Stefana McClure "The Beat That My Heart Skipped"

Josee Bienvenu Gallery

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Josee Bienvenu Gallery presents Stefana McClure's fifth solo exhibition in New York. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (a line from a Jacques Dutronc song) takes its title from Jacques Audiard's compelling 2005 film about a small-time hood who dreams of becoming a concert pianist, itself a riff on James Toback's 1978 film Fingers.

Distillation of time, obliteration and reconstruction of information, characterize Stefana McClure's drawings and sculptures. The works in the exhibition negotiate film and music, text and image: translating, transposing and decoding the synesthetic structure connecting them. The exhibition includes percussion drawings, colorblind drawings and musical movies on paper, along with a sculpture integrating iPod earphones.

The percussion drawings are performed on drums with modified drumsticks or special gloves. Sound is an integral part of these works, an attached iPod shuffle enables viewers to listen to the sound of the drawing being made. Renditions range from Take Five, a drawing in five parts, each one an individual drummer's take on the Jazz classic, to Irish Reel a drawing played on the ancient frame drum known as the bodhran – the very heartbeat of Irish music. There is also Middle Eastern drumming, both Turkish and Persian. Each musical genre translates into a distinct image.

The films on paper are monochromatic compositions with blurred lines composed by the superimposition of the subtitles of musical classics such as The Sound of Music, South Pacific, The Wizard of Oz, Some Like it Hot and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The colorblind drawings are based on Japanese tests made for the detection of color blindness. Much of the color information has been carefully punched out of these layered drawings, some of which can be viewed from both sides.

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Schedule

from September 18, 2008 to October 25, 2008

Opening Reception on 2008-09-18 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Stefana McClure

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