In the Year 2000
January 22 – March 8, 2013
Reception: Friday, January 25, 5 – 7 pm
Moudy Gallery
Moudy Building North
2805 S. University Drive
Fort Worth, TX 76129
Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday, 11 am – 4 pm, Saturday 1 – 4 pm
Moudy
Gallery presents “In the Year 2000,” a new-media and contemporary
printmaking exhibition with work by Annie Bissett, Andrew DeCaen, Joshua
Penrose, Austin Stewart, S.W.A.M.P., and Sang Mi-Yoo. These artists
incorporate progressive technologies in their practice (including but
not limited to: 3D printing, custom software development, interactive
video projects, explosives, microprinted documents, wearable
electronics, and robotics), or they utilize long-held traditional
techniques at the service of contemporary social and political artistic
speech. The themes expressed in the exhibition are partly lent by
new-media’s suitable application to a political viewpoint, but they also
speak widely about to our collective memory of expectations of the
future and what it might look like. Often, that vision of the future (or
recent past) is one of environmental degradation, food shortages and
limited global resources, sprawl, economic inequality, and war.
Annie
Bissett (Massachusetts) employs traditional Japanese woodblock printing
(moku hanga or ukiyo-e) to create imagery that conflates the flourished
designs of paper money with language exposing the distance between the
American Dream and the reality of the 99%.
Andrew
DeCaen (Texas) creates prints and three-dimensional constructions with
imagery that layers the social aspects of eating and sharing meals, an
intimate and vital daily activity, with the ephemera and by-products of a
global industry of food production.
Joshua
Penrose (Ohio), trained in music composition and new media art, develops
bridges between procedural sound art and interactive video
installation. His work may take the form of anything from fermenting
mead (honey-wine) in a gallery to guerilla-installed audio devices at
crosswalks in major cities.
Austin
Stewart (Colorado) is currently portraying a fabricated character he
calls “The Militant Gardener,” wherein his work explores the way that
modern devices of destruction or warfare can be hacked or controlled for
more “green” purposes. The scope of this work ranges from shotgun
shells filled with wildflower seeds to robotic drones that survey a
barren land looking for prime planting locations.
Sang-Mi
Yoo (Texas) develops patterns in lasercut wool felt and screenprints
based on her memory of the repetitive architectural forms of
standardized residential neighborhoods as they first appeared in her
birthplace of South Korea in the 1970s. Her project explores “how
politics in education and urban planning have influenced our way of
thinking and visual perceptions.”
S.W.A.M.P.
(Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production; Michigan & New
Zealand) is a collaborative entity focused on critical themes addressing
the effects of global corporate operations, mass media and
communication, military-industrial complexes, and general meditations on
the liminal area between life and artificial life. SWAMP has been
making work in this vein since 1999 using a wide range of media,
including custom software, electronics, mechanical devices, and often
times working with living organisms.
