Saturday, Jan. 30: empty room: an art exhibition
empty room: an art exhibition
empty room: an art exhibition is a minimalistic show featuring new work by artist, writer, and filmmaker Kelley Brannon. On exhibit, will be her new time-lapse jazz song video, Empty Chair (2016) and the first four smoke drawings from her third series, The Digital Age (2015). empty room: an art exhibition celebrates the less rather than the more and directly reflects Brannon's themes of isolation, singularity, technology, and economic class.
In Empty Chair, Brannon uses time-lapse, contrast, and empty space to support the emotive qualities of a jazz song she sang and recorded in acapella; the song is essentially the video's sound track. Empty Chair draws from Brannon's previous work in abstract documentary, video art, and improvised jazz singing, in addition to her tendency to use moving images to create moments of stillness and pause for the viewer.
In her third smoke drawings series, Brannon expands her artistic process once again by using oil paint over the smoke to intensify her minimalistic forms and create content that both mirrors and questions our relationship to technology and the urban environments that perpetuate the speed and intensity of its progress.
Kelley Brannon created this third series while being the first artist-in-residence at The Rectory last October and November; inspired by her involvement with the squatter community in Detroit, Brannon wanted to create an opportunity for artists in an underserved area by turning an unused colonial building in her hometown of Charlestown, New Hampshire into artist studios. This project is still in development and Brannon hopes to partner with a gallery/residency in NYC to create a bridge between rural and urban environments. Duality is also a theme implemented in much of Brannon's work.
Kelley Brannon is an artist, writer and filmmaker originally from rural New Hampshire. She moved to Brooklyn in 2010 after graduating with a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, where she studied in the Studio for Interrelated Media program. In 2015, she earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College with a concentration in Screenwriting. Her first feature narrative screenplay, Empty Spaces, has been in (slow) production for the last year. Brannon has been working in film and video since 2001. In early 2011, she began creating her one-of-a-kind smoke drawings, a form of visual art she was able to make with no budget, using left over drawing paper from art school and regular stick candles. In early 2013, she partnered with Indiewalls NYC to sell originals and prints. Today, her smoke drawings are in public and private collections in cities around the world, including Qingtian China, Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, and Miami.
Curated by Kala Jerzy
For more information, visit: https://kelleybrannonprojects.wordpress.com/
kelleybrannonprojects@gmail.com / 347-984-4514
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