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Mind the Gap

noticing the unnoticed

September 12 - November 22, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, September 12, 2008 at 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Artists speak at 6:00 p.m.
Location: Gallery of Contemporary, UCCS

Sarah Ross
Archisuits 2005
color photograph

The Gallery of Contemporary Art, UCCS presents Mind the Gap: Noticing the Unnoticed opening September 12, 2008.  This exhibition, curated by exiting Gallery Director Christopher Lynn, looks at negative space – the areas surrounding intended focus.

Negative space is often thought of in terms of our two and three-dimensional visual world.  The landscape rendered behind the figure in a portrait or the empty air between the legs of a bronze statue can be seen as negative space, whereas the figure and the bronze statue are seen as positive space.  The gaps of negative space are not areas that we are intended to observe at a highly conscious level, but are to remain in the background and unnoticed.  However, these interstitial spaces are what help define their companion positive space by interrupting the continuity of the positive space.

Mind the Gap seeks to extend the reach of negative space to consider time and concept as well as the visual.  The artists in the exhibition deal with pauses in dialogue rather than the words spoken, small aberrations in architecture rather than the building’s looming facade, or a vacant lot rather than the occupied store next door. The artists take the background and make it the foreground.  By pointing out what is typically unnoticed, we are encouraged to re-examine our world and look around the obvious to the other parts that make up our existence: the gaps.

“This exhibition brings together some tremendous talent and intellectual rigor to Colorado Springs,” says departing Director Christopher Lynn.  “The various practices of the artists will allow a number of entry points to an idea that most people don’t even notice by definition: the unnoticed.”

Participating artists have been gathered from around the globe: Jared Lindsay Clark (Brooklyn), Jennifer Danos (Minneapolis), e-Xplo (Berlin, New York), John Pilson (New York), Sarah Ross (Bloomington, IL), and Doron Solomons (Tel Aviv).

Exhibition artist, John Pilson, will be showing work from a series entitled Interregna, a term which means the interim between the reigns of rulers.  The Gallery of Contemporary Art itself is experiencing an interregnum with the departure of its Director, Christopher Lynn.  The exhibition’s opening reception will introduce the Gallery’s new Interim Director, Caitlin Green, who takes the helm after Christopher Lynn’s exit.

Mind the Gap Exhibition Images

Overview of the Mind the Gap exhibition

   

Jared Clark
Bilt 39, 2008
Found objects: plinths, refrigerators, washer, dryer, stove, microwave ovens, filing cabinets, computers, wood, styrofoam

   

Jared Clark
Bilt 39 (back), 2008
Found objects: plinths, refrigerators, washer, dryer, stove, microwave ovens, filing cabinets, computers, wood, styrofoam

   

Jared Clark
Bilt 38 (back), 2008
Styrofoam

   

Jennifer Danos
Untitled (Real Floors 2), 2008
Natural Oak Contact Paper

   

Jennifer Danos
Untitled (Real Floors 2), 2008
Natural Oak Contact Paper
28 x 34″

   

Jennifer Danos
Untitled (Real Floors 2) close up, 2008
Natural Oak Contact Paper

   

e-Xplo
Letters to Larry, 2008
Audio Play
Located at Heller Ranch

   

John Pilson
Above the Grid, 2000
2-channel video

   

John Pilson
Above the Grid, 2000
2-channel video, different frame

   

John Pilson
Above the Grid (Suit and Ball), three Interegnas: Monster, Grapefruit, and Maura, 1999-2007
Silver Gelatin Prints

   

Sarah Ross
Archisuits, 2005
Custom Jogging Suits, Inkjet Prints and DVD

   

Sarah Ross
Archisuits, 2005
Custom Jogging Suits

   

Doron Solomons
Tonight’s Headlines and My Collected Silences, 2006 and 1996
DVD

Looking back at the Mind the Gap exhibition

Artist Bios

Jared Clark has had residencies at Kompact Living Space, Berlin, Germany; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Art Omi, international artist residency, Hudson, NY; and has received the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation Fellowship. His work has been exhibited at Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York; SWARM Gallery, Oakland, CA; and Deitch Projects, New York City, NY.

Jennifer Danos has exhibited at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Minnesota Emerging Artists Program, Rochester Art Center, MN; High Energy Constructs; Los Angeles; the Arthouse, Austin, TX; and the Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN.

e-Xplo is an artist collective consisting of three accomplished artists: Heimo Lattner, Erin McGonigle and Rene Gabri. e-Xplo has exhibited as part of the Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA. Read more about their audio play Letters to Larry.

John Pilson is represented by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY and has shown at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; LOOP ‘06, Barcelona, Spain; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas; Zink and Gegner, Munich, Germany; Western Front Exhibitions, Vancouver, Canada; Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Prospect.1, New Orleans, LA; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

Sarah Ross is the recipient of a grant from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. She has exhibited work in Messhall, Chicago, IL; YNKB, Copenhagen, DK; PS122 Gallery, New York, NY; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY; Institute for New Media, Frankfurt, Germany; and META Cultural Foundation, Bucharest, Romania.  Ross has also published writing in several journals and papers and organized events and art exhibitions.

Doron Solomons is represented by Sommer Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv and his work has been featured in exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv; Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya; Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Flanders Fields Museum, Belgium; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Texas; 50th Venice Biennial, Venice; and Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin. 

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