San Francisco, CA: In partnership with ZeroOne Festival San Jose and ISEA Symposium 2006 (Inter-Society for
Electronic Arts), Catharine Clark Gallery presents solo exhibitions of sound and video installation by Ed Osborn,
installation and video by Nina Katchadourian. A reception for the artists is Thursday, August 3, 5:30 – 7:30pm.
Nina Katchadourian’s work explores concepts of translation and lineage. Accent Elimination, a six channel video installation in the project room, presents Katchadourian and her parents as they pursue ‘accent elimination’ under the tutelage of a linguistics coach. Genealogy of the Supermarket, a large mixed media installation, humorously depicts a family tree based on imagined relationships between popular grocery store product character icons, such Mrs. Butterworth and Mr. Clean. Katchadourian has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at institutions such as Serpentine Gallery (London, United Kingdom), Turku Art Museum (Turku, Finland), and Art Pace Foundation for Contemporary Art (San Antonio, Texas), among others. This year she has collaborated with the Public Art Fund (New York, New York) to present solo projects throughout Manhattan. She holds a Bachelors of Art from Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island), a Masters of Fine Arts from University
of California, San Diego (San Diego, California), and is an alumnus of Whitney Museum of American Art
Independent Study Program. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Ed Osborn’s installations Wandering Eye Studies, Transit, and The Cline Series all examine notions of movement through sound and video. The Cline Series, the title of which refers to the graded sequence of differences within a species, is a series of metal speakers that exhibit multiple permutations of simple organic forms. Transit, a two channel video installation, follows the daily routine activity of a boat lift in East Germany. The quietly remarkable ability to shift the course of massive boats weighing hundreds of tons reflects Osborn’s interest in the effects of small changes on a gigantic scale. Wandering Eye is an interactive, multi-channel video installation that generates live images from video output gathered from multiple cameras. The Wandering Eye Studies, displayed in this
exhibition, present artifacts from the development of the project. An annotated, interactive version of Wandering Eye will be presented simultaneous to this exhibition at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (San Jose, California), in conjunction with ZeroOne San Jose and ISEA Symposium 2006. Ed Osborn has exhibited extensively nationally and abroad, with solo exhibitions at Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia), Museum of Applied Arts (Helsinki, Finland), and University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley,California). He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and D. A. A. D. Fellowships, and has participated in artist residencies at Kunsthochschule für Media (Cologne, Germany) and Christchurch Polytechnic Institute (Christchurch, New Zealand), among others. He lives and works in Santa Cruz, California.
