Artists
Foster K. White
D.Y.Y.O. (DO YOU YOUNG ONE)
This image dives into the portrayal of black men in the United States as faceless, feared, and chained. This piece is a portrait of Artist Dyyo (Do You Young One) for his album “People Are Scared,” created in collaboration with artist and longtime friend, Taryn Harris.
Roger Cutler
DUCHAMP DESCENDING A STAIR
A wood and steel staircase in the elevator–with a twist.
Wood, steel, paint
Dimensions variable
Photo credit: Roger Cutler
Chris Combs
POLLINATION
This artwork responds to faces and spoken words.
Its camera recognizes faces and splays them into rotating flower-like shapes; a central microphone listens for speech and shows its transcripts on a multitude of small screens.
In this work, I am analogizing the data that we spread when interacting in life to pollen: millions of invisible particles flowing in all directions with uncontrollable effects.
Nothing is uploaded. “Pollination” uses “whisper.cpp,” a neural network (“AI”) speech transcription tool, to transcribe audio entirely within the device. Its facial recognition is powered by OpenCV.
Neither technology is perfect; the same is true of other real-world applications. What happens if a real-time transcript of audio captured in a public place mishears your discussion of a broken ice maker as the name of a terrorist group? Or if a CCTV’s live facial recognition security product misidentifies you?
Photo credit: Chris Combs
Susan Hostetler
FLEETING MESSENGERS
They keep disappearing from the skies, year by year. Does it matter if the skies are empty of this life force? Why do birds matter in our lives?
I believe humans need a connection to wildlife. As urban dwellers, the most immediate link is avian. Birds are all around us, in the trees, rustling in the bushes just outside our doorsteps and swooping through the city skies. Their existence so closely entwined with ours, offers us an intimate view into the lives of another species. They inspire wonder, curiosity, a respite from daily concerns, and kindle a much needed connection for our well-being.
Birds are living dinosaurs that still exist on every corner of the earth. They connect the sky and earth. They connect us to the natural world.
Three billion birds (150 species) in just the last 50 years have vanished from North America alone. Yet, beyond their vulnerability, birds possess an astonishing resilience that allows them to navigate through adversity and adapt to ever-changing conditions.
In this installation I use wire mesh to make hollow bird forms, which gives a translucent effect, leaving a ghost-like image. In another iteration, clay birds are wrapped in strips of drawings, mummy-like, and lay piled on the floor.
Birds’ ability to migrate over expansive distances is awe-inspiring and reminds us of the vastness and interconnectedness of our planet. When birds vanish, it feels as if a part of our world has been lost.
Photo credit: Greg Staley
Lisa Rosenstein
WILL YOU REMEMBER THIS
An immersive installation
Moments in time…what are we doing each moment, how do these moments hold us together, keep us connected, or keep us apart…each action we take leads to another; each action we take is another moment.
This installation has grown over the years; it has taken many shapes and served many purposes. The essence remains while its presence expands and evolves. Each piece is a moment in time joined to another moment in time.
Step inside, experience the moment and you become part of the piece. Will you remember this?
Photo credit: Julia Bloom
Ira Tattelman
TRADING / POST
Mixed media & video
In a post-industrial age, we are trading in ideas as much as materials. As individuals, we make choices about the places we occupy. I capture our presence in this world, make what might be hidden or peripheral, tangible. I focus on the footprints that mark the spots of our movements. Our actions leave traces; we write our stories on the landscape.
Photo credit: Ira Tattelman
Kristina Penhoet
WHEN WE ARE THEY ARE US
For this work, women created each strand of “When We Are They Are Us” from a variety of materials to represent a woman’s fertility. These teenagers, young women, middle-aged mothers, and grandmothers offered their time, effort, and thoughts about their bodies and their choices. Crochet was chosen as the fiber technique for this piece because of its universality and way of connecting women across generations. Just as many of us know someone who has crocheted, we also know someone who has experienced a challenging choice related to their fecundity.
One in four women under the age of 45 in the United States have had an abortion. This choice is part of our world and our lives, despite the desires of some to regulate, criminalize and deny its existence. Regardless of our individual thoughts and beliefs, we must stand together to support all women with the hope that the breadth of choices will continue to exist when we are they are us.
