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The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s curators Tariana Navas-Nieves and Blake Milteer have selected three Colorado artists to create unique installations for the FAC MODERN in the exhibition, Altered Space: 21st Century Installation Art. Christina Marsh and Matt Barton of Colorado Springs and Gwen Laine of Denver have each transformed a gallery space at the MODERN, creating original works of installation art that incorporate a diversity of media, including projections, video, sound, photography, sculpture and even food. Installation art was popularized as an art form in the 1970s and 1980s. “We are delighted to invite these three local and regional artists to take over the FAC MODERN for this exhibition,” said Blake Milteer, FAC Curator of American Art. “These gifted artists will take our patrons into three distinctive environments, creating sensory experiences unlike anything we’ve ever displayed at the Fine Arts Center.” Tariana Navas-Nieves, FAC Curator of Hispanic and Native American Art, says that the Altered Space exhibition will take the FAC MODERN closer to its mission as a venue. “We want to use the FAC MODERN as a venue for edgy, contemporary modern works of art as well as shine a spotlight on our diverse local and regional artists and collectors. This exhibition fulfills that vision in a thoughtful, innovative, and entertaining way.” "It's a great show … one of the best installation exhibitions ever mounted here." |
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Christina Marsh | Artist Website “I use my art as a medium to illustrate my struggle with physical and emotional bonds,” Marsh says. “Between the polarities of black and white, positive and negative exists a neutral area. My works are about deciphering that gray.” In 2004, Marsh created “One Drop,” an installation piece featuring 100 glasses filled with eight ounces of milk and varying amounts of chocolate. “I wanted to illustrate America’s perception of how ethnicity is defined through our consciousness of color.” Matt Barton | Artist Website In 2006, Barton put his varied experience and skill to work on an installation piece called, “Time-O-Rama: Electric Infinity with Real Plastic,” which incorporated 20 mechanized taxidermy animals, two video projections, five sound CDs, blooming flowers, falling leaves and changing colors, plus thunder and lightning; and wine was dispensed from a nozzle sticking out of deer’s ribs. “I was trying to create a mystical reality, the experience of the collapse of time and space into a single point of reality, while being self-aware of the paradox of creating such a reality using time-based media in space.” Gwen Laine | Artist Website For Altered Space, Laine is creating an installation piece called, “Passing Through,” in which she will employ photographs, clear Mylar, and silver Mylar balloons filled with helium to represent what role chance – circumstances beyond our control – plays in determining our next moment in life. “For this installation, I relied upon degrees of control and chance to create a work that changes over time,” said Laine. “I included images of hands in this work because hands are often the tools through which our minds control our lives, but some degree of what occurs in our lives is due to chance.” |
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FAC MODERN−121 South Tejon Street, South Tower, 1st Floor
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