Loss for Words: BAM NextWave Festival Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
This group exhibition examines a basic shift in our culture, from one in which we communicate with text-based language to one in which the image is the dominant tool of expression. Corey Escoto, Andy Meerow, Siebren Versteeg, Hayal Pozanti, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and Kim Schoen.
Sara Greenberger Rafferty employs the tactics and tools of advertising in a photo-installation adorning the doorways and arches of the Peter Jay Sharp Building lobby. In responding to the architecture’s theatricality, she creates a visual syntax from stock imagery of eyes, dresses, and shirts. Rafferty also created the cover of the 2017 Next Wave Festival BAMbill as a printed artwork that explores media culture, performance, and comedy.
As the BAMbill Cover Artist for the 35th anniversary of the Next Wave Festival, Rafferty has taken a new and unique approach to the historical program. She has created a custom artist’s cover titled, The Comedian’s Costume, which is available for free to anyone attending a BAM performance this season.
As an accompaniment, Rafferty’s original work, DC Dress (2016-2017) is on view in the and available for sale to benefit BAM’s programs. Rafferty created this work by printing a tiled version of a dress with eyes onto clear acetate film until the ink ran out of the machine, encasing the prints with acrylic paint, and mounting the result to Plexiglas. The piece hangs on the wall with a cadre of custom-painted screws that become part of the work.
