Last night, I drove up to Buffalo to find a spot for my digital installation at the Burchfield-Penney. Here are two photographs from the evening. The first photo shows a drawing from the museum’s collection being projected onto the building.
September 16th— Bring your lawn chairs!
More on the blog about this project and Beyond/In Western New York
Yes! It is falling off. It’s been four weeks since we installed 8,000 sheets onto the Visual Studies Workshop for my exhibition Time-based Architecture. The gallery is open Thursday-Sunday, and it is up until September 26th.
I’m working on a Gwathmey, Siegel, & Ass’ building.
I’m thinking about the comment that he, “embraced volume, intersection, and density,”
while I’m creating the installation. Below are photographs of their work that will sit on my studio wall for a while…
1968
1992
2002
I’m working on a project for 16 September on the Burchfield-Penney in Buffalo *city of Tesla’s war with Edison and King Camp Gillette (who frame the theme for this city wide curation).
For Immediate Release
Karen Brummund to exhibit an outdoor installation at Waterburg Plaza
17 September 2010
4414 Waterburg Plaza, Trumansburg, New York
Reception at 7:00 pm with music
Screening at dark (7:30 pm)
This event is free and open to the public.
ITHACA, N.Y.- Architecture frames our perspective of our neighbors, place, and history. The 1840s Waterburg Chapel testifies to the relationships and ideologies of previous generations. Originally built by the Bower family, Paul Chambers restored this former A.M.E. church winning a preservation award from Historic Ithaca in 2005. The Waterburg Chapel is a white building with a green roof in a brown landscape.
This is the site of Karen Brummund’s digital installation. For one night, the historic site of Ulysses’ first light bulb will flicker with a stream of images and light. The play between projected images and architecture (or shape and form) will create a multi-dimensional perspective of the environment. Karen’s temporary interventions have been called both “puzzling” and “surprising,” creating a totally new way to experience familiar places.
Brummund brings a new outdoor installation to Tompkins County. The Waterburg Chapel project is supported through a grant from the Community Arts Partnership, research support by The History Center and Historic Ithaca, and with event sponsorship from the Ithaca Post. You can also see Brummund’s work in Buffalo’s international biennial, Beyond/In Western New York, which opens later this month.
Casa Poli, 2009
ARTIST Karen Brummund is a visual artist who makes architectural installations and videos that extend the role of drawing and question our perception of the environment. Recently, she received a Light Work Grant in Photography to work with Pezo von Ellrichaussen Architects in Chile. This fall she is exhibiting work on a collegiate Gothic building in Rochester, a 1950s warehouse in Atlanta, a modern museum in Buffalo, and an old yacht club in Ireland. Brummund received her Masters of Arts in Fine Arts from the University of East London and is a New York Foundations for the Arts 2010 Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures. For more information see www.karenbrummund.com, email Karen@karenbrummund.com
SITE Paul Chambers ‘recycles’ local buildings from their ruined state. Beginning in 1999, he restored the Waterburg Chapel and later the adjacent buggy barn from their derelict state. In May 2010, Historic Ithaca awarded Chambers for his work on the last remaining eight bay buggy barn. This is his second Preservation Award from Historic Ithaca. Chambers is British, a graduate of Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, UK and of Cornell University where he was also a member of the faculty before serving as Head of Art at a private high school in Upstate, NY. Paul Chambers is also known for his enormously provocative conceptual landscape paintings related to his intense concern for lasting international peace. See dialecticalaestheticism.net
Heritage Place, 2009
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Directions from Ithaca:
Take 96 North
Turn Left (west) on Perry City Road
Turn Right (north) on Waterburg Road
4414 Waterburg Plaza is on your right, in less than a mile
Directions from Trumansburg:
From Main Street
Take Hector Street/Co Rd 227
Turn left on Indian Fort Road
Continue straight onto Waterburg Road (then a slight right)
4414 Waterburg Plaza is on your left
Atlanta Celebrates Photography will open my installation Before 1190 Huff Road on October 2nd. You are all welcome to the opening from 6pm-8pm. I will be in Atlanta throughout the week, and hope to spend time with old and new friends! The installation will be up for the rest of the month/festival.
Below is the press release.
Download the ACP festival guide.
