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Uncharted Territory
Public Opening: May 1-31, 2009, Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6 pm
Public Opening Reception: May 2, 2009, Saturday, 5-8 pm
Uncharted Territory is a multiple site event showcasing contemporary site-specific 2-D and 3-D art installations, video and performance art. This is the first of two exhibitions that will take place in 2009 and are part of a long-term project, Sight Specific, which seeks to use installation and performance art to engage both public open space as well as raw interior spaces.
“The recent economic crisis, a historic political election as well as a planet in crisis, has presented unprecedented challenges. It also creates new opportunities regarding how we can respond to these challenges and re-imagine new beginnings for our contemporary society. In many ways, we are entering uncharted territories. This is the context in which artist are encouraged to approach this exhibition”. –Terry Boddie, Curator.
Participating artists include: Akintola Hanif, Andrea DeFelice, Lisa Marie Bronson, Beatrice Coron, Chris Burns, Evonne Davis, Jeff Campbell, Kathleen Heron, Kevin Darmine, Mike Malbrough, Nicole Frocheur, Patrick Grenier, Rebecca Major, Robert Lach, Seung Ae Kim, Shani Peters, Stepanie Dinkins, Suzanne Broughel, Mavinga Petrasch, LaNa Jones Jules.
Oualie Art, 540A Freeman Street, Orange, NJ
Harvard Printing Company, 540 Central Ave, Orange, NJ
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re·con·struc·tion
With challenges come opportunities to imagine new beginnings. A global financial and climatic crisis, wars, and the geographic displacement of individuals, among other events, created an event that changed history and attracted the attention of the entire globe. In some ways, this new American government faces the combined challenges of both the FDR and Lincoln administrations. How does the creative process respond to this moment? How do these new challenges suggest new possibilities for looking at the world around us as well as our own interior lives? Can visual artists respond to this contemporary moment and use art as a vehicle to re-imagine the future of life as we know it?
Artists are invited to create and/or propose works and forms that investigate this idea of a reconstruction, using this region as well as their own creative practice as potential sources of inspiration and points of departure. The arts district that connects Orange and West Orange, New Jersey is an emerging arts community; this historically rich geographical landscape presents unique opportunities for visual artists to respond creatively to this notion of reconstruction. Artists will be selected to use raw spaces in the Central Valley for photography, painting, ephemeral installation art, performance art and sculpture. The exhibition will occupy both exterior and interior spaces in the arts district that connects the townships of Orange and West Orange.
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