Void

VOID

Stephen Hendee

THE SILBER ART GALLERY Sanford J. Ungar Athenaeum | Goucher College

The Silber Art Gallery Sanford J. Ungar Athenaeum, Goucher College Directions Baltimore Beltway, I-695, to exit 27A. Make first left onto campus.

Gallery Hours 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday – Sunday 410.337.6477 The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The Silber Gallery program is funded with the assistance of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences. goucher.edu/silber

VOID 2/3/15

A RTI ST’ S RE CE P TION

2/5/15, 6–9 p.m.

through

3/5/15

A RTI ST’ S TA LK

7:30 p.m.

Stephen Hendee is a sculptor whose work has been exhibited at PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, the New Museum, the Sculpture Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria in New York. Other national exhibitions include those at the Smart Museum, Chicago; the St. Louis Art Museum; and Rice University Art Gallery, Houston.

Hendee is a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. After receiving degrees in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University, he has been recognized with grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and the Louis Tiffany Comfort Foundation, and he has been awarded residencies at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony.

Recent awards include a Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Award in sculpture. stephenhendee.com

VOID

a liminial space

Void explores form-building influenced by digital methodologies utilizing materials such as polypropylene plastic, mylar and aluminum tape. These objects suggest elaborate otherworldly crystalline structures or mechanical devices in various states of transformation or decay. My creative output as an artist spanning the last two decades has mirrored the ascent of digital culture, speculative fiction and ephemeral architecture through installations and sculptures. I reference the aesthetics of science fiction culture to create alternative realities for viewers to walk into, erasing the boundaries between the everyday and the possible future to question the nature of human progress. As the notion of virtual experience becomes common in our culture, my practice has shifted from spontaneity to new media workflows that incorporate digital tools. I see this as a choice of craft to create artifacts reflective of this time and representative of the dynamic media that is reformatting our minds.

S T E P H E N H E N D E E , J A N U A RY 2 0 1 5

Sparked Mysterious (in process), Newark, New Jersey

The Pinpoint Remains 2012 Corrugated plastic, aluminum tape, paper 7’ x 25’ x 25’ Installation at Clark County Government Center Rotunda Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada

Monument to the Simulacrum 2007 Stainless steel, acrylic, lights 12’ x 9’ x 9’ Monument marks the site of the Las Vegas Centennial Time Capsule, to be opened in 2105.

It is dedicated to the memory of late French philosopher Jean Baudrillard.

C3 (Drive Sequence) 2002 Foam board, optical tape, lights 5’ x 2’ x 6’ C2 (Bright Setting) 2002 Foam board, optical tape, lights 5’ x 2’ x 5’ C5 (Fused Cluster) 2002 Foam board, optical tape, lights 6’ x 2’ x 4’

Conduits 2002 Foam board, optical tape, lights 8’ x 5’ x 10’ Previous five installed at Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, New York, for “Sparked Mysterious.”

VOID “ You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

S P E C I A L T H A N K S to Laura Amussen for organizing this exhibition for the Silber Gallery and to Sandra Maxa for enabling this unique catalog to accompany the exhibit.