Relativity

“Symbol, Interface, Experience”

Featuring:

Lori Brungard | Burcin Ayebe | Art Jones | Erik Sanner | Emma Yi | Brick Shoemaker | Priyanka Dasgupta | Gavin Tao | Lorenna Gomez-Sanchez | Andrea Bass | Jennifer Seastone | Karla Carballar | M L Mottel | Woojin Lee | Jean Carla Rodea

The exhibition is on view in the Art Gallery of the City College of New York. The gallery is located on the ground floor of Compton Goethals. Enter the building on Amsterdam Ave, corner of 140th Street.

The exhibition is on display from October 18th 2016 – October 28th 2016 between 10:00AM – 5:00PM

Opening Reception is on October 20th from 6:00PM – 8:00PM

Curatorial statement:

When walking into the Digital Art and Interdisciplinary Program’s (DIAP) studio, the white walls awashed in light create an uniformity or oneness, yet, as the old cliche of assumption goes, this initial perception is counterintuitive. The eclectic backgrounds, mediums, and ultimate interpretation of each individual artist’s domains invites the outsider to experience a fleeting moment of transcendence past their own selves and into a space of transparent meditation. Found in the relative space defined by the physical boundaries in the gallery, the collective body of work act as the interface between our own personal and cultural domains and that of the artists’. As one wanders through the visually confined space one is integrated into the ethereal reality of the artist, moving between works in a virtual transcendence. The complexity of relationships found within the gallery interface continually re-enunciates the singular symbolic domains, producing a new shared domain of individual meaning and collective experience.

We invite our guests to move through the artists’ individual and collective symbolic domains. As the guest becomes immersed in the physical space, the interface, allowing connections between to the individual, the work, and the group’s domains, developing an interconnected relative experience. Utilizing the familiarities of continuous connectivity through technology (Yi, Lee, Shoemaker), historic, contemporary, and future societal critiques (Brungard, Sanner, Dasgupta, Mottel, Carballar, Carla Rodea), and reflection of influence of choice and identity (Seastone, Gomez-Sanchez, Tao, Bass) the artists transcend across both local and global communities. Their art becomes the “transparent interface“ in which the viewer moves through as they create their own experience from the domains of others. Without the limitations of categories, such as medium, geography, or concept, “Relativity” depends on the movement between the viewer, artist, and the works as they influence and negotiate with one another.

The postcard acts as your guide, digital access, and reminder of this moment in which our domains became interconnected.

• Andrea Canzano, Curator

exhibition website: http://www.aecurations.com/

References:

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