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Reduce/Reuse/Reexamine
Meridith McNeal and Janet Riker, curators
Thursday, March 18, 2004 to Saturday, May 8, 2004
Admission is FREE
Presented in collaboration with Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill in the Bronx. Glyndor Gallery’s Reduce, Reuse, Reexamine exhibition is on view March 6 to May 31, 2004.
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION:
Thursday, March 18 - 6pm-8pm
SPECIAL EVENT:
Friday, April 30, 11 am to 3 pm
Artist Murat Musulluoglu created an interactive installation in Columbus Park outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall—a rainbow-hued mosaic of cups of colored water.
Curatorial Statement
Exhibition Checklist
Gallery Location/Directions
Acknowledgements
Curatorial Statement
The artists in Reduce/Reuse/Reexamine created evocative works of art from materials most of us would throw away or step over in the street. They opened a dialogue between the completed artistic product and its previous life — its history, value or lack of value, and significance to the individual or society. They ennobled these humble materials through their resourceful talents and inspired perspectives. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that recycling is about more than where you place your trash. It's about renewal, and forging links between what is used and will be used again. New objects, products and meaning must result.
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Exhibition Checklist
Unless otherwise noted all works are from the collection of the artists; dimensions are given in inches (height x width x depth).
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Sarah Cihat
Fifty-Cents Rehabilitated Dishware, 2003-04
Ceramic dishes, glaze, ceramic decals
Dimensions variable
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Art Start in Collaboration with Leonardo Drew
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Artist Leonardo Drew worked with young people ages 5-13 participating in Art Start's Arts in the Shelters Program. Struck by the honesty in the young people's drawings and writing, Leonardo gave them clear plexiglass boxes, black magic markers and the complete freedom to write or draw on the surface of their boxes. As a result, the boxes began to take on the voice and experiences of each child ---at once exhibiting their individual personalities while also underscoring the universal truthfulness in children’s artwork. By leading this workshop series and also taking the children to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see his own installation, Leonardo demonstrated that it is possible to become a full-time artist even in light of difficult circumstances. In many ways Leonardo made it possible for these underserved young people to express themselves to a wider audience, while emphasizing to them that there are people out there who want to listen, and value what they have to say.
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Ralph Raphael Fleming
Spell, 2003
Billboard paper on paper
22½ x 22½
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Dan Ford
Elmcote II, 2001
Oil on aluminum
5 ¾ x 3-7/8”
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Madelon Galland
Green Velvet Stump, 2000
Velvet upholstered, salvaged Birch stump
36 x 59 x 48”
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Jonathan Herder
Night Desert, 2003
Postage stamps collaged on paper
14 x 17”
Courtesy of Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
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Nene Humphrey
Simple Aggregates (smallworlds series), 2001 (detail)
Industrial felt, silk, wood, three panels
each 38 x 32 ½”
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Murat Musulluoglu
Untitled Installation and Performance, Washington Square, 2003
Dimensions variable
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Ed Rath
The Dustbin of History, 2003
Acrylic on canvas
30 ½" x 48 ½"
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Naz Shahrokh
Column, 2002 (Detail)
Paper, fishing line
Dimensions variable
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Colleen Rae Smiley
Cellar Floor Shrine II – This one is for the sugar makers, 2002-2003 (Detail)
Reclaimed, vintage and new materials, notions
54 x 84”
NOTE: This is an example of Colleen Rae Smiley’s work; she is creating an entirely new work for Reduce, Reuse, Reexamine.
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Scrapile
Bench, 2004
Construction of scrap pieces of wood
16 x 48 x 15”
NOTE: This is an example of Scrapile’s work; they are creating an entirely new work for Reduce, Reuse, Reexamine.
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The purchase of artwork is an important way individuals can support contemporary artists and share their work with others. The Rotunda Gallery is a not-for-profit exhibition space and retains 20% of the proceeds of sales to help underwrite its exhibitions and educational programs. Please ask the gallery sitter if you would like additional information.
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Gallery Location/Directions
The Rotunda Gallery (33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights), housed in an award-winning space designed by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, showcases the work of Brooklyn artists. The Rotunda Gallery's educational programs reach 6,000 students each year with gallery visits and in-school art making projects. The Rotunda Gallery is a project of the not-for-profit BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.
Located in Brooklyn Heights, just over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the Gallery is also easily accessible by public transportation. It is a short walk from the 2,3; 4,5; M; N or R trains at the Court Street/Borough Hall station; or the A, C trains at High Street.
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Acknowledgements
The Rotunda Gallery is grateful for the generous support of our exhibition and education programs from Astoria Federal, the Sally and Milton Avery Foundation, Bloomberg L.P., Con Edison, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Forest City Ratner Companies, the William Randolph Hearst Foundations, the Independence Community Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New York Community Trust, JP Morgan Chase, the Pepsi Cola/Hip-Hop Summit Partnership, the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Verizon, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, as well as numerous individuals.
Programs are made possible in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and the Brooklyn Delegation to the New York City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
The Rotunda Gallery is a program of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture
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