Artists Space

Station to Station

April 12 – May 24, 1997

Artists Space presents Station to Station in the Main Gallery, an exhibition of recent video artists from the New York area that explores the ephemeral connection between drawings and video. The nine artists in the exhibition include John Brattin, Dan Cooney, Ethan Crenson, Sam Easterson, Scott Gregory, Maura Jasper, Ann Kugler, Les LeVeque, and Kristin Lucas.

A black and white Polaroid of a swirl on a striped background. At the bottom of the image, black handwritten text reads, "John Brattin - Enamel/Foam Giant Lollippop 7
John Brattin, 1997. [A black and white Polaroid of a swirl on a striped background. At the bottom of the image, black handwritten text reads, "John Brattin - Enamel/Foam Giant Lollippop 7'H 3'Diam."]

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 12, 6 to 8 p.m.

Tony Oursler and Gary Simmons have drawn from the Artists File and their independent resources as arts school instructors to select artists whose work reflects their own interests - namely video and drawing. Station to Station mines the studios of nine New York area video artists to include a variety of objects such as drawings, notes and props as well as video. Through their inclusion of supplementary materials, Oursler and Simmons do not focus on the mechanics of the making of video, but follow the trace of ideas, chart ways of thinking. The installation of three 'stations' within the Main Gallery offers, in a very direct way, a view to the possibility for intimacy that is offered by both the medium of drawing and of video; drawing as a spontaneous, unmediated mark­-making and video as an ephemeral line in time.

April 17, 1997

"a common object has special powers..."
Performance
7pm

April 19, 1997

A Conversation with the Artists of Station to Station
Conversation
7pm

A corner of a room filled with ping pong balls set atop mousetraps. They are lit from the side by a fluorescent tube light.
Ethan Crenson, Fission, 1996. Mixed media installation. [A corner of a room filled with ping pong balls set atop mousetraps. They are lit from the side by a fluorescent tube light.]
Mousetraps on a wooden floor in motion, snapping to capture ping pong balls resting atop them.
Ethan Crenson, Fission, 1996. Mixed media installation. [Mousetraps on a wooden floor in motion, snapping to capture ping pong balls resting atop them.]
A black remote control with a red light pointing out of its head. Six insect-like legs are attached to the body of the remote, three on each side, and it is poised on the wall as if crawling.
Kristin Lucas, Social Climber, 1997. [A black remote control with a red light pointing out of its head. Six insect-like legs are attached to the body of the remote, three on each side, and it is poised on the wall as if crawling.]

Schwendener, Martha. "Station to Station." TimeOut New York. May 15-22, 1997. Issue 86. Print.

    A grainy image of a person's face in striped tones of blue, orange, pink, and green.
    Kristin Lucas, still from Cable Xcess, 1996. [A grainy image of a person's face in striped tones of blue, orange, pink, and green.]