an experimental project space
September 5–26, 2008
Robert Banks
Cleveland, OH
September 28–October 17, 2008
Gary Duehr
Somerville, MA
photos by Jerry Mann
The video, underlined by a haunting audio track, uses symbols to explore many forms of modern oppression through consumerism, class structure, and domestic struggle. On view Sept 4 through Sept 27, this installation invites viewers to respond and record messages concerning this issue which will later be used in a follow-up piece.
The filmmaker attended the Cleveland School of the Arts and has taught film at Cuyahoga Community College, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Cleveland State University. Banks has shown films at Sundance, was named Filmmaker of the Year at the Midwest Filmmakers Conference in 2001 and was the guest filmmaker in London at the BBC British Short Film Festival in 2000.
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Dueher uses a cell phone camera to rephotograph the images, enlarges the photographs, and then reprints them on watercolor paper. The rough, patchy quality of the images provides a striking immediacy that makes it hard to look away-even though we might want to.
Duehr has exhibited worldwide and in 2007 was chosen as the Best Emerging Artist in New England by the International Association of Art Critics. He has received grants from the LEF Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. The artist currently manages the Bromfield Art Gallery in Boston and codirects the Invisible Cities Group, a multi-media performance and visual arts group.