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Contemporary Landscapes

Light and Life

222 E. 41st Street

New York, NY 10017

Dates: October 15, 2012 — January 26, 2013

Location: 222 E. 41st Street Lobby New York, NY 10017

Included Artists:

Curated by:


Light and Life

Jackie Battenfield

Vicki DaSilva

Kathleen J. Graves

David Opdyke

Heather Dell

g a macura inc. and 222 East 41st Street are proud to present Light and Life: Contempo-rary Landscapes. The pieces included in this exhibition examine how landscapes are de-fined, developed, and presented in a 21st century context. Using contemporary technol-ogy and materials, each artist has cultivated and grown their own version of present-day “organic” scenery.

Turning the classic theme of landscapes on its ear, the featured artists present new and technically relevant settings that mirror our own collective understanding of our envi-ronment in the digital age. Whether through photography, sculpture, or mixed media, it becomes clear that technology, reconditioning of urban space, and utilization of resourc-es has reshaped our concept of a location and its possibilities.

In Kathleen J. Grave’s Garden Bot series, microorganisms assist humans in the planting and tending of gardens. These Nanobots are a futuristic representation of the cells em-ployed in the upkeep of our own bodies, and technological evolution begins to take on the appearance of an organic composition. In the same breadth, David Opdyke’s repur-posing of man-made materials – such as PVC and plastic – into natural-looking sculp-tures is an attempt to refurbish the resources we have cast away to create a new type of urban landscaping. Peeking out from the cracks in urethane piping in Divergent Distribu-tion Model, pink blossoms begin to overshadow the rust and past use of their hosts and transform both the appearance and context of these objects.

Using light to affect the ways we envision nature and its environments, Vicki DaSilva and Jackie Battenfield have created colorful, glowing works that alter our perception of the scenery in front of us. As in her stunning Light Tartans: Fountain Park #6, DaSilva uses her meticulous “light graffiti” technique to layer her photography of evening landscapes with vibrant light paths. The formation of these patterned, neon light quilts completely transforms the visual context of her nighttime scenes. Jackie Battenfield’s work, how-ever, focuses in on a macro context and utilizes light and color to bring attention to the makeup of trees and plants. Her beautiful interpretations of branches, leaves, and blos-soms take on an X-ray appearance, if X-Rays could be presented in vivid color. In Flame, her luminous diptych, harkens to an autumn afternoon where purple bark adds an ad-ditional intensity to the already radiant leaves.


Light and Life

The artists in this show have created methodical and technically skilled processes to de-velop new conceptualizations of environment and nature. As we move further into a digi-tal and technology-heavy existence, our surrounding spaces and scenery may also begin to assume new forms and configurations. Both exotic yet familiar, the scenes presented in Light and Life: Contemporary Landscapes bring us into an ever-developing, yet exciting, future.

Light & Life: Contemporary Landscapes will be on display through January 26, 2013. If you have questions about the exhibited work, please contact Glenn Macura of g a ma-cura inc. at 646-369-5462 or [email protected].

From right to left:

Artist Exhibited: David Opdyke

David Opdyke

Jackie Battenfield

Jackie Battenfield, David Opdyke

Jackie Battenfield

From Right to Left: Kathleen J. Graves, Vicki DaSilva

Vicki Dasilva

From Right to Left: Kathleen J. Graves, Vicki DaSilva

Jackie Battenfield

Jackie Battenfield is an artist known for her luminously colored paintings and prints of natural forces. She is fascinated by the most abstract qualities of landscape–storms, clouds, brushfires, and water ripples. A sur-vey of her graphic works, Moments of Change, opened at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond, October 2009 and traveled to the University of Arizona Museum in Tucson, 2011.

She is represented in several galleries in the United States, and is the recipient of the Pollock-Kras-ner Award (1991) and the Warren Tanner Award (1996). Her work is represented in over 500 collec-tions worldwide including: The New York Public Library, New York; The Zimmerli Art Museum, Mont-clair Art Museum, New Jersey; Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania; Museum of Art at the University of Arizona, Tucson; and the United States Embassy Collections, Brazil, Cambodia, Croatia, Jamaica, and Peru.

