Press release of 'Engrams' exhibit at ICP and PS1 MoMA. New York,Sep, 2015.


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TWO EXHIBITIONS WITH IVANA LARROSA AT ICP AND PS1 MoMA

September 18- September 20th

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Opening reception: Thursday, September 18, 5 – 7 PM at PS1 MoMA, New York
Opening reception: Saturday, September 20, 6 – 8 PM at ICP-Bard MFA Studios, New York


Ancestral Portrait MD, 2015. Ivana Larrosa
Gliclée reproduction on fine art paper embellished with crystals 8x11"

NEW YORK, September 2015.
International Center of Photography- Bard is pleased to present its second group exhibition with Spanish – New York based mixed media artist Ivana Larrosa at two different locations in New York this weekend.
For these exhibition MFA candidate will present for the first time her new work of textiles, chemigrams, photo-paintings and embellished photographs of her series “Engrams”.


The exhibition, which is on view at the ICP-Bard MFA U02 booth at the Printed Matter 10th Annual New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, includes five embellished textiles that she made this summer in collaboration with sculptor and textile artist Elyse Allen, as well as two embellished photographs. The show continues two blocks north at ICP-Bard 2016 MFA 2nd Open Studios at our 24-20 Jackson Ave, Long Island City space, with the debut of Ivana Larrosa’s video performance pieces, created this summer at Haystack Art Residency in Maine, and her family archive series.

The new body of work features Larrosa’s expanding exploration into the car accident that left her with permanent double vision since 2002. Rooted in this accident, Larrosa has developed an aesthetic that has turned into a celebration, exuberant, playful, as well as eccentric and goofy. Identity emerges to reveal the impossibility of representing trauma inherent in Larrosa’s work. Through her reenactments and performances, Larrosa investigates the visual representation of peak experiences and memory as an act of psychological health and an attribute of the self-actualizing person.
Ivana Larrosa uses the scan as a medium of connections between present-past and gender identity, like a reenactment of brain imaging technique. As she describes “the scanned distortions are like engrams, like physical memory trace stored in my brain that helped me to catalyze my feelings about my female role in my family.”

Ivana Larrosa embellishes, paints, creates psychedelic rolls and scanned distortions with her family photo archive. Each method is specific to the subject and meant to ignite and recharge the image, often that following the pattern of her diplopia. She blends colors to create new palettes that activate and give depth and breathe life into her imagery.

Concurrently on view at ICP-Bard MFA studios, 10x10 Photobooks and the ICP Library present Daisuke Yokota: Color Photographs and Photobooks by Young Japanese Photographers: 2005–2015, two pop-up exhibitions highlighting contemporary Japanese photography and photobooks on view during the NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 and ICP- Bard Open Studios. Opening reception: Saturday, September 20, 6 – 8 PM

HOURS AND LOCATION:
Friday, September 18, 1-7pm
Saturday, September 19, 11am-9pm
Sunday, September 20, 11-am-7pm
MoMA PS1 is located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY

Friday, September 18, 12-8pm
Saturday, September 19, 12-9pm
Sunday, September 20, 12-5pm
ICP-Bard Studios is located at 24-20 Jackson Avenue - 3rd Floor, Long Island City, NY



About Ivana Larrosa
Ivana Larrosa (b. Logroño, Spain) holds a BA in Media Studies and Mass Communication from University of Navarra (Spain) and is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Advanced Photographic Studies at International Center of Photography-Bard College in New York with expected completion in Spring 2016. She lives and works in New York.
Her work has been has been shown at many venues in United States including Umbrella Arts Gallery (New York), The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins,CO), Castell Gallery (Asheville, NC) and New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. Also at Espacio Aglutinador (Havana), Project Space Kleiner Salon (Berlin), and in Spain at Spanish National Museum of Sculpture, Archaeological and Ethnographic Soler Blasco Museum, University Museum of Alicante, State Public Library of Zaragoza and Galeria Sicart. Ivana Larrosa’s work has become part of the permanent collection in Foundations, Museums, Institutions and Private Collections. She has received grants from Lluís Carulla Foundation (Spain, 2010), Passanant Foto and Museum of Tortosa (Spain, 2013 and 2014), and also numerous awards, highlighting International Photographic Award Ramon Aloy 2013 and Best Photo 2010 International Award ‘The Aperture Light’. 

