Microscopic organisms have existed on earth for thousands and millions of years. They are the first life on this planet. Maybe they will be the last? They are invisible and may not, therefore, seem of importance but they are essential for human life to exist. We depend on them. We need to be aware of their importance and perhaps make them as visible as do these works.
Dilys Jackson was born in Sri Lanka, and her family lived in South Africa before settling in the United Kingdom. She lives in Cardiff and works at the Bluetown Artists’ Studios. She has traveled and worked across the world, and has exhibited in Wales, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, Russia, France, Spain, and the United States.
Jackson has been the Arts Development Manager for a UK Environmental Trust and has undertaken a number of residencies producing public and other works with local communities in the UK. She formed the exhibiting group Iron Maidens (UK and US women sculptors working with cast iron), which she toured in the UK before it was exhibited in several galleries in the US.
Jackson has work in the collections of The National Museum and Gallery of Wales, The National Library of Wales, The New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, South Wales University, the Sculpture Park, UK, Llandough Hospital, Wales, and in the United States at Salem Art Works and Franconia Sculpture Park . Her publications include Dilys Jackson: Sculptor and Dilys Jackson 7 to 77.
This is the first solo exhibition by Dilys Jackson at ProjekTraum FN.
Soft Outer Ring Installation | Video 24. July – 21. August 2022 Opening 24 July 2 -5 pm the artist will be present
Judy Stone is a Washington DC area artist who works in a variety of media including sculpture, drawing, installation, video, and performance. In her recent work, her drawings on paper expand onto walls, floors, and ceilings, creating immersive geometric environments that include neon, video, platforms, stairs, and industrial materials such as mirrors and artificial turf.Stone’s drawings depict spaces of condensed anxiety that reveal the tension between psychological structures and freedom. These structures are found on glass, walls, floors, windows, ceilings, and paper media such as scientific grid sheets, account books, targets.Her work is in private and public collections in the U.S. and abroad.“…there is a huge gift given by the Eastern philosophies in the idea of interconnectedness, interdependency. That nothing stands by itself. Things only stand because other things have helped them out.” Judy Stone
The Covid – 19 Sculptors Drawing Project ‘I5OLATION’ came about via a conversation between Sculptors, Coral Lambert and Cynthia Handel when they were checking in on each other in early April 2020. They were discussing how the pandemic was affecting studio work and what kind of support artists needed.
Sculptors tend to work in collaboration or with a team of others to produce and install work so much of the artist’s practice had stopped altogether, been on hold or changed drastically. They found that many sculptors turned to drawing. Drawing is a practice that can be carried out alone and sometimes fits in-between other tasks such as teaching online.
The portfolio represents an international collection of women sculptors from the USA and Europe. All of the women in the portfolio are over 50 years of age and
approach sculpture in diverse materials and practices from public and process-based art to installation and performance.
The ‘I5OLATION’ portfolio includes various methods of drawing from mixed media and collage to traditional pencil and watercolor.
Limited Edition prints are available for purchase at $125 each. Proceeds go directly to support the individual artists in this era of uncertainty.
Alone, together // Alleine, zusammen features work made in 2020-21 individually by featured artist Kristen Tordella-Williams and collaboratively between Tordella-Williams and artists and musicians from the USA and Germany. The first work is a portfolio of drawings made solely by Tordella-Williams using watercolor and mixed media on toned Canson paper. Titled the Quarantine Portfolio, each lifelike drawing features items found around the artist’s home and were made in the early days of the pandemic. Due to the timing, all of the mundane objects have a sinister undertone while displaying the small moments of the early days of isolation.
The second work is Bound, an experimental video piece made by salem2salem residency alumni over the summer of 2020 into the fall. The twenty-minute video features original music scored by German musicians Michael T. Otto and Phillipe Wozniak as well as American musician Will Phalen. The video imagery features depictions of nature, performance art, destruction, and binding/unbinding with performances by American artists Amy Kaps and Kristen Tordella-Williams as well as German artist Hans Winkler. The lyrics focus on the international lockdown and its resulting ripple effect on our sanity and day-to-day experience. Multiple volunteers from America and Germany contributed to the final work by recording the text and contributing their own audio and video readings.
Finally, the bright red Alligator Dream sculptures greet viewers at the front of the gallery. Alligator Dreams is a transatlantic sculptural collaboration between Kristen Tordella-Williams and Susanne Zazo. The two artists met in 2019 at the salem2salem residency program in Salem, NY and have since made sculptures, performance art, photography, poetry, and drawings centered on an abstract alligator form. The Alligator Dream piece featured in this exhibition is a culmination of two years working together over video conferencing until they were finally reunited in person to make art together in July of 2021.
