Media Advisory:
WindowWorks: Rhonda Kuhlman:
September 21 - November 26, 2006
09.14.06
MEDIA ADVISORY
WINDOW WORKS: RHONDA KUHLMAN
September 21 - November 26, 2006
WHAT
On an ongoing basis Artpace organizes projects for its busy, downtown windows on N. Main Avenue, activating the art viewing experience from the sidewalk level. The program demonstrates Artpace's commitment to extending the dialogue about contemporary art beyond traditional gallery spaces, and in this spirit, Artpace organizes WindowWorks projects beyond its own building, and deeper into downtown with several projects in the windows of the Stuart Building at 306 E. Houston St.
WHO
San Antonio-based Rhonda Kuhlman reclaims the refuse of the streets-candy wrappers, tin cans, and thrift items-and returns it to the public as architectural sculptures and interactive installations. Taking cues from the make-do attitude of folk art as well as the vibrant expression of ethnic cultures in San Antonio, her furniture works, archway fences, and house drawings seduce viewers into unexpected, artistic experiences with common materials. For a project at San Antonio's Cambridge Middle School in 2006 Kuhlman had students collect, decorate, and then plant their lunch sporks in neighboring fields. The sea of thousands of artificial tulip clusters revealed the macro and micro organization of the student body.
Kuhlman's WindowWorks project will engage both Artpace's windows at 445 N. Main Avenue and a satellite space at 306 E. Houston Street. At both sites the artist plans to erect various structures using the soda pop bottle as a building module. Collected empty glass bottles will cycle back into use as dangling chandeliers or pairs of translucent walls, creating kaleidoscopic spaces of refracted, colored light.
WHEN
September 21 - November 26, 2006
WHERE
Artpace San Antonio - 445 N. Main Avenue
CONTACT
Libby D. Tilley, Artpace (ltilley@artpace.org) - 210 212 4900
445 North Main Avenue San Antonio TX 78205 t 210 212 4900 f 210 212 4990 www.artpace.org
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