California Museum of Photography
Sweeney Art Gallery
Culver Center of the Arts
University of California, Riverside
For Immediate Release, August 15, 2013
Culver Center of the Arts @ UCR ARTSblock presents
Patrick Quan: Accidents and Failures
August 17 – September 28, 2013
Closing Reception: Saturday, September 28, 6-9 PM, free admission
RIVERSIDE, CALIF.—Patrick Quan: Accidents and Failures is a multi-media exhibition at UCR ARTSblock’s Culver Center of the Arts that will occupy several spaces—a first for Culver. Altogether, Quan’s new sculptures and photographs are a site-sensitive arrangement of objects that engages with the Culver.
On the Culver’s second floor, he has created a Zen-like garden of bent aluminum shards in the Hammond Dance Studio and in the Media Room he displays large-scale photographs and paintings that will be rotated on the Culver’s ground floor in the atrium. In the center of the atrium, he has createda counterpart to the bent aluminum shards on the second floor, but with shredded, black, plastic, garbage bags, as if to pit the hard metal against the airy, ephemeral, everyday bags. Quan is interested in creating an environment that provides a platform for one to separate themselves from their consciousness through this odd combination of elements. Failure and accidents are important components in his working method. Both notions, embodied in the show’s title, can lead to a “success” which can then become its own failure too. It is a feedback loopthat allows the artist to explore in his work the nature of observing and understanding objects, and then providing the same investigative experience for the viewer.
Patrick Quan: Accidents and Failuresis organized by UCR ARTSblock’s Culver Center of the Arts, and curated by Tyler Stallings, Artistic Director, Culver Center of the Arts & Director, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside. UCR’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) has provided support. Patrick Quan is a Culver Arts Research Laboratory (CARL) Resident, an ongoing series in which artists in the literary, performing, and visual arts utilize the Culver’s second floor to develop projects that are then presented to the public in a final project.
Concurrent Exhibition Opening and Closing Receptions on September 28, 2013:
ESSENTIAL: Selections from the Permanent Collection Celebrates UCR Sweeney Art Gallery’s 50th Anniversary, Sweeney Art Gallery, June 29-September 28, 2013, closing reception.
Patrick Quan: Accidents and Failures, Culver Center of the Arts, August 17-September 28, 2013, closing reception.
Reconsidering Winogrand’s Women, California Museum of Photography, August 10–October 26, 2013, opening reception.
Zoe Crosher: The Further Disbanding of Michelle duBois, California Museum of Photography, August 24–November 9, 2013, opening reception.
More American Photographs, California Museum of Photography, September 28, 2013–January 11, 2014, opening reception.
Visitor Information and Press Inquiries
UCR ARTSblock is located at 3824 & 3834 Main St., Riverside, CA 92501, and includes three venues: California Museum of Photography, Culver Center of the Arts, and Sweeney Art Gallery, which are open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., plus 6-9 p.m. for First Thursday ArtWalks. Admission is $3, which includes entry to all three venues, and is free during First Thursday ArtWalks (6-9 p.m.). For film screenings, Culver Center opens 30 minutes prior to the start time.
Press inquiries for Culver Center of the Arts & Sweeney Art Gallery @ UCR ARTSblock:
Tyler Stallings, 951-827-1463, . Press inquires for California Museum of Photography @ UCR ARTSblock: Joanna Szupinska-Myers, 951-827-4788, .
Image, page 1: Patrick Quan, Installation view of bent aluminum shards in the Hammond Dance Studio, a part of the sprawling Accidents and Failures installation. Photo by Nikolay Maslov.
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