Mapable
SpaceCamp MicroGallery
December 2011- January 2012

We’ve had maps for a long time now, we have even had art about maps for quite some time, but personal mapping and the pervasiveness of mapping technologies is reaching a crescendo recently. With GPS becoming part of every device, we are seeing maps in completely new ways. Paper maps becoming relegated to theme parks and other tourist attractions.

Mapable aims to talk about these art-related mapping issues. How are artists using maps to talk about personal, political and social issues? What is the difference between maps made by artists and companies or scientists? How can manipulation of existing maps bring about new conversations? What forms can maps or mapping technology take that aren’t being explored yet?

Dutch artists Topp & Dubio visited the former Dutch colony of Indonesia with maps of an Indonesian restaurant in The Hague. They used the maps as travel guides and communications tools. Born in Romania but living in the Tennessee after pursuing a PhD in computer science at Columbia, Tiberiu Chelcea letterpress prints circuit boards to create the outlines of cities. Scottish artist Stuart McAdam shows a gps tracing of his 2000+ mile roundtrip between Glasgow and the Netherlands. Georgia based Sage Dawson creates small maps from hair that also become memorials to the places based on her memory.

Artists include: Topp &Dubio (The Hague, Netherlands); Chad Erpelding (Boise City, ID); Tiberiu Chelcea (Nashville, TN); Stuart McAdam (Dundee, Scotland); Sharon Glazberg (Tel Aviv, Israel); Sage Dawson (Augusta, Georgia); Jeff Beekman (Norman, OK); Emily Silver (Ferndale, CA); Cedar Nordbye (Memphis, TN); Lukas Schooler (Indianapolis, IN); and Eskild Beck (Copenhagen, Denmark)

peeled
August 2011
SpaceCamp MicroGallery

About the Exhibition:

Nothing is more elusive than memory.
Nothing is more subjective than perception.

For peeled, Louisville based artist, Letitia Quesenberry will exhibit work that once were Polaroids. They were transformed and destroyed, creating something new and unique. Intrigued by the ephemeral, Quesenberry’s work seeks to explore absence and the unknown by introducing moments of perceptual uncertainty. In 2003 she began taking Polaroids to mark the days during a difficult personal time, taking one photograph every day for sixty days then storing the images away. Five years later, after hearing of Polaroid’s imminent demise, she began to deconstruct the prints, peeling apart the Polaroids’ edges and scanning the interior emulsion layers. The files are printed directly onto aluminum through dye sublimation, creating a faint, barely decipherable image of the original photograph that becomes more recognizable as the eyes adjust and the body moves around.

Quesenberry will also show a single channel video piece, memento vivere that is in essence about paying attention. The video asks the viewer to slow down the process of realization, so that by giving time and attention you are presented with a fragment of your own perception.  It talks about ephemerality, and being suddenly located in a specific moment.

About the Artist

Letitia Quesenberry received a BFA in drawing & printmaking from the University of Cincinnati. Her work has been recently exhibited at Smack Mellon (Brooklyn NY), the US Embassy (Stockholm SE), 21c Museum (Louisville KY) DePauw University (Greencastle IN), the Speed Art Museum (Louisville KY) and IMoCA (Indianapolis IN). She has been awarded fellowships from the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fund and the Kentucky Arts Council. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky where she continues to live and work.

Darren Hostetter, Omnipotence, 2008, Acrylic on Aircraft Aluminium

McLean Fahnestock, Grand Finale, 2010-2011, Video (detail)

Aerospacial
March 2011
Frank and Katrina Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI

I wanted to be an astronaut, then as I got a little older I figure that if I designed the space/air craft I’d get to fly them so I wanted to be an aerospace engineer. I worked towards this goal until receiving a very good scholarship in just that major at the University of Alabama (3rd oldest AE program in the country). I hated it. It was too much about economics and not theoretical enough for me. I took a year off and went back for photo journalism which turned into studio art/photography. But that love of all things Aerospace related has never left me.

