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SITE SANTA FE PRESENTS A SURVEY
OF WORKS BY JANINE ANTONI
September 28, 2002 - January 5, 2003
Organized by SITE Santa Fe, courtesty of the artist and Luhring Augustine,
New York, and made possible in part by Lannan Foundation, LEF Foundation,
Nancy and Dr. Robert C. Magoon, Donna and Howard Stone, and Rosina Lee Yue
and Dr. Bert A. Lies. The forthcoming artist's book is supported through the
SITE Santa Fe Publications Fund.
Santa Fe, NM - SITE Santa Fe presents JANINE ANTONI,
a survey of the career of this acclaimed conceptual artist. The exhibition
will be on view at SITE Santa Fe September 28, 2002 through January 5,
2003, with a free public opening reception Friday, September 27, 6-7 pm.
There will be a gallery talk with the artist at 5 pm on Saturday, September
28.
Organized by SITE Santa Fe, JANINE ANTONI brings together a
substantial range of the artist's work from 1993 onward, and will include
at least 17 objects and three short video projects. Among the works exhibited
will be a new piece specially commissioned by SITE Santa Fe, with a working
title of Tightrope. Antoni is currently developing the piece, which
will include a performance component and will also result in the production
of a permanent object. Tightrope will be the featured centerpiece of
the exhibition. A special artist's book, based on Tightrope and designed
by Janine Antoni, will be published by SITE Santa Fe on the occasion of the
exhibition.
Janine Antoni has built a significant international reputation as an artist.
As one of the youngest recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship (the "MacArthur
Genius Award") in 1998, her work has received substantial attention both in
this country and abroad. Process, and the artist's own body, are at the center
of her work, which incorporates inventive uses of sculpture and ritual. Antoni's
artistic language is rich and delicately nuanced, often making humorous and
thought-provoking references to art history, ideas of feminine beauty, and
fetishistic behavior. Antoni has contributed greatly to the field of performance
art, while at the same time producing a body of art objects that have a powerful,
enigmatic, sustaining quality.
Much of Janine Antoni's work is a thoughtful and ongoing exploration of her
relationship to her family, especially to her mother. Her piece Umbilical
(2000), features a spoon cast from her family silverware, with the bowl
connected to a cast of the space inside of her mouth. The handle of the spoon
is connected to an impression of her mother's hand, illustrating the progression
of having been fed by her mother to inheriting the family silverware. In Mom
and Dad (1994), a series of photographs records Antoni's use of prosthetic
makeup to transform her mother into her father, and vice versa. She then poses
the two of them in various combinations for formal studio portraits. Such
pieces are thought provoking at the same time that they engage viewers with
a playful, intimate humor.
Janine Antoni was born in the Bahamas in 1964. She attended Sarah Lawrence
College, Bronxville, New York (BA 1986) and Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, Rhode Island (MFA 1989). She received the MacArthur Fellowship
and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Inc. Painting and Sculpture Grant in 1998,
and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999. Antoni has exhibited extensively
in the United States and abroad at venues including Luhring Augustine Gallery,
The Wadsworth Athenaeum, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Reina Sofia,
The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American
Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Aldrich Museum. Her work was included
in the 1993 Venice Biennial, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, the 1995 Johannesburg
Biennial, the 1997 Istanbul Biennial, and the 2000 Kwangju Biennial in Korea.
SITE Santa Fe's JANINE ANTONI exhibition is supported in part by Nancy
and Dr. Robert C. Magoon, Rosina Yue Lee and Dr. Bert A. Lies, MD, and the
SITE Santa Fe Publications Fund. SITE Santa Fe's Projection Room is supported
by Sharp Electronics Corporation.
Concurrent with JANINE ANTONI, SITE Santa Fe will present Monika
Bravo: Playing with Time, a group of three video projects to be shown
in the Projection Room, along with two interactive DVD installations in the
galleries.
SITE Santa Fe is located at 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exhibition
hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 pm; Friday, 10:00 am
-7:00 pm. Admission is $5.00 for adults and $2.50 for students and seniors;
members are free. Free admission is offered on Fridays, made possible by a
grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston. Free guided tours are offered
on Fridays at 6:00 pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 pm. Tours in Spanish
are by appointment. SITE Santa Fe gift certificates are available. Call 505.989.1199
for more information. This announcement is partially funded by the City of
Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers' Tax.
Contact: Press Office
Tel: 505.989.1199
Fax:505.989.1188
email: press@sitesantafe.org
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Lick and Lather,
1993 - 1994
7 soap and chocolate busts
Each bust: 24 x 16 x 13 inches
Courtesy of Luhring Augustine Gallery |
