Trisha Brown: It’s a Draw/Live Feed
March 15, 2003 - April 19, 2003
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World renowned choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown made a rare solo appearance at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) March 15 and 16, 2003, presenting the U.S. premiere of It’s a Draw/Live Feed. This work brought together drawing, movement, music and video. Brown improvises a series of large-scale drawings with charcoal, pastel and paper, while her activities are presented to the audience as a live feed video. These drawings -- the latest in a series of large scale graphic works by Ms. Brown -- are at The Fabric Workshop until April 19, 2003. The event was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art Department of Modern & Contemporary Art in collaboration with the FWM.
Since the beginning of her career in the 1970s, drawing has been part of Brown’s working process as an artist. She has used movement to generate graphic works and used drawing to catalyze movement. Although Brown has previously exhibited her drawings in America and Europe, this will be the first time that she makes monumental drawings in a public context, transforming the process itself into a performance. With paper
located on the floor and charcoal and pastel held by hands as well as feet, Brown utilizes a movement vocabulary that she has perfected over four decades as a dancer, choreographer, and opera director. The drawings intimately reflect the dancer’s experience of her athletic body in motion, and record the subtle activities of a master mover, who works, as she says, "between muscle, music and muse." Made by the synthesis of drawing and dance, dancing and drawing, these graphic works will be installed in the gallery during the performance and remain on view.
Trisha Brown, It's a Draw/Live Feed, 2003. Performance still from The Fabric Workshop and Museum, March 16, 2003. Photo: Aaron Igler | |
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Trisha Brown emerged from a moment of intense artistic cross-fertilization in the 1960s. Embracing everyday movement rather than stylized forms, she performed in the alternative spaces of Greenwich Village and SoHo -- as well as on rooftops and literally on museum walls -- developing a signature movement vocabulary. Her recent highly celebrated work is an extension of the remarkably interdisciplinary and collaborative approach that has characterized her career.
Born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1936, Trisha Brown was an original member of the Judson Church, and founded the internationally acclaimed Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970. She has spent her life working at the crossroads of dance, performance and visual art, collaborating with sculptors, painters and filmmakers. An exhibition celebrating these achievements was organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art in September 2002. Brown is the first female choreographer to receive a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1991), and she has been recognized both by the National Endowment for the Arts, and The John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1975; 1984). In 1988, the French government named her "Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des lettres," and in 2000, she was elevated to "Officier dans l’ordre des Arts et des letters."
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Trisha Brown, It's a Draw/Live Feed, 2003. Performance still from The Fabric Workshop and Museum, March 16, 2003. Photo: Aaron Igler |
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The Fabric Workshop and Museum is the only contemporary art museum in the United States devoted to creating new work in fabric and other materials in collaboration with emerging and established artists from around the world. Founded in 1977, The Fabric Workshop and Museum has developed from an ambitious experiment to a renowned institution with a widely recognized residency program, an extensive collection of work by resident artists, in-house and touring exhibitions, and comprehensive educational programming that includes lectures, tours, in-school presentations, and student apprenticeships. All FWM exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.
The exhibition program of The Fabric Workshop and Museum is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, LLWW Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Independence Foundation, The Claneil Foundation, Philip Morris Companies, the Miller-Plummer Foundation, The Barra Foundation, and the Board of Directors and members of The Fabric Workshop and Museum.
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