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Hudson River HealthCare presents
“THIS IS SUBSTANTIAL”
A catalogue of Grimanesa Amorós’ public art work inspired by The Founding Mothers

You are invited to a Book Signing
Who: Grimanesa Amorós, Anne K. Nolon, Jeannette Phillips, and Kóan Jeff Baysa

When: Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 4-6PM
Where: Hudson River HealthCare, 1037 Main Street, Peekskill, NY 10566

For more information about the artist please contact Hiroka Kitamura, Email: hiroka@grimanesaamoros.com
For more information about the Book Signing please contact Hudson River HealthCare,
Email: hrhcinfo@hrhcare.org or Tel: 914.734.8800

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Bolstered by the community’s embracement of the first two phases of Substancial, the opportunity emerged to explore the initial concept and intentions of the piece in further detail. Substancial Phase 4 reflects the origins of the hudson river Health Center as a grassroots project and ties into the later emergence of the concept of the health center as a network of service providers which originates from the the flagship Health Center in Peekskill NY. Since the Health Center’s inception in 1975, 14 additional facilities have been created in different counties throughout NY State. Substancial Phase 4 incorporates this idea of the relationship between potentiality and movement with it’s dense accumulation of lanterns which convey a sense of potential energy and expanding mass in an explosion of light and form along the length of the façade of the health center.

Substancial is a permanent site-specific installation displayed across the façade windows of the Hudson River Community Health Center (HRH), focusing on the Center’s relationship with the diverse community of Peekskill, New York.
In my research, I learned of the group of four women who founded HRH in the 1960s and that they are still active in the community 40 years later. Their time and dedication inspired me to create this project about them. I admire their determination and accomplishments and feel it as a motivation for my own work. My overwhelming impulse in approaching this project was to honor the legacy of these women and to help draw attention to the important organization that has emerged from their efforts.
Drawing upon interviews conducted with some of the founding mothers, I have chosen certain ideas and phrases that HRH embodies. Some of the words were translated into Spanish to acknowledge the multicultural community in which the Center participates. I have displayed these words across the glowing surfaces of paper lanterns, which flow through a visual river, made of a water-like plastic sheeting. The colors and shapes of this work are, like the words, drawn from the existing character of HRH. The installation echoes the orb lights already visible through the window and the bright hues used in the organization’s public literature. The work was recently extended to the second floor without compromising visibility by painting the ceiling with a unique UV activated paint.
This work will serve to illuminate the words and images of HRH in people’s minds, as in their eyes, enhancing the life of the organization and its important role in the community.