Networked Nature
until 17 July 2007
Artists: C5 Corporation, Futurefarmers, Shih Chieh Huang, Philip Ross,
Stephen Vitiello, Gail Wight.
Curator: Marisa Olson, Rhizome.
The Warehouse Gallery,
Syracuse University, New York.
Faux Naturel
7 July – 25 August 2007
Artists: Alex Da Corte, Emily Vey Duke + Cooper Battersby, Nick Lenker, Annie MacDonell, Allyson Mitchell,
Andrea Vander Kooij.
Curator: Astria Suparak, The Warehouse Gallery.
Foreman Art Gallery,
Bishop’s University, Quebec.
The Warehouse Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions: Networked Nature, organized by Rhizome Curator Marisa Olson at The Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, New York, through July 17, and Faux Naturel, curated by Warehouse Gallery Director Astria Suparak at the Foreman Art Gallery in Sherbrooke, Quebec, opening July 7.
Networked Nature
Networked Nature is a group exhibition that inventively explores the meaning and representation of “nature,” from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art. This exhibition premiered at Foxy Production in New York City and was expanded for The Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, with additional works by C5 Corporation and Huang, who is included in the Taiwan Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
Faux Naturel
The group of North American artists presented in Faux Naturel is young enough to have grown up with a more informed sense about the environment, with Earth Day pre-printed on calendars and global warming existing as more than just a theory. These artists explore the territory delineated by the destruction of the natural world, with all its attendant themes: entropy, redemption, apocalypse, the fall from grace, the temptations of commercial culture, and the relationship between science and magic. There is an authenticity in these artists’ practices, stripped of trendy cynicism. Many of the works draw from personal stories–sublimations of painful experiences reclaimed and reshaped into something beautiful and heartfelt, with the power to transform. This exhibition premiered at The Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse in fall 2006.
Acknowledgements:
The Warehouse Gallery at Syracuse University exhibits and commissions work by emerging and accomplished artists whose work engages the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating critical issues.
Rhizome is a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Its programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.
The Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University is committed to art presentation and discourse, as well as the exploration of diversity of culture.
Upcoming Exhibitions at The Warehouse Gallery:
Aw, c’mon: Sexualizing the Female Gaze
Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman
23 August – 27 October 2007
Reception Sept. 20, 5-8pm
The Yes Men
13 November 2007 – 26 January 2008
Reception Nov. 15, 5-8pm
For further information, contact:
T: 315.443.6450
press@thewarehousegallery.org
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette Street
Syracuse, NY 13202