ANYWHERE BUT HERE
Open to the public:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - Friday, July 5, 2024
Monday - Friday, 11am - 5pm
Opening reception:
Wednesday, May 8, 6-8pm
Exhibition Walkthrough with the artists:
Saturday, June 1, 2-5pm
Artist Talk with filmmaker Jenny Perlin
Tuesday, June 18, 6-8pm
Project: ARTspace is pleased to present Anywhere But Here, works by four contemporary artists united in their respective sensitivity and response to the concept of “place." This exhibition is curated by artist Margaret Lanzetta. A catalog will be available.
Susan Goethel Campbell, Heide Fasnacht, Margaret Lanzetta and David Packer each explore “place” from varied geographical, imaginary, cultural and political perspectives. Nostalgia or aspirations for an ideal or imagined place are tangled with notions of alienation, confusion or the underlying rootlessness of a perpetual global nomad. The exhibition title, Anywhere But Here, is borrowed from the 1986 novel by Mona Simpson. The novel chronicles the heart-rending peregrinations of a wise child and her fantasy-driven, dreamer mother as they careen across America propelled by conflicting ambitions. A brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound disorientation. “I was glad to be driving. I didn’t care how far we went," daughter Ann declares.
Susan Goethel Campbell’s Lost Cities series explores the concept of place from a geographical, aerial perspective. While inspired by alarming sea levels of coastal cities that may one day be underwater, the works paradoxically also present dreamlike phenomena of light, shadow and beauty.
Heide Fasnacht explores memory, melancholy, fallibility, and "unclaimed reminiscences" in her photo-based, mixed media paintings. Painted on grounds of digitally manipulated, tiled inkjet prints, their surfaces are activated by a palimpsest of textured brushwork.
Margaret Lanzetta’s paintings unite notions of physical place with culture. The paintings combine paint, silkscreen and globally-sourced textiles to investigate cross-currents of world decorative traditions in relation to current cultural migration and political narratives.
David Packer’s ceramic astronauts and map drawings originate from an aerial perspective to query our place in an exponentially changing world. In Country Club, random countries float in a sea of gesturally-worked graphite.
Susan Goethel Campbell is a multi-disciplinary artist and printmaker. Her process-based work and research considers the dynamic qualities of the built environment to include periods of growth, dormancy and decay. Central to Campbell’s practice are questions around the integration and erasure of human agency over broader global systems. Campbell’s work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Slovenia, and throughout the United States. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts, Grand Rapids Art Museum, The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Toledo Museum of Art and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.
Heide Fasnacht has shown an abiding interest in states of change and disorientation initially in sculpture and more recently in paintings. Her work has been exhibited at MOMA, The Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art, RAM Galerie, Rotterdam, Galeria Trama, Barcelona, Brandts Museum, Denmark among others. She is in many permanent collections including: the MFA Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Yale University Art Gallery and the DeYoung Museum, San Francisco. Fasnacht is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Gottlieb Foundation Grant, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowships and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award.
David Packer was born in England and has lived in the United States since 1983. He graduated from Bristol School of Art (BA Ceramics) and Florida State University (MFA) in 1994. Exhibitions include Exit Art and Garth Clark Gallery, both in New York, Navta Schultz Gallery, Chicago as well as shows in Morocco, France and Japan. He has curated shows for Spring Break Art Fair and at 81 Essex, both in New York. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Art and Design, New York, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. Residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, Kohler, as well as AIR Vallauris, France and Youkobu, Japan. He has had two Fulbright awards to Morocco, living in Fez, Tangier, Marrakech and Essaouira, and in 2019 he published the book titled The Earth has Three Colors: a celebration of Moroccan ceramics.
Margaret Lanzetta uses culturally significant pattern to explore issues of political power, spirituality and migration. Her work combines painting, silkscreen and textiles and is influenced by working in Asia, North Africa, and Europe. Lanzetta has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the National Museum, Bangkok (pop-up), the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India, Queens Museum and galleries in New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Delhi, among others. Her awards include an MTA Subway Commission, three Fulbright Fellowships and residencies at MacDowell, Ucross, British Academy in Rome, Greenwich House Pottery and Dieu Donné Papermill. Lanzetta’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museums, London, Yale University Museum, and Harvard Museums.
Jenny Perlin makes films, videos, installations, and drawings. Her projects draw on interdisciplinary research interests in history, cultural studies, literature and linguistics. Her films incorporate innovative techniques to investigate history as it relates to the present. Perlin shoots 16mm film and digital video and combines live-action, staged, and documentary images with hand-drawn, text-based animation. Perlin’s work is in public collections including MoMA, The Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and numerous private collections
Founded in 2011, Project: ARTspace is an interdisciplinary creative project space. Our organization programs events and exhibition where curators and artists of all levels have the chance to meet, engage and promote new collaborative projects.
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