Jennifer
Bolande
November 6 – December 22, 2004
132 Tenth Avenue • Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
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DATES: November 6 – December 22, 2004
LOCATION: 132 Tenth Avenue between 18th and 19th
HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday 10am to 6pm
Alexander and Bonin is pleased to announce an exhibition
of new work by Jennifer Bolande. The works in this exhibition recombine
several of her most characteristically employed elements: speakers, appliances,
movies, mountains, and planets. Continuing an investigative path begun
in 1983, Bolande examines linguistic, emotional and physical responses
to the world. The exhibition presents two new large-scale works, which
conflate geology and geometry and examine different perspectives on the
planet earth.
The exhibition features a geometrically complex “building”
that references the organic shape of a mountain. The windows of this “building”
are photographs from Bolande’s ongoing photographic series, “Globe
Sightings,” which document found instances of globes seen in windows.
The “faces” of this crystalline mountain — and therefore
its overall structural form as well — are determined by the perspectival
angles of the photographed windows. In this piece, Bolande turns these
representations of the globe into the building blocks of a topographical
form that blurs architecture and landscape, and inverts notions of inside
and outside.
“Earthquake,” a sculptural installation including a 16mm film
and a sound component and title centers on a large cube of appliances
and speakers. The structure echoes Bolande’s numerous works of the
past twenty years with stacks of speakers. The film recalls Bolande’s
fascination with all things filmic: from contact sheets to the mechanics
of projection. Its mutating image of a green towel rotating in a clothes
dryer provides a hypnotic and peculiarly voyeuristic experience, which
is disrupted and counterbalanced by the audio component.
One work mines representations of earth, while the other engages with
the physical experience of being on earth, calling its solidity into question.
Together, these works represent the variety of ways Bolande looks at objects
whose connections are not initially apparent. Tracking a line of correspondence
she “proceeds obliquely but precisely toward an accumulation of
possible meanings.”
Jennifer Bolande is one of the initial artists to fold together the mediums
of photography and sculpture and pioneered in an elegiac form of conceptual
art. Her first New York exhibition, held at The Kitchen in 1982, included
a theatrically lit and designed set for her photographs. Bolande began
her exploration of art with dance, and performance, in addition to visual
art. Over the ensuing years, objects amplified from, and incorporating
photographs were exhibited at Nature Morte and Metro Pictures, NY. In
Europe gallery exhibitions in Paris and Stockholm were followed by solo
shows at the Kunstraum, Munich and the Kunsthalle Palazzo, Basel. In 2003,
she exhibited the Globe Sightings series at the Fotohof Galerie in Salzburg.
Since 2003 she has taught in the New Genres Department at UCLA.
Images of works by Jennifer Bolande as well as biographical and bibliographic
information can be viewed on www.alexanderandbonin.com. For photographs
or further information, please contact Alexis Canter at 212/367-7474 or
ac@alexanderandbonin.com.
1. Marincola, Paula. “Something to Do with
Jennifer Bolande.” Artforum (January 1989): 70-73 and cover
illustration.
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