Installing artwork at Visual Arts Center of NJ

I’m excited to have two site-responsive installations included in this exhibition that was co-curated by Mary Birmingham and Joanne Mattera.

“The exhibition explores the inventive ways contemporary artists employ materials, concepts, and processes associated with textiles to convey their ideas.”

Opening: Friday, January 13th from 6-8pm

Walk and Talk: Sunday, March 25th from 2-4pm

See either link below for information on hours and directions.

A fully illustrated catalog is available.

The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey is the state’s largest institution dedicated exclusively to viewing, making, and learning about contemporary art. The Art Center is accredited by the American Association of Museums and welcomes over 60,000 visitors annually.

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

Joanne Mattera Art Blog: Textility

Inhabiting Geometry is the first major exhibition of the work of the visionary architect and theorist Anne Tyng. Since the 1950s, when she worked closely with Louis I. Kahn and independently pioneered habitable space-frame architecture, Tyng has applied natural and numeric systems to built forms on all scales, from urban plans to domestic spaces. This exhibition features room size models of the five platonic solids (the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron). Identified in ancient times, the platonic solids are the only regular equilateral and equiangular polyhedra. These forms can be found in nature, such as in the structure of crystals. The installation, together with archival material, illustrates the synthesis of Tyng’s life-long research on advanced geometry and how she derives her own built forms through the symmetries, orders, and dynamic progressions by which one form in geometry becomes another.

January 20 – April 17, 2011

Reception: Jan. 20, 4:30 – 7 pm, (artist’s panel, 7 – 8 pm)

(curated by Virginia Butera) Jonathan Allmaier, Patricia Bender, Robert Bohn, Collette Broeders, Carrie Crow and John Greiner, Bill Davis, Joseph Farbrook, Lesley Flanigan, Adel Gorgy, Meredith Re’ Grimsley, Industry of the Ordinary (Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson), Marty Jonas, Patti Jordan, Meg Klim, Liz Lee (Lake View, So Yoon Lym, Claire Marcus, Christina Massey, Gail Morrison-Hall, Jen Pepper, Tristan Perich, Mary Pinto, Debra Ramsay, Susan Reedy, Rocco Scary, Karen Shaw, Sam Smith, Jamie Marie Waelchli, Ken Weathersby, Mark Wojcik, Jing Zhou, Sue Zwick

“Visual Phrasing” is part of a four-part project combining art, music, dance and poetry collectively called “The Phrase in Art”.

It is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

In Half, Twice- White on White with Orange, 12inches x 13 inches, various papers, thread, pins.

well…and a little string.

The surface area of the square has been divided in half two times, each half defined by the layer of paper cut on the diagonal. The thread draws spatial relationships between the layers. The pins were placed at specific points, the course of the thread to the points was random, never going to the same pin twice.

Homage to A Spider, Wax, graphite on handmade paper, 12 inches sq, 2010

I’m delighted to inform you that my work is now included in the flat files at MINUS SPACE Gallery in Brooklyn. I hope you have the opportunity to visit this unique space.

The Work on Paper section of this website will give you a preview of the work in their flat files.

The Brooklyn based gallery mounts solo and group exhibitions of pioneering emerging and established American and international artists. It is the only venue of its kind in the United States, and one of only a handful of comparable spaces on the international level dedicated to reductive art. In addition MINUS SPACE has a comprehensive website: MINUSSPACE.com