Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Art Winner of Top DUMBO Arts Festival Prize Gets Free Studio for a Year
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Last year Capone had another blooming large-scale video installation, "Camera Rosetum," in the Manhattan Bridge Archway. Capone also gets the $1,000 for best outdoor public artwork.
Seth Wulsin, who took best indoor public artwork, had pieces a little all over the festival, including his studio at Smack Mellon, the loading dock at 45 Main Street, and the raw ground floor space at 81 Front Street. The layered screens with paint in his Animas series create ghostly optical illusions, sculptural objects that become distorted and disappear from oblique angles.
The $1,000 prize for best open studio was split between Anne Gilman and Dana Levy. Gilman creates drawings, books and works on paper in her studio at 68 Jay Street. Levy, whose studio isn't listed anywhere in festival programs but whatever, works in video, photography, installation and performance, and was also seen this summer in the Lush Life exhibition on the Lower East Side with her piece Silent Among Us, in which dozens of pigeons flied around amid taxidermy animals in a natural history museum. Checks for prize money have been handed out by Two Trees Management, though the location of the space they're going to give to Capone for the year has yet to be announced. (BK Eagle)
Photo credits: Jane Kratochvil, Seth Wulsin
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