We present the final installment in Associate Curator Donna Conwell's conversation with Marketing & Communications Manager Leah Ammon about her curatorial vision for Montalvo's exhibition L O V E.
Donna Conwell: Sara (24 dots per minute)is a performative drawing consisting of red and blue dots produced by London-based artist Jon Meyer in collaboration with his partner Berlin-based artist Andrea Lauermannowa. It was created over a period of five hours and is based on a photograph Meyer took of his mother shortly after her death using his cellphone. With the assistance of a unique software program that Meyer developed, the photograph was projected two pixels at a time onto a piece of paper. Using red and blue pencils the artists traced each pair of pixels, with Meyer using his left hand and Lauermannowa her right. The pixels were projected randomly in five-second intervals. Recording more than 6528 pixels from the original image, Meyer and Lauermannowa’s hands moved across and up and down the page at a rapid pace, sometimes shifting position as each artist tried to help the other keep up.
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We are pleased to present the third installment of Associate Curator Donna Conwell's chat with Marketing & Communications Manager Leah Ammon about her curatorial vision for Montalvo's current exhibition L O V E.
Marketing & Communications Manager Leah Ammon continues her conversation with Associate Curator Donna Conwell about her curatorial vision for Montalvo's current exhibition L O V E.
We are excited to debut a new feature series, "Curatorial Conversations," with a chat between Associate Curator Donna Conwell and Marketing & Communications Manager Leah Ammon, about Montalvo's latest exhibition L O V E, curated by Conwell. Leah Ammon: Montalvo Arts Center’s latest exhibition in the Project Space Gallery is about Love? Why did you choose this theme? Donna Conwell: At Montalvo we organize our arts programming around a yearly or multi-year theme. Our current theme is titled Flourish: Artists Explore Wellbeing. For the past fifteen months we have invited artists at the Lucas Artists Residency and beyond to explore the topic of health and wellness in exhibitions in our Project Space Gallery, on our grounds and off site, as well as at public events in our historic Villa and elsewhere. We have considered such topics as happiness, healing, anxiety and the emotional life of the brain, centering and mindfulness, healing, nourishment and play. Love, our impulse to connect with one another, and its relationship to wellbeing seemed an important part of this ongoing conversation. |