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Exhibitions by Light Work Staff and Associates
Light Work Newsletter #19
October 2005
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in this issue
-- bau 10: light work lights
-- Super fun d
-- Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
-- Participating Light Work Staff and Associates
As you may know, Light Work/Community Darkrooms was started as an artist initiative. Since its beginning in 1972, Light Work has functioned successfully as an organization where artists support other artists. It is all too easy to forget that most of Light Work's staff and many of its associates are working artists. It is here we want to thank them for their commitment to art and other artists. We are happy to announce the following upcoming exhibitions by Light Work staff and associates, who contribute to our organization on a daily basis: bau 10: light work lights in Beacon, NY, Super fun d in Utica, NY, and Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce in Syracuse, NY. |
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bau 10: light work lights ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
bau 10: light work lights is the tenth exhibit
at Beacon Artist Union. One of its founding members,
photographer Angelika Rinnhofer, curated the show
with work by three artists, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin,
Hannah Frieser, and John Mannion. Each
photographer is based in Syracuse, NY, and all are
affiliated with Light Work.
October 8–November 6, 2005 |
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Super fun d ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are a substantial number of abandoned
institutions and industrial sites located in
metropolitan areas all along the East Coast. The
remains of these structures now occupy "gray
space," having been either forgotten or ignored by
the general public.Super fun d is a collaboration of Sean Hovendick and John Wesley Mannion, who work together under the name area. The multimedia installation explores a pair of liquid storage tanks on the grounds of an industrial facility, unused since the mid '80s. The facility, the centerpiece of a populated community, is surrounded by farmland and a major water table. Having once held the high ranking of "most polluted facility in America," the site was recently cleaned and removed from the government sponsored Super Fund list in 2000.
October 7–November 6, 2005
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Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Today's global economy has produced fertile ground
for contemporary artists trying to untangle the
increasingly complex relationship between art and
commercial culture. John D. Freyer explores these
issues in Aftermarket: Art, Objects and
Commerce, which includes components of four
different, but interrelated projects.
Nearly a century ago, Marcel Duchamp's "readymade" art
objects were based on the principle that art does not depend on
rules of craft or notions of originality. John Freyer's
conceptual art/performance installations go a step
further by foregrounding the extent to which all
objects (hand or readymade, mass or singularly
produced) depend on a clearly defined market (art,
retail, secondhand, etc.) to ascribe value.
September 17, 2005–February 19, 2006 |
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Participating Light Work Staff and Associates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
John Freyer was Light Work's lab manager until 1998. He
made a name for himself through his art experiment All My
Life For Sale in which he sold all of his belongings, from
kitchen table to front teeth dentures. He has since
continued to blur the fine lines between cherished possessions,
used garage sale objects and valued collector's
items.Hannah Frieser was hired one year ago as Light Work's associate director. She uses photography not only in the traditional sense of two-dimensional images, but often brings in other materials to create three-dimensional art objects and artist's books. The black and white photographs of her series Knickknack take a closer, slightly upsetting look at small, decorative ornaments that fill our lives. Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin is chair of the board of directors at Light Work. She started as a volunteer in 1997. Lisa's concern with society's wasteful use of plastic and paper products led her to recycle them as art objects. Her scanned napkins take on abstract shapes, which seem to float on a stark black surface. Sean Hovendick has been Light Work's web master for many years and is responsible for the elegant appearance of our Web site and its enhanced functionality. His art work utilizes a multitude of media. He is currently completing his master's degree in computer media using computer programming to produce generative art. John Wesley Mannion works as digital imaging manager at Light Work/Community Darkrooms. His haunting images of abandoned rooms at Pennhurst State Mental Hospital and School show the remainders of an institution that closed after a major class action suit. Mannion's photographs convey the subtle texture and beauty of decay, while simultaneously confronting us with Pennhurst's horrific past.
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Contact Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email:
info@lightwork.org
phone:
315-443-1300
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