Tracey Moffatt’s video collage, Doomed, edited by Gary Hillberg, features depictions of doom and destruction comprising of the editing of found footage in a highly entertaining and black-humorous take on the collective fear that we have had since biblical times of impending disaster. Moffatt creates her own narrative from the mash-up of these scenes, building tension through an emotive soundtrack.

Janet Nolan makes sculptures from repeated singular objects recycled from the everyday world, such as hundreds of broken umbrellas that she is installing in the space. She has no preconceived sculpture in mind as she accumulates these objects, rather the nature of the object itself suggests content and form. Through experimenting with their physical properties, structures and patterns often emerge which are similar to those basic growth systems found in nature. 

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Corinne Kamiya’s performative piece deals with the desire to recreate some of the generosity of Hawaiian culture in an effort to cope with the somewhat different culture of New York. Gift exchange is an important part of her culture, guests for dinner generally bring a plate of food or a gift. This kind of exchange is built in to their relationships and it reinforces the generosity shown to friends and strangers. She is interested in the relationships that art can form through the remaking of (sometimes) very personal items and how this direct approach opposes and supports her other artistic pursuits that are inherently solitary. Corinne asks you to Trade Your Pants and in exchange for this she will make you a new object such as a hat, bag or apron. She will be doing this in the space on Tues – Thurs from 2 – 6pm.

Biographies

TRACEY MOFFATT

Tracey Moffatt is a leading contemporary visual artist who works in photography, film and video. Some of Moffatt’s photographs and short films have achieved iconic status in her home country of Australia and Internationally. Born in Brisbane in 1960, Moffatt studied visual communications at the Queensland College of Art, from which she graduated in 1982. Since her first solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney in 1989, she has exhibited extensively in museums all over the world. Moffatt first gained significant critical acclaim when her short film Night Cries was selected for official competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Her first feature film, beDevil, was also selected for Cannes in 1993.

Moffatt was selected for the international section of the 1997 Venice Biennale (curated by Germano Celant) and has also featured in the Biennales of Sydney, Sao Paulo (1998) and Gwangju (1995). A major exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York in 1997/98 consolidated her international reputation. In 2003 a large retrospective exhibition of Moffatt’s work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney to record breaking attendances and in 2004 at the Hasselblad Museum in Sweden. In 2006, she had her first retrospective exhibition in Italy, at Spazio Oberdan, Milan. In 2007 her photographic series Scarred For Life was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum and her video LOVE at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. As well in 2007 she was awarded the prestigious Infinity award for art photography selected by an International panel at the International Center of Photography in New York City.  Her photographs play with many different printing processes and have a filmic, narrative quality. Tracey Moffat approaches all her work in the media of photography and video as a film director and she is a powerful visual storyteller.

Janet Nolan

A native of Alabama, Janet Nolan moved to New York City in 1976. Here she began making sculpture from repeated singular objects recycled from the everyday world, such as hundreds of broken umbrellas, wire coat hangers and lost gloves, to thousands of plastic six-pack holders and colorful plastic bottle caps. She has no preconceived sculpture in mind as she accumulates these objects, rather the nature of the object itself suggests a content and form. Through experimenting with their physical properties, structures and patterns often emerge which are similar to those basic growth systems found in nature. 

Exhibitions of her work in New York City include Hunter College, Citibank, Pfizer, Inc., Donnell Library, American Fine Art, Art in General, Dru Arstark Gallery, Livestock Gallery, Bruno Marina Gallery in Brooklyn. On Long Island her work has been shown at Hillwood Art Museum, Islip Art Museum, Dowling College and other venues. Her work is represented by Lesley Heller Gallery in NYC.

Collections of Nolan’s work include two permanent installations commissioned by Harvard University, Auburn University, Georgia State University, PS 58, Brooklyn, The Museum of Modern Art (Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection), Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP.

Corinne Kamiya

Corinne Kamiya  is an emerging artist from Hawaii. She completed a BFA in sculpture at the University of Hawaii in 2004 and a MFA at Mass Art in Boston in 2009. She has exhibited widely in Hawaii and has recently relocated to New York City. She was awarded the Outstanding Student in Sculpture from the University of Hawaii in 2003 and received the Ellen Choy Craig Award in 2009 from The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. Her resume includes everything from gift-wrapper to bike safety instructor to horse feeder to bronze caster to seamstress.

Currently her practice involves trying to restore a sense of familiarity and comfort with the idea of home—wherever that might be. She often gives her delicate paper sculptures as gifts and is interested in how the added layer of giving confers a different sense of obligation upon the viewer; in some way the shared sense of obligation to the work is comforting and restorative. She feels more tangibly tied to her community through these objects as gifts.