Photo credit: Pete Duvall
Jackie Hoysted
SYMBIONT
SYMBIONT is a meditative, immersive, interactive installation comprising audio-reactive and sensor-driven real-time generative video, pulse-sensors and fiber-optic wire where a main participant’s heartbeat is seen and felt by other participants.
Photo credit; Jacki Hoysted
Dawn Whitmore
SOMETHING OF THREE
Dawn Whitmore’s SOMETHING OF THREE is an immersive video and sculpture installation that explores the relationship between myth, reality and the journey that connects the two. In a projected video, reflection on animal migration inspires the artist to traverse an imaginary course in a desert landscape. Scored by Michael Benish.
Photo credit: Dawn Whitmore
Gloria Vasquez
TARGET WIDE OPEN
Using skills that her grandmother taught her, Gloria made a quilt of Target bags to create Target Baby. “When I created Target Baby, I was thinking of mass violence, innocent people as victims, children as victims, children as perpetrators, and also broader issues like consumerism, class divides, and gender roles. The target symbol is freighted with multiple meanings readily recognizable to everyone. Target Baby is evocative of a lot that is going on right now both in the US and internationally. Sad and ghoulish and red, Target Baby is a dismembered Raggedy Ann doll on a quilt.”
Photo credit: Julia Bloom
Mary Early
Līnea X - version 2
2020
Beeswax
Dimensions variable
Description:
Approximately 150 cast beeswax elements, each 29” inches in length, placed in two rows receding away from the front of the elevator, as close to each other as the width of each element, in a space 85” inches deep x 75” inches wide x 95” inches high.
Photo credit: Mary Early
Mary Early
Līnea X - version 1
2020
Beeswax
Dimensions variable
Description:
Approximately 150 cast beeswax elements, each 29” inches in length, placed in two rows receding away from the front of the elevator, as close to each other as the width of each element, in a space 85” inches deep x 75” inches wide x 95” inches high.
Photo credit: Mary Early
Frank McCauley
welter/wallow
Frank McCauley's welter/wallow explores a fascination with the relationships between private and public, reality and fiction, and the dynamic interplay between the individual and structures or masses.
Taking the figure as subject, it is put through a process in which its features are distorted, suppressed, or intensified in the service of expressing something beneath or behind the observable surface–that is, something that is best implied in the slippage between the recognizable and what is unexplained or mysterious.
Photo credit: Frank McCauley
Michele Montalbano
PAGES FROM THE BOOK OF BABEL
PAGES FROM THE BOOK OF BABEL is a fifteen-foot scroll on semi-transparent Duralar, combining drawing, relief printing, gilding, and letterpress. The work is inspired by three sources. The first is the story of the fall of the Tower of Babel. The second is illuminated manuscripts used in medieval writings. The final inspiration is my love of typography.
The installation’s title and theme refer to the biblical story about mankind collectively attempting to build a tower high enough to reach heaven. Mankind’s hubris angered God, who scattered mankind across the world and “confounded” their common language so that they could no longer understand each other.
The story remains relevant in today’s world of confounded signs, symbols, and languages. It asks questions like, why does it matter that we have different languages and cultures? Is it possible to overcome our differences? Are we doomed to polarization and isolation as a result of our cultural and linguistic differences?
This installation is a response to these and other questions. The work combines images and techniques borrowed from antiquity with contemporary symbols and imagery such as computer shortcuts and Japanese anime. Instead of bricks and mortar, Pages from the Book of Babel was constructed using the elements of communication.
Photo credit: Michele Montalbano
Diane Szczepaniak
FLOATING LIGHT
Diane Szczepaniak’s FLOATING LIGHT Two sheets of clear Lexan rectangles hang suspended on either side of a rod, which is balanced on a central fulcrum. As the surrounding air moves, the sheets twist, continually finding balance. As light hits the edges and reflects off their surface, the sheets appear to float. The space is never seen the same way twice. This freestanding sculpture is transformed by the space it occupies. The sheets move in response to circumstances in their environment.
Driven by the study of form, one could say the subject matter of my sculptures is form itself, an attempt to capture the essence of objects in space. I study how space is altered in nature, and in turn how nature is altered by its surroundings. It is a slow practice that gives me insight into how objects meaningfully acquire their own fullness of being–to have form–to have stillness in motion and motion in stillness.
Photo credit: Julia Bloom