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Gabriela Vainsencher

 
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Production still, "Stadium Light", 2010, video

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I make mostly drawing on paper. When I work in different media, it is usually based on the drawings, fulfilling a function which the drawings cannot. (Murals and video are two examples.) My subjects can be roughly divided into two groups: Other people’s art and my daily life. Text appears often, blurring the line between concrete poetry, text drawings and illustration.
I am a Brooklyn-based artist, born in Argentina and raised in Israel. I have lived in the United States since summer 2005. I speak three languages and am a product of at least as many cultures.
I mention this here because I think these prosaic facts are imperative to understanding the way I work and the subjects I choose. Living in several cultures and languages at the same time means, for me, a fundamental interest in translation and displacement.

By ‘translation’ I mean the transportation of an experience from one person to another, using different means of representation, from 3D to 2D and back, using text to explain image and vice versa, placing one environment into/onto another.
Displacement is the inescapable origin and destination of all these activities. The more I try to translate, explain and represent my experience, the deeper the displacement I must perform on my subject.
Whether I am making a piece based on someone else’s art I saw in a museum, a conversation I had or an object which became important for me to portray, the intention is always the same- to mediate an experience I had to the viewer through a visual medium.
   

Gabriela Vainsencher

1982 born in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lives and works in Brooklyn, United States

Education

2005- Hamidrasha School of Art, Israel, B.Ed (Full excellence scholarship from the Ministry of Education)

2000 - The Artists Association, Tel Aviv, Painting

Grants

2012- Institut Français and Triangle Arts Association, residency grant

2011- Joan Mitchell Foundation, full support for residency at the Atlantic Center For the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

2011- Creative Capital and Artis Contemporary- full support for professional development workshop

2009- Williams College, Arthur Levitt Jr. Artist-in-residence (Fall Semester)

2009- La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada -International Artist Residency, January- February 2009 (in collaboration with Musee des Beaux Arts Quebec City)

2008- Artist in residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2012- Recession Art gallery, New York, NY, “Don’t Have No Colleague”

2009- The Unfinished Museum Tour- Quebec City, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada

2008- Working Title, WORK Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2007- I don’t care about documenta 12, Leif Magne Tangens, Skien, Norway

Group Exhibitions

2013
Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, NY (Two-Person show with Cynthia Roberts), upcoming

2012
Codex Dynamic, curated by Leo Kuelbs and John Ensor Parker, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
The Affordable Art Fair, RAC gallery, New York City
Fresh Paint (Tzeva Tari) art fair, The Greenhouse (emerging artists pavilion), Tel Aviv, Israel
Phaidon Publishing and Artis Contemporary, New York, NY, “Legends of Heartbreak and Epiphany in Tel Aviv” (a commissioned map, performance and online archive)
Parker’s Box Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “WNTRSLN#2”
Concrete Utopia, Brooklyn, NY, “Dona Nobis”

2011
NADA art fair, Miami Beach, FL, Artis Contemporary
Parker’s Box gallery, “Facetime #2- Gabriela Vainsencher and John Roach” (Two-person exhibition)
Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY “Irrational Exuberance” (a Recession Art exhibition)
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA and Cabinet magazine, Brooklyn, NY, “An exchange with Sol LeWitt”

2010
Triangle Arts Association Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Pierogi gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Flat files artist of the week”
2River View, The Summer Issue (publication)
The Work Office, New York, NY, “The Work Office Two”
Flux Factory, LIC, NY, “Housebroken”

2009
“True Stories True Success”, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
“Doubtful Lineage”, site-specific installation at the Russian Art Fair, London
“One after Another”, The National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canada
“Drive In III” (Two-woman show with Sarah Walko), WORK gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“A Dry Run”, Charlie Horse gallery, Brooklyn NY
Circa Magazine Video Screening, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany

2008
“Beyondo”, Sub Octo gallery, Philadelphia, PA
FUKT Magazine #7 (publication)
Circa Magazine Video Screening, Temple Bar gallery and studios Dublin, Ireland
“Representations of the Artist as an Intellectual”, D-21 gallery, Leipzig, Germany
“PAWNSHOP”, e-flux, 53 Ludlow Street, NY
“NYNYNY”, Flux Factory, LIC, NY

2007
“Notes on Places”, Kunsthalle Berlin Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany
The Flat Files- Pierogi gallery, Brooklyn NY
The Flat Files- Pierogi Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
“Vonnegut”, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn NY

2005
“Liga”, ‘Reading’ Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Projects

2012-ongoing
Morning Drawing Residency, curatorial project, morningdrawingresidency.com

2009 "Drive In", an outdoor video Installation for WORK gallery, Brooklyn, NY, IN collaboration with Sarah Walko

2008 "Some Sort of Literary Analysis, 50 Minute Session", collaboration/performance with Eve K. Tremblay for the show "Becoming Fahrenheit 451", BUIA gallery, Chelsea, NYC

Links

www.gabrielavainsencher.com
www.morningdrawing.com

   

Gabriela Vainsencher

Brooklyn

gabrielav@gmail.com

   





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