[Opening / Closing]
E6: in situ Opening and Artist Talk

About This Event

OPENING DAY ARTIST TALK: July 11, 2009, 4pm
OPENING RECEPTION: July 11, 2009, 5 - 7pm

Transformer is proud to announce our sixth installment of The Exercises, a unique peer and mentorship program for emerging artists.

This 6th installment of Transformer's Exercises for Emerging Artists program, guest curated by artist Brandon Morse, focuses on time-based media. Exploring notions of communication, commodity, transformation, and situation, artists Jeremy Haik, Clive Leung, Erik Loften, and Ding Ren employ video as well as digital animation techniques, and utilize installation practices that make the way they display their work essential to the work itself.

"Tasked to further develop and focus their existing formal and conceptual concerns, each of the artists were asked to spend considerable time investigating how setting and presentation may be used to further the strengths inherent in their work. While this may seem to be a self-evident concern for any artist, the very aspect of working with time-based media in a physical space presents unique obstacles and opportunities. Each of the artists took up this challenge, and their completed works are comprised of integral conceptual and physical components." - Brandon Morse

Launched in March 2004, Transformer's Exercises For Emerging Artists was created to support artists at critical points or crossroads in their professional growth and development, to advance their creative careers. Consisting of a series of two-hour, bi-weekly gatherings at Transformer spanning three months, the program is designed to stimulate and encourage participating artists as they create new work. In addition to peer critique sessions, the participating artists received mentorship and critical feedback on their work from Leigh Conner, Director of Conner Contemporary Art & *gogo art projects, artist Richard Chartier, along with Dawn Gavin, artist and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.