UPON FURTHER REVIEW ::
Looking at Sports in
Contemporary Art

Opening Reception:
Sunday, October 21, 1-4pm 2007

curator Tim Laun
October 14 - November 28, 2007

Upon Further Review: Looking at Sports in Contemporary Art features video, computer animation, photography, installations and paintings that deal with sports as a global industry, a local phenomenon, a source of civic and national pride, and an activity in which fans can find personal meaning and gratification.

The participating artists are:
Scott Bowe, Rob Carter, Jeff Mongrain, Junpei Murao, Rebecca Loyche, Tom Kokit, Susannah Ray, Freddie Rodriguez and Lee Walton.

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Scott Bowe ::

Scott Bowe's meticulous sculpture, We Are the Champions, is a model of his high school football stadium constructed from memory. By recasting a usually colorful and crowded environment in stark, empty white, he renders it at once familiar and alien.

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Rob Carter ::

Rob Carter's video animations and photographic collages create fictional trajectories of architectural evolution: churches give way to stadiums, which to give way to even bigger stadium. The absurd and playful nature of Carter's work belies a deeper commentary.

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Tom Kotik ::

Tom Kotik's interactive sculptures combine architecture and sound. In his piece crowd control, Kotik invites the viewer to move parts of a sculpture to generate and manipulate the noise of a stadium crowd.

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Rebecca Loyche ::

Rebecca Loyche shifts the focus from the spectacle to the spectator in her series of recent photographs. Visiting horse races, Loyche trains her camera on the audience to isolate intense individual reactions to the race.

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Jeff Mongrain ::

Mongrain's recent sculpture and installations have addressed the inherent spirituality of various architectural spaces: churches, synagogues, and even stadiums. In "Luckiest Man" Mongrain creates a compelling minimal sculpture derived from the sound wave of Loug Gehrig's famous speech at Yankee stadium.

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Jun Pei Murao ::

Jun Pei Murao's experience as a baseball player has informed his work as an artist. Raised in Japan and now based in New York, Murao uses baseball as an interesting lens to understand cultural differences, themes which he then develops through sculpture and video.

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Susannah Ray ::

For the past two years Susannah Ray has documented a community of surfers in Far Rockaway New York. Her compelling and personal portraits also function as mysterious landscapes that challenge our notion of beach culture.

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Freddy
Rodriquez ::

Freddy Rodriquez is a painter and sculptor who makes work about baseball. In his painting, Pedro, Rodriguez elevates a famous baseball player to the status of a religious icon.

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Lee Walton ::

Lee Walton is a conceptual artist whose projects and performances require detailed planning and interaction with the outside world. One Shot a Day is a five-month long, video performance, in which Walton plays an entire round of golf by taking only one shot each day.

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Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA) gratefully acknowledges support from the Arts Fund for Rockland, a project of the Arts Council of Rockland, as well as the County of Rockland, the Town of Clarkstown, NY Council for the Humanities, Orange & Rockland Utilities, 1-866-I Don't Know, Center Members and Donors.

This program is made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency.