Stephen Eakin "Trying to Save it all"
AC Institute
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“At the origin of painting and sculpture there lies a mummy complex. The religion of ancient Egypt, aimed against death, saw survival as dependent on the continued existence of the corporeal body.”
-- Andre Bazin, The Ontology of the Photographic Image
The imbuing of meaning in an artwork is parallel to the imbuing of memory in objects. Art is fundamentally linked to mortality and our relationship with time. These elements affect and complicate the value of objects.
Stephen Eakin mines and removes objects from personal history and familial narrative, subsequently placing them in a setting that redefines them as precious relics, art objects, or both. This action posits the politics of memory, history, and our identities after we are gone. Eakin experiments with an object’s context (or lack thereof) in an effort to seek where the object’s voice meets the voice of its viewer, if at all.
BIO:
Born in Panama City, Florida during the summer of 1981, Stephen Eakin received a B.F.A. from University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and an M.F.A. in Experimental and Media Arts from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 2007. He returned to Stockton to teach as an adjunct professor at University of the Pacific, Sacramento State University and American River College in Sacramento. He has exhibited video, film, installation, and sculptural projects in Minneapolis, Reno, Berkeley, San Francisco, Portland, Sacramento, Stockton, New York, Kalamata, Winnipeg, and Texas. He recently spent six weeks touring the country with the Brooklyn-based arts collective Non Solo, working collaboratively on several exhibitions during that time. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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Schedule
from January 12, 2012 to February 04, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-01-12 from 18:00 to 20:00