Atelier Czerny presents: Wura Natasha Ogunji - Love For Sale
Exhibition Description
For its inaugural exhibition, Atelier Czerny presents Wura-Natasha Ogunji's Love for Sale, a series of paintings which use art, fashion, and film magazines as their starting point. With this new body of work, Ogunji set rules to guide her process: just show up to the studio - no planning; nothing that takes too much time; even if you see the mistakes, you don't care; boredom is a source; impermanence is welcome (fleeting but lasting); does not require attention to detail; without meaning or originality; lack of precision; and more humor!Love for Sale runs from August 2-24 and is open Saturdays from 10:00a-4:00pm, or by appointment.
Artist Biography
Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her works include, paintings, videos and public performances. She is deeply inspired by the daily interactions and frequencies that occur in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, where she currently lives. Ogunji's performances explore the presence of women in public space; these often include investigations of labor, leisure, freedom and frivolity.Recent exhibitions include A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern, 2024; rīvus, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, 2022; Diaspora at Home, Kadist Foundation, Paris, 2021; and The Power of My Hands: Afrique(s) artistes femmes, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 2021. Ogunji was an Artist-Curator for the 33rd São Paulo Bienal where her large-scale performance Days of Being Free premiered. She has also exhibited at: Palais de Tokyo; The Sydney Biennial; The Lagos Biennial; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Stellenbosch Triennale; Seattle Art Museum; Brooklyn Art Museum; and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. Ogunji is a recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and has received grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation; The Dallas Museum of Art; and the Idea Fund.
Ogunji's works are in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; International African American Museum Charleston; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; North Dakota Museum of Art; The University of Texas at Austin; Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College; and Kadist Foundation.
She has a BA from Stanford University (1992, Anthropology) and an MFA from San Jose State University (1998, Photography). She resides in Lagos where she is founder of the experimental art space The Treehouse.
Contact: Atelier Czerny
aaronczerny@gmail.com
505-288-6766Artist Website: www.wuraogunji.com
Interview/article
Nahr Art Residency
Italian Exhibition August/September 2020
Italian Exhibition October/November 2019
Galleria Valeria Lattanzi (Carrara Italy) is proud to announce the solo exhibition of multidisciplinary artist Orso Czerny titled Sentieri di carte – a series of artworks on paper which examine migration and movement and the processes and forms of the creation of language, experience and expression during times of transition and transformation.
This selection of a larger body of work created from 1995 to present during Czerny’s travels in Japan, Europe (Italy, Germany, Austria, the eastern-bloc countries), and America, is being shown for the first time. The exhibit is contextualized as a mini-retrospective of a foundational aspect of the artists multidisciplinary praxis.
The work addresses the questions:
how do we navigate place in relation to other and self, body and space, thought and action – how do we choose to cross borders/boundaries - how do we create or transform those very modes of perceiving and change our own and other’s in the process – and how do we create and leave “paper trails” internally and externally through a praxis of liminality – marking and mapping our experiences ceremonially, memorially (mentally), physically and spiritually within the context of past, present and future.Opening reception October 19th 6 p.m. Exhibit runs thru December 6th 2019.
La Galleria Valeria Lattanzi (Carrara) è orgogliosa di annunciare la mostra personale dell’artista multidisciplinare Orso Czerny dal titolo Sentieri di carte – una serie di opere d’arte su carta che prendono in esame la migrazione, il movimento e i processi e le forme delle creazione del linguaggio, dell’esperienza e dell’espressione in tempi di transizione e trasformazione.
Questa selezione di un corpo di lavoro più ampio, creato dal 1995 ad oggi durante i viaggi di Czerny in Giappone, Europa (Italia, Germania, Austria e i paesi dell’ex blocco dell’est) ed America, sta per essere mostrato per la prima volta. La mostra è contestualizzata come una mini-retrospettiva di un aspetto basilare della prassi multidisciplinare dell’artista.
Il lavoro affronta le questioni:
come possiamo navigare attraverso i luoghi in relazione agli altri e a noi stessi – il corpo e lo spazio – pensiero e azione – come scegliamo di oltrepassare confini e limiti – come creiamo o trasformiamo quei modi di percepire e cambiamo i nostri e quelli dell’altro durante il processo – come creiamo e lasciamo sentieri di carte internamente ed esternamente attraverso una prassi di marginalità – demarcazione e mappatura delle nostre esperienze in forma solenne, a livello mentale, fisico e spirituale in un contesto che abbraccia il nostro passato, presente e futuro.Opening 19th Ottobre h 18:00. Mostra fino al 6 dicembre 2019.
Article
former migrations now
show runs thru November 2017
image - former migrations now
Sierra Nevada College Blog
http://site.sierranevada.edu/mfa-interdisciplinary-arts/2017/07/18/aaron-czerny-snc-mfa-ia-class-of-2017-echolocator/
echo locator
“People are... already in the past. The past... is not something that comes after the present has ceased to be; rather, the past is always impregnated in the present, even as the present becomes the past.
... this repetitious time does not consist in the return of the same, but of the different, a kind of "return of difference". - Rane Willerslev
echo locator – the ritualjoin multidisciplinary artist Aaron Czerny in an evening of participatory activation of his installation echo locator, a ritual iteration of resonator: a collaborative and experimental piece that travelled to various artists and locals within the United States from March to July 2017.
Show runs thru September 18th 2017
Garage Door Gallery
1008 Tahoe Blvd.
Holman Media and Arts Center
Incline Village, NevadaUniversity California Berkeley Sagehen Research Center
Presenting - Davies Forum - University of San Francisco - September 2016
USF Davises forum
Interview August 2013
Interview October 2012
Interview March 2010
