Ronnie Bass & Anna Tanner
21 Sep - 16 Oct 2010
RONNIE BASS/ANNA TANNER
"Vulpecula"
21 September - 16 October 2010 Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
Transmission Gallery is delighted to present Vulpecula, an exhibition that takes its name from a constellation that depicts a double figure of a goose in the jaws of a fox. Vulpecula contains no named stars and has no legends. The exhibition brings the work of two American-born artists together for the first time. New York-based Ronnie Bass and Glasgow-based Anna Tanner share various overlapping concerns: foremost amongst these are the characterisation of the social outcast and the idea of stepping into the unknown. Their respective practices are characterized by fantastic, dreamlike imagery and incongruous juxtapositions, by the use of open-ended narratives and the deployment of mundane everyday materials and hobbyist techniques.
Anna Tanner’s recent work has found focus in the conflation of the image of mythological wild men (Sasquatch, The Yeti, Nookta) and their modern equivalents (vigilantes, explorers) with settings and objects taken from mundane, contemporary, urban, domestic and cultivated environments. Working with small, panoramic dioramas and painting, Tanner conjures mutations in space, time and scale which investigate the ways in which man can prove and exhibit bravery in a world in which so little of the natural landscape is left undiscovered, cultivated or urbanised.
Ronnie Bass’s videos are narratives of transformation rooted in the ideals of contemporary belief structures. Both of the videos presented at Transmission - The Astronomer: Part 1: Departure from Shed and 2012 – involve a vision of escape to a better place and the start of a new world. Against a backdrop of amateur astronomy and housebound experiments, Bass’s synth-driven soundtracks provide soothing affirmations to assuage our hesitancies and fears of a brand new age. The protagonists of The Astromomer make use of the useless, harvesting junk to create new items for their purpose: a calling indicated by a cosmological sign. Bass brings this filmic vision to life by installing a fountain constructed from bric-a-brac and junk in the exhibition space.
Anna Tanner (b. Arkansas, 1979) lives and works in Glasgow. She studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design before completing an MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2008. Her recent exhibitions include: New Work Scotland, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Zoo Art Fair, London; Set It Up And Go, APS Artnews Projects, Berlin; and Last Tango In Partick, Lowsalt/Now Museum, Glasgow. Tanner recently completed a residency project in France titled Walden Revisited.
Ronnie Bass (b. Texas, 1976) is a visual artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. He received an MFA from Columbia University in 2006 and a BFA from the University of North Texas in 2003. He has exhibited widely at institutions and galleries including: MOMA P.S.1, New York; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Centro de Arte de Sevilla, Spain; and The Contemporary Art Centre of Tel Aviv. Musical compositions include the score for Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. He is currently producing a hip-hop album due for release in 2012 and an upcoming album for German pop singer Gandalf Gavan.
Ronnie Bass will give a talk about his practice at 7pm on Monday 13th September at The State Bar, 148 Holland St. All Welcome.
*The exhibition will be open on Sunday 19th September for Glasgow ‘Doors Open’ Weekend.
*The gallery will be open until 8pm on Thursday 7th October.
"Vulpecula"
21 September - 16 October 2010 Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
Transmission Gallery is delighted to present Vulpecula, an exhibition that takes its name from a constellation that depicts a double figure of a goose in the jaws of a fox. Vulpecula contains no named stars and has no legends. The exhibition brings the work of two American-born artists together for the first time. New York-based Ronnie Bass and Glasgow-based Anna Tanner share various overlapping concerns: foremost amongst these are the characterisation of the social outcast and the idea of stepping into the unknown. Their respective practices are characterized by fantastic, dreamlike imagery and incongruous juxtapositions, by the use of open-ended narratives and the deployment of mundane everyday materials and hobbyist techniques.
Anna Tanner’s recent work has found focus in the conflation of the image of mythological wild men (Sasquatch, The Yeti, Nookta) and their modern equivalents (vigilantes, explorers) with settings and objects taken from mundane, contemporary, urban, domestic and cultivated environments. Working with small, panoramic dioramas and painting, Tanner conjures mutations in space, time and scale which investigate the ways in which man can prove and exhibit bravery in a world in which so little of the natural landscape is left undiscovered, cultivated or urbanised.
Ronnie Bass’s videos are narratives of transformation rooted in the ideals of contemporary belief structures. Both of the videos presented at Transmission - The Astronomer: Part 1: Departure from Shed and 2012 – involve a vision of escape to a better place and the start of a new world. Against a backdrop of amateur astronomy and housebound experiments, Bass’s synth-driven soundtracks provide soothing affirmations to assuage our hesitancies and fears of a brand new age. The protagonists of The Astromomer make use of the useless, harvesting junk to create new items for their purpose: a calling indicated by a cosmological sign. Bass brings this filmic vision to life by installing a fountain constructed from bric-a-brac and junk in the exhibition space.
Anna Tanner (b. Arkansas, 1979) lives and works in Glasgow. She studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design before completing an MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2008. Her recent exhibitions include: New Work Scotland, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Zoo Art Fair, London; Set It Up And Go, APS Artnews Projects, Berlin; and Last Tango In Partick, Lowsalt/Now Museum, Glasgow. Tanner recently completed a residency project in France titled Walden Revisited.
Ronnie Bass (b. Texas, 1976) is a visual artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. He received an MFA from Columbia University in 2006 and a BFA from the University of North Texas in 2003. He has exhibited widely at institutions and galleries including: MOMA P.S.1, New York; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Centro de Arte de Sevilla, Spain; and The Contemporary Art Centre of Tel Aviv. Musical compositions include the score for Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. He is currently producing a hip-hop album due for release in 2012 and an upcoming album for German pop singer Gandalf Gavan.
Ronnie Bass will give a talk about his practice at 7pm on Monday 13th September at The State Bar, 148 Holland St. All Welcome.
*The exhibition will be open on Sunday 19th September for Glasgow ‘Doors Open’ Weekend.
*The gallery will be open until 8pm on Thursday 7th October.