Wonder
Twin Powers, Activate!
July 14 – August 26, 2006
Reception: Friday, July 14th 6-9 pm
gescheidle is pleased to present Wonder Twin Powers, Activate! This
summer group show curated by Anat Ebgi and José Carlos Diaz includes
artworks by Colleen Asper, Clayton Colvin, Jen DeNike, Donnie + Travis,
Aisling Hamrouge, Aimee Jones, Erik Lang, Johannes Nyholm, Samuel Nyholm,
TM Sisters, and Ana Wolovick.
“Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!" is a jubilant command coined
by The Wonder Twins, a pair of teenage alien superheroes who were sidekicks
to the Super Friends in the Hanna-Barbera animated television cartoon
series of the same name. This exhibit includes selected artists from
across the globe who experiment in all media to create works that are
aesthetically charged, and reference symmetry and metamorphosis. All
the artists explore double troubles, science fiction, fantasy, blurred
realities and inner visions.
About the curators:
Anat Ebgi is an independent curator originally from Miami and now residing
in Brooklyn, New York. She has curated numerous shows for non-profit
spaces, as well as for commercial galleries including White Box, Alona
Kagan Gallery, Kathleen Cullen Fine Art, and Monya Rowe. Ebgi is also
co-founder and producer of FRISBEE fair in Miami and New York. In the
fall of 2006 she will be attending Bard’s Center for Curatorial
Studies for her master’s degree in curating contemporary art.
José Carlos Diaz is an independent curator and the Communications
Associate at the Miami Art Museum, as well as being a correspondent
for The Art Newspaper. Diaz is the founder of the nomadic curatorial
project Worm-Hole Laboratory (WHL). WHL has been credited as one of
the most exciting and relevant exhibition programs in Miami, exposing
the city to many new artists, as well as pushing the possibilities of
site-specific installations into a diverse range of contexts. His curatorial
projects have included Jenny Holzer Pillow Talk at the Rubell Family
Collection, Miami, 2003, Gypsies Curse at the Buena Vista Building,
Miami, 2004, and Hanging By a Thread at The Moore Space, Miami, 2005.
About the artists:
Colleen Asper received her BFA from the Maryland Institute
College of Art in 2002, her MFA from Yale University in 2004, and she
is currently at a residency at Skowhegan, ME. She is a recipient of
a Maryland State Grant, the Helen Winternitz Award, and the Jacob K.
Javitz Fellowship. Asper has taught at the Maryland Institute College
of Art and Brooklyn College, and lectured at the Museum School in Boston.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at
Deitch Projects and Alona Kagan Gallery in NYC. She has been reviewed
in the New Yorker and Time Out New York, and is a regular contributor
to Beautiful/Decay magazine. Asper lives and works in Brooklyn, New
York.
Clayton Colvin teaches drawing at the University of Alabama
and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His work is based in drawing
as an active manner of actualizing, examining, controlling and comprehending
the world. Of special interest is the fragile balance between what makes
something positive or negative, and the symmetry that arises. He is
also the founder of stealtharts, an underground space in Birmingham,
Alabama.
Jen DeNike is a video artist and photographer who lives and
works in NYC. She earned her MFA from Bard College, and her BFA from
Georgia State University. DeNike has an upcoming solo exhibition in
fall 2006 at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. A new video
work is on view at the PSI Into Me/Out of Me exhibition. She is currently
at work on a book, Seven Suns, which will be released in October.
Donnie + Travis, collaborative NYC-based artists, recently
completed and installed their off-loom weaving project, Smile Now, Cry
Later, for High Desert Test Sites. They currently have a solo show,
Mil Siluetas, at John Connelly Presents, NYC.
Aisling Hamrouge was born in NYC, and he lives and works in Brooklyn,
New York. He earned his BFA at The School of Visual Arts. Group exhibitions
include Welcome Home, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; The Seventh
Side of the Die, Alona Kagan Gallery, NYC; Psychic Reality, Bellweather,
NYC; FRISBEE fair ‘05, Miami, FL; If You’re Feeling Sinister,
Alona Kagan, NYC; and 2004 Fictions, Johnathan Shore, NYC
Aimee Jones “two bedrooms, two baths please. I finally
said goodbye to the starving artist bullshit. I now have two jobs and
take a bath everyday. See you in Chicago!” Jones lives and works
in Houston, Texas. She received her BFA in painting from the University
of Houston. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally.
In 2006 she has collaborative projects with the Feel Better 4/Ever Club,
and a solo show at Ingalls and Associates in Miami.
Erik A. Lang is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn,
NY. He has shown his work in London and New York, and will soon have
a solo exhibit in Los Angeles. Additionally, Lang’s work has appeared
in magazines such as Elle, Conde Nast Traveler, and Ocean Drive, among
others. He loves metaphors and tea.
Johannes Nyholm is a Swedish art and music video director,
animator, and filmmaker. His work has been presented in film and video
festivals and art exhibitions throughout Europe.
Samuel Nyholm is a Swedish contemporary graphic designer, illustrator,
animator, and a founding member of REALA. Nyholm runs the bureau Reala,
a Swedish Graphic Design studio, together with Jonas Williamsson in
Stockholm and Laurent Benner in London. He is better known as the brother
of the universal genius, Johannes Nyholm.
The TM Sisters have been involved in throwing punk concerts, creating
fanzines, producing musical happenings, doing visuals for clubs, and
sewing clothing. Their do-it-yourself ethic started by being home-schooled.
The sisters, Tasha & Monica Lopez De Victoria, were raised in Miami
as the daughters of a pastor-turned-psychotherapist/professor, and grew
up surrounded by intense spiritual and psychological discussion. Despite
being thrown out of church, their connection to God has only deepened.
Their work can currently be seen in the internationally traveling exhibition
Uncertain States of American Art in the 3rd Millenium America, curated
by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, and Gunnar B. Kvaran.
Using a language of abstract forms, NYC artist Ana Wolovick creates
digital video installations and abstract oil paintings. The works deal
with issues of conflict as perceived through formal structures. Wolovick
is a graduate of the Yale MFA painting program, and earned her BFA from
the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. She previously worked on
TV's South Park, as well as co-producing and co-directing the documentary
I’d Rather be Dead Than Mellow.
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