SPACE WITHIN THESE LINES NOT DEDICATED
Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo
Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated
Thursday, Oct. 30 through Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008, at the Teaching Gallery at Hudson Valley Community College.
Opening on Thursday October 30th, 5 - 8PM
With a live, improvisational performance by the artists
Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated is an exhibition that explores the intersections and connections between things; sound and image, object and space, material and application, things fabricated, things found. Working individually and together, Singer and Ranaldo open a dialogue between themselves, where images and ideas contrast, compliment, re-occur, waver, juxtapose and contradict each other. Electric guitars hang in space; strobes flash against the light; quiet, still moments and loud moments that move loom cinematic; spoken word recordings alongside a variety of sounds from various sources build a fractured narrative. Their multifaceted works suggest that despite our collaged and contingent selves - and it is all we have - a voice can be found that reflects and refracts the very location and experience of living this fractured life adrift.
Leah Singer is an artist known equally for her self-published newspapers, film/video projects, and visual art. Leah’s signature silhouette drawings grew from a 1997 self-published, all-graphic newspaper called ‘copy’. This and subsequent editions have been included in various private and institutional collections including The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
Lee Ranaldo, co-founder of the experimental rock band Sonic Youth, is a writer, visual artist and musician. His visual art and sound works have been presented in galleries and museums worldwide. The visual art exhibition “Sonic Youth etc : Sensational Fix” recently opened at the second venue (October 10, 2008, Museion, Bolzano, Italy) of an extensive tour.
Jan Van Woensel, an independent curator, art critic and lecturer based in New York and Los Angeles served as curatorial advisor to Singer and Ranaldo in the conception of this show. He has previously curated exhibitions that have included works by Ranaldo and/or Singer in New York, Miami, St. Louis and Los Angeles.
Director HVCC Teaching Gallery: Tara Fracalossi
Curatorial Advisor Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo: Jan Van Woensel
Press Contact: Jessica Shahda, (518) 629-7180,
j.shahda@hvcc.edu
HVCC:
http://www.hvcc.edu/teachinggallery