Inside Art at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery January 25, 2011

"Resounding" Reviewed in Gambit and LA Homes & Gardens
Also Listen to an Interview with Dan Cameron & Jonathan Ferrara on WWNO ( NPR Affiliate in New Orleans)

Resounding: A Prospect 1.5 exhibition curated by Dan Cameron featuring the work of Fikret Atay (Turkey), Rhona Bitner (Paris and New York), Sean Duffy ( Los Angeles), Tim Lee (Vancouver) and Ted Riederer (New York) was recently reviewed by Gambit Weekly art critic D.Eric Bookhardt, featured in an article in Louisiana Homes and Gardens Magazine written by Lisa Leblanc-Berry. In addition, WWNO's Diane Mack recently interviewed Cameron and Ferrara about the exhibition and Prospect 1.5. The exhibition runs through February 2, 2011.

Bookhardt writes in Gambit:

"There is a longstanding if sometimes artificial separation between visual art and music. This Resounding show, curated by former musician and Prospect New Orleans founder and director Dan Cameron, explores the hazy frontier where art and music meet."

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Leblanc- Berry writes in LA Homes and Gardens:

"By showcasing new art from around the world in a setting that is culturally unique, Prospect's exhibitions contribute to the revitalization of New Orleans, while bringing international attention to the city's expanding visual arts community."

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To listen to the WWNO interview by Diane Mack, please .

About the exhibition

"For devoted music fans, the hardest adjustment one has to make is the echoing silence that descends when the band finishes playing and the house lights go up. With the sudden absence of music, other senses rush to fill the void, with visual art foremost among the ways music becomes 'represented' when nobody is playing. As technology increasingly transforms the medium for delivering music to its audience to obsolete artifacts, we look upon the vinyl LP, the cassette, and the CD as artifacts from a parallel universe. Each of the five participating artists deals with this involuntary distance from their musical muse in a different way." - Dan Cameron

In Rhona Bitner's photographs of sites where legendary musical performances took place, one senses a residue of the historical act, much as one might when contemplating a battlefield where scores of individuals fought and died several lifetimes ago. Whether it is an image of Sun Studios in Memphis, Preservation Hall in New Orleans, or Cobo Hall in Detroit, invisible cues let us know that we are gazing upon something important. Tim Lee's photographs and videos are simple slights-of-hand that enable the artist to become one of his own musical idols by recording himself going through the physical act of playing an instrument, & then 'attaching' that image to the figure of an actual musical virtuoso.

The vinyl LP is unique in its capacity to imbue an ambience of baby boom nostalgia, which makes it a nearly universal symbol of music's unlimited expressiveness. Ted Riederer and Sean Duffy both use the vocabulary of record collecting to produce a startlingly up-to-date range of images. Duffy's ingeniously altered record players and album jackets suggest hidden meanings in the accidental & the mundane, while Riederer's constructed environment of recycled vinyl ties together the escape fantasy of Star Wars with an unabashedly romantic perspective on the intricate network of indie bands and labels throughout the country.

Fikret Atay, who is from the Kurdish region of Turkey, has often incorporated the principle of accidental or found music into his videos, by treating the impulse toward rhythm and melody as a kind of side-effect of other cultural processes. In this way, the sound of two boys warming up on a winter night in an ATM, or of men gathering for prayer, becomes a conduit for a musical impulse that is an innate part of human behavior.

About Prospect 1.5

As part of its mission to present and promote the art and artists of New Orleans, U.S. Biennial will present Prospect.1.5 New Orleans, a fifteen-week program of exhibitions, symposiums, and public events taking place November, 6, 2010 through February 19, 2011. Prospect.1.5 will highlight the contemporary art scene in the city, with almost fifty artists presenting work in twelve venues throughout the New Orleans metropolitan area.

Prospect.1.5 will also serve as a preview to Prospect.2 New Orleans. Several Prospect.1.5 venues will also host exhibitions for Prospect.2, and many of the world's most promising and/or recognized local, national and international artists will be visiting New Orleans during Prospect.1.5 in advance of developing major new projects to be premiered at Prospect.2.

To view works in the Resounding exhibition, please .