Electric Works presents
In the Project Space
Left to Swoon
September 10 – October 16, 2010
Artist Reception: Friday, September 17, 6-8 PM
In Left to Swoon, Elaine Buckholtz explores the interface between light, architecture, and painting in her collaborative installation with Ana Teresa ... Read more
Electric Works presents
In the Project Space
Left to Swoon
September 10 – October 16, 2010
Artist Reception: Friday, September 17, 6-8 PM
In Left to Swoon, Elaine Buckholtz explores the interface between light, architecture, and painting in her collaborative installation with Ana Teresa Fernandez. Her fascination with light has a long history and in her first installation at Electric Works she will explore light as an ephemeral phenomenon and intervention to unmask hidden aspects of architectural forms in relation to painting. Left To Swoon will explore the collision between space, image, movement, and light. What can happen when a painting is put into motion in reflective surfaces that quietly distort image, translating it back into an abstraction of moving light and activating it through a time based medium. Creating quiet light spectacles that activate the negative spaces and interfaces in architectural sites is at the center of what motivates Buckholtz’s current body of work.
Audio artist, Floor Vahn, in collabortation with Buckholtz, will add an sound element to the installation, Left to Swoon. Vahn’s sound installations traverse new media, and engage with composition, gesture to sound/image mappings, synthesis techniques, and collaborative improvisation. Her deep interest in music technology and digital art has led to experiments with electronic, classical, non-western music, sound collage and a general investigation into how digital precision and acoustic warmth can complement each other.
Elaine Buckholtz attended The California College Of The Arts on a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from 2002-2004 and received her MFA from Stanford University in 2006. She currently teaches at Mass Art in the Studio For Interrelated Media program in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited at Triple Base Gallery, Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, The Claremont Museum in Southern California, Pierogi Leipzig, Leipzig Germany, The Luggage Store and California College of The Arts in San Francisco, Stanford University, The Wexner Center For The Arts, and Sun Valley Center For The Arts. She has worked as a Lighting and Visual Designer in the Bay Area for 20 years and has also worked with Merce Cunningham and Meredith Monk creating and recreating their visual environments internationally.
Belgian born, South African raised artist Floor Vahn lives and works in San Francisco and began her musical training at the age of five, studying violin and viola in South Africa. She attended the Kunsthumaniora in Belgium, and studied electro-acoustic music at Brooklyn College, New York.
