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Monya
Rowe is pleased to announce a large group exhibition organized by Independent
Curator Anat Ebgi and Monya Rowe titled Something is Somewhere.
The
exhibition features work by Aja Albertson, Katia Bassanini, Larissa Bates,
Amy Bennett, Jen DeNike, Angela Dufresne, Echo Eggebrecht, Adriana Farmiga,
Sabrina Gschwandtner, Magalie Guerin, Elizabeth Huey, Ellen Lesperance
& Jeanine Oleson, Caitlin Masley, Sigrid Sandstrom, Erika Somogyi,
Frances Trombly, Whitney Van Nes, Abbey Williams and Sheri Warshauer.
“Often when she liked a picture, she found that she was liking some
part of herself, some part of her
that was in accord with the picture.” — Jeanette Winterson
Something is Somewhere stands as a humble attempt to reclaim the fleeting
threshold between perception and projection, observation and creativity;
between the centered self and the universal. We intend to explore art’s
long reach into the collective unconscious and touch a realm of liminality
where experience and activity are shared in the metaphysical, nostalgic,
and prosthetic. This investigation will focus on the
experience of environment depicted in various mediums including painting,
photography, video, drawing, and sculpture. The diverse environments on
display will bear little or no surface resemblance to one another. However,
it is the experience connected to each respective environment - place
and period - that is shared. The barely perceptible locus of connectivity
present in the exhibition is loosely drawn from individual components:
where we were raised, our race, traditions, culture, religion, values,
gender and evenclass.
Something
is Somewhere asserts through its’ existence that these innate categories
are assigned and then further constructed. People and their backgrounds
are understood by one another and can even morph or adapt in actuality
or in fantasy. Humans are adaptable and the self is perceived as a fluid
and relative, un-alone entity, always a somewhat
interdependent participant in a larger social, physical and cosmic scheme.
Here lies the fusion of artist/viewer/human being: the minute psychical
location where art, conquering boundary and body politic, continues to
make order of life for those who create and those who appreciate creation
–collectively. That is, in some form…of something…somewhere.
EXHIBITION SHOTS
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