Mandala Flea Market Mutants: Pop Protocol andthe Seven Transformations of Good-luck National Defense Cats
Jeanne Quinn LaceMath
Exhibition Dates: March 17- April 22, 2012 Artists’ Reception: Saturday, March 17, 5-8pm
Smack Mellon is pleased to present two solo exhibitions of new projects by New York-based artist Yoko Inoue and Colorado-based artist Jeanne Quinn
Yoko Inoue’s latest multimedia installation Mandala Flea Market Mutants: Pop Protocol and the Seven Transformations of Good-luck National Defense Cats transforms the front gallery into a maze of vending booths derived from traditional Japanese temple fairs. Inoue’s subversive marketplace installation links aspects of Japanese sub, pop and political culture through a fantastic assortment of hybridized objects, many hand cast from mass produced items found in multicultural urban markets. Inoue will be on site for the duration of the exhibition, transforming the marketplace even further into a “thinking place” not limited to commerce.
Jeanne Quinn’s site-specific wall installation, LaceMath, is based on a piece of seventeenth-century Italian lace. The complex lace pattern, reconstructed in a CAD program as a wireframe drawing, is set in virtual space at a curved angle and then produced in vinyl. By pressing pins and stitching wire into the wall, Quinn builds out 3D sphere shapes based on the altered lace pattern. The intricate monochromatic installation hovers between a 2D and 3D space engaging both reality and imagination.
Susan Graham, Liz Magic Laser, Esperanza Mayobre, Cheryl Molnar, Rachelle Mozman, Tobaron Waxman, and Tyler Henry
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, March 17, 5-8pm Open Studios: Saturday, March 17, 12-8pm and Sunday, March 18, 12-6pm
Smack Mellon is pleased to offer the unique chance to enter the private studios of our six 2011-2012 fellowship artists, plus our work exchange artist. The artists will have work on display that they have made over the course of their 11-month residency at Smack Mellon, and visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artists in their studios all weekend. The studios are located in our lower level at 92 Plymouth Street.
The 2011 panelists that selected the artists were: Janet Biggs, Artist; Heather Darcy Bhandari, Director, Mixed Greens Gallery; and Kathleen Gilrain, Executive Director, Smack Mellon. Preliminary panelists were: Sonya Blesofsky, Michael Paul Britto, Kirsten Hassenfeld, and Karina Skvirsky, Artists.
