Exhibition
May 22–July 31, 2018

Sonia Louise Davis: Sound Gestures

Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 22, 6–8pm

Sound Gestures is a solo exhibition of work by Sonia Louise Davis, recipient of The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund residency at ISCP. Davis will present a new site-specific installation in ISCP’s Project Space, drawing from her multi-year focus on improvisation, with considerations of music, movement, struggle, assembly and transcendence. Informed by her musical training as a jazz vocalist, collaborative community-based projects, and readings of critical race and feminist theory, Davis incorporates mediums ranging from works on paper, fabric and glass, to collaborative writing, to live performance. Often working from the generative form of the score, the artist states, “I understand improvisation as a responsive and rigorous practice of active engagement with the world around me.”

A solo performance by Davis featuring live vocals and movement will take place at 6:45pm on July 31.

Sound Gestures includes a limited edition poster with text by Davis and Greta Hartenstein, Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Sonia Louise Davis (born 1988, New York City) has performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art and published in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. Residencies and fellowships include the Laundromat Project, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and ACRE. Recent exhibitions include Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles; and Sadie Halie Projects, Minneapolis. An honors graduate of Wesleyan University (BA, African American Studies, 2010) and an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2015-16), Davis lives and works in Harlem.

Sound Gestures is coordinated by Juliana Cope, Director of Development and Programs Manager.

This program is supported, in part, by The New York Community Trust Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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Sonia Louise Davis

Sonia Louise Davis, an overtone (for M), 2018, acrylic on found frame with wall painting, 23 × 19 in. (58.42 × 48.26 cm). Courtesy of the artist

Video Documentation of the Performance

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Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

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Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

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ISCP Talk
May 15, 2018, 6:30–8pm

Artists at Work: Lise Duclaux and Luisa Kasalicky

Lise Duclaux will present a part of her ongoing work Who’s afraid of invasive plants? Aliens among us, a poetic-scientific performance lecture about plants living in the cracks of sidewalks, interstices, rubble, parking and vacant lots in New York City.

Luisa Kasalicky will speak about her work Intro: desiderio, a light installation that enacts a chain of material and sensorial transformations.

This program is supported, in part, by BKA – Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Kunst und Kultur / Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria, La Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

6:30–8pm

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Lise Duclaux

Luisa Kasalicky

Luisa Kasalicky, Intro: desiderio, (detail), 2013, perspex, synthetic material, wood, textile and light, 90 × 90 in. (228.6 × 228.6 cm)

Lise Duclaux, new-york avril 04, 2018, photograph from ISCP studio, Brooklyn

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
May 8, 2018, 6:30–8pm

Brooklyn Commons: Haim Steinbach and Remy Jungerman

On May 8, Haim Steinbach and Remy Jungerman will consider the recontextualization of existing objects and the cultural meanings of display.

Brooklyn Commons, an ongoing discussion series at ISCP, presents intellectual and artistic pairings between the established Brooklyn-based artist community and ISCP artists in residence. This series, initiated in 2012, puts artists in conversation who have not shared a dialogue in the past and focuses on cultural practitioners living and working in Brooklyn, both long- and short-term.

Throughout his career, Haim Steinbach (born 1944, Rehovot, Israel) has exhibited his work consistently at major museums worldwide. In 2013, the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in New York presented an important solo exhibition of the artist’s work since the early 1970s, entitled once again the world is flat, which traveled to Kunsthalle Zurich and Serpentine Gallery, London. Other notable solo presentations include The Menil Collection, Houston, 2014; Statens Museum fur Kunst, Copenhagen, 2013–14; and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2005. In 1999, his work was presented at the 47th Venice Biennale curated by Germano Celant. The artist’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Remy Jungerman (born 1959, Suriname) has lived in Amsterdam since 1990. His recent work is entangled with his Surinamese roots and relates to global citizenship. He has exhibited works at Prospect.3, New Orleans; Brooklyn Museum; Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Gemeente Museum, Den Haag; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Havana Biennale; Museum Bamako, Mali; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); and Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta.

Brooklyn Commons is organized by Kari Conte, ISCP Director of Programs and Exhibitions.

This year’s series also includes talks between Ulrike Müller and Taloi Havini, and Suzanne McClelland and Sonia Louise Davis.

Major support for Brooklyn Commons is provided by VIA Art Fund.

This program is also supported, in part, by Mondriaan Fund; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

6:30–8pm

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Haim Steinbach, Untitled (Pantone Cool Gray 10), 2016, Baltic birch plywood, plastic laminate and glass box, with metal Pantone storage box, 39³/₈ × 41³/₈ × 17¹/₂ in. (100.01 × 105.09 × 44.45 cm)