Shantell Martin "Project InsideOut"
Collette Blanchard Gallery
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Collette Blanchard Gallery presents Project InsideOut OutsideIn, which features the multimedia, interactive work of Shantell Martin.
Project InsideOut OutsideIn expands upon Martin's ever-changing, growing world in which the ephemera of the everyday is taken out of its natural world to highlight the simplest essence of the environs referenced by Martin. As Martin literally turns the gallery inside-out, bringing inside what is meant to be out,side the viewer becomes a participant; what is private becomes transparent, and what seems obvious cannot be taken literally. This bonanza of collaboration of illustration, music, light, performance, and being there to see what happens produces a playful, backward, asymmetrical environment. In the artist's words, the work is , "completely spontaneous. Nothing is rehearsed, nothing is practiced." Whimsical, meticulous drawings that emerge as digitized media or ink renderings on canvas, walls, windows, and cars meander from the surface of their origin to human skin via light, ink, and/or spatial proximity. Martin's depictions abstract the contexts of reference images through stream-of-conscious associations between inanimate objects and anthropomorphic forms. With the simplicity of a line Martin creates delicate, intricate, and ever-changing otherworldly landscapes populated with quasi-humans and other creatures, all engaged in the process of evolving into something else. She expands conventional definitions of drawing, pioneering an area that combines improvised live illustration, light, and audience interaction.
Martin is an illustrator, live performer, VJ and videographer. Originally from London and having spent years in Japan, Martin currently resides in NY and exhibits internationally. She recently completed an interactive project atMoMA, was a panelist at the 2010 PSFK conference at the Museum for Jewish Heritage, and her numerous collaborations include projects with Adidas, Harajuku, Wacom Japan, Soho House, Hudson Terrace and Studio B, to name a few. Martin released her first solo DVD in February of 2009.
The artist will be performing in collaboration with live bands, a cellist and a violinist. Details regarding these performances are listed below.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
May 15th 6:00 - Drive In Theater
May 16th 2:00 - Person Line Drawings
May 19th 8:00 - Hidden Ora Lounge
- Live performance with Cellist Anna Callner
- Live performance with singer Sophia Bastian
Media
Schedule
from May 12, 2010 to May 22, 2010
Closing Reception on 2010-05-22 from 18:00 to 20:00