Exhibition and 2010 GCAC International Residency Reception: Friday, August 13, 5–7pm (Join us in welcoming 2010 Dresden artists Tina Beifuss and Stefan Lenke!)
The concept for the international exhibition houseWARNING began as a conversation between curators Tina Beifuss (Dresden, Germany) and Melissa Vogley Woods (Columbus, Ohio), while Melissa was in Germany as part of the Greater Columbus Arts Council International Residency program in the fall of 2008. The onset of the US housing market collapse had begun, and their discussions centered on differences and similarities in cultural understandings of what constitutes a home: ownership vs. renting; scale vs. convenience; comfort vs. location; urban vs. suburban; apartment vs. house. Just as every house contains a story of promise, of political and economic goals, and of private lives, the artwork by the 21 artists represented in houseWARNING addresses concepts of home and place, confronting each artist’s own experiences and perspectives of living in cities such as Cleveland, New York, Dresden, Columbus, Philadelphia. houseWARNING is a visual commentary on the spaces where we live and attempts to forge a new understanding of a dwelling as a window to an era.
This exhibition will travel to Dresden in Spring 2011 for presentation at geh8, an arts cooperative in Dresden, Germany.
Artists in the exhibition:
Leah Bailis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Tina Beifuss (Dresden, Germany)
Anja Brüggemann (Columbus, Ohio)
Stefanie Busch (Dresden, Germany)
Amy Casey (Cleveland, Ohio)
Paul Elsner (Dresden, Germany)
Matt Flegle (Columbus, Ohio)
Eckehard Fuchs (Dresden, Germany)
Elizabeth Gerdeman (Columbus, Ohio)
Helma Groot (Columbus, Ohio)
Scott Hocking (Detroit, Michigan)
Esther Klaes (New York, New York)
Maja Linke (Dresden, Germany)
Michael Litzau (Columbus, Ohio)
Ryan Mandell (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania)
Fredrik Marsh (Columbus, Ohio)
Ardine Nelson (Columbus, Ohio)
Tim Portlock (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Guido Reddersen (Dresden, Germany)
Jade Townsend (New York, New York)
Susan Vincent (Cleveland, Ohio)
Melissa Vogley Woods (Columbus, Ohio)