{"id":169,"date":"2014-10-04T01:58:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T01:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexartcenter.org\/?page_id=169"},"modified":"2014-10-21T16:52:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:52:45","slug":"newark-invitational-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.indexartcenter.org\/?page_id=169","title":{"rendered":"Newark Invitational 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sliver-<\/a><\/p>\n

Exhibit will be on view through October 24<\/p>\n

Newark Invitational 2014!<\/em><\/strong>
\nIndex Art Center will be hosting two floors of artwork at their new gallery and studio space located at 237 Washington St. Newark NJ.
\nIAC’s main gallery space is located on the second floor of the old Gambert Shirt Factory. The gallery will be featuring the work of up-and-coming Montclair State MFA students as well as 2014 graduates from the same program. (see below for more info)
\nGoodwin Hall is located on the 3rd floor at 237 Washington St. and houses the studios of the artists participating in the Index Art Center Residency Program. Studios will be open to the public during the event . The residents at Index include filmmakers, textile designers, illustrators, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, and painters.
\nIAC Artist Residents are:<\/strong>
\nSamantha Katehis, Joe Valentine, and Deborah Adler. Collaborating artists are: Joseph O’Neal and Colleen Gutwein, Nine Worlds: Heidi Hussa and Linda Hu, Laken Whitecliffe and Miguel Paniagua, “And \/ Or Films”, Irrelevant: Kevin Durkin and Eric Durkin, Afterlife: Jennifer Schwartz and Linda Chen.<\/p>\n

Reception:<\/strong> Friday, October 10, 6 – 10pm
\nExhibit will be on view through October 24<\/p>\n

Also on view:<\/strong>
\nIndex Project Space: “Stratospheric: A Floating Hammock Project”
\nby Lisa Conrad and Amanda Thackray
\n27 Mix: Artwork by Laken Whitecliffe and Elizabeth Storm<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cNoun: sliver; plural noun: slivers a small, thin, narrow piece of something cut or split off a larger piece.\u201d Sliver is a group show featuring the current class of Montclair State University graduate students, as well as the recent graduating class.
\nParticipating artists Alex Schoenberg, Natasha Jozi, Christine Soccio, Daniel Morowitz, Teresa Braun, Dana Hemes, Irena Pejovic, Jackie Walsh, Stephen Douglass, Esmerelda Vazquez, John Ryan, and John Spano show a diversity of practices, that form trends in the work as a collective whole; relational aesthetics, representation, the body, and the environment, intersect to create new paradigms.
\nAs artist Natasha Jozi describes her work: \u201cThe body experiences its relation to its \u2018self\u2019 through the ways it shares experiences in the world.\u201d Dana Hemes conversely states \u201cThe world is a complex system made up of many small interactions which produce endless patterns and forms, a non-anthropocentric viewpoint offers understandings of these environmental states as fluid systems.\u201d Together both artists offer a cross-section of how we interact with the world, slivers into our relationship with the environment.
\nDespite the wide range of practices, each sliver does not present a cursory view of art school practices, but acts as windows into a greater world through varying points of view.
\nAlex Schoenberg makes drawings that \u201cinclude visual paradoxes, disconnected structures and seepage that don\u2019t quite manage to bring chaos to the scene.\u201d Esmerelda Vazquez \u201crelies on an unreliable narrator to construct a world of cryptozoology.\u201d Between them representation is reactive, the environment is both a folly of design as well as a farce in description.
\nUsing photography, Stephen Douglass \u201cinterrogates the obsolete currency of communication asserting instead the bare act of \u2018truth telling\u2019 while refusing to communicate \u2018truth,\u2019\u201d using the camera as the maker of truth and perpetuator of lies; Jackie Walsh however \u201cexplores the physicality of the photographic medium in order to authentically capture the real effect of a process, rather than transform it into a representation.\u201d
\nNo one artist in the show claims to speak for all truth, but instead uses the varying viewpoints to separate from a singular narrative. John Spano \u201cinterrupts the world using light, sound and installation to contrast with the status quo of suburbia,\u201d while Christine Soccio \u201ccreates systems of interference to generate new forms from non repeating patterns.\u201d Both artists are considering work as an interruption, rather than an addition to existing discourses.
\nMovement and painting share equally dichotomous yet dependent relationships with the works of John Ryan and Irena Pejovic respectively; Irena \u201cexplores the movement limits of materials\u201d and John\u201d Organizes material to simultaneous compose a painting while offsetting the composition of space as a whole.\u201d
\nThe viewer, as opposed to material and representation, is directly confronted by Teresa Braun\u2019s \u201ceroticized, ritualized fables\u201d and Daniel Morowitz\u2019s \u201csadomasochistic paint objects\u201d in a way to position the viewer physically within the work as opposed to the cursory viewing of a show. With each piece, the artists attempt to give a sliver of their greater conceptual practices, showing that the parts really do make up the whole.<\/p>\n

Music by:<\/strong>
\nBible Gun<\/a> and others<\/p>\n

Index’s Newark Invitational will revolve around the Newark Arts Council’s 13th annual Open Doors<\/a> event happening October 9 through October 19.<\/p>\n

This event is sponsored by our neighbors at Kilkenny Alehouse and 27 Mix<\/p>\n

Gallery hours:
\nThur: 6-9 pm
\nFri – Sat.: 1-4 pm
\nViewing appointments are welcome
\nExhibit will be on view through October 24<\/p>\n

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\nIndex Art Center
\n<\/strong>237 Washington Street
\n<\/strong>Newark, NJ 07102
\nwww.indexartcenter.org<\/a>
\nindex.gallery@gmail.com<\/a>
\nGallery ph. 862-218-0278
\nLike us on Facebook!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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