For Immediate Release
Michel
Demanche...Corrected to 20/40
Christine Sciulli...Tangle
Brooklyn, NY - January 23rd, 2011 - Causey Contemporary is pleased to
announce the return of two photographically based artists to the gallery this
March with the opening of Michel Demanche...Corrected to 20/40 and
Christine Sciulli...Tangle. The First exhibition will feature the lush
black and white, and color photography of Michel Demanche while the second will
feature another of Christine Sciulli's deceptively simple video installations.
The exhibitions will run from March 11 to April 10, 2011 and will open with a
public reception on March 18th from 6-9 pm for both artists. The public is
invited to join the artists for the opening reception and or to isit the
exhibititions during gallery hours: Monday 9 am - 5 pm, Wednesday - Saturday 11
am - 7 pm, or Sunday 12 pm - 6pm.
Michel Demanche...Corrected to 20/40 features the latest series
of black and white as well as color photography fresh from the dark room. The
exhibition will showcase her more abstracted Icarus series contrasted
with her sharply focused Triage...Tagged Tree series. We have all been
told that looking into the sun will burn our eyes and make us blind but Michel
wants to ask the question: "does pointing a camera at the sun make it go blind
or does it only need a corrected lense?" In these latest series of Ms.
Demanche's, some images look to close and see triage while others seem liquefied
and blurred, but all require 20/40 correction.
Ms Demanche's work from the 2010-11 series have appeared most recently in
"Unseen", at the Arc Gallery at the MOSI Museum in Tampa, Florida, as a
billboard in Grand Rapids, Michigan during Art Prize 2010 and in Tagged an
exhibition on art and biodiversity at the Ward Museum in Salisbury, MD. In
addition to her photography exhibitions, Ms. Demanche who is also a professor of
art at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is known for a multimedia manner
of art visualization. Often her work is the result of stores or current events
which manifest into photography, mixed media print works, or paintings. These
works have found their way into many venues such as the Whitney Museum of
American Art, The Houston Museum of Art, and the Levinson Collection of Sheppard
Pratt Institute, The Women's Museum and Franklin Furnace. Additionally, her
photography won her the grand prize at the Florence Biennale in 2003. Ms.
Demanche's work is also found in the permanent collection of corporations
such a s E Systems, Frito Lay and Chase Bank. Michel Demanche...Corrected to
20/40 marks her fourth solo exhibition with Causey Contemporary and her eighth
exhibition working with gallery director, Tracy Causey-Jeffery.
Christine Sciulli...Tangle will feature the
New York City based artitst's planar video installations which focus on light,
refraction across divergent materials, and shadow. Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
explains Ms. Sciulli's work thus: "Her work consits of intersections of geometry
and an intuitive sense of how to use everyday materials to give a sense of
"spatialisation" - she plays with how we perceieve the world around us in a way
the leaves you with a kind of eerie sense of timelessness."
These "spatialisations" of Christine Sciulli's have
most recently been seen at the AC Institute (Direct Chapel), The American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, at a residency at Dartmouth College's Hopkins
Center and at a residenc at MASS MOCA- both with Phantom Limb. She has exhibited
her planar series at Frederieka Taylor Gallery and previously at Causey
Contemporary. Currently, She is engaged in a work on 69°S with Phantom
Limb which will have its US premier at the Brooklyn Academy of Music during the
Next Wave festival in 2011. She also has an upcoming exhibition at the Edward
Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, NY later this year. At the time of this press
release, Ms. Sciulli is still at work on the exhibition for Causey
Contemporary.
For more information on
Christine Sciulli or Michel Demanche and their exhibitions both of which run
from March 11 - April 10, 2011 with an opening reception on March 18 from 6-9 pm
please contact Causey Contemporary at 718-218-8939 or via email at
info@causeycontemporary.com
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