The three artists in this exhibition are all visually distinct but all working on projects that are honed in on the aerospace theme I was aiming towards. All three happen to live in the Los Angeles area. Maybe it is the skies of LA being filled with a proliferation of airplanes, ghetto birds (helicopters), and blimps that draw all of their eyes upward. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the desert is nearby with many airbases, bombing ranges, and even the shuttle landing strip. No matter the reasons, these three artists approach the subject from radically different perspectives but all do it well.

Sam Davis’s art making revolves around sci-fi and retro themes. You’ll find iron rockets, lost astronauts, robots, and glowing UFOs in his work. His photography feels unique and a bit strange, but is always beautiful. Using an old school panoramic medium format camera, Sam creates scenes that wouldn’t have been out of place in a Heinlein or Asimov novel in the 50s.

McLean Fahnestock’s work usually revolves around the media of politics. Recently turning her gaze to the media of space launches, McLean’s video piece, Grande Finale, explores the legacy and impending end of the Space Shuttle program. The epic video will show all 134 Shuttle launches, simultaneously. The video is one of power and discovery. It brings a sense of awe to the viewer.

Darren Hostetter loves the machines of war and paints them into intricate patterns that from a distance can resemble underwater scenes or snowflakes. Darren also hates the war itself and it comes across in the insidiousness of the objects he chooses to paint. Bombs and drones fill the surface, which happens to be recycled aircraft aluminum.  The works are simultaneously gorgeous and sinister.

Sam Davis, from the Tragic Heroes series

Christen Sperry-Garcia, Relational Traffic Studies 3, 2009, Performance

TPS Reports: Performance Documents
February 2011 (Exhibition)

About the Exhibition:
TPS Reports: Performance Documents is an exhibition of the “stuff” that results from performances: detritus, photographs, drawings, sculptures, videos, etc.  We are not interested in the documentation of the performance itself, just the results. We are mostly looking for the items that were made as the primary goal of the performance.

About The Theme:
How do these items live on after the performance? Is it possible or necessary to understand the performance based on what is created through it?

Artists
Christen Sperry-Garcia (Long Beach, CA)-Featured; Sara Kanouse-(Iowa City); Mark S. Zimmerman (Mystic, CT); Ron Lambert (Nashville, TN); Nestor Armando Gil (Brunswick, ME); Beatriz Albuquerque (NYC); Justin Randolph Thompson (Florence, Italy); Julie Poitras Santos (Portland, ME); Heidi Bender (Athens, OH); Derek Curry/ Jennifer Gradecki (Los Angeles); Marie Christine-Katz (NYC); Aaron Oldenburg (Germantown, MD); Nicholas Fraser (Brooklyn, NY); Lisa Crallé (Davis, CA); Katerie Gladdys (Gainesville, FL); courtney chetwynd. (Dundee, Scotland, UK); Chloë Bass/ TJ Hospodar (Brooklyn, NY); A. Bill Miller (Altoona, PA); Igor Toshevski (Skopje, Macedonia); ALAS (San Antonio, TX); Nate Larson/Marni Shindleman (Baltimore, MD/Rochester, NY)

Paloma Crousillat, Selection from 101 Telescopes, 2009, Ink on Paper

RetroFuturism Friday December 3rd, 3010 to Saturday January 22nd, 2011

Retro Futurism is an exhibition that looks at the present and the future through the lens of the past.
What did the past get right about the future?
What do you wish it had?
What are you glad it didn’t?
What are your hopes for tomorrow?
What ideas today will be quaint “rocket cars” of tomorrow?

We are not just looking for cool images (although those can work) but ideas that resonated then, still do, and will hopefully into the future. Concept driven work is fully emphasized.

