Art by Srividya Kannan Ramachandran in "Mom Egg Review"
The Girl in the Apartment Below
As the train whistled past the lonely road,
She stood still.
The stale neon lights illumined
the plastic smile on her lips.
Her burdened shoulder drooped.
Yet, she waved.
She was all but ten.
I got a glimpse of her sorrow beneath,
I blinked, and she was gone.
Why didn’t I share my journey with her?
She was all but ten.
–Srividya Kannan Ramachandran
--from "Mom Egg Review Literature and Art" Link here
"The Mind is a Clean Canvas"; Oil on Canvas; 24 x 36 in; painting by Srividya Kannan Ramachandran
Wally Gilbert Art Show at Salon R
Doors to Nowhere
New Wally Gilbert Art Show at
Salon R
703 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge MA 02140
617-491-2300
June 21st to August 25th, 2017
Tuesday 9:30 – 5:00
Weds & Thurs 9:30 – 8:00
Friday 9:30 – 5:00
Saturday 8:00 – 2:30
Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 11, 6 – 8 pm
"Doors to Nowhere"
45" x 30"
Digital print on Aluminum with a high gloss finish.
Press Release: Viridian's 28th Annual International Juried Exhibition
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Viridian's 28th Annual International Juried Exhibition
Juried by Susan Thompson, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum
June 27– July 15, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 29, 6-8 pm
1st prize Ana Lucia Cano Villegas 2nd prize Lorna Stovall 3rd prize Keith Tang
Marie-Ange Ackad * Jessica Alazraki * Andrew Amundsen * Nan Brall * Andrew Brown *
Josh Brinlee * Ellen Burnett * Ana Lucia Cano Villegas * Susan Copich * Deborah Druick * Shawna Hanel * Howard Hastie * Marcos Hernandez * Dinora Justice * Joanna Madloch *
Pavel Muller * Christopher Nathan Nelson * Max Neuman * Aya Ogasawara * Aimee Perez * Barbara Rubensohn * Ingrid Scheibler * Scott Springer * Lorna Stovall * Keith Tang *
Brian Turkowski
Chelsea: Viridian Artists Inc. is pleased to present our 28th International Juried Exhibition curated by, Susan Thompson, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum The exhibition opens June 27th and continues through July 16th, 2016. In celebration, a special reception will be held on Thursday, June 29h, 6-8pm. We are especially pleased to present awards to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners of this important competition that brings the art of emerging and under-recognized artists to the attention of museum curators.
The competition selection as always was difficult, but especially so for the nature of art in our world today encompasses a wide variety of methods, materials and conceptualizations of what art is. And there were so many outstanding submissions.
More than 550 artists submitted over 2000 submissions, a daunting task, but Susan Thompson, who juried this year's competition, did an outstanding job.
In her curatorial statement Ms. Thompson states "In reviewing the diverse pool of entrants, I found that I was most compelled by the artists who were pushing the boundaries of their selected medium and created works that were slightly unsettling. In some cases, this meant new, unusual, or surprising use of materials. In other works, this was reflected in strange or disquieting compositions. Many of the artists made fruitful use of unique combinations of color, texture, pattern, or imagery, often using collage to create generative juxtapositions. All are wholly original in their point of view. I am most grateful for the opportunity to review the work of so many impassioned creators and congratulate the winners and finalists on their selection for the exhibition."
As always, Viridian makes an effort to expand the opportunities for outstanding art to be seen and exhibited. Consequently, the gallery Director's Choices will also be viewable in digital form. At a later date, we hope to exhibit their actual art. We feel it important to tangibly demonstrate that curatorial choice is often as much about personal taste as it is about the "quality" of the art for "quality" in art is often open to opinion.
