5th Annual Curators' Incubator Program
Sep 11 - Oct 13, 2007
Friday, September 28:
Gallery Talk 6pm;
Reception 7pm
‹ works by Michael Scoggins
Now in its fifth year, the Curators’ Incubator program provides new and emerging curators with an opportunity to curate an exhibition at MAP. Through a competitive two-phase application process, a small number of curators are selected each year to work with members of MAP’s Program Advisory Committee and strengthen their proposals in preparation for an exhibition within MAP’s galleries. Emerging curators are assisted in all major facets of the curatorial process, including receiving mentorship in their writing as they prepare for publication in a Curators’ Incubator catalogue.
This Year's Exhibitions:
Objects of Adoration, curated by Rachel Bradley, explores the modes and techniques of exaltation from medieval and renaissance era religious art as they influence and inform art today. Inspired by the relics of the churches in Italy and Northern Europe, Objects of Adoration brings together five artists from across the US to contemplate the need to destroy reality in order to worship its image, transforming a bone into an artifact or a celebrity into a saint. Participating Artists include: Marc Burckhardt, Luca Dipierro, John Grider, Chehalis Hegner, and Nicholas Kashian.
Memory Works, curated by Dylan Hay, is an investigation into the process of recollection and how narratives distort over time. As the instability of memory reveals itself to be a basic fact of the human condition, we are forced to re-examine our relationship to the past, constantly recalling, reassessing, and remaking our world on the basis of what we find there. Employing a range of tactics in a variety of forms and contexts, the artists featured in this exhibition expose technologies, confront personal traumas, and rewrite histories in an attempt to undermine the notion that there is ever one story, one meaning, one certain truth. In doing so, they lay bare the possibilities and range of experience essential to the continued unfolding of an always uncertain future. The artists in the exhibition include: Miranda Bushey, Julia Dzwonkoski, Harrell Fletcher, Chiara Giovando, Dietrich-Oliver Delrieu-Schulze, Michael Scoggins, and Brian Willmont.
The six artists included in anti-matter: recontextualizing the material, curated by Bryan Leister and Susan K. Serafin, all use materials in an individualistic way that emphasizes process, instability and familiarity. The incorporation of high and low materials by artists represents a shift in attitudes towards the conventional that is culturally significant and personal at the same time. The work of Suzanna Fields, Helen Frederick, Alberto Gaitán, Morgan Kennedy, Susan Noyes, and Jennie Thwing are representative of how artists are searching for new interpretations and meanings from common materials. Through recombinant technology, whether digitally based or not, these artists reflect a yearning for familiar ground in a changing landscape.
