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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.
Opening - In the Face of Others - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Gallery
Dates:
Wed Jan 14, 2004 00:00 - Tue Jan 13, 2004
January 12 -April 30, 2004
In the Face of Others
Reception with the artists: Wednesday, January 14; 6-8 p.m.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Gallery
One Wall Street Court, 142 Pearl Street, 2ndFloor
Exhibiting artists are:Seongmin Ahn, Kristin Anderson, Brandon Ballengee, Tim Blum, Mariestella Colon-Astacio, William Crow, Ula Einstein, Jennifer Formica, Carla Gannis, Ben Goldman, Rebecca Hackemann, Shelley Haven, Nicholas Knight, Eliot Lable, David Lantow, Eva Lee, Nina Levy, Karen Marston, Robert Martinez, Patrick Meagher, Eva Melas, Tom Moore, Hee Jun Park, Jack Pospisil, Elizabeth Riley, Maria Spector, Deborah Wasserman.
In the Face of Others
Reception with the artists: Wednesday, January 14; 6-8 p.m.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Gallery
One Wall Street Court, 142 Pearl Street, 2ndFloor
Exhibiting artists are:Seongmin Ahn, Kristin Anderson, Brandon Ballengee, Tim Blum, Mariestella Colon-Astacio, William Crow, Ula Einstein, Jennifer Formica, Carla Gannis, Ben Goldman, Rebecca Hackemann, Shelley Haven, Nicholas Knight, Eliot Lable, David Lantow, Eva Lee, Nina Levy, Karen Marston, Robert Martinez, Patrick Meagher, Eva Melas, Tom Moore, Hee Jun Park, Jack Pospisil, Elizabeth Riley, Maria Spector, Deborah Wasserman.
Carla Gannis - Group Show at LMCC Gallery
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Exploring the
dynamics of communities, the 2004 Winter/Spring gallery exhibition at LMCC's
One Wall Street Court features a group show organized by<b> NURTUREart</b> Non-Profit,
Inc. -a past re-grant recipient of LMCC's Fund for Creative Communities. From
their portfolio registry of over 400 artists, NURTUREart assembles works that
offer a snapshot view of the diverse backgrounds and concerns of its creative
community. The paintings, sculptures, drawings and photography-based works
look at a range of personal and collective experiences and interactions, which
vary widely from psychological interiors to architectural environments.</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><b><br>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Exhibiting artists
are:<b>Seongmin Ahn, Kristin Anderson, Brandon Ballengee, Tim Blum, Mariestella
Colon-Astacio, William Crow, Ula Einstein, Jennifer Formica, Carla Gannis, Ben
Goldman, Rebecca Hackemann, Shelley Haven, Nicholas Knight, Eliot Lable, David
Lantow, Eva Lee, Nina Levy, Karen Marston, Robert Martinez, Patrick Meagher,
Eva Melas, Tom Moore, Hee Jun Park, Jack Pospisil, Elizabeth Riley, Maria Spector,
Deborah Wasserman.</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Concurrent with
the anniversaries of LMCC at thirty years and NURTUREart at five, the exhibition
will also feature a site-specific mural by artist-director<b> Robert Martinez</b>.
Created for<i> In the Face of Others</i>, this work weaves the timelines of
both organizations with the artist's own personal memories as well as the history
of LMCC's location at One Wall Street Court, formerly the old New York Cocoa
Exchange.</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">The exhibition
was curated by NURTUREart's artist-directors,Brandon Ballengee, Mariestella
Colon-Astacio, Eliot Lable, Karen Marston, Robert Martinez, and Maria Spector</font></div>
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-<b>April 30, 2004</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><b><br>
</b></font></div>
<div align="center">
<p><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><i>In the Face of Others</i></font></p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<div align="center">
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><b>Reception
with the artists: Wednesday, January 14; 6-8 p.m.</b></font></div>
<font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><i><br>
</i></font></div>
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="+2">Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council Gallery</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><br>
</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">One Wall Street
Court, 142 Pearl Street, 2</font><font face="Arial" color="#000000">nd<font size="+2">Floor</font></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><br>
</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Gallery Hours:
M-F, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><br>
</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><b><br>
</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"> Press Release</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><br>
</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Exploring the
dynamics of communities, the 2004 Winter/Spring gallery exhibition at LMCC's
One Wall Street Court features a group show organized by<b> NURTUREart</b> Non-Profit,
Inc. -a past re-grant recipient of LMCC's Fund for Creative Communities. From
their portfolio registry of over 400 artists, NURTUREart assembles works that
offer a snapshot view of the diverse backgrounds and concerns of its creative
community. The paintings, sculptures, drawings and photography-based works
look at a range of personal and collective experiences and interactions, which
vary widely from psychological interiors to architectural environments.</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><b><br>
</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Exhibiting artists
are:<b>Seongmin Ahn, Kristin Anderson, Brandon Ballengee, Tim Blum, Mariestella
Colon-Astacio, William Crow, Ula Einstein, Jennifer Formica, Carla Gannis, Ben
Goldman, Rebecca Hackemann, Shelley Haven, Nicholas Knight, Eliot Lable, David
Lantow, Eva Lee, Nina Levy, Karen Marston, Robert Martinez, Patrick Meagher,
Eva Melas, Tom Moore, Hee Jun Park, Jack Pospisil, Elizabeth Riley, Maria Spector,
Deborah Wasserman.</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><b><br>
</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><b> </b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Concurrent with
the anniversaries of LMCC at thirty years and NURTUREart at five, the exhibition
will also feature a site-specific mural by artist-director<b> Robert Martinez</b>.
Created for<i> In the Face of Others</i>, this work weaves the timelines of
both organizations with the artist's own personal memories as well as the history
of LMCC's location at One Wall Street Court, formerly the old New York Cocoa
Exchange.</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><br>
</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">The exhibition
was curated by NURTUREart's artist-directors,Brandon Ballengee, Mariestella
Colon-Astacio, Eliot Lable, Karen Marston, Robert Martinez, and Maria Spector</font></div>
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</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><img src="http://www.carlagannis.com/mrhyde.jpg" width="550" height="450"><br>
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Digital Dumbo
Dates:
Thu Sep 19, 2002 00:00 - Wed Sep 18, 2002
The Second Annual Digital Dumbo
will be opening at M3 Projects/Mastel+Mastel Gallery, Thursday night, September 19 from 6-9 pm
Digital Dumbo is a 3-day digital arts event that highlights DUMBO as a nucleus of thriving digital culture. Througout the weekend experience digital art in its many forms. Over 40 artists have been selected to participate in this year's event.
M3 Projects/Mastel+Mastel Gallery
70 Washington Street, #700, Dumbo, Brooklyn
http://www.digitaldumbo.com
will be opening at M3 Projects/Mastel+Mastel Gallery, Thursday night, September 19 from 6-9 pm
Digital Dumbo is a 3-day digital arts event that highlights DUMBO as a nucleus of thriving digital culture. Througout the weekend experience digital art in its many forms. Over 40 artists have been selected to participate in this year's event.
M3 Projects/Mastel+Mastel Gallery
70 Washington Street, #700, Dumbo, Brooklyn
http://www.digitaldumbo.com
Digital Dumbo
Hello all -- I will be showing a video installation at M3 Projects Gallery
for the Dumbo Digital Arts Festival beginning this Thursday the 19th.
for the Dumbo Digital Arts Festival beginning this Thursday the 19th.
