Space Stories
"Space Stories"
Curated by Hope Hilton
hopehilton.com
July 14 - July 20, 2007
Closing Reception Friday, July 20, 6-8pm.
chashama Times Square Gallery
112 West 44th Street
New York, NY
FREE and open to the public
Space Stories presents work by nine artists who work with photography and video to investigate ideas of space. While space exists ad infinitum, atmosphere, landscape and relationships occupy this exhibition of works that reflect ideas of personal space, surveillance, the space of play and environmental space, as well as the boundaries that proliferate within these spaces.
Curated by Hope Hilton
hopehilton.com
July 14 - July 20, 2007
Closing Reception Friday, July 20, 6-8pm.
chashama Times Square Gallery
112 West 44th Street
New York, NY
FREE and open to the public
Space Stories presents work by nine artists who work with photography and video to investigate ideas of space. While space exists ad infinitum, atmosphere, landscape and relationships occupy this exhibition of works that reflect ideas of personal space, surveillance, the space of play and environmental space, as well as the boundaries that proliferate within these spaces.
Artists included in Space Stories: Keliy Anderson-Staley, Christina Dixcy, Meredith Davenport, Anna Lise Jensen, Rebecca Loyche, Cybele Lyle, Lauren Orchowski, Ingrid Roe, Pamela Steinman.
Both Keliy Anderson-Staley and Anna Lise Jensen's photographs explore ideas of utopian living spaces: Anderson-Staley documents fourteen families living off-the-grid in northern Maine, while Jensen's work explores simultaneous vitality and vulnerability in a Danish Commune. Pamela Steinman's portrait of the space between two people in a suburban living room brings attention to something that seems universal: the space between us. Cybele Lyle's video collages depict queer domestic spaces and ideas of community within these spaces, whereas Meredith Davenport interprets the community and play of men in real-life war reenactments influenced by video games and current events. Lauren Orchowski's images depict sites of cold-war era playgrounds- recreational rockets in public space. And while public and private spaces in the United States are currently being reconfigured, Ingrid Roe photographs the relationships between private selves and public observation using her camera as a tool of surveillance. Rebecca Loyche portrays individuals attending horse races, making portraits that are curiously intense and voyeuristic. Christina Dixcy's vibrant color landscapes of the American West depict wide open spaces with surprising boundaries, making even the most seemingly infinite space seem occupied.
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Both Keliy Anderson-Staley and Anna Lise Jensen's photographs explore ideas of utopian living spaces: Anderson-Staley documents fourteen families living off-the-grid in northern Maine, while Jensen's work explores simultaneous vitality and vulnerability in a Danish Commune. Pamela Steinman's portrait of the space between two people in a suburban living room brings attention to something that seems universal: the space between us. Cybele Lyle's video collages depict queer domestic spaces and ideas of community within these spaces, whereas Meredith Davenport interprets the community and play of men in real-life war reenactments influenced by video games and current events. Lauren Orchowski's images depict sites of cold-war era playgrounds- recreational rockets in public space. And while public and private spaces in the United States are currently being reconfigured, Ingrid Roe photographs the relationships between private selves and public observation using her camera as a tool of surveillance. Rebecca Loyche portrays individuals attending horse races, making portraits that are curiously intense and voyeuristic. Christina Dixcy's vibrant color landscapes of the American West depict wide open spaces with surprising boundaries, making even the most seemingly infinite space seem occupied.
There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of death,
but these Society
shall be Compared
with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself
Finite infinity.
- Emily Dickinson
