The Coleman Center for the Arts and Culture
The House of Red on White, Andrea Stanislav March 27 to April 7, 2004
Ms. Stanislav's site-specific installation, sponsored by the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture, is being created at Mrs. Jean Dial’s former home at 707 Boulevard St in York, Alabama. The project is inspired from the local oral history as told through ghost stories and the unique place and architecture of York. Ms. Stanislav's sculptures, photographs, and sound elements interact with the space of the house, exploring domestic and spiritual issues. A collection of mirrors and photographs of the storytellers lead the visitors through the rooms, to find various components of the piece, including: a bedroom with a "floating" Alabama State flag, another bedroom which has become a pine cone forest, and in the dinning room, a mirrored dinning table reflecting sewn soft sculptures suspended from above, among others.
Andrea Stanislav has been on residency at the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture since mid-February. She is a New York City based artist, born in Chicago in 1968. She has exhibited her sculptures and multimedia installations internationally since 1990. Stanislav received an MFA from Alfred University in 1997 and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990. She has lived in the United States and Northern Ireland.
Stanislav's most recent selected exhibitions include: 2004 / 47th International Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA., Telling, 2003 - fivemyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Village Voice Sculpture Show, NYC 2002, The U.F.R.O. Project, 2001 - Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, One Thousand Kisses, 2001 - SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, MOMA Coat Check Show, 2000 - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Ms. Stanislav has worked collaboratively with filmmaker Kyle Henry, where her sculptures were featured in his feature film Room, funded by Sundance and Michael Stipe's production company Self Timer. She also works with re-mixer and dj - MNS. Stanislav worked on Matthew Barney's film "Creamaster 3" from 2000-2003.