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  • Name
    David Goldes
  • Title
    Library New Acquisitions Night + Electricities Book Launch
  • Category
    Book Launch, Library Event
  • Date
    Dec 6, 2017
  • Time
    6:00 – 8:00 pm
  • Location
    Midway Contemporary Art (527 SE Second Ave)
  • Description

    Join us in Midway’s Library next Wednesday, December 6th to peruse some of our most recent library acquisitions, including a number of books on artist Hans Peter Feldman, new titles from RAM Publications, and David Goldes’ new book Electricities. Goldes will be present with copies of his book available for purchase.

    About Electricities
    To investigate and build on our historical understanding into the nature of electricity, Goldes constructs and photographs what he calls “performing still lifes”. Uniting the strategies of art and science, his visually rigorous images reveal a mechanistic understanding of electricity in dialogue with the viewer’s subjectivities that can expand, build upon, and seemingly contradict such explanations. Texts include a conversation with noted writer, curator and artist, David Campany and a commentary by Kay Ryan, former U.S. Poet Laureate.

    Goldes is a visual artist working primarily in photography, with forays into drawing, sculpture, and video. His work is included in collections at MOMA, Walker Art Center, Bibliotheque Nationale, Centre Pompidou, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Goldes has received numerous fellowships including those from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Educated in the sciences and arts, Goldes received an M.A. from Harvard University in Molecular Genetics and an M.F.A. from the Visual Studies Workshop. His work is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, where he has an exhibition of drawings and photographs opening on December 14th.