Conversations @ 11
Friday, Oct. 17, 11 a.m. – Artist Nadia Hironaka
Opening Reception
Friday, Oct. 17, 7-9 p.m.
NADIA HIRONAKA: The Late Show
In her multi-channel video installation, The Late Show, Nadia Hironaka expands the cinematic experience into the realm of the gallery environment. Synthesizing video projection, videos on monitors and audio, Hironaka entices the viewer to imagine characters leaving the confines of the projected image and entering the real space of the gallery. Using an abandoned drive-in movie theater as her point of departure to examine the convergence of cinematic and real space, Hironaka also asks us to reflect on how mood and emotion are constructed within the context of film.
About the artist
Nadia Hironaka currently lives in Philadelphia. She is currently teaching full time at The Maryland Institute College of Art, in the Video Department and did her undergraduate studies at The University of the Arts, Penn. (’97). She went on to earn an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (’99). Hironaka’s work has recently exhibited at the following venues: Vox Populi, Philadelphia (solo); The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (solo); Caracas Museum of Art, Caracas, Venezuela; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; Art Space, Richmond, Virginia; Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia; The Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, Vermont; and was included in the 2001 ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
Organized by John Spiak, ASU Art Museum Curator, The Late Show will be installed in the Arizona State University Art Museum’s Nelson Fine Arts Center location.
Nadia Hironaka: The Late Show, organized by curator John Spiak, is an ASU Art Museum Moving Targets initiative. Support for this exhibition provided by the ASU Art Museum Advisory Board, the FUNd at Arizona State University and the Friends of the ASU Art Museum. In-kind support provided by Executive Flooring Systems, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona.
Duration
The Late Show (October 18, 2008 – January 25, 2009) is open at the ASU Art Museum: Tuesday, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. (summer hours: Tuesday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.); Wednesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; Closed Monday and holidays
More information: John Spiak, spiak@asu.edu.
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