Ultimately, the exhibition describes these unprecedented times when we were often physically alone, but our hearts and minds were able to come together through creative perseverance and the marvels of modern technology. Alone, together // Alleine, zusammen celebrates the spirit of collaboration and imagination despite the overarching challenges of our present moment and the bonds made between makers that transcend physical and political boundaries.
Kristen Tordella-Williams is an interdisciplinary artist and arts educator based in the American South. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in an old slaughterhouse in Sigmaringen, Germany. She has been an artist in residence at Salem Art Works, the Ateliers im Alten Schlachthof, and Franconia Sculpture Park. Kristen has received grants from the Greater Jackson Arts Council and the Mississippi Arts Commission to support the creation of the Eudora Welty Wreath, a large-scale, community-engaged public sculpture. Kristen is the Vice-President of the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance board and is the coordinator of the Midtown Sculpture Walk in Jackson, MS. Thematically, her work shows the impact of the past on our present through labor, both personal and communal. Our imprint on the environment around us and the reciprocal impressions our bodies hold from the wear and tear of working are explored in her work using a variety of materials and processes including cast iron, hand papermaking, printmaking, and collaboration.
The ensemble ‘Project-Resonance‘ was born from the meeting of two musicians Peter Bácsi and Alain Wozniak, who are enthusiastic about the common search for the living sound and interpretation.
The French musician Alain Wozniak (clarinet, flute, saxophone, electronic instruments) completed his broad education in Germany, Austria, and France. The accomplished soloist and chamber musician taught at the Berlin University of the Arts and was for many years solo clarinetist at the Theater des Westens, Berlin. As a conductor, he has won national and international prizes with the Symphonic Youth Wind Orchestra Friedrichshafen and Swiss orchestras from Au and Schaffhausen. He has been teaching and conducting at the Music School in Friedrichshafen since 2002 and is also music director of the Stadtkapelle Albstadt-Tailfingen. Péter Bácsi is a classical guitarist from Budapest, born into a family of music-loving engineers. His musical career began at the age of 15, with László Vereczkei, and then developed further with the renowned teacher Ede Roth in Budapest and later in Győr. The years of study also brought success in competitions, both as a soloist and in ensemble playing – among others in Szeged International Guitar Competition, ‘Continuo’ Music Competition Budapest, and in Balatonfüred Guitar Festival. He received his Master’s degree in Performance in 2015 and worked in Frankfurt am Main from September 2015 to 2017. Since 2017 he lives in Friedrichshafen and works as a guitar teacher at the Musikschule Friedrichshafen.
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Collaborator Bios:
Susanne Hackenbracht (DE) is a steel sculptor and painter born 1967 in Brannenburg, Germany. She has been a freelance artist since 1998 and is the co-founder of the sculpture park project “Neue Kunst am Ried” in Wald, Hohenzollern. “In Susanne Hackebrachts work every now and again elementary forms appear –like circles, semicircles, rectangles or cylinders. They seem to be like a concealed vocabulary, some sort of hidden system of notation that has to be read and decoded. Besides these forms, she often deals with the substance she uses in an elementary way. Steel, concrete, iron, glass and oil-based paint meet the observer often in a raw and visible materiality. This immediate treatment of the material – the forming out of the formless – is crucial to her work. The boundaries between wilful pieces and coincidentally made ones often become blurred. The spectre ranges as far as the appearance of the material as amor-phous mass to precisely crafted geometrical forms. In the work of Susanne Hackenbracht, these extremes aren’t mutually exclusive. Further the geometrical vocabulary provides a distancing perspective in the otherwise often intuitively and immediately appearing work.”
– Katharina Wetzel, Art Historian
Amy Kaps (USA) is an interdisciplinary artist recognizable by her signature palette of Black and White Stripes with Pink accents. Possessing a predilection for the abstract and surreal while emphasizing the human form and condition, she presents a psychological puzzle enticing the viewer to question what they see. Highly conceptual with the intention of altering perception and provoking thought, she questions the status quo while reveling in a feast for the senses, deciphering common denominators while recognizing the similarities within our differences connecting us regardless of age, race or gender. Working in the realms of performance, installation, video, photography, music and words in the United States, Germany, Cuba and Spain, Amy Kaps was conceived in Columbus, Ohio, born in Brooklyn, NY, raised in suburban New Jersey, schooled in upstate NY and Japan, lived in New York, Köln, Germany and currently resides in Venice, California and occupies a studio in DTLA.
