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Audrey Hasen Russell’s Sunroom Project Slant Branch Souvenir (Thinkin’ on You) is up through September 13, 2009. She and Sunroom Space Curator Leigh Ross—Assistant Curator at Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery—muse on the collaboration of artist and curator. Meet them both in the gallery at 1PM on Sunday, September 13.
The Artist says:
Audrey during installation in the Sunroom
Post installation and opening of my exhibition at Wave Hill in the Sunroom, I am finally able to step back and look at the scene I created. Getting ready for the show was quite a process as I was working in a new manner formally and within a specific setting. However, I think that teetering on my personal brink of ‘the unknown’ (conceptually speaking) seems to always push me forward in my body of work and state of mind. The work came out quite peaceful and reflective and a touch humorous to me. I am still drawing connections between what I had absorbed from the sunroom site, my thoughts on landscape and home, the objects I made in my small Bushwick studio, and how they are interacting now. Surprising, reassuring and unexpected (and some expected, thank goodness).
The Curator says:
Leigh, far left, and Audrey, second from right, at the opening for her installation
Audrey’s piece responds to the room so thoughtfully, and so uniquely- it’s such a pleasure to have it in the gallery. The work has a strong emotional resonance that I think viewers really respond to. She’s also just been such a delight to work with. It’s very interesting to see how the Sunroom artists develop their projects in the time between their selection (in this case, August of 2008) and their exhibition. I hope Audrey will touch on this in her Artist Talk. That’s on Sunday, September 13 at 1pm in the Sunroom, free with admission. It’s the last day of the show as well, so I encourage you to come!
The last of the five artists in this year’s Sunroom Project Series is Mauro Zamora, whose installation opens September 19.
Hannah Flack on Cece Cole’s Installation in the Sunroom Project Space
Cece Cole’s installation Knots and Conceits just opened in the Sunroom yesterday. It’s filled with all of these weird, futile experiments, sort of like the remainders of a mad scientist’s abandoned laboratory. Every time I go into the space I find another fun little corner to explore, and I’m always surprised by how she’s transformed all of these beat-up, recycled materials into such a colorful, imaginative workshop.
A great way to further explore the piece is by visiting the blog she made specifically for the installation: http://rainbowstacy.blogspot.com/. It’s full of photographs and videos she took in and around Wave Hill to prepare for the installation. The blog is a glimpse into her thought-process, something I’m always interested in, but which I can rarely uncover outside of studio visits.
Hannah Flack is Wave Hill’s current Curatorial Fellow. Her year-long tenure here includes assisting with the selection of this year’s Sunroom Project Space artists.
