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1650 Harrison Street Hollywood, FL 33020 954. 921. 3274 ArtAndCultureCenter.org Giannina Coppiano Dwin: Nothing We Can Call Our Own Giannina Coppiano Dwin’s work allows the interaction of time, expressing a desire to transform simple materials into symbols of life’s basic needs. It refers to intimate moments, little rituals, or metaphors that call into play formal aesthetics, nourishment, sensory experience, women’s bodies, and the impermanence of the human condition. The sensuality of the materials is in direct contrast to the transient nature of everything. The work presents a sort of contemporary Vanitas, reflecting the inevitable passing of pleasure into earthly decay. The attention to detail and labor intensiveness of the work also contrasts with the transformation and destruction of the exhibition to be presented on the final day. Image: Giannina Coppiano Dwin, Untitled (Bra) (detail), 2009, Sugar. Freddy Jouwayed: Forks in the Wave Function Miami-based artist Freddy Jouwayed presents a site-specific installation of his labor-intensive drawings on paper as well as a multi-media component, a collaboration with Juan Maristany and Stephan Tugrul. Regarding this ongoing body of work, Jouwayed makes the following statement: A dot is made to appear on a surface. It is both a point of origin and of convergence. A dot bleeds through a surface to emerge behind the skin landing on another plane. Two more points now exist to react upon. One is an extension of the first, the other replication. Lines are added and reacted upon with other lines. Gestures begin to accumulate and forms then appear and multiply. From these forms, others come into existence, layering their meaning. More opportunities arise to contemplate. Surrender to a constant and meditative state of action and reaction to markings that accumulate, extracting layers and fragments of the mind then alluding to thoughts and manifestations of the state of being. Image: Freddy Jouwayed, Sensesinfission , 2011, Pigment pen, marker, and acrylic on paper. Also Showing Artist Unknown / The Free World Organized by John D. Monteith & Oliver Wasow October 29, 2011 – January 29, 2012 Artist/Exhibition Organizers Biographies Oliver Wasow and John D. Monteith are visual artists with extensive exhibition histories. They were introduced through and have communicated via Facebook since 2008, exchanging images and banter, before meeting for the first time in March 2010. They share an interest in culture that flies under the radar. Artist Oliver Wasow received a B.A. in media studies from Hunter College in New York City in 1982. He resides in Rhinebeck, NY -- participating in solo exhibitions in New York City and exhibiting both in the U.S. and internationally. He teaches at a number of art schools -- The Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, The School of Visual Arts (SVA) Graduate Program in Photography and Related Media, SVA’s Undergraduate Photography Program, and the Art Institute of Boston. His photographs are in a number of prominent collections worldwide and are included in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. John D. Monteith is a self-taught painter based in Columbia, SC. He has had four solo exhibitions and his group shows include his inclusion in the current exhibition at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY, titled The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection (exhibition catalog), the Lyon Biennial curated by Harald Szeemann, and Art to Z during Art Basel Miami Beach 2010. Artist Unkown / The Free World is made possible in part by a FAB! Knight New Work Award supported by Funding Arts Broward and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and through the support of Lou Anne and Mike Colodny. Hot Topics DiscussionSeries is funded in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The Art and Culture Center of Hollywoodis a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supported in part by its members, admissions, private entities, the City of Hollywood, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the Kresge Foundation. We welcome donations from all members of the community who wish to support our work. Presented by Book and prints available for sale A hard-bound, 260- page full-color book accompanying the exhibition is available for $20. The book includes hundreds of images selected by the artists, essays by John D. Monteith and Oliver Wasow, critics Jerry Saltz and Marvin Heiferman, and curator Jane Hart. A pair of limited-edition 16 x 20” prints are also available: Men and Women, $125 each. For more information or to order, visit ArtAndCultureCenter.org