Participating artists are Sam Davis (Los Angeles, CA), Ali Miharbi & Paloma Crousillat (Brooklyn, NY), Gratuitous Art Productions (NYC, NY), Ellen Lake (Oakland, CA), Ian Haig (Melbourne, Australia), Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou (London, UK), Rebecca Mushtare (Mount Kisco, NY), Tony Murray (Cobleskill, NY) and Patrick Millard (Pittsburgh, PA)

Co-Curated by Paul Miller, Kurt Lee Nettleton, and Flounder Lee

Jessica Dunn, Untitled Yarn Performance, 2009

One Performative Night was a night of performance art both live at Big Car Gallery in Inddianapolis and broadcast via the internet. In the middle of Fringe Festival but in a visual art setting, One Performative Night explored the overlap between the arts disciplines and the intersections between live and tele-presence performance art.

The evening is in periphery to another performance exhibition Low Lives. Low Lives was a one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at three venues throughout the U.S.-- FiveMyles, Brooklyn; Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami; and labotanica, Houston in partnership with Project Row Houses. Several of the other Low Lives performances will be shown during the evening, interspersed with local performances.

Participating artists were Jessica Dunn, Kurt Lee Nettleton, David Jackman, Flounder Lee, Brian Priest, and Luba Winship.

Curated by Flounder Lee

Mary Rachel Fanning, The Trophy, 2009, Two-Channel Video

Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Demirjian, Gdansk: Talk Back, 2004, Two-Channel Video

Double Vision: A Dual-Channel Video Festival

This festival was screened at Herron School of Art and Design in the Basile Auditorium in conjunction with the photography and video exhibition Between History and Memory. Herron is located on the campus of Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). The screening took place on Wednesday October 28th, 2009. Two Channel video work is a style that is often included in exhibition format but rarely seen in a festival type screening; therefore this festival will exclusively feature this format.

Participating Artists included: Wim Janssen (Belgium), Dusica Drazic (Serbia), N_Drew (Indiana USA), Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Demirjian (New Jersey, USA), Chris Brandl (Germany), Cecilia Beaven and Federico Guitierrez (Mexico), David Montgomery (Florida, USA), Claire Hodge (Canada), McLean Fahnestock, Jean Robison, Jeremy Eichenbaum (California, USA), Jason Dee (Scotland, UK), Jennifer Schwed (Washington DC, USA), Jennie Mynhier (Missouri, USA), Joaquin Palencia (Philippines), Joo-Mee Paik (South Korea), Duane Linklater (Canada), Liz Rodda (Oklahoma, USA), Mary Rachel Fanning (Illinois, USA), MIchael Szpakowski (UK), Nate Larson (Maryland, USA), Marni Shindelman and Perry Bard (New York, USA), and Rick Falck (Michigan, USA)

Curated by Flounder Lee; Juried by Brent Aldrich, Ashley Holland, and Flounder Lee

Sierra G Brown, Flotsom Jetsam, 2008, Digital Video

LA2ND (Los Angeles to Indy)
June 6th, 2008 - July 4th, 2008

LA2ND brought several Los Angeles artists to Indianapolis for a video exhibtion at Biscuits and Gravy Gallery in the Murphy Arts Center.

The artsts were Jeffrey James, Jocelyn Foye, Sierra Brown, Kyle Riedel, Desiree DeVirgilio, Jean Robison, Jeremy Eichenbaum, Pascual Sisto, Jeff Foye, and Gordon Winiemko

Curated by Flounder Lee

Wendy Redstar, An Indian Woman Sitting in a Chair, installation and print

Greater LA MFA Exhibition

MFA students from California State University, Long Beach kicked off the academic year by presenting two concurrent art openings that celebrate the work by graduate students throughout the greater Los Angeles area—Greater LA MFA: A Student to Student Invitational Exhibition, and CSULB’s MFA Open Studios. Greater LA MFA was on view from August 28 through September 7, 2005 with an opening reception at 5-8PM.

Co-Curated by Carleton Christy, C. Finley, Jeff Foye, Jocelyn Foye, Flounder Lee, & Jean Robison