Please click here to read a review of this exhibition by free-lance writer Amy Griffin that appeared in Sunday’s Times Union.
Field Elevations, a one-person exhibit of video, sound and photographs by Providence-based artist Ed Osborn will be on view Thursday, Oct. 21 through Saturday, Dec. 7 in the Teaching Gallery, located in the Administration Building.
Osborn will present an informal talk from 3 to 4 p.m. on Thursday in the Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium, followed by a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Teaching Gallery.
Osborn’s videos, still imagery and sound works present quietly meditative images and environments awash in contrasts and contradictions. Slow, repetitive movements cycle throughout his video works without end or product, while the soundtracks offer diverging explorations. By electing to either unite the audio and visuals or to shift attention between these elements, the audience is able to stake out their own territory of experience. The works are meditative and beautiful, but Osborn’s subject matter ranges from the industrial to the banal.
Osborn was born in Helsinki, Finland and grew up in Philadelphia. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Mills College. A 2012 artist-in-residence at EMPAC in Troy, Osborn has exhibited extensively with solo exhibits at Issue Project Room, NY; Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Radio Brandenburg-Berlin Klanggalerie in Berlin, Germany and Artspace in Sydney, Australia, among others. He is an assistant professor of Visual Art at Brown University in Providence.
Published: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:45:04 +0000 by d.gardner