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"Intervention"
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6/27/2005 LACOSTE, FRANCE — SCAD-Lacoste presents "Intervention," June 27–Aug. 21. The site-specific installations featured in the exhibition will be exhibited throughout the village of Lacoste as well as many of the college's exhibitions spaces including the main gallery, Galerie Pfriem. The gallery is located at rue du Four and is free and open to the public Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.  "Intervention" attempts to interact and transact with the immediate environment of SCAD-Lacoste, located in the beautifully preserved medieval village of Lacoste, France. The exhibition features installations by French artist Philippe Richard, and sculptor Patrick Dougherty, as well as SCAD students, faculty and alumni. Philippe Richard Richard's untitled installation coordinates a series of unfolding painted wooden rods that are indeterminate in their point of origin, path and endpoint. The installation stretches between the Galerie Pfriem and the Olivier Terrace in a meandering fashion that highlights Lacoste's medieval architecture. Richard's intention is to offer visitors elements of pace and discontinuity in their walk through the town. Richard, who is influenced by science and mathematics, produces installations that are concerned with being exact in shape, length or proportion. The installation created for "Intervention" is 1,000 meters in length. Richard will also create a series of site-specific paintings featuring lines that travel from the canvas to the walls, where they explore the space in which they are located, moving through and between rooms and doorways before returning to the canvas on which they originated. Born in 1962, Richard resides and works today in Paris. He is international recognized in particularly in the United States. Richard studied at the National Higher of Art schools in Paris and in 1988 received the Higher National Diploma of the Visual Arts. Patrick Dougherty Dougherty used the environment as a starting point to create his installation "L'Aurore des Bories." Here the bories, small stone-built houses, become the emblem of Luberon, his source of inspiration. Four giant constructions made up of branches of willows and connected by an arch take the specific architecture of the bories and the landscape of the village offering an unspoiled view on the valley of Lacoste. Combining his carpentry skills with his love for nature, Dougherty began to learn more about primitive techniques of building and experimented with tree saplings as construction material.  In 1982 his first work, "Maply Body Wrap" was included in the North Carolina Biennial Artists' Exhibition sponsored by the North Museum of Art in Raleigh, N.C., and in the following year he had his first one person show titled, "Waiting It Out In Maple" at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C. His work quickly evolved from single pieces on conventional pedestals to monumental scale environments, requiring saplings by the truckloads. During the last decade he has built more than 100 works throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Heidi Cregge, M.F.A. candidate, visual effects Cregge premised her installation, "Infilling," on interactivity and sensory shifts, but of a local dimension in which a dialogue between art and technology — and, in turn, the organic and simulated — frames the work. Located at SCAD's Galerie Bleue, "Infilling" is both reflexive and experiential. The viewer walks around or through the installation, incurring an activation of lights. The interactive fiber installation is made from wet-felted merino wool, formed into a series of cocoon-like shapes that encase discreet, amber-colored LEDs (light-emitting diodes). Proximity sensors located within the cocoon react to the presence of the viewer, which in turn triggers light that becomes more intense as the viewer moves closer. Tim Jackson, Ph.D., SCAD art history professor Transacting the local with the global in "Sacred Sky," a video installation featuring composite images of skies collected from six countries and nine international locations. Inside a medieval chapel, the composite sky is projected onto a bed of cotton and viewed from surrounding benches. Fred Jesser, M.F.A., painting In "Untitled: Slightly Cloudy in Silver," painting alumnus Jesser seeks to interrupt time and place, but with a sense of novelty and humor. The site-specific installation is composed of a series of cartoon-like clouds of variable dimensions, which have been water-jet-cut from sheets of aluminum and installed on the façades of buildings in Lacoste. Matthew Parrott, M.F.A. candidate, visual effects Parrot presents an installation that interacts and conjoins with is its location, "The Brightness of Your Rising." The work uses a feedback loop system by photographing the location it sees, tracking the composition of its surfaces and projecting impressions of "energy" on the contours. The result is an interjection in time and place, in which the virtual digital media fuses with the medieval walls of Lacoste. Matthew Watson, M. Arch. candidate, architecture, and Scott Dietz, SCAD architecture professor Watson and Dietz collaborate on "Aberrant Lines," a series of suspended panels. These transient structures interact with their surroundings, seeking to focus and clarify attention on Lacoste's historic and aesthetic properties, overlapping with its environmental conditions like a living, organic sculpture. Marcia Weiss, M.F.A., fibers, 2004 Weiss uses contemporary building materials of copper and aluminum, in combination with locally harvested stones, in "Assemblage," a work designed for the vertical span above town's main archway. The collection of "stones" — woven tubular forms of copper and aluminum — is interspersed with locally gathered stones. Each element is placed according to the nuances of the space and the movement of the sun. The metals create a field for the play of light, with locally harvested stones providing relief and grounding.
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