Exhibition Dates: December 1, 2006 – January 6, 2007
Adrienne Garbini’s Collated and Reticulated in the Gulf +Western Gallery, Department of Photography and Imaging
The Department of Photography and Imaging is pleased to announce the opening of Adrienne Garbini’s installation Collated and Reticulated. Garbini is the inaugural recipient of the Constantiner Fellowship Award, which was established in 2005 by the art collectors Leon and Michaela Constantiner. With the support of this grant, artist Adrienne Garbini has created a multi-part installation entitled Collated and Reticulated. The installation includes book art, sculpture, works on paper, and a film.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is a single edition book entitled Collate. The book is composed of gleaned and repurposed materials, and thematically focuses on Garbini’s interest in the evidence, expression, and organization of time. There is a reoccurring grid throughout the work that deals with externalizing the underlying basic repeated structure of constructed environments and systems. The installation also includes: a film documenting the process of making Collate; the sculptural piece Book System, a large-scale grid composed of discarded and reconstructed books, which taken together, represent one year of accumulation; and Fake Book, a work comprising 30 wooden books.
The opening reception will be December 1, 2006 from 6-8pm, in the Gulf & Western Gallery (rear of lobby) located at 721 Broadway. The installation will remain on view through January 6, 2007 in the Gulf + Western Gallery (rear of lobby) located at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. The exhibition is open to the public, and admission is free. A photo I.D. is required when entering the building. (Please note: The building will be closed from December 23 through January 2, 2007.)
For further information, call 212.998.1930, or e-mail photo.tisch@nyu.edu. For more information on the artist, please visit www.adriennegarbini.com.
Leon and Michaela Constantiner are photography collectors interested in supporting young artists. Their collection of Marilyn Monroe photographs were recently exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum.
Artist's Statement
"I am interested in the evidence, expression, and organization of time. I use stitching to embed time into lines, and to set my process at an intentionally slow and methodically metered pace. I see the book as a temporal object, containing a tactile and time-based system of spaces. I experiment with book forms to focus on the logic of progression, and to both deconstruct and solidify linear arrangements. I am driven by the impulse to grid and delineate, and the reoccurring grid in my work deals with externalizing the underlying basic repeated structure of constructed environments and systems. I work with found and repurposed materials, and rely on their accumulation to set the parameters of my projects. I am interested in the embedded time in material objects, whether visually apparent or implied. The objects that result from the intersection of these interests are meant to be tactile and multi-faceted, with evidence of compulsion, deterioration, and the dominance of systemized logic."
