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Ep.132 features Rico Gatson, a multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, identity, popular culture and spirituality, through sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and public art projects. Over the course of almost two decades, he has been celebrated for politically layered artworks, often based on significant moments in black history. From the Watts Riots, the formation of the Black Panthers, to the election of President Barack Obama are a few subjects touched upon in his work. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Essl Museum, Austria, Vienna and The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. In 2019 completed a large commission for MTA Arts and Design in titled “Beacons”; eight permanent large-scale mosaics of prominent figures associated with and installed in a subway station in the Bronx. His work is featured in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Denver Art Museum, The Cheekwood Museum, The Kempner Museum and The Yale University Art Gallery. His work is also included in numerous private collections. Headshot photo courtesy of the Artist Artist https://ricogatson.com/ Miles McEnery https://www.milesmcenery.com/artists/rico-gatson Issuu Nov 2022 Publication https://issuu.com/amy-nyc/docs/rico_gatson_pages_22581d0e587ad7 Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/rico-gatson-spectral-visions Feldman Gallery https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/rico-gatson Studio Museum of Harlem https://studiomuseum.org/artist/rico-gatson Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/miles-mcenery-gallery/artworks/rico-gatson/untitled-triple-consciousness/ SVA https://sva.edu/faculty/rico-gatson Christies Real Estate https://www.christiesrealestate.com/blog/creative-spirit-in-the-studio-with-artist-rico-gatson/ Anderson Ranch https://www.andersonranch.org/people/rico-gatson/ Sugar Hill Museum https://www.sugarhillmuseum.org/rico-gatson Artnet https://www.artnet.com/artists/rico-gatson/events Art for Change https://artforchange.com/collections/rico-gatson Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Gatson
Sunaina is a contemporary artist of Indian origin, who lives and works in Singapore. Educated in India, she moved to Tokyo in the late 90's and has spent the last two decades in various parts of North and South Asia. Having completed her formal education as a textile designer specializing in print, she chose to pursue an immersive education in the traditional art form of Nihonga in Japan, where she spent 5 years studying under Suiko Ohta-sensei of the Kyoshin-Do school. She is currently researching traditional healing practices in Singapore and South East Asia with a focus on Ayurveda and Traditional Medicine that employ natural remedies like spices and herbs in chronic health conditions like Diabetes and Breast Cancer. Concurrently, she is also rediscovering her interest in printing processes as a contemporary visual language. Sunaina has exhibited in Japan, India, Singapore, Europe and the Middle East. Her works are in the permanent collections of the ESSL Museum, Vienna and Mumbai Airports Authority, India, and in various private collections globally.Apple Podcasts: https://buff.ly/2Vf8vv8⠀Spotify: https://buff.ly/2Vf8uHA⠀Google Podcasts:https://buff.ly/2Vds6LX⠀....-Original music credit: Rish Sharma.His music is available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and other streaming platforms. -Audio post production at HNM Studios New Delhi India.-October2019 voicesandmore Pte Ltd All rights reserved See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
March 17 – July 18, 2015Kathleen O. Ellis GalleryArtist Talk: Tuesday, March 17, 6:30pmGallery Talk: Thursday, March 19, 6pmReception: Thursday, March 19, 5-7pmLight Work is pleased to announce the exhibition Sight Specific featuring the work of artist Letha Wilson.Letha Wilson’s photographic, sculptural work begins as an exploration into our understanding of landscape. By alluding to conventions of romanticism and mythology, and expanding the possibilities of interpretation through abstraction, Wilson exposes the photograph’s inability to truly contain the place it represents. Her images of the American West—vast canyons, desert plants, and sky—are formed into sculptural objects that utilize the physical space of the gallery. At times embedded into walls, floors, and ceilings, even wrapping around (or through) architectural details, her inventive and playful approach to installation informs the tactile experience of her work. Wilson intervenes the static image by folding, distorting, and bending iconic landscapes into complex forms that elicit the sheer weight and beauty of the sublime. Wilson will spend the month of February as an Artist-In-Residence at Light Work in Syracuse where she will be making a selection of new works specifically for this gallery exhibition.lg.ht/SightSpecific—Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Wilson’s artwork has been shown at many venues including Art in General, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, International Center for Photography, Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Hauser and Wirth, Eleven Rivington, and Higher Pictures. In 2013 Letha was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography and chosen as the Deutsche Bank Fellow, and in 2014 awarded a Jerome Foundation Travel Grant. Wilson is Light Work’s February 2015 Artist-in-Residence.lethaprojects.com—Special thanks to Marcia Dupratmarciaduprat.comSpecial thanks to Daylight Blue Mediadaylightblue.comLight Worklightwork.orgMusic: "Vela Vela" by Blue Dot Sessionssessions.blue See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
NB: Listen with headphones to experience the immersive surround sound! Generative soundscape based on a random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in June and August 2018: 1) walking through the Essl Museum 2) two persons marching and running in a reverberant hall 3)a gallery with Rubens paintings at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 4) walking through the forest of the Thaya National Park.
