Have A Nice Day
Have A Nice Day
an installation by Johannah Herr
www.johannahherr.com
johannah.herr@gmail.com
August 4 - 24, 2010
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
(between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St)
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 5: 6:30 - 9p
Viewable daily: 10a - 7p
For the piece "Have a nice day" I use the rickshaw as a metaphor (where the poor literally carry the rich) to address, explore and bring into consciousness the underbelly of New York's work force- largely made up of recent (sometimes illegal) immigrants, who often get overlooked, undervalued, or even abused by an economic system supported by exploiting undocumented laborers. - Johannah Herr
My work is about the messiness of the human experience and the struggle of existence pushing forward, both physically and metaphorically, in its grit, pain, loss, pleasure, elation. I am interested in ceremony and sanctification, construct and innate impulse. Each piece revolves around abstracted narrative; impregnating form with metaphor, and using objects as hieroglyphics- magnifying the meaning in the mundane and turning trifles into talismans.
Raised by a family of storytellers who continually demonstrated the importance of collecting experience and bearing witness, I learned to revolt against impermanence and to through storytelling to bridge the gap between beings, albeit momentarily. As such, I use abstracted narrative through my work in an attempt to bridge that same gap.
Johannah Herr received a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2009 and has exhibited both nationally and internationally in New York, London, Cooperstown, Seattle and Berlin. She is a former member of the Berlin-based art collective GRUNTWORK, and has shown at Envoy Enterprises, Platform Gallery, DADApost, Big&Small/Casual Gallery, Space Womb Gallery, and Greenpoint's St. Cecilia Convent, amongst others. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
an installation by Johannah Herr
www.johannahherr.com
johannah.herr@gmail.com
August 4 - 24, 2010
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
(between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St)
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 5: 6:30 - 9p
Viewable daily: 10a - 7p
For the piece "Have a nice day" I use the rickshaw as a metaphor (where the poor literally carry the rich) to address, explore and bring into consciousness the underbelly of New York's work force- largely made up of recent (sometimes illegal) immigrants, who often get overlooked, undervalued, or even abused by an economic system supported by exploiting undocumented laborers. - Johannah Herr
My work is about the messiness of the human experience and the struggle of existence pushing forward, both physically and metaphorically, in its grit, pain, loss, pleasure, elation. I am interested in ceremony and sanctification, construct and innate impulse. Each piece revolves around abstracted narrative; impregnating form with metaphor, and using objects as hieroglyphics- magnifying the meaning in the mundane and turning trifles into talismans.
Raised by a family of storytellers who continually demonstrated the importance of collecting experience and bearing witness, I learned to revolt against impermanence and to through storytelling to bridge the gap between beings, albeit momentarily. As such, I use abstracted narrative through my work in an attempt to bridge that same gap.
Johannah Herr received a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2009 and has exhibited both nationally and internationally in New York, London, Cooperstown, Seattle and Berlin. She is a former member of the Berlin-based art collective GRUNTWORK, and has shown at Envoy Enterprises, Platform Gallery, DADApost, Big&Small/Casual Gallery, Space Womb Gallery, and Greenpoint's St. Cecilia Convent, amongst others. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
