Grey Matter

……. a region of the brain involved in sensory perception.

The walls of the gallery are painted the same grey as the floor.
The lights are low, dream-like, not completely dark.
The architectural layout of the space is the armature for a sequence of experiences; some are mediated by video, others by digital drawings, text and furniture.
The experiences are scenes that depict our presence in nature, and nature’s presence in relationship to us.
These scenes are derived from a made-up image, actualized in real space.

Andrea Blum is a New York based artist who designs work for Public Space in Europe and the United States that range in site and scale to include urban space, parks, exhibition design, libraries, domestic space, and furniture. She exhibits in museums, galleries and other exhibition venues worldwide, and has had numerous one-person exhibitions including La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, SP; Stroom Center for Art & Architecture, NL; Henry Moore Institute, UK; and Le Crestet Centre D’art Contemporarin ,FR . She has built special projects for the 51st Venice Biennale, IT; Maison Rouge, Paris, FR; the MUDAM Luxembourg, and was the Set Designer for the Donizetti Opera, La Favorite, commissioned by Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris. In 2005 she was named Chevalier, Order of Arts and Letters, by the French Minister of Culture. Blum is a Professor at Hunter College in New York, and frequently lectures on the relationship of Art and Architecture.

Andrea Blum has exhibited her work with Fabienne Leclerc since the early 1990’s, this is the first time the moving image is a part of the work.