Sarah Sweeney: El Capitan revisited c-print, 30 x 20 inches Buy it now Patti Lee Becker, Fiona Gardner, Danielle LaPlante, Elvis Richardson, Sara Sweeney Established in 1995, eBay has rapidly become an important part of our digital culture and a conceptual vehicle for art making. "Buy it now" will demonstrate the affect this eBay phenomenon has made on artists of different genres. While some artists in the show use prosaic objects acquired on eBay directly in their work, others choose to use their eBay purchase as purely reference material. The work included in the show will be auctioned off on eBay for the duration of the exhibition. Danielle LaPlante works by melding together appropriated imagery from multiple print and digital sources. Beginning by taking cues from everyday experience to create, what she thinks of as, personal mythologies. These "scenes" can be violent, mundane or sensational; they are almost always melodramatic. LaPlante thinks of the images and animations she creates as open-ended tales of everyday life. Danielle LaPlante holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, 2000 and an MFA from Columbia University, 2003. Fiona Gardner features women, young and old, acting out fantasies in constructed environments. It is implied that their performance is as much for their own benefit as the viewer's. These photographs demand the viewer to acknowledge the props of the construction while suspending their disbelief in the simulation of another place. Gardner sees the camera as a tool to stage, direct, and observe these performances, all the while supporting and completing a fantastic world. Fiona Gardner holds a BFA in Painting degree from Rhode Island School of Design, 1999 and an MFA in Photography degree from Columbia University , 2004. In 2003, Fiona was a recipient of Agnes Martin Award for Outstanding Work in the Graduate Arts Program. Sarah Sweeney creates a malleable space within which she sculpts the relationships by transplanting the snapshot object into digital imaging software. Her reconstructed worlds are images of the family that could never exist in a traditional snapshot and realities that cannot be captured by a camera like grief, disappointment or ambivalence. Sweeney constructs a more complex, complete vision of our lived experience, within which the psychological and the real are fused. Sarah Sweeney holds a BA degree from Williams College, 1999 and an MFA degree from Columbia University, 2003. Patti Lee Becker combines modernist and organic forms to create new organisms that are conglomerations of minerals, plants, and animals. Many of the resulting works take the shape of clusters, nests, machines, capsules, and shelters that contribute to an ongoing narrative. These new formations are types of redevelopment organisms, new structures that are the consequence of crossbreeding, linkages, attractions, and growths. Becker brings these new organisms to life to counteract universal environmental degradation. Patti Lee Becker holds a BFA in Printmaking degree from Rhode Island School of Design, 1997 and an MFA in Visual Arts degree from Columbia University , 2001. Elvis Richardson creates installations of video, photographs and objects based on collections, observations, and stories. The end result is an idiosyncratic remapping of the personal terrain of memory and forgetting, nostalgia and loss. She searches through thrift stores, rubbish, auction houses, trading papers and the internet to collect the material for her practice. Through unconventional look at collections of found objects once treasured and now discarded, Richardson interviews with the public. Elvis Richardson holds a BFA degree (1992), an MA degree (1995) from University of New South Wales, Australia (1992) and a MFA degree from Columbia University, 2002. Curated by Megan Foster Exhibition: December 10, 2004 - January 31, 2005 Opening hours: Fri-Mon 12 - 6 pm and by appointment Black & White Gallery 483 Driggs Avenue (between N9 & N10 Streets) USA-Brooklyn, NY 11211 Telephone +718 599-8775 Fax +718 599-8798 Email info@blackandwhiteartgallery.com www.blackandwhiteartgallery.com |
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