Past Exhibitions in the Gallery
The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House
An exhibition by Mary Mattingly
On view: July 15 - August 14
Opening Reception: Saturday July 16, 3-5PM
Hours: Friday-Sunday, 12-5PM
LMCC is pleased to present The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House, an exhibition that examines the urgency and cyclicality of urban development and proposes building for a time when migration and adaptable forms of habitation are a necessary and standard part of city life. This exhibition poses the question: What will our built environment look like when we live in a city where boundaries are flexible?
The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House probes into a social sculpture - an autonomous Micronation that will traverse New York City on a choreographed journey. Beginning by constructing the tools to make the materials, Flock House is created from abandoned vehicles dredged up from the New York waterways that have been formed into a recycled building material. It proposes experiments in compact, migratory living: interdependent, collaborative journeys.
Floating World
On View September 10 – October 10, 2010
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 12, 3-5PM
LMCC is pleased to present Floating World, a group exhibition of works created by the visual artists-in-residence in the inaugural session of Swing Space in Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island. Each of the artists who participated in this residency session has been influenced by their time on the Island, as well as the daily voyage there and back. The collection of works presented in Floating World will reveal the artists’ diverse processes from photography to video to sculpture and installation. Some work directly interprets aspects of the landscape, the seascape, the architecture, topography, and history of the Island, while other work demonstrates the exciting response to an intense period of time in-residence on this “floating world.”
Featuring: Jae Hi Ahn, Rachel Bacon, Jessica Bruah, David Colosi, Jessica Feldman, Jenn Figg and Matthew McCormack, The Friendly Falcons and Their Friend the Snake (Jeffrey Kurosaki and Tara Pelletier), Moo Kwon Han, Wojciech Gilewicz, GH Hovagimyan, Intake Manifold/Ouida Biddle, The Shining Mantis (Ernest Concepcion and Mike Estabrook), Sungmi Lee, Sunghee Pae, Birgit Rathsmann, Larry Shea, Hidemi Takagi, Work Progress Collective, Chin Chih Yang, and Maeung Gyun You.
Floating World is curated by Erin Donnelly and Melissa Levin.
Searching For Something Previously Unknown or Forgotten on Governors Island, an exhibition by Matthew Jensen
On View July 23 – August 29, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 24, 3–5PM
Matthew Jensen’s project Searching For Something Previously Unknown or Forgotten on Governors Island combines landscape photography, collections of artifacts found lying in plain sight, video, and installation to reconnect the Island back to New York City. His images will index overgrown lots and put inaccessible areas back into public view. The work will be shown along with his ongoing project Nowhere In Manhattan, which uses the classical idea of wonderment when exploring the last parcels of “nowhere” throughout the borough.
Yes, Honey, you can bounce back and forth, and you are a bit closer to it
an installation by Jongil Ma
June 5 – July 11, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 5, 3–5PM
Jongil Ma’s room-sized installation, Yes, Honey, you can bounce back and forth, and you are a bit closer to it, engages LMCC’s gallery space in Building 110 on Governors Island and transforms it into colorful mental maps that reference bridges, airport structures, and factory buildings as seen from multiple perspectives. Thin wooden strips of various lengths and types, both colored and uncolored, are flexed, twisted, bundled and arched in unique response to the space, recalling the raw beauty of modern industrial engineering. The enormous physical pressure and tension inherent in the graceful curved lines, delicate joineries, and various forms of manmade structures speaks to the fragile nature of human relationships, and conversely to the balance of nature.
Jongil Ma received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2002. He has participated in public art projects sponsored by the Ministry of Culture & Tourism of Korea in Kwangju and Damyang respectively. He had a solo exhibition at Roger Smith Hotel Gallery in Manhattan and is participating in Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows at Jamaica Center For Arts & Learning in Queens. His work has been featured in international exhibitions including the 2009 International Incheon Women Artist’s Biennale in Korea and he will participate in the upcoming Lodz Biennale 2010 in Poland. His awards have included the INC Visual Arts Award from the AHL Foundation and a Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park.
Jongil Ma’s installation is supported by the AHL Foundation.
