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SITE SANTA FE PRESENTS SUSAN
SILTON
April 26 -- July 6, 2003
Santa Fe, NM -- SITE Santa Fe is pleased to present Susan Silton, an
exhibition featuring a current series of photographic prints and a video projection
piece, which will be on view at SITE Santa Fe from April 26, 2003 through
July 6, 2003, with a free public opening reception Friday, April 25, from
6 to 7 pm. Showing concurrently will be Karin Davie and Roxy Paine/Second
Nature. There will be a gallery talk with all three artists as part of
the Artists On SITE component of Art & Culture on Saturday, April 26,
at 5 pm. This event is free with museum admission.
Susan SiltonÕs exhibition will include pieces from two bodies of work -- six
prints from her Aviate series and the video projection hemidemisemiquaver.
For Aviate, Silton scanned images from an early 20th century bird guidebook,
saturated the color and altered them digitally, before re-presenting them
as photographs. For the video hemidemisemiquaver, Silton spun around,
camera in hand, at various locations -- disrupting her balance and, in turn,
her vision, capturing the ambiguity and frenzied beauty of modern life. The
title refers to a term in musicology which denotes a 1/64th note, which is
very fast and fleeting. In both bodies of work, the original subject, in its
stationary state, is far removed from the final image.
Through work that alternates between motion and stasis, Silton examines the
limitations of perception on the construction of identity based on classification.
The workÕs conceptual framework is supported through diverse mediums including
photographic-based installation, and offset lithography, sometimes independently
and sometimes coexisting within a given piece.
Silton currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Her work has
been presented in solo exhibitions at the Angles Gallery in Santa Monica,
the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum in San Bernardino, SF Camerawork in San
Francisco, as well as in group exhibitions at the Cooper Hewitt National Design
Museum/ Smithsonian Institution in New York, Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany;
Allianz Zeigniederlassung, Berlin, Germany and at the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art. She was the recipient of a James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography
in 1995.
Susan Silton is organized by SITE Santa Fe, courtesy of the artist
and Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California. SITE Santa FeÕs Projection Room
is partially funded by Sharp Electronics Corporation.
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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Fig. 15, from Aviate, 1999
Chromogenic print mounted on Sintra
48 1/4 x 86 7/8 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
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