Fold. Color. Limn. Works by Prajakti Jayavant
Date: Dec 03,2011 - Jan 21,2012
Reception date: Dec 03,2011
Opening Reception
Saturday, December 3, 2011
3:30-6:30 pm
With the utmost intention, I refine the shaggy circumferences of smudges, cut precisely, crease and tuck. Determined curves, strategic color and encrypted folds combine to create ideological dimension. Each piece is a chosen accumulation of imprinted actions over time.
--Prajakti Jayavant
Meridian Gallery is proud to present the first major survey of the work of Bay Area artist Prajakti Jayavant, curated by John Zarobell, former curator at SFMOMA. Jayavant's work is a complex constellation of artistic ideas rendered immediate in the flesh. Her painted works on paper are folded and cut, torn and trimmed. Approaching this work requires an open mind because it is not illustrative but provocative. The paintings refer to so many objects we might have seen before and they evoke thoughts and sensations but finally stand alone. They play by their own rules, creating a universe through overlapping forms and complementary colors. These objects enter our space and take up our minds. Most of the works on view have been produced in the past two years but a few were made earlier and provide context on the artist's development. In addition, this exhibition marks the release of the limited edition, hand-made artist's book STORY (2001/2011), which supplements the mute expressiveness of the paintings with voice and spins strands of language into an interior narrative.
Prajakti Jayavant received her BFA from Ohio State University and her MFA from California College of the Arts. She has been the recipient of The Visions from the New California Project Fellowship for the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and she has exhibited at The Drawing Center (New York.)
Additional Public Programs:
Erik Moskowitz I Amanda Trager
Screening of Cloud Cuckoo Land
Tuesday December 6th, 2011 at 7pm
Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager are collaborating artists based in Brooklyn. They will be showing their 2008 video Cloud Cuckoo Land, which treats the topic of artist collectives and the search for utopia in the contemporary world. The artists will be present for the screening followed by a discussion moderated by curator, John Zarobell.
Panel Discussion: Prajakti Jayavant, Zarobell, and Stephen Goldstine
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 7pm
The artist and curator will be joined by Stephen Goldstine, former President of the San Francisco Art Institute, former Director of the San Francisco Art Commission's Neighborhood Arts Program, and current Dennis Leon Professor of Graduate Studies Emeritus at The California College of Art.
Concerts
Double-Take on Bill Fontana
Come hear Bill Fontana talk and present his work and artistic process for the past 30 years. Fontana will play short videos, sound recordings and show photos of his work that has been exhibited throughout the world. The event will culminate in a surround sound performance of two spectacular pieces: Kirribilli Wharf (1976), a pioneering 8 channel sound sculpture realized in 1976 for the Australian Broadcasting Commission and last presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1985 and Speeds of Time (2004 and 2008) which had been a live sound sculpture with Big Ben.
Morgan Craft, Marshall Trammell, and Zachary Watkins
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents a new electro-acoustic trio featuring Morgan Craft (Italy), electric guitar and electronics, Marshall Trammell, percussion and Zachary Watkins, electronics.
Joe Lasqo
Joe Lasqo will perform a series of Indo-modernist and Neo-Gaku pieces inspired by the musics of India, East Asia, and the post-war European avant-garde at Darmstadt/IRCAM.
Other events
Erik Moskowitz I Amanda Trager: Screening of Cloud Cuckoo Land
Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager are collaborating artists based in Brooklyn. They will be showing their 2008 video Cloud Cuckoo Land, which treats the topic of artist collectives and the search for utopia in the contemporary world. The artists will be present for the screening followed by a discussion moderated by curator, John Zarobell.
Panel Discussion: Prajakti Jayavant, Zarobell, and Stephen Goldstine
The artist and curator will be joined by Stephen Goldstine, former President of the San Francisco Art Institute, former Director of the San Francisco Art Commission's Neighborhood Arts Program, and current Dennis Leon Professor of Graduate Studies Emeritus at The California College of Art.
