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Spectacle
Vesna Pavlović, Brandon Donahue, Chris Boyd Taylor The New Gallery, Feb. 24 - Mar. 6 / Aug. 19 - Sept. 18, 2020 |
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catalogue coming soon
exhibition essay by Brandon Vogel |
Spectacle was closed early due to concerns about the spread COVID-19 back in March, but it has remained installed in The New Gallery. During this time of national shutdown and the cancellation of major sports leagues around the world, Spectacle, reopens to new conversations about the importance of sport and safety of large gatherings. Before the exhibit opened last spring, Michael Dickins, curator and director of The New Gallery, described Spectacle this way: “Spectacle is an exhibition that combines basketball and visual culture. It’s a three-person show that features the work of Brandon Donahue, Vesna Pavlović and Chris Boyd Taylor.” Dickins originally envisioned the exhibit to coincide with March Madness, “the distinctly American phenomena surrounding collegiate basketball” during which spectators are “inundated with capitalist-driven, basketball-related imagery.” The pandemic led to the cancellation of March Madness and nearly all American sports, but they have started to trickle back this summer, delivering an entirely unprecedented experience, one in which spectators are removed from stadiums and arenas. Gallery Guide
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Brandon J. Donahue (USA)
Selections from the Foul Shot Series
Donahue is an artist working in painting, assemblage, and sculpture. He received his B.S. from Tennessee State University and his M.F.A. from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Donahue has exhibited nationally and internationally including the 13th annual Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba in 2019. He is represented by David Lusk Gallery in Nashville and Trager Contemporary in Charleston, SC. Donahue now lives and works in College Park, MD as an artist in residence at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland. - www.brandonjaquezdonahue.com
Vesna Pavlović (Serbia/USА)
Watching
Pavlović obtained her MFA degree in Visual Arts from Columbia University in New York in 2007. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Her projects examine the evolving relationship between memory in contemporary culture and the technologies of photographic image production. Expanding the photographic image beyond its frame, traditional format, and the narrative is central to her artistic strategies. She examines photographic representation of specific political and cultural histories, which include photographic archives and related artifacts.
Pavlović has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. She participated in a number of group shows, including the Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, 2011, in Turkey; The MAC – Metropolitan Arts Center in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Württembergischen Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany; KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia; Zachęta, The National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland; City Art Gallery, in Ljubljana, Slovenia; the New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK; the Bucharest Biennale 5, in Bucharest, Romania; Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, USA; Le Quartier Center for Contemporary Art in Quimper, France; NGBK in Berlin, Germany; Photographers’ Gallery in London and Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, UK; and FRAC Center for Contemporary Art in Dunkuerqe, France.
In the 1990s, in Belgrade, Pavlović worked closely with the feminist pacifist group Women in Black. Vesna Pavlović is the recipient of the The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation in 2017, the City of Copenhagen Artist-in-Residence grant in 2011, and Contemporary Foundation for the Arts Emergency Grants in 2011 and 2014. She has received 2012 Art Matters Foundation grant. She is the recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Award for 2018. In 2018, she was a Southern Prize Fellow.
Her work is included in major private and public art collections, Phillips Collection, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Women in the Art in Washington DC, USA, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia, among others. Publication about her work titled Vesna Pavlović’s Lost Art: Photography, Display, and the Archive, еdited by Morna O’Neill, was published in 2018 by Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University, USA.
Watching was a conceptual project between Vesna Pavlović and Vladimir Tupanjac. - www.vesnapavlovic.com
Chris Boyd Taylor (USA)
Arena
Taylor has fine arts degrees from The Ohio State University and The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
Craft, scale, color, movement, architecture, spectatorship, anthropomorphism, and interpersonal relationships make up the principle interests in his studio practice. He is currently creating work in direct response to travels he took throughout the Southeast United States documenting venues of spectatorship.
Chris has several permanent public art commissions Remolcador en Camino at the Pablo Neruda Plaza, Montevideo Uruguay and The Cardboard Kids at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville Tennessee. He has exhibited at many venues including the Nashville International Airport, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, ArtFields, and Huntsville Museum of Art. In 2013 he was an Emerging Art Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens New York.
He and his family reside in the foothills of the Appalachians in Northern Alabama where he teaches sculpture at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. - www.walkingcubes.com
Selections from the Foul Shot Series
Donahue is an artist working in painting, assemblage, and sculpture. He received his B.S. from Tennessee State University and his M.F.A. from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Donahue has exhibited nationally and internationally including the 13th annual Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba in 2019. He is represented by David Lusk Gallery in Nashville and Trager Contemporary in Charleston, SC. Donahue now lives and works in College Park, MD as an artist in residence at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland. - www.brandonjaquezdonahue.com
Vesna Pavlović (Serbia/USА)
Watching
Pavlović obtained her MFA degree in Visual Arts from Columbia University in New York in 2007. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Her projects examine the evolving relationship between memory in contemporary culture and the technologies of photographic image production. Expanding the photographic image beyond its frame, traditional format, and the narrative is central to her artistic strategies. She examines photographic representation of specific political and cultural histories, which include photographic archives and related artifacts.
Pavlović has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. She participated in a number of group shows, including the Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, 2011, in Turkey; The MAC – Metropolitan Arts Center in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Württembergischen Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany; KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia; Zachęta, The National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland; City Art Gallery, in Ljubljana, Slovenia; the New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK; the Bucharest Biennale 5, in Bucharest, Romania; Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, USA; Le Quartier Center for Contemporary Art in Quimper, France; NGBK in Berlin, Germany; Photographers’ Gallery in London and Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, UK; and FRAC Center for Contemporary Art in Dunkuerqe, France.
In the 1990s, in Belgrade, Pavlović worked closely with the feminist pacifist group Women in Black. Vesna Pavlović is the recipient of the The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation in 2017, the City of Copenhagen Artist-in-Residence grant in 2011, and Contemporary Foundation for the Arts Emergency Grants in 2011 and 2014. She has received 2012 Art Matters Foundation grant. She is the recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Award for 2018. In 2018, she was a Southern Prize Fellow.
Her work is included in major private and public art collections, Phillips Collection, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Women in the Art in Washington DC, USA, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia, among others. Publication about her work titled Vesna Pavlović’s Lost Art: Photography, Display, and the Archive, еdited by Morna O’Neill, was published in 2018 by Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University, USA.
Watching was a conceptual project between Vesna Pavlović and Vladimir Tupanjac. - www.vesnapavlovic.com
Chris Boyd Taylor (USA)
Arena
Taylor has fine arts degrees from The Ohio State University and The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
Craft, scale, color, movement, architecture, spectatorship, anthropomorphism, and interpersonal relationships make up the principle interests in his studio practice. He is currently creating work in direct response to travels he took throughout the Southeast United States documenting venues of spectatorship.
Chris has several permanent public art commissions Remolcador en Camino at the Pablo Neruda Plaza, Montevideo Uruguay and The Cardboard Kids at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville Tennessee. He has exhibited at many venues including the Nashville International Airport, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, ArtFields, and Huntsville Museum of Art. In 2013 he was an Emerging Art Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens New York.
He and his family reside in the foothills of the Appalachians in Northern Alabama where he teaches sculpture at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. - www.walkingcubes.com
