 You're invited to a CLOSING RECEPTION for Tracey Snelling's Woman on the Run & Michael Paul Britto's Society's Children Sunday, January 3 4 - 6 pm Smack Mellon 92 Plymouth Street, Dumbo Brooklyn A/C to High Street, F to York Street To read the press release, please visit our website.  |
Woman on the Run has been a great success! Thanks to Smack Mellon, the installation sponsors, and everyone who helped to make it happen.The show is ending January 3, and we would like to invite you to an intimate closing reception. I plan to be available to talk about the installation, its history, and where it's going next. So if you have not yet seen the installation, or have and would like to join us for a quiet evening with cheese and wine, come by!
Woman on The Run is an installation that intricately mixes architecture, scale modeling, video, photography and 3-D story telling with a heady dose of Hollywood glamour and Hitchcock-like built-in suspense. A multimedia project, Woman on the Run explores a fragmented narrative about a fated woman. The main character, a combination of heroines and femme fatales from 1950s and 1960s film noir, is trying to escape her fate. A crime has taken place, and she is wanted for questioning. Throughout the installation, different clues are given about what might have happened and who the woman is. Is she the victim, or the perpetrator? A study in feminism or an example of outdated ideas?
An alternate world of shrunken buildings, neon signs, and a life size motel offer a selection of clues that conspire to initially draw the viewer to the action and then help them thread together the disconnected story that just happened. The viewer quickly becomes a witness and to some extent an actor within the story, often assuming the role of a detective. Video plays in windows and conversations can be overheard. Reality becomes based more in perception than in absolutes. The blacks and whites of life shift to grey, and the truth becomes shrouded in mystery.
Woman on The Run is an installation that intricately mixes architecture, scale modeling, video, photography and 3-D story telling with a heady dose of Hollywood glamour and Hitchcock-like built-in suspense. A multimedia project, Woman on the Run explores a fragmented narrative about a fated woman. The main character, a combination of heroines and femme fatales from 1950s and 1960s film noir, is trying to escape her fate. A crime has taken place, and she is wanted for questioning. Throughout the installation, different clues are given about what might have happened and who the woman is. Is she the victim, or the perpetrator? A study in feminism or an example of outdated ideas?
An alternate world of shrunken buildings, neon signs, and a life size motel offer a selection of clues that conspire to initially draw the viewer to the action and then help them thread together the disconnected story that just happened. The viewer quickly becomes a witness and to some extent an actor within the story, often assuming the role of a detective. Video plays in windows and conversations can be overheard. Reality becomes based more in perception than in absolutes. The blacks and whites of life shift to grey, and the truth becomes shrouded in mystery.
Sponsored by Smack Mellon, San Pablo Arts District Fund, EAmmune, Osborne Samuel Gallery, Galerie Urs Meile, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Pan American Art Projects, Jane Wattenberg, and many others!
With the help of Idan Levin, Susan Roth, Daniel Levin, Douglas Leach, Russ Osterweil, Kate Perry, Selfridges, Wedel Fine Art, Nine AM, and my family and friends.
With the help of Idan Levin, Susan Roth, Daniel Levin, Douglas Leach, Russ Osterweil, Kate Perry, Selfridges, Wedel Fine Art, Nine AM, and my family and friends.
- Tracey Snelling, December 2009
A note from artist Michael Paul Britto:
Society's Children is ending on January 3, and there will be a small closing reception. For anyone interested, I will be in attendance to talk about the work, my influences, and my process. I would like to thank Smack Mellon for the opportunity to exhibit my work, and Roi Elliott for his wonderful performance in Verbal Assault. I would also like to thank everyone who took the time to check out the exhibition. If you haven't seen Society's Children please do so, and if you did come through again so I can thank you in person!
- Michael Paul Britto, December 2009
- Michael Paul Britto, December 2009
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