February 5–March 14In 5:3 – Five Artists : Three States – Video: Animation: Sound curators David Yager and Symmes Gardner bring together five internationally recognized artists who work specifically in time-based media and sound. Utilizing video, clay and hand-modeled figures, drawings, watercolors, found film footage, appropriated audio excerpts, self recorded sounds, and sculpture, EDGAR ENDRESS (Virginia), JOSHUA MOSLEY (Pennsylvania), RICH PELL (Pennsylvania), STEPHEN VITIELLO (Virginia), and KAREN YASINSKY (Maryland) collectively explore the nuances of personal relationships, cultural displacement, domestic surveillance, and the structure and texture of sound itself.
Joshua Mosley will present a mixed media animation, high definition video entitled A Vue (2004); Karen Yasinsky will present a stop-motion animation entitled La Nuit(2007); Rich Pell will present a documentary entitled Don’t Call Me Crazy On The Fourth of July (2004); Edgar Endress will present a three channel video installation entitledLitany of the Andes (2009); and Stephen Vitiello will present four sound pieces entitledDolly Ascending, Rush and Lullaby, Green, and Whispering Corners (2002-2007).
Living and working in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, Edgar Endress, Joshua Mosley, Richard Pell, Stephen Vitiello, and Karen Yasinsky have exhibited their work throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Edgar Endress
Edgar Endress was born in 1970 in Osorno, Chile. He studied at ARCOS in Santiago, Chile, graduating with the B.F.A. equivalent. In 2001 he received his MFA from Syracuse University with a concentration in Art Video. Beginning in 1995, Endress’ work was shown in Chilean and international contexts. His awards include Third Prize Experimental Category for Elvis Hates America at the Athens Film and Video Festival, OH; a Jury Award for Anonymous at the 3rd Biennial of Video and Electronic Art, Santiago, Chile; and a First Prize in Documentary Video for Wanglen or the New Fertility at the second Video and Electronic Art Biennial. Endress’ exhibition venues include MoMA, Contemporary Arts Museum of Cartagena, New England Film and Video Festival, Boston Fine Arts Museum, New York Video Festival, and Walter Reade Theater, Film Society of Lincoln Center. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University.
Joshua Mosley
Joshua Mosley was born in 1974 in Dallas, Texas. He received his M.F.A. and B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his A.A. from St. Louis Community College. He is a recipient of the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship. His work has exhibited and screened at the 2007 Venice Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, Art Institute of Chicago, Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, Reina Sofia in Madrid, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Donald Young Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. Joshua Mosley is represented by Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. He is currently Associate Professor of Animation and Digital Media in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
Richard Pell
Richard Pell was born in 1975 in Wilmington, Delaware. He received his M.F.A from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. Richard Pell is a founding member of the highly acclaimed art and engineering collective, the Institute for Applied Autonomy. His collaborative interactive and robotic works have been exhibited in art, activist, and engineering contexts such as the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Mass MoCA, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Hackers On Planet Earth and the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Additionally the art collective he co-founded was chosen for several awards at the Prix-Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and was recently selected for RES Magazine’s “10 Best New Artists of 2005.” His video documentary entitled, Don’t Call Me Crazy On The 4th Of July, won the Best Michigan Director Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2005, took 1st prize at the Iowa International Documentary Film Festival and has screened in numerous festivals internationally. Additionally, Pell has consulted with organizations such as the Institute for Applied Autonomy, the Center for Bio Media Literacy, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Pell is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
Stephen Vitiello
Stephen Vitiello was born in 1964 in New York, NY. As an Electronic musician and sound artist, Stephen Vitiello transforms incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment. He has composed music for independent films, experimental video projects, and art installations, collaborating with such artists as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, and Dara Birnbaum. In 1999 he was awarded a studio for six months on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center’s Tower One, where he recorded the cracking noises of the building swaying under the stress of the winds after Hurricane Floyd. As an installation artist, he is particularly interested in the physical aspect of sound and its potential to define the form and atmosphere of a spatial environment.” As a Media Curator, he curated the Sound Art component of the Whitney Museum’s exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000, Young and Restless a video program for Museum of Modern Art and New York, New Sounds, New Spaces at Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. Over the last 20 years he has collaborated with such musicians as Scanner, Pauline Oliveros, Frances-Marie Uitti, Andrew Deutsch and Yasunao Tone and visual artists including Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Julie Mehretu, and Eder Santos. Stephen Vitiello is represented by The Project, New York, NY and Los Angeles, California. He is currently Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Karen Yasinsky
Karen Yasinsky was born in 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1988 she received her B.A. from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. In 1990 she studied at the New York Studio School, and in 1992 she completed the M.F.A. program at Yale University School of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Galerie Jeleni, Prague; Kunenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Rebecca M. Camhi Gallery, Athens; New York Underground Film Festival, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. She has been the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; The Eastern European Exchange Residency, Center for Contemporary Art, Prague; The Phillip Morris Arts Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Grant. Karen Yasinsky is represented by Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, NY. She is currently a Lecturer in the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University.