THE POINT OF CONTACT GALLERY
presents
EYE ON CINEMA
From April to August, 2006
PHOTOHGRAPHIC ART BY PAPO COLO, GREGORY CREWDSON, JUDY PFAFF, SANDY SKOGLUND, ROB VAN ERVE, AND VIDEO ART BY LEANDRO KATZ.
Eye On Cinema is the theme of this forthcoming show by five American artists. “Each project, a visual metaphor, is an autonomous work deployed in its own terms and in its own visual space, intertwined in a purely alternative way,” asserts Pedro Cuperman, Point of Contact Gallery curator.
Eye On Cinema, is also the theme of a Point of Contact issue dedicated to the art of film, edited in 1997 by Pedro Cuperman and Owen Shapiro. Integrated with a series of critical discussions by distinguished filmmakers and film theorists, Eye On Cinema unites a set of 21 original works by Sandy Skoglund, Judy Pfaff, Rob Van Erve, Gregory Crewdson and Papo Colo, selected by Point of Contact's art editor at that time, Ursula Von Rydingsvard.
In 1975, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact originated a journal about the verbal and visual arts, known as Punto de Contacto first, and later as Point of Contact . In time, this journal, now a book series, has become a medium for some of the most relevant contemporary artists around the globe and many of them have become long time collaborators, co-creators and designers of a project that continues to evolve and move forward in unforeseen ways.
The Eye On Cinema show is part of the larger permanent collection, which will now be archived at the Point of Contact Gallery and catalogued in a special upcoming volume to commemorate Point of Contact's 30 th Anniversary. More than 200 original pieces of photography, collage, drawings, paintings and three-dimensional works now form this significant collection, which comprises works by Burt Barr, Roy Bautista, Luis Camnitzer, Pérez Celis, Marta Chilindrón, Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Jaime Davidovich , Katherine Desjardins, Nancy Graves, Joseph Kugielsky, Elka Krajewska, Alberto Lastreto, Hung Liu , Marco Maggi, Luis Felipe Noe, Nam June Paik, Izhar Patkin, Judy Pfaff, Cesar Paternosto, Liliana Porter, Regina Silveira, Ana Tiscornia and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.
On The Video Documentary by Leandro Katz: EL DIA QUE ME QUIERAS
Read show review by Katherine Rushworth of the Syracuse Post Standard
THE POINT OF CONTACT GALLERY
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Artist's Bios
Sandy Skoglund: An American photographer and installation artist, also a Professor of Art at Rutgers University, New Jersey, since 1976, Ms. Skoglund currently teaches photography and the art of installation/multi-media. Her work has been described as an “antic dream world of ordinary life gone seriously awry.”
Judy Pfaff: British-American sculptor and installation artist Judy Pfaff's work has been shown worldwide in major museums including New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney. She received her MFA from Yale and now teaches at Bard College in New York. Ms. Pfaff has been characterized as a “collagist in space” and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2004 .
Rob Van Erve: Sculptor and photographer, received an M.F.A. from Ohio State University and the Academy for Art and Education, Tilburg, the Netherlands. He has shown his work internationally (Taipei Fine Arts Museum) and more extensively in New York at Gallery 128, the Islip Art Museum, the Coffey Gallery and the Sears-Peyton Gallery, among others. He has taught at City College of New York and Lacoste School of the Arts, France (in affiliation with Bard College).
Gregory Crewdson: His carefully staged photographs concentrate on a tension between domesticity and nature. An American photographer w ho is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods, Crewdson was born in Brooklyn in 1962, studied photography at SUNY Purchase and later was a graduate student at Yale University, where he has been on the faculty for over ten years.
Papo Colo: A multi-disciplinary artist, well known for his performance, theater and installation work, Papo Colo is the founder of the Trickster Theater in New York City. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, he travels constantly between Manhattan and San Juan. In 1982 he also co-founded Exit Art: an artistic center that has become center stage for contemporary artists in New York City. Papo Colo has curated and produced over 100 shows at Exit Art.
Related Websites:
www.pointcontact.org
www.judypfaff.org
www.sandyskoglund.com
www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_172_0.html
www.papocolostop.com
www.trickstertheater.org
www.exitart.org