Page 10 - Boca Exposure - July '23

Page 10, Boca Exposure
Boca Museum Of Art Exhibit, ‘Three Artists: Three Visions,

One Spirit’ Presents Works Of Creative Innovators

“Spirit lives in Schreiber has portal and realize we
everything.” This exhibited at major are more similar than
iconic quote by the museums and galleries, different, that all of
late artist Sari Dienes including: the Johnson these elements floating
serves as the entryway Museum of Art (Cornell around space came
to the standout new University); MIT together and created us,”
exhibition by the Boca Museum (Cambridge); says Sri Prabha. “We
Raton Museum of Art Johannes Vogt Gallery are all interconnected,
of three breakthrough (New York); Swiss and we can change
artists: Sari Dienes Hall, the permanent our behavior to work
(1898 to 1992), Bowie #7, by Matthew Schreiber installation at Herzog & together and collaborate.
Matthew Schreiber (2016). Silver halide reflection de Meuron Residence As civilizations, we
(born 1967), and Sri hologram on glass in Basel, Switzerland; like to think that we
Prabha (born 1969). and a site-specific are different from each
The work of each artist is showcased within its own installation in the other, but we are really
gallery in this winning trifecta, across a panorama of art Miami Design District, not. Our technology is
that encompasses the museum’s first floor, on view now curated by Ambra changing rapidly, but
through Oct. 22. All three spaces are curated by Kelli Medda, the co-founder our behavior has not Sunflower, by Sari Dienes (about
Bodle, the associate curator of the museum. and director of Design kept up.” 1954). Ink on Webril on matmount
An inspiration to Jasper Johns and Robert Miami. Schreiber’s Spiraling, pulsing
Rauschenberg, Dienes was an important figure during holographic expertise amorphous shapes will call to mind the view through
the seminal decades of the Mid-Century art world in New wa s t a ppe d by a microscope, and twinkling flashes of light are
York. Her exhibition, Incidental Nature, features three Deana Lawson for The Darkness Containment reminiscent of a telescope’s sight. Melded together,
core elements of her six decades of artmaking: her 1950s her exhibition at the Machine, by Sri Prabha (2023). they create a psychedelic environment of saturated
street rubbings, works inspired by her time in Japan, and Guggenheim in New India ink and acrylic on canvas colors. One of the exhibition’s interactive elements,
portraits of her famous circle of artists. York, where she was titled Spaceresearchcentre, allows people to enter a
Schreiber is one of the world’s foremost hologram and honored with the Hugo Boss Prize in 2020. teepee-like structure to meditate while surrounded by
laser artists. Exploring Schreiber’s process more deeply Sri Prabha: Resonator: Reanimator. Sri Prabha is a video projections and flashes of light that flicker softly
than any previous showing of his work, his drawings and multidisciplinary artist based in south Florida. He was on the fabric walls. “Through these installations I want
holograms in his exhibition, Orders of Light, include born in Hyderabad, India in 1969. His work emphasizes to encourage the viewers to meditate on what has come
ephemeral images of spiritualist medium communities in the artist’s keen interest in contemporary environmental before us, all the way back to the primordial ooze, through
Lily Dale, N.Y., and Cassadaga, Fla. His works on paper issues, and how humans interact with the natural world. today and what we are all passing through together ahead.
feature blind contour studies, peripheral view drawing, His installations aim for a comingling of Vedic eastern I want people to get lost in the experience, and get trippy
and lens-less photography. philosophies with western science, to tell a richer story. in a shamanistic way.”
Prabha masterminds a site-specific installation titled Prabha was recently selected as one of the winners of Prabha’s works are in several private collections
Resonator-Reanimator, fusing ideas from Vedic eastern the 2022 Art Basel Miami Beach public art showcase by in Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, New York,
philosophy and western science to explore our connection the City of Miami Beach, for a monumental installation Washington, D.C., and Copenhagen. His exhibitions
to the natural world. Melded together, they land the Cosmic Occupancy. include: the Florida Prize 2019 at the Orlando Museum
viewer within a psychedelic multiverse of saturated At the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Prabha creates of Art; Verge Art Fair New York; the King County
colors. site-specific, multisensory installations that people can Public Arts Program in Seattle; Art Palm Beach; the
Sari Dienes: Incidental Nature. The complete quote walk through – mixed media, video, soundscapes and South Florida Cultural Consortium at the Museum of
by Dienes, in its entirety – “Spirit lives in everything. It audio frequencies, light projections, interactive structures, Contemporary Art in North Miami; and the Toronto Art
has no age, no color, no sex” – welcomes museumgoers traditional Indian sari fabrics, abstract paintings, digital Fair, among others.
as they enter the first-floor galleries. Celebrated as “the print collages, assemblages, and more – that explore our “These three artists – Sari Dienes, Matthew Schreiber
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doyenne of the American avant-garde,” Dienes is finally connection to the natural world. Abstract, patterned digital and Sri Prabha – all bring to light the tools of perception;
receiving the national acclaim she deserves. Her work projections of light will sweep the walls, covering paintings and visitors who experience this tour de force at the
has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New and sculptures to create constantly shifting organic forms. Boca Raton Museum of Art will find an imaginative,
York and The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Paired with audio of meditative, lulling sounds, the overall multisensory panorama of art,” says Irvin Lippman, the
is included in the permanent collections of many of the feel is that of preparing the mind for meditation. Within executive director of the museum. “It is Sari Dienes’ now
country’s leading museums. Dienes (1898 to 1992) was a this mind frame of meditation, visitors will experience famous quote ‘Spirit lives in everything’ that provides
descendant of Eastern European royalty, and her stature references by the artist to the smallest and greatest elements a unifying arch into the creative worlds of Dienes,
in the art world stretches back to the 1930s in Paris and of our universe. “The idea is for people to go through a Schreiber and Prabha.”
London. She was born in Debrecen, Austria-Hungary
and emigrated to the United States in 1939 at the age
of 41. Dienes was an original member of the Neo-Dada
movement of the ’50s and ’60s, and her impact upon
Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns is undeniable. In
the early 1950s, her pioneering works prophesied what
would later become the Pop Art movement. Dienes lived
and worked alongside a stellar circle, including: Yoko
Ono, the composer John Cage, the choreographer Merce Happy Hour: Mon -Thurs, All dAy AT bAr only
Cunningham, experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek, Mon - Fri 3 - 6 pM inside only
as well as Johns and Rauschenberg. A portion of this
exhibition features her portraits and rubbings of some
of her famous artist friends. $ 99
Matthew Schreiber: Orders of Light. The Brooklyn- 59
based artist Matthew Schreiber was born in 1967, in
Cleveland. He is recognized as one of the world’s
foremost hologram artists, and is celebrated for his laser
light sculptures. His lab produces fine art holography
on a curated and invited basis, and some of the lab’s
current artists include Paul McCarthy, Ed Ruscha, and one AppeTizer, soup or
Deana Lawson. Since childhood, Schreiber has had a dual
interest in art and science. For this exhibition, the museum sAlAd, choose 2 enTrees
selected more than 50 works, most never shown before,
including works on paper, holograms, and photographs. FroM 15 diFFerenT choices
The results are fascinating, multi-dimensional imagery Also includes 1 desserT
that expands our definition of what can be seen by the
naked eye.