Nathaniel Stern

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‘Arrested Time,’ Nathaniel stern in Massachusetts

Nathaniel Stern at Greylock Arts

‘Arrested Time’ is an display of works combining contemporary technologies with traditional drawing and printmaking methods. This project, curated by Jo-Anne Green, brings together two exhibits – the solo work of Nathaniel Stern in ‘Given Time’ and this artist’s collaborative endeavour with Jessica Meuninck-Ganger ‘Distill Life.’ 

In ‘Given Time’ Stern simultaneously activates and performs two permanently logged-in Second Life avatars, each forever and only seen by and through the other. Viewers encounter this networked partnership as a diptych of large-scale and facing video projections in a real world gallery, both exhibiting a live view of one avatar, as perceived by the other. 

In ‘Distill Life’, Stern and Meuninck-Ganger approach both old and new media as form. They permanently mount translucent prints and drawings directly on top of video screens, creating moving images on paper. By incorporate technologies and aesthetics from traditional printmaking - including woodblock, silk screen, etching, lithography, photogravure etc - with the technologies and aesthetics of contemporary digital, video and networked art, they explore images as multidimensional.

26 February 2010 - 03 April 2010

'Falling Still'

Nathaniel Stern at UWM History of Art Gallery

'Falling Still', a collaboration between South African, USA-based artist Nathaniel Stern and Belarus-born jeweller, metalsmith and sculptor Yevgeniya Kaganovich, utilizes 200 cement-cast feathers as individual pixels to create a larger image across six planes. Each of these sculptures has been hand-poured into molds of actual feathers, exhibiting finely detailed quills on one side, and flat concrete surfaces on the other. They hang from the ceiling via discrete fishing lines, swinging, twisting and turning as viewers move around the  installation area. From all perspectives but one, the work floats between one-dimensional lines,  two-dimensional planes and three-dimensional pixels. View it exactly perpendicular to its planes, and all the work’s elements cohere into a bit-mapped image of a body, leaping through the air. While 'Falling Still' is itself suspended between movement and stasis, it also moves and arrests us. The installation directs us in and around incongruous objects, through an improbable image, and across multiple dimensions.

02 December 2010 - 16 December 2010