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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 21:34:38 -0500
From: "Amy K. Jenkins" <akjenkins-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Amy Jenkins at Julia Friedman Gallery



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JULIA FRIEDMAN GALLERY PRESENTS:

AMY JENKINS
SHELTER FOR DAYDREAMING

Through December 1, 2001

Julia Friedman Gallery, in Chicago, IL, is pleased to announce Shelter
for Daydreaming, a solo exhibition of recent works by Brooklyn-based
artist, Amy Jenkins.  This exhibition, which opened October 19, marks
the Chicago premiere for Jenkins, and features new video installations
and photographs.  Jenkins' work is an ongoing investigation of the
psychological and  emotional aspects of interiors, whether they be
physical in structure or of  an individual's psyche.

Shelter for Daydreaming is a large-scale, two-channel video
installation, projected onto both sides of a suspended wall. In using
this multi-view format Jenkins effectively dislocates the viewer,
creating a loss of both destination and origin. Shifting between the
exterior view of a house adrift underwater, and the interior view of the
empty, swaying house; Jenkins juxtaposes between interior/exterior,
solid/fluid, above/below. Placing an emphasis on memory, her work
resembles a daydream; fluid, meditative, yet unstable and precarious,
placing the viewer, as described by the artist, in a state of
"in-betweeness."

"With Shelter for Daydreaming,Jenkins has fashioned an exquisitely
packaged, thoroughly enjoyable, if unnerving adventure about adult life.
Its strength resides in its ability to beguile through cinematic
wizardry and rapturously depicted scenes, while simultaneously startling
us into an uncomfortable inquisitiveness through poetic imagery. Hers is
an artwork that invites us to consider not only the fate of that
dwarfish house bobbing untethered in such a vast sea, but also the
current direction and probable conclusion to our own life's voyage."
(Barry A. Rosenberg, Writer)

A second work, Without,is a video installation in which a projection is
cast upon the ceiling of an intimate, darkened room.  The installation
is intended to be viewed while lying down. Altering the viewer's sense
of location by shifting the perspective upwards, Without creates a sense
of relinquishment through the physical interaction of lying down. The
viewer is swept along with the many dislocated, drifting figures
descending from the sky, while muffled, indistinguishable voices give
way to clarity, revealing life's histories births, deaths, and acts of
loving, planning, working, and aging.

Jenkins' photographic works in the exhibition are small-scale triptychs,
memory-based reflections, which depict objects suspended underwater.
Investigating the personal relationships attached to everyday objects
such as clothing, furniture and toys, this aqueous void becomes a
repository for the emotional resonance that discarded possessions carry
in our psyche.

Jenkins' work is an ongoing exploration of the psychological and
emotional aspects of interiors and objects. Whether through video
installation or photography, hers is a poetic sensibility that is
uniquely personal in voice yet is universally identifiable in content.

Jenkins has exhibited extensively on both the national and international
level, in private and public venues such as Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera
Gallery, NY; Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY; Palm Beach ICA, Palm Beach,
Florida; Inverness Museum, Scotland; The Alternative Museum, NY; Yerba
Buena Center for Art, San Francisco, CA; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY and
the 2000 Havana Biennial, Cuba.

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To view still-image documentation of Shelter for Daydreaming &
Without,go to:   http://www.juliafriedman.com/exhibition_jenkins01.html

To view previous video installations by Amy Jenkins, including Quicktime
clips, go to:   http://www.harvestworks.org/creativec/frame0011.html
(Click on "Collected Works" to view Quicktime clips documenting video
installations.)

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Julia Friedman Gallery
118 N Peoria
Chicago, IL  60607
Phone:  (312) 455 0755
http://www.juliafriedman.com

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