Through The Spectrum - Athr Gallery

ATHR Gallery cordially invite you to the opening of: [Through The spectrum] A group show featuring installations by: Anne Senstad, Carlos Cruz-Diez, James Turrell, Leo Villareal, Nasser Al Salem, Robert Irwin and Timo Nasseri.

[Opening Remarks] an exhibition created for young and new collectors. And the second edition of [RAW Print] an event that highlights the work of independent artists, publishers, galleries and magazines that are leaders in the field of art publishing in Saudi Arabia. Monday, May 28 at 9:30pm

اثر يدعوكم لحضور افتتاح كلاً من: [من خلال الطيف] معرض جماعي يقدم اعمال تركيبية ل: احمد ماطر، آن سنستاد، كارلوس كروز دياز، جيمس توريل، ليو فياريال، ناصر السالم، روبرت اروين، تيمو ناصري.
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[اوبينينج ريماركس] معرض معد خصيصاً للمقتنيين الصاعدين و المبتدئين. .
كما يقدم أيضاً النسخة الثانية من [معرض المطبوعات الفنية] حيث يعرض اعمال لفنانين و ناشرين و معارض و المجلات التي تعد رائدة في مجال النشر الفني في المملكة العربية السعودية.
كل ذلك يوم الإثنين، ٢٨ مايو، ٩:٣٠ مساءً في اثر جاليري، جدة.

Through The Spectrum exhibition is show casing Elements, 2018 by Anne Senstad @annesenstad . Opening Monday, May 28,2018 9:30 pm at Athr Gallery, Jeddah, SaudiArabia. 

Anne Senstad examines the sensorial architecture and philosophies on perception through light, color and sound. Her immersive sculptural light installation ELEMENTS defines space through topologies of vertical light, the phenomenon of color in relation to its nature, a non-objective space of frequencies, structuralities and elements. In dialogue with an enveloping color horizon, the vertical color spectrums create a sensorial materialization of an internal enlightenment inviting the public into the artwork itself as a meditative spatial experience. 

Elements, 2018

Immersive sculptural neon light installation.Scale variable.Neon tubes, polyurethane rods, transformers, attachments, electrical wires.

THROUGH THE SPECTRUM

The exhibition bases its foundation around Luminism and the relationship that the containment of light has between our environment and our engagement with it.

Renowned artists are showcasing seminal works, each treats light in a unique way allowing the viewer to immerse oneself into the light through variable formations and positioning. These installations of light are put together to exceed their material, thus allowing a flow of transcendent effects on the viewer, to steer and expand the human consciousness.

This experiential and interactive exhibition sets to subvert notions of light and space as we understand them, and the cross overs these may have in playing with our perceptions and psychology. All together are intended to explore the human visual perception, and how both light and color affect our emotions or change the way we feel within a space.

One artist creates a sensorial representation of unlimited possibilities of the imagination and of existence.  These representation are created out of chaos—the experience of infinity within us.

While other artists explore color theory and pushes the boundaries of light to divide and redefine space all the while blurring the lines between each hue and indeed our visual perception of it.

Whether the gradual adjustment of color around one room renders it unperceivable, or if one is met with the sheer starkness of color in the next, they all require the reliable rendering of the eye to distinguish the stability of the space and the accuracy of the color of the original environment.

What is experienced depends on their physical positioning within the space, coupled with their own psychological state and visual perception. The ephemeral nature of transitory light shifts the stability within our understanding of 3 dimensional space as we have grown to know it, allowing for a new perception of how we view our surrounding reality to be created.

Participating artists: Anne Senstad, Carlos Cruz-Diez, James Turrell, Leo Villareal, Nasser Al Salem, and Robert Irwin.

This exhibition is in collaboration with Cruz-Diez Art Foundation and Pace Gallery

ELEMENTS - ATHR Gallery

I'm thrilled to announce the opening of the exhibition THROUGH THE SPECTRUM - May 28th at 9.30 pm at ATHR Gallery in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia that runs through August 2018. The exhibition celebrates Ramadan with a thorough presentation of artists who focus on light, color, time and space through the experiential, immersivity and perception. THROUGH THE SPECTRUM presents Anne Senstad, James Turell, Robert Irwin, Carlos Cruz Diez, Leo Villareal, Nasser Al Salem and Timo Nasseri. 

As part of this groundbreaking exhibition and equisit selection of light and space artists, I will present a new immersive light and color sculptural installation entitled ELEMENTS. The installation defines space through topologies of vertical light, the phenomenon of color in relation to its nature, and structures of elements. In dialogue with an enveloping color horizon, the vertical color spectrums create a sensorial materialization of an internal enlightenment inviting the public into the artwork itself as a meditative spatial experience.

