Transmitter / TSA NY present two offsite exhibitions at Space Available: Video Archipelago and World is New

TSA presents World is New
Curated by Yin Ho and Andrew Prayzner
September 19 - October 25, 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 19th, 6-9pm

On view each Saturday evening, 6-8 pm
Closing Receptions: Saturday, October 25th, 3-6pm

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TSA is pleased to present an off-site exhibition of moving image with our sister gallery, Transmitter. World is New,  curated by Yin Ho and Andrew Prayzner for TSA, features the work of Lawrence Mesich, Nicholas O'Brien, Andrea Wolf and Brian Zegeer.

Four artists show four distinct takes on place through random memory, politics, the banking system, and landscape. The results are moving images lived directly through sculptural video, projection, and screen-based experience.

Lawrence Mesich was born in Nashville, TN and raised in Chattanooga, TN. His fascination with and exploration of the spaces created by Chattanooga’s rapid development and abandoned industrial infrastructure formed a life-long interest in the dialogue between bodies, behavior, and architecture. He received his BFA with a concentration in Video and Performance from SUNY Purchase in 1999, and received his MFA in Digital Media and Performance from Stony Brook University in 2005. Lawrence currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Queens, NY, respectively. His piece, Distributed Risk, was made possible in part by the Queens Art Fund from the Queens Council on the Arts.

Nicholas O’Brien is a net-based artist, curator, and writer. His work has exhibited in Mexico City, Berlin, London, Dublin, Italy, Prague, as well as throughout the US. He has been the recipient of a Turbulence Commission funded by the NEA and has curated exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, 319 Scholes, and Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. As a contributor to Rhizome at the New Museum, SFAQ, and Bad at Sports, he has been recently recognized as a leading voice within contemporary art by Art F City, PULSE art fair, and Artsy. His work has also appeared or featured in ARTINFO, The Brooklyn Rail, DIS magazine, Frieze d/e, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. He currently lives in Brooklyn and is Assistant Professor in 3D Design and Game Development at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Andrea Wolf is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist from Chile. Her work consists of ongoing research on the relation between personal memory and cultural practices of remembering. Andrea creates multimedia installations that explore our mediated process of remembering and forgetting.

Wolf holds MFAs in Documentary Filmmaking (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) and Digital Arts (Universidad Pompeu Fabra), and a MPA in Interactive Telecommunications (NYU). She was a resident of the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum in 2013, an artist in residency at the IFP New York Media Center in 2015, and is currently a full-time member of New Inc at the New Museum. Wolf has shown her work and given lectures and workshops widely in NY and internationally. Andrea is also founder and director of REVERSE, a non-profit workspace and art gallery in Brooklyn.

Brian Zegeer makes mixed-media animations. He is currently an artist-in-residence at the Queens Museum, where he is staging the Little Syria Archive, a collection of historical artifacts, stereoscopic 3D animations, and public encounters transcribing the history and notable luminaries of New York’s first Arabic enclave. Zegeer received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, attended Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting in 2010, and has recently shown at The Queens Museum, The Bronx Museum of Art, The Delaware Art Museum, The Jersey City Museum, Louis V. ESP, Regina Rex, Elga Wimmer Gallery, and Stephan Stoyanov Gallery.