Curated by Jennifer Dudley.
Add-Art frees internet real estate from advertising, allowing the
odd-shaped lots flanking the content of any given web page to be
repurposed by the artist. In Developer, Homesteader, nine
artists and architects consider these small segmented digital spaces
as vacant areas awaiting design, development, or habitation.
Using the graphic illustrations and texts from the backs of vintage
match-books, Katarina Burin gives a deadpan delivery of potential
destinations with promises of amenity, hospitality, and enticing
scenarios that are out of date and out of place. Joseph Burwell
presents intimate views of saturated and precisely drawn structures
that intermix varied historical and archaeological references. Keller
Easterling gives glimpses of Floor, a piece that researches the
new mergers of cars and elevators that render the floor the most
important architectural surface.
Observing corners, ceilings, and other inconspicuous scenes from
specific museums and cultural spaces, Marcella Faustini recombines
these structures in a “digital extrapolation” by way of architectural
meddling, character insertion, and cultural juxtaposition. Sarrita
Hunn and Ryan Thayer collaborate on Lake Expo, a series of
images depicting people from varied geographies and stripped of their
cultural differences performing a “synchronized international
exposition” in a body of water that straddles the border between
Arkansas and Missouri.
S.E. Nash’s work samples from space technology and computer
architecture, and in this exhibition it inhabits another layer of
space by turning the built forms of her sculptures back into the
subjects she references. Sarah Oppenheimer’s image series
progressively transforms half-tone’s illusionistic potential into
graphic patterns. Placing miniature figures and animals within the
landscape of the daily news, Thomas Tsang’s vignettes present another
picture of how the world is “delivered to our door every morning.”
Katarina
Burin received her MFA from Yale University and her BFA from
University of Georgia. She was born in Bratislava, Slovakia, grew up
in Canada and the US and is currently living and working in Berlin,
Germany. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Munich and
London, was the recipient of the Dedalus Master of Fine Arts
Fellowship, has spent time at residencies in Vienna, Skowhegan, and
MacDowell. Burin has co-curated an exhibition space called the Glas
Pavillon in Berlin, inviting international artists to participate in
thematic exhibitions and discussions, and has taught for the
University of Georgia studies abroad program in Cortona,
Italy.
Joseph
Burwell was born in Iceland in 1970 and raised in southwestern
Virginia. He studied Architecture and Studio Arts at Savannah College
of Art and Design, received his BA in Studio Arts from the College of
Charleston in South Carolina in 1993, and received his MFA in
sculpture from Tulane University in 1999. Burwell has shown in New
York, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland, Egypt, Canada, and at different
venues across the US, and has participated in residencies at The
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, at PS 122 Project
Studio Program, and at The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s
Workspace Program. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Keller Easterling is an
architect and writer from New York City. Her book, Enduring
Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT,
2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in
difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. A
previous book Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses
in America applies network theory to a discussion of American
infrastructure and development formats. A forthcoming book,
Extrastatecraft, examines global infrastructure networks as a
medium of global polity. Her work was recently seen in Some True
Stories: Researches in the Field of Flexible Truth at Storefront
for Art and Architecture.
Marcella Faustini
was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A visual artist working across
mediums, her interests are situated at the intersection of interior
design, moving images, and architecture. Faustini received her MFA
from California College of the Arts and was awarded a residency at
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, both in 2006. She
currently lives in San Francisco.
Sarrita Hunn received her BA
in Studio Art, Art History, and Philosophy from Drury University in
2001, her MFA in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts in 2004
and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006.
Through paintings, sculptures and social events, she investigates
systems through which information is mediated and translates that
information into new analog and digital forms.
S.E. Nash was born in Memphis, TN
in 1980. She received her BFA with high honors from the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville in 2003 and her MFA in Painting from Yale
University in 2005. She is a recipient of the 2004 Yale
Schickle-Collingwood Prize for artistic growth and was awarded a
Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant in 2005. Nash has exhibited in
group shows in Connecticut and New York and is currently focusing on a
body of work that will be exhibited in New York in Fall 2010. She
lives and works in New York City.
The focus of Sarah
Oppenheimer’s work is the feedback loop between constructed spaces
and pedestrian motion. She studies how the built environment and human
behavior reciprocally impact each other; most recently, the way that
sight lines through built space shapes the visual progression of a
body in motion. Recent projects include MF-142 at Annely Juda, London,
VP-41 at Art Unlimited, Art Basel, and Automatic Cities at the Museum
of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Awards include a 2010-11 Rome Prize
Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, an American Academy
of Arts and Letters Award in Art and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation
Fellowship. She currently teaches at Yale University where she
received her MFA in 1999.
Ryan Thayer received his BA
in Studio Art and Art History from Drury University in 2001, his MFA
from California College of the Arts in 2006 and attended U.C.
Berkeley. His work ranges from architectural installations to
photography and sound sculptures. He explores structures of power and
their often contradictory manifestations in buildings and everyday
objects.
Thomas Tsang is an architect who’s
works focus on an interdisciplinary approach to architecture immersed
in the etymology of how the origin of architectural text and imagery
influences one’s subconscious. Current projects include the public
welfare rehabilitation complex for the elderly and orphaned in the
City of Yichuan, Ningxia. Tsang’s work has been exhibited in New York,
Chicago, Rome, Shanghai, Florence, Tokyo, and Turin. He served as
juror for the 8th International Biennial of Architecture of Sao Paulo,
Urban Echoes, co-edited with Ian Luna, On the Edge: Ten
Architects in China (Rizzoli, 2007), and has received numerous
awards in US, Europe, and Japan, including the Rome Prize in
Architecture from the American Academy in Rome.
