701 Center for Contemporary Art presents: Aldwyth
January 25, 2016
Exhibition: January 31 – February 28, 2015
Artist Gallery Talk & Reception: Friday, January 31, 2:00 pm
Reception & Talk Admission: Members, free; non-members, $5 suggested donation
With a gallery talk followed by an artist’s reception on Sunday, January 31, 2:00 p.m., 701 CCA will present two large, mural-size collages by the center’s current artist in residence, Aldwyth. The artist is creating the works during her current, January 2016, residency at 701 CCA. The talk and reception are open to the public. The collage installation subsequently will be open to the public during regular hours until February 28, 2016, along with 701 CCA’s current gallery exhibition, Bound, by artist Kristy Bishop.
Aldwyth is creating the collages as part of 701 CCA’s Dada Days, with which the center marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Cabaret Voltaire on February 5, 1916, in Zurich, Switzerland. The Cabaret Voltaire is typically seen as the first organized manifestation of Dada. That art movement was the impetus for and deciding influence on most contemporary art as we know it today.
“As a contemporary art center, we thought we should mark the moment,” 701 CCA board chair Wim Roefs said.
For Dada Days, 701 CCA is turning its artist loft into a makeshift performance space for which Aldwyth’s collage installation will provide the backdrop. In the space, actors, poets, musicians and other performers who work in the Dada spirit will present performances throughout February and March, 2016. A full schedule of those performance and other Dada Days activities will follow in a future press release.
Hilton Head resident Aldwyth (b. 1935, Pomona, Calif.) was represented in the 701 CCA South Carolina Biennial 2011, 2013 and 2015. Her work was in the South Carolina TRIENNIAL 1995 and 2001 at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia and TRIENNIAL Revisited in 2011 at 701 Center for Contemporary Art. Her 2009 retrospective, Aldwyth: work v./work n.: Collage and Assemblage 1991 – 2009, was organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, S.C., and traveled to the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Ga. Aldwyth’s work is represented in the Ackland and Telfair Museums as well as the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, the S.C. State Museum and the South Carolina State Art Collection, managed by the S.C. Arts Commission. The Oxford American magazine listed her as one the Superstars of Southern Art in 2012.
Her residencies include those at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado and Kohler Arts and Industry in Kohler, Wis.
Known for her amazingly complex collages and assemblages, Aldwyth typically utilizes the history of art, ideas and technology as both catalyst and source material for her often epic-scaled works.
701 CCA is a non-profit visual arts center that promotes understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of contemporary art, the creative process and the role of art and artists in the community. The center also encourages interaction between visual and other art forms. 701 CCA is located at 701 Whaley Street, 2nd Floor, Columbia, SC 29201. During exhibitions, hours are Wed, 11–5; Thu-Fri, 10-5; Sat, 1-5; Sun, 1-5. For more information, visit www.701cca.org.
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