Synesthesia / (syn) (aisthēsis) / with sensation

Charles Fambro - Joseph Woolridge

path cross, images are heard, sound is seen – a collaboration

on view: May 10 – June 15, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday, May 10, 5-7pm

Charles Fambro – sound
Joseph Woolridge – paintings 

Joseph Woolridge’s interest in hybrid art practices, using painting as the foundation, has led to his collaboration with the sound artist Charles Fambro. Woolridge began by using prayer bowls as receptacles for paint, and letting the overlapping waves of vibrations and sounds, created by the strikes of the loaded paintbrush against the rim of the bowls, guide his hand into a rhythmic movement drawing the number 2.  The resulting paintings are a transformation of sound onto canvas; they show the flow of the hand and the movement of the paint.  

Charles Fambro’s collaboration with Woolridge came through his researches into Neolithic cave paintings, He believes them to have in part been visual representations of sound properties activated either naturally or through human means inside these caves; in particular waves and other abstract repetitions that are found in extremely resonant areas of the caves.  

In the installation for Synethesia Fambro has mixed the sounds of Tibetan prayer bowls with electro acoustic music; combining state of the arts techniques with the simple striking of a tuned bowl with a wooden mallet.  

Joseph Woolridge grew up in Brooklyn and received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2003. He has exhibited his paintings  in New York City, Connecticut and Vermont. He is currently working on a group of large-scale oil paintings about gates. 

Charles Fambro is a sound composer and free turntablist. He was recently named a 2008 UAI Fellow in sound and composition. Other awards and commissions include “Alien Stinger” for the World Wildlife Fund/New York Aquarium, Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs, LMCC fellowship, and various residencies. His latest cd New Turntablism (Delhf) is a five-turntable improvisation. 

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

acknowledgments: 

The Andy Warhol Foundation in part supports this exhibition.