 Greg Martin Green Riders John Connelly Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of the New York debut of Greg Martin's video "Green Riders". Greg Martin's "Green Riders" was captured to video among the Tetons of Wyoming in June, 2002. Post production occurred in Brooklyn, New York in 2003. "Green Riders" is based on a persona created by Aurora Kross and Alex Werner originally described as "riding without fences" and functions primarily as a presence to document the existence of this persona and the symbiotic relationship of the riders with their environment. "Green Riders" captures the movement of two women through lush wild-land at the pace of a photograph. Their undefined relationship with each other is echoed by the absence of established boundaries among the landscape. Contrary to more traditional attitudes toward nature of mere contemplation, fear, and awe, the circularity of the union between the riders and nature explores their delicate and immediate exchange which for the riders is active, direct, and nurturing. Using a faint narrative thread Green Riders challenges cinematic archetype: a journey without a destination strips the poet of a plot and the absence of dialogue forces the translation of idea purely through direct visual experience where concepts emerge like the mountains, water, and forests through which the riders travel. The riders' passage through "other time" impresses both the concern of recent apocalypse and a sentiment of nostalgia for a time when the exchange between land and living was direct and survival was distinctly worthwhile. Ultimately, "Green Riders" reminds us that the stark sincerity of the reality of a record can approach the mythic fiction of a dream. Greg Martin was born in San Diego, CA and grew up in Nevada City, CA. He received a BA in Art Studio (Sculpture) and a minor in Philosophy at UC Davis in 1999 and an MFA in Visual Art (New Media) at Columbia University in 2002. He describes his primary artistic medium as "none" as his work bridges a multitude of genres including performance, film and video (digital video, cell-frame and stop-motion animation), photography, found and purchased objects, living plants, music, song-writing, poetry, drawing, painting and writing. Exhibition: February 18 - March 26, 2005 Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 11am - 6pm John Connelly Presents 526 West 26th Street, #1003 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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