The Garden of Emoji Delights October 26 November 8, 2015

E B K Gallery [small works] 218 Pearl St. Hartford, CT

Carla Gannis

"The Garden of Emoji Delights" October 26 ? November 8, 2015

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Artist: Carla Gannis Title: "The Garden of Emoji Delights" Date: 2013 Size: 13' x 7' Medium: digital C-Print Price: on request

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CARLA GANNIS Carla Gannis, originally from Oxford, North Carolina, today lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA in painting from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an MFA in painting from Boston University. In the late 1990s she began to incorporate digital technologies into her work, and in 2005 she was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Grant in Computer Arts. Currently she is a professor and assistant chairperson of The Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute. Since 2003 Gannis's work has appeared in 20 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibitions include "The Garden of Earthly Delights" at The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (currently on view) and at Kasia Kay Art Projects in Chicago, IL, 2014. In 2013 she collaborated with poet Justin Petropoulos on a transmedia book, installation and net art project entitled published by Jaded Ibis Press, Seattle, WA and exhibited at Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Her forthcoming shows include the group exhibition "Porn to Pizza ? Domestic Clich?s" at DAM Gallery, in Berlin Germany and solo exhibitions at EBK Gallery in Hartford, CT and Transfer Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Features on her work have appeared in ARTnews, The Creators Project, The Huffington Post, Wired, Buzzfeed, FastCo, Hyperallergic, Art F City, Art Critical, The Wallstreet Journal, The New York Times and The LA Times, among others. Recently her speculative fiction was included in DEVOURING THE GREEN:: fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology, published by Jaded Ibis Press. Her recent speaking engagements include "Let's Get Digital" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and "Cogency in the Imaginarium" at Cooper Union and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in numerous panels on the intersections between art, technology, education and networked culture.

"My work is informed by art history, technology, theory, cinema, video games, and speculative fiction, to name a few, and I have expressed my ideas through many mediums, including digital painting, animation, 3D printing, drawing, video projection, interactive installation, performance, and net art. However, my core fascinations, with the nature(s) and politics of identity, were established during my childhood in North Carolina. I draw inspiration from my Appalachian grandparents singing dark mountain ballads about human frailty, my future-minded father working in computing, and my politicized Southern Belle of a mother wearing elaborate costumes, performing her prismatic female identity. First and foremost, I am a storyteller, rooted in Southern Gothic and expanded into "Internet Gothic," where I have re-focused my narratives through 21st Century representational technologies. With digital collage and remix I reveal the hybrid nature of identity, where virtual and real embodiments of self diverge and intersect. I invite viewers to experience our inescapably mediated lives "through a digital looking glass" where reflections on power, sexuality, marginalization, and agency often emerge. I am

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fascinated by contemporary modes of digital communication, the power (and sometimes the perversity) of popular iconography, and the situation of identity in the blurring contexts of technological virtuality and biological reality. Humor and absurdity are important elements in building my nonlinear narratives, and layers upon layers of history are embedded in even my most future focused works. On a conceptual and technical level the tableaus I produce consist of fragments that are reassembled at oblique angles to their original context -- mixing the language of Bosch with the language of Emoji (and the language of Carla Gannis) for example, or combining Photoshop? and Maya? with (H)and(D)rawing? and (P)ainting?. My thoughts, embodied irl and url, are not meant to convey logical conclusions or to allow for easy categorization. I feel akin to past and contemporary artists, filmmakers and writers who uncannily deconstruct rigid notions of reality and perception. The extension of this sensibility with computer-based applications is only natural to me as a reflection upon the Digital Age in which we all coexist." -C.G.

CV / Resume CARLA GANNIS

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2016 Carla Gannis (solo), Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015 The Garden of Emoji Delights : Carla Gannis (solo), Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT The Garden of Emoji Delights : Carla Gannis (solo), EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT Robbi Carni : Carla Gannis (solo), Digital Sweat Gallery, Online Exhibition The Garden of Emoji Delights : Carla Gannis (solo), Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2014 The Garden of Emoji Delights : Carla Gannis (solo), Kasia Kay Gallery, Chicago, Il, also featuring Escape Pod, a collaboration with Everett Kane The Garden of Emoji Delights : Carla Gannis (screening), Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY The Non-Facial Recognition Project :Carla Gannis (solo), Center for the Digital Arts, Peekskill, New York

2013 | Carla Gannis & Justin Petropoulos (two-person collaboration), Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, New York in conjunction with book publication by Jaded Ibis Press of Gannis/Petropoulos collaboration

2012 The Multiversal Hippozoonomadon & Prismenagerie (solo), Pablo's Birthday, New York, NY

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Non Facial Recognition (solo), Edelman Gallery, New York, NY Pop Noir: Carla Gannis & Sandra Bermudez (two-person), The George Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2010 What is not on my mind? : Carla Gannis (solo), Pablo's Birthday, New York, NY

2008 Jezebel (solo), Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago, IL Jezebel (solo), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO Jezebel Inside (solo), TZR Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany

2007 Jezebel (solo), Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Everything That Rises Must Converge (solo), Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago, IL Jezebel (solo), Loop, Claire Oliver Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2005 I Dream of Jeannie Emerging From a Fresca Bottle (solo), Christa Schuebbe Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany

2004 Travelogue (solo), Pablo's Birthday, New York, NY

2003 Travelogue (solo), Wax Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2015 Emoji Academy, "Carla Gannis ? Special Feature, Oct 2, The Creators Project, "How To Draw Your Selfie-Portrait" by Annie Armstrong, Sep 19, ArtFCity "The Yami-Ichi Flea Market at The Knockdown Center: The 150th Wing of the Internet" by Paddy Johnson, Sep 15, The Creators Project, 'Jokes of Nature' Walks a Fine Line Between Grotesque and Gorgeous

by Shana Nys Dambrot, Sep 13, Denver Post, At Denver's RedLine gallery, seeing beauty, humor, in the grotesque

by Ray Mark Rinaldi, Sep 13, ArtFCity, "Must See Art Events : Internet Yami-Ichi" by Paddy Johnson, Michael Anthony Farley, and Rea McNamara, Sep 9, Monopol, "Porn to Pizza" Aug 31,

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