NYAB Event - “EAF15: 2015 Emerging Artist Fellowship” Exhibition

“EAF15: 2015 Emerging Artist Fellowship” Exhibition

Socrates Sculpture Park

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Fifteen years ago Socrates Sculpture Park inaugurated the Emerging Artist Fellowship (EAF) Exhibition and launched what would become an annual exhibition of “artists to watch.” By providing an open studio along with financial, administrative, and technical support, the EAF program offers a rare opportunity for the realization of original, large-scale complex work. From May through September EAF artists work on-site, negotiating the physical and conceptual challenges of production in the park’s outdoor studio space, becoming energetic fuel for the park’s popular summer programming.

This year’s Emerging Artist Fellows were selected through a highly competitive process that attracted over 350 applications, a record number for the program, by the park’s 2015 Curatorial Advisors, Gary Carrion-Murayari (Curator, New Museum) and Nora Lawrence (Curator, Storm King Art Center). The 2015 Emerging Artist Fellows are: Kenseth Armstead, Charlotte Becket & Roger Sayre, José Carlos Casado, Torkwase Dyson, Carla Edwards, Davey Hawkins, Lena Henke, David Horvitz, Charlotte Hyzy, Melanie McLain, Kirsten Nelson, Freya Powell, Leah Raintree, Aaron Suggs, and Noa Younse.

As the culmination of a sought-after fellowship program, the EAF Exhibition is distinct in its commitment to emphasize individual artist projects. Rather than present an overarching theme, the exhibition highlights the singularity of each artist’s vision and subject matter, while providing critical consideration on diverse subjects, processes, and the specificities of site.

The exhibition’s opening will feature performances in and around three EAF15 installations:

David Horvitz lullaby for a landscape (All the Pretty Horses)

3:00-6:00pm (ongoing)

Performers include: David Horvitz, Mia Nolting, and Dennis Sullivan

The set of chimes contained in David Horvitz’s lullaby for a landscape each represent a single musical note from the timeless lullaby “All the Pretty Horses”. Throughout the EAF15 opening, performers will activate Horvitz’s work, installed from branches in Socrates Sculpture Park’s grove of trees, bringing to life the individual fragments as a new lullaby and evoking an otherworldly dream-state.

Melanie McLain Tactile Formation

3:30 – 5:30pm / 15 minute cycle

With performers: Tanya Evans, Joyful Jam, Phoebe Osborne, and Tara Quinn; sound by David Lebleu

Performers trained in dance, acrobatics, and massage will activate Melanie McLain’s sculpture Tactile Formation through movements on, in, and around the installation. Designed as a site for social experimentation, Tactile Formation‘s form maximizes the potential for physical interactions. Engaging their surroundings through touch, eye contact, and choreographed movements, the performers explore the physical and emotional relationship between bodies and space.

José Carlos Casado Trade

4:00-6:00pm

During the opening of EAF15, artist José Carlos Casado will carefully transport the elements of his sculpture, Trade, from the park’s studio space to their installation site, enacting a process of removal and displacement that the artwork addresses. The surface of each brightly hued metal object was created through a 3D digitalization of images of human limbs and flesh. These beautiful objects simultaneously represent precious stones and wounded bodies, visually linking natural resources with human brutality, and creating uncomfortable parallels between global warming, terrorism, commerce, and war.

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