ACP Public Art: “Before 1190 Huff Road”
Featuring work by: Karen Brummund
Reception: Sat, Oct 2, 6pm – 8pm
Exhibition: Sat, Oct 2 to Sat, Oct 30
ACP Public Art: “Before 1190 Huff Road”
ACP has a rich history of temporary public art projects that reach out to audiences who may never go into traditional arts venues. Each year a different artist is commissioned to produce a project. Our featured artist for 2010 is Karen Brummund. Looking down the tracks of the Western & Atlantic Railway, industrial buildings testify to Atlanta’s past glory as “Terminus.” Inside these historic warehouses worked a community that fueled the forward thinking and booming economy of the early 20th century. Now obsolete, these buildings take on new identities.
Returning to their home off Marietta Street soon after the surrender of Atlanta in 1864, Sara Huff can’t recall a single country home or church that once destroyed was restored. A few months after escaping Sherman’s march down the tracks, young Sara describes their homestead as a “monument to solitude” in a “picture of desolation.” Built on the foundation of an 1830s log cabin, this pre-civil war home survived Sherman’s march, but did not survive the industrial enlightenment of the 1950s.
In this installation, a photograph of the Huff House is placed on a warehouse from the 1950s that stands on the earlier Huff family property. Over time, this historical photograph will deteriorate and fall off. As the two dimensional representation of the past intermingles with the three-dimensional building, the installation reveals imaginative, abstract, and fresh ways to see the story of this community. As we look forward to a prosperous and generous city, this temporary public artwork considers what is gained and lost through time.
ACP would like to thank the following for allowing the use of their building for this project. Please visit these showrooms, artist studios and businesses while you are there:
RYR Properties
Provenance Antiques
Stanton Home Furnishings
Art Space International
M2M Draperies & Upholstery
1190 Huff Road NW
Intersection of Huff Road and Ellsworth Industrial
Atlanta, GA 30318-4124 [map: Google Maps]
permalink: http://festivalguide.acpinfo.org/listings/view/683
ACP Listing #: 006
I hope you can make it on Sunday for Didier Pasquette’s 2nd high-wire walk of the weekend and my opening at the Burchfield-Penney. I will be showing a video inside the museum that documents my installation from September 16th (9pm). The full schedule for opening weekend is below. I’m looking forward to spending the weekend in Buffalo!
OPENING WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Thursday, September 23, 2010
6:30 pm
High-Wire Walk by Didier Pasquette at the Liberty Building
RECEPTIONS
Friday, September 24
5–11 pm
CEPA Gallery
El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Hi-Temp Fabrication
Hotel Lafayette
Squeaky Wheel
Starlight Studio and Art Gallery
Western New York Book Arts Center
Saturday, September 25
2–6 pm
Carnegie Art Center
Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University
University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts
6–10 pm
Buffalo Arts Studio
University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery
8 pm–midnight
Big Orbit Gallery
Sunday, September 26
1–2 pm
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
2–4 pm
Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College
4–8 pm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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Since I have 3 weeks until my next installation. I’m working on a long list of neglected video editing. I’m two months behind from my shoulder surgery, but I’m about a year behind for other reasons (like life). Besides freelance work and upcoming exhibitions, I’m making them a priority this week. Here’s a small peek from a video that I started working on in 2008 that might be finished. Read More
“Time-Based Architecture ” by Karen Brummund
August 6–September 26, 2010 at Visual Studies Workshop Gallery, 31 Prince St.
Gallery hours are Thursdays 5PM to 8PM, Fridays–Sundays Noon to 5PM
All events are free and open to the public
For more information contact Tate Shaw, Director, email: tateshaw@vsw.org
Press Release
Essay by Patricia Phillips
My performance at the Burchfield-Penney will be on Thursday 16 September 2010 at 9pm.
The exhibition opening at the Burchfield-Penney is on Sunday 26 September from 2pm – 4pm.
This international contemporary art exhibition—the product of a unique curatorial collaboration between twelve of Western New York’s museums and galleries—will showcase the work of over 100 extraordinary artists from the region and beyond. Installations by featured international artists will also become permanent parts of the region’s landscape, serving as lasting impressions of the biennial. Artists on view at the Burchfield Penney are Michael Beitz, Joe Bochynski, Karen Brummund, Buffalo Sound Painting Ensemble, Kyle Butler, James Carl, Carl Lee, Dennis Maher, Julian Montague, Jean-Michel Reed, and Jamie O’Neil
In your mailbox, check the new edition (vol. 157) of Contact Sheet for an image of my recent installation, 316 Waverly Place in Syracuse, New York. Contact Sheet is a publication of Light Work gallery.
