Bricks and Bones: Sound Installation of Tamara Albaitis

For Immediate Release

Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse 

Contact:  Jennifer Chandler, Gallery Coordinator

928.350.2341 or jchandler@prescott.edu

RE:  Bricks and Bones: Sound Installations of Tamara Albaitis

(Prescott) The Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse announces the opening of the art exhibition, Bricks and Bones, featuring the sound installations of San Francisco artist Tamara Albaitis. Albaitis’ interactive sound installations reflect her interest in the natural, constructed, and simulated environments that exist in a technology-saturated world.  This exhibition is on view February 24 - March 24, 2012, with an Artist Talk Thursday, February 23, 5 PM and Reception for the Artist, 6 – 8 PM, and collaborative dance performance with Tamara Albaitis and Delisa Myles, 8:00 PM, Friday, February 24th, in conjunction with the Prescott 4^th Friday Art Walk.

Born in Flint, Michigan, Tamara received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. It was in China, while abroad during her undergraduate studies, that major themes pertaining to nature and balance became the basis of her professional work. In 2003, she was invited to start the first experimental sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated 2005 with the first MFA in sound art in the United States. Tamara has shown extensively nationally and internationally at prestigious institutions such as the 9th International Istanbul Biennial, The European Sound Delta in Paris, France (in collaboration with the Collectiv MU), Project Creo in St. Petersburg, Florida, The Digital Media Centre in Bracknell, England, artTransponder in Berlin, Germany, V2 Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam, Netherlands, ParaSite in Hong Kong, China, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Stanford University in Palo Alto, Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, California, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, California and G2 Gallery in Chicago, Illinios.

About her work, Tamara states, “I’m curious about how people interpret the basic building blocks of their lives, sorting relevance through systems both public and personal, tangible and virtual. I use 100% pure technology to mimic nature, much like what most of modern society does. I enjoy creating this work with a sense of playful poetry, interpreting complex and intricate (and often ironic) relationships within the ongoing interplay between the 'artificial' and the 'organic'. “

All events are free and open to the public. 

Regular gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 AM – 3:00PM. For more information please contact 928.350.2341 or visit www.prescott.edu/gallery.  This exhibit is made possible in part by funding from the Prescott Area Arts and Humanities Council and the City of Prescott.