Juliette Dumas “NO SAFE HARBOR”
ART 3
[Image: Juliette Dumas "Strategies of Resistance 06" (2015) plastic tarp, nails, rocks, 60 x 50 in.]
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ART 3 gallery presents NO SAFE HARBOR featuring works by JULIETTE DUMAS. This will be Dumas’ first solo exhibition in NYC and with the gallery.
Juliette Dumas creates artworks that address our strained relationship with Nature. Dumas uses the physical properties of her materials and the dynamics of their interaction, to create metaphors for humanity’s struggle to control the effects of environmental degradation. The exhibition will present a range of Dumas’ ephemeral installations involving water, plastic, and rocks (Strategies of Resistance; Horizon Line); a series of silver gelatin works (Frozen Plates : Collaboration with the Cold), large white canvases (The Erased Paintings) and a wood sculpture (Whale Bone).
In her series entitled “Strategies of Resistance,” natural materials, such as stone and water, are held in a state of suspension by plastic sheets. The equilibrium and the tension of the work rely on the balance between the number of nails used and the weight of the stones, a tribute to movements of political resistance.
With “Frozen Plates: Collaboration with the Cold”, Dumas pours emulsion on metal plates which she then leaves outside when temperatures drop below freezing. In time, the plates reveal drawings created by the frost. The end results are black and white silver gelatin prints that capture those ephemeral creations.
In the “Erased Paintings” series, Dumas sands down her own paintings and cleans them with soap, water or throws them into the ocean in an effort to get rid of human self-centeredness.
Juliette Dumas (French, b. 1987, Paris France, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) completed her BA at Villa Arson in Nice France and MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2013. Dumas has been awarded artist residencies at Festival Grandeur Nature, Ristolas, France in 2009 and La Station, Nice in 2015. She was nominated for Clare Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists by the Painting and Drawing Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013). Dumas’ work was featured in notable solo and group exhibitions including “Winter Studies”, curated by Alf Setzer, Kunstverein Gaestezimmer E.V, Stuttgart, Germany (2015); “Ad Hoc”, La Station, Nice, France (2015); “Mono no Aware Film Festival”, Brooklyn, NY. (2013).
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Schedule
from September 07, 2016 to October 02, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-09-15 from 18:00 to 21:00