For further info on the exhibition, please contact info@athrart.com 

AIRMATTRESS GALLERY New York

Inaugural exhibition 2 D Or Not 2D 
Curated by Mark DeMuro. 

May 1 - June 1, 2018

Air Mattresss gallery
2350 Broadway
New York, NY 10024

Director: Mark DeMuro

By appointment: mark@markfineart.com

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Press and general inquiries: airmattressgallerynyc@gmail.com

Artists: Anne Senstad, Abdolreza Alminlari, Peter Coffin,  Kenny Curwood, Jane Fine, Mary-Ann Monforton, Maynard Monrow, Paul Pagk,  Rayberry, Lauren Seiden, Armando Vive and Ben Peterson.

From Other Worlds - The Yard, New York

Anne Senstad   From Other Worlds  Curated by Sarah Crown May 2 - July 21, 2018 Mon-Fri, 9.30 am - 5.30 pm and by appointment The Yard - Columbus Circle, 33 W 60th Street,  New York NY,  10023  The exhibition runs on the 2nd, 11th and 12th floors. Curatorial text: From Other Worlds   On my light and color installation work by curator Sarah Crown, published in Berlin Art Link: Light Writes Always in Plural FROM OTHER WORLDS From Other Worlds presents photographic works from two series Anne Senstad produced between 2013-2015, Universals Foldouts and Color Kinesthesia. By interweaving an elaborate amalgamation of an analogue and technological tapestry, her work examines the phenomena of light and color, space and volume; the narratives of perception and the processes within hybridization of elements. Color Kinesthesia derives from projections of color over time, into corners and structures, where the blending of one color into another, cause chromatic compositions in an impregnated space. The kinaesthetic colors continue to create new identities as Senstad photographs them onto color film negative, allowing for chemical reactions to take place on the celluloid level. These elements embedded in focused acts of seeing and observation carry across into the idea of solidifying the imagined space, where a series of sculptural works were born from her light and color installations; Universals. In Plato’s ideas of Universals, the objects are abstracts with characteristics of perception, much as in Malevich’s Suprematism. In Senstad’s foldouts of her Universals sculptures, she has deconstructed the very object she created, the map of her creation, and unfolded it to a recipe for re-assembly. As a silent witness to the final sculpture-potential, the shape contains collaged color film in the place of its original completion, a finality in itself, yet a dialogue between before and after. In her practice, Senstad delves deeply into the relationship between the senses, especially between the ocular, the science of color vision and the aural language. Engrained in the foundation of her work we find perception — how what we see, including the colors around us, shape how we feel. The stimuli are objective but the experiences are subjective, mirroring ourselves, our brains, and our psyches. Senstad’s work follows this complex investigation of what is physical versus what is psychological, and where these lines blur. It does so generously, unveiling atomic truths on both ends of the spectrum and at many points in between.

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Soft Geometry - TRAFO KUNSTHALL

SOFT GEOMETRY / ANNE KATRINE SENSTAD


JANUARY 13 - FEBRUARY 25, 2018

TRAFO KUNSTHALL
LENSMANNSLIA 60
1386 ASKER, NORWAY

OPENING - JANUARY 13, 1-4 PM


“The sun, I presume you will say, not only furnishes to visibles the power of visibility but it also provides for their generation and growth and nurture though it is not itself generation.”
 
Plato, The Republic, Book. VI, Section 509 D


Anne Katrine Senstad's interdisciplinary practice has since the mid 90’s crossed photography, video, neon sculpture, immersive and site specific installations. Her work has throughout her career been focused on the phenomena of perception and the sensorial elements; light, color, sound with a consideration for color theory, science and technology. 
 
Neon light occupies space with a natural enveloping softness and emotive language inviting the viewer into subliminal ways of perceiving the object through the essence of light and color. Her multiple forms of light installations are ways of working with and understanding spatial relations in terms of the psychological space, by seeing, observing and controlling suggested perceptions of the sensorial elements.
 
In the neon sculpture series Soft Geometry, Senstad begins by transposing a space inhabited by light from her video projection installations Color Synesthesia I-VII, 2005 – 2015, (Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway). The space is then outlined as a potential object through line drawings based on Senstad’s cognitive interpretations. As the projected colors shift through hues over intervals of time, the form of the imagined object changes, from squares to triangles, where its own essence exists as pure potential, towards synthesis. These forms create illusions of space, mass and object. The light-line drawings she creates are flat, but illuminate space dimensionally through optical illusion. The origin of the geometric form is light, captured and impregnating a space, to navigate itself into suggesting solid form that becomes the Soft Geometry neon sculptures. 