Solo Exhibitions2013 Town & Country: Jackie Battenfield & Deborah Brown, Allyn Gallup Gallery, Sarasota, FL2012 Field Notes, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.2011 Moments of Change, Prints by Jackie Battenfield, The University of Arizona Museum of Art Tuscon, AZ2009 Moments of Change, Prints by Jackie Battenfield, Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA2006 Shadow Play, Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Group Exhibitions2012 Light & Life: Contemporary Landscape, 221 East 41 Exhibition Space, NYC ♥+ Art, DM Contemporary, NYC2011 Awakening, Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ2008 The Future Must Be Sweet: Lower East Side Printshop

Celebrates 40 Years, International Print Center, NYC

Uncommon Ground, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

2007 Michelle Mosko Gallery, Denver, CO2006 Summer Rotation II, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT Lots of Landscapes, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL Four Printmakers, Haverford College, Haverford, PA Invisible Threads, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY

2005 Cool Art/Hot Summer, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL The Color of Night: How Artists Work With Darkness, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ

CollectionsBabson College, Boston, MADow Jones & Co. Inc., Princeton, NJFidelity Investments, Boston, MAHong Kong Regent Hotel, Hong KongMontclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJNew York Public Library, NYCOsaka Hyatt Hotel, Osaka, JapanPalace Hotel, Beijing, ChinaPalmer Museum of Art, University Park, PAProgressive Corporation, OHSasaki Collection, Tokyo, JapanUnited States of America, Department of State, Embassy Collections: Lima, Peru; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Sao Paolo, Brazil; Zaghreb, CroatiaUniversity of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, ArizonaUniversity of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VAThe Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, N.J.

Grants/Awards/Honors2011 Fulbright Scholar Program2009 Arts and Architecture Alumni Award, Pennsylvania State University2006-08 Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation2006 Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts New York Foundation for the Arts – Fiscal Sponsorship for An Artist’s Career GuideEducation1978 MFA, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, New York1971 BS, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

In Flame2012Acrylic on Mylar panel60 x 80 in.

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Hungry Teal2012Acrylic on Mylar panel40 x 50 in.

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Entwine2011Acrylic on Dura Lar panel40 x 60 in.

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Works by Jackie Battenfield

g a macura inc.249 Smith Street #117 Brooklyn, NY 11231 646-369-5462 [email protected]

Vicki DaSilva

Vicki DaSilva is a light graffiti and light painting pioneer. She has been making single frame time exposure photo-graphs at night since 1980. Her photographs are created at night, live and on location. These images are made possible through processes of recording that are unique to photography. The execution time varies in duration from minutes to hours per photograph. Her exploration of light graffiti and light painting as a multi-disciplinary, time-based art form anchored in the photographic process continues to push boundaries of intervention art.

Vicki DaSilva’s work has been featured in both solo and group exhibitions at Art Basel Miami Beach, Foun-tain Art Fair NYC, Able Fine Art NYC, HP Garcia Gallery NYC, Art Gotham NYC, among many others. In 2011 Reebok commissioned her for their Miami Classic Lite project. Vicki DaSilva is a two time PA Coun-cil on the Arts Fellowship recipient for photography. Her work is in numerous private and public collections.

Solo Exhibitions2012 Art Takes Times Square Electronic Billboards Architectural Digest Home Design Show, NYC2011 Reverb, Able Fine Art NY Gallery, 511 W 25th Street, NYC Architectural Digest Home Design Show, NYC2008 Speed of Light, Flanders 311, 311 West Martin St. Raleigh, NC,2006 Fluorescence, Art Gotham, 547 W 27th Street, NYC

