EVENT: Saturday April 12, 6:00pm – 10:00pm
@ Press Street’s Antenna Gallery, 3718 Saint Claude Ave, New Orleans
43, by Robin Price, Courtesy of the artist
On View: April 12 – May 4, 2014
Opening Reception: April 12, 6-9pm
Happy Hour Artist Salon with Gerald Cannon: May 1, 6pm
Parameters features work from national and local artists who use chance experiments, media or process restrictions, and conceptual rules as boundaries or guidelines to form their work. The exhibition includes artist books, sculpture and prints from Gerald Cannon (New Orleans, LA), Jessica Hoffman (Seattle, WA), Heidi Neilson (Brooklyn, NY), and Robin Price (Middletown, CT).
On Thursday, May 1, 6pm, Antenna Gallery will host a Happy Hour Artist Salon with Gerald Cannon. Cannon is a professor at Loyola University where he teaches Digital Arts. He will discuss and present his current work.
A catalog with a new essay by David Robinson accompanies the exhibition.
Parameters is presented in partnership between SIFT and Press Street’s Antenna Gallery.
Natural Order: A Game of Pairs, by Anne Covell, Courtesy of the artist.
On View: April 12 – May 4, 2014
Opening Reception: April 12, 6-9pm
Juror Walkthrough with Friedrich Kerksieck & Luba Zygarewicz: Thursday, April 24, 6pm
Diversions, presents a juried selection of artist books and book-related works in Press Street’s new Reading Room 220. Selected by local artists Friedrich Kerksieck and Luba Zygarewicz, these works explore the use of rules and play as a way for making work and/or creating interaction with the viewer. The artist books in Diversions can be handled and read during the Reading Room 220’s open hours (Tuesday-Sunday, 12-5pm).
Diversions include artwork from: Sarah Bryant, Karen Carcia, Anne Covell, Sue Carrie Drummond, Jenna Fincher, Frank Hamrick, Moon Jung Jang, Jill Kambs, Ellen Knudson, Kimberly Maher, Laura Mongiovi, Pamela Olson, and Emily Tipps.
The Reading Room 220 will also host a juror’s walkthrough of Diversions on Thursday, April 24 at 6pm. Friedrich Kerksieck and Luba Zygarewicz will each talk about a few of the pieces in the exhibition.
Diversions is presented in partnership between SIFT and Press Street’s Reading Room 220.
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