TEH / Media Art Installation in Chattanooga

TEH :
Exhibition March 21 - April 4, 2009
Reception Saturday, March 21, 2009 / 6-8pm

location:
Tanner Hill Gallery in the Southern Saddlery on 3069 South Broad, Suite 3, Chattanooga
free and open to the public. please join us!

Continuing into a month of POLYMER events we are pleased to announce TEH, a media installation at Tanner Hill Gallery March 21 - April 4, 2009. A reception is scheduled for March Saturday 21, 2009 from 6-8pm.TEH is a collaborative art exhibition by artists Jessica Westbrook, Phillip Andrew Lewis. TEH is inspired by a shared habit of committing this common typographical error. Both artists explore language barriers and breakdowns in communications using video, computer processing, photographs, sound, and mixed media. This installation is framed around experiencing extreme weather conditions. POLYMER is produced by SEED in collaboration with Lyndhurst Foundation, UTC Department of Art, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Pulse, Green | Spaces, and Tanner Hill.

Jessica Westbrook
Jessica Westbrook is an artist working with images, semiotics, and information design. Her projects explore desire, cues, and contradictory sensations that vacillate between fortune and catastrophe. Westbrook received her MFA from Tyler School of Art and has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2005 she established SEED, an artist collective based n Chattanooga Tennessee. Recent activity includes publication in Static, the journal of the London Consortium and a feature on Chicago's artstorage.org. She is Assistant Professor of Art at UT Chattanooga.

Phillip Andrew Lewis
Phillip Andrew Lewis teaches and heads the photography+media program at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. In 2005, he established Medicine Factory, a contemporary art space in downtown Memphis. Lewis has exhibited widely is also the recipient of the 2007-2008 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission, 2008 Public Art Grant from the UrbanArt Commission, Digital Art Commission from APSU New Media Program, and selected for Magenta Foundation FlashForward 2008.

Adam Trowbridge
Adam Trowbridge is a manner of speaking, focused on artistic research that fractures the intersection of sensation and cognition. Materially, his recent work has been in the form of theater, performance, computer-driven installation and video. Currently he is completing his MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he also teaches time-based art and performance. His work has been featured nationally and internationally including Anthology Film Archives, NYC; Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Ontario; Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ; MicroCineFest, Baltimore, MD; and Square Eyes Festival, The Netherlands.