Event
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
15 Sep 2017 – 31 Jan 2018
Pacific Standard Time
Los Angeles, United States
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Juan Downey, Performance view of Energy Fields at 112 Greene Street, New York, 1972. Documentation photograph, 8 x 10 in. Image credit: The Estate of Juan Downey, New York
Exhibition
Juan Downey: Radiant Nature
9 Sep 2017 – 8 Dec 2017
Address
- 1050 N Mills Ave
- Claremont
California - CA 91711
- United States
Event map
LACE and Pitzer College Art Galleries will mount a two-part exhibition on the early performance-based works of Juan Downey (1940-1993).
About
Born in Chile, Downey moved to Paris in the 1960s and later settled in Washington, D.C., and then New York, where he developed a practice that included sculpture, performance, installation, and video. Although Downey has become known for his multi-channel video works such as Video Trans Americas (1973–1976) and The Thinking Eye (1976–1977), which critique Eurocentric perspectives regarding Latin American identity, Juan Downey: Radiant Nature will consider his earlier artistic practice. Comprising interactive electronic sculptures, happenings and performances, as well as installation, these earlier bodies of work will be explored for their progressive trans-disciplinary investigation of technology, energy, the environment, and politics. These experimental and ephemeral works have in many cases not been seen since their original presentations and will be reconstructed and restaged based on groundbreaking new research.
