arrangements

arrangements | intersections | cause & effect | installations | non-objective objects | shadow projection

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Richard Beenen is an artist and photographer based in New York City who has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums including: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma, White Columns/NYC, Los Angeles County Museum, Space Gallery / LA, and the Newport Harbor Art Museum. His projects have received funding from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Pollack Krasner Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS



My videos are part of an ongoing series entitled "Arrangements" where inanimate objects become animated in a playful arrangement of color, sound, space and time. "Tiger Tails" (2min 40 sec) has a repetition of sound that sets a humorous tone while suggesting more serious questions of captivity and extinction.



"Orbit" (3min 40 sec.) is an irreverent comment on the future and purpose of manned space travel. The piece is a whimsical installation, shot on video, that demonstrates the physics of propulsion, energy, rotation, and inertia--which in this case are all dependent on a simple wall plug as a source of power. The hair dryer, an article of vanity, acts as a jet engine causing the installation to rotate. After spinning numerous times, the piece becomes entangled in itself, thus, shutting itself off, allowing it to free spin as a pendulum. The sound of an ambulance is heard in the background suggesting impending disaster.



"Waterline" (spare)2004 (2min 55sec ) is my latest video an outdoor installation piece comprising lines of color interrupted suddenly by one decisive gesture.



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Waterline (spare)

Tiger Tails has been shown at the following venues:

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Brooklyn International Film Festival 2002
Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma 2003
Calagary International Film Festival 2003
Viper Basel: International Festival for Film & Video, Switzerland 2003
Les Recontres Audiovisuelles 2004 in Lille, France
Courtisane Festival for Short Film & Video 2004, Ghent, Belguim
Eksperimentalni Film U TUSKANCU, Art & Cinema 2006, Croatia



Selected Grants / Fellowships / Exhibitions

National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Photography
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Pollack Krasner Foundation Fellowship, Painting
Artist Fellowship, Inc., Photography
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship
Richard/Bennett Gallery, Retro Future, Los Angeles
White Columns, About Devices, NYC
Los Angeles County Museum, Series
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Art Connection, CA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Contemporary Museum of Art, Rome

New York Foundation for The Arts

NYC



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