Exhibition Details
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land II (Excerpts) by illustrious alumna Joan Jonas '65 as a highlight of its yearlong 60th anniversary celebration.
The eleven untitled drawings of red fish—each digitally scanned, scaled up, printed, and installed in the lobby of the Lenfest Center for the Arts—are excerpted from Jonas’ titular installation, a multimedia exploration of the science and stories of the world’s oceans.
The stunning drawings that appear as banners in Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land II (Excerpts) invite viewers to contemplate oceanic environments alongside the educational one that fostered Jonas’ pathbreaking career 60 years ago.
The eleven untitled drawings of red fish—each digitally scanned, scaled up, printed, and installed in the lobby of the Lenfest Center for the Arts—are excerpted from Jonas’ titular installation, a multimedia exploration of the science and stories of the world’s oceans.
The stunning drawings that appear as banners in Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land II (Excerpts) invite viewers to contemplate oceanic environments alongside the educational one that fostered Jonas’ pathbreaking career 60 years ago.
About the Artist
Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York, NY) is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide range of media including video, performance, installation, sound, text, and sculpture.
Jonas's experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures.
Jonas's experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures.
Location
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027
Image: Photo by Olympia Shannon Studio / Courtesy of Lenfest Center for the Arts