The Upward Spiral
The Upward Spiral
an installation by Ketta Ioannidou
www.kettaioannidou.com
kettaioannidou@yahoo.com
April 19 - May 2, 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.)
Reception:
Wednesday, April 21, 6 - 8p
Hours:
10a to 7p daily
Ketta Ioannidou's window installation, The Upward Spiral (2010) at chashama uses multicolored vinyl forms to assemble a large-scale swirl of vines that will overtake the entire window, creating a vortex that will draw the viewer into a cycle of pleasure and decay. Through the window the viewer will be able to see the inside space, although it will be obscured by the spiraling forms. Colored lights shining on the window will evoke a vision of an artificial setting and create a disparate, yet idealistic experience of space. Resembling industrialized biomorphic organisms, Ioannidou's vines are a reinterpretation of the natural landscape. The Upward Spiral (2010) develops a correlation between the phenomena of the physical world and synthetic, human design, while creating an idealized habitat that blurs the line between actual and illusionistic space.
Ketta Ioannidou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and lives and works in New York City. She received her BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, PS 122 Gallery, Sixtyseven, Foxy Production, Heist Gallery, Metaphor Contemporary Art and Gallery Satori in New York, the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York, Go North in Beacon, New York, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in Indiana and Diatopos Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Cyprus. She represented Cyprus in the 9th International Cairo Biennale, the 24th Alexandria Biennale in Egypt and the Rome Biennale for Young Artists from European and Mediterranean Countries.
Ioannidou was selected for the Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Aljira Emerge at Aljira in Newark, New Jersey. She was awarded residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space, and the Artists' Enclave at I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut. Ioannidou's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Flash Art and The Brooklyn Rail.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
an installation by Ketta Ioannidou
www.kettaioannidou.com
kettaioannidou@yahoo.com
April 19 - May 2, 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.)
Reception:
Wednesday, April 21, 6 - 8p
Hours:
10a to 7p daily
Ketta Ioannidou's window installation, The Upward Spiral (2010) at chashama uses multicolored vinyl forms to assemble a large-scale swirl of vines that will overtake the entire window, creating a vortex that will draw the viewer into a cycle of pleasure and decay. Through the window the viewer will be able to see the inside space, although it will be obscured by the spiraling forms. Colored lights shining on the window will evoke a vision of an artificial setting and create a disparate, yet idealistic experience of space. Resembling industrialized biomorphic organisms, Ioannidou's vines are a reinterpretation of the natural landscape. The Upward Spiral (2010) develops a correlation between the phenomena of the physical world and synthetic, human design, while creating an idealized habitat that blurs the line between actual and illusionistic space.
Ketta Ioannidou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and lives and works in New York City. She received her BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, PS 122 Gallery, Sixtyseven, Foxy Production, Heist Gallery, Metaphor Contemporary Art and Gallery Satori in New York, the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York, Go North in Beacon, New York, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in Indiana and Diatopos Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Cyprus. She represented Cyprus in the 9th International Cairo Biennale, the 24th Alexandria Biennale in Egypt and the Rome Biennale for Young Artists from European and Mediterranean Countries.
Ioannidou was selected for the Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Aljira Emerge at Aljira in Newark, New Jersey. She was awarded residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space, and the Artists' Enclave at I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut. Ioannidou's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Flash Art and The Brooklyn Rail.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
