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Intermissions Opens Across Syracuse
 Light Work is excited to announce a
large-scale video art exhibition featuring work by Kansas City
artist Barry Anderson. The exhibition, titled Intermissions,
will feature primarily video work and some photography, and will take
place in multiple venues in Syracuse and on the Syracuse University
campus. This project represents one of the most ambitious exhibition
projects Light Work has ever undertaken in its 36-year history.
This
project is an ambitious collaboration at an unprecedented level here in
Syracuse, and should bring a renewed focus on the arts by bringing many
venues together. Venues include Light Work, the Robert B. Menschel
Photography Gallery, the Everson Museum of Art, SUArt Galleries, the
Warehouse, the SU Humanities Center, the Point of Contact Gallery,
Community Folk Art Center, Red House Arts Center, the Schine Student
Center, the Orange Television Network, and the Urban Video
Project/Connective Corridor. The work will be featured on
billboards; as projections on buildings; in galleries; on closed
circuit TV in dorms, dining halls, and recreational centers; and in
storefronts.
Anderson's work addresses our cultural
need to escape the onslaught of media input through isolated fantasy
worlds. By slowing or re-interpreting space and time, he strives to
identify the existence of introspective spaces within the everyday,
proposing that we don't need to retreat, but to re-envision, re-think
what is already around us.
Multiple
foundations and institutions are supporting this project, including the
Central New York Community Foundation, Syracuse University's Division
of Student Affairs, the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, and Lamar Outdoor
Advertising. In addition to the 48-page exhibition catalogue, the
venues will be outlined in a fold-out map available at all venues and
throughout Syracuse or on our Google map. Venue details can be found on our website at http://lightwork.org/exhibitions/. |
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This Week's Intermissions Events
 Everson Museum of Art: The Everson Museum of Art presents a video installation of Pigeon by Barry Anderson in the Robineau Gallery. As part of Th3 this month, Barry Anderson will give a gallery talk this Thursday, August 20, beginning at 6pm.
SUArt Galleries: SUArt Galleries is screening the video piece Lawn Ornaments by Barry Anderson during the large-scale exhibition Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond, scheduled for August 18 through October 11, 2009. A free public reception will take place this Thursday during Th3 from 5-8pm.
Light Work: Light Work's Main Gallery features the video and sound installation Ectoplasmic Response by Barry Anderson.
Th3 is Syracuse's
Citywide Arts Open, where 23 galleries throughout the city stay open on
the third Thursday of the month from 5-8pm. This month, visit SUArt
Galleries, the Everson Museum of Art, and Light Work to view Barry
Anderson's work.
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Information About the Artist
 Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX.
He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown
throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba,
and the UK. Recent exhibitions venues include the Nerman Museum of
Contemporary Art in Overland Park, KS; Milo
Gallery in Los Angeles; Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas; and White Flag
Projects in St. Louis. He lives in Kansas City. Anderson participated
in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006. His videos can be
viewed at his website at http://www.barryanderson.com. A video profile on Barry Anderson, created by Ellen Blalock courtesy of the Post-Standard, is available at www.syracuse.com.
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Light Work
316 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13244
315-443-1300 p
315-443-9516 f
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About Us
Light
Work's mission is to provide direct support through exhibitions, artist
residencies, projects, and publications to emerging and
under-recognized visual artists working in photography and related
digital and electronic media.
Light
Work is dedicated to the support of the creation of new work and the
promotion of photography as a medium. The state-of-the-art darkrooms
and digital facilities are designed to make it easy for artists to
produce museum-quality work. All services are geared toward the needs
of artists.
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