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

Arte comunitario y ‘feroz’
Grimanesa Amorós y su forma de concientizar a la comunidad en temas de salud y culturales
Hector Velarde
Un camión pintado de colores verde, celeste y blanco, con grandes dientes que sobresalen en la parte trasera y enormes burbujas de acrílico en donde aparecen niños sonrientes, se pasea por las zonas rurales del estado de Nueva York.
No es un camión de helados ni de un mini circo rodante, sino de una clínica dental móvil que pertenece a la organización Hudson River HealthCare, Inc. (HRHCare), que fue diseñada pensando en los pequeños, por la artista peruana Grimanesa Amorós.
Este proyecto fue bautizado por Amorós como ‘Ambulante’, no es el único realizado por la artista para presentar al aire libre, ya que otros de su autoría se exhiben actualmente en la ciudad de Nueva York: ‘Terrarium’, en la calle Hudson en Tribeca, en Manhattan, a igual que ‘Frente Feroz’, en la calle 125 y Park Avenue, Harlem. LINK

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Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2007 is a contemporary public art project which includes the commission, creation, and exhibition of 25 multidisciplinary, site-specific artworks.  These works will be displayed at a variety of locations along Jamaica Avenue (Queens, NY) including banks, stores, restaurants, street corners, phone booths, parks, and other public spaces from September 29 – November 17, 2007. The project is an outgrowth of Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning’s (JCAL) extremely well-received Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2004 project. Jamaica Flux 2007 challenges traditional ideas about where art should be displayed and explores the relationship between art, commerce, urban renewal, and community.  By facilitating an inclusive dialogue between artists, curators, art-historians, community residents, business owners, and visitors to Jamaica, Queens, the project examines issues such as identity and cultural heritage, immigrant experiences, capitalism and technology and their impacts on contemporary arts practices, and the historic specificity of place and time. JCAL is one of the oldest alternative spaces in New York City, a 35-year-old multidisciplinary urban arts center serving the community of Southeast Queens. Jamaica, Queens is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the country, and JCAL programming strives to reflect the diversity of its vibrant community.

Exhibition

September 29, 2007-November 17, 2007: Site-specific Exhibition

Location: Various indoor/outdoor sites along and off Jamaica Avenue

ARTIST GRIMANESA AMORÓS UNVEILS NEW PUBLIC ART PROJECT IN TRIBECA

NEW YORK – Terrarium is a new, permanent, site-specific, public art project located at 54 N. Moore St., in Tribeca, New York City created by Grimanesa Amorós. The unique, interior installation is intended to provide lighting for the lobby of the 110 year-old, landmarked building that houses residential and commercial lofts.

The term “terrarium” refers to a glass enclosure used for sustaining plant and animal life in an unnatural atmosphere–most often indoors. Although intending to reproduce a natural environment, these terrariums are a far cry from the fields and forests of the countryside. Instead, they are isolated, veritably existing in an artificial world of in-betweens.

From dusk to dawn, shifting patterns of light radiate from an assortment of acrylic bubbles mounted on the walls. The work is an organic space within the city and a simultaneous extension of the urban surroundings. The spherical shapes and colors evoke an almost amphibian quality, yet displayed within these bubbles are photographs showing us the past and present life of this building. The installation represents a middle ground between the private and public, a compromise between the tranquility of the indoors and the din of the hectic city.

Terrarium is meant to inspire reflection. The contradictions embodied therein evoke a feeling of elements taken out of context, rearranged, and reconstructed to form something entirely new. To passers-by on the street, it is an alteration of a familiar landscape, a moment to re-imagine their daily world.

Grimanesa Amorós is an interdisciplinary artist with diverse interests in the fields of social history, scientific research and critical theory, which have greatly influenced her work. She often makes use of sculpture, video, lighting and sound to create works that illuminate our notions of personal identity and community. Amorós utilizes her art as an agent for empowerment to involve viewers from all different backgrounds and communities. Amorós was born in Lima, Peru and is currently living and working in Peru and New York.

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