Sage Dawson

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Drawing with my kinetograph.

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Kinetograph - drawing movement through space.

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At Lander University last week.

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Photos of Musings courtesy of Benjamin Johnsen. Exhibited with the art are objects collected from abandoned houses and items I keep in my studio.

VHS tapes, umbrella, styrofoam cup, curtain hardware.

Items below found in Phelps Grove (Missouri) and Summerville (Georgia) neighborhoods.

Updates

2012-03-18T12:51:00.000-05:00

I'm moving to St. Louis!

Upcoming residency at the Luminary Center for the Arts in St. Louis.

At work on a solo show for the Haas Gallery of Art.

This piece is in the SGCI traveling exhibition:

We're screening Linotype: The Film at ASU.

2012-02-23T08:00:00.000-06:00

Musings featuring Joel Peter Witkin, Cynthia Cook, Thomas F. Barrow, Sage Dawson, Rachel Cox, John Photos and other artists. Opening March 2nd, 6-8pm.

Photos courtesy Harwood Art Center.

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Pratt MWP School of Art exhibition.

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Today Cartographies of Ruin opens at Pratt MWP School of Art, NY. I've been working on this show for nearly two years and it's with pleasure that I share an online version of it here. Accompanying the exhibition is the poem Porchlight written by Ireland-based poet Andy Eaton.

Cartographies of Ruin aims to document and present lost, abandoned, and forgotten sites. These works emphasize the momentariness of time and memory that is suggested by the nature of these spaces. In the case of abandoned sites, their gradual destruction implies a history which unfolds from past to present, and on to their precarious survival in the future. In this way, the work aims to begin to better understand how the production and destruction of spaces affects people collectively.

Special thanks to everyone who has helped support this project.

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Collection tags on objects found at the abandoned Mary Street house.

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On a walk to work last month, McDowell Street was blocked with fire engines. I carefully stepped over a fire hose to find an alternate route. Number 2051 McDowell was on fire. Here is the house today and a new screen print.

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Mapable at Space Camp Micro Gallery.

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My article at Printeresting.

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For those who requested my recent lecture Cartographies of Ruin: Maps, Art & Memory, here you go! It's about 45 minutes with questions at the end. Below is an image of one of the abandoned house maps mentioned during the second half of the lecture.

1163 Mary Street, An Abandoned House
Mixed Media Collagraphy
Edition 1/1
2011

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Tiberiu Chelcea:

The goal of the works in this series is to combine the visual languages of electronic design and maps. To do so, I am using a characteristic found in both printed circuit boards (PCBs) and maps: they are both layered representations of places or objects. PCBs, such as computer motherboards, are made up of wires sandwiched between flat layers of nonconductive materials. Similarly, a map is a layer of information added to a geometrically accurate representation of a place; for example, the shape of an island is represented to scale, and, on top of that, the cartographer adds color coded topological levels, cities, and roads
(...)
In the process, the works blur the boundaries between the man-made and the natural, reimagining the tiniest of engineered components as vast landmasses; and they illuminate the connections between the ancient art of mapmaking and the very contemporary art of electronic design.

Text found in Tiberiu Chelcea's 2011 artist statement on the maps series.

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If you're nearby, please join me for my lecture tomorrow.

2011-12 Arsenal Lecture Series

Cartographies of Ruin: Maps, Art & Memory

Thursday, November 10, 2:30-3:30 p.m., University Hall 170
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art at Augusta State University

I'll be talking about this:

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