Upcoming

(March 3-September 3, 2012) This groundbreaking exhibition, curated by Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells of Flux, explores the changing landscape of the art of music video. It presents the genre's role as an important and influential art form in contemporary culture; both its antecedents and likely future; and its place as a fertile playground for creative experimentation.

Dasha Shishkin: I surrender, dear

(March 3-April 29, 2012) Shishkin’s work skirts the line between narrative and abstract through hypnotic patterning and mark making. The Russian artist creates fantasy worlds where creatures and mischievous human figures cohabitate in lush psychedelic environments, echoing the works of Egon Schiele, Brice Marden, Henry Darger, and masters of Japanese woodblock prints. For this show she will apply collage-work to the gallery walls.

Jannis Varelas

(May-September 2012) The Contemporary Arts Center invited Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, celebrated curator and co-founder of the Athens Biennial, to develop a show specifically for the CAC. She chose the Greek artist, Jannis Varelas, whose large-scale multimedia drawings of ambiguous characters, architectural structures and symbols challenge human nature, time, history, language and myth. This exhibition is the first in a series of projects at the CAC organized by guest curators from around the world.

Francis Upritchard

(May-September 2012) Francis Upritchard walks the line between fine art and kitsch fantasy sculpture. She aims to create figurative sculpture that simultaneously takes a look back at the history of the art form as well as peering into its future. The small, humorous figures made out of techno-color painted clay take on nonsensical poses and often exist in specially tailored environments--such as under glass domes or on cupboards, tables and chairs--in order to emphasize both their diminutive scale and whimsical character.