“For Marian” Exhibition
FiveMyles
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Marian Griffith (1923-2008) was an important and much loved figure in the New York art scene during the years from 1980-1999 when she directed the Sculpture Center in New York at its old site on east 67 Street. She would sit at the front desk of the gallery and greet and chat with all her visitors: artists, tourists, neighborhood characters, the distinguished veteran sculptor and the newcomer alike. She was an old school curator who created her exhibitions by drawing on the vast and ever growing collection of artists she carried around in her head. She was intuitive, wise, generous and unpredictable. She has been sorely missed.
Two simultaneous for Marian exhibitions will be organized this March in her honor. Sculpture Center alumni Mia Westerlund will stage an installation of her work at the Humanities Gallery at Long Island University. For the exhibition at FiveMyles six artists who worked with Marian at the Sculpture Center at the beginning of their careers have been asked to nominate six younger artists whose work and spirit they felt would have appealed to Marian.
Robert Chambers selected Aaron Gilbert
Matt Freedman selected Ceaphas Stubbs
Donna Dennis selected Hannah Haworth
Beverly Semmes selected Mira Friedlaender
Mia Westerlund selected Alex White Mazzarella
Fred Wilson selected Andrew Wilson
ARTIST INFORMATION:
Mira Friedlaender
“I work across media with ideas of futility and internal conflict. I am currently working with art storage, with crates and boxes as found-objects. The work is made from the art storage of my deceased mother - Bilgé Civelekoglu Friedlaender. She was an artist with representation until her death, but since then her work has been in deep storage. The packed objects are now my sculptural material. I handle them at face value, from the outside, leaving them on the whole unpacked/unopened. I am focused on bringing the storage room into the gallery, into the front of the mind.”
Aaron Gilbert
Aaron Gilbert is a painter whose work depicts symbolic and psychological narratives. He has been awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as the 2010 ”Young American Painter of Distinction.” Gilbert has exhibited paintings at Deitch Projects in New York, Marc Selwyn Fine Arts in LA as well as galleries in Berlin, Providence, and Barcelona. His work is currently in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Residencies include 2013 Fountainhead Residency, 2012 Yaddo, 2008 LMCC Workspace Residency as well as a 2008 Affiliate Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Aaron holds an MFA in painting from Yale, and a BFA in painting from RISD.
Hannah Haworth
On August 26, 1933 a giant 20 foot Manta Devil Fish became entangled in the anchor and anchor rope of Captain A.L Kahn’s fishing boat while he was angling just off the New Jersey shore, almost capsizing the heavy boat. A Coast Guard vessel came to the rescue, and killed the 5,000 lb. monster Manta Birostris with 22 shots from a high powered rifle. The sail- like fish has been hung on exhibition in the harbor at Brielle by Captain Kahn. An 18-inch baby manta was born shortly after the mother fish had been dragged ashore.
Ceaphas Stubbs
Using still life photographs of ready-mades and found images, Ceaphas Stubbs explores repressed sexuality and desires. The found images, which are erotic abstractions of the body, are symbols for personal and collective narratives. The relationships and associations between each object are not fixed and, depending on how they are arranged, reveal open-ended narratives. He is also interested in challenging the limitations of the eye and the expectations of photography as a medium. By conflating the difference between what the eye sees and what the camera sees, Stubbs incites the viewer’s imagination and challenges perception.
Alex White Mazzarella
A student and practitioner of city planning, urbanism, and art, Alex White-Mazzarella has made his mark through a series of powerful social projects, which work by exploring social constellations in the context of city planning and community formation by creating situational environments of discourse and transformation. White-Mazzarella is the Founder of Artefacting, a global art initiative dedicated to the stimulation of dialogue and social justice in the public arena. White-Mazzarella has shown projects at the Queens Museum of Art, the India Design Forum, Boston Architecture Expo, and the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Centre. As the Director of Artefacting, he has carried out relational projects in Oaxaca (Mexico), Kohima (Nagaland, India), Cologne (Germany), Long Island City (New York, USA), Detroit (USA), Dharavi (Mumbai, India), Gurgaon (New Dehli, India), and Rome (Italy).
Andrew Wilson
“My art is more about storytelling than anything. I focus on themes of masculinity and sexuality in Black men and Black history in the American context and the complex intersections that exist between these warring identities. I want to help the viewer dive into intersections and conversations that are far from politically correct and get to the heart of my own reality: living life as a black, queer man and conflict between my identities. ”
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Schedule
from March 01, 2014 to March 30, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-03-01 from 17:00 to 20:00