Overview
E11: CODA
July 23 – August 10, 2014
Artisphere
1101 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia 22209
Terrace Gallery
Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 24, 7 – 9pm; Artist Remarks at 7:30
ON/OFF
Thursday, June 26, 5pm, Artisphere’s Black Box
E11: CODA marks the 11th season of Transformer’s Exercises For Emerging Artists program. Launched in March 2004 to support a select group of artists beyond the art school experience but still emerging in their artistic careers, this peer critique and mentorship program is intended as a ‘jump-start’ for DC area artists seeking to connect with peer artists & mentors in an intensive critique process as they create a new work or new body of work. Artists invited to participate in the Exercises are nominated by Transformer staff, Advisory Council, as well as area arts educators and curators.
Focusing on a different artistic discipline each year, E11: CODA focuses on artists working within the discipline of sound art. This year’s selected Exercises artists include: Alex Braden, Emily Francisco, E. Jane, and Ian McDermott. Beginning in March 2014 and spanning through the end of June, these artists meet bi-weekly with this year’s Lead Mentor Ryan Holladay, Artisphere’s New Media Curator, Transformer’s Exhibitions & Gallery Coordinator Julia Young, and invited guest mentors, to receive insightful feedback on their creative processes and concepts of sound art through various methods and mediums. E11 guest mentors include John Henry Blatter, Alberto Gaitán, and Christine Sun Kim. The program culminates with a group exhibition titled Coda, presented at Artisphere as the final movement of Fermata, a sound art exhibition co-curated by Holladay.
