Possible Models: New Work by Jenny Perlin
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
November 8 - December 23, 2005
In her first major solo musuem exhibition, Brooklyn-based artist Jenny Perlin examines details of everyday life through 16mm film, video, and drawing. Included in the exhibition is the multi-channel video installation Sight Reading, which documents three pianist performing a difficult piece of music for the first time. In addition, the exhibition presents the 16mm film loop Washing, which poignantly describes the changed skyline of Lower Manhattan after September 11, 2001, and represents an attempt to clean a landscape - and a collective memory - of trauma. The exhibition also features Translation, a new collaborative drawing project.
In conjunction with the exhibition Possible Models: New Work by Jenny Perlin, the Ulrich Museum of Art will host a screening of three documentary films by Perlin not included in the exhibition. The artist will introduce and make brief remarks about the films: Happy are the Happy (Your Best Joke, Please!), Perseverance & How to Develop It, and View from Elsewhere. A question and answer period will immediately follow. Running time: 52 minutes.
Slide talk by the artist at 4 p.m. Thursday, November 10, in 210 McKnight Art Center West (School of Art & Design), followed by a reception/preview from 5 to 7 p.m. with remarks by the artist at 6 p.m. at the museum.
Essay accompanying the exhibition >>