[ Gallery
Re-Opening ]
"OPEN" Sunday
June 27
Four solo exhibitions
Nikki S. Lee: Projects
Maria Marshall: Videos and Photographs
Tamara Mewis: Interpolated Drawing Exercise
ChanSchatz: Real Art Ways RAW dsp.0017 ChanSchatz System Production, 1999
Real Art Ways, Hartford's nationally known center for contemporary art and culture, will unveil
its renovated gallery space with a public opening on Sunday, June 27, 1999 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The event is entitled "Open" and features 4 solo exhibitions. There is no admission charge for the opening event. Real Art Ways is located at 56 Arbor Street, in Hartford's Parkville neighborhood.
"Open" - In keeping with Real Art Ways's almost twenty-five year history of support to emerging talent, and the timely presentation of breaking aesthetic trends, we have chosen to re-open our galleries with four solo exhibitions showcasing artists who we believe display tremendous promise. This we have done under the umbrella title "OPEN".
The first exhibitions in the newly renovated space will be in keeping with Real Art Ways' record of supporting artists early in their careers. "Open" includes 4 solo exhibitions, by Maria Marshall, Tamara Mewis, the artist team Chanschatz and Nikki Lee.All are showing in Hartford for the first time.
Maria Marshall is an English artist working in video and photography. Her subjects are often her own children. This is the first exhibition of her photography in the United States, and includes "When I grow up I want to be a cooker," a disquieting 19 second video loop of a young boy appearing to smoke a cigarette.
Born in Korea, Nikki S. Lee presents large-scale color photographs of herself taking on the trappings of different identities. Lee uses the fact that people are typed by their clothes, turf, music, vocabulary, hair style, and ways of play. She inhabits a character for a period of time in order to know and show what it is to be classified as a type, and takes snapshots ofherself in "character."
Tamara Mewis' installation at Real Art Ways is her first as a professional artist. The experience of moving through Mewis' installation, Interpolated Drawing Exercise, is like walking through a human-scale CAD drawing, with the viewer able to slip between actual space and virtual space.
ChanSchatz (Eric Chan and Heather Schatz) installation and performance at Real Art Ways continues to build on their ongoing sponsorship relationships. Their installation houses a working digital production environment created to produce digitally created fabric yardage symbiotically connected to this community.
