FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Glowlab announces new artist representation program to launch at the Fountain New York art fair.
Fountain
Dates: Thursday, February 22-Monday, February 26, 2007
Location: 660 12th Avenue [between 48th St. and 49th St., 4 blocks south of The Armory Show’/Pier 94]
VIP/Press Preview: Thursday, February, 22, 12-5pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 22, 5pm-12am
Exhibition Hours: 11am-7pm
Contact: Christina Ray, Glowlab Founder and Creative Director, 718.388.5911 or info@glowlab.com
Websites: Glowlab: http://glowlab.com . Fountain: http://www.fountainexhibit.com/ny2007/glowlab/
February 1, 2007, Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn-based independent curatorial project Glowlab is pleased to announce a new artist representation program launching at Fountain, the new avant-garde art fair pioneered by Brooklyn's most cutting-edge galleries, where we will feature limited-edition prints and photographs, maps, sculpture, audio/video works and performance projects inspired by the urban environment.
The complex physical, social, psychological and technological orders and disorders of cities serve as the focus for experimental, process-oriented and often street-based works by Glowlab’s twelve artists at Fountain, including Robin Antiga, Kurt Bigenho, Bethany Bristow, Beth Coleman, Howard Goldkrand, D. Jean Hester, Heather L. Johnson, Steve Lambert, Marisa Olson, Mark Price, Sal Randolph and Lee Walton.
In addition to presenting artists' works in exhibitions and art fairs such as Fountain, Glowlab is now open by appointment in Williamsburg in our studio just off the Bedford Avenue L stop. Appointments may be scheduled by contacting Glowlab at 718.388.5911 or info@glowlab.com. Artists' works will also displayed in a special gallery section of the Glowlab website at http://glowlab.com, scheduled to launch in mid-February.
For the launch of our new program at Fountain, Robin Antiga presents a new screenprint edition depicting lost and endangered characters rooted in a dystopic urban wasteworld. Kurt Bigenho's diagrammatic and colorful screenprint paintings, developed during recent walks through Rio de Janeiro, investigate map-based systems of interaction, communication and structure, while Bethany Bristow's sculptures and prints serve as evidence of her street interventions in Bangkok, Saigon and Kuala Lumpur.
SoundLab Cultural Alchemy co-founders Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand present two projects: Coleman's "Tiny World" prints explore the digital landscape of machinima, an emerging film genre utilizing interactive 3D gaming engines; Goldkrand's "Sound Signature" series, produced during a residency at the Chinati Foundation, visually represent the invisible structure of the sonic environment.
D. Jean Hester's watercolors combine text appropriated from song lyrics with fragments of the urban Los Angeles landscape. Heather L. Johnson offers a related take on text and the city, merging overheard conversations with architectural engineering plans in the form of delicate embroidery on linen as well as graphite drawings. Mark Price will create an installation for Fountain with silkscreen printed fabric patchworks and wall paintings depicting fragile beings lost in a struggle against the harsh, dehumanizing beasts of modern society and the ills they attract.. Sal Randolph's "Parasigns" is a distributed, socially activated sculpture comprised of vinyl stickers with ambiguous words and saturated colors mounted on regulation-grade aluminum street signs.
Marisa Olson’s installation is a constellation of objects that spring from her fascination with pop music, stardom, and failure. In a series of performances throughout the weekend, Fountain visitors will be able to don custom headphones and join her in a "world tour" of the greatest hits of bands named after geographic locations. Join Marisa as she makes stops in Berlin, Boston, Beirut, Chicago, Alabama, Kansas, Europe, Phoenix, and Duluth.
Lee Walton, known for his interactive and often humorous work in public space, has developed a new project for Glowlab titled "Giving Up My Time," an edition of 24 unedited miniDV tapes documenting the artist's life as one-hour video segments available for purchase.
SPECIAL EVENTS
In a special event taking place in Williamsburg during the weekend of Fountain, Steve Lambert will present "I WILL TALK WITH ANYONE…", a table set up on the sidewalk allowing passersby to speak with Steve about anything on their minds. Look for Steve on the corner of N. 5th and Roebling Streets throughout the evening of February 24th, during the Williamsburg Gallery Association's "After Hours" event. http://www.williamsburggalleryassociation.com/
Performance schedule for Marisa Olson:
Thursday, February 22: 2-3pm, 6-7pm, 8-9pm
Friday, February 23: 12 - 1pm
Saturday, February 24: 4-5pm
Sunday, February 25: 4-5pm
Performances take place in the Glowlab booth at Fountain, located at 660 12th Avenue.
ABOUT FOUNTAIN
The avant-garde has always laid claim to history through its challenges and victories over the status quo. In 1917, at the unjuried Society of Artists exhibition, Marcel Duchamp unveiled the world's most famous ready-made art object: "Fountain." It is in this spirit of the unexpected that some of Williamsburg, Brooklyn's most forward-thinking and cutting-edge galleries, Capla Kesting Fine Art, Front Room, Glowlab, McCaig-Welles Gallery and Outrageous Look have collaborated to present Fountain New York 2007. Expect floor-to-ceiling displays of brand- new works, bold installations, impromptu performance events and the best parties of the weekend, as this exhibition makes its mark in a massive 5000 square foot space at 660 12th Avenue, a few blocks from the Armory show at Pier 94.
http://fountainexhibit.com
Fountain is made possible in part by the support of arts services organizations including the Brooklyn Arts Council, Fractured Atlas, Nurture Art and the Williamsburg Gallery Association.
ABOUT GLOWLAB
Glowlab is an independent curatorial lab producing, publishing and exhibiting art and technology projects exploring the nature of cities. Founded in 2002 by Brooklyn-based artist and curator Christina Ray, we track emerging approaches to psychogeography, the creative exploration of the physical and psychological landscape of cities. Activities include hosting our annual Conflux Festival, producing exhibitions and events and publishing a web-based magazine.
Glowlab is particularly interested in the psychogeographic elements of contemporary public-space artwork. The work we produce and present is created by artists whose primary inspiration is the urban environment and its complex physical, social, psychological and technological orders and disorders.
We have collaborated with organizations including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Eyebeam, Rhizome, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Van Alen Institute, Intel's Berkeley Research Lab, Southern Exposure, Parsons School of Design, Hunter College and more. Projects have been featured extensively in exhibitions and in publications including the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Time Out, New York Press, Adbusters, Flash Art magazine and many others.
Contact: Christina Ray, Glowlab Founder and Creative Director, 718.388.5911 or info@glowlab.com
Website: http://glowlab.com
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