"Director's Choice" to be presented digitally
Andrew Amundson * Justin Archer * Suzanne Barton * Ellen Burnett * MinSeok Chi *
Ashley Comer * Susan Copich * DeShaun Craddock* Kim Curinga * Edgardo Dander * Matthew Derezinski * Santiago Echeverry* Kate Holcomb Hale * Terry Hastings *
Charles Hildebrandt * Jim Jacobs * Aaron Kalinay* Youngho Kang * Katy Mixon *
Yuko Mizobuchi, * Aimee Perez * Lou Peterson* Aya Ogasawara * Holly Wilson *
Juror Statement from Susan Thompson:
It has been an honor to serve as juror for Viridian’s 26th International Juried Competition. It was my privilege to review 2,223 entries from over 551 artists and a daunting challenge to identify the 28 remarkable artworks ultimately selected for inclusion in this year’s exhibition. The submissions included an extraordinary range of artists working in a wide variety of media, each offering a unique perspective and singular approach to art making. I was impressed by the high level of skillful technique and conceptual thought captured in each work. Ultimately, my selections were guided by the instincts, preferences, and knowledge I have developed over the past decade working as a curator in the field of contemporary art.
The exhibition checklist includes works in painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography. In reviewing the diverse pool of entrants, I found that I was most compelled by the artists who were pushing the boundaries of their selected medium and created works that were slightly unsettling. In some cases, this meant new, unusual, or surprising use of materials. In other works, this was reflected in strange or disquieting compositions. Many of the artists made fruitful use of unique combinations of color, texture, pattern, or imagery, often using collage to create generative juxtapositions. All are wholly original in their point of view. I am most grateful for the opportunity to review the work of so many impassioned creators and congratulate the winners and finalists on their selection for the exhibition.
John Nieman in Two Upcoming Shows
John Nieman will be exhibiting work at the gallery@oxo in London, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street South Bank, London SEI 9PH. Opening Night is Thursday 20th July 2017 6.30pm - 8.30pm. Exhibition Dates: 19th-23rd July 2017. Click here for more info.
NIeman's work will also be exhibited in the "Paper Works 2017" exhibit at the Upstream Gallery in Hastings-On-Hudson, NY from June 22-July 23. Opening is June 25, 2-5. Click here for more info.
Jenny Belin Showing in Park Slope
Jenny Belin's flower paintings and feminist pins.
Jenny Belin will be having a show of recent paintings at the The Diana Kane Boutique in Park Slope. Opening Wednesday, June 28 at 5 PM - 8 PM. Paintings will be on view throughout the summer. 229 5th Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11215. Click here for the boutique's website.
Vernita Nemec at Van Der Plas Gallery
"Face Up" by Vernita N’Cognita
14 x 11 inches, Mixed Media collage.
Viridian's Director Vernita Nemec has two collages in an upcoming exhibit at Van Der Plas Gallery at 156 Orchard Street. The opening reception is Wednesday June 28th 6-8pm
Susan Sills at the Brooklyn Museum
Viridian Artist Susan Sills has a large installation entitled "Que Sera, Seurat" in the Brooklyn Museum staff art show.
Viridian Artist Member Wally Gilbert in Group Show in Vermont
Wally Gilbert at VermontArts.Gallery
"Sparkling Summer Celebration"
Artists Reception
Saturday, July 1st – Noon to 3 o'clock
VermontArts.Gallery
78 Creampot Road
Heartland, Vermont
Tel. 802 436 2200
Contact VermontArts.Gallery at VermontArtsGallery.com@gmail.com for an Invitation and celebrate Digital Art in the heart of Vermont.
"Trees - Blue"
A 60" x 40" panel on a Flush Mount.
Digital print on Aluminum with a high gloss finish.
Wally Gilbert's art is available both on aluminum and as prints on paper. These, as well as his scarves with digital prints on a soft, light chiffon, are all available at Viridian. See Wally Gilbert portfolio above and also our web store.
N'Cognita featured in The Villager Newspaper, NYC.
Photographer: Tequila Minsky
Press Release: May DeViney "what was, what is, and what if?"
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May DeViney
"what was, what is, and what if?"
June 6-June 24, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 10th, 4-6 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 24th 4-6 pm
Chelsea: Viridian Artists Inc. is pleased to present the exhibition “what was, what is, and what if?”, a mixed media exhibition by May DeViney. The show opens June 6 and continues through June 24, 2017. The artist will present an informative talk about her work on Saturday, June 24, 4-6 pm.
