 Ara Peterson WOTCHA John Connelly Presents is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new sculpture and video by Ara Peterson. The hybrid experimentalism of Ara Peterson's past projects has featured large-scale environments incorporating painting, video, sculptural and performative elements. In these previous installations, fluid dynamics, kinetic energy and a boundless set of impressions were created as the spectator was saturated with layers of evolving imagery. Building on his previous work and collaborations, elements of Peterson's complex process are stripped down in this new exhibition and presented in stark relief, revealing the interplay between his powerful static shapes and moving forms. The pieces in Peterson's new exhibition are designed precisely to generate optical feedback within the mind of the viewer. Physical manipulations are used to mechanically cut shapes into streams, translating interwoven patterns by adding or eliminating the element of time. This purely generative approach produces geometric facets through which dimensions are simultaneously pulled from space and multiplied beyond recognition. The result is a vocabulary of autonomously self-organizing visual morphologies positioning the perceptions as the prime aesthetic function in the reception of these intriguing new works. Ara Peterson was born in 1973 in Boston, MA. He graduated with a degree in Film/Video/Animation from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. Peterson's most recent solo exhibition was in 2005 at Ratio 3 Gallery in San Francisco. His work can currently be seen in New York City as part of Creative Time's "The 59th Minute: Video Art on the NBC Astrovision by Panasonic" March 7 - June 5, 2006 and his video "UV - Energy Fields" will be screened at P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City this spring as part of "Into Me / Out of me", curated by Klaus Biesenbach. His work has also recently been shown at the Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, England (2004), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2005) and The Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (2006). Peterson was one of the founding members of the seminal collective "Forcefield", who were included in the 2002 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He continues to work collaboratively with former member Jim Drain producing exhibitions at the Biennale D'Arte contemporain De Lyon (2003), The Moore Space, Miami (2004) and Deitch Projects, New York (2005). Peterson currently lives and works in Providence, RI. Exhibition: April 1 - May 6, 2006 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 11am - 6pm John Connelly Presents 625 West 27th Street, Ground floor USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 337 9563 Fax +1 212 337 9613 Email info@johnconnellypresents.com www.johnconnellypresents.com |
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