About the Exhibition
Guest curator Lilly Wei assembled a group of artists who navigated water as both subject and medium. Works in many media evoked water in all its forms, from rushing bubbles and ethereal floating objects to crashing waves and melting ice cubes. The utilization of water as medium range from Simon Lee’s wall projections through water that submerge viewers in a liquid environment, to Claudia Schmacke’s mesmerizing, spiraled tubes of circulating water. Some of the artists explored human interaction with the water of the world in ways both playful and symbolic, from the New York surfers of Drew Heitzler’s film The Subway Sessions to the video image of artist Patty Chang lapping water from the surface of her own reflection in a mirror. Other artists in Water, Water engaged the theme through video, photography, painting and sculpture.
Guest curator Lilly Wei is an independent curator and critic who writes frequently for Art in America and is a contributing editor at ARTnews and Art Asia Pacific. She is currently curating several other exhibitions, including "Twisting and Turning, Abstract Painting Now" for Blue Star in San Antonio and "The Invisible Thread: The Influence of Buddhism in Contemporary Art" for Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island.
Gallery Location/Directions
The Rotunda Gallery is a program of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture
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.
Acknowledgements
The Rotunda Gallery is grateful for the generous support of our exhibition and education programs from the Sally and Milton Avery Foundation, Bloomberg L.P., Con Edison, Forest City Ratner Companies, the Hearst Foundations, the Independence Community Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New York Community Trust, the New York Times Foundation, the Josephine Bay and C. Michael Paul Foundation, the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, the Underwood Foundation, Verizon, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, as well as numerous individuals.
Programs are made possible in part by public funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and the Brooklyn Delegation to the New York City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Guest curator Lilly Wei
Thursday, April 3, 2003 to Saturday, May 17, 2003
Admission is FREE
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION: Thursday, April 3 — More info