Video Installation Galleries

October 24 2009 - February 21

This juried exhibition brings together the work of six artists who are recent graduates from universities and colleges in Tennessee and surrounding states. Their work investigates topics ranging from consumer culture to the process of becoming an adult. They use varied approaches to making video art, including animation, performance-art, narrative, new-narrative, and other experimental techniques. Their range of approaches describes where video art is today and where it is headed in the future.  More ...

March 13 - September 12

Humor and a sense of absurdity take center stage in Cheekwood’s next video installation as six artists help us laugh at some of life’s most challenging issues. Do-It-Yourself aesthetics, pop culture satire, polymorphous role-playing and a good dose of social and political culture
busting infect the invented worlds of this disparate group. Generationally, nationally and culturally diverse, all share a love of humor as a means of teasing out the absurdities of social convention, the need for love and comfort, daily rituals and contemporary communication. Identity, as it
responds to the changing cultural landscape, is the central character in these happenings meet situation comedies meet soap operas. 

Exhibitions organized by guest curator, Claire Schneider, Senior Curator, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.