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PAST EXHIBITIONS 2003-2004 African + Indian = American: Performance and Exhibition by James Montford
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Where the Art Meets the Road: Art on Wheels Last spring, the CAM is on board for the region's hottest new public art initiative: "Art on Wheels -Artists Recycle, Reuse and Reinvent in 2003." Presented by the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Materials Reuse Project, and a host of media and corporate sponsors, Art on Wheels is the highly mobile, exciting follow-up to the "Herd About Buffalo" project. This time, the theme is the car, transportation, and recycling/reusing materials. From May to October of this year, the project will present wheel-themed sculpture and "art cars" at over 50 cultural and historic sites throughout Buffalo/Niagara. The key to taking in this extravaganza of publ The CAM's participation in this project is a double axle approach: an outdoor "art car" will inhabit the museum's portico, and an indoor selection of wheel-related artwork will be presented as a concurrent exhibition called "Wheel Works: A Vehicle of the Art on Wheels Project." Our neighbor, the New York Power Authority, will also be a stop on the Art on Wheels trail, so we hope to attract many summer visitors stopping at both sites. Our "art car" will be created by the artist team FAL-CON International (aka William Howe and Will Cannings). Their proposed art car, tentatively titled "Flower Car," involves turning a car inside out by peeling back its metal "skin" and inverting the resulting shell above the underlying structure of the vehicle. This shell, with its concave, colored forms, will resemble an abstracted flower. The remaining structure of the car will then be enclosed in clear plastic panels so that the vehicle will remain functional (one of the requirements for the art cars). The artists hope that, through this radical transformation of the car's form, "the normative illusion of isolation from the world which we all rely upon when we drive is vacated." Our parallel, indoor exhibition," Wheel Works," will feature work by Andrew Topolski, Patrick Robideau, and Rackstra
“The compelling clarity with which a photograph recorded the trivial suggested that the subject had never before been properly seen, that is was in fact perhaps not trivial, but filled with undiscovered meaning….they could be read as symbols.”
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James Montford will explore his African American and Native American roots in a unique TopSpin exhibition/performance. Recruiting students from Niagara University media and general education studies, he will ask them to document the public’s reaction to his “costumed” presence in neighboring communities.
ic art will be a "passport" that will be stamped at each site visited. In addition, "Art on Wheels" as a whole is a featured event for I Love New York's "Summer Long Sensation" campaign.
w Downes. These pieces-and others from the permanent collection-will offer visitors a diverse view of how wheels and transportation have inspired the myriad forms of modern and contemporary art. "Wheel Works" should be a natural for Art on Wheels tourists who are intrigued by the art cars and other work where the "art meets the road."