Nancy Floyd

Weathering Time

November 15, 2002 -

Weathering Time is a mixed-media room installation that includes a series of videos, back lit photographs, and 50,000 Popsicle sticks. reception will

The subtle changes that occur over time are recorded through images of Nancy Floyd’s body and home. The straight forward style of the images makes a powerful statement by relating the personal to a more universal concept of the inevitability of change. Weathering Time engages the viewer, allowing individuals to make connections with their own lives and their own mortality.

Sara Hornbacher
A Thousand Plateaus
January 12- March 10, 2001

Atlanta-based artist Sara Hornbacher creates a video installation comprised of three large projections and interactive components that merge viewer, images and sound. She draws on a dense archive of imagery collected over a twenty-year period to create this piece. As spectators move through the space they trigger sensing devices that create shifts and changes in the environment.

The piece was inspired by a text by philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri. In their writings, a plateau is reached when circumstances combine to bring an activity to such an intense pitch that it is not automatically dissipated in climax. The heightened energy level is sustained long enough to leave a kind of “afterimage” of its dynamism that can be reactivated or injected into other activities. The projected images in Hornbacher’s work are layered and fade in and out of view, thus offering a visual interpretation of ideas in the Deleuze and Guatarri text.

This exhibition marks the first large-scale interactive DVD environment by an individual artist both at the Contemporary and in Atlanta. It is significant in this respect and is a major event in the artist’s twenty-five year career. Hornbacher started working in video in 1975 and built a strong career in New York City. In 1994 she relocated to Atlanta to assume the Chair of the Video Department at the Atlanta College of Art. In 2000, Hornbacher received the Mayor’s Fellowship in the Arts (Media) and she was short-listed for an important public art commission for a hi-tech permanent installation at Hartsfield International Airport.

A color catalogue accompanies the exhibition featuring an essay by John Johnston, widely published professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University. Support for A Thousand Plateaus is being provided by Pioneer Media Technologies, USA, Southern Business Communications Group, Atlanta, the Fulton County Arts Council, The City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, the Atlanta College of Art and Experimental Television Center, Oswego, NY. Hornbacher is represented by Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta.

Sara Hornbacher from Meta Mapping

Gretchen Hupfel

Horizontal Stabilizer

Between Space & Time: Contemporary Norwegian Sculpture and Installation
July 7 – August 19, 2000
Organized by Louise E. Shaw

This show is a compendium of some of the strongest and most innovative work by Norwegian artists. Deep interest in the spiritual, in Eastern religions and a focus upon archetypal forms – drawn from such diverse sources as Norwegian folklore and folkways, or aboriginal cultures – characterize much of the work. The great care given to the use of material and craft, even if the content is highly conceptual, is consistent with this sense of introspection and interiority. Artists include Per Barclay, Per Inge Bjorlo, Bard Breivik, Bente Stokke, Gunnar Torvund, and Kristin Ytreberg. Supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


Per Barclay from Between Space & Time: Contemporary Norwegian Sculpture and Installation

Lupus Viator Atlanta by Darya von Berner
July 7 – August 19, 2000
The East Gallery

Lupus Viator Atlanta created by Darya von Berner and published by Nexus Press during the 1996 Centennial Olympics will transcend its traditional codex structure of the artist book and be presented as a 14 x 60 foot image bearing wall installation in the Contemporary’s East Gallery. Lupus Viator, Latin for wolf walking is the basis for this ephemeral, traveling wolf image, which is created by placing 100 books in a ten by ten book grid. This American gray wolf has traveled to Lima, Peru’s Centro Cultural de Espana, The High Museum of Art in Atlanta and The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. With the edition of 1000 artists books, the wolf can travel to 1000 new destinations.


Darya von Berner from Lupus Viator Atlanta by Darya von Berner

September 9 - October 21 (four exhibitions)

The Boat of My Life, an installation by Ilya Kabakov
September 9 – October 21, 2000
Organized by Jonathan Fineberg


Ilya Kabakov from The Boat of My Life

Drawings by Corrine Colarusso
September 9 - October 21, 2000
Organized by Teresa Bramlette


Corrine Colarusso from Drawings by Corrine Colarusso

James Castle
September 9 - October 21, 2000
Organized by Teresa Bramlette

College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology Exhibition
September 9 - October 21, 2000
The East Gallery

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (the Contemporary) presents four separate exhibitions, in its Main and East Galleries , September 9 – October 21, 2000. An Opening Reception will be held during ArtParty 2000, on Saturday, September 9 from 8 PM – 1 AM. Admission for ArtParty is $35 in advance and $45 at the gate. Gallery Admission during regular hours is Free for members if The Contemporary, $3 General and $1 Students/Seniors/Children.

The featured exhibtions include Ilya Kabakov's The Boat of My Life, Corrine Colarusso's Drawings, James Castle's mixed-media work and Monumental Presence by architect Wellington Reiter.

Ilya Kabakov emerged from the tight-knit underground community of dissident artists in Moscow in the 1980s into one of the most celebrated international artists of the 1990s. Expatriated from Russia, Kabakov lives primarily in New York and creates installations (often involving extensive narrative texts written by him) in museums and exhibitions.

Kabakov has shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (The Bridge, 1995) and in the Venice Biennale (The Red Pavilion, 1993 and We Were in Kyoto, 1997). He focuses on the tiniest scraps that one encounters in the ordinary course of a day—a crumpled gum wrapper, a bent nail, a snapshot or a common postcard. His paintings, stories and installations are fantastic tales, provoked in this way by the trivialities of daily experience.
Kabakov’s installation The Boat of My Life, addresses his flight from the Nazis to Samarkand at the age of 9 with his parents as well as his internal exile. It also speaks to the persecutions of a "Jewish national" within postwar Russia, and his emigration to New York in the spring of 1988 at the beginning of the Cold War thaw. The show was organized by Jonathan Fineberg, Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is accompanied by a catalogue.

Atlanta-based artist Corrine Colarusso, represented by Fay Gold Gallery debuts her most recent drawings. Bird calls, bioluminescence, optimistic shapes, things that glow, dark of the day, free wandering, pattern language—these are some of the words pinned as titles to the group of drawings that will be shown for the first time in this exhibition. These extremely detailed renderings are variations on images and ideas found in her larger paintings and accumulations of bits and pieces made over several years.

James Castle was born deaf in 1900 in rural Garden Valley, Idaho, and though he briefly attended a school devoted to teaching deaf and blind students, Castle never learned to sign, speak or read. Never venturing more than 150 miles from his birthplace, Castle made thousands of meticulously illustrated books and drawings. He worked on butcher paper, matchbook covers, cardboard, and mail order catalogues (his parents’ home served as the local post office. His subject matter was his environment.
Castle died in 1977 at the age of 77, and has remained relatively unknown to the contemporary art world until a recent show at The Drawing Center in New York City (March 4 – May 4, 2000). His work is represented by J. Crist Gallery in Boise, Idaho.

Monumental Presence by Wellington Reiter, AIA is meditation on the abstractness of the cemetery both in form and conception. The drawings and models that accompany the exhibition. also concern the collapsing of layers of history to reveal unanticipated juxtapositions in the lives of those who are now interned together. Mr. Reiter is the author of the recently published, Vessels and Fields, which details similar investigations into the intersection between public art, architecture, and urban design.