5th Wall a unique space dedicated to exploring the new ideas and interests being generated by current practicing artists. The 5th Wall is seeking out exhibitions that are invested in pushing the boundaries of the viewer’s experience by engaging the audience through conceptual and visual expression.
Sonic Trichromacy Daniel Steffey (5th Wall Gallery) Punctuated by a live performance featuring Steffey and Christina Stanley, 5th Wall blazed its way onto the scene with an exhibition of sound art that bravely dragged Las Vegas into the 20th (yes, I said 20th) century.
Check out full article here:
http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/dec/29/2011-year-review-art-and-theater/
Writing about 5th Wall Gallery and Sonic Trichromacy by Kristen Peterson for Las Vegas Weekly
Those who like a little avant-garde to go with their avant-garde can find heaping portions at 5th Wall, a new artist-owned Emergency Arts gallery, run by Yasmina Chavez, Eri King, Javier Sanchez and Marlene Siu. If its opening show is any kind of indicator, the space is, as promised, a home to the experimental in visual and contemporary art.
Sonic Trichromacy, a sound and object installation by Bay Area composer and percussionist Daniel Steffey (a UNLV grad), features a suspenseful and discordant composition of sound using a program that assigns musical parameters to color. Different sections of the resulting score, partly inspired by Occupy Oakland events, are played through CDs and reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, so that the elements vary according to your position in the small gallery.
LV WEEKLY: http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/nov/23/polar-bears-guns-and-avant-garde-avant-garde/
5th Wall Gallery’s Grand opening
Sonic Trichromacy Live Performance at 5th Wall Gallery
Daniel Steffey’s opening reception for Sonic Trichromacy in the 5th Wall Gallery featured a one-night-only performance with special guest, Christina Stanley.
Writing about Sonic Trichromacy by Jenessa Kenway for Las Vegas City Life
THE ART OF NOISE
Static and squeaks, things usually avoided in music, are written into the musical score by sound installation artist and composer Daniel Steffey. The Nov. 11 grand opening of 5th Wall Gallery, in Emergency Arts, featured a live performance by Steffey and Bay Area violinist Christina Stanley for the sound installation Sonic Trichromacy.
Eyes closed, Stanley rubbed and plucked the strings, producing sounds from delicate hums to aggressive rising chords. Steffey tweaked a synthesizer, producing vibrations and static, creating syncopated rhythms like the blades of helicopters — thrumming punctuated by piercing stringed notes. Together, it was like a duet between video arcade and classical concert hall.
In the gallery, a series of recording devices, from a mini-tape cassette player to an old-school reel-to-reel tape deck, produce a droning, cacophonous symphony, each unit contributing to the score. Such objects as a tear-gas canister, a cassette tape and a punch card have been painted in a muddy mixture of red, green and blue, playing off the concept of digitally rendered color and trichromacy — the normal ability to see colors. Translating mundane objects by assigning musical values to the colors painted on them connects the installation with the Dadaist and anti-bourgeois, nonconformist sentiments found in early sound poetry and performance. Works like a broken record titled “Free Speech” further the Dadaist concerns, and where words fall short, the exhibit conveys with pure sound the angst surrounding current social and economic struggles.
LV City Life: http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2011/11/17/ae/art/iq_48782830.txt
LV Weekly: http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/nov/23/polar-bears-guns-and-avant-garde-avant-garde/
5th Wall Gallery is a new artist-owned contemporary art gallery located inside the Emergency Arts on 520 Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas.
It is a unique space dedicated to exploring the new ideas and interests being generated by current practicing artists. The 5th Wall is seeking out exhibitions that are invested in pushing the boundaries of the viewer’s experience by engaging the audience through conceptual and visual expression.
To be considered, artists must submit a packet including:
Exhibition proposal : All work must be current
Artist Statement
5-10 supporting images
An explanation how artist proposal incorporates 5th Wall Mission
Statement
Please submit proposals to 5thwallgallery@gmail.com
5th Wall Gallery is curated and owned by Las Vegas artists: Yasmina Chavez, Eri King, Javier Sanchez, and Marlene Siu
