Artist of the Week #2

Michael Dotson

michael-dotson.com
Check out his interview with East City Art here

Artist of the Week

Emily Biondo

I am interested in the concept of human thought--how we find, choose, and absorb information, particularly verbal information. The knot-making and audio of each piece combine to convey the complexity of this process. Making each work is meditative and systematic, but also intricate —in seeing the involution of each piece with its countless knots and interconnections and assuming its lengthy creation, a metaphor for the process of human thought imbeds itself in the minds of viewers.

My work taps into our obsession with communication and is intrinsically voyeuristic. Built during what has been called the Net generation, each piece presents a contemporarily common situation: we are allowed to eavesdrop into private thoughts and recorded conversations of friends and strangers alike. Faced in life with hundreds of methods of communication with thousands of people, it is a listener’s own willful decision to pick through every audible moment to overhear, to listen, or to fully comprehend the information rushing around them.

With the speakers strategically placed and the volume kept low but audible, viewers are forced to stoop and bend an ear to the surrogate storyteller within my pieces, as if receiving a whispered confession or secret information. The information can be serious or whimsical, exploring the idea that we determine the level of importance of the information we hear.

http://emilybiondo.com

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American University 1st Year MFA Exhibition

April 29th- May 9th

Opening Reception April 30th, 7pm-9pm

Katzen Art Museum

Emily Biondo

Jillian Bonahoom

Bobby Coleman

Kate Demong

Michael Dotson

L. Kimberley Gillespie

Victoria Greising

Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi

Sarah Miller

Michael Sloan

Originality in the Identity-Crisis Laden Art World: An afternoon in Chelsea

by Victoria Greising
As an artist wandering the streets of the Chelsea, a hopeful yet resentful feeling seems to consume my opinions. It is inspiring to know, that to a certain extent, anything goes. The resentment comes when I realize that I did not think of the idea first. It is a tough spot to be in, especially when trying to keep an open and absorbent mind.

The Suspended Landscape of Mia Feuer: A Transformation of Space

by L. Kimberley Gillespie
In the uncomfortably negligible space of Transformer Gallery, Mia Feuer’s cumbersome orange and blue crane-ial structures fill, tangle and almost completely overwhelm the single room. “Suspended Landscape,” Feuer’s current installation at Transformer Gallery, Washington DC, is informed by the view of industrial cranes the artist observed on the long train trips she took along the eastern coast of the United States. Referred to on her website as “metaphorical landscapes,” Feuer creates sculptures and images that either depict places of conflict and discord or serene locales that have otherwise been distressed (miafeuer.com). In addition to violated landscapes, the subjects Feuer has concerned herself with have included the 2007 collapse of the Minneapolis bridge, the frustrated function of Washington DC’s emergency exit routes as they are congested with traffic and ongoing conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians. Her work speaks to the “instability and chaos of our times.”