A bridge too far

10 September - 21 December 2011

Art Wall on Third Exhibition

 

The Art Collection, 3rd floor

 

Mid-Manhattan Library

 

The Art and Picture Collections at Mid-Manhattan Library present Storylights a three-part site-specific exhibition featuring the work of artist Katherine Jackson. The exhibition title conveys the dual nature of libraries: physical structures ("stories") housing the most intangible realities and the endlessly proliferating "stories" that humankind tells itself. Storylights consists of edge-lit or back lit etched glass sculptures and preparatory drawings for the glass pieces. The new work includes large scale abstract images inspired by architectural elements of Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. These combine with previously made text-based work -- which tell or hint at stories -- along with images of bridges (most notably, the Manhattan Bridge). All are lit with LEDs or fluorescent lights. The effect is to suggest the bringing together (“bridging”) of the luminous world of the imagination and the outer world of steel, stone and light.

 

Artist and 2011 Guggenheim Fellow Katherine Bardford joins Jackson for An Artist Dialogue on December 17 at 2:30 p.m. in the Corner Room on the 1st floor.

 

Storylights, pt. 1 exhibition, on view through January 3, 2012, is held inside the reading room on the first floor

 

Art in the Windows

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Katherine Jackson

Stories & Columns, glass, LED's. 2011 © Katherine Jackson

Storylights, pt. 3

 

 

01 December 2011 – 3 January 2012

Art in Windows Exhibition

 

On view day and night

 

Mid-Manhattan Library

40th Street @ 5th Avenue

New York, NY 10016

212-340-0871

Mon-Thu 8-11 Fri 8-8 Sat-Sun 10-6

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