NYAB Event - “Thin-Sliced Cravings” Exhibition

“Thin-Sliced Cravings” Exhibition

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With a title borrowed from a poem by one of the exhibitors, composer and singer/songwriter Cochlea Freedom, Thin-Sliced Cravings conveys interrelated messages across four different disciplines. A multi-talented performer who works in both popular and experimental music as well as traditional cow-calling, Cochlea will bring on board a surprise guest artist for her live performance on Friday night.

The wall-mounted part of the exhibit, which will remain on view for a full week, features a selection of hand-painted accordion books by Irene Christensen. Whimsical and deeply personal, Irene’s fable-like iconography tells stories of loss, longings, scrapes and joys.
Cathrine Wessel’s large photographic triptych, resulting from an elaborate analog process using both positive and negative Polaroid images, shows a young woman, strong and yet vulnerable, contemplating her own self through a series of gracious poses.
Zooming in even closer to the skin, Iselin Kleiva’s tightly cropped video works explore the thin border between the human body and its external world, leaving the viewer with the feeling that he/she is touching – perhaps even entering into – this delicate membrane.

Cochlea Freedom
Cochlea Freedom is the creation of Norwegian soprano Kjesti Kveli, who currently lives and works in NYC. She received her BA in Tromsø, Norway, where she also obtained a teaching degree in voice. In 2008, she studied Early Music under Harry Van der Kamp in Bremen, Germany, and now holds a Master’s degree inContemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied under Lucy Shelton.
She explores standard modern repertoire and late romantic operatic styles with collaborator and husband Tor Morten Kjøsnes. Recently, she joined the renowned new music ensemble NeoLit, which has a special focus on women composers. Specializing in contemporary music, Kveli also works in a modern folk style and writes poetry/lyrics for her own projects as well as for other composers. Earlier this year, Kveli worked for artist/filmmaker Matthew Barney on his large-scale film project River of Fundament

Irene Christensen
Born in Norway, Irene Christensen has been based in New York since 1983. A graduate of the Oslo Engineering School, she studied art at the Art Student League in NYC under Richard Pousette-Dart and Joseph Hirsch, as well as in Norway at the Voss School of Fine Arts and the Institutt for ROM-kunst in Oslo.
Her work has been shown in many museums, including Galería Nacional, Costa Rica; the Norwegian Forest Museum; The Bergen Museum, NJ; The Paterson Museum, NJ; The Noyes Museum, NJ; Newark Museum, NJ; well as in several art centers and galleries throughout the US, Europe, Brazil, Israel and Argentina.
Environmentally concerned, Christensen serves on the Board of Directors of AIRIE [Artists in Residence in Everglades], Florida, as well as on the board of Artist Talk on Art, NYC. She is currently co-curating an exhibition traveling across Norway and the US. She has lectured at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; The Pen and Brush Society in NYC; The Florida International University and other institutions.
The recipient of many prizes and awards both in Europe and the US, Christensen’s work is represented in many museums and personal collections in Europe and USA.

Cathrine Wessel
Based in NYC, Cathrine Wessel is a Norwegian freelance photographer with agency representation on national and international level. Wessel shoots major international fashion lines, travel, sports and lifestyle photography as well as celebrity portraiture for magazines and brand campaigns.
Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group shows, including CONDÉ NAST TRAVELER’s 25th and 15th Anniversary Exhibitions in NYC;The Polaroid Process at Heiberg Cummings Gallery, NYC; Nordic Light Photo Festival, International Centre of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway; Alpana Bawa, NYC; Photo District News’ 20th Anniversary Exhibition, NYC; and Masterminds of Mode, International Fashion Festival, Tokyo, Japan.
Wessel’s photos are included in many publications, such as CONDÉ NAST TRAVELER PHOTOGRAPHS: 25TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION; Tattoo Nation: Portraits of Celebrity Body Art; Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel; African Americans: Voices of Triumph: Leadership; and For the Love of the Game: My Story by Michael Jordan.

Iselin Kleiva
Based in Oslo, Norwegian artist Iselin Kleiva works primarily with drawing and video. She obtained her MFA from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in 2012. In addition to various group shows in Sweden, Germany and England, her work has recently been exhibited in Norway at Rake Visningsrom in Trondheim and Frantz : Navle Visningsrom in Bergen. She is currently working towards an upcoming show at Pink Cube Gallery in Oslo.

Media

• Painting
• Photography
• Video installation
• Performance Art

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