COCA 22nd Annual Exhibition
From December 29, 2011 – March 18, 2012, CoCA will present its 22nd Annual Exhibition, juried each year by a guest artist/curator.
Opening Reception, Live Announcement of Prize Winners: Thursday, December 29, 2011 6p – 9p
With submissions from 14 countries world-wide and 21 states, the 22nd Annual clearly captures a global sense of contemporary art. Ranging from fiber to painting, photography, video, installation, sound, sculpture, and new media, the exhibition presents a diversity of materials and approaches that cumulatively reflect a certain restlessness with representation. In the work of these 16 artists, audiences can observe a collective effort to broaden the meaning of identity, memory, time and history at a cultural moment of great economic uncertainty.
For this year’s 22nd anniversary of the show, CoCA is proud to have Gary Hill as juror:
Gary Hill, one of the pioneers of video art, he has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide (Artfacts 2007). He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.
An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C. Morgan was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999.
Gary Hill’s work is especially significant due to his incorporation of text in video art, evident in works such as Incidence of Catastrophe 1977-78. Hill began working with video, text and sound in 1973. He was influenced by the intellectual orientation of conceptual art which dominated art of the 1970s. His reading of the writings of Maurice Blanchot, in particular, provided him with ideas relating to the way in which language impinges on phenomenological experience, and a notion of ‘the other’ stemming from the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas. Such reading informs Hill’s visual-poetic explorations of the interrelationships between language, image, identity, and the body. For example in Cabin Fever he uses the binary opposition of light and darkness to convey the notion of an interaction between a self and an ‘other’.[1] He has also explored immersive environments, as seen in his 1992 piece Tall Ships.
Hill’s work thoroughly exploits the capacity of video to offer complex nonlinear narratives that encourage active engagement on the part of the viewer. In Roland Barthes’ terms, Hill’s video narratives can be understood as ‘writerly’ texts.
Finalist:
Sabe Lewellyn
Seattle, Washington
“with finger vision”
Acrylic on panel with found objects, 45″x15″x4″, 2010
“superman dam fool”
Acrylic on panel with found objects, 40″x31″x4″, 2011
Julia Oldham
Eugene, Oregon
“Antimatter Twin”
HD video, 2011, 9:50
Sean Johnson
Seattle, Washington
“I Was Nine”
6ft x 4.5ft x .75in. Hot Wheels. 2010
“Cautionary Tale”
dimensions variable, china cabinet, danger tape, nails, china. 2010
Christopher Steadman
Berlin, Germany
“i am writing this with my left hand although i am strongly right-handed”
4-channel video installation, 10:30 mins. looped, 2010
George Drivas
Athens, Greece
“SEQUENCE ERROR”
Video, 11 min, HD, 2011
Cheryl Yun
Wilton, Connecticut
“SHOPPING SACK I (CVS series)”
A car bomb exploded in the Sadriya neighborhood in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 140 people and incinerating scores of vehicles April 18, 2007
Archival inkjet on Gampi Tissue 11″ x19 ¾”, 2007
“SHOPPING SACK I (WALMART – LOOTING SERIES)”
Rioting over Food in Argentina Four people were killed in the rioting. Page A3 Thursday, December 20, 2001
Archival inkjet on Japanese tissue, 2006
“SHOPPING SACK I (HOME DEPOT – AMMUNITION SERIES)”
Ammunition supplied by an American contractor to Afghan forces. Some of it was in such poor shape that it was not used. Thursday, march 27, 2008
Archival inkjet on Gampi tissue 20″ x 111/2″, 2008
Erin Endicott
Port Republic, New Jersey
“Healing Sutra #13″
17″h x 15″w, hand embroidery and walnut ink on antique baby dress, 2011
“Healing Sutra #17″
15″ x 15″, hand embroidery and walnut ink on antique napkin, 2011
“Healing Sutra #21″
22″h x 15″w, hand embroidery, walnut ink, antique lace on antique baby dress, 2011
Bjoern Drenkwitz
Frankfurt, Germany
“Seestueck(Seapiece)”
HD Video
Jeremie Baldocchi
Le Bourget, France
“Elephant Painted”
80 x 120 cm Acrylic, ink and collage on canvas, 2011
“A pant every day of the week : Saturday, friends’ Party”
120 x 160 cm Acrylic, ink and collage on canvas, 2010
Conny Blom
Landskrona, Sweden
4:33 Minutes of Stolen Silence
4 minutes 33 seconds long sound piece, 2006
Ida Röden
San Francisco, California
“A Reunion of Lost People, #01″
18×20 inches, “c”-print on black cintra, 2011
“A Reunion of Lost People, #04″
18×23 inches, “c”-print on white cintra, 2011
Inguna Gremzde
Ogre, Latvia
“Please, Find a Beautiful Place to Get Lost”
200 x 150cm, oil on paper, 2010
“Please, Keep Your Ticket Till the End”
200 x 150cm, oil/ mixed media on paper, 2011
Alyson Ogasian
Culver City, California
Untitled (installation)
mirrored mylar, grapefruit, fishing line / 2011
Self Portrait Series
5.5 inches by 8 inches framed (each)
grapefruit flesh on paper, 2011
Bean Gilsdorf
San Francisco, California
“Empire”
Ink jet print on polyester; wool suiting, satin. 70″ x 48″, 2011
“Untitled”
Enamel on masonite with steel shelf, 12.5″ x 3.5″ x 48″ , 2010
Barna Kantor
Austin, Texas
Video Installation
Sara Overton
New York, New York
Untitled
Oil pastel on wood and board 5×7″ apx, 2010 (One of a series)
