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NYOC GALLERY - Carolyn Agis, Molly Spitta, Sylke Spitta

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2014 · Entertainment

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UP&out
Collaborative Works by Carolyn Agis, Molly Spitta & Sylke Spitta
July 18 - August 22, 2014
 
Opening Reception | Friday July 18, 2014 | 6-8 pm


What steps can we all take to break open our narrow constraints of thinking and 
experience a more expansive perspective of ourselves? The NYOC gallery's 
upcoming exhibition, entitled UP&out, suggests that the answers you seek are 
found in the questions you ask. 
 
UP&out's core purpose is to inspire curiosity and stimulate conversations, one 
question at a time. It is a proposal to look around, over, outside, and through 
some "thing" in order to break through our own glass ceilings and ultimately 
move towards the cohesive union of mind (knowledge), spirit (heart) and body 
(will). This whimsical and imaginative collaborate exhibition by Carolyn Agis, 
Molly Spitta & Sylke Spitta, integrates a range of artwork mediums from collage, 
drawing and text to video and installation work.
 
This exhibition opens with a video presentation of Agis' Dreams and Page of 
Pentacles. These two short films highlight the back-and-forth, up-and-down 
tension between fear and fearlessness perpetuated by our individualized 
interpretation of experience. To resolve this tension, the three artists developed a 
series of questions paired with images that playfully provoke viewers/readers to 
reexamine their habitual perception of reality and ultimately climb "up and out" 
into a new and expanded viewpoint.
 
Rounding off this exhibition, Agis isolates excerpts from Søren Kierkegaard's 
philosophical work, Fear and Trembling. The selected texts, referencing faith, 
hope and belief, are printed onto index cards and archived in a traditional card 
catalog. This interactive installation allows the viewer to thumb through the 
poetic and emotive language that characterizes the philosopher's work. As 
Kierkegaard states, "it does not depend merely upon what one sees but depends 
upon on how one sees; all observation is not just a receiving but also a bringing 
forth." 
 
Carolyn Agis has exhibited her work internationally at the Visual Arts Galerie and 
ANIFEST International Animation Festival in Czech Republic, the Bread Factory 
Theater in Bonn, Germany and the Streaming Festival in The Hague, Netherlands, 
to name a few. She has a B.F.A. from School of Visual Arts in NYC and a M.A. 
from Visual Arts Academy in Prague, Czech Republic. Additionally, Agis runs her 
own creative consultancy firm, Forward Fokus. www.ForwardFokus.com

Printing by Billi Kid Brand | www.BilliKid.com
Curated by Lola Shepard | www.LolaShepard.com 

NYOC GALLERY  22 E. 30th St.  New York, NY 10016  
www.OpenCenter.org/Gallery

Music by:
Chill Carrier - A New Day

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