Joy Garnett: 'Facture' (2012) oil on canvas. 30 x 26 inches
Show #10:
Your Face is a Landscape
Curated by
Sara Reisman & Reina Shibata
Dates: Dec 13th - Jan 26th
Opening: Thursday Dec 13th, 6-8pm
Field Projects
526 W 26th Street, #807
NY, NY 10001
www.fieldprojectsgallery.com
info@fieldprojectsgallery.com
Artists:
Brian Scott Campbell
Evie Falci
Kentaro Fujioka
Joy Garnett
Daniel Gerwin
Hilary Irons
Catherine Lan
Diane Meyer
Christopher Roberson
Julia Schwadron
Elisabeth Smolarz
Anita Sto
Edra Soto
Malgorzata Szandala
Kirsten Kay Thoen
Lumin Wakoa
Join us Thursday, Dec 13th,
for the opening of Field Projects Show #10: Your Face is a Landscape.
The works in this exhibition were selected by guest curators Sara
Reisman and Reina Shibata from our second international Open Call.
Sixteen artists were selected for Show #10 based on themes that emerged
in the process of reviewing more than 400 submissions.
As if
under advisement by the Ouija, the curators were moved by several
recurring symbols and themes in the pool of submissions that signify or
document the human face and its absence, as well as surreal landscapes
with unexpected layers of threading, pointillist dotting, and actual
water. Between the face and the landscape, there are mirrors, masks,
flowers, and the appearance of language-based and paranormal messages.
As when seen from an airplane, the landscape with its dunes, crevasses,
slopes, and patches of green and brown can be perceived as being part of
a larger, figurative whole, or the face of a spirit. In the words of
Fleetwood Mac, “…I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills/ ‘Til the
landslide brought me down.”
In addition to the artists chosen
for Show #10: Your Face is a Landscape, thirteen runners-up were
selected and highlighted on our website. These artists include: Stephen
Barnwell, Oreen Cohen, Seth Cohen, Karen Lederer, Eric LoPresti, Jordan
Kasey, Ramesh Pithiya, Justin Pollman, Ralph Pugay, Sausan Saulat,
Denise Treizman, Bailey Scieszka, and Chris Victor.
Guest
curators Sara Reisman and Reina Shibata are Director and Deputy
Director (respectively) of New York City's Percent for Art program
which commissions permanent artworks for City-owned public spaces
throughout the five boroughs. Reisman is also an independent curator and
writer who is the 2012-2013 guest curator at Forever & Today, Inc.,
and has organized nearly fifty exhibitions and projects in New York and
elsewhere. Reina Shibata is a writer, researcher and curator who
previously held positions at the RISD Museum, the Harvard Art Museum,
and the Judd Foundation, where she pursued her interests in contemporary
art and public access to art.
As an artist-run space, Field
Projects is committed to opening the field and exhibition opportunities
to other working artists through our semiannual Open Call to artists.
All of the submissions we receive are considered not only for a single
group exhibition but also for shows throughout the year. The theme of
each Open Call is unscripted, allowing our guest curators free reign to
choose the participants and thematic content of each unique show.
