Process: An IGCA member video compilation celebrating our community's ingenuity, craftsmanship, and creativity.
Artists include: Christina A. Barber, PhD, Mandy Bernard, Joe Carr, Sally Carr, Michael Conti, Maxine Fekete, AnneKathrin Hansen, Meghan Holtan, Tracy Irsik, Yulia Kalagaeva, Sharine Kirchoff, Carol Lambert, Emily Longbrake, Linda Lucky, Jacob Paiz, Tami Phelps, Gayla Ranf, Susan Joy Share, Adrienne Stohr, Sharon Trager, Owen Tucker, and Jen Wang.
The Forager | Lara McAllister
Still from The Forager by Lara McAllister, 02:48
NOVEMBER 2023
DEEP SOUTH MEDIA GALLERY
The Forager | Lara McAllister
Here we focus on the fluidity of life and death: depicting a lone forager in the woods and her surprising harvest. Shocking visuals playfully juxtaposed by calming, ethereal music illustrates the complex paradoxical relationship between life and death. To live one must consume death.
Continuous Line, Noise of the Water & Summertime | Darwin Estacio Martinez
JUNE 2023
NORTH AND SOUTH GALLERIES
Continuous Line, Noise of the Water & Summertime | Darwin Estacio Martinez
Darwin Estacio Martinez was born in 1982, in Manzanillo, Cuba; he is a graduate from the Professional Academy of Fine Arts "El Alba" in Holguin city, and also is a graduate from the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana. He is professor at the National Fine Arts Academy (San Alejandro), and has had an extensive artistic career having participated exhibitions across Cuba and other countries around the world. Images of his works have been included in several publications and many of his artworks belong to private collections in and outside of the Island.
My paintings and videos are intended to embody general ideas through fragments and details that allude to a chain of actions that are maintained only in a speculative and interpretive level. For me, nothing happens except what an observer is able to infer. The use of the human figure removed from any individual reference helps me focus on personality archetypes. I use each figure as a kind human being type. I want to achieve in the medium of cinema the effect I achieve in my painting and paradoxically to create within my paintings that which I have captured in film.
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Nordic Light and Darkness | Kim Jansson and Josefine Östberg Olsson
JANUARY 2021
NORTH GALLERY
Nordic Light and Darkness | Kim Jansson and Josefine Östberg Olsson
Working across video and fabrics Nordic Light and Darkness, the two Swedish based artists first show together, revolve around this sort of situation-based logic, where both the landscape and cars works as amplifiers of the situation. In this exhibition through act of cleaning an internal combustion engine and a hunt for the first Sun after the polar night.
Statement from the artists:
We wanted to go to Alaska to experience and inhale the logic woven into the car launch event in Glacier View on 4th of July. Twice these last two years, we’ve booked plane tickets, both times it was cancelled. First time due to a financial crisis on a personal level, and the second was due to Covid19. The starting point of our now two-year long collaboration was this event in Glacier View, with the monumental Alaskan landscape as backdrop, and the name Glacier View, setting the mood, concept and title. Then... cars flying through the sky... Like the final scene in Thelma and Louise (1991), on repeat.
Josefine Östberg Olsson holds an MA degree in Fine Art, Valand Academy (2016). Östberg Olsson works mainly through performance and has exhibited at several galleries in Sweden and is represented in collections both in Sweden and internationally.
In Fluid and Dirt, a series of digitally printed fabrics, the motifs have emerged through the physical act of thoroughly cleaning a V8 engine, a performance by Östberg Olsson that lasted for 4 days, through layers of dirt, engine oil, gearbox oil, and other car-related liquids. The cloths have later been printed digitally on textiles, creating the distance needed from smell and stickiness to turn the motifs into images, resulting in abstract landscapes of darkness and light on cotton cloth, images of a heart-breaking goodbye, when she decided never to drive a combustion engine again.
Östberg Olsson writes: “Feeling a roaring V8 setting off at full speed gives me goosebumps, and through my performance practice I have, until now, driven a V8 engine many times. For me it’s about desire, a desire for risk-taking at full speed, all summed up in the car...”
Kim Jansson is a video based artist and holds a BFA degree in Fine Art, Valand Academy (2016). Her short documentary The Family Farm has been shown at several international film festivals including Anchorage International Film Festival in 2019.
Driven by a deep interest in traveling to remote places in the north, Kim Jansson has travelled by sea to the fishing village Berlevåg in the Arctic part of Norway. In Jansson’s video From Darkness, the viewer meets the sun after its return from the long-lasting polar nigh. A short glimpse of the sun is visible, as it emerges from behind the clouds.
Jansson writes; “Last winter I went on a five-day boat journey to Berlevåg. I wanted a slow way of travel, allowing me to adapt to the changes of the landscape along the Norwegian coast. I had a strong wish to be in Berlevåg when the sun came back after the polar night, as its breaking out of the dark. A manifestation of the polarities between light and darkness. This is as far as one can get on the Scandinavian mainland, it really feels like being at the end of the world.”