Michael T. Otto(DE) Ausgebildet an der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Otto ist Pädagoge, Komponist, Arrangeur und Gründer diverser Ensembles wie z.B. „STUBENJAZZ“. Nebenbei entwickelt er mit dem Instrumentenbauer Fritz Lüttke Trompeten und Flügelhörner, ist Erfinder des in Trompeten- /Posaunen-Kreisen bekannten Whisper-Penny® und führt die künstlerische Leitung des MONTFORT JAZZ CLUB am Bodensee.
Will Phalen (USA) is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Wisconsin and currently living in Chicago, USA. His work focuses on the intersection of past, present and future in music and finding unique, innovative ways of wedding together the old and the new, the acoustic and the electronic, the fret board and the mother board — exploring folk modalities as they collide with contemporary and progressive frameworks. Will runs a record label (Sub-Urban Arts Collective), a recording studio (Cold Ghost Recordings), and a music school (Midwestern School of Music). When he’s not making music or teaching music or recording music, Will enjoys cooking meals at home, camping in the woods of Wisconsin, and visiting the Logan Square Farmer’s Market with his wife Anna, their daughter Lulu and their dog Ziggy.
Hans Winkler (DE) Hans-Christian Winkler was born in 1989 in the Black Forest and studied art education painting and graphics with Prof. Corinne Wasmuht at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. From 2014-2016, he then completed his studies in intermedia design at Discoteca Flaming Star in Stuttgart. In 2016, he also participated in the FART 1st Stuttgart South International Film Festival. Hans Winkler, participated in the salem2salem International Artist Exchange twice and trained as an art educator in 2017-2018.
Philippe Wozniak (DE) (*1985) is a German composer. His compositions never reveal the complete structure. This results in the fact that he can easily imagine his own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. With a conceptual approach, he tries to increase the dynamic between audience and musicians by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and use everyday experiences as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. Philippe Wozniak currently lives and works in Freiburg (Germany).
The gallery is open Fr./Sa.from 2 pm -6 pm and by email or telephone appointment
Laudatio: Andrea Gamp B.A. Literatur-Kunst-Medien
Musik: Alain Wozniak
ProjekTraum FN freut sich, die Ausstellung “Constellations -drawing installation” von Davor Ljubičić anzukündigen, in der er eine Zeichnung über die gesamte Länge des Raumes mit Kohle und Video direkt an der Wand erstellen wird. Ljubičićs Arbeit ist direkt, artikuliert und suchend. Seine Bildsprache ist eine Mischung aus Selbstvertrauen, Intuition und Experiment. Er sucht ständig nach neuen Wegen in der Formentwicklung mit zeitbasierten Medien, Ton, Video und Performance, mit einem dynamischen Zeichenstil, der den Raum in erhellender, dunkler und überraschender Weise aktiviert.
Ljubičić wurde in Kroatien geboren und lebt seit 1992 in Konstanz. Er hat in ganz Europa gezeigt, unter anderem in Venedig, Bern, Paris, Slowenien, Österreich, Deutschland und New York. Seine Praxis umfasst Skulptur, Malerei, Performance, Video und Installation, aber seine Leidenschaft ist das Zeichnen. Begleiten Sie uns zum Eröffnungsempfang, wo eine junge Schriftstellerin Andrea Gamp über das Werk spricht und Alain Wozniak mit Klarinette und elektronischer Musik auftritt.
Eine umfangreiche visuelle Bibliothek seiner Arbeit ist auf seiner Website veröffentlicht.
Zwei neue Artikel geben mehr Auskunft uber Leben und Werk vom Davor Ljubičić:
“Ein unbändiges Ausdruckswollen und eine vitale Energie durchpulsen sämtliche Werkschöpfungen.” A. Gabelmann Südkueier 01.2018
“Obwohl Davor Ljubicic das Geschaffene immer wieder zerstört, treibt ihn eine Suche nach dem Ganzen. Einem Ganzen, das er nicht kennt, wie er sagt. “ H. Ruppert Schwaebische Zeitung 03.2018
Öffnungszeiten
Freitag – Sonntag 13:00 – 17:00
und nach tel. Vereinbarung
Eintritt frei
Wir befinden uns auf Straßenniveau – Dornierstraße 4, gegenüber vom Hotel Waldhorn, direkt neben der Waldhorn Apotheke in Friedrichshafen – Manzell 88048
ENGLISH VERSION
Davor Ljubičić
Constellations – drawing installation
03 – 27 JUNE, 2018 Opening Reception
Sunday June 3, 2018 from 2 until 6 pm
Laudatio: Andrea Gamp B.A. Literature-Art-Media
Music: Alain Wozniak
ProjekTraum FN is pleased to announce the exhibition „Constellations –drawing installation“ by Davor Ljubičić where he will create a drawing running the entire length of the room with charcoal and video directly on the wall. Ljubičić’s work is direct, articulate and searching. His visual language is a mixture of confidence, intuition, and experimentation. He continually looks for new ways in developing form using time-based mediums, sound, video, and performance, with a dynamic drawing style that activates the space in illuminating, dark and surprising ways.
Ljubičić was born in Croatia and lives in Konstanz Germany since 1992. He has shown extensively throughout Europe including in Venice, Bern, Paris, Slovenia, Austria, throughout Germany, and in New York. His practice includes sculpture, painting, performance, video, and installation, but his passion is drawing. Please join us for the opening reception where a young writer Andrea Gamp will speak about the work, and Alain Wozniak will perform with clarinet and electronic music.
An extensive visual library of his work is posted on his website.
Two recent articles discuss his life and work in more detail:
“Although Davor Ljubicic repeatedly destroys what he has created, he is driven by a search for the whole. A whole he doesn’t know, as he says.” H. Ruppert for Schwaebische Zeitung 03.2018
Jack HENRY TERRAFORMS
Zeichnungen
30. Juni – 11. Juli, 2017
Vernissage Freitag 30. Juni 19:00 – 22:00
Anwesenheit der Künstler, Kunstlergespräch (in Englisch)
Einlass 18:00
Öffnungszeiten
Freitag – Dienstag 13:00 – 18:00
und nach tel. Vereinbarung
ProjekTraum l’atelier Glidden Wozniak is proud to present the drawings of sculptor Jack Henry. Terraforms is a series of recent graphite drawings whereby the landscape reveals itself to Henry as he responds to the chaotic remnants of an initial collage process of gluing and tearing the paper away. His methods are similar to his approach to sculpture where he builds geometric forms composed of detritus from the streets of Brooklyn. Jack Henry will talk about his work at the opening reception on June 30 at 19:00. This is Jack Henry’s first solo exhibition in Europe.
Jack Henry was born in 1984 in Jackson, MS, USA and raised in the suburbs of Flint, Michigan. He received his BFA from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton and his MFA from University of Maryland, College Park with a concentration in sculpture/installation. His work has been shown throughout the US including recent shows at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York; Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn; Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn; Dodge Gallery, New York; Nudashank, Baltimore; Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia; Space Gallery, Portland ME; Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago; La Esquina Gallery, Kansas City; Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn; Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn; Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York; Radiator Gallery, Long Island City. His work has been written about in the Chicago Tribune, the L Magazine, Hyperallergic, Beautiful/Decay, ArtFCity, New American Paintings, Philadelphiaweekly.com. Jack Henry has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY since 2010.
Jack Henry, Land Formation #23, Graphite and Paper on Paper, 2017
This exhibition is the first in a series of three consecutive shows of American artists in ProjekTraum FN this summer. The artists will be in attendance.
Earnhart / Lightner Currently on View Mooring
9 – 20 June, 2017
Opening Friday June 9, 19:00 -22:00
Doors open at 18:00
Sculpture / Drawing
Billings, Montana
Works from this exhibition are now available to buy through the website.
Artist statement and installation views are here.
Jack Henry Terraforms
30. June – 11. July, 2017
Opening Friday June 30 19:00 -22:00
Doors open at 18:00
Drawings
Brooklyn, New York
Julie Anne Ward Containers Containing
14. – 25. July 2017
Opening Friday July 14th, 19:00 – 22:00
Doors open at 18:00
Drawings / Photographs / Live Streaming
Boca Raton, Florida
ProjekTraumFN: l’Atelier Glidden Wozniak is a project space in the studio of visual artist Felicia Glidden (MN, USA) and musician Alain Wozniak (Lille, FR) As research artists, we recognize the need for artist-run project spaces as necessary venues for artists to experiment and exhibit new work. We occasionally open our studio for exhibitions by international artists. You can support working artists and this project space by purchasing artwork from the project space and directly through our website. www.ProjekTraumFN.com
ProjekTraum FN: Open hours throughout the exhibition dates:
JUNE 9 – JULY 25th*
Friday through Tuesday
13:00 – 18:00
and by telephone appointment
free entrance
We are located at street level – Dornierstrasse 4, across the parking lot from the Waldhorn Hotel, directly next to the Waldhorn Apotheke in Friedrichshafen – Manzell 88048
*Gallery by appointment only June 21 – 27
Zeppelin Airships, blimps and dirigibles have a storied history within aeronautics and popular culture. There is the immediate fascination with the matter of scale these vessels inhabit and the gigantic infrastructures required to keep them afloat. These containers of an invisible gas lighter than air, swimming to destinations, have fascinated and enthralled generations. The impetus for this exhibition is within this invisible volume and the notion of lighter than air which is easier to experience than describe.
