Tavares Strachan: seen/unseen

Tavares Strachan: seen/unseen

Isolated Labs

Tavares Strachan, What Will Be Remembered in the Face of All that Is Forgotten, 2010.
Hand-blown glass, 900 gallons of mineral oil, Plexiglass® tank, steel base, 75 x 62 x 62 inches.
October 21, 2011

A Large-scale Exhibition

Undisclosed New York City Location
New closing date: October 28
September 19–October 28, 2011

Curators: Jean Crutchfield & Robert Hobbs

New York City, September/October, 2011. Tavares Strachan: seen/unseen opened at an undisclosed New York City location on September 19, and it will continue until October 28.

In recognition of the theme that presence and absence assume in the work of Tavares Strachan, a Bahamian-born and Manhattan-based artist, this large-scale overview of his work from 2003 to the present is on view at an undisclosed location for the duration of the show. Focusing on the artist’s overall practice of positioning works so that some of their aspects are visible while others remain conceptual, this exhibition, subtitled seen/unseen, is intended to be a work of art in its own right.

Tavares Strachan: seen/unseen represents the latest contribution to the now legendary tradition of closed exhibitions, including Robert Barry’s now infamous 1969 Closed Gallery Piece and Yoko Ono’s 1971 advertisement for her nonexistent Museum of Modern Art exhibition.  However, unlike these empty or fictitious exhibitions, Tavares Strachan: seen/unseen will feature drawings, photographs, video works, sculpture, and installations as well as a series of new works in a massive 20,000-square-foot industrial space, converted just for this exhibition.

Strachan began emphasizing presence and absence in his art as early as 2003, when he installed a light meter outside his mother’s house on the outskirts of Nassau and connected it via satellite to a computer-activated light box in his RISD dorm room to create an interactive work, enabling him to enjoy in real time and around the clock simulated Bahamian light and darkness.

Tavares Strachan: seen/unseen includes a series of new works especially created for this exhibition, beginning with a new version of the artist’s internationally celebrated 2005 piece The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want, consisting of a 4.5-ton block of ice, harvested from a frozen river about 400 miles under the Arctic Circle.  New York Times critic Roberta Smith commended Strachan for his “pioneering courage” and characterized this piece as “spectacularly ambitious.”

While the exhibition Tavares Strachan: seen/unseen is not open to the public, the exhibition itself will be fully documented with a forthcoming website and publication.

For more information and additional images contact info@isolatedlabs.com

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