The artist, in the past & now, has demonstrated an ongoing interest in workers and domestic drudgery, often dangerously spoofing the grateful, subservient attitudes expected of those who work, most often exemplified by the Madonna. No subject is taboo to her, and her themes can overlap as she shows the Madonna doing the laundry, nuns or burka clothed women wearing the American flag, reminding us of the mysteries of religious practice & the ongoing situation of women. Using the Madonna as the image of the perfect woman, DeViney shows how this is an impossible expectation for real flesh-and-blood women to achieve. She continues to expand on this theme, including different classic females crossed with the Madonna.
"Feminism is a strong element for me. Current United States and world dynamics only show more urgently that women must be considered as full human beings with autonomy and rights, and that this is the only way society can deal with today’s issues and build a better future for all. I show how women here at home are surprisingly still being treated as property and given no power to control their own bodies and lives."
DeViney is creatively inspired by a number of politically tinged issues and continues to surprise with each presentation, opening up whole new worlds of thought for viewers to consider as they meander through the artworks presented. She creates with no holds barred, highlighting a spectrum of issues affecting both sexes, including free speech, gun violence, militarization/imperialism, and the 99% strata.
DeViney has won many awards for a past series she did based on “home shrines” which were created to exalt and commemorate not the usual saints, but instead, the common “everywoman”. She is the one who has suffered in all cultures from the expectation of perfection and purity enforced upon her by both society and herself.
DeViney began as a painter but has turned to creating mixed media constructions, which incorporate paintings, found objects and cast-off detritus built into three-dimensional multi-media wall pieces, and sculpture. Predominately representational, her constructions contain the flavor of H. L. Westermann and Grant Wood combined with the styles of Renaissance historical and religious art. Her shadowbox works are tiny worlds where cross-historical figures interact at a three-inch scale, shining a stern light on social issues of the human condition that began centuries ago but continue to exist. Recently, she has added collage as an additional media to get her always political messages across.
In “Unauthorized Autobiography” a show from 2000, DeViney made us privy to not only what she intended us to see, but, realized that she also unknowingly revealed “secrets”, and those “secrets”, those unintended revelations, can be as telling as the subject matter at hand. The same holds true in ordinary life, especially in this world of social media, where unknowingly, we often reveal more than we intend.
A native Mid-westerner, May DeViney attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she absorbed the influences of the Chicago Imagists and iconoclastic art movements such as the Hairy Who, where Hairy Who icon Jim Nutt, was her instructor.
She now resides in New England, studying art most recently at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Along the way she also earned a degree in Computer Science from Boston University, reflecting her detail-oriented, analytical eye. The experiences she has gained and her trenchant observations on the human condition are reflected in her work.
DeViney's art has been exhibited in New York and at university galleries & museums throughout the United States and is in many collections. It has also appeared in national publications including Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street International and the cover of Prism magazine.
For further information please contact the gallery at 212-414-4040 orviridianartistsinc@gmail.com.
N'Cognita at Theater for the New City
Theater for the New City Lower East Side Festival
Sunday, May 28, 2017 7:54PM for just 10 minutes
“Entangled”
created by
Vernita Nemec, also known as N'Cognita
with music by Larry Simon
The Theater for the New City Lower East Side Festival organized by Crystal field & happening Memorial Day weekend in NYC's Lower East Side at 1st Avenue & 10th Street will be presenting a multitude of 10 minute performances & readings- all free, all weekend. Among the performers & poets are Penny Arcade, Tammy Faye, Pheobe Legere, Nicky Paraiso, Reno, Yuko & Vernita N'Cognita. Come Sunday 7:54 PM to the Cabaret Theater (check the red door to the left of the 1st entrance) & stay for the evening!
