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BIO
Carla Gannis, originally from North Carolina, currently lives and works in New York. Trained as a painter and having received her BFA from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her MFA from Boston University, Gannis shifted to producing digital print and multi-media installation work in the late 1990's.
Gannis is the recipient of several awards, including a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Grant in Computer Arts, an Emerge 7 Fellowship from the Aljira Art Center, and a Chashama AREA Visual Arts Studio Award in New York, NY. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Jezebel at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York, Everything That Rises Must Converge at Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery in Chicago, Il, Jezebel presented by Claire Oliver Gallery at Loop Video Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain; and I Dream of Jeannie Emerging from a Fresca Bottle at Christa Schuebbe Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Features on Gannis's work have appeared in Res Magazine, Animal Magazine, 11211, and Collezioni Edge, and her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The LA Times, The Miami Herald, NY Arts Magazine, The Daily News, The Star Ledger, and The Village Voice. She is currently on the Digital Arts teaching faculty at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and The School of Visual Arts in New York.
Gannis is the recipient of several awards, including a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Grant in Computer Arts, an Emerge 7 Fellowship from the Aljira Art Center, and a Chashama AREA Visual Arts Studio Award in New York, NY. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Jezebel at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York, Everything That Rises Must Converge at Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery in Chicago, Il, Jezebel presented by Claire Oliver Gallery at Loop Video Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain; and I Dream of Jeannie Emerging from a Fresca Bottle at Christa Schuebbe Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Features on Gannis's work have appeared in Res Magazine, Animal Magazine, 11211, and Collezioni Edge, and her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The LA Times, The Miami Herald, NY Arts Magazine, The Daily News, The Star Ledger, and The Village Voice. She is currently on the Digital Arts teaching faculty at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and The School of Visual Arts in New York.
Carla Gannis @ Projektraum Christa Scuebbe
CARLA GANNIS "I DREAM OF JEANNIE EMERGING FROM A FRESCA BOTTLE"
Solo Exhibition at Projektraum Christa Schuebbe, Dusseldorf, Germany
June 18 - July 26, 2005, Reception June 18, 6-8 pm
If you do not see an image below:
http://carlagannis.com/IDream/IDreamChristaSchuebbe.jpg
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Solo Exhibition at Projektraum Christa Schuebbe, Dusseldorf, Germany
June 18 - July 26, 2005, Reception June 18, 6-8 pm
If you do not see an image below:
http://carlagannis.com/IDream/IDreamChristaSchuebbe.jpg
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Culture Vulture @ Jack the Pelican | April 1
Hi -- Info on a group show I'm in opening this Friday. Hope you can make it
by.
Carla -- http://www.carlagannis.com
CULTURE VULTURE
curated by David Gibson @ Jack the Pelican Presents
OPENS APRIL 1, 7
by.
Carla -- http://www.carlagannis.com
CULTURE VULTURE
curated by David Gibson @ Jack the Pelican Presents
OPENS APRIL 1, 7
Carla Gannis | Opening Nov 11 | @ Pablo's Birthday
CARLA GANNIS | TRAVELOGUE
November 11 - December 7, 2004
Reception: Thursday, November 11, 6-9pm
Hours: Sat-Sun, 11-6pm and by appointment
PABLO'S BIRTHDAY 84 FRANKLIN ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013
between Church and Broadway
http://www.pablosbirthday.com
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>To: <carla_mg@hotmail.com>
>CC: arne zimmermann <azimmermann@kastnernetwork.us>
>Subject: Invite
>Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:44:45 -0500
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>Attached is a copy of the e-mail invite for approval.
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November 11 - December 7, 2004
Reception: Thursday, November 11, 6-9pm
Hours: Sat-Sun, 11-6pm and by appointment
PABLO'S BIRTHDAY 84 FRANKLIN ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013
between Church and Broadway
http://www.pablosbirthday.com
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>From: ellie colon <ecolon@kastnernetwork.us>
>To: <carla_mg@hotmail.com>
>CC: arne zimmermann <azimmermann@kastnernetwork.us>
>Subject: Invite
>Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:44:45 -0500
>
>Attached is a copy of the e-mail invite for approval.
>
>Elvis
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Carla Gannis in New American Story Art | Oct 15
eyewash@ Parkers Box
presents
NEW AMERICAN STORY ART
Nate Larson, Jim Torok, David Kramer, Carla Gannis, Dotty Attie, Sue Coe,
Scott Teplin, Renee French and Mac Adams
eyewash@Parkers Box 193 Grand St. Brooklyn
October 15 through November 14 2004
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 15th 6-9pm
VIDEO & PERFORMANCE NIGHT: Friday, October 29th, 7-9:30 pm
NEW AMERICAN STORY ART is a survey of current 'story art' being created in
the United States. Since the early-1970's this genre of narrative art has
gone widely unnoticed.