Excerpt from a generative sound installation for a Hermann Nitsch exhibition at the Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (Austria) in 2003. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/mysteredorgue.html As musical accompaniment for the major Hermann Nitsch retrospective at the Essl Museum, Karlheinz Essl has created a expansive sound installation which has its centre in the Rotunda and, from there, floods the large hall and the galleries with sound. For Nitsch, music has always been an integral element of his Orgien Mysterien Theater, which found its climax in the 6-Day-Play in August 1998. For this meticulously choreographed "Gesamtkunstwerk" the artist composed an original music score which has recently been released on 51 CDs. Sound samples from this recording have been used as basic material for the sound installation Le mystère d'orgue. A specifically developed computer program splits these samples into atoms of sound and re-combines them into ever-new sound shapes in real-time. The resulting sound stream wafts through the exhibition halls like an organ sound, surging and receding, thus creating an aura reminiscent of the original orgiastic-mystic environment for Hermann Nitsch’s performance relicts.
Auszug aus der generativen Klang-und Textinstallation "es wird" auf einen Text des Architekten Heinz Tesar. Im Rahmen des Festivals WIEN MODERN 2000 wurde diese Arbeit im neu eröffneten Essl Museum präsentiert. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/es_wird.html
Sound environment of Xenia Hausner’s room installation „ÜberLeben”, shown at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg (A) in 2012. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/suspended-suspense.html Eigens für die Installation von Xenia Hauser in der Rotunde des Essl Museums hat der Komponist Karlheinz Essl sein Sound-Environment „Suspended Suspense” geschaffen, das mit minimalsten Mitteln eine Atmosphäre unerträglicher Spannung zu erzielen sucht. Ein schneidend hoher Ton und ein tiefes Rauschen schwellen unvorhersehbar an und ab und erzeugen dabei eine hypnotische Stimmung.
Recorded live on 9 June 2010 at the Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg by Tzenka Dianova (piano) and Karlheinz Essl (live-electronics). Karlheinz Essl's “Sequitur XIII” (2009/2013) for extended piano and live electronics is an innovative work in which the piano has been transformed into a super instrument thanks to a computer-based algorithmic system. Turning the relatively simple instrumental material into an orchestral entity through various real-time harmonic and spectral alterations, the piece multiplies the functions of the original instruments by recording the musicians' performance and playing it together with its modified version (Maria Kallionpää, 2014) Info: http://www.essl.at/works/sequitur/sequitur-13.html
Der deutsche Shooting Star Jonathan Meese, der im Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg bis 3. Februar 2008 mit der sehenswerten Ausstellung Fraeulein Atlantis vertreten ist, Karlheinz Essl jun., der die Soundinstallation zu dieser Ausstellung schuf und Alfred Krondraf von Kulturwoche.at trafen sich gegen Mittag des 20. September 2007 zu einem Gespraech. Das Gespraech handelte von Tierbabys, von der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Kuenstlern, von der Demut und was Kunst alles sein kann. Am Abend desselben Tages eroeffnete Jonathan Meese die Ausstellung mit einer mehr als einstuendigen Spoken Word Performance, die ihn an den Rand der physischen Leistungsfaehigkeit brachte und in der er an "der Kunst lutsche wie an einem Lolly".