The title Mooring denotes an action of fixing to a point, a measure of controlling an entity by means of gravity, mass and machine. This control exists in an attempt to mitigate unwarranted interaction with other bodies. Mooring makes use of tethered strands, which individually are no match but when used in concert can exert and withstand tremendous forces. This action is applied when the vessel is surrounded by modes of fluctuation, an inconsistency of depth, position and stability.
Mooring also describes the adherence to a moral framework. This fixed point helps to define the moral compass of a people and is evident in the trajectory of progress. As a society, we have the capacity for adaptation to our ever changing environments that gives the same stability of tethering to a mast. Though invisible, this framework reveals the outliers and flaws within the whole. But it is within the collective steering that change is possible while maintaining integrity to preserve the future
Mark Earnhart & Jodi Lightner -Mooring, June 9, 2017
Jodi Lightner -Shelter 3, acrylic, ink and graphite on mylar and paper, 2017
Jodi Lightner
Jodi Lightner – Interstitial Parrallels (detail)
Mark Earnhart
Mark Earnhart Mooring Installation (detail) digital laser print on aluminum, 2017
Mark Earnhart Mooring Installation (detail) digital laser print on aluminum, 2017
Mark Earnhart Mooring Installation (detail) digital laser print on aluminum, 2017
Mark Earnhart Mooring Installation (detail) digital laser print on aluminum, 2017
Skulpturen / Zeichnungen
9 – 20 JUNI, 2017
Vernissage
Freitag 9. Juni 19:00 – 22:00
Anwesenheit der Künstler/Innen,Kunstlergespräch (in Englisch)
Einlass 18:00
Öffnungszeiten
Freitag – Dienstag 13:00 – 18:00
und nach tel. Vereinbarung
ProjekTraumFN l‘atelier Glidden Wozniak extends a warm welcome to the public to join us for the upcoming two person exhibition Mooring by Mark Earnhart and Jodi Lightner. The installation is site specific, as Lightner recreated a floorplan of ProjekTraumFN’s space in her Billings, Montana studio and both artists developed the work specifically for the space. Earnhart will be presenting multiples of objects such as fabricated aluminum sculptures, miniature ladders made of wood, and laser engraved aluminum castings. Lightner’s intensly detailed work includes multiple pieces of cut mylar which are painted with ink and acrylic.
Earnhart
Upon an invitation to exhibit, the artists researched Friedrichshafen and wrote about the influence of place on their work:
“Friedrichshafen Germany is situated near the boarders of Switzerland and Austria on the shoreline of Lake Constance. The city is a major producer of aviation technologies and is most notably the site where the first Zeppelin Airships were designed and are still built today. The region is home to some of the world’s most innovative aviation companies and manufacturers and has a long history within the field of aeronautics and engineering. It is within this arena of lighter than air flight that our exhibition pivots. Zeppelin Airships, blimps and dirigibles have a storied history within aeronautics and popular culture. There is the immediate fascination with the matter of scale these vessels inhabit and the gigantic infrastructures required to keep them afloat. These containers of an invisible gas lighter than air, swimming to destinations, have fascinated and enthralled generations. The impetus for this exhibition is within this invisible volume and the notion of lighter than air which is easier to experience than describe.”
The title Mooring, has to do with the idea of controlling almost unimaginable volume and scale. Mooring also has a connotation of steering and holding to a moral foundation as a reflection on the current political climate. The artists will speak about their influences and work at the opening reception on June 9th, 2017
Lightner
Jodi Lightner (b. Kansas, USA) is an Assistant Professor of Art at Montana State University Billings where she teaches courses that involve pencils, paint, and presses. She received her MFA in painting from Wichita State University in 2010 and continues her studio practice in Montana through national and international exhibitions. She has participated in artist residencies focused on studio practice at the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Montecastello diVibio, Italy, Vermont Studio Center, and Ucross Foundation.
Lightner lives and works in Billings, Montana.
Earnhart
Mark Earnhart (b. Ohio, USA) is an Assistant Professor of Art at Montana State University Billings where he teaches Sculpture and Three-Dimensional practices. He received his MFA from the University of Maryland in 2013 and continues his practice exhibiting nationally. He has experience as a Gallery Director, Museum Preparator, Museum Educator, Studio Technician, Art Handler, Artist Assistant, Lifeguard, UPS Driver and Airplane Fueler among many other things. Earnhart lives and works in Billings, Montana.
