DAC - Exhibitions

THE EXPERIENCE OF GREEN
Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen

Opening Reception: Friday, September 25, 6 - 9 PM

Exhibition Dates: September 25 - December 3, 2009
Artists' Talk: Thursday, November 5, 7 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6 PM

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Images: Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen, The Experience of Green, 2009. Red kraft paper and wood.
Site-specific sculptural installation. Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York. Image courtesy of the artists.

The Experience of Green, a full-color limited edition catalog with an accompanying essay by Jen Schwarting is now available. Price: $15. Please email Maya Taylor at press@dumboartscenter.org to order a copy today. Check back soon to learn how to order them online.

Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen have filled the Dumbo Arts Center with their enormous site-specific installation The Experience of Green. Opening September 25, 2009, the exhibition emphasizes the contrast between the organic and the built environment. Viewers step out of Dumbo’s stark brick-and-glass commercial district into a fantastical forest; a walk-through labyrinth of old growth trees made entirely from red kraft paper. The spectacular network of gnarled tree trunks and twisted roots extends over every inch of the gallery, suspending the boundaries of space and time while fully immersing the viewer.

The Experience of Green is Kavanaugh and Nguyen's most ambitious work to date as well as the artists' first major debut in NYC of their ongoing collaborative series of visually phenomenal, meticulously crafted paper installations. Here, the staggering volume of paper that the artists stack, splice, layer and coil is in a brilliant crimson, burning an impression in the viewers’ mind. The Experience of Green may come most clearly into focus only after viewers exit the gallery, the color persisting as an optical after-image, accentuating the relationship between experience and memory, landscape and longing, nature and the sublime.

DAC and the artists acknowledge the following for making The Experience of Green possible: The Walentas Family and Two Trees Mangement Co. LLC, who generously donated a studio space for six months to the artists; DAC Board Members, Michael Murray, CEO surroundart, and Jake Salik, CEO, Talas, whose efforts substantially cut production costs, Anna Kraske, Attorney, for legal counsel, and Alex Fisher, chairman of the Androscoggin Gun Club, for providing the sparkle.

DAC and the artists are indebted to the installation team who helped build The Experience of Green: Diana Abi Khalil, Jenny Acosta, Emerson Atkins, Samuel Desir, Victoria Calabro, Xizi Chen, Janay Combris, Allyson L. Feeney, Christina Fleuron Dahl, Giovanni Espejel, Katie Fox, Skylar Gibbons-Reich, Jaume Guerra, Alexandra Halky, Sonia Hendler, Joshua Henerickson, Cassandra Johnson, Shannon Legg, Mascha Logaceva, Sophia Matsu, Brenna McLaughlin, Lauren McManama, Allison Meier, Tanya Merrill, Micaela O'Leary, Sara Minsky, Alma Peguero, Elisabeth Piland, Cindy Pun, Kerry Ratel, Stephen Symbolik, Maya Taylor, Leyla Ipek Ulusoy, Scott Valentine and Anna Wilcox.

Please view images from the opening here. All images are property of the artists. Please direct all press image inquiries to: press@dumboartscenter.org.

Installation timelapse video courtesy of the artist.

DAC will be open until 8:30PM October 1, November 5 and December 3, 2009. We are a proud participant in the Dumbo First Thursday gallery walk series.


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