This exhibition is a showcase for artists who have developed innovative
ways--through expanded formats and technologies--to give this direction in
visual art new 'looks' and possibilities. Nate Larson, Jim Torok, David
Kramer, Carla Gannis, Dotty Attie, Sue Coe, Scott Teplin, Renee French and
Mac Adams are featured in an exhibition of multi-media, mixed media and
installation art.
On Friday, October 29th eyewash in conjunction with Parkers Box presents an
evening of video and performance dealing with story-telling. Performers
include lap-top storytelling by Jon Keith Brunelle, kookie country and
Western ballads by Larry Krone, angry artworld rants by David Kramer and
others TBA. A full video program will be shown twice featuring new works by
Suzie Silver, Justin Marshall, William Powhida and much more.
Artist, Educator and Curator LARRY WALCZAK started eyewash in June 1997 on
the 3rd Floor of a turn-of-the-century residential building in Williamsburg.
Since January 2002, it has been a "migratory gallery," either collaborating
with other galleries, or producing shows in borrowed or otherwise
temporarily acquired spaces. It specializes in showcasing emerging and
mid-career artists from Brooklyn.
F O R F U R T H E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Please contact LARRY WALCZAK at 718 387 2714
presents
NEW AMERICAN STORY ART
Nate Larson, Jim Torok, David Kramer, Carla Gannis, Dotty Attie, Sue Coe,
Scott Teplin, Renee French and Mac Adams
eyewash@Parkers Box 193 Grand St. Brooklyn
October 15 through November 14 2004
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 15th 6-9pm
VIDEO & PERFORMANCE NIGHT: Friday, October 29th, 7-9:30 pm
NEW AMERICAN STORY ART is a survey of current 'story art' being created in
the United States. Since the early-1970's this genre of narrative art has
gone widely unnoticed.
This exhibition is a showcase for artists who have developed innovative
ways--through expanded formats and technologies--to give this direction in
visual art new 'looks' and possibilities. Nate Larson, Jim Torok, David
Kramer, Carla Gannis, Dotty Attie, Sue Coe, Scott Teplin, Renee French and
Mac Adams are featured in an exhibition of multi-media, mixed media and
installation art.
On Friday, October 29th eyewash in conjunction with Parkers Box presents an
evening of video and performance dealing with story-telling. Performers
include lap-top storytelling by Jon Keith Brunelle, kookie country and
Western ballads by Larry Krone, angry artworld rants by David Kramer and
others TBA. A full video program will be shown twice featuring new works by
Suzie Silver, Justin Marshall, William Powhida and much more.
Artist, Educator and Curator LARRY WALCZAK started eyewash in June 1997 on
the 3rd Floor of a turn-of-the-century residential building in Williamsburg.
Since January 2002, it has been a "migratory gallery," either collaborating
with other galleries, or producing shows in borrowed or otherwise
temporarily acquired spaces. It specializes in showcasing emerging and
mid-career artists from Brooklyn.
F O R F U R T H E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Please contact LARRY WALCZAK at 718 387 2714
Invite to a Group Show I'm in Thurs, Sept.23
Hope you can make it by. -- Carla
INTIMACY
CURATED BY DAVID GIBSON
SANDRA BERMUDEZ CHINA BLUE KIM CONNERTON ANNETTE CYR JEN DENIKE
CARLA GANNIS ELIZABETH HENDLER AMY JENKINS
JENNIFER KARADY ALEXIS KARL NORMA MARKLEY LEEMOUR PELLI
GAE SAVANNAH RAVEN SCHLOSSBERG ROXANNE WOLANCZYK
SEPTEMBER 23-OCTOBER 24, 2004
RECEPTION: THURSDAY, SEPT 23, 8-11 PM
BROOKLYN FIRE PROOF, INC.
101 Richardson Street between Leonard & Meeker, Top Floor,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Extended Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 1 - 6 PM /
call 718 302 4702 for an appointment
email: brooklynfire.proof@verizon.net website:
http//www.brooklynfireproof.com
Directions from Bedford: walk north on Bedford Av. Turn right onto
N. 11 that becomes Richardson St. after crossing Union Av.
Subway*: L to Lorimer or G to Metropolitan. Walk north towards the
raised BQE highway. Turn right onto Meeker and walk beneath the BQE
to Leonard. Turn left onto Leonard and walk one block and turn
right onto Richardson. 101 is on left in the middle of the block.
*check the mta for service advisories.
Car: Take Exit 33 McGuinness Blvd. + Humbolt St. off the BQE
highway. Turn left at light at end of ramp. Turn left at light
under the BQE onto Meeker. Veer right onto Richardson just before
the bill board sign at the service station.
