A sound installation by Cardon+McNulty and photographs by Stephanie Cardon
Jane Deering Gallery, 18 Arlington Street, Gloucester, MA
Friday 1 July – Saturday 30 July, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday 7 July, 2011 from 6 to 8
The Gallery is pleased to present ABOVE WITHIN BELOW, an exhibition combining recent photographs by Stephanie Cardon and a sound installation by Cardon+McNulty created for the studio space.
Visual artist Stephanie Cardon and composer/audio artist Marc McNulty have created a sonic and sculptural environment conveying sensations of instability and precariousness usually felt on a larger scale. With increasingly numerous and alarming accounts of disastrous floods, storms and quakes, Cardon+McNulty felt compelled to transform a place we would see as shelter into a space that evokes anything but safety. They hope to bring some tangibility to an experience that for many of us remains abstract, though perhaps increasingly less so.
The interior of the studio has been modified to exaggerate its existing floor-plan, with its angled wall, low ceiling and New England aesthetic. Light dynamically alters the space in counterpoint to sound from opposing ends of the audible spectrum, creating an experience that is responded to viscerally rather than interpretively.
ABOVE WITHIN BELOW is the first of several collaborative experiments Cardon+McNulty plan to conduct along this theme. Both artists have worked individually on related topics.
Marc McNulty has described his compositions as 'cinema for the ear' and claims his hobby is 'chasing charged particles'. He collects vibrations caused by electro-magnetic disturbances in the radio-frequency spectrum, translating to an audible range. He composes multi-channel sound pieces that envelop the listener in these 'cinematic' environments. He has performed internationally, most recently at the New England Conservatory and has been a repeat guest on WZBC's Rare Frequency.
Stephanie Cardon's work, combining installation, writing, photography and video, creates a nexus of fiction and history, a place half-reliable, half-confabulated. Her pieces draw on storytelling, map spaces both visually and verbally, investigate historical texts and literary classics, create photographic archives. Her pieces seem to be about place, but often the space described is entirely fictional or strongly reinterpreted. Cardon has exhibited her work here and abroad, most recently at Kingston Gallery in Boston and at Le Garage, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France.
Cardon's photographs, presented in the house, represent a small selection of recent images that relate to the studio installation. Her long standing interest in landscape and natural spaces has often guided her photography. Here we see a combination of attentive details and stark vistas: a Polyphemus Moth shuddering in the wind, a hillside of tangled brambles leading to a sand-blasted horizon, frozen grass and ice that takes on the quality of an X-ray. The images are somber observations gathered on solitary walks.
See and listen to more of their work at www.marcmcnulty.org and www.stephaniecardon.com
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