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Gema Álava • Emilie Gossiaux • Annie Leist • Anthony Ptak • Gordon Sasaki • Julia Yepez Gema Álava • Emilie Gossiaux • Annie Leist • Anthony Ptak • Gordon Sasaki • Julia Yepez June 22 – July 22, 2017 The Gallery at Industry City dis: three letters that can reverse, revoke, rebuke, rebuff, or perhaps, release social stereotypes. This exhibition of work by the inaugural cohort of Art Beyond Sight’s Art and Disability Institute reflects the diversity of the art that is created under the banner of dis. These artists redefine disability as both a subjective and objective experience. Their personal relationship to disability falls along a broad continuum, as does the relationship of disability to their work. Collectively, they form a cross section of the many ways artists working with and around disability contribute towards broadening conversations on the potential of art. 2 3 Born in Madrid, Spain, Álava now lives and works in New York City. She studied at the Facultad de BBAA de Madrid (BFA), Universidad Complutense (MA, Education); Chelsea College of Art and discreet Design, The London Institute (BFA); Academy of discern Art University (MFA), and at the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, New Genres). discipline Álava’s artwork has been exhibited, presented, disseminate and/or funded by the Ministry of Education of Spain; United Nations; Queens Museum of Art; dissolve Gema Álava Bronx Museum of the Arts; Cervantes Institute; and CUE Art Foundation, NYC; San Francisco Art disperse Institute, SF; Rana Museum, Norway; Margulies Collection, Miami, FL; Jersey City Museum, NJ; distinguish Fundación La Caixa and Fundación Maphre; distilled Museo de la Ciudad de Quito, Ecuador. Her project A Dialogue was selected by Cai-Guo-Qiang distracted and performed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2008. Her project Trust Me was distant selected for MANIFESTA 8 and Berlin Month of Performance Art. She was appointed Cultural Adviser to the World Council of Peoples to the United Nations in 2011. She is represented by Maus Contemporary. 4 5 “My work — in the form of installation, drawing, photography, art projects — deals with what I call “contradictory truths” and the capacity to “create a maximum by reversing a minimum.” My art projects — Gema Álava Gema Álava in the form of dialogues, verbal descriptions, rumors Confía en Mí (Trust Me) (detail) and random encounters — explore notions of trust and 2017 intimacy, and use language as a medium to investigate the interconnections that exist between public, private, An art project by Gema Álava educational, and interpretative aspects of art. Location: Quito, Ecuador Participants: Bln Bike (Belén Some of my interactive art projects have been inspired by Jaramillo), Christian Cerda, and developed with the participation of individuals with Edgar Dávila Soto, Ramiro Díez, disabilities. I am interested in the way people respond Reina Victoria Diez, Lisa Khon, differently to the same situation, and explore this by Fernando López Guevara, Natalia leaving space to interpretation.” Luzuriaga, Susana Nicolalde and Renato Reúl Ulloa Photos by Leslye Guayasamín and Danee Ramón Gema Álava Trust Me 2010 An art project by Gema Álava Location: New York, NY, United States Participants: Ellen Fisher, Mayrav Fisher, Jonathan Goodman, Jessica Higgins, Erika Kawalek, Erika Knerr, Alison Knowles, Ferran Martin, J. Morrison, Gordon Sasaki and J.G. Zimmerman Photos by Jason Schmidt Gema Álava Hexagons 2015 22-carat gold leaf floor installation Dimensions variable 6 7 Emilie Gossiaux is an artist from New Orleans currently living in New York City. She began her undergraduate studies at the Cooper Union School of Art in 2007, but during her senior year, dislocated she lost her sight in a near-fatal traffic accident. displaced After two years of extensive therapy, and regaining her independence, she returned to Cooper Union disembodied to complete her senior year. Gossiaux was the first blind student to graduate from The Cooper dismembered Emilie Union with a BFA in 2014, and was awarded the Elliot Lash Memorial Prize for her excellence in disillusioned Gossiaux sculpture. disenchanted Gossiaux has shown her sculptures and paintings in several art galleries and institutions around the disaster world, including Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in distant London, Storefront Lab in San Francisco, Cantor Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles, 5 Press Gallery disobey in New Orleans, Recess Gallery in New York City, False Flags in Long Island City, the Smithsonian dissolve Institute of Art in Washington, D.C., and in 2017 was represented by False Flags Gallery at the NADA New York City art fair. Gossiaux was accepted into Yale University’s Master of Fine Arts sculpture program, and will begin her graduate studies in the Fall semester of 2017. 