In “Entangled”, N'Cognita again incorporates out of scale props to search within the media of performance for a clearer understanding of what it is to be a woman today. In this work, she has braided 600 yards of ribbon into a large ball and sits in a child sized chair as she explores with the audience unanswerable questions discovered in a book. The artist uses Butoh movement forms interpreted uniquely & personally to explore, along with words and props, conceptual ideas in her performance work. How our complicated lives entangle us.
Vernita Nemec, also known as N'Cognita to honor underknown artists, has been creating performance artworks since 1978 when she "occupied" a corner of Prince &Wooster Streets in early days of SoHo. Since that time she has presented more than 70 performances in the United States, Hungary, Japan, Ireland, Germany, Mexico and France, including guerrilla performances at the Pompidou Museum in Paris and Documenta 13 in Kasel. This is the third Lower East Side Festival season in which she has performed. A different iteration of "Entangled" was presented at Judson Church as part of the Movement Research Monday Night Series. Her performances can also be seen on UTube. Come Sunday 7:54 PM to the Cabaret Theater (check the red door to the left of the 1st entrance) & stay for the evening!
Press Release: BERNICE FAEGENBURG "TREES"
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BERNICE FAEGENBURG
"TREES"
May 16 - June 3, 2017
Reception, Saturday, May 20, 2-5pm
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present a solo exhibition of mixed media photography by artist Bernice Faegenburg. Opening on May 16, 2017, the exhibit will run through June 3rd, with a reception on Saturday, May 20, from 2-5pm.
Bernice Faegenburg is an artist who has always enjoyed experimenting and exploring new media. In this exhibition of new work, she has continued her involvement with nature and the environment, but her current focus is trees. Trees in all their glory.
In the past, Faegenburg's media focus has been primarily painting and Japanese brushwork, but this time she has had her digital photographs transformedin a variety of ways. Incorporating fabric for the first time, she has created installations of her images that flow both figuratively & literally as viewers stop before the work. In addition, she has used a variety of digital photographic apps and continues exploring and experimenting with them.
All about her love of trees, these new works take you out of the gallery and perhaps onto the backporch looking out at the woods or lawn behind your house- wherever the viewer prefers to imagine themselves. One can see the artist's love of nature and experimentation for she has taken her art beyond the stretched canvas and unto printed, airy and unstretched fabric blowing in the breeze as trees do.
Faegenburg's favorite tree is the Witch Hazel that is the first to bloom in her hometown of Roselyn, Long Island.She carries her camera everywhere with her, often stopping along the side of the road to catch an image, capturing trees in all their seasons of dress and undress. Despite the fact that most of the images in this exhibit start with a photograph, one can see her earlier influences of Japanese brush painting still.
Faegenburg has always approached her art making instinctively, allowing her images to grow out of her daily experiences. For her, the most important aspect of her art is the doing for process is as important to her as the outcome.
The artist did undergraduate work at the Tyler School of Fine Arts and Temple University, where she studied printmaking and egg tempera techniques in the Rennaisance manner. She came to New York after graduation, attending the National Academy of Design and receiving a Masters Degreee at C.W. Post College, studying painting and graphics with Robert Yasuda and later, Oriental philosopy and its relationshiop to painting with Jerry Okimoto
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12- 6 PM. For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Press Release: Susan Sills: "Family Portraits"
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SUSAN SILLS
"FAMILY PORTRAITS"
April 25- May 13 2017
Reception, Saturday, April 29, 4-6 pm
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present a solo exhibition of drawings and paintings by artist Susan Sills. Opening on April 25, 2017, the exhibit will run through May 13th, with a reception on Saturday, April 29th, from 4-6pm.
After years of focusing on creating painted wooden sculptures of art historical themes and characters, the artist Susan Sills is returning to her first love - drawing, and to themes closer to her heart - her family.
As always, she is inspired by history, but this time she presents a history of her family as she has portrayed them over the years in ink, pencil and paint, working from life and more recently from photographs. Many of the newest portraits are based on family photographs she discovered in a box and recreated as oil paintings in sepia tones on canvas, recapturing a sense of past moments and lost memories. Who is that man in the fedora who resembles Humphrey Bogart? An uncle or a cousin somehow lost from the memories of those family members still living?
