Mike Kenney
Jaeeun Lee
Peter Park
Shira Schwarz
Will Sieruta
Niki Singleton
Joel Soliven

January 13-February 12, 2012

January 7-February 26, 2012

November 18-December 18, 2011

The End 
Curated by Ava Hassinger
 
Maria Builes

Becky Brown

Anthony May

Elisa Soliven

Kim Hoeckele

Casey Haugh

Collin Lafleche

Chelsea Mason

Emmy Catedral

Erica Wessmann 

Sebastian Vallejo

Katherine Reeves 
Darcy Brennan Poor

This show is an exploration into the possibilities of what the future might be. Due to rapid industrialization and advances in technology, both the human race and the earth itself have seen an unprecedented acceleration of evolution in a contextually short period of time.  It is difficult to forecast an earth 100 years from now based on the hindsight of what the last 100 years have brought. Will we destroy ourselves and crumble like ancient civilizations of the past?  Will we find a way to continue on and invent new technologies to save us and lead us down a path yet unimagined?--Wyatt Nash

 

Dan Crews

Ted O’Sullivan

Rebecca Potts

Caitlin Bermingham

Wyatt Nash

Elisa Soliven

Cooper Holoweski

Andrea Mihalovic

Perfomance by

Maya Jeffereis

Musical Guest

God Mode

Temporary Antumbra Zone
Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
June 3-June 26, 2011
Curated by Udora Hajimik

Artists: Peter Acheson, Hector Arce-Espasas, Maria Barbo, Genesis Belanger, Chris Bertholf, Erik den Breejen, Maria Calandra, Joy Curtis, Karen Dana, N. Dash, Carol Diamond, Ryan Franklin, Laura Frantz, Tamara Gonzales, Erica Greenwald, Xico Greenwald, EJ Hauser, Michael Hilsman, Sarah Hollars, Rolf Jacobsen, Mike Kenney, Osamu Kobayashi, Jonah Koppel, Ben La Rocco, Elisa Lendvay, JJ Manford, Sarah Louden, Mike Olin, Craig Olson, Linnea Paskow, Alta Price, Nathlie Provosty, Christopher Rivera, Aaron Sinift, Elisa Soliven, Kol Solthon, Thomas Spoerndle, Deirdre Swords, Katherine Young

     The art world experienced a caesura in the 1960s when the paradigm of the artist, working in solitary fashion, was taken apart by the advent of collaborative art. Through collaboration, the definition of what art was, and how it could be produced, shifted. No longer was the cult of the artist, producing a singular vision understood to be the only viable artistic model. Instead, this now re-evaluated model began to generate questions about authenticity, authorship,audience and methodology. Such collaborative projects as those executed by Gilbert and George, Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen, Jeanne Claude and Christo, and Marina Abramovic and Ulay were instrumental in the development of such major evolutions in conceptual art as Body Art, Systems Art, Earth Art, and Performance Art.
     The artists in Temporary Antumbra Zone have come together, collaborating through the lenses of painting, photography, video, and mixed media sculpture to promote collaboration as an invaluable mode of artistic production.    
     Despite the diversity of media that Temporary Antumbra Zone displays, the artists are all united against the clichés of sole authorship in art, in favor of the possibilities for expression that occur in the zone of collaboration. Inspiration comes at temporary moments, often during gatherings of people at differing times and places, but there's not one set idea of where this moment will take place. The idea of collaborating with another artist also comes out of this notion of temporality or not knowing; it happens when you are least expecting it. The artists in Temporary Antumbra Zone have kept the notion of collaborating open-ended and multiplicitous.
     Inspired by Rrose Selavy, the pseudonym Marcel Duchamp gave himself during his collaborations with Man Ray, The nineteen artist pairs have each adopted pseudonyms of their own as a way of addressing the idea of authorship of their work, which include sculpture, painting, photography, and work on paper. Each pair will be contributing one to two pieces of their collaborative work.--Udora Hajimik (6/3/11)

Artists in the Exhibition:
Arc Era
Ebony Feather
Green Dana
Helio Smith
The Heroes
Hilsbaum and Me
House in the Woods
Joseph A.J. Beverly
Kim Julien
Mat Curtain
M.T. Bardle
Pat Kadden
Permission
S.H.
Sherman T.
Spann Decks
Swirly Bird
Udora Hajimik
Valhalladiso