Surfacing Beneath

09/25/09 - 01/15/10

Lisa Kellner
September 25, 2009 – January 15, 2010

Opening Reception:
Friday, September 25, 6 - 8pm
Special Gallery Hours: Saturday, September 26, 12-4pm
During the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival



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Surfacing Beneath is a site-specific installation that will evolve over time by Brooklyn-based artist Lisa Kellner. Kellner incorporates wall drawing with sculpture made from silk and pigments, exploring patterns of disease and cellular structure and its relation to human behavior.

In Kellner's hands, silk becomes a bodily landscape of organ like forms. For Surfacing Beneath, these forms adapt to the architecture of the space, creeping along walls and pipes. Here, Kellner’s work proposes an alternative to that which cannot be seen but is known to exist and grow underneath the skin.

This dynamic installation will evolve over the course of the 16 week exhibition as the artist returns to the gallery often to add to the work.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lisa Kellner received her MFA from the Art Institute of Boston. She completed her undergraduate studies at the School of Visual Arts and Boston University. She has exhibited nationally, including such venues as Transformer Gallery in Washington, DC, The Islip Art Museum in NY, and 808 Gallery in Boston, MA. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Sculpture Magazine. Kellner currently has a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space Residency where she is developing and installing A Proposition Ate My Marriage. In December 2009, she will present Suspended Presence, a solo show of her work at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Visit her Website

1ST THURSDAY EVENTS

What is DUMBO? a site-specific, process-based performance by L. Mylott Manning that interprets the DUMBO neighborhood through subjective observations and mark-making. Thursday, October 1, 6:30 - 7:30pm

Scene: Brooklyn @ BAC Gallery Film/Video Screening Thursday, November 5, 6 - 8pm

BAC Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 218
(Alternate entrance is 55 Washington St.)
Brooklyn, NY
Regular gallery hours are Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm

DUMBO First Thursday LogoBAC Gallery participates in DUMBO 1st Thursday. Come down the first Thursday of every month for special programming and extended gallery hours! BAC 1st Thursday programs are made possible, in part, by support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Kelso Logo newFree beer provided by Kelso of Brooklyn

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