This exhibition brings together a group of artists whose work is
characterized by a willingness to confront extremely personal
issues and the social forces which actively demean them. it can
easily be said that every artist places themselves in an intimate
situation. Isolated with their art, far from the vicissitudes of
social life, the artist finds a new truth. Yet how does that truth
express itself in the larger world?
Cumulatively the quality of intimacy as it serves the artist, and
as the artist's themes in turn serve society becomes as important
as the need for it. The use of the term itself has many variables,
depending on usage, it can infer commonality, vulnerability, and
knowledge.
An emotionally charged art is often the product of forces around it
which either apply normative concerns, pressuring the artist to
repress the intimate concern, or to focus solely upon matters of
craft. However, their adverse reaction becomes the fruit of
discovery: narratives develop and symbols emerge, which dramatize
the need for intimacy.
Intimacy itself is rarely the focus in art criticism, since it is
not superficially topical, nor does it have a specific historical
reference. But it does have something to do with the dynamics of
contemporary emotional life, and the ways in which we have become
accustomed to repressing or generalizing our responses to issues
that relate directly back to the inner life of emotions our
repository for reactions to experience.
There are very few avenues in contemporary life for people to talk
about their emotions, since it's generally assumed that families
are dysfunctional and that we address our problems either directly,
via therapy; or indirectly, by allowing a vast number of media
sources, such as NPR Radio, Oprah Winfrey, and various TV dramas
and sitcoms, to aid us in running the gamut of our emotions.
After party at M Shanghai Bistro from 11 PM - 2 AM, 129 Havemeyer Street
between
Grand Street + S 1st Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
INTIMACY
CURATED BY DAVID GIBSON
SANDRA BERMUDEZ CHINA BLUE KIM CONNERTON ANNETTE CYR JEN DENIKE
CARLA GANNIS ELIZABETH HENDLER AMY JENKINS
JENNIFER KARADY ALEXIS KARL NORMA MARKLEY LEEMOUR PELLI
GAE SAVANNAH RAVEN SCHLOSSBERG ROXANNE WOLANCZYK
SEPTEMBER 23-OCTOBER 24, 2004
RECEPTION: THURSDAY, SEPT 23, 8-11 PM
BROOKLYN FIRE PROOF, INC.
101 Richardson Street between Leonard & Meeker, Top Floor,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Extended Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 1 - 6 PM /
call 718 302 4702 for an appointment
email: brooklynfire.proof@verizon.net website:
http//www.brooklynfireproof.com
Directions from Bedford: walk north on Bedford Av. Turn right onto
N. 11 that becomes Richardson St. after crossing Union Av.
Subway*: L to Lorimer or G to Metropolitan. Walk north towards the
raised BQE highway. Turn right onto Meeker and walk beneath the BQE
to Leonard. Turn left onto Leonard and walk one block and turn
right onto Richardson. 101 is on left in the middle of the block.
*check the mta for service advisories.
Car: Take Exit 33 McGuinness Blvd. + Humbolt St. off the BQE
highway. Turn left at light at end of ramp. Turn left at light
under the BQE onto Meeker. Veer right onto Richardson just before
the bill board sign at the service station.
This exhibition brings together a group of artists whose work is
characterized by a willingness to confront extremely personal
issues and the social forces which actively demean them. it can
easily be said that every artist places themselves in an intimate
situation. Isolated with their art, far from the vicissitudes of
social life, the artist finds a new truth. Yet how does that truth
express itself in the larger world?
Cumulatively the quality of intimacy as it serves the artist, and
as the artist's themes in turn serve society becomes as important
as the need for it. The use of the term itself has many variables,
depending on usage, it can infer commonality, vulnerability, and
knowledge.
An emotionally charged art is often the product of forces around it
which either apply normative concerns, pressuring the artist to
repress the intimate concern, or to focus solely upon matters of
craft. However, their adverse reaction becomes the fruit of
discovery: narratives develop and symbols emerge, which dramatize
the need for intimacy.
Intimacy itself is rarely the focus in art criticism, since it is
not superficially topical, nor does it have a specific historical
reference. But it does have something to do with the dynamics of
contemporary emotional life, and the ways in which we have become
accustomed to repressing or generalizing our responses to issues
that relate directly back to the inner life of emotions our
repository for reactions to experience.
There are very few avenues in contemporary life for people to talk
about their emotions, since it's generally assumed that families
are dysfunctional and that we address our problems either directly,
via therapy; or indirectly, by allowing a vast number of media
sources, such as NPR Radio, Oprah Winfrey, and various TV dramas
and sitcoms, to aid us in running the gamut of our emotions.
After party at M Shanghai Bistro from 11 PM - 2 AM, 129 Havemeyer Street
between
Grand Street + S 1st Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
