Tick - Tock
Opening: August 4th, 2011 at 6pm
Date: August 4th – September 12nd, 2011
Artist-in-Residence, Alex Nichols from San Francisco, will present new work created within a small time frame at ArtMill this summer.
Danny Shain exhibits years of collected exhibition invitations, now painted and layered into collages.
Maggie Sather is a recent graduate from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
New York performance artist Larry Litt will challenge the plastic waste of traditional art openings in his "Steel Cups Carry" live performance at the opening.
Hawaii art contest winners
Installation by Kristyna and Marek Milde „In Tree Net“ extended until September 1.
Alex Nichols
Artist-in-Residence, Alex Nichols from San Francisco, will present new work created within a small time frame at ArtMill this summer.
Danny Shain
Stacks
„I have composed these pieces from stacks of cards: cards I have saved, painted and drawn on in a practice that is nearing a decade. The raw material are gallery announcements, first my own and later others,that I would paint and draw on, treating the cards as pages from a sketchbook. As the cards developed into little paintings they would be relegated to a different stack.
Over the years, I would draw cards from those stacks and compose larger works. The intersection these cards create often evoke grander spaces. Each composition modulated the effect of a single card, and that effect is multiplied by the number of cards aligned. The cards echo one another in a complex collision, and those reverberate in newly imagined ways. Each card working at its edge, trying to express an underling unity gains strength in its new alignment and unforseen junctions are realized.
The paintings, and the compositions are colored by my interest in the urban landscape, the influence of Abstract Expressionism, and the collision of chance and intent that embodies and shapes them both.“
Maggie Sather
Maggie Sather is a recent graduate from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
In-Tree-Net
The project In-Tree-Net engages the dilemma between systems of Nature and artificial architectural structures. It investigates the influence of architecture on the understanding of Nature. It follows the phenomena of a new special kind of species: “Homo Interius” a contemporary human, who spends most of its life inside of a white cube separated from the influence of the surrounding environment. Despite of the unlimited access to a flood of information, his relationship to his immediate surroundings and the environmental context is blurred and disconnected. Ultimately this alienated perspective towards Nature has consequences for today’s ecology.
In-Tree-Net is based on an interior setting, which as such seems not to be influenced by Nature. The site-specific installation is made out of trees and branches mounted on the walls resembling pipes and wires of engineering systems that bring vital functions into the buildings. Trees and their complex interconnection present in the ecosystem of the woods are here reduced to a rigid model of a machine representing the mechanistic approach towards Nature. Pipes which architecture usually attempts to cover in order to create an intact environment are here revealed to bring the outside inside pointing to the environmental dependency of the seemingly independent interior environment.
In-Tree-Net critically approaches a culturally contingent understanding of the nature of Nature, which produces perspective, that nature as such has borders, a beginning and its end, similar to architecture and urbanism. Nature here is an element that penetrates not only the walls, but also crosses artificial borders, that divide landscape without a context, cutting through the mountains and rivers. In the In-Tree-Net the organic systems represent an idea of bringing closer the nature and the way of its estranged perception, implying a reconnection of the fragmented environment to a whole.
Larry Litt
Larry Litt is a New York City born, international artist working with performance, video and photography. His art-shamanic rituals are created to address historical and contemporary political and social issues while suggesting how to change or strengthen the natural world around and within us. He has performed around the world in numerous prestigious venues. For Galerie Califia he'll be performing an environmental ritual titled, “Steel Cup Carry” which is dedicated to reducing the world’s waste paper and discarded plastic. Based on the South Indian thali, this ritual reminds us that a cleaner world is possible if we want it.
Since 2001 Litt has written and produced 30 short films as part of his The Blame Show series. These films satirically examine everything from September 11th apocalyptic politics to religious hypocrisy and the global oil crisis. The videos were seen on Time-Warner cable television from 2005 to 2007.
Larry Litt is represented by MagnanMetz Gallery in Chelsea NYC
Hawaii art contest winners
The United Nations Safe Planet Campaign is running international art contests via Art Dialogue to help eliminate the plastic bag, which is a major polluter in the ocean environment. In Hawai'i, the contest reached over 40,000 youth statewide, with 7 winners getting to show their designs at Califia this summer, plus a tour of the Sea Dragon research vessel when it pulled into Honolulu last June.
Teacher Lucy Sanders with two winners from her class at Mid-Pac, Honolulu
Photogalleries
In Tree Net The opening The exhibition
