Topaz Arts presents New Work by Wenyon & Gamble

TOPAZ ARTS Visual Arts Program presents

Floored in the Covid Era, 2020: Pill and Bottles
a new installation piece by Wenyon and Gamble

on view Sunday, Oct 24th only, 3-6pm
as part of TOPAZ ARTS’ 21st Year Celebration
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TOPAZ ARTS, 55-03 39th Avenue in Woodside, NY > directions

In lockdown, artists Susan Gamble & Michael Wenyon made holograms on their bathroom floor, using their own medicines as the subject. They were surprised by the results – Floored in the Covid Era, 2020: Pills and Bottles is a visual memento of an anxious time.

Artists’ Statement:
We work with what can be considered technological media, often in controlled laboratory conditions. To approximate ‘laboratory conditions’ during Covid-19 lockdown, we recorded holograms in our bathroom: we placed the optical equipment on the concrete floor and did the processing in our bathroom sink. Thankfully, this worked. The imagery became the bathroom environment itself, the tiled floor, along with drugs and medical paraphernalia we had accumulated for the pandemic. The restrictions of this arrangement encouraged us to experiment, making discoveries that surprised us: many of the holograms show two completely separate images depending on whether you see them from the front or the back, for example, which were not expecting. — Wenyon & Gamble

About the Artists:
Susan Gamble and Michael Wenyon are artists working with photo-technologies: digital photography and holography. Before the pandemic, they have taught annual workshops on holography at the Penumbra Foundation , E.30thSt. NYC. During lock-down, last year, they produced the work: ‘Floored During the Covid Era, 2020’ which was exhibited in a group show ‘Precision: Illustrative Technique in Art & Science’ at Eastern Connecticut State University, Gallery, March 15-April 25, 2021. They also participated in an online discussion, open to the public with this exhibit. In June 2021, Gamble gave a virtual presentation of a paper for the international Stereo and Immersive Media Conference,  Lisbon. Collaborators since 1983, Wenyon and Gamble have exhibited at the Whitney Museum, New Film and Video Series, 1991; The Queens Museum, 2002; The New York Hall of Science, 1993; & The MagnanMetz Gallery, W. 26th St, in 2007, 2012, 2016; The List Visual Arts Center, MA. Their work is in collections of the National  Portrait Gallery, Washington; The DeCordova Museum; The MIT Collection, The Boston Athenaeum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. In 1993, Gamble was an international UNESCO Laureate for the aesthetic development of New Technology. The artists have lived in NYC since 2000. Wenyon & Gamble are recipients of the 2021 City Artists Corps Grant. www.wengam.com

This event supports the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and Queens Theatre. City Artist Corps Grants are intended to support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, distributing one-time grants to over 3,000 artists to help sustain their practice and engage the public across New York City’s five boroughs.

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