About Ellyse Allen
Elyse herself is a Pennsylvania born, New York City based textile artist and designer. She studied Sculpture and Textile Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she later taught and lectured in the Textile Department. Her recent work focuses on embellished knit textiles in diverse forms, from cashmere studded accessories to elaborate mixed media animal masks.

About International Center of Photography – Bard
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to the practice and understanding of photography and the reproduced image in all its forms. Through our exhibitions, school, public programs, and community outreach, we offer an open forum for dialogue about the role images play in our culture. Since our founding, we have presented more than 700 exhibitions and offered thousands of classes, providing instruction at every level.

The ICP-Bard MFA program offers an exploration into the ways in which the photograph operates in society. The ICP-Bard approach emphasizes creative vision and openness to examining the many iterations of the image, from photography to digital imaging, installation, and video. By considering how photographs are created, presented, discussed, used, and documented, students gain an intimate knowledge of the ways in which images increasingly structure modern society and consciousness.


For all press inquires please contact ICP-Bard at info@icpbardmfa.org

'Repòs' en el Museu de Tortosa


Repòs [Repose], my last installation is about reserve room of Museum of Tortosa. It's a site specific composed by the sculptures of the reserve room, photography and video. Sculptures of the late nineteenth century, awaiting eternally for an exhibition space, while they rest in the reserve room of this spanish museum.

ANTONI GARCIA ROOM. MUSEU DE TORTOSA. JUNE 2014
Images from this series have been chosen as finalists of the ‘I International Sculpture Photography Contest’ organized by the Ministry of Culture of Spain and exhibited in the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, becoming part of the Museum’s permanent collection. This project have been also awarded with 1st Prize 'Passanant Produeix 2013'.

I explores this inedit context through the own sculpture works, that rest in the room, and through the plastic research, about this space as a museum that is not exhibited to public.

ANTONI GARCIA ROOM. MUSEU DE TORTOSA. JUNE 2014

A constant in my narrative and poetic work, is to capture the memory recorded in each object, the traces left by the time, through photography and video projection. So do in Repos [Repose], focusing on the sculpture stored in the reserve room, and storage conditions, designed to cushion the passage of time and the action of environmental elements over the matter of the work.

With this installation I seek to reanimate these inamitate pieces whose artistic life has been very short - they have been mutilated, fragmented, stolen, hidden ... - . The most important pieces are the photographs covered with a vinyl. The viewer is reflected on this vinyl but his image is confused with the image of the statue that is in an underlayer. When he approaches, the light turns on and the image of the statue comes to life. It is the viewer who releases the stored energy in that Reserve Room. He returns to the sculpture its function for which this piece of art was designed.
ANTONI GARCIA ROOM. MUSEU DE TORTOSA. JUNE 2014

Other actions connected to this project are taking stones and soil from tombs of the four leading sculptors, move out a piece of each author to an exhibit space but not open to public... actions return to the sculptures of their own identity and dignity.

You can visit the exhibit @MuseudeTortosa until 27 July 2014.



PERMANENT COLLECTION ROOM. MUSEU DE TORTOSA. MARCH 2012. VIDEO 3’35” HD 720 PROGRESSIVE 16/9

 ‘Repòs’ (Reposo) es mi última instalación que puede visitarse en el Museu de Tortosa. Se trata de una instalación artística realizada con las esculturas de la Sala de Reserva del Museu de Tortosa, fotografía y vídeo. Algunas de estas imágenes han sido finalistas del I Concurso de Fotografía de Escultura convocado por el Ministerio de Cultura y expuesto en el Museo Nacional de Escultura en Valladolid, pasando a formar parte de su fondo. Este proyecto ha sido también ganador de la beca de producción fotográfica ‘Passanant Produeix 2013’.

