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Conor McGrady & Roberto Visani in Full Spectrum Dominance February 24
Conor McGrady and Roberto Visani, both past Workspace residents, will be featured in Full Spectrum Dominance at Miami's Carol Jazzar, starting February 24.
The exhibit runs through April 22.
Date & Time:
Opening Reception:
Friday, February 24, 2012, 7-10pm
Location:
Carol Jazzar
158 NW 91 Street
Miami, FL 33150
For more information regarding the exhibit, visit the Carol Jazzar website, or call (305) 490-6906.
Full Spectrum Dominance is a two-person exhibition featuring drawings by McGrady and sculptures by Visani, both Brooklyn-based artists. This will be the first exhibit at the gallery for both artists who will be in attendance for the opening reception on Friday, February 24th, 2012.
Full Spectrum Dominance considers the manifestation of dominance in global politics. Through the use of reductive strategies and familiar icons, both artists reveal distinct elements of the economic, cultural and political brutalities that surround us. Visani's sculptures make direct reference to these phenomena by articulating the primary physical instrument of conquest and revolution, the gun. His transformation of weapons into art objects inverts the violence associated with them into calls for cultural adaptation and empowerment. McGrady's works depict groups of quasi-uniformed men engaged in acts of planning, or performing social rituals as a unit. Their sense of cohesion or individual hubris can be read as a bulwark against an unseen enemy, or collective triumph over unseen victims.
Visani started his now extensive series of guns after living in Ghana, West Africa in the late 90's. Created using found objects and unconventional materials, his sculptures recontextualize guns as totems of cultural, political and historical efficacy through the use of symbolism and improvisation.
Visani holds a BFA from Mankato State University, MN and a MFA from the University of Michigan, MI. Since 1998, Visani has shown his works extensively in museums and galleries throughout the US and abroad, including The New Museum, NY, Barbican Gallery in London, England, The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, The Bronx Museum, NY and The Ghana National Museum in Accra, Ghana.
McGrady's drawings focus on the role of authority in contemporary society. Executed in black gouache and surrounded by expanses of white space, these works examine the relationship between ideology, individual and collective psychology, and conceptions of spatial control.
McGrady holds a BA from the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. McGrady has shown his works extensively since 1994 throughout the US and Europe and was part of the 2002 Whitney Museum Biennial.
