Lucien Castaing-Taylor
The Amie and Tony James Gallery
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/art_gallery.htm
PEOPLE “WEEKLY”
OCTOBER 2, 2008 – FEBRUARY 28, 2009
People “Weekly,” the inaugural exhibition of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Amie and Tony James Gallery, is a sequential group show comprising six specially commissioned artist projects and a small “exhibition-within-the exhibition” curated by the gallery’s new director, Linda Norden.
Sheep Rushes, part four in the sequence, is the title anthropologist/filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and producer Lisa Barbash have given to a series of video works recorded between 2001 and 2005 in and around the Absaroka-Beartooth range of Montana. Castaing-Taylor and Lisa Barbash spent three summers filming on the mountainous public pasture lands, and almost five years editing the footage. The documents they have produced attend to a world in which nature, culture, animals, humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. With remarkable clarity, and uncompromising attention to the aesthetics of image and sound, they depict the birthing, herding and shearing of several thousand sheep on one of the last substantial family ranches in the American West.
NOW ON VIEW
Barbara Kruger, Untitled
October 2 – February 28
(window installation)
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Sheep Rushes
November 15–November 30, 2008
Producer: Lisa Barbash
Sound Editor: Ernst Karel
Film Screening, introduced by Castaing-Taylor and Barbash
Saturday November 29, 6-8:30 PM
UPCOMING
December 11 – January 4, 2009
Daniel Joseph Martinez, ‘the west bank is missing, i am not dead, am i,’ 2008
(Reception with the artist December 10, 6-8pm)
Daniel Joseph Martinez’ “the west bank is missing; i am not dead am i,” is a sculptural allegory addressed to the seminal role played by housing design in former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s vision for the West Bank settlements.
January 17 – January 31, 2009
Thomas Torres Cordova, Everybody Loves the Sunshine, 2007; I wish you could color correct my films for the rest of my life, 2007
(Reception and performance by the artist, January 21, 6-8pm)
Thomas Torres Cordova reconstructs a two-part essay on air conditioning – a film on the history of this ubiquitous electrically-fueled cooling device, and an installation demonstrating the benefits of those magnificent machines and the over-heated hallucinatory visions that an air conditioned culture leaves in its wake.
February 11-February 28, 2009
Yunhee Min, For instance
(Reception with the artist, February 19, 6-8pm)
Yunhee Min’s architecturally specific theatrical drapes celebrate the gallery’s expansive former-storefront windows, and bracket changing views of the pedestrian and auto traffic outside.
People “Weekly”
Barbara Kruger Untitled
October 2 – February 28
(window installation)
Yunhee Min, For instance
October 2 – November 30
What You Wish For
October 8 – 22
Barbara Kruger, Justice, 1997
Rachel Mason, My Cabinet, 2004–ongoing
William Pope.L, One Substance, Eight Supports,
One Situation, 2008
BIN (Version 2), 2008
Art Spiegelman, Breakdowns, 2008
Meredith James and Jacques Louis Ramon Vidal, True Stories, 2008
William Klein, In and Out of Fashion, 1998
Linda Pollack, Habeas Lounge
October 29 – November 6
(Rachel Mason, My Cabinet, continues)
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, with Lisa Barbash &Ernst Karel, Sheep Rushes, 2000-8
November 15 – November 30)
Daniel Joseph Martinez, the west bank is missing, i am not dead, am i, 2008
December 11 – January 4, 2009
(Reception, with the artist December 10, 6-8pm)
Thomas Torres Cordova, Everybody Loves the Sunshine, 2007; I wish you could color correct my films for the rest of my life, 2007
January 17 – January 31, 2009
(Reception and a performance by the artist January 21, 6-8pm)
Yunhee Min, For instance
February 11 – February 28, 2009
(Reception with the artist February 19, 6-8pm)
The Amie and Tony James Gallery
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Hours: Tues – Fri 12-8PM
Sat – Sun 12-6PM
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/art_gallery.htm
Image above:
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
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