Amy Simon "a different STATE of mind"
Andrea Meislin Gallery
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Andrea Meislin Gallery announces the opening of a different STATE of mind, Amy Simon's first exhibition since joining the Gallery. Simon's work is also currently on view at the 53rd Venice Biennale, International Exhibition "Making Worlds" curated by Daniel Birnbaum. The works presented at Andrea Meislin Gallery are a variation on the themes and media explored there, incorporating photos, drawings and wallpapers.
Our world is so limited and small – our relativity is only experiential. We function within knowledge of our experiences of past and present, thereby creating our personal future. Our experiences and therefore subsequent memories of them create and re-create our reality. And that reality becomes our world – and our world will never be isolated, it will always gather elements from a universal experience, therefore there will always be something in images that can be identified with and then related to and built upon in "stories" from other's lives.
These images came to Simon intuitively. Upon entering a particular apartment, the 40° heat and the sunshine at 9:00 am on a weekday morning, Simon knew that there was more existing in this space for her, to her, about her then just the architecture of the rooms. By photographing interiors only, and at times exteriors from the inside looking out, the rooms became isolated from space and time. They became their own special world, cut off from the goings on of a greater universe. These images from a different STATE of mind depict all that has passed and the creation of all that can be; they hold the weight of the bearer and a multitude of possibilities.
[Image: Amy Simon "a different STATE of mind No. 16" (2008-09)]
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Schedule
from October 24, 2009 to December 19, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-24 from 12:00 to 18:00