Sills' artistic career began early, studying at the Art Students League when she was just 12, surrounded by a family of artists, particularly her mother. Following in her grandfather's steps, who was a jeweler, she is also including jewelry she has created from geometric drawings and doodles saved from phone call jottings over the years.
For the past thirty years Sills has been noted for her life size cutout figures in painted birch plywood portraying famous characters from art history, creating over 100 of them. Over the years she has presented these works in a variety of ways - from life- size cut-outs of famous heads to grandiose tableaus and installations in which famous paintings come to life in our time with coke bottles, empty take-out food trays, etc. presenting these characters with humor & intelligence.
Sills has had 19 Solo shows, and is included in the Sylvia Sleigh Collection of Women Artists at Rowan University. She was also a featured artist in the recently published "100 New York Painters" by Cynthia Dantzic. She has had solo exhibitions at the Queens College Art Center and the Pensacola Museum of Art, which sponsored an educational experience for 4500 children and their teachers and her 2-D sculptures have also been used as a set for a dance performance at the Whitney Museum. Her art is in numerous corporate and museum collections and she has been represented by Viridian since 1979.
Her complete bio can be seen at susansillscutouts.com
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12- 6 PM. For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Arthur Dworin: Video Presentation
Press Release: Arthur Dworin: "Inquiries"
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ARTHUR DWORIN
"Inquiries"
April 4- April 22, 2017
Reception, Saturday, April 8, 2-6pm
Wine & Words Saturday, April 22, 2-4PM
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by artist Arthur Dworin. Opening on April 4, 2017, the exhibit will run through April 22, with a reception on Saturday, April 8, from 2-6pm. There will be a Wine & Words reception on Saturday, April 22, from 2-4pm when the artist will talk about his process and answer questions.
The organic and geometric shapes that have long populated Arthur Dworin’s work are raised off the surface now and coated with a high iron content patina that he then oxidizes to produce a rich rust. This he juxtaposes with bands and fields of brilliant color.
Peter Selz, the former MoMA curator of painting and sculpture and one of Dworin’s collectors, has said that “Dworin’s paintings are endowed with an original sense of sonorous color. Abstract as they are, they bring a new sense of visual order to organic forms of nature.”
Dworin attended the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts and received a scholarship to the Art Students League in Woodstock. After painting in Zacualpan, Mexico, he became a member of the United Scenic Artists Union, where he became skilled in a host of techniques that have been invaluable to his personal art. While painting sets for theater and film, he used materials in an alchemical way. Often he had to make something look as if five layers of paint had peeled off a rusting surface. But in his own painting, he literally rusts the surfaces rather than just painting them to look like rust.
Like Kandinsky, whom he admires, Dworin improvises with forms that resonate musically with his own spiritual explorations. As he puts it, Dworin hopes that, “the spirit in these works will act as a key to awaken what is already deep within the observer, anew with each viewing, bringing a greater awareness of our inner and outer universes.”
Dworin lived and worked in Tribeca (Manhattan) until 2011, when he purchased a Pennsylvania church, where he created these works. This is his fifth solo show at Viridian.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12- 6 PM. For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Wally Gilbert in a show at Lasell College in Newton, MA Artists' Reception Thursday, March 23, 6 to 8 pm
Wally Gilbert will have pieces in ABSTRACT SYSTEMS, a show of nine artists, curated by Lisa Reindorf and Andrea Foggle Plotkin.
March 21 – April 12, 2017
Artists’ Reception: Thursday, March 23, 6 – 8 pm
Wedeman Gallery
Lasell College
Yamawaki Art & Cultural Center
47 Myrtle Avenue, Newton, MA
Featuring work by:Barbara Grad, Barbara Eskin, Jennifer Caine,
Wally Gilbert (photographer and Nobel prize winner in biology),
Jennifer Moses, Stephanie McMahon, Lisa Reindorf,
Debra Weisberg and Heidi Whitman.