Recorded live on 23 Apr 2008 at the Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg with Georg Riedl (clarinet) and Karlheinz Essl (live-electronics). Sequitur is a series of 14 compositions for various solo instruments and live-electronics written for outstanding soloists. Somehow it can be seen as a reference to Luciano Berio's famous Sequenze cycle of solo pieces which focus on specific playing techniques of the respective instrument. Essl's Sequitur cycle includes pieces for orchestral instruments like flute and violin, but also for voice, electric guitar, toy piano or kalimba. All Sequitur composition use a software written in MaxMSP which creates an electronic accompaniment from the instrument’s live input; the player is confronted with his own playing, and this creates a situation like moving in a house of mirrors where the identities becomes blurred. The Sequitur software generates a complex canon on the fly, the temporal structure and density of which being controlled by random operations. This yields different results every time the piece is performed. Although following a precisely notated score, there is always a good portion of surprise for the musician which emphasizes his awareness and attentiveness. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/sequitur/sequitur-2.html
Generative sound environment for Johanes Zechner's exhibition "TRAUM UND TRAUMA: Berlinkoffer" at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg, shown in fall 2006. Programmed in MaxMSP. http://www.essl.at/works/berliner-luft.html
Excerpt of an aquatic soundscape for Jürgen Messensee's installation „Piscina di Venere” in the rotunda of the Essl Museum in Vienna/Klosterneuburg (Austria) in 2006. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/panta-rhei.html Water in its diverse aggregate states and forms of flowing is the basic acoustic material for this piece, which is permanently scanned, altered in its corporality and continuously recomposed through a random-based compositional algorithm. Here the form and energy distribution of a wave serve as the fundamental formal principle: the rising and falling of the sounds, the glissando movements and the spectral sound shifts are controlled by a time-variant wave model, the parameters of which are constantly changed by random operations. In this way, a process is set in motion that eludes any kind of external control and is carried out before the ears of the listeners like a natural phenomenon: "panta rhei" - everything flows.
Generative sound installation for a photo documentation on Viennese Actionism. Part of the exhibition "AUSTRIA: 1900-2000" at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg. The sound-environment nature / morte has been conceived by the composer Karlheinz Essl especially for this exhibition. An artificial world of sound, generated by a computer programme written in Max/MSP in realtime, intends to “earthen“ the freeze-frames and bring into play again the lost dimensions of time and sound. Through listening, in a subliminal way, the connection between the analytical eye and the non-rational levels of the unconscious is intended to get re-established, in order to enable the listeners to re-experience the sensual overall coherence of time and sound. The title "nature / morte" (French still-life; literally: ‚dead nature’) reflects these dialectics between nature dynamically unfolding and lifeless statics. A stream of sound, pouring into the Rotunda via four loud-speakers, is recurrently halted – as if stemmed –, in order to be released again afterwards, with all its power. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/nature-morte.html
ON FIRE is a sonic intervention by Karlheinz Essl for the space-filling installation ONLY FIRE by the Venezian artist Fabrizio Plessi. It was presented at the Essl Museum between 28.11.2001 and 17.02.2002. The sound of a fire blaze which is permanently filling the space is enriched with sonic gestures that are generated in real time by a special version of Karlheinz Essl's sound scape generator fLOW. The sound material on which it is based focusses on several aspects that are related with fire: steam and engine, heat and power, comfort and destruction. Taking advantage of algorithmic models and chance operations - Karlheinz Essl's field of interest since the mid 1980ies - the sound structures emerge in realtime in an unpredictable and surprising manner. Instead of being a reproducible work, ON FIRE is an infinite process that develops like the uncontrollable power of fire. The two sound sources for this installation are spatially distributed and separated: the constant sound of burning fire which was supplied by Fabrizio Plessi himself fills the entire space of the Grand Hall of the Essl Museum, whereas Karlheinz Essl's gestural sound scape ON FIRE is projected with 4 loudspeakers onto the curved wall of the so-called Rotunda: a circular room which opens itself into the Grand Hall like a funnel and through which the sounding of ON FIRE is transmitted into the installation space where it combines itself with the noise of the fire blaze. The visitor, walking through the installation, will listen to different combinations and interferences of the two sound layers which constantly changes due to the move he takes.