Group Exhibitions2012 A Virtual Exhibition, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University Art Galleries Fountain Art Fair, NYC2011 Independence Day, Able Fine Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea Keystone Biennial, Silver Eye Center for Photography2010-11 Outsight Inn, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ2010 The Takeover, Art Whino, Art Basel Miami Beach Back to New York, HP Garcia Gallery, NYC Escape from New York, Paterson, NJ2009 Currents in Contemporary Photography, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC2008 Refracted Planes: Vicki DaSilva & Mia Yoon, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC Darkness, Darkness, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center PHOTOGRAPHY NOW 2008’ Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY2007 New Works, Online Gallery, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA The Square Foot Show, Art Gotham, 547 W 27th Street, NYC2006 Summer Thunder: Photos, Art Gotham, 547 W 27th Street, NYC PhotoImage ‘06, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia Center for Emerging Visual Artists Group Show, Philadelphia School District Administration Building2005 Movement, Art Gotham, 547 W 27th Street, NYC 9th Annual Juried Show, Allentown Art Museum2004-05 In Our Own Backyard, PA Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibit, Lancaster Museum of Art, Main Line Art Center, Erie Art Museum, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art,

Awards/Recognition2012 Art Takes Times Square international competition Solo Grand Prize Winner from 35,000 entrees2008 myartspace.com, Bridge Art Fair Miami competition, one of 50 finalists Hasselblad Masters ‘08 Semi-Finalist2007 myartspace.com, New York, New York 2007 competition, one of 50 finalists2005 Allentown Art Museum, Third Place, 29th Annual Juried Show

CollectionsGregg Museum of Art & DesignConcannon Miller CPAWacker Chemical CorporationLehigh Valley Health NetworkCedar Crest CollegeNumerous private collections

BibliographyMissy Magazine, Germany, 2011EnvironmentalGraffiti.com feature interview, April 28, 2009 by Karl FabriciusFormatMag.com feature interview, October 7, 2008Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM/Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2006

Homage to Josef Albers #62003C-print mounted on aluminum40 x 54 in.Ed.# 5 of 5

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Light Tartans: Foundtain Park #62008C-print mounted on aluminum40 x 60 in.Ed.# 1 of 5

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Roddie's Rock2012C-printed mounted on aluminum30 x 40 in.Ed.# 1 of 5

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Union Terrace #42006C-print mounted on alumninum40 x 54 in.Ed.# 2 of 5

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Works by Vicki DaSilva


Kathleen J. Graves

Kathleen Graves is the author of two current bodies of work that interpret interactions of humans with technology. The series called ‘Bot Dialectics’ are about making Gardens in consultation with Nanobots, who are Futuristic Life Forms. The Bots help direct and value the garden model and the purpose of the garden becomes a nexus of reflection and action. These ‘Bot Dialectics’ are part of the evolving human, to tech, to nature, discussions wherein the Garden is an environment and art form necessary to human survival.

Her other concurrent series ‘Longing For Certain Things’ reflects on the ghosts of medi-eval within technology. She alters identities and comments on sociological concerns utilizing cy-borgs, artificial intelligence and historical references, particularly the European medieval. Referenc-ing medieval customs and visuality, she brings future technologies into the mix imagining what may happen.

She is an Assistant Professor of Art and the Director of the Advanced Digital Print Studio at New York University.

Exhibitions2011 Papertails, 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY Alterations Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA2010 Home Sweet Home Project Room, Galerie Califia, Prague, Czech Republic Margins Controlling Fake Robot, The Commons Gallery, New York, NY Strauss Institute for Advanced Study of Law and Justice Collection, New York, NY BFI Screenings Programme 3 & 4 of the Peter Campus Screenings (Part 2) London, UK2009 Longing For Certain Things, Wagner Gallery, NYU, New York, NY Slips of Happiness, Frida Arte Galleria d’arte Contemporanea, Bari, Italy2008 Havana, Cuba Takasago Gallery, New York, NY One of Something Exhibit Space, NYU, New York, NY2007 Rome New Years Eve 2006 , NYU, New York, NY Dwellers - Chris and the Dinosaurs, NYU, New York, NY Havana, Cuba, 20 Years In NYU ICP, International Center for Photography, New York, NY2005 Chris and the Dinosaurs VII International Digital Art Exhibition, Havana, Cuba Digital Works NYIT, New York, NY

Garden Bot One2011Digital archive print, Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Bright White30 1/2 x 46 in. (framed)Ed. of 8

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Garden Bot Five2011Digital archive print, Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Bright White30 1/2 x 46 in.Ed. of 8

