Urd Up: Jeanine Oleson @ Lump

Lump is very pleased to present Urd Up, an exhibition of new work by Jeanine Oleson.

The exhibition will run from March 7 - 29 and is on view Saturdays from noon - 5pm.

Urd is the name of a Norn fate who personifies relationships with the past. Urd Up is an exhibition of sculptures also relating to history- a costume made of old fur coats bought on ebay with the fur turned inward, a gold-leafed fence referring to the unicorn tapestries, and a speaker that looks like a beaver dam mixed with a craft project. Everything looks a bit like a handmade fantasy projection for physical sensation and moments in history. There are also images of the above items placed in context, so they become activated for use in situations and landscapes. The physical items become an overwrought fence for a miniature horse, a primordial person in an industrial landscape- both strange removals from the perceived originations of the objects. All of these things are imbued with a sense of humor.

Jeanine Oleson is an artist whose practice incorporates interdisciplinary uses of performance, film/video, installation, and photographic work, often collaboratively. She attended the School of the Art institute of Chicago, Rutgers University, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Oleson has exhibited at venues including: L.A.C.E., Los Angeles; Monya Rowe Gallery, NY; Samson Projects, Boston; John Connelly Presents, NY; Bates College Museum of Art, ME; Kansas City Museum of Art, MO; Participant, Inc., NY; PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, NY; Pumphouse Gallery, London; Art in General, NY; and White Columns, NY. Her work has been recently published in Performa: New Visual Art Performance, DAP 2007, Documenta magazine project, 2007, and LTTR V: Positively Nasty, 2006.

video credits: animation, d.colagiovanni
music, bobby gentry

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• sculptures
• fur
• coat
• contemporary
• art
• installation