"Moving Forward" Exhibition

SET Gallery

poster for "Moving Forward" Exhibition

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Moving forward is (despite recent flooding), a new backyard and a basement updated to an exhibition space with Jason Reyen’s objects and paintings. Moving forward is a debut presentation of Department of Culture grantee Katya Usvitsky. Moving forward is a theme in the (very fast) moving image work by Mandy Morrison and still/motion game in Ed Herman’s sculptures.

Along with new paintings by Jason Reyen, his various objects will be on display - including Outdoor Furniture from Home Improvement series where Jason reflects with great sense of humor on various matters of our reality.

Ed Herman, born in Detroit, reports that “after seeing a Van Gogh show at the Detroit Museum of Art, when he was 12, he decided that he did not want to spend the rest of his life In Detroit…”. His work focuses on the human condition in the urban world. He works primarily with cloth and epoxy to make life size figures, a technique that he developed in the late 70’s. His figures have a sense of mood and motion; whether a bicycle messenger, people walking in the rain or the homeless under burlap.

Mandy Morrison’s Patterns is a single channel video with a series of animated shapes made with the artist’s body in a Western landscapes set against a backdrop of aural elements referencing the shape of redundant activity and routine. Morrison's ideas evolve from notions of space in the personal, corporal and mediated realm; in particular, how the body projects itself within varying contexts. She has used archetypes –as well as stereotypes– of gender as a springboard to present the physical and psychological world of conditioning. By examining, as well as expanding notions of 'self' and physicality, her process invites deviation and transformation from prescribed norms.

A cluster of eggs, a nest, or a hive — NOthing is a series titled after the Elizabethan euphemism for a vagina. Although the pieces are reminiscent of the comforts of a womb, they are paradoxically created by twisting, wrenching, and deforming a nylon stocking into something that resists its attempts to restrain and normalize the body. Katya Usvitsky’s work transforms the suggestive material of women's undergarments to challenge societal standards of femininity and the idea of the female body as a vessel for reproduction.

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Schedule

from October 12, 2011 to December 18, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-10-14 from 18:00 to 20:00

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