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SUMMARY:Ben Butler: Cloud Morphology
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Cloud Morphology\, an exhibition of new sculpture by Memphis artist Ben Butler. \n \n\n                 \n\n\n    \nPhoto: Chip Pankey\n \nArtist Statement \nEvery thing\, under close enough observation\, will reveal the complete story of its making. \nIn and around Blue Hill\, Maine\, the blueberry fields are littered with the stones\, boulders really\, which were dropped by migrating glaciers during the last ice age.  They are not indigenous like the bedrock\, they are visitors\, and they generally sit on top of the earth. \nStones can seem like the most static and permanent objects we can imagine\, but of course they are not static.  Time spent with these particular rocks shows clear evidence of multiple processes – cracks where an enormous force once suddenly split the rock\, concavities where a violent encounter with another stone took a small part away\, a surface texture resulting from centuries of abrasion from ice and soil and smaller rocks\, and a general smoothness\, a softening of all features\, from the gentle but endlessly persistent wind and rain.  In the quiet of the blueberry fields you can study these features and reconstruct the story.  A single stone was severed from a mountain\, tumbled\, was tossed about by heaving earth\, carried across a continent by flowing ice\, scraped and sculpted\, and ended up here.  And it is still moving\, sinking into the soil\, shifting upward and tilting when the ground freezes\, softening in the rain\, cracking\, and rolling down hill\, all at pace that is impossible to perceive.  But the physical evidence is there in the stone. \nMy sculptures reflect the sensibility that an object stands as a momentary physical manifestation of an ongoing process.  They provide evidence of unseen forces\, and they point to the distinction between the human and the non-human.  Throughout the natural world\, unexpected complexity emerges from simple\, persistent processes.  When the order of things is not readily apparent\, complexity is often mistaken for chaos.  In the rush to comprehend we often miss the wonderful unseen forces at work.  My response is to play in these boundaries between the simple and the complex\, and between the complex and the overwhelming\, and to offer a contemplative experience in which language gives way to physical understanding\, and slow looking is rewarded. \nArtist Biography \nBen Butler received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BA from Bowdoin College.  His work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York at Coleman Burke Gallery and Plane Space\, as well as at Zg Gallery in Chicago\, John Davis Gallery in Hudson\, New York\, Davidson Galleries in Seattle\, and Clough-Hanson Gallery in Memphis\, among others.  He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Grant and numerous fellowships at residency programs including the MacDowell Colony\, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art\, and the Ucross Foundation. \nHe currently lives and works in Memphis\, Tennessee and Quogue\, New York\, and is Assistant Professor of Art at Rhodes College. \n 
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SUMMARY:Derek Larson: Trance
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Miranda Lash\, Curator of Contemporary Art\, Speed Art Museum \nNovember 14-December 20\, 2014\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\, Memphis\, TN 38104 \nOpening Night: Friday\, November 14\, 6-8 pm\nGallery talk with the artist and curator at 6:30 pm \nRoundtable discussion: Saturday\, November 15\, 11:30 am \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to announce Trance\, an exhibition of digital media work by Georgia-based artist Derek Larson\, opening Friday\, November 14. The exhibition is curated by Miranda Lash\, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville. \nIn his practice Larson combines digital media with painting\, lights\, motors\, and projected animations on freestanding screens. For his first solo show in Memphis\, Larson is presenting five video projections: three from his series entitled Tantric Wealth from 2012\, and two artworks from his most recent body of paintings that include elements of video. Through this constellation of artworks Larson addresses how technology has changed our ways of seeing. Are our ever-present screens and videos luring us into an extended state of passive hypnosis\, or perhaps more optimistically\, do they allow a more expansive mode of learning\, contemplation\, and meditation? \nThe artist and curator will introduce the exhibition at 6:30 pm on Friday\, November 14\, at the opening reception. Crosstown Arts will host a roundtable discussion and lunch with the artist and curator on Saturday\, November 15 at 11:30 am. \nDownload Curator’s Essay \nAbout the Artist \nDerek G. Larson has participated in a number of national and international exhibitions and residencies\, with recent exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, Union South Gallery 1308 (Madison)\, May Gallery (New Orleans) and Vox Populi (Philadelphia). His work is featured in the upcoming issue of New American Painters.  Larson received a BFA from the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis\, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art.  He currently lives and works in Statesboro\, Georgia. \nAbout the Curator \nMiranda Lash is curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville\, Kentucky\, where she is overseeing new commissions for the upcoming Elizabeth P. and Frederick K. Cressman Art Park\, and organizing the reinstallation of the permanent collection for the new building designed by wHY architecture\, which will open in April 2016. Prior to the Speed\, Lash was curator of modern and contemporary art the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). She joined NOMA in 2008 as the founder of the museum’s modern and contemporary art department. During her tenure at NOMA\, Lash curated over twenty exhibitions\, including the traveling retrospective exhibition Mel Chin: Rematch; Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms; Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge;Swoon: Thalassa\, and Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys. \nAbout Crosstown Arts \nCrosstown Arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in Memphis. Managing five types of spaces that integrate varying components of exhibition\, performance\, production\, education and retail\, Crosstown Arts supports multidisciplinary and collaborative projects that interconnect people and organizations. Crosstown Arts welcomes anyone in the community to join any of our events or projects\, regardless of prior experience or expertise with creative interests. \nShop ‘Til You Droop\, 2013\nDigital video & animation (loop)\, projection\, aluminum composite\, wood\, epoxy\, paint\, paper\, fluorescent light\, black light\, electrical\, hydrocal\, 38 x 24in.\nCourtesy of the artist \nMedia contact: Emily Halpern\, emily@crosstownarts.org\nCrosstown Arts’ Visiting Artist Series is sponsored by V02 Networx \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/derek-larson-trance/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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