Snow/Crystal: Intricacy, Impermanence, and Influence
For Immediate Release:
SNOW/CRYSTAL: INTRICACY, IMPERMANENCE, AND INFLUENCE
Damon Zucconi, Sonja Hinrichsen, and Ian Scott
Curated by Park Myers
Exhibition: January 27, 2012 – March 17, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 26, 6 – 8p.m.
Wednesday January 25, 6:30p.m. Sonja Hinrichsen, Artist Lecture: “Interventive Art Projects in the Environment", presented by the Bud Werner Memorial Library in Library Hall, 1289 Lincoln Ave.
Friday January 27, 11a.m., Sonja Hinrichsen creates a site-specific work from the project Snow Drawings at West Lincoln Park, across the Yampa River from the Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at the Depot.
Sunday January 29th and Saturday February 4th Sonja Hinrichsen creates a site-specific work from the project Snow Drawings at Carpenter Ranch, 13250 Highway 40, Hayden, CO at 11:00a.m. The public is invited to participate in creating this work under the artist’s direction. Please contact SSAC for more in formation.
The Steamboat Springs Arts Council is pleased to announce Snow/Crystal: Intricacy, Impermanence and, Influence, an exhibition curated by Park Myers. Snow/Crystal is a selection of works that explores the thematic, conceptual and aesthetic aspects of snow and crystalline forms. This exhibition features three contemporary artists working in new media, video, photography, installation and interventive environmental art. Fleeting, yet seasonally cyclical, the experience of crystalline precipitation and winter weather culture has far reaching points of interaction. Snow/Crystal aims to present specific works by these artists that engage the viewer and participant in a re-examination of these points of interaction.
Damon Zucconi’s Olympic (Snow) uses ‘snow’ as a moniker for a corrupted electronic transmission, also referred to as 'noise'. This computer program based work takes two specific visual elements and presents them as a paradox of unified opposition, and in doing so is breaking down their basic, well-known visual identity. Damon Zucconi lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been recently exhibited at the Royal College of Art, London, UK, The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece and Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, NY.
The physical manipulation in Sonja Hinrichsen’s Snow Drawings creates a meta relationship between the intricacy of a crystalized snowflake form to the larger patterns created by the impact of the artist upon the snow. Viewers and participators are experiencing a temporary event, one in which the artist and viewers are making an impact upon the snow only to allow the natural forces to re-manipulate the environment. What is left is a memory and a photographic documentation. Sonja Hinrichsen is an artist and curator working in San Francisco, CA, and has garnered many international accolades and residencies for her interventive projects and installations.
Impermanence of thought and sensation, as well as viewer anticipation is prominent in Ian Scott’s Cerebral Myopia: Crystal. In this video installation the visual reference of the human head emitting a crystalline form stems from the awareness of the complexity, and at times inhibitive nature of human perception. Individuality and intricacy are characteristics of a single thought and a flake of snow; Scott’s work creates a space for the viewer to inwardly resonate on the unique, crystalline process of thought. Ian Scott is an artist and filmmaker working in Washington DC and New York, NY.
More information about these artists: Sonja Hinrichsen, Damon Zucconi and Ian Scott.
The Steamboat Springs Arts Council is a 501 c (3) organization.
THE 3D SHOW
Jan Maret Willman
Artist Member Gallery at the Depot
Exhibition: January 27, 2012 – February 24, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 26, 6 – 8p.m.
The Steamboat Springs Arts Council will be featuring Jan Maret Willman in the Artist Member Gallery. Witness "seeing" through the eyes of artist Jan Maret Willman as she exposes the world within her new exotic paintings--the world where color is a trick, a sleight of the brush; the creation of a vast illusion where form and figure come and go as if by magic.
