NYAB Event - Amy Wilson "We Dream of Star Fish and Geodesic Domes"

Amy Wilson "We Dream of Star Fish and Geodesic Domes"

BravinLee Programs

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BravinLee programs presents Amy Wilson’s sprawling exhibition, We Dream of Star Fish and Geodesic Domes. Incorporating a wide variety of media, including watercolor on paper, acrylic on panel, collage, fabric, sewing, clay, and an interactive Flash animation, the artist reveals an ambitious set of works that center around the themes of utopia and building a new world.

Wilson is best known for her small watercolors that depict a cast of young girls who communicate the artist’s diaristic thoughts via text bubbles. In We Dream of… the girls are back, but they take on a new dimension as they roam around a landscape inspired by Hieronymous Bosch and contemplate the works of R. Buckminster Fuller, Paolo Solari, Murray Bookchin, and others. The girls wonder aloud: If we could build the perfect society from the ground up, what would it look like? What kind of values and ethics would we reward, and which ones would we shun? What kind of culture would we create, if we got to do it all over – and this time, do it right?

Highlights of this exhibition include:
* a 9’ drawing with over 6,000 words, titled A Utopian Vision (After Bosch);
* a series of fabric geodesic domes which represent the architecture of the artist’s proposed new society, complete with tiny handmade bedroom sets and even tinier shoes;
* an interactive web-based game, It’s Like This Every Day, in which players pick up limited edition albums (available for free at the gallery) and play online from home, competing to win works of art.

[Image: Amy Wilson "How We Came To Know We Were Ready (we felt excluded by high culture)" (2011) watercolor, pencil, walnut ink on paper 7 x 5 in.]