Shrine
Shrine
a site-specific installation by Kate Gavriel and Katie Shelly
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
September 13 - 26, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 16: 7 - 9p
Viewing hours: 9a - 5p daily
Open for visitation: Thursday & Friday, 9a - 5p
Saturday & Sunday 12p - 6p
http://shrinenyc.info
catherine.gavriel@gmail.com | katie.a.shelly@gmail.com
In Shrine, Shelly and Gavriel transform the 37th Street gallery space into a glittering storefront shrine. An unexpected inlet of texture, light and color in the highly commercialized, frenetic zone of midtown Manhattan, Shrine invites all forms of visitation.
The symbols are generic, pointing to no deity or tradition; an exercise in condensing thousands of years of ritual into a contemporary spin-off. Visitors may draw as much or as little spiritual meaning as they choose from the installation's aesthetically deliberate, but iconographically empty arrangement of colors, shapes, textures and sounds. There is no wrong way to worship, un-worship, respect or rebel.
Kate Gavriel received a degree in Studio Arts from Wesleyan University, and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her paintings, sculptures, and installations assert their identity as objects in space to be encountered by the viewer. By juxtaposing modes of presentation traditionally associated with different types of media, Gavriel asks the viewer to reengage with the work and meet each piece with a refreshed gaze, specifically seeking to incorporate the viewer's body and their relationship to the artwork in their consideration of the piece.
Katie Shelly is a visual artist based in Queens, New York. Through a process that incorporates video, installation, photography and theater arts, Shelly's work depicts fictional worlds and belief systems. Especially compelled by the synergy of multidisciplinary collaboration, Shelly has worked together with a number of emerging composers, filmmakers, dancers, web artists and visual artists. She has shown work at The Textile Museum in Washington, DC, Uniondocs in Brooklyn, and is currently preparing for a solo show in Portland, Oregon. Shelly was raised in Queens, holds a B.A. in American Studies from Wesleyan University, and works a day job in Manhattan as a computer technician.
a site-specific installation by Kate Gavriel and Katie Shelly
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
September 13 - 26, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 16: 7 - 9p
Viewing hours: 9a - 5p daily
Open for visitation: Thursday & Friday, 9a - 5p
Saturday & Sunday 12p - 6p
http://shrinenyc.info
catherine.gavriel@gmail.com | katie.a.shelly@gmail.com
In Shrine, Shelly and Gavriel transform the 37th Street gallery space into a glittering storefront shrine. An unexpected inlet of texture, light and color in the highly commercialized, frenetic zone of midtown Manhattan, Shrine invites all forms of visitation.
The symbols are generic, pointing to no deity or tradition; an exercise in condensing thousands of years of ritual into a contemporary spin-off. Visitors may draw as much or as little spiritual meaning as they choose from the installation's aesthetically deliberate, but iconographically empty arrangement of colors, shapes, textures and sounds. There is no wrong way to worship, un-worship, respect or rebel.
Kate Gavriel received a degree in Studio Arts from Wesleyan University, and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her paintings, sculptures, and installations assert their identity as objects in space to be encountered by the viewer. By juxtaposing modes of presentation traditionally associated with different types of media, Gavriel asks the viewer to reengage with the work and meet each piece with a refreshed gaze, specifically seeking to incorporate the viewer's body and their relationship to the artwork in their consideration of the piece.
Katie Shelly is a visual artist based in Queens, New York. Through a process that incorporates video, installation, photography and theater arts, Shelly's work depicts fictional worlds and belief systems. Especially compelled by the synergy of multidisciplinary collaboration, Shelly has worked together with a number of emerging composers, filmmakers, dancers, web artists and visual artists. She has shown work at The Textile Museum in Washington, DC, Uniondocs in Brooklyn, and is currently preparing for a solo show in Portland, Oregon. Shelly was raised in Queens, holds a B.A. in American Studies from Wesleyan University, and works a day job in Manhattan as a computer technician.
