Photographs by Corrado Serra.
“‘WORD’ is HVCCA’s first open call juried exhibition purposed to highlight talented regional artists who prominently feature ‘a word’ or ‘words’ in their artistic productions. Some 140 artists applied and 45 artists were selected. These newer and lesser known works will sit side by side with works of artists such as Beatrice Coron, Dylan Graham (Netherlands), Ann Hamilton (US 1999 Venice Biennale artist), John Mellencamp, Jeffrey Gibson, Laura Kimpton (SLS Miami, Burning Man, California) and Robert Indiana.
Words have appeared historically as artistic forms in illuminated manuscripts, in Arabic text on the walls of mosques and in its mosaic murals, on Chinese calligraphic scrolls. ‘Word’ as contemporary art form has been popularized by contemporary artists Ruche, Wiener, Kruger and Holzer, Anastasi and others. Words have the power to hurt and to heal, to be offered as prayer or diatribe. Some of these ‘word’ facets will be explored in the works presented at the HVCCA.” — Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
Lance Johnson, I still luv her, 2010
Laura Kimpton, Let the Positive Come Out, 2016
Laura Kimpton, Let the Positive Come Out (detail), 2016
Bill Schuck, sometime, 2016
Installation view of Word
Carole Kunstadt, Sacred Poem LXV, 2010 and Sacred Poem VII, 2010
Joan Levinson, Then, 2010
Installation view of Word
Left: Les Von Losberg, Children in War Zones, 2010. Center: Yunizar, Untitled. Right: Mike Seri, Pray God Nation, 2014
Robert Indiana, Love (detail), 1966-1999
Left: Nestor Madalengoitia, Happy Hour, 2015. Right: Jeffrey Gibson, In time we could have been so much more, 2015
Justin Randolph Thompson and Bradly Dever Treadaway, I’m Gone (performance-based installation), 2016
Kathryn Frund, One Word, 2015
Installation view of Word
Installation view of Word
Jo-Ann Brody, Word Wall/Words of Rage, 2013-16
Left: Erica Hauser, Enjoy Sealtest, 2015. Front: Adam Niklewicz, Tabula Rasa. Right: Robert Barthelmes, Metamorphosis, 2011
Barry Mason, Ancestral Calling 1, 2005
Emma Rivers series of scenes
Emma Rivers, Downtown, 2014-16
Left: Robert Barthelmes, Metamorphosis, 2011. Right: Elizabeth Arnold, R. I. P., 2012
Béatrice Coron, In collaboration with Elizabeth De Sole, Fashion Statement, 2010
Thomas Hirschhorn, Laundrette, 2001
Top: Julie Sittler, Targeted You & Me, 2014. Bottom: Robert Brush, Bed Piece #1, 2006
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