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April 14 - May 21
Gallery hours: Tues. - Sat., 3 to 7pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 14, 6 to 8pm
Artist's talk & slide presentation: Saturday, April 16, 5pm
911 Media Arts Center is proud to present a new media installation by New York artist Rosalind Schneider in our new gallery space. For her premiere exhibition in Seattle, Rosalind will be filling the gallery with a large inflated weather balloon, onto which video images will be projected. Come meet the artist at our opening reception on Thursday, April 14 and at an artists' presentation on Saturday, April 16.
The Atlantic Ocean as seen from the Florida coast is the inspiration for this piece. The images, collected by the artist over a two-month period of time, concentrate on a detailed observation of beach, sky and the movement of waves. These images inform us of another time and another place. We voyage into the dimension of imagination to experience transformed realities, made possible by merging nature and technology. Images float in a darkened room, projected onto a translucent white balloon. The Atlantic becomes a metaphor for creation, evolution and the regeneration of planet earth.
Rosalind Schneider's exploration of earth and water has been a continuing focus for a large body of work using photography as a point of departure. Abstraction has been her primary vision in work that crosses boundaries, including: painting and collage on reconstructed photographs; layered plexiglas drawings; large scale projected video installations; and digital prints based on video frames. An extensive exhibition history includes the Hirshhorn Museum where she was the first artist to show Film as Art in 1974 following a solo show of her films at the Whitney Museum in 1973. Exhibitions of film, video and digital prints include the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Islip Museum, the Goldstrom Gallery, SculptureCenter, A.I.R. Gallery and The N.Y. Hall of Science millennium exhibit. Recent exhibitions include the Chelsea Museum in 2003, the Hudson River Museum in 2004, the Donnell Library, and the Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY.
Funded in part through a grant from the Allen Foundation for the Arts.
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