Apr 8, 2016Joani TremblayLandscape Gaze and Breezy Erudition, and What about Formal Freedom? April 22 - June 4, 2016Opening Reception: April 22nd, 7-9pm Tremblay’s exhibition Landscape Gaze and Breezy Erudition, and What About Formal Freedom? explores the transfer between the physical experience of a place and the imaginings it conjures by endeavoring to re-create the “feel” of an existing place. In this work, she is interested in how we connect to and experience the feeling of powerful, emotionally loaded places – landscapes that have a particular mystical, ritual or historical significance. This specific installation draws inspiration from the Untermyer Garden in New York state: an elaborate, century-old garden founded by Samuel Untermyer, then a prominent lawyer and Jewish-rights advocate, and designed in the Beaux-Arts style at the turn of the century. Upon Untermyer’s passing, the gardens were endowed to the state, abandoned, and soon fell into neglect, becoming a neo-renaissance-styled shelter for transient people and a mystical site for conducting occultist rituals. For several days, Tremblay walked, sketched, photographed and collected minerals and flora from the park as source material for her work, while internalizing a distinct feeling invoked by the esoteric history, architectural details and abandoned, outgrown aesthetic of the gardens. Post not marked as liked
Landscape Gaze and Breezy Erudition, and What about Formal Freedom? April 22 - June 4, 2016Opening Reception: April 22nd, 7-9pm Tremblay’s exhibition Landscape Gaze and Breezy Erudition, and What About Formal Freedom? explores the transfer between the physical experience of a place and the imaginings it conjures by endeavoring to re-create the “feel” of an existing place. In this work, she is interested in how we connect to and experience the feeling of powerful, emotionally loaded places – landscapes that have a particular mystical, ritual or historical significance. This specific installation draws inspiration from the Untermyer Garden in New York state: an elaborate, century-old garden founded by Samuel Untermyer, then a prominent lawyer and Jewish-rights advocate, and designed in the Beaux-Arts style at the turn of the century. Upon Untermyer’s passing, the gardens were endowed to the state, abandoned, and soon fell into neglect, becoming a neo-renaissance-styled shelter for transient people and a mystical site for conducting occultist rituals. For several days, Tremblay walked, sketched, photographed and collected minerals and flora from the park as source material for her work, while internalizing a distinct feeling invoked by the esoteric history, architectural details and abandoned, outgrown aesthetic of the gardens.