8 9 New York City-based artist Emilie Gossiaux works in various mediums, including sculpture, sound art, and social practice. She takes inspiration from memories, her intimate relationships, as well as her interactions Emilie Gossiaux Emilie and experiences in the world without vision. Relying Orange on Blue Gossiaux solely on her sense of touch, Gossiaux makes sculptures 2016 with ceramic, plaster, and papier-mâché, demonstrating a profound sensitivity towards shapes, textures, and Watercolor, materials. Her series of ceramic sculptures use color and plaster and glazed form to play with the mechanisms of visual perception, earthenware trigger memories of sensations, and create abstract, 70 x 30 x 38 inches uncanny associations to the human figure. Gossiaux also incorporates a multi-sensory aspect in her work, with touch, sound, performance, and social practice, that invites the audience to become a part of the work and experience it. Emilie Gossiaux Lemon Gloves Emilie Gossiaux 2017 Brooklyn 2017 Glazed earthenware and acrylic 30 x 24 x 3 inches Terra cotta, plaster and papier-mâché 55 x 16 x 16 inches 10 11 disappear discern disclose disengage Annie Leist is an artist, born and raised in North disorient Annie Leist Carolina, and currently based in New York City. dispel She pursued undergraduate study at Wake Forest University, double-majoring in studio art and disquiet mathematics. As a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar she studied semiotics and cultural theory at Trinity dissolve College in Dublin, Ireland. She went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in visual art from distinguish Rutgers University. Her paintings, inspired by her distort limited visual perception of light and life in urban spaces, can be seen in numerous public and private collections. 12 13 “Crosswalks, sidewalks, intersections, scaffolding — all are manifestations of the physical, social, and psychological architectures of urban spaces. They form a framework around, within, and through which city life and city people flow. I am fascinated by the unwritten Annie Leist rules of public space that maintain, sometimes miraculously, the precarious order of the metropolis and its inhabitants. Cityspace expands and collapses; it can be shaped or distorted by those who pass through it. It hosts simultaneously, paradoxically, countless isolated individuals as well as the single surging organism of the crowd. Artmaking enables me to move through public places on my own terms, a feat that often eludes me in reality, as my personal navigation is mediated by my visual impairment. I am legally blind and lack the depth perception provided by stereo vision. I do have a particular sensitivity to the unruly, deceptive, and beautiful characteristics of space and light, especially where they confront humanity and its need for orderly systems. I use painting, video, photography, and performance to re- envision these locations, to present them in a new way that highlights their ambiguity and fleeting grace, elements so often overlooked in the Annie Leist daily rush of human routine.” Beacons: Red Hand 5 2008 Oil on canvas 37 x 48 inches Annie Leist Revolving Door 2 2010 Annie Leist Oil on canvas Beacons: Red Hand 6 20 x 24 inches 2010 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches 14 15 Anthony Ptak is an interaction designer, artist, performer, and composer based in New York City. He received his BA in media studies/cultural criticism from SUNY Buffalo in 1992 and an MPS from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications dissonance Program (ITP) in 2010. He has studied with Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, Peter Campus, Lydia Kavina, disorientation and Herbert Brün, and had technical consultations with Robert Moog. Between 2000-2007, he was a disagreement Anthony guest theremin artist under director Scott Wyatt at the historic Experimental Music Studios (EMS) distance Ptak at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. disambiguation He has presented his works at SEAMUS Society for ElectroAcoustic Music in the United States, disassembly School of the Art Institute, Chicago Cultural Center, St. Louis Art Museum, Institute for distillation Advanced Study Princeton, Roulette Intermedium, the Kitchen, the Stone, Galapagos Art Space, distortion Chelsea Art Museum, and Issue Project Room disapprove in New York City and at NIME Sydney, 2010. He performed at the First International Theremin Festival and is a founding member of the New York Theremin Society. In 2007, Ptak’s son was born with Down syndrome. In 2011, Ptak was diagnosed with primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma (brain cancer). The pair experiments with ways to create art together; both have become visible and vocal advocates for individuals with disabilities. 16 17 “My goals as an artist are to promote acceptance of differences and to design a society that allows for empathy and degrees of freedom
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