Fall is my favorite season for walking, and walking around New York City in the fall often gets me thinking about how something as complicated as a city comes together out of millions of tiny movements and routines.
"
Air and Blood," a solo exhibition by Heather L. Johsnon at New York City's
Glowlab gallery, gets at the same thing: the artist's
new body of work fixates on the circulatory nature of urban movement. Air and Blood references the connection that urban inhabitants, either transient or permanent, have with overarching public transportation systems. Using the Holland Tunnel as a point of departure, the artist investigates the way in which anatomical processes are mimicked in the transfer of people, objects and ideas in the urban environment.
Johnson's work is inspired partly, the press release explains, by the experience of being an avid motorcyclist who frequently passes through the Holland Tunnel from New Jersey into Manhattan--a trip that puts her in closer contact than most with the physical traces of transportation.
The show also expands outside the gallery, to include a text-based installation done in chalk on walls in the neighborhood. Taking it in could be a fine agenda for your next fall-time walk around the city.
Glowlab is located at 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave. 'Air and Blood' runs through November 1. Read ReadyMade's interview of Glowlab director and Conflux Festival founder Christina Ray,
here.
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Fall is my favorite season for walking, and walking around New York City in the fall often gets me thinking about how something as complicated as a city comes together out of millions of tiny movements and routines.
"Air and Blood," a solo exhibition by Heather L. Johsnon at New York City's Glowlab gallery, gets at the same thing: the artist's
Glowlab is located at 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave. 'Air and Blood' runs through November 1. Read ReadyMade's interview of Glowlab director and Conflux Festival founder Christina Ray, here.
