I and eye
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Remy Jungerman
Sokolow is a recipient of a Visual Arts Fellowship Grant from the Illinois Arts Council in 2005. She received her MFA in 2004 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent shows include a 12x12 solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and group shows at the 3Arts Club in Chicago, UIC's Gallery 400, and Gallery 40000.
Marian Amies is an international exhibiting artist and a dual national of the UK and the USA. Her work compares and contrasts her life experiences in the two countries on issues of race, gender, equity and the environment. She is an associate professor at the University of Missouri - St. Louis and is a practicing graphic designer, illustrator and printmaker. In addition to illustrating for Viking Penguin New York her design commissions include US tour materials for the Royal Airforce Red Arrows Aerobatics Team; projects for Mallinckrodt Medical Inc.; Holland American Lines; Sheraton Hotels; AT&T; American Standard; Girl Scouts and National Children’s Cancer Society. She is joint head of the graphic design program; has received continuing fellowships in the Center for International Studies and has curated two international book shows at the university to include the work of over 300 artists and scholars from institutions including the British Library and Tate Britain. These shows are part of an ongoing Art of the Book exhibition series including 84 page color catalogues, the proceeds of which fund the Art of the Book Scholarship to assist students study book arts overseas. Her personal book arts work includes installation, projected animation, digital and traditional processes including hand bookbinding. She has served on the board of the St. Louis Chapter of the AIGA American Institute of Graphic Arts as Education Chair and as a board member of the Not Just An Art Directors’ Club. She lives in the city of St. Louis in the neighborhood of Benton Park in an 1890’s bakery building which houses a theatre workshop, a computer workshop, a photography studio, English Cave book arts press and her graphic design and printmaking studio.
Remy Jungerman was born in Moengo, Marowijne district, Suriname and studied
at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL and in Academy for Higher Arts and
Cultural Studies, Paramaribo, Suriname. Jungerman is preparing his 2005 solo
show with Lumen Travo Gallery. His work has spanned from installation work,
digital video, painting, performance and site specific work since the early
1990's.
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“Coming from a Dutch colonial background, living and working in the Netherlands and looking for my heritage
in different parts of the world, I have the possibility to question the world as a totality.” -- Remy Jungerman
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From the mid-nineties on, Remy Jungerman has been addressing two larger complexes of motifs in his installations, sculptural objects, video work collages and long-distance information transportation, conveyed in his use of technical materials and ready-mades from the communication media, such as microphones, cables, satellite dishes, and so on. High tech and a defenseless and militant migration – the marriage of these two thematic complexes hints at the political context Jungerman positions his work within: the relationship between nature and technology, the individual and the mass, action and reception, adaptation, resistance, and communication in the well-armed, so-called “global information society” with its accelerated technology and media.
For Jungerman, these questions are not only socially and theoretically important, but are closely connected to his own personal biography and artistic practice. Jungerman was born in 1959 in Moengo, Surinam, and lived there for thirty years in a (post-) colonial, multicultural society. Following his studies at the Academy for Higher and Cultural Studies in Paranimbo, he moved to Amsterdam in 1989 and matriculated once more at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. His research into his own “cultural identity” not only confronted him with the self-evident facts of his childhood and youth in the former Dutch colony, but also with the diversified culture of today’s Amsterdam, the national and international codes of the art establishment, and a personal experience characterized by a latent “displacement” – following, again and again, the traces of his history in a larger worldwide entanglement. Over the past ten years, Jungerman has been artistically active in Jakarta, Bombay, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Recife, Cuba, Amsterdam, Surinam, USA and in many other places, as well.
For more information: www.remyjungerman.com
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