  ‘Repòs’ (Reposo), nos traslada a la sala de reserva del Museu de Tortosa a través de las propias obras escultóricas depositadas en ella, y de la investigación plástica que he realizado sobre este contexto inédito, en el que se encuentran custodiadas las obras de un museo no expuesto al público.

MATERIAL EXTRACTED FORM SCULPTORE'S TOMB IN POLYESTER FILM COVER (MELINEX)
Una de las constantes en mi obra narrativa y poética es captar la memoria grabada en cada objecto, la impronta del paso del tiempo. A través de la fotografía y de la videoprojección, así lo hago también en  ‘Repòs’ (Reposo), dirigiendo la mirada a la escultura almacenada en la sala de reserva y en las condiciones de conservación dirigidas a amortiguar el paso del tiempo y la acción de los elementos ambientales sobre la materia de la obra.

Con esta instalación busco reanimar lo inanimado de estas esculturas de corta vida artística, y que han sido mutiladas, fragmentadas, escondidas y robadas. He documentado acciones como extraer elementos de las tumbas de los cuatro escultores más relevantes de esta serie, o, trasladar una pieza de cada autor a una sala expositiva que no está abierta al público.

Uno de los ejes principales de la instalación es que el espectador sea quien devuelva a las esculturas la función para la que fueron concebidas. De este modo, la imagen está cubierta por un vinilo en el que se confunde el reflejo del espectador con la imagen de la estatua. Cuando el espectador se aproxima, la luz se activa y la imagen de la estatua se reanima, liberando la energía almacenada en esa Sala de Reservas.


La exposición se puede visitar en el Museu de Tortosa hasta el 27 de julio.

'Chrysalis Veils' at The Center of Fine Art Photography



The Center for Fine Art Photography
  
Untitled (UFO) ©  Jim Kazanjian
Main Gallery
Black and White| Juror Jason Landry
Exhibition Dates |May 23 - July 12 , 2014
Artist and Public Reception | June 6, from 6:00 - 9:00 PM Black and White Exhibition talk with Jason Landry and Hamidah Glasgow
5:00 pm Free and open to the public 
rsvp contact@c4fap.org
Followed by a book signing of "Instant Connections" written by Jason Landry

Exhibiting Artists:

Maria Abadia, Sasha Andruzheych, Lewis Bales, Preston Buchtel, Maija Burnett, James Chrzan, Rich Cortez, Jim Crowley, Robert Curl, Raynor Czerwinski, Corinne DiPietro, Michael Donnor, Frang Dushaj, Robert Earp, Benoit Fournier, Randolph Fritz, Michael Frye, Pauline Gola, Bill Harbin, William Harper, Wolfgang Hastert, Jane Heater, Brett Henrikson, William Hughes, Elizabeth Ireland, Susan Jacobs, Jim Kazanjian, Scott Lerman, Catherine Liberda, Anita Licis-Ribak, Erika Masterson, Alyssa Minahan, David Morel, Bronwyn Morrison, Mary Mulford, Dale Niles, Dustin Panzino, Anuar Patjane, Steve Pearlman,  Babak Pejman-Aryan, Pistolwish, Don Russell, Anastasiia Sapon, Aoife Shanahan, Monica Shulman, Ethan Smith, Larry Snider, Carmen Spitznagel, Martha Thomas, and Paul Wainwright. 
Artist/Public Reception and Book Launch | June 6 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Exhibition Dates| June 6 - July 26 , 2014
Exhibiting Artist's: Nicole Avey, Randi Beach, Sandra Chen Weinstein, Frances F. Denny, Miki Hasegawa, Eileen Keator, Ivana Larrosa, Brenda Lindfors, Erin Malone, Matthew Nighswander, Ni Rong, Mark Sawrie, Deb Schwedhelm, Julia Vandenoever, and Terri Warpinski.

Exhibition Dates|June 6 - July 22, 2014
Artist and Public Reception | July 11 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Talk and book signing with Patrick Nagatani at 5pm July 11, 2014

Ushnishavijaya © Patrick Nagatani 

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