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Informationen zum Autor Cathy Ward was born in Kent, England. In a career spanning more than thirty years, she has exhibited in such major venues as PS1/MoMA, the Drawing Center, the Walker Art Gallery, and the Whitechapel Gallery. She was appointed artist-in-residence for the “Madge Gill: Medium & Visionary” retrospective at Orleans House Gallery in London and her work has been featured in many underground and cultural spaces, including the Horse Hospital (London), and Maggs Counterculture (London). Her work is in the permanent collection of the College of Psychic Studies (London). Eric Wright was born in Mt Gilead, Ohio, United States of America. He graduated from Ohio University – Athens Ohio 1984, afterwards relocating to New York City. Since 1992 has resided in London UK. Eric has exhibited in galleries and museums in the US and Europe including Life/Live at the The Musée d'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris (with City Racing, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist); Sociable Realism at The Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and Interesting Painting at City Racing, London. His portraits of country and western stars garnered much acclaim and are found in collections in Europe and Nashville including that of George Jones. Zusammenfassung A book of new mixed-media work by Cathy Ward and Eric Wright. With their honoring of folkloric aesthetic vocabularies, their non-oppositional encompassing of complex, verbally-based literary and philosophical realms and love of shiny things, their history of collaborative social experiment and advocacy for the viability of small-scale group politics (both in their own work and within their communities), and their productive model of sensory-grounded human intellect that recognizes its continuity with the rest of nature, Catharyne Ward and Eric Wright have, in Tender Vessels offered a walk-through manifesto for the future of art, and the components for a makeshift coffin-raft to carry us to the next shore. —From the accompanying essay by Doug Harvey ...
