Date: Ongoing from October 9, 2012 through November 18, 2012. See details for exact dates and times.
Location: Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery
The Department of Art & Art History presents Sounding Board on view October 9 to November 18, with a reception on October 11, 5:30-8:30 PM, at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery. This solo exhibition by Terry Berlier combines a new on-site installation with four sculptures produced in residencies over the past year. The new installation, This Side Up, Handle With Care, transforms Berlier’s actual home into a precisely half size wooden frame model that is half right side up and half upside down. Twisting the home in the middle to create a vortex, the walls made from instrument strings create an opportunity for the home to be played. Berlier’s concerns with environmental politics led her to a four-month residency at Recology, a resource recovery in San Francisco geared toward innovative approach to waste reduction. She produced three works that were made entirely from domestic and commercial garbage that she hand picked. Homespun turns wooden domestic architectural pieces into a continuous spiral in which their form becomes trace remains of a collapsed home. This work refers to the high volume of waste associated with home construction, recent foreclosures, and the instability of the “American Dream.” A sound piece, Acoustic Locator, is based on devices used by the military in WWI to detect aircrafts. The horns give both acoustic gain and directionality, and with the increased spacing combined with human ears, this work allows the audience to have listening responses to other sound works. Where the Beginning Meets the End, another sound piece, reconfigures a piano into a circular group-playing device, using materials salvaged from a San Francisco dump including a working iBook computer, upright piano, Dell computer keyboard micro-controller, and discarded wood. When Comes the Sun, created while in residency in Trondheim, Norway, explores Berlier’s ongoing interests in natural time recorders, environmental concerns, and kinetics using new materials like solar technology. This sculpture plucks an acoustic version of Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles that is timed by the amount of sun powering the piece and pacing the song in what appears to be a random timing, but is actually in tandem with the day. Berlier has exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally including the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, Allcott Gallery at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Richard L. Nelson Gallery in Davis CA, Center for Contemporary Art in Sacramento, Kala Art Institute Gallery in Berkeley, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Babel Gallery in Norway, Natural Balance in Girona, Spain, and FemArt Mostra D’Art De Dones in Barcelona, Spain. She has received numerous residencies and grants including the Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) in Norway, Zellerbach Foundation Berkeley, Recology San Francisco, Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Fellowship, Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest Hungary, Exploratorium: Museum of Science, Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Fellowship, and California Council for Humanities California Stories Fund, among others. Berlier received her Masters in Fine Arts in Studio Art from University of California, Davis. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University where she teaches sculpture based courses and MFA graduate seminars. VISITOR INFORMATION: Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 AM–5 PM, and Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 PM. Admission is free. The Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall. Parking is free after 4 PM and all day on weekends.
Location: Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery
The Department of Art & Art History presents Sounding Board on view October 9 to November 18, with a reception on October 11, 5:30-8:30 PM, at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery. This solo exhibition by Terry Berlier combines a new on-site installation with four sculptures produced in residencies over the past year. The new installation, This Side Up, Handle With Care, transforms Berlier’s actual home into a precisely half size wooden frame model that is half right side up and half upside down. Twisting the home in the middle to create a vortex, the walls made from instrument strings create an opportunity for the home to be played. Berlier’s concerns with environmental politics led her to a four-month residency at Recology, a resource recovery in San Francisco geared toward innovative approach to waste reduction. She produced three works that were made entirely from domestic and commercial garbage that she hand picked. Homespun turns wooden domestic architectural pieces into a continuous spiral in which their form becomes trace remains of a collapsed home. This work refers to the high volume of waste associated with home construction, recent foreclosures, and the instability of the “American Dream.” A sound piece, Acoustic Locator, is based on devices used by the military in WWI to detect aircrafts. The horns give both acoustic gain and directionality, and with the increased spacing combined with human ears, this work allows the audience to have listening responses to other sound works. Where the Beginning Meets the End, another sound piece, reconfigures a piano into a circular group-playing device, using materials salvaged from a San Francisco dump including a working iBook computer, upright piano, Dell computer keyboard micro-controller, and discarded wood. When Comes the Sun, created while in residency in Trondheim, Norway, explores Berlier’s ongoing interests in natural time recorders, environmental concerns, and kinetics using new materials like solar technology. This sculpture plucks an acoustic version of Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles that is timed by the amount of sun powering the piece and pacing the song in what appears to be a random timing, but is actually in tandem with the day. Berlier has exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally including the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, Allcott Gallery at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Richard L. Nelson Gallery in Davis CA, Center for Contemporary Art in Sacramento, Kala Art Institute Gallery in Berkeley, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Babel Gallery in Norway, Natural Balance in Girona, Spain, and FemArt Mostra D’Art De Dones in Barcelona, Spain. She has received numerous residencies and grants including the Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) in Norway, Zellerbach Foundation Berkeley, Recology San Francisco, Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Fellowship, Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest Hungary, Exploratorium: Museum of Science, Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Fellowship, and California Council for Humanities California Stories Fund, among others. Berlier received her Masters in Fine Arts in Studio Art from University of California, Davis. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University where she teaches sculpture based courses and MFA graduate seminars. VISITOR INFORMATION: Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 AM–5 PM, and Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 PM. Admission is free. The Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall. Parking is free after 4 PM and all day on weekends.