*Please note a correction to the publication: The first sentence of the second paragraph should read, “Karen recently worked as a lecturer at Cornell University and an adjunct professor of Studio Art at the University of Rochester.”
“I just had to stop…”
This is the phrase that stands out to me from the 4th day of the exhibition. The car slows, u-turns, and stops… then it comes, “I just had to stop…” says the red, yellow, black, and white drivers. Almost to the rhythm of the sheets blowing in the wind, the traffic follows this pattern. There is also the occasional, “that’s f”in awesome” floating out of some car that’s racing by. I try to come up with a different answer to the question each time. I hand them a photocopy that I made with a copy of Patricia Phillip’s essay on the back and wonder what they will think of her words. I dream about delivering preposterous answers to their questions, and I never give the sense that “it means whatever you think of it.” Read More
On the morning of the third day, we finished installing the last sheet. Right before we finished Channel 13 Rochester came to record for the 6 and 11 news. Tomorrow, we’ll wait for all 8,000 sheets to fall off.
This is the last picture in the time lapse from day 2. As you can see, we made some serious progress on the wings of the building. A few visitors asked me if I was going to do all four sides of the building– really? and use over 32,000 sheets of paper! Today (on our 3rd day of installation) we will finish hanging the front of the building.
There was a huge audience on day 2. Close to a hundred people stuck their arm out the car window to snap a cell pix. The conversations with visitors and their enthusiasm for the project makes the sheets go on faster and our bodies less sore.
Over and over I heard “…It’s a nice idea, it’s a really nice idea…” This kind of comment is not exactly what you want to hear. It’s “like kissing your brother…” But then I started thinking about who’s saying it…
“it’s a nice idea, a really nice idea,” said an old man wearing a crucifix and using a walker.
“it’s a nice idea, a really nice idea,” said the pregnant woman smoking a stoagie. Read More
Day 1, We’re working through the opening. There are seven prints and 1 video installation in the gallery. We finished the ladder work today, and will continue working on the higher sections all weekend. Thanks for all of the help from the volunteer crew!
After working hard all day, it really means a lot to see your friends at the opening. Thanks for coming! The exhibition is open until September 26th (check the hours) .
For Immediate Release
Karen Brummund to exhibit an outdoor installation at VSW
“Time-Based Architecture ” by Karen Brummund
August 6–September 26, 2010 at Visual Studies Workshop Gallery, 31 Prince St.
First Friday opening reception on August 6, 2010 6–9PM with a Drawing Mob/Sketch Crawl event in connection with Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Gallery hours are Thursdays 5PM to 8PM, Fridays–Sundays Noon to 5PM
All events are free and open to the public
For more information contact Tate Shaw, Director, email: tateshaw@vsw.org
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Architecture defines public space and artist Karen Brummund will be radically altering the local environment with a dynamic outdoor installation about the passage of time. For the exhibition “Time-Based Architecture,” Brummund will be installing directly on the façade of Visual Studies Workshop’s ca. 1913, two-and-one-half story stone building. Last year VSW entirely removed the ivy from its historic edifice, once the woman’s dormitory for the University of Rochester. The piece 31 Prince Street entails Brummund creating one digitally scaled image printed on hundreds of sheets of paper in puzzle-like fragments that she will temporarily adhere directly to the building surface. Exploring the removed ivy both as a bygone symbol of prestige and a physical force of nature, the paper image fragments in Brummund’s weather-exposed installation will fall, pile on the ground, Read More
My 11 yr old niece and filmmaker takes a creative perspective on family, the American garage, and politics “…where there were once thriving people, there is now desolate and isolated places…”
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Waterburg Plaza: Testing Proportion
Peter, Paul, and I checked out a few images on the chapel at Waterburg Plaza. It was beautiful (the installation), but also the landscape. With the grill, the weather, the sunset… everything went really smoothly. Below are snapshots from the first test, which is when I throw up a bunch of images, collages, drawings, etc. to check how the color, brightness, and proportions fit on the building. On the 17th, Kevin will be playing music at 7 pm and the projection will happen around 7:30 pm– see you there!