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January Issue 2005
College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, Features Installation by Paola Cabal and Sumakshi Singh
The William Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston's School of the Arts in Charleston, SC, will present, ElsewHERE: A Comissioned Installation Exhibition, by Paola Cabal and Sumakshi Singh from Jan. 21 through Feb. 12, 2005. Both artists will be in residence at the College from Jan. 10 - 23, 2005.
Using the physical
history of the space itself as their point of departure, Cabal
and Singh will affect subtle changes in the way viewers experience
the Halsey Gallery. Through the artists' installed 'interventions,'
walls, entryways, windows and lighting will be
extended, compressed, articulated, and in other ways modified,
playfully engaging viewers in the question of what parts of their
visual experience are 'real'- both within the gallery and outside
it.
A native of Bogota, Colombia, Paola Cabal moved to the US with
her family as a young child. An artist whose practice is divided
between gallery and public projects, Cabal earned her BFA in visual
art from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she
was awarded a Carnegie Centennial Award by the city's Carnegie
Museums of Art and Natural History for a public mural project.
Cabal was artist in residence at the Gimnasio del Norte School
in Bogota, Colombia, before completing her MFA at The School of
the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Her work has been exhibited
in Chicago, Omaha, and Ft.Lauderdale as well as in Bogota, Colombia.
She is currently at work on a public project in Chicago, IL, where
she lives and works.
Sumakshi Singh came from India to the United States in 2001. She received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she now teaches part time. She was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2003 and was awarded the MFA fellowship at SAIC in the same year. Her recent solo shows include Flux at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Void at Gallery 400, and Flaw at Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven. She has also exhibited at Arthouse -TX, Richard Dadd Gallery - MN, Stray Show - Chicago, Illinois State Museum - IL. She will be exhibiting later this year at the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, VT, and the Florence Biennale, Italy.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, contact Mark Sloan at 843/953-5680, e-mail at (sloanm@cofc.edu) or at (www.cofc.edu/halseygallery).
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