Intimate Immensity and Other Daydreams
Group Exhibition
November 30 – December 28, 2018

Opening Reception: Friday, November 30 | 6-8 pm

Jo Ann Walters, Phoenix, Arizona, 1989

 

AC Institute is pleased to present Intimate Immensity and Other Daydreams, a new group exhibition featuring works by Jimbo Blachly, Kathline Carr, Peter Dudek, Alyssa Fanning, Brece Honeycutt, Rebecca Norris Webb, Jim Peters, Christine Sciulli, Monika Sosnowski, Alec Soth, Emma Tapley, and Jo Ann Walters. The exhibition will run from November 28th through January 5th, 2019.

 

Intimate Immensity and Other Daydreams is one in a series of projects drawing inspiration from the concept of the poetic imagination developed by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. In particular, the exhibit will focus on how the poetic imagination, shaped by language, memory, but also daydreams, affects our perception and experience of being in a particular space and time. What is intimate and what is immense gets considered both formally and as metaphor. Whether outdoors encountering a landscape or indoors contemplating the inner landscape, Intimate Immensity and Other Daydreams will explore the possibilities of what is the poetic image and how it manifests itself for the artist, in the artwork, and for the viewer.

 

The exhibit will present mix-media work including drawing, photography, sculpture, and video by a variety of artists. Weekly events will be held during the run of the exhibit including readings and other presentations.

Exhibit dates: November 28th – January 5th, 2019.

• Friday, November 30th, 6 – 8 pm Opening Reception
  
• Friday, December 7th, 6 – 8 pm Encountering the Poetic Image: A Conversation on Visual and Written Interpretations with Kathleen Carr (visual artist and writer) and Kristin Prevellet (poet and conceptual artist)
• Wednesday, December 12th, 6 – 8 pm Gathered Books & Field Notes: an Artist Talk with Brece Honeycutt
• Wednesday, December 19th, 6 – 8 pm Intimate Immensity & Other Daydreams Artists Panel Discussion (details tbd)
  
• Friday, January 5th, 6 – 8 pm Cave Night Returns last day of the exhibition will end with an evening of performance and poetry reading led by artist Jimbo Blachly (details tbd)

 

Artists bios:

Jimbo Blachly is an artist living in New York City. His installations and performances have been exhibited at the Drawing Center, Franklin Furnace, The New Museum, P.S.1 MOMA, The Sculpture Center, and Winkleman Gallery in N.Y.C., as well as Catherine Clark gallery in San Francisco..
Between 2004 and 2014 he was co-editor of The Chadwick Family Papers with the poet Lytle Shaw Their collaboration was exhibited at ICA and Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia; Wave Hill in the Bronx, N.Y., P.S.1 MOMA, Museum of Art And Design NY; MCA Denver; The Tate Gallery, London. Kunsthall KadE, Amersfoort, Netherlands and Winkleman Gallery in NYC.
Lytle and Jimbo’s books: “The Chadwick Family Papers (a Brief public Glimpse)” Was published in 2009 from Periscope Press. “Selected Shipwrecks” was published in 2012 from Southern Exposure, SF/ Bookhorse, Zurich, Switzerland.

Kathline Carr, writer and visual artist, is the author of Miraculum Monstrum, (Red Hen Press 2017), winner of the 2015 Clarissa Dalloway Book Prize and Best Book Award finalist in the category of Fiction: Cross Genre. Carr’s work has appeared in many publications, including Calyx, Alexandria Quarterly, Connecticut Review, Entropy, Yew Journal; she has exhibited widely in New England, New York City, and Canada, and is represented by Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, MA. Carr received her BFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, VT with concentrations in visual art and feminist philosophy, an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston. She lives in the Berkshires.

Peter Dudek’s artistic practice consists of sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, printmaking and the occasional bit of writing with a dash of curating thrown in. His work is concerned with built things, architectural structures and the dialog between sculpture and modern architecture.
Dudek received a BFA in Sculpture from The School of Visual Arts, NYC, 1978, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture that summer. Graduated with a MA from Hunter College in 1983 (wrote theses on The Social and Aesthetic Influences on Frederick Law Olmstead). He teaches sculpture at Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts, NYC.

Alyssa E. Fanning received a BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and her MFA from Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. Fanning has exhibited at spaces including White Box, New York, NY; Momenta Arts, Brooklyn, NY; Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; Mortville, Chicago, IL; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, and internationally at Teckningsmuseet, Laholm, Sweden and artQ13, Rome, Italy.  Fanning’s curatorial projects include exhibitions at ABC No Rio, New York, NY; Silent Space Gallery, Kingston, NY; Radiator Gallery, Queens, NY; and Eagle Studio, Brooklyn, NY, among others.

Brece Honeycutt makes nature-based and history-based drawings, sculptures and installations. Honeycutt’s work has been exhibited in university campuses, historic houses, inner-city parks and in office buildings, libraries, urban markets and galleries. She enthusiastically collaborates with artists, students, historians, gardeners, poets, and dancers. She documents living “on a colonial farm” in her aptly named blog, often contrasting the contemporary with the colonial. Honeycutt holds a B.A. in Art History from Skidmore College and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Columbia University.

