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Lindsey Dorr-Niro’s This Land

Your Art Here is pleased to present This Land, an art billboard and experimental lecture by Chicago-based Artist, Lindsey Dorr-Niro. The billboard was installed at 6th & Walnut on Friday, April 10th, 2015.

Lindsey will be traveling to Bloomington to launch a new soapbox lecture series, performing on site, Friday April 24th at 5pm. Subverting the overly structured chaos of the Little 500 weekend by drawing attention to the hidden, unattended to, unquestioned, but not uninformed, Lindsey reveals truth as present – reminding us of the flip side of things, as well as the blurred edges between a thing’s intended use, and it’s atonal reality.

More about Lindsey’s practice can be found at: http://www.lindseydorrniro.com
Images top to bottom: This Land, Research Image

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Mark Clare’s Strange Sentiment

I Believe In You

 

 

Your Art Here is pleased to make record of I Believe In You, an art billboard by Irish artist Mark Clare, on view December 2014 – April 2015.

Clare’s work explores and questions the social values within our current space and time. This work, part of a series of larger public sculptures, is a non site-specific intervention. It addresses the collective public of Bloomington’s business district, as well as the individual passerby, where it becomes a more intimate gesture, leaving a ringing in the ear; a tinge of uncertainty.

The billboard refers to one of Clare’s earlier sculptures by the same name. In this prior iteration, thirteen silver helium balloons spell out the message, “I BELIEVE IN  YOU,” and are left to float down, deflating slowly over the course of the exhibition. Like Clare’s humor, there seems to be a persistent mockery of the politically correct inducing veil behind which we forget interconnectivity.

https://www.markclare.net

New Curatorial Director, Jessica Frelund

Announcing the new Curatorial Director for Your Art Here, Jessica Frelund!

10582950_311037695743950_6597152307518874981_oJessica Frelund was born and raised in New Mexico, traveling to Minnesota for three months out of the year. She attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where she received a BFA in sculpture and painting in 2005. She spent the following seven years in California, making, traveling, and working as an Art Handler for the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the University Art Gallery at the University of California San Diego, and numerous other galleries and museums. She now lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana, while pursuing a Masters of Arts in Studio Art & Theory at Drury University, in Springfield, Missouri.

Working in sculpture, video, 2D, and collaboration, she explores her unrest with normative modes of behavior. Investigating the potential of the human organism, us, generative antagonism, and the work of replacing conventional and convenient models, she writes, “Where I modeled, I must now agitate. What I think about is what I am, and somewhere in the middle is what I does.”

Running her hands along the surface of contestable models, Jessica enacts strategies associated with amateurish ethnography and sociology.

 

Announcing Your Art Here’s new Curatorial Committee

Your Art Here is pleased to introduce our new Curatorial Committee!

Curatorial Director, Natalie Hegert, is an art critic and scholar whose research focuses on art produced for the public realm—from commissioned artist billboards and public sculptures, installations and parks, to non-commissioned street art and graffiti. Her curatorial experience includes organizing and curating the exhibition Objects of Devotion and Desire: from Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art at the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, as well as curating exhibitions and organizing events at Art+Space gallery, an alternative space in San Francisco. This year Natalie will finish her thesis on ’80’s NYC graffiti art for her MA in Art History from Hunter College in New York City. She is also the editor at-large for the contemporary arts website ArtSlant.com.

Assistant Curatorial Director, Christine Jang, is a graduate student in Art Education at Indiana University (IU) with a focus in community development. Her previous degree was a BFA in Painting and Art History also from IU. Her research is mainly in local citizen-based community revitalization, cultural economics and public art initiatives. She is well versed in contemporary art and has a solid understanding of the history behind public arts since the 1960’s. Christine has lived in Bloomington for the past seven years.

Both based in Bloomington, Natalie and Christine are already planning new Your Art Here projects. So stay tuned for more from these two.

Bienvenidos a Bloomington

Artist Rogelio Gutierrez, May 2011 Herron School of Art and Design Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art and Public life candidate, presents a series of public works throughout the cities of Indianapolis and Bloomington. These works include six billboards (five in Indianapolis and one in Bloomington, made available by Clear Channel and YourArtHere.org) and a mural in the Near West neighborhood of Indianapolis. Each work reads the Spanish phrase Bienvenidos a Indianapolis (Bloomington), which translates to welcome to Indianapolis (Bloomington) in English. The imagery, reminiscent of a nostalgic post card, consists of a sprawling cactus (or nopal), an iconic symbol of Mexico and its culture.

Rogelio, a first generation Mexican-American, hails from California. These public works are meant not only to act as a metaphor for his parents’ struggles to establish a life in the United States, as well as his own transition from life in California to life in the Midwest; but also as a welcoming beacon to the ever increasing Latino/a population in the city Indianapolis and the state of Indiana in general. It is the artist’s intention to attempt to bridge the gap between this population and the general population.

These public works coincide with Rogelio’s MFA thesis exhibition that will take place throughout the month of May in Herron School of Art and Design’s main gallery

Billboard Locations 1) Indianapolis Cultural Trail, 888 Massachusetts Ave., Indianapolis, IN 2) Indianapolis Cultural Trail, 922 Massachusetts Ave., Indianapolis, IN 3) Near 1685 W. Washington St., between Reichwein and Richland Streets heading West (exiting downtown). 4) Near 1685 W. Washington St., between Reichwein and Richland Streets heading West (entering downtown). 5) Near 1185 E. Michigan St., on the corner of E. Michigan and E. Dorman St. (entering downtown). 6) At the corner of E. 6th and N. Walnut, on the square in downtown Bloomington, IN

Mural Location

La Frontera (one of the first Mexican tiendas in Indianapolis) 2401 W. Washington St., Indianapolis

Bienvenidos A Indianpolis MFA Thesis Exhibition

Opening Reception: May 5th (Cinco de Mayo), 5PM-9PM Eleanor Prest Reese and Robert B. Berkshire Galleries, Herron School of Art and Design, 735 W. New York St., Indianapolis, IN

Exhibition continues through May 26th. Gallery hours are: Monday 10AM-5PM, Tuesday 10AM-5PM, Wednesday 10AM-8PM, Thursday 10AM-5PM, Friday 10AM-5PM, Saturday 10AM-5PM, and Sunday CLOSED

Contact: gutierrez.rogelio@gmail.com