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Picture ShowWith a background in computer science and philosophy, it is not surprising that Hollingerboasts several inventions, including a patented method for enlarging photographs, a softwareapplication for designing and printing flipbooks, and an aerodynamic rain umbrella.Hollinger’s recent exhibitions include Flights of Fancy at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury,MA; Collision Collective/ Ocho and Chance at Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA; In Nature’sCompany at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; and the 2003 DeCordova AnnualExhibition, Lincoln, MA. His work is also currently featured in the exhibition It’s Alive: A Laboratoryof Biotech Art at Montserrat College of Art (through April 7). Hollinger is representedby Chase Gallery in Boston.olivia RobinsonTroy, NYOlivia Robinson is a weaver and digital artist who employs photography, video, sculpture,multimedia, and circuitry. Her work is primarily concerned with facilitating interaction andposing the question of how art functions as a vehicle for communication and closeness.She places the viewers in control by allowing them to control the pace or outcome of apresented narrative. In Imbalanced Ambivalence, an antique box holds a small video screensurrounded by green velvet. Akin to a mutoscope or flipbook machine, we dictate the paceof the video using a small crank and are treated to a voyeuristic scene of a nurse and herpatient. Other pieces look to more recent popular visual culture for inspiration. Inside & Outis a high-tech version of a magic eight ball encased in a crocheted sock. When shaken, thestory literally breaks apart visually and metaphorically, and then begins anew.After earning her BFA in fiber art from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore,Robinson received a MFA in electronic art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NYin 2004. She has been awarded several residency and research fellowships and held artistresidencies at the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT; the Atlantic Centerfor the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, and in India. Her exhibition and performance recordincludes the Regional Triennial and Play at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock,NY; Performa 05 at PS1, Queens, NY; and the 2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival,among others. She serves as Coordinator and Instructor for Be the Media Workshops at TheSanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY.Erica von SchilgenJamaica Plain, MAOlivia Robinson, Inside & Out, 2004, Mixed Media:computer, sensors, LCD screen, wood, yarn, cloth,metal, Courtesy of the artistOlivia Robinson, Imbalanced Ambivalence, 2004,Mixed Media: computer, sensors, LCD screen, wood,cloth, metal, and video still,Courtesy of the artistErica von Schilgen, Mon Petit Espace,2005, mixed media, 17 x 33 inches,Courtesy of the artistErica von Schilgen, Pulling Pears from thePond, 2006, mixed media, 31 x 35 inches, Courtesyof the artistErica von Schilgen has always taken things apart and tried to figure out how they worked.She continues today to collect old photographs, reproductions, and objects of family historyand uses these along with cranks, pulleys, and music boxes in her art. Her sculptures, sheexplains, are “playful inventions, delightful toy machines” with a touch of whimsy, “but alsohave an underlying sense of melancholy and nostalgia.” In Mon Petit Espace, for example,an old printer’s drawer comes to life when a hand crank animates tiny doll images in variouscompartments. The small marionettes (the visage of von Schilgen as a child is a reoccurringelement in her work) bring to mind stop-motion animation and awkwardly move as if bycue to the music box of “As Time Goes By.” After pushing a small button, Pulling Pears bythe Pond transports us to a pastel-colored world in a fanciful take on Victorian collages andfairytales. Also on display are two other pieces with resonating titles such as I’m Not a ChildAnymore and Always, Just Beyond Reach.
Picture ShowVon Schilgen received her BFA in sculpture in 2002 from Massachusetts College of Art,where she was the International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Nominee twice. Therecipient of numerous awards and a member of the Collision Collective, she has shownat the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA; Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College,Wellesley, MA; Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA; and the unique, roving gallery, Art House.A past assistant to artist and Revolving Museum director Jerry Beck, she currently owns acustom-made clothing and handbag company, Vonica Designs.Deb Todd WheelerNewton, MADeb Todd Wheeler is a self-described sculptor, inventor, and media artist. Most recently shehas been investigating human power and energy sustainability via installation work that referenceseverything from early experiments in flight to the 1964 World’s Fair and Biosphere2. As Wheeler avows in her statement: “I use technology to view and examine the naturalworld + I use the natural world to view and examine technology.” From her recent Live Experimentsin Human Energy Exchange at the former Green Street Gallery, she has adapted ahand-cranked wheel to produce optical effects. Also on display is a giant animation devicefrom her cabinet of curiosity-inspired installation Ludicrum: naturalia, artifcialia, scientifica,featuring images of a wire flying apparatus. Visitors can turn what amounts to a super-sizedphenakistoscope to animate this new sequence of stills. In keeping with our theme, shereminds us that “the title Ludicrum refers not only to its Latin definition (of or relating to playof playfulness), but to its closeness in association to ludicrous, a journey into the absurd.”Erica von Schilgen, Mon Petit Espace, 2005,mixed media, 17 x 33 inches, Courtesy of the artistDeb Todd Wheeler, Ludicrum: naturalia, artificialia,scientific v.4, 2002-present, materials include steel,brass, lenses, wood, dimension variable, Courtesyof the artist. Photo credit John Horner.
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