Jim Peters was born in Syracuse, NY, in 1945. He began painting while serving on the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy and, using the G. I. Bill, graduated from Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 1977 (MFA, Painting).  A painter and constructionist, he has exhibited regularly in NYC at CDS Gallery (since 1986) and ACA Galleries (at present), in Cambridge, MA, at Pierre Menard Gallery, and in Provincetown, MA at artSTRAND Gallery. Awards include Fellowships at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (1982-83 and 1983-84), Massachusetts Artists Grants (1985,1988), Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship (1999), and Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship (2002, 2008). He has work in many collections worldwide including William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Flint Institute of Art, and Solomon  R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC.

Christine Sciulli is a visual artist whose primary medium is projected light. “Her work consists of intersections of the geometry and an intuitive sense of how to use everyday materials to give a sense of “spatialisation” – she plays with how we perceive the world around us in a way that leaves you with a kind of eerie sense of timelessness.”(Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky). Sciulli holds an Architectural Engineering degree from Penn State University, graduating as a Besal Scholar, as well as BFA and MFA degrees in Combined Media from Hunter College.
Sciulli’s ROIL was shown at Brooklyn’s Smack Mellon Gallery in early 2016 and it was awarded a Lighting Award (UK) and Lumen Citation from the Illuminating Engineering Society. Her work was included in the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2014 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts. Her projection installations have been shown in numerous galleries and museums including the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Parrish Art Museum, Islip Art Museum, South Fork Museum of Natural History, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Edward Hopper House Art Center and Smithsonian Affiliate Annmarie Gardens, as well as in International light and music festivals. She was the recipient of a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant for her public art project Intercepting Planes X. Christine was commissioned by the Global Poverty Project to create her installation, Expanding Circles, projected onto 2,500 people, for the 2013 Global Citizen Festival. Sciulli will have a solo show at Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, NY in February 2019, and will be part of Responsive, a light festival in Halifax, Canada.

Monika Sosnowski is a photographer of places, things and people. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she grew up in Poland and the United States. The duality of this experience has strongly influenced her artistic sensibility. Her work is about moments that reveal a fragmented narrative. She looks for traces – presence in absence and absence in presence; the in-between. Her themes address what is fleeting, the fickleness of memory and patterns of chance.   A recurring sense of dislocation emerges while possibilities of fate, unlikely connections and everyday vagaries echo throughout.
Monika Sosnowski received an MFA in Photography from Hunter College in New York City. She taught photography at IS183 – Art School of the Berkshires and as a Teaching Assistant at the International Center of Photography in NYC. Currently teaches Art History and Studio Art at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, NJ. She has been a Visiting Artist at Bennington College in Bennington, VT and at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, NY.
Her work has been exhibited at, among others, Smack Mellon Gallery and 111 Front Street Galleries, both in Brooklyn, NY; The Arts Center Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY; and LABspace in Hillsdale, NY; Ferrin Gallery and Storefront Artist Project, both in Pittsfield, MA; Gallery 51 in North Adams, MA; and Sohn Fine Art Gallery in Stockbridge, MA.

Alec Soth is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis. Soth makes “large-scale American projects” featuring the midwestern United States. New York Times art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a “photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers” and photographs “loners and dreamers”. His work tends to focus on the “off-beat, hauntingly banal images of modern America” according to The Guardian art critic Hannah Booth. He is a member of Magnum Photos.
Soth has had various books of his work published by major publishers as well as self-published through his own Little Brown Mushroom. His major publications are Sleeping by the Mississippi, Niagara, Broken Manual and Songbook.
Soth has received fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His photographs are in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Walker Art Center. His work has been exhibited widely including as part of the 2004 Whitney Biennial and a major solo exhibition at Media Space in London in 2015.

Emma Tapley is a realist painter living in New York City. Tapley has been represented by Fischbach Gallery since 1999 and Hemphill Fine Arts in DC since 2000. Group exhibitions include the 186th Annual at the National Academy of Design, The Armory Show, The Drawing Museum in Sweden, The Art Fair, The Affordable Art Fair, Red Dot Fair in Miami, Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, The Works on Paper Fair in NY, and MM Fine Art in South Hampton.
Tapley received a BFA from SVA. Tapley has also studied painting and drawing at the New York Academy of Art. Tapley has been a guest lecturer at Yale University.

Jo Ann Walters is a photographic artist and educator living in New England. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and received the Ferguson Award for outstanding portraiture. She also received a Kittredge Fund Fellowship from Harvard University as well as a fellowship from the Peter S. Reed Foundation awarded to distinguished writers, choreographers, filmmakers and visual artists in their fields. She was nominated for Anonymous was a Woman and the John Gutmann Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the St Louis Art Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, Bibliotheque Nationale and the Center for Fine Photography, Bombay among others.

Rebecca Norris Webb, originally a poet, often interweaves her text and photographs in her six books, most notably with her monograph, My Dakota—an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly—with a solo exhibition of the work at The Cleveland Museum of Art (2015), among other venues. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cleveland Museum of Art, and George Eastman Museum, Rochester, N.Y. Rebecca’s seventh book, Brooklyn: The City Within (with Alex Webb) will be published by Aperture in fall 2019.