Clifton Childree
Niaga-Rag Follies
A Hallwalls Artist In Residence Project
Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 8-11 p.m.
Artist's Talk at 8:00 p.m.
Miami artist Clifton Childree has described himself as an analog artist in a digital age and for his residency project at Hallwalls, Childree has drawn upon specific tangents of Buffalo's regional landscape and cultural history. Springboarding from a venue still located in Niagara Falls, NY, Childree will recreate in the Hallwalls Gallery what appears to be a wax museum historical display that removes the conventional subject matter of the Falls and replaces that with an evocative history of QRS Music Rolls, a historical player piano roll company still located in Buffalo, NY. Waterfalls will be replaced by projected piano rolls, set amid a didactic mise en scènethat will also include recreated historical photos and news reels, and will replace the suicidal allure of the Falls with an adictive obsession for karaoke.
Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 8-11 p.m.
Artist's Talk at 8:00 p.m.
Miami artist Clifton Childree has described himself as an analog artist in a digital age and for his residency project at Hallwalls, Childree has drawn upon specific tangents of Buffalo's regional landscape and cultural history. Springboarding from a venue still located in Niagara Falls, NY, Childree will recreate in the Hallwalls Gallery what appears to be a wax museum historical display that removes the conventional subject matter of the Falls and replaces that with an evocative history of QRS Music Rolls, a historical player piano roll company still located in Buffalo, NY. Waterfalls will be replaced by projected piano rolls, set amid a didactic mise en scènethat will also include recreated historical photos and news reels, and will replace the suicidal allure of the Falls with an adictive obsession for karaoke.
The creation of this new work and its exhibition in the gallery in fall 2013 are supported by a major grant for HARP from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
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