February 2, 2014, 1:00-2:30 pm Awash A curator/artist conversation with curator, Jill Conner & artist, Blane De St. Croix Seating will be limited | RSVP to [email protected] As a result of Hurricane Sandy, Blane De St. Croix’s studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn was flooded with 6 feet of water that destroyed all contents: art on paper, materials, tools, equipment and publications. The cause of this effect has been the muse of De St. Croix’s art for many years most notably with installations such as Broken Landscape, that debuted at Smack Mellon in 2009 before appearing in 2010 at the gallery of Future Arts Research, located in Pheonix, Arizona and currently at San Antonio’s Blue Star Gallery, which will be on view through February 16th, 2014. Blane De St. Croix will address the impact of Hurricane Sandy upon his artistic practice, highlighting his multilayered approach to creating renditions of environmental issues as they relate to individuals, communities, bureaucracies and larger government bodies. Blane De St. Croix is Professor of Sculpture at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University. He lives and works in New York City. De St. Croix’s work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally, in solo and group shows. Blane De St. Croix has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Select awards include: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors; The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant; The West Collection Prize; The MassArt Alumni Award for Outstanding Creative Accomplishment; and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture. He is currently represented by Fredericks & Freiser Gallery in New York City. Jill Conner is an art critic and curator based in New York City. She is founder of AS | ARTISTS STUDIOS and a Board Member of AICA-USA. She has been a Visiting Critic to Art OMI and the LMCC, and is also the New York Editor of Whitehot Magazine, Editor of On-Verge as well as a contributor to Afterimage, Art in America, Interview Magazine, Performance Art Journal and Sculpture Magazine.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:40:30 +0000
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