21c Museum Foundation Presents
Artist Talk with Anthony Goicolea
Thursday January 24, 2008
Informal Artist Talk 6pm
The event is free and open to the public
Atrium Gallery
We are excited to welcome Anthony Goicolea back to 21c Museum to discuss his more
recent body of work, The Septemberists Series and video currently
on display in Proof on Main and the 21c Video Lounge. Goicolea will also speak to
the excited new work to be showcased in the coming year at multiple venues across
the US, Europe and Asia. He will have solo exhibitions with Aurel Scheibler Gallery
in Berlin in March, then again in Vancouver with Monte Clark Gallery in April, then
in September an exhibition in LA with Sandroni Rey Gallery, then a show in NY with
Postmasters in November and lastly in February 2009 in Seoul, korea with Galerie
Hyundai. Also on the books for Anthony is a career survey in 2010 at the NC Museum
of Art.
The current exhibition of Goicolea’s The Septemberists, shot on location
on a Massachusetts farm, portrays a group of boys in a dream-like landscape reminiscent
of an old Southern plantation that chronicles the preparations and processes associated
with traditional ritualistic ceremonies. Similar to Goicolea’s earlier work, the
artist invites the viewer into his fantastical realms with images inspired by fairy
tales, mythology, adolescent rituals, and science fiction.
About the Artist
Born in 1971 in Atlanta, GA, Anthony Goicolea obtained a BA in Art History and a
BFA in Painting from the University of Georgia and received a MFA in Sculpture,
Minor in Photography from the Pratt Institute of Art. He was accepted into the “AIM”
program at the Bronx Museum of Art and has been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation
Fellowship, the 2005 BMW Photo Paris Award and the 2006 CINTAS Fellowship.
Goicolea lives and works in New York and exhibits in the US and overseas. Goicolea’s
work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, MOMA,
The Guggenheim, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, The ASU Museum of
Art, The Helmond and the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, The Herbert Johnson
Museum of Art at Cornell University, El Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla
in Leon, Spain, The Yale University Collection, and 21c Museum in Kentucky.
Works by the Artist in the 21c Museum Hotel and Proof on Main
- Ramp, 2006. Mixed media and sound. Commissioned for Calvin Klein Madison
Avenue 2006.
- The Septemberists, 2006. DVD video, running time 30 minutes.
- Deconstruction (from Almost Safe Series), 2007. Photograph mounted on aluminum.
- Poolpushers, 2001. C-print mounted on sintra.
- Ash Wednesday, 2001. C-print mounted on sintra.
- Tree Dwellers, 2005. C-print.
- Piss Boat, 2006. Mixed media on mylar.
- Fireside (from the Kidnap Series), 2004. C-print mounted on aluminum.
- Sleeping, 2006. C-print.
- The Tin Drum, 2006. C-print.
- Still Waters, 2006. C-print.
- Tryptich, 2006. C-print.
- Dyptich (Dissection Portraits), 2006. C-print.
- Greenhouse, 2006. C-print.