SuttonBeresCuller: Panoptos

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Betsey Brock
[email protected], 206.616.9625 (not for publication)
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Gallery information (phone number for publication):
206.543.2280
URL: www.henryart.org
SuttonBeresCuller: Panoptos
October 2, 2010 - February 13, 2011
East Gallery
As part of the spirited exhibition Vortexhibition Polyphonica, artists SuttonBeresCuller
have created Panoptos — an interactive installation that will invite viewers, both on-site
and online, to engage with the Henry’s collection in an entirely new way. For the Henry’s
East Gallery, the three artists selected over 150 paintings, sculptures, and other works
from the museum’s collection that the Henry team installed “salon style,” covering the
walls floor to ceiling. In front of this multi-faceted presentation, a custom-made
apparatus transports a high definition camera along the x- and y-axes of this grid-like
installation. At a viewing station in the Stroum Gallery, visitors can steer the camera
remotely, perusing and zooming in on the art in the gallery next door. These details are
seen larger than life on a 63” flat screen monitor in this space and uploaded to the Web
as screen shots for others to see and comment upon using the Henry’s social media
platforms. Over the course of the exhibition, SBC will track and record all of the image
fragments, to form a culminating, and cumulative, work of art that reconstructs the
overall installation using the documentary data.
This artist project is made possible with generous support from the Harpo Foundation.
Artist Lecture: SuttonBeresCuller
Thursday, September 16, 2010, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Henry Auditorium
Henry Members FREE | General Admission $5
Join the artists in the Henry Auditorium for a candid discussion on the development of
their practice followed by a preview of their exhibition Panoptos in the East Gallery.
SuttonBeresCuller is a trio of artists (John Sutton, Ben Beres, and Zac Culler) who have
worked collaboratively since 1999, when they met as students at Cornish College of the
Arts. Over the past decade they have created ways to engage viewers through mobile
sculptures, street actions, and temporary site-specific installations that often attract
(sometimes unsuspecting) audiences to new readings of and approaches to political,
social, cultural, and aesthetic issues. SuttonBeresCuller is dedicated to a form of “public
art” that is generous in nature, participatory for the willing, and refreshingly free of
dogma for the uninitiated.
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