Spring Gallery Invite 2019

That Which Defines Us Four original exhibitions that investigate our sense of identity—who we are, where we come from, and what we will become.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen, The Island (video still), 2017

February 22 – June 9, 2019

Artist Reception: Friday, February 22, 5-8 PM

Rebecca Weisman, Skin Ego (detail), 2018

First Floor, BCA Center In Skin Ego, Rebecca Weisman creates a large-scale installation that includes an eight by twenty foot sculptural recreation of a stranded whale that visitors can enter and explore. Incorporating film and performance within her surreal environment, the artist spins a provocative tale about the interconnection between mind and body—our unconscious and our skin.

Rebecca Weisman: Skin Ego is the third installment of Project Vermont, a new series dedicated to experimentation by providing a setting for contemporary Vermont artists to push their artistic practice while creating new work.

Rebecca Weisman: Skin Ego is commissioned in part by BCA Center

Barbara Zucker, Adorned (detail), 2019

First Floor, BCA Center Barbara Zucker’s Adorned: Hairstyles of an Ancient Dynasty features paintings and an installation of acrylic abstractions inspired by the stylized hairstyles of Tang dynasty tomb figures. Zucker is fascinated by the complex ways in which hair has been used by cultures to convey status, ethnicity, sexuality, and power throughout the world. Since the 1990s, the artist has explored the subject of hair in her sculpture – how it is shaped, removed, or adorned – to create perceptive, often humorous, observations on gender and culture.

Alm@ Pérez, Robopoem@ 1, 2016

Lower Level, BCA Center Robopoems: Quadruped@s is an interdisciplinary project created by Alm@ Pérez (the artistic pseudonym of Tina Escaja) that combines bilingual poetry, photography, and technology to explore the intersection of robotics and humanity. Alm@ Pérez examines the existential exchange between machines and people by joining technology with art and poetics.

Alm@ Pérez’s Robopoems: Quadroped@s supported in part by UVM Humanities Center

Tuan Andrew Nguyen, The Island (video still), 2017

Roth Gallery, Second Foor, BCA Center Featuring photography and film, Imperfect Societies probes themes of history, trauma, and nationhood set within the trope of science fiction. Featured works include Kiluanji Kia Henda’s Icarus 13: The First Journey to the Sun and Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s The Island.

Icarus 13 plunges viewers into pivotal movements in Angolan history as told within futuristic narratives of the Cold War. The Island, shot on the Malaysian island Pulau Bidong (once the longest-operating refugee camp after the Vietnam War) presents a dystopian future focused on the last two people on earth.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s The Island courtesy for the artist and James Cohan, New York Kiluanji Kia Henda’s Icarus 13: The First Journey to the Sun courtesy for the artist and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

Gallery Public Programs

Princess, Out There (video still), 2018

ARTIST AT WORK REBECCA WEISMAN

Wednesday, March 6, 6-7:30 PM BCA Center, 2nd Floor, LBG Room In this two-part program, Rebecca Weisman will give a talk on her project Skin Ego. Following her presentation, a moderated discussion on artistic and professional development insights will follow.

ALM@ PÉREZ ROBOPOEMS: QUADRUPED@S Wednesday, April 17, 6-7 PM Lower Level, BCA Center

Alm@ Pérez demonstrates the features of her robots while exploring the evolution of poetry beyond the page in a new technological age.

PRINCESS: OUT THERE

Saturday, March 23, 8 PM LBG Room, BCA Center $5 per person/Free for BCA members Performance art band, Princess, presents their new video album Out There. Comprised of Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill, Princess* combines live music with visual projections to critique the misogynistic foundations of today’s society through a trippy, sci-fi narrative. *in collaboration from JD Samson, TEEN and visual artist Jennifer Meridian

Gallery Education

FAMILY ART SATURDAY

February 16 | March 16 | April 20 11–1 PM Fourth Floor, BCA Center Get creative and make art together! Families are invited to drop-in to the BCA Center every third Saturday of the month to make their own artwork inspired by our current exhibitions. Each Family Art Saturday offers a different art making project that will ignite the imaginations of your family members!

NEW PROGRAM

ART & CONVERSATION

Wednesday, March 13, 9:30-11:00 AM BCA Center Join us for lively conversation in the galleries during a guided exploration of our current exhibitions and make your own art inspired by exhibition themes and artist materials. Open to adults and life-long learners 50+ who enjoy engaging discussion, a sense of community, and desire to expand their creativity.

Art & Conversation is offered every other month.

All Gallery Education and Public Programs are Free and Open to the Public unless otherwise noted.

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BCA Exhibitions are funded in part by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Vermont Arts Council

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