WORLD-CLASS CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS DONATE WORKS TO 2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ARTISTS AWARDS PROGRAM SPONSORED BY CHANEL February 26th, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WORLD-CLASS CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS DONATE WORKS TO 2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ARTISTS AWARDS PROGRAM SPONSORED BY CHANEL
*** Original work by Daniel Arsham, Robert Bordo, Elizabeth Colomba, Stephen Hannock, Prune Nourry, Jean Pagliuso, Clifford Ross, and Piers Secunda will be awarded to winning filmmakers at 14th annual TFF following public exhibition at Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studios
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NEW YORK, NY (February 26, 2015) The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, today announced the participants of this year's Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards Program, sponsored by CHANEL. Eight contemporary artists, including longtime participants Stephen Hannock and Clifford Ross, who have contributed work to the program since its inception, as well as new contributors Daniel Arsham, Robert Bordo, Elizabeth Colomba, Prune Nourry, Jean Pagliuso, and Piers Secunda, will donate original work to be presented to the filmmakers whose films are selected by the TFF jury as winners in their respective categories. The Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards Program was created by TFF co-founder Jane Rosenthal to celebrate New York artists. This year's TFF will run April 15-26.
A free exhibition of the work will be open to the public from April 13-25 between the hours of 9am- 5pm (closed on April 23), at the Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studios, TFF's new destination for festivalgoers, located at 50 Varick Street in Manhattan. The artwork will be on view throughout the Festival before being presented to the award-winning filmmakers on April 23.
These awards are a unique Tribeca tradition, said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder, TFF. The Festival has always been about artists supporting one another, no matter what their medium is. Along with Chanel, we are looking forward to honoring our prize winning filmmakers with some of the finest art work that is being created and sharing it at the gallery exhibit at our new hub, said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder, TFF.
Following is a complete list of the artwork that will be contributed:
Daniel Arsham: Ash Eroded Film Reel, 2014, Volcanic ash, shattered glass, hydrostone, unique, 14 x 14 inches
Robert Bordo: Caw (42), 2010, Tempera on paper, 11 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Elizabeth Colombo: Athena, 2015, Oil on canvas, gold leaf frame, 14 x 11 inches
Stephen Hannock: Rockets Over the Delta (Mass MoCA #218), 2015,Acrylic on panel, 8 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches
Prune Nourry: Immersion, 2012 (From the Holy River series), Print mounted on radiology negative viewer, Edition 2/3 + 2 AP, 18 5/8 x 29 1/2 inches
Jean Pagliuso: Black #19, 2009, Hand-applied silver gelatin on rice paper AP1, 23 x 19 inches
Clifford Ross: Trees II, 2010, Archival Pigment Print on Wood Veneer, 22 x 17 inches
Piers Secunda: Taliban Relief Painting, 2013, Industrial floor paint, 48.2 x 49.6 x 1.6cm
The art exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information on the other programs at the Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studios at 50 Varick Street and to purchase a Spring pass that provides full access to the space and events, visit www.tribecafilm.com.
About the Artists
Daniel Arsham straddles the line between art, architecture, and performance, New York-based artist Daniel Arsham was raised in Miami and attended the Cooper Union in New York City. In 2004, legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham asked Arsham to create the stage design for his work eyeSpace. Despite never being trained in stage design he has continued his practice in stage. His work has been displayed worldwide at renowned galleries such as PS1 in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, The Athens Bienniale in Athens, Greece, and The New Museum in New York. Arsham's most recent collaboration with world-renowned musician and producer Pharrell Williams involved the recreation in volcanic ash of Pharrell's first keyboard.
Robert Bordo is the recipient of the 2014 Robert De Niro, Sr. Painting Award. He lives and works in New York City and Columbia County, New York. Since the mid-1980s, Bordo has shown his paintings internationally in numerous one-person and group exhibitions. He has had nine one-person shows in NYC, most recently at Alexander and Bonin Gallery in 2013. He has collaborated with choreographer Mark Morris in designing sets, costumes, and posters for Mark Morris Dance Company, most notably for Dido and Aeneas performed in 1989 in Brussels and in 1998 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Robert Bordo is Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union, New York, where he leads the painting program.
Elizabeth Colomba, born and raised in Paris from Martinique descent, is a representational artist living in New York City. After receiving her degree in applied arts in Paris she moved to Los Angeles to pursue painting while working on feature films. Depicting stories featuring black characters, her work raises a complex issue about what it means for people to define themselves through images and the impact it has on one's psyche. Nicknamed the black Vermeer, she generates a space for her subjects to inhabit the re-writing of their history. In that sense, she analyses the construction of identity and tangled interrelationship between past and present in our collective identity today.
Stephen Hannock is an American Luminist painter known for his atmospheric nocturnes, which often incorporate text inscriptions that relate to family, friends, or the events of daily life. He has demonstrated a unique appreciation for contemporary storytelling through the painting medium. His inventive machine polishing of the surfaces of his paintings gives a characteristic luminous quality to his work. His design of visual e
