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Gabriel Boyce, Xiang Yang, Allison Owen, Lydia Moyer & Hope Tucker, Alexandra Newmark
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EXHIBITION DATES: September 7 - 30, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 7 from 6-11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12-6pm
GALLERY TALK: With Mauro Zamora, Philadelphia-based artist and former Vox member, Sunday September 30 at 3pm
This month Vox Populi presents exhibitions by Vox Populi members Gabriel Boyce and Xiang Yang, and Queens-based guest artist Allison Owen. The Video Lounge features work by both Lydia Moyer and Hope Tucker, and in the 4th Room, works by Alexandra Newmark.
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Gabriel Boyce
Istrouma Bluff
For his second show at Vox, Boyce presents a diorama of works, drawn from observations of the animals that live in his backyard, his upbringing in southern Louisiana, and the everyday territorial conflict.
Xiang Yang
The Remains
The Shadow of the Empire is compromised of wall-sized carved with an image of the national map of the United States. The peeled-off scraps from wall spread out on the floor and form an image of the national map of China, which symbolizes a tightly followed super nation—like a shadow—to the United States. The second part is the back of this work. It is an installation/sculpture resembling the inner side of a super nation—the United States. This body physically represents, in an abstract form, the current situation and conflict within the nation.
Allison Owen
Retrace
Alison Owen's installations develop a parasitic relationship with the host space. They quietly invade the environment, altering it in subtle yet significant ways. Only upon close inspection can the elements of the installation be parsed from their environment- painted shadows lurk behind pedestals, extensions are added to the walls' molding, compositions extend past the borders of a frame. Owen shifts her focus to the peripheral, creating installations that invite the viewer into the slow process of investigation.
IN THE FOURTH ROOM
Alexandra Newmark
In The Forest
Since 2001, Alexandra’s work has been solely made from Mohair yarn. The work is focused on narratives of interdependence, and a framework of self-containment. Her work reflects the conventional expectations of womanhood—caretaker, mother. The forms themselves conjure thoughts of motherhood gone awry, at the same time the work serves as a remembrance of the extreme vulnerability of childhood while the softness of the mohair yarn evokes the innocence of that time. Alexandra Newmark received her MFA in Sculpture from Bard College in 2001, and her BFA from Parsons in 1998. In 2005, she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
IN THE VIDEO LOUNGE
DOUBLE FEATURE: LYDIA MOYER AND HOPE TUCKER
Lydia Moyer
Paradise
In September of 2006, a man walked into a one room Amish school house in rural Pennsylvania, sent all the boys and teachers out of the building, barricaded the doors and took all the young girls hostage. The man, rather than surrender to police, chose to shoot the girls, killing five of them, and then shot and killed himself. In the aftermath of the violence, the Amish community responded with extraordinary forgiveness, reaching out to the family of the man who had killed their children and maintaining an unshakable dignity in the face of intense media attention. Paradise is an attempt to make sense of the generosity of that response through secular eyes.
Lydia Moyer grew up in Lancaster County, PA. She earned her BFA from Alfred University and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her video work has been screened both nationally and internationally. She currently heads up the new media programming the art department at the University of Virginia.
Hope Tucker
Selections From The Obituary Project
An obituary whittles one’s social contribution down to its barest form. Like all obituaries, the 15 or so films and videos that make up Hope Tucker's OBITUARY PROJECT are selective interpretations of rich and complex lives. Sometimes these are lives of people, other times places or objects whose time has or will soon pass.
Hope Tucker is an American artist currently working in Norway on environmentally focused obits for Scandinavian traditions and landscapes.
SCREENING
Pascual Sisto
28 Years In The Implicate Order
Pascual Sisto's '28 Year in the Implicate Order' is a work based on the concepts of Quantum Theory and Quantum Mechanics as described by David Bohm. The video opens with a fixed locked off shot of an empty parking lot. A centered sodium vapor light illuminates the desolate landscape. 28 red balls bounce up and down in a chaotic, random manner—each ball performing as an individual entity bouncing at its own rate and speed. The unexpected climax occurs at the midpoint of the video when the balls align themselves in a single synchronized bounce, only to resume bouncing in a random manner.
Raised in Barcelona, Spain, Pascual Sisto graduated with a BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. His film and video work has been shown widely, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA) in Buenos Aires, TVE (Spanish Television) and the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. Recent exhibitions include the LA Freewaves at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, USA), Reencontres Internationales Paris. Berlin Festival (Paris, France), Viper Festival (Basel, Switzerland), AKA Gallery (Rome, Italy), Ego Park Gallery (Oakland, USA), MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles, USA), Telic Gallery (Los Angeles, USA) and Bitforms Gallery (New York, USA).
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