From Istanbul to New York City

First exhibited in Istanbul Turkey at the Pera Museum, Octet: Codes and Contexts in Recent Art will be on display at the Visual Arts Gallery at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, located at 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor, New York, NY 10001. The exhibition features a work by Brooklyn artist Taney Roniger whose Stones and Cipher series that juxtaposes organic and mechanical, natural and artificial environments was the basis for an exhibition last March at Slate Gallery.

The exhibition will be on view from November 24 - December 23, 2009
The opening reception will be on Thursday, December 3, 2009, 6-8pm.

From the exhibition webpage:
"Octet: Codes and Contexts in Recent Art," curated by BFA Fine Arts Department Chair Suzanne Anker and faculty member Peter Hristoff, is a survey of 111 works by 66 artists from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), offering a multi-generational response to current trends in contemporary artistic practice. The selected works reflect the preponderance of available influences in a global, media-driven society, where technology allows for instantaneous transmission of culture and access to an enormous data bank of shared images and ideas. Suzanne Anker explains, "In our global world where the familiar can seem foreign and the foreign sometimes overtly familiar, borders have become exceedingly porous between cultures and communities. 'Octet' presents an amalgam of stylistic concerns as a way to present the dynamic flow of advancing patterns within the visual arts."

"Octet" is divided into eight thematic sections: Word and Image; Identity and Identity Politics; Post Pop Art and Tabloid Culture; The Corporeal and Divine; Material Matters; Narrative Imperatives; World Dramas; and Relational Aesthetics."

About Taney Roniger's work:
"Word and Image examines visual articulations of language, as in Stephen Ellis's They Feed the Lion, an interpretation of the last stanza of a poem by Philip Levine, and Taney Roniger's Stone Series (Scroll), which explores the commonalities of organic forms and digital language"


Taney Roniger
Stone Series (Scroll), 2007
Oil on polymer on canvas
70 x 30 x 2 inches