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January 06, 2012
Press Release PDF: http://www.spacesgallery.org/files/pr/2012/120106-spaces-cogswell-pr.pdf
Press Packet (PDF + images): http://www.spacesgallery.org/files/pr/2012/120106-spaces-cogswell-press-packet.zip
Exhibition: February 3, 2012 - March 30, 2012
Artist Talk: Friday, February 3, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Cleveland, OH, January 6, 2012—In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the SPACES World Artists Program (SWAP) is pleased to welcome back New York artist Margaret Cogswell. Nine years ago, as SWAP's third artist-in-residence, Cogswell created Cuyahoga River Fugues, a haunting mixed-media installation that wove together stories gathered from steel workers, environmentalists, fishermen, historians and city planners whose lives had indelibly intersected with the Cuyahoga. This January, Cogswell returns to SPACES for a second residency, to revisit the river and the work it inspired.
Overwhelming response to Cuyahoga Fugues led Cogswell to explore the vital and increasingly politicized role of waterways throughout the world for the last decade, for which she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2009. Her site-specific series of River Fugues utilizes the musical structure of a fugue (with its recurring themes in varying parts of the structure) as a vehicle to weave together video, audio and sculptural components into installations that explore the interdependency of people, industry and rivers in post-industrial regions.
Cogswell's River Fugues have included Hudson Weather Fugues (on the Hudson River in New York, 2005); Buffalo River Fugues (Buffalo, NY 2006); projects in Brussels, Belgium, Monaco, and at the Chicago Field Museum (2007-2009); Mississippi River Fugues (Art Museum, TN, 2008) and Hudson River Fugues (Tang Museum, NY, 2009-2010). She is currently working on a solo exhibition at the Art Museum of the University of Wyoming for September 2012, and the development of New River Fugues in Virginia and North Carolina.
For her three-week return to Cleveland in January, Cogswell will reconnect with individuals who participated in the development of Cuyahoga River Fugues in 2003, and look into what has changed in their relationships to the Cuyahoga over the last 9 years. She will develop a series of drawings and a mixed-media installation based on video footage taken at the steel mills and along the Cuyahoga River. The resulting exhibition will include selected videos from 9 years of River Fuguesprojects inspired by her time with the Cuyahoga River.
Join Margaret Cogswell and her Cuyahoga River Fugues collaborators for a public dialogue on the work, at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, February 3 at SPACES, to kick off the exhibition opening.
SWAP is a residency initiative begun at SPACES in 2002 that provides artist-in-residence opportunities for international, national and local artists who explore and experiment. SWAP supports the creation, presentation and discussion of artwork while facilitating collaboration among Northeast Ohio audiences.
For more information, visit: http://www.margaretcogswell.net.
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