Gallery Statement: Our modern society is teeming with information as technology has infiltrated our daily lives. In many fields, systems are a way to make sense of the information. Artists parse these systems and develop their own interpretations in their work.
Abstract Systems presents the work of a group of artists who approach abstract painting utilizing their own personal symbolic language. Each of the artists works evolve from a specific type of systems- in the areas of architecture, biology, information, technology, and mapping.
Abstract painting can be difficult to navigate, but by understanding these systems the viewer is presented with a way to understand and interpret the paintings.
Gallery open hours are Tuesday –Saturday, 1 – 4pm.
Wedeman Gallery is located at 47 Myrtle Avenue, Newton, MA 02466. For more information , please contact the gallery director, Vladimir Zimakov.
Phone: 617 243 2143
Artists Meredeth Turshen, Vernita Nemec and Jenny Belin in Group Show at Hob'Art
"Women Live"
A group show at the Hob'Art Cooperative gallery, pays tribute to women today and in history
Curated by Viridian Affiliate Meredeth Turshen and Hob’ Art’s Miriam Untoria, the exhibit includes work by Turshen as well as Viridian's Director Vernita Nemec, and Assistant Director Jenny Belin.
Friday March 10- Saturday April 1, 2017
Reception: Saturday, March 11th, 6- 8pm
hob'art gallery,
Monroe Center
720 Monroe Street,
2nd FL, E208
Hoboken NJ, 07030
Press Release: Angela Christine Smith: "Her: A Displaced Body"
ANGELA CHRISTINE SMITH
"Her: A Displaced Body"
March 14- April 1, 2017
Reception Thursday March 16, 6-8PM
Coffee & Conversation Saturday March 18, 4-6PM
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present Angela Christine Smith's second solo exhibit at Viridian. A winner in Viridian's Juried Photography exhibit in 2011, the artist will be present at both the reception on Thursday March 16th & on Saturday March 18th, 4-6PM for a coffee & conversation with the artist.
This exhibition of photographs with ink and colored pencil overlays is a continuation of Smith's dissection series, first begun in 2011 and earning her a 2nd prize in Viridian's Annual Juried Exhibit curated by Jennifer Blessing of the Guggenheim Museum. Since that time, the artist has continued examining through her photography, drawing & writing, what comprises our identity in this moment in time. Her recent writing has focused around the body as a physical structure and process, and along with photographic self- portraits, the artist asks important questions, exploring both the physicality & the passing of time & how that is reflected on one's identity.
The image of the female has always been fraught with the idealizing of the physical and as a female artist, Smith wants to explore through her imagery the conflicts of identity conjured by that idealization. Too, the artist is exploring and perhaps exposing self-portraiture and its potential pathology- the lies and the truths that are subsequently revealed. Physicality, politics, identity, framing are all aspects of confrontation which affect what the viewer sees, yet what is the reality of who we are? How does the physical self compare tothe various presentations of self that are possible?
In Eric Kandel's "Age of Insight" research by Stephen Kuffler, Hubel, Wiesel and Zeki show how retina ganglion cells each see a different aspect of reality that our brain then puts together into one image. A compiling of fragments to make the whole, as in Angela Christine Smith's art of "Dissections". The viewer is invited to look beyond the surface of her images and more deeply into their meaning. She states that "The body in front of the camera breathes into the lens and in an extended interaction with "I" multiplies to make a physical dent into the film. This extension of time explores the pauses located within the physical body."
Smith asks many questions with these works, specifically, "Is the self-portrait an extension of the mirror? What about the inside of the body, itself? What is it to become a part of the photography and reject it at the same time?" She responds "through framing, cutting, and dissecting the photographs ... to confront questions of identity, the politics of the body, and show how the photograph is displacing the body and providing a corporeal experience for the viewer." But as Smith dissects herself, she reveals us all.
Angela Christine Smith has an MFA in Integrated & Expanded Photographic Practices, Contemporary Art Theory, and Printmaking from Ohio University and a BFA in Photography, Printmaking, and Art History from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. She has won numerous awards for her photographic work.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM
For further information please contact the gallery at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistinc@gmail.com