Abby Manock: Santa and the City of Now
Opening Performance October 21st 2011 5pm-8pm at Shelburne Art Center
Expanding and contracting Artist Abby Manock has exhibited across the U.S. and internationally, including New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Miami, Mexico, Connecticut, Boston, and most recently, El Salvador. When not traveling with her shows, Manock splits her time between Burlington, VT and Brooklyn, NY, where she is an adjunct drawing professor at Columbia University.
Now she is on her way to Shelburne. Manock has set up a fall residency at the Shelburne Art Center. For their part, the Center is crafting a space for Manock, in a room dubbed the “Fish Bowl” due to its span of mosaic-lined windows facing the Center’s courtyard. “We had the idea that students and visitors can watch Abby as she works,” notes Executive Director Sage Tucker-Ketcham regarding the choice of studio. The design for Manock’s work is spontaneous and expansive, and incorporates re-purposed objects, like cardboard, among others, respectfully. Manock’s style ranges from drawings and sculptures to large-scale, interactive, and game-like performance projects that encourage viewer’s participation and collaboration.
Abby Manock received her MFA from Columbia University in 2007. Her drawings and sculpture have been included in select exhibitions in New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and most recently at MARTE Contemporáneo in San Salvador, El Salvador. Her large scale, interactive and game-like performative projects have been showcased by the Deitch Projects Art Parade in NYC in 2006, Performagia 2008 in Mexico City, the William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT, as well as several major concert venues across the US. She has lectured at the Art Center of South Florida, Bowdoin College, and the University of Connecticut.
Manock’s style ranges from drawings and sculptures to large-scale, interactive, and game-like performance projects that encourage viewer’s participation and collaboration.