New York based Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad was educated at Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research in New York. Notable exhibitions include her controversial In Absentia exhibition Topologies for a Vertical Sound with composer C.C. Hennix - Displaced from the Void Rooms of Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli during the 57th Venice Biennale, her solo show The Vanity of Vanities at El Magazen Dell’Arte during the 56th Venice Biennale,  and UNIVERSALS at Officina Delle Zattere, Collaterali Eventi 55th Venice Biennale. In 2015 she produced a 90 ft long text based LED sculpture commissioned by the Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale in Belgium entitled Gold Guides Me(Capitalism in the Public Realm). Public art commissions include with architecture firms Snøhetta, at The Wolfe Center for the Arts, Ohio and TWBT Architects, Penn State Engineering Building. Her work is represented in private, corporate and institutional collections.

Anne Katrine Senstad
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SOFT GEOMETRY
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​Senstads mangefasetterte kunstnerskap har siden midten av 90 – tallet beveget seg mellom fotografi, video, installasjon og neonskulptur. Arbeidet hennes tar for seg fenomenologien ved persepsjon med en fokus på sanseopplevelser hvor hun vektlegger fargeteori og de okulære og soniske erfaringene.
Gjennom Senstads lysinstallasjoner finner vi en måte å arbeide på for å forstå romlighet med psykologi som bakteppe. Dette gjør hun ved å ved å observere og kontrollere sansninger av elementene. Neon fyller utstillingsrommet med et naturlig mykt lys, i et følelsesladet språk som lar betrakteren oppleve objektet gjennom lys og farge. I neonskulpturserien Soft Geometry tar Senstad utgangspunkt i en videoprojeksjon av verket Color Synesthesia VII som skaper et lysfylt, mettet rom bestående av bevegelige farger og lyd. Synesthesia er en tilstand hvor stimulering av et av sanseorganene leder til automatiske eller ufrivillige sansinger i en av de andre sansene. I dette åpne, fargelagte rommet plasserer Senstad det geometriske lysobjektet.
- Når de projiserte fargene skifter nyanser over tid, endres formen til det imaginære objektet fra firkanter til triangler, hvor essensen av hver form eksisterer som et potensiale til å forme en syntese. Vi har en optisk illusjon av rom, masse og objekt. Her er utgangspunktet for den geometriske formen, den fødes i lyset, betraktes og redefineres i Soft Geometry, forteller Senstad.

Anne Katrine Senstad (1967) er utdannet ved New School for Social Research, Parsons School of Design i New York og Berkeley University i California. Hun bor og arbeider i Oslo og New York. Hun har utført utsmykningsoppdrag for Snøhetta New York og Todd Williams/Billie Tsien architects. Tidligere utstillinger er bla Bruges Art and Architecture Trienniale, Veneziabiennalen i 2013, 2015 og 2017, Athr Gallery i Jeddah, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Bjørn Ressle Gallery og Gary Snyder Gallery i New York, Good Children Gallery og Prospect 1 i New Orleans, Bærum Kunsthall, Kunsthall 3,14, Utsikten Kunstsenter, K4 Galleri og Shoot Gallery. Hun er innkjøpt av Zendai MOMA og en rekke privatsamlere.

A:CODE Light Festival in London

A:CODE Light Festival in Soho London January 13-28, 2018. I will be participating with an immersive chamber version of Color Synesthesia VII, 2015 with sound by Catherine C. Hennix. 

Features:
Norwegian Arts 
This is Soho

Please do get connected!! 

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INST: https://www.instagram.com/acode_org/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ACODE_org?lang=en-gb

Video stills: Color Synesthesia VII, 2015 by Anne Senstad. Sound by Catherine C Hennix.

TIME BEYOND PLACE at Corcoran School of Art Washington DC

Wisal

وصال

A symposium on Cross Cultural Collaboration

The Corcoran School of Arts & Design

at George Washington University

TIME BEYOND PLACE by Anne Senstad will be presented as part of the 1 day symposium at Corcoran School of the Arts on December 4th, 10.30  am - 12.00 pm.

Please join us on December 4, 2017 for Wisal - A Symposium on Cross-Cultural Collaboration examining the concept of collaboration and how it has existed in cultural practice both in Saudi Arabia and beyond. 

This one-day symposium will focus on grassroots, national, and transnational collaborations both in the United States and in Saudi Arabia with a concentration on the Bridges Program, an initiative by King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra).

The aim is to discuss different examples of the transformative ways art and creativity can be a catalyst for cross-cultural understanding and to effect meaningful change in communities. It will also act as a platform for future cross-cultural collaborations and act as a catalyst for such work.

Email info@culturunners.com to RSVP by December 1, 2017

DESCRIPTION

Event Description: 

Please join us on December 4, 2017, for 

Wisal - A Symposium on Cross-Cultural 

Collaboration examining the concept of 

collaboration and how it has existed in 

cultural practice both in Saudi Arabia 

and beyond. This one-day symposium 

will focus on grassroots, national, and

 transnational collaborations both in the

 United States and in Saudi Arabia with 

a concentration on the Bridges Program, 

an initiative by King Abdulaziz Center for 

World Culture (Ithra). The aim is to discuss

 different examples of the transformative 

ways art and creativity can be a catalyst for 

cross-cultural understanding and to effect 

meaningful change in communities. It will also

 act as a platform for future cross-cultural 

collaborations and act as a catalyst for such work.

