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Curatorial Statement
The tradition of performing objects stretches back to folk theater, religious ceremony and ancient performance practices. Animas! references these through mask and puppetry, but also encompasses an engaging array of drawing, sculpture and installation - to explore, in a broader sense, the spirit that animates objects and brings them to life. Some of the work resonates with familiar stories: a pigeon puppet from The Producers or a melting Ninja Turtle popsicle; at other times we are faced with anonimity - everyday tables that float off on adventures we can only imagine and boys whose impossibly large heads create no end of difficulties. While some objects physically move, others are acted upon through the element of performance. All come to life in the eyes and minds of fortunate spectators.
Sincerest thanks go to Hanne Tierney, for her inspiration, her willingness to exchange ideas, and share the magic of abstract theater; and to the Rotunda staff who have worked tirelessly to realize this exhibition and make its benefit preview a success, and lastly to the artists whose stories delight us and transport us and who have invested each object with their passion and their love.
Janet Riker
Director, Rotunda Gallery
November 2001
Exhibition Checklist
Unless otherwise noted dimensions are given in inches (height x width x depth); all works are from the collection of the artists.
Meredith Allen
Moriches Island Rd.(pokemon) 2/5, 2000
C-print, laminated and mounted on sintra
18 x 22
Moriches Bay (tasmanian devil) 1/8, 2000
C-print, laminated and mounted on sintra
18 x 22
Kalers Pond (ninja turtle) 1/8, 2000
C-print, laminated and mounted on sintra
18 x 22
Moriches Bay (marvin) 2/5, 1999
C-print, laminated and mounted on sintra
18 x 22
Seatuck (warhead) 1/8, 2000
C-print, laminated and mounted on sintra
18 x 22
Matt Freedman Lightning Drawing, 2001
Acrylic on paper
12' X 10'
Marina Gutierrez
Conjure Dress, 1995
Mache, copper repousse, recycled cans
5' x 4' x 3'
Yoko Inoue
Accumulation of Suppressed Emotions, 1999 Ceramics, plastic cake stand, metal tube with wooden top, dolly aprons
Dimensions variable
John Jerard
Nature Mask (Life), 2001
Mixed media
26 x 22 x 5
Nature Mask (Prehistoric), 2001
Mixed media
18 x 12 x 6
"Producers" Pigeon, 2001
Mixed media
36 x 24 x 7
Si-Yeon Kim
My Hometown, 2001
Paper
40 x 40
My Hometown, 2001
Paper
28 x 28 x 18
Kristy M. Knight
Float, 1996
Wood, lead, dip net, latex rubber, video projection
Dimensions variable
Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz
Beta Boys, 1999
Rubber, wire
14 x 6 x 6 and 18 x 11 x 11
Christopher Moore
Untitled (Austrian Grape Leaves), 2001
Wood, wire, glass, metal, collage
14 x 10 x 6
Untitled (Pair of Zinc Birds), 2000
Wood, wire, glass, metal, collage
14 x 10 x 6
Untitled (Austrian Text with Monocle), 2001
Wood, wire, glass, metal, collage
14 x 10 x 6
Untitled (Austrian Crossword Puzzle), 2001
Wood, wire, glass, metal, collage
14 x 10 x 6
Untitled (Small Yellow with Bird and Motorcycle), 2001
Wood, wire, glass, metal, collage
9 x 7 x 6
Untitled (Crest Shaped with Orange and Blue), 2000
Wood, wire, glass, metal, collage
14 x 10 x 6
Michael Lee Poy
Coquette, The French Maid, 2001
Mixed Media
60 x 30 x 18
Daniel Scheffer
Chatter #3, 2001
Paper
22 x 30
Ode to Liza, 2001
Paper
6 x 18
Untitled, 2001
Paper
6 x 21
Jenna Spevack
Sticks and Stones and Superstrings (The Flood), 2001
Graphite on paper, mounted on wood
24 x 24 x ¾
Hanne Tierney
Excerpts from "Incidental Pieces for Satin and Strength", 1996
Aluminum, satin ribbons
Dimensions variable
The Rotunda Gallery (33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights), housed in an award-winning space designed by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, showcases the work of Brooklyn artists. The Rotunda Gallery's educational programs reach 6,000 students each year with gallery visits and in-school art making projects. The Rotunda Gallery is a project of the not-for-profit BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.
Located in Brooklyn Heights, just over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the Gallery is also easily accessible by public transportation. It is a short walk from the 2,3; 4,5; M; N or R trains at the Court Street/Borough Hall station; or the A, C trains at High Street.
The Rotunda Gallery gratefully acknowledges the 1999 Leadership Gift of Richard B. Fisher.
The Rotunda Gallery is grateful for the generous support of our exhibition and education programs from the Sally and Milton Avery Foundation, Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation, Con Edison, the Cowles Charitable Trust, Forest City Ratner Companies, the Greenwall Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and the New York Community Trust, as well as numerous individuals.
Programs are made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President and the Brooklyn Delegation to the New York City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The Rotunda Gallery is a project of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, Nanette Rainone, President.
November 15 - December 29, 2001
Janet Riker and Meridith McNeal, co-curators