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Garden Bot Six2011Digital archive print, Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Bright White30 1/2 x 46 in.Ed. of 8

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Works by Kathleen J. Graves


David Opdyke

David Opdyke is a draughtsman and sculptor known for his trenchant political send-ups of American culture. Working as an architectural model maker, Opdyke had a political awakening in the early 2000s. Confronted by the horror of September 11th and America’s subsequent wars, Opdyke put his technical background to use, forming critiques of Bush-era ideology. His hyperrealistic topographical models of American suburbs comment on mall culture and suburban sprawl, while his sculptures of ruined monu-ments mock imperialistic hubris. In these works, symbols of power and American exceptionalism, such as an astronaut and the Capitol building, are reduced to crumbling, pathetic miniatures. Opdyke’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Arts and Design, MoMA PS1, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Solo Exhibitions2012 Accumulated Afterthoughts. Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, NYC2011 Bit Assemblage. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts at ADAA Art Show, NYC2009 Land of Plenty. Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit WI2008 Manifest Destination. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC Plan C. University at Albany Art Museum, Albany NY2007 Dredge. Roebling Hall, NYC2006 Drawings. BravinLee Programs, NYC Fabrications. Roebling Hall, NYC2004 Aldrich Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art American Paradigms. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC2003 Loose Ends. Roebling Hall, NYC2001 Small World. Roebling Hall, NYC

Group Exhibitions2012 Otherworldly. Part of Lille3000. Lille, France (upcoming)2011 #BWGSummer. Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, NYC MärklinWorld. Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, the Netherlands By the Sea. Cristin Tierney, NYC Otherworldly. Museum of Arts and Design, NYC2010 Drill Baby Drill. Gowanus Edge Curatorial Exchange, Brooklyn NY Nature of the Beast. HP Garcia Gallery, NYC Resurrectine. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC2009 Under Control. Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign IL Signs of the Apocalypse and Rapture. Hyde Park Arts Center,

Chicago IL Themes and Variations, On the Use of Repetition in 21st Century

Art, Cristin Tierney 548 W 28, NYC 2,191 Days and Counting. Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn NY Your Documents Please. Galeria Z, Bratislava, Slovakia2008 Art From Anxious Times. The Art Students League of New York, NYC Who Gets What: a political show. David Weinberg Gallery,

Chicago IL Artists and War. North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks ND HereThereEverywhere. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL New Prints 2008, Winter. International Print Center of New York, NYCcurated by Lawrence Weschler Models as Muse. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA Mr. President. University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany NY

Group Exhibitions (Cont.)2007 Climate of Concern), David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago IL, Models as Muse. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA Mr. President. University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany NY2006 National Image. Sherman Gallery at Boston University, Boston MA Global. Westport Art Center, Westport CT I Love the ‘Burbs. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY2005 Greater New York 2005. PS1, Queens NY Other America. Exit Art, NYC Dating Data. Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC

Awards and Residencies2011 Yaddo Artist Residency. Saratoga NY Collectors’ Edition, Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC2010 Percent for Art Commission. New public school: PS163 Bath Beach, Brooklyn Special Editions Residency. Lower East Side Printshop Commissioned permanent installation. Niskayuna High School, Niskayuna NY2009 Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program. New York NY Yaddo Artist Residency. Saratoga NY Special Editions Residency. Lower East Side Printshop Ginsberg Family Artist in Residence Award. Beloit College WI2008 Visiting Artist. University of Cincinnati, OH2007 Benefit Mystery Print. Lower East Side Printshop Visiting Artist. Teacher Institute for Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago2005 NYFA Fellowship. Sculpture NYFA Prize finalist

Education1992 BFA in Painting and Sculpture, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH

0° 18' 55" N 169° 28' 42" W2011Plastic, foam, paint, flock, map pins on door80 x 28 x 12 in.

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Divergent Distribution Model2012Cast urethane plastic, PVC, painted plastic23 x 34 x 18 in.

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Opportunistic Infrastructure Extension2012Cast urethane plastic, PVC, painted plastic66 x 29 x 20 in.

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Alternate Supply Spur2012Cast urethane plastic, PVC, painted plastic15 x 15 x 18 in.

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David Opdyke
