Jen Bervin, David East, Marget Long Group Exhibition
Proteus Gowanus
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For the second exhibition of our WATER year, Proteus Gowanus presents a new exhibition by our Project-in-Residence
Reanimation Library :
Reanimation Library | Gowanus Branch will present new work by Jen Bervin, David East, and Marget Long accompanied by a selection of books from the library’s collection. All of the work and books included in the branch will engage with the subject of water—the focus of this year’s investigative theme at Proteus Gowanus. Works in sculpture, photography, video, installation and textiles all grew out of an initial encounter with printed material, often from the library’s own collection.
Jen Bervin will present a section of her large-scale installation River—a 230 ft. panoramic scale model of the Mississippi River rendered in reflective hand-sewn silver sequins. For Gowanus Branch, she will install a segment of the river’s meander belt, famously charted by Harold Norman Fisk in his Geological Investigation of the Mississippi River Alluvial Valley. Installed on the ceiling, the piece shows the river mapped from the geocentric perspective—from inside the earth’s interior looking up at the riverbed. Viewers will be able to see themselves reflected in it as they move through the space.
David East’s site-specific installation, Pastoral Double Plot (Non-Circulating) explores the theme of water by referencing one of its greatest consumers—the American suburban lawn. Driven by the idea of the lawn as a sort of parasitic architecture to the suburban home, the piece itself echoes the lawn/home relationship, growing out of Proteus Gowanus’s own systems of display. He will also present A Walk in the Park (thank you Mr. Lynch), within the library stacks, a looped animation further exploring the lawn inspired by the opening sequence of David Lynch’s film, “Blue Velvet”.
Marget Long will exhibit photographs and video from her current series Mirage Mirage (which, incidentally, grew out of her involvement with the library’s Center City Branch in Philadelphia in 2009.) Daylight at the Oasis consists of three pixelated, black and white photographs of an oasis in the Mojave Desert which are mounted under a dichroic, refractive plexiglass cut into a grid pattern. The specialized plexiglass, marketed by 3M for its ‘mirage like’ properties, causes the oases to change hue, appear, and disappear, depending on the viewing angle. The photographs also reflect the contents of the room in which they are displayed. She will also present Rancho Mirage, a looped video work featuring footage of a mirage interacting with automatic sprinkler systems on a commercial strip of road in the city of Rancho Mirage, CA.
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Schedule
from January 04, 2014 to March 16, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-01-11 from 19:00 to 21:00