In the wake of the noise and hubbub surrounding the annual art world pilgrimage to Art Basel Miami comes an exhibition with the expressed intention of inspiring visitors to slow down.

A Question of Slow features work by six emerging and mid-career artists, each of whom actively promotes slow art-making processes or slow, contemplative viewing practices. An outgrowth of the various “slow” movements of the past few decades – slow food, slow money – the slow art movement encourages a new understanding of the relationship between time and aesthetics.

The exhibition is divided between two rooms at Chelsea’s Skylight Gallery, an intimate, almost domestic space well suited to a project with this aim. Emerging artists Dan Durso and Sean Boggs both engage in a dialogue between organic form and human-made geometric technology. Durso’s 110-minute video is juxtaposed with Boggs’ slow-moving, kinetic sculpture.

Continuing the engagement of contemporary art with technology, Taney Roniger’s repetitive patterning is part of an ongoing project based on computer-generated forms known as cellular automata. The resulting works are a perfect complement to Jaanika Peerna’s wall-length drawings. Peerna, an Estonian native, has also curated shows centered around the themes of stillness and silence, most recently at the Masters and Pelavin Gallery in New York.

Yadir Quintana creates “portraits” over an extended period of time by placing panels of silver leaf within the living space of his “sitters.” The end result is a work that carries the marks and impressions of a real person in time and space. Rob Swainston, a print artist, describes his work as “fast and slow”: “The fast is the spontaneous, the urgent, and the feverish energy; the slow is calculated, meticulous and planned.” The resulting works are unique and complex. 

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Skylight Gallery

Slow Art Salon

Slow Art Day is the global all-volunteer event with a simple mission: help more people learn how to look at and love art.

Former StandPipe Gallery director, Alison Pierz, will host a Slow Art Day room at this year's Governors Island Art Fair. 

The room features an exhibition of works by some amazing artists:

Emily Adams
Colleen Blackard
Dana Crossan
Maude Martins
Hong Seon Jang &
Jannika Peerna

Treat yourself to a slow viewing experience, learn how you can host an event of your own and become involved in this international movement. 

The fair runs every Saturday and Sunday throughout September.

http://www.4heads.org/

http://www.slowartday.com/

StandPipe Director, Alison Pierz has launched a new blog addressing the contemporary Slow Art movement. The blog will feature information about Slow Art related exhibitions and interviews with artists. It also provides links to many other relevant resources. You're invited to visit and participate in the discussion. 

http://slowartsalon.com/