october 14 - november 1, 2017
the tug
erin gleason
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, october 14, 5-7PM
In the Plus/Space The Tug brings together a collection of artworks by artist Erin Gleason that examine the tension between lived experience and the points of calculation by which we measure life. Part installation, part exhibition of drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture, The Tug addresses how our sense truth is pulled between lived experience and terms of categorization through the lenses the feminine, the beautiful, and the sublime. With playful nods to Henri Bergson, Hypatia of Alexandria, Immanuel Kant, Joseph Kosuth, and Virginia Woolf, the artworks challenge our reliance on equating measurement with truth across the terrains of architecture, cartography, history, technology, and language.
Accompanying the exhibition is the public event Le Mot Juste, a continuation of the artist’s Dark Salon series. Hosted by the artist, the Dark Salon is an open discussion exploring the philosophical ideas behind the exhibition. All participants are blindfolded, discovering ways to navigate group conversation without the visual cues we typically rely on. Following the salon will be an informal tour of the exhibit and an Artist Q&A.
Erin Gleason is an artist, curator, and designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her artworks critically and playfully challenge our relationship to measured space and time versus our experience of it. Drawing from over fifteen years of professional experience in the fields of architecture and branding design and her current research in philosophy, Erin’s work ranges from drawing, printmaking, photography, and installation to curating, writing, interactive events and public art commissions. She frequently collaborates on projects with architects, landscape architects, poets, scientists, musicians, and filmmakers, among others. Erin has won a number of public art commissions and has exhibited and curated in the US and internationally including BRIC Rotunda Gallery, NYC; FiveMyles Gallery, NYC; Wayfarers Gallery, NYC; Tent Gallery, Edinburgh; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; The Pier Arts Center, Scotland; and Shetland Museum and Archives, Scotland. She is the recipient of a Russell Trust Award for artistic research in Greenland and a Lori Ledis Curator Fellowship at BRIC. She is the founder and editor of the Cultural Fluency publication and the co-founder and former director/curator of the Crown Heights Film Festival in Brooklyn.
Erin received a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art and in Imaging Science (an individualized degree incorporating Engineering, Anthropology, and Art History) from University of Pennsylvania. She received a Master of Fine Art in the interdisciplinary Art, Space & Nature Programme from Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Erin is currently a PhD student in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
GALLERY HOURS:
Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.
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.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, the Perlemeter Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.