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A SERIES OF SYMBOLS AND INTERPRETATIONS
DATES
May 16 - June 7, 2008
CURATED BY
Dan Lowe & Monica Yoo
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, May 16 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
GALLERY TALK:
Saturday, May 31 at 12:00 noon
GALLERY HOURS:
Thursday - Saturday 12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Closing Day: Saturday, June 7 12:00 - 8:00 p.m.
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Memory is like a dense hedgerow of shrubbery. Seemingly solid, continuous and impenetrable, we often discover with closer looks that there are unseen gaps that may allow passage from one realm of consciousness to the next. Artists Dan Lowe and Monica Yoo know of such things. A Series of Symbols and Interpretations, their bemisUNDERGROUND show which opens on Friday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., is an exploration that breaks through the fortress of memory as interactions and communications, both visible and invisible, draw the viewer into an examination of how we swallow and digest some experiences on the run while we contemplate and compartmentalize others for easy recall at a later time.
Visible experiences, those that one can hang on to without conscious effort of any kind, include our handling and consumption of tactile objects like cards, letters or videos. The invisible, often made even more so by their apparent fleetingness or insignificance, may include conversations or even the random musings that fire in our minds as synapses endlessly spark and sputter for no particular reason. Both types of experiences, each laden with myriad symbols and interpretations are the stimuli that shape who we are, how we think and how we interact with others, with the world around us and, yes, even with ourselves.
Eight installations draw on video, audio, text and other fabrications in varied works that range from the passive to the interactive and from the obvious to the elusive. Eat words, tread through passages, unwind narratives as images (found, imagined and random) flicker on multiple video screens as these means, methods and modes of communication speak to the gauzy vapors of memory in compelling and deeply personal works.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Dan Lowe’s Introducing Woody Allen was featured in the video-centric Signal Channel exhibition at the Bemis Center in 2006 and the recent BFA graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and lives in Omaha, NE.
Monica Yoo will be a spring 2008 BFA graduate at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The former president of the school’s Organization for the Advancement of the Arts and the UNO Film Society, Yoo aims to continue her focus on sculpture with the pursuit of a graduate degree. |
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