HapLapNapTap*
HapLapNapTap*
curated by Anna Ogier-Bloomer and Erik Sanner
September 17 - 23, 2008
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
curated by Anna Ogier-Bloomer and Erik Sanner
September 17 - 23, 2008
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
*Have a painting? Leave a painting. Need a painting? Take a painting.
The exhibition will run from Wednesday, September 17, until Tuesday, September 23, with daily gallery hours from 12pm-6pm.
The chashama Windows Program presents a unique week long art experiment. This show seeks to foster relationships between artists and collectors while encouraging them to take on each others' roles. Inspired by the penny tray, which invites people to leave or take pennies depending on their need, HapLapNapTap invites art makers and non-art makers alike to donate or take art depending on their desire. If selected, their work will be part of the initial hanging and featured in an opening reception on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008. No artists will be compensated for their work, but, like the general public, they will be welcome to come and take a piece of their choice. In order to facilitate conversation, leavers and takers will be required to share their contact information with one another.
www.annaob.com | www.eriksanner.com
Anna Ogier-Bloomer grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has been working on a long-term photo documentary of her family since 2001. She studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, earning a B.F.A. in 2005 with her thesis work about her family members.
Anna first exhibited in 2004 at The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her first work was shown in New York City in 2007 and early 2008, and was featured in Art Basel Miami at the 2007 Bridge Art Fair. She is the recipient of the Copley Society of Art Stephen D. Paine Scholarship, the SMFA Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, and the SMFA Travel Grant.
Curating roles include exhibitions at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The New School in New York. Anna currently lives in Brooklyn and works as Assistant Studio Manager for artist Chris Verene.
Erik Sanner uses new media to create "moving paintings" - installations in which dynamic video is projected onto prepared surfaces such as oil paintings. He has been exhibiting visual art for over a decade in New York and Tokyo.
Prior to Have a painting? Leave a painting..., Erik has occasionally taken on a curatorial role. In 1999, the 24-hour outdoor painting marathon Club Ikebukuro was followed by a group exhibition he arranged in Tokyo. For his public new media installation Chess, over 70 people created paintings in pairs for a video projection in Hell's Kitchen in 2007. Chess received a grant from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund.
Erik attempts to expand the definition of painting through collaboration and by utilizing technology in his practice.
