Sunroom Project Space: Brandon Neubauer Installation Opens April 8
Meet the Artist: Saturday, May 3, 1:30PM
Brandon Neubauer creates multi-media installations that draw on perceived histories of a site to create a loose-knit narrative that merges past, present and future. Developed since summer 2013 and prepared while in residence during his time in Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace Program (February 19 – March 20, 2014), Neubauer’s Sunroom Project Looking Out, Up and Away incorporates video, photographs and recorded sounds to create a portrait of the Wave Hill site that engages time, optical phenomena and topography.
The Sunroom’s surrounding vista becomes a backdrop as he layers images that reference the changing view and cycles of nature over the seasons. For instance, images of recognizable vantage points are interwoven with abstracted visions of those same locations from the previous summer, fall and winter. He also manipulates sunlight, reflecting, dispersing and projecting it across the room and creating a representation of the earth’s daily rotation as the sun moves through the sky. Neubauer transforms the Sunroom into a panoramic theater in which daily timelines and seasonal shifts are compressed into a singular, yet multidimensional, encounter.
Neubauer received a BFA in film and television from New York University. This is his first solo exhibition in New York. Neubauer had a recent one-person show at Life Bomb in Berlin, Germany, and has been featured in group exhibitions at Flux Factory, Queens, NY; Art Gotham, New York, NY; The Tank Space, New York, NY; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Disjecta Center for Contemporary Art and the Schneider Museum of Art, both in Portland, OR. Artist residencies include The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Chashama North, Pine Plains, NY; The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY; and The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. [www.brandonneubauer.com]
Organized by Curator of Visual Arts Gabriel de Guzman, the Sunroom Project Space provides an opportunity for New York City emerging artists to develop a special project or site-specific work to exhibit in a solo show. The artists participating in the 2014 season at Brandon Neubauer, Kristyna and Marek Milde, Reade Bryan, Lauren Carly Shaw, Tammy Nguyen, Alexandra Phillips and Hilary Lorenz.
THE SUNROOM PROJECT SPACE IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation. Additional support for the Visual Arts Program is provided by The New York Community Trust, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Cathy and Stephen Weinroth Commissioning Fund for the Arts. The Institution’s operations are made possible in part by public funds provided through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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