Please RSVP by December 1, 2017

In Brief:

Date: December 4, 2017

Location: Hammer Auditorium

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

500 17th Street NW

Washington, DC 20006

Time: 8.30 AM-5:30 PM, followed by a reception 

Questions? sfaour@gmail.com 

Media Related Inquiries: Amelia Thompson, 

202-994-6461, athompson7@email.gwu.edu

Speakers and Panelist Include: Yusef Alarmed, 

Asad Ali-Jafri, Noor Daham, Basmah 

Fuelemban, Abdulrahman Gazzaz, 

Joseph Kunkel, Ahmed Mater, 

Michael Mogensen, Carmen Montoya, 

David Scanavino, Kate Seelye, Anne Senstad, 

Sanjit Sethi, Allison Smith, Caroline Woolard 

Symposium Schedule

8.30 am - Introduction by Sanjit Sethi, 

Director of the Corcoran School of 

the Arts and Design at the 

George Washington University

Location: Hammer Auditorium

9.30 am - Opening Remarks - Kate Selye, 

Senior Vice President of the Middle East Institute

Location: Hammer Auditorium

10:00 am - Creativity, Collaboration and 

Environment Presentation by Joseph Kunzel, 

William Wilson Corcoran Visiting Professor

 in Community Engagement

Location: Hammer Auditorium

Description: William Wilson Corcoran 

Visiting Professor of Community Engagement 

Joseph Kunzel will present on the 

groundbreaking work he and fellow

 collaborators are pursuing in 

Native American communities that 

address issues around public housing 

and cultural sustainability with implications 

for indigenous communities globally.

10.30 am - Breakout Session #1: Developing

 the  First World

 Location: Room 111

Panelists: Assistant Professor of Sculpture & Spatial 

Practices at the Corcoran Carmen Montoya and 

Asad Ali-Jafri of Ghana Think Tank

Description: This session will focus on two 

projects by the Ghana ThinkTank: the Mobile 

Mosque and American Riad. Presenters will 

share the process which sets up collaborative 

laboratories in so-called “developing countries

” to help solve "first-world problems." The process

 is a way to explore the friction caused by 

solutions that are generated in one context 

and applied elsewhere, while revealing the 

hidden assumptions that govern cross-cultural

 interactions.

Breakout Session #2: Reviving Communities

Location: Room 103

Panelists: Abdulrahman Gazzaz and 

Anne Senstad

Description: A discussion on the interventions 

of artists on local communities and the built

 environment. The panel will discuss two 

collaborative projects by US based artists 

within communities in Saudi Arabia as part 

of Ithra’s “Bridges” Tour. These two projects 

are: "AL BALAD" a socially engaged project by

 Matthew Mazzotta working with Abdulrahman 

Gazzaz and collaborating with the local 

community in the old town of Jeddah, and

 “TIME BEYOND PLACE,” a cross-cultural 

platform developed by New York based 

artist, Anne Senstad, to highlight issues of

 interpretation, preservation, heritage and 

memory in the Asir region of Southwestern Saudi

Arabia. 

12.00 pm - Lunch from Foodhini with a Special

 Presentation by Foodhini Founder Noobstaa Vang

Location: Atrium

1.00 pm - Social Interventions

Location: Hammer Auditorium

Panelist: Yusef Alahmad, Caroline Woolard 

and Michael Mogensen

Description: This panel will explore three

 timely collaborative projects which address 

social and environmental activism and the

 impact that these projects have had on

 local communities.

2.30 pm - Coffee break

Location: Atrium

3.00 pm - Academe 

Location: Hammer Auditorium

Panelists: David Scanavino, Ahmed Mater, 

Basmah Felemban and Nada Farhat 

Description: What role do educational 

institutions play in supporting collaborations

 that exist in a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural

 framework? What challenges do educators face 

within creative communities where there

 still remains a predominate focus on individual

 practice? How do large academic institutions

 create pathways for professors to establish

 relationships to promote cross- cultural 

learning models?

4.30 pm - Transnational Cultural Collaborations

Location: Hammer Auditorium

Description: A conversation with Sanjit Sethi 

and Noor Daham regarding topics discussed 

in the symposium and the future of transnational

 cultural collaborations.

5.30 - 7 pm - Reception

DATE AND TIME

Mon, December 4, 2017

8:30 AM – 5:30 PM EST

LOCATION

Hammer Auditorium at the Corcoran School 

of the Arts and Design

500 17th Street NW 

Washington, DC 20006