THE
LIGHTBOX
an installation by Richard Humann
"The Lightbox" is an installation piece by
Richard Humann that incorporates the slides of hundreds
of artists who live and work in the Williamsburg/ Greenpoint
and other North Brooklyn areas. The exhibit will take
place at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
located at 135 Broadway, in Brooklyn. The opening reception
is Saturday, October 18th, 1997 from 4:00 pm until 7:00
pm and will run for five weeks ending on November11th.
The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center is an art
museum and performance space that is dedicated to showing
emerging local as well as national and internationally
established artists.
The installation piece spans over one hundred and fifty
feet of floor space. The participating artists slides
are mounted side by side, in single file, face up on top
of a lighted lightbox glass. All of the artists in the
exhibit are acknowledged by having printed their names,
titles, and dimensions of their work on the slide that
displays their artwork. Artists are displayed in the order
that their slides arrived to Humann's art studio.
"The Lightbox" is a piece that is meant to
capture as a viewable time capsule the influx of artists
and art to the Williamsburg and North Brooklyn areas.
It records as well as participates in and adds to the
current art movement in Williamsburg. By displaying the
slides of artists, Humann, who himself is an artist with
over 30 shows to his credit, has been able to corral the
many styles and mediums of the movement and transform
it all into one singular voice. Richard Humann's "Lightbox"
installation will directly follow the Charles Gatewood
retrospective exhibit at the WAH Center. "The Lightbox"
will open on Saturday, October 18th and close on Monday,
November 24nd. Call The Willaimsburg Art & Historical
Center at (718) 486-7372 or the studio of Richard Humann
at (718) 387-7055 for further information.
Call for artists to participate
in the Lightbox project.
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