Shadow Show
October 27 - February 3, 2008
Opening reception Saturday, October 27, 6-8pm
"Poetry is the art
of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing”
-Edmund Burke
Hartford, CT — Real Art Ways
opens its new group exhibition, entitled Shadow
Show, Saturday, October 27, 2007 from 6-8pm.
The opening is free and the general public is invited. Shadow
Show will run from
October 27 - February 3, 2008. Real Art Ways is
located at 56 Arbor Street in Hartford, CT. For more information
call 860.232.1006 or visit www.realartways.org
Shadow Show includes work by 16 artists, many
from Providence, Rhode Island, and others from Connecticut and New
York. The exhibition will explore a range of associations with the
word and idea of "shadow." Included will be work in which physical
shadows either play an integral part, or the ideas of shadow,
as in tail, trace, surveille, mystery, memory and longing, are explored.
The exhibition will work on multiple levels, addressing visual mystery,
but
also hidden systems in society.
Co-curated
by Rhode Island artist Elizabeth Keithline, who originated the idea,
and Real Art Ways' Director of Visual Arts, Kristina Newman-Scott, Shadow
Show includes painting, sculpture, video, new media,
installation, and performance art.
Keithline conceived of Shadow
Show after
noticing a trend among her colleagues of engaging the notion of traces,
things that are left behind, and things that are half-hidden. Keithline's
mesh sculptures are the remnants of combustible items wrapped in
wire and then set ablaze. Jennifer Perry, makes “drawings” by
weaving the hair of family and friends into paper, leaving behind
a trace of the artist in the art object
itself. Sam Ekwurtzel
compiles images of televisions from ebay, wherein
the seller's reflection and that of their living room is faintly
visible on the photographed screen. Olu
Oguibe's "Buggy:
Memorial to Unknown Child" explores memory, death, longing and
justice through the lens of personal experience. Artist Duncan
Laurie and electrical engineer Gordon Salisbury capture and amplify
sound signals found naturally in plants and minerals, giving viewers
access to otherwise hidden energies.
Participating artists include William
Allen,
Bert Crenca, Tim
Doherty, Samuel
Ekwurtzel, Erik
Gould, Richard Goulis,
Mary Paula Hunter, Elizabeth
Keithline, Duncan
Laurie, William Lamson,
Robin Mandel, Rupert
Nesbitt, Jennifer
Perry, Olu Oguibe, Gordon
Salisbury
and Barbara Westermann.
Image: William Lamson
Video still: Yard, 2004
Real Art Ways is supported by Real Art Ways Members,
The National Endowment for the Arts, The Warhol Foundation,
The Wallace
Foundation, The Greater Hartford
Arts Council,
The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, and
The Hartford
Foundation
for
Public Giving.
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