Anna Chrystal Stephens
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Current/Recent . . .

July 2011 - Interim show, Goldsmiths

May 2011 - Comfort Tones
Tom Crawford/ Leo Fitzmaurice/ Ben Garrod/ Anna Chrystal Stephens/ Lee Stone/ Laurie Storey/ Carla Wright
http://www.projectnumber.org/

      





Comfort Tones presents a range of works which respond to the initial piece in the show - a curatorial premise whereby the domestic cum studio features of the Project Number space are partly concealed yet still dominant.

The work shown implicates the art object among those redundant design features around us in our homes and workspaces. Screen-like structures dress the space, concealing the fittings. These mimic, on a different scale, the clumsy erasure of urban planning and question the functionality of these features. In turn, work placed on and around the screens takes on skeuomorphic qualities with a similar logic to veneer flooring and coal effect fires or the comfortably mechanical facets of analogue technology simulated in their digital counterparts like the faux click of a digital camera.

"The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future." Marshall McLuhan

Comfort Tones is an exhibition of works curated by Vulpes Vulpes, an artist-led group which hosts exhibitions, performances, workshops and runs an artist studio space in Clapton. The project is not for profit and is managed and run collectively.
www.vulpesvulpes.org

Project/Number is an arts initiative based in Stoke Newington, London. It's primary focus is artist-led projects and collaborations with artists.


10 Cazenove Rd, London, N16 6BD
07595 368744
www.projectnumber.org/3






The Second Attempt of Phane Turglo, Lewisham Arthouse, London. April 2011
Stephane Blumer/ Choterina Freer/ Gloria Houng/ Woo Jin Kim/ Sally Kindberg/ Gyuwon Lee/ Jin Han Lee/ Daniela Montenegro/ Anna Stephens/ Nina Wakeford.

      





The Second Attempt of Phane Terglo is a curating project by ten artists studying in the MFA Fine Art program at Goldsmiths, University of London.
This exhibition leaves everyone in the dark. The curated artist Phane Terglo is nowhere to be found. Terglo's invisibility leads one to think that this 'second attempt' departs from an impossibility of dialogue. The implications of this gesture, as a premise of production, triggers a critical evaluation of the conventional acting of roles involved in the production and circulation of contemporary art.

Phane Terglo's initial act of rejection deprives the exhibition of any ordering principle: the artists become at once the protagonists and the interpreters of the show; and the textual aspects of the public presentation of artworks becomes a mere meta-commentary, disconnected from aesthetic appreciation.




Past:
2010
Salon 10, Four Corners Gallery, Bethnal Green, London
Phoneography, The Photo Gallery, Bristol
We Interventions, Walcot Chapel, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath
Changing The Nature, Vulpes Vulpes Gallery, London
2009
Bright Newcomers, The Bowie Gallery, Totnes
Modern, Tudor Renaissance Fantasy, part of Sideshow, Bournemouth
Eye Contact, The Bowie Gallery, Totnes
Salon, Islington Art Factory, London
Crime and Justice, 198 Gallery, London
Antigone, Vulpes Vulpes, London
2008
Rose Tint My World, The Agency Gallery, (S.T.O.R.A.G.E) London (solo show)
RYGB, Voila Gallery, London (solo show)
Annual Open Cafe Gallery, London
Open Eyes, The Ariel Centre, Totnes
The Naked Truth, The Bowie Gallery, Totnes
One Week, Maverick Show Room, London
Climate for Change, Circle Community Projects, London
2007
Untitled, (Broken Glass Installation) Section Six Gallery, - Collaboration with Patrick Goddard, London (Solo)
What Haunts you - Helen Marshall Group Project The Photographers Gallery, London
Print Show, Four Corners, London
The Capsule Series, Section Six Gallery, London - Four-part collaborative installation project with Dorothee Perin
Art at the Flavel, The Flavel, Dartmouth, Devon - Artspaces Exhibition
Y Ahora con Nuevas Aventuras, Caipiriña, Salamanca, Spain
2006
Bath Plug, Truman Brewery, London
Bath Spa University, Bath - Degree Show
Life as we know it, Walcot Chapel, Bath
2005
Something About Burlington Bertie, Amoeba, Clifton, Bristol










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