Exhibition

New YorkTranslated Cities

January 22 – February 21, 2015

Dannielle Tegeder

Dannielle Tegeder

Machine Plan Mobile with Universe Plan with Chemical Silver Suspended City with Classification of Color and Shape and Language, 2014

Wire Mobile

Copper, stainless steel, stained glass and ceramic

32 x 22 x 17 in

Dannielle Tegeder

Dannielle Tegeder

Yellow Segment with Shapes, 2015

Acrylic, ink, color pencil on board on Birch

48 x 48 in

Dannielle Tegeder

Dannielle Tegeder

Yellow Segment, 2011

Collaged acrylic paint on raw linen

26 x 36 in

Dannielle Tegeder

Dannielle Tegeder

Armita Raafat

Armita Raafat

Untitled 3, 2013

Resin, plastic, mesh, mirrors, paint,

sumi ink

21 x 7 x 45 in

Armita Raafat

Armita Raafat

Untitled 3, 2013 (Detail)

Resin, plastic, mesh, mirrors, paint,

sumi ink

21 x 7 x 45 in

Shara Hughes

Shara Hughes

Harvest Moon, 2013

Oil and acrylic on canvas

14 x 17 in

Shara Hughes

Shara Hughes

Banana Stand, 2014

Oil enamel spray paint and acrylic on

canvas

32 x 36 in

Austin Eddy

Austin Eddy

AE1. Untitled, 2014

Cut paper, burlap, linen, cardboard,

bleach, charcoal, acrylic, oil on raw canvas

19 x 23 in

Hilda Shen

Hilda Shen

Sky Square, 2010

Paper, ink, wax, print

67 x 70 in

Hilda Shen

Hilda Shen

Stand, 2014

Stoneware, glaze

9 x 5 x 15 in

Hilda Shen

Hilda Shen

Stand, 2014 (Detail)

Stoneware, glaze

9 x 5 x 15 in

Hilda Shen

Hilda Shen

Stack, 2014

Porcelain, glaze

7 x 5 x 7 in

Hilda Shen

Hilda Shen

Brick, 2012

Porcelain, glaze

4 x 7 x 3 in

Isidro Blasco

Isidro Blasco

BUSHWICK, 2014 (Detail)

C-Print, wood, acid free museum board

40 x 40 x 7 in

Isidro Blasco

Isidro Blasco

BUSHWICK, 2014

C-Print, wood, acid free museum board

40 x 40 x 7 in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Manuel Acevedo

Manuel Acevedo

World Trade Center: Tropism Series, 2007

Twenty drawings on Instant color film

(See separate sheet for details on each)

3 ½ x 4 ¼ in

Press Release

Manuel Acevedo, Isidro Blasco, Austin Eddy, Shara Hughes, Armita Raafat, Hilda Shen, and Dannielle Tegeder

Guest curator Natalia Nakazawa brings together seven artists who examine the potential of the city beyond the systemic. These artists interpret the city through the lenses of invisible structures, imagined spaces, and reconstruction, offering insights into urban navigation and understanding. The architect or city planner conceives structural ideas pertaining to the organization of systems, contending with the flow of data and materials as they pass overhead and below in the form of cellular signals, pipelines, aerial property lines, and miles of structural steel. But the element of the individual is distinctly absent. How do we locate the human body in the urban scale? Individual bodies link various architectural schemes and vistas through perception and passage. We look to artists to translate this lived experience into new forms through fantasy, perceptivity and reconfigurations of the real.

Dannielle Tegeder builds on the afterimage of the city through painting and hanging constructions. She creates complex relationship with urban systems resulting in synesthetic maps that are at once highly personal and structural.  Hilda Shen works from an intimate scale: the relationship of her body to the built environment. In her large collages and small ceramics, Shen’s work invites a bodily response from viewers imagining themselves within the conceived scale.

Manuel Acevedo draws over Polaroid photos of the empty site of the World Trade Center. These intimate and grand images inhabited a space between architecture, sculpture, and fantasy. Painter Shara Hughes playfully collapses exterior and interior into compositions that remind us of the density of lived spaces. Objects, rooms, and landscapes melt into one another, facilitated by spastic colors and distorted remnants of domestic living.  Austin Eddy creates sculpture and abstract painting that entangle the human and awkward within urban materiality and structure.

Isidro Blasco uses digital photography to combine elements of architecture, landscape, and human movement. Utilizing wood slats and digital images, Blasco then creates sculptural installations that expand his vision into physical space.Armita Raafat translates stories (both historical and autobiographical) and uses modules of Muqarnas as her building blocks to create three-dimensional compositions grounded in modern abstraction. Raafat casts elements over and over, layering them into fractured patterns that emerge from the wall.

Translated Cities is on view January 22 through February 21th, 2015. A printed catalog, featuring the work of each artist along with essays composed by Natalia Nakazawa and Chloe Bass, accompanies the exhibition. Catalog design by Deric Carner.

Guest Curator Natalia Nakazawa is the Assistant Director of EFA Studios, an arts educator at the Museum of Arts & Design and has an active art practice working in painting and installation.