Pol Bury born 1922 

Belgian kinetic artist, painter and film-maker, born in Haine-Saint-Pierre. After studying briefly at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Mons 1938-9, he frequented the circle of Surrealist poets at La Louvière and was influenced by the paintings of Magritte and Tanguy. His own painting largely interrupted from 1940 to 1945. Represented in the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Brussels 1945. Painted geometrical abstract pictures 1949-53 and was associated with the COBRA group 1949-51, but in 1953 started to make 'plans mobiles' of painted shapes which could be pivoted manually on their axis. First principal one-man exhibition at the Galerie Apollo, Brussels, 1953. Gave up painting in 1953 and experimented with various types of kinetic works, introducing motors in 1957 and making the parts move with an almost imperceptible but jerky slowness, and in a random way. Moved to France in 1961 (first Fontenay-aux-Roses, then Saulx-les-Chartreux), and since 1964 has frequently visited the USA. His later works also include cinetizations of photographs and engravings, a few large-scale sculptures such as '25 Tons of Columns' and several films. Lives in Paris.

Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.87

Teresa Dunn’s second solo exhibition at First Street Gallery explores narrative worlds where the figures in her paintings confront points of no return. Color shift, texture, and complexity bend time and space as storytelling lingers in moments that approach yet hesitate to reach the event horizon. Precarious situations test if the tipping point is beneficial or detrimental. Tightrope walkers, burning boats, exposed flesh, and rising waters urge Dunn’s characters to challenge each other and examine their own motives. The paintings depict singular events from varied perspectives as ambiguity emerges about what has just occurred or what is about to happen. The people in Dunn’s works rely on their wits and question others’ intentions to make sense of incongruous landscapes. Mothers and fathers, children and animals, friends and strangers interact in tightly woven communities where intimacy and incompatibility collide.

Teresa Dunn is a three time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Fellowship and a 2000-2002 Jacob K. Javits Fellow. She is also represented by Hooks-Epstein Galleries in Houston, Texas and Galerie l’Echaude in Paris, France. Her 2011 Paris exhibition was reviewed in French art journals AZART and Miroir de l’Art. Dunn received her MFA from Indiana University in 2002. Teresa Dunn lives and paints in East Lansing, Michigan and is an Associate Professor of Painting at Michigan State University.
 -http://www.firststreetgallery.net

Artist-explorers called psychogeographers are changing the way we experience the city

In May, a few dozen conventioneers descended upon New York City for the second annual Psy.Geo.Conflux. But they didn't trade business cards over Salisbury steak at a Holiday Inn -- the city itself served as their conference room. Psy.Geo.Conflux gathered artists, writers, urban adventurers, and others from around the world who are interested in "psychogeography," a slightly stuffy term that's been applied to a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities. Psychogeography includes just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape.

A duo of artists from Copenhagen led participants on a tour of the city -- using a map of Copenhagen instead of New York. D. Jean Hester from Los Angeles hung posters and magic markers in public places soliciting answers to questions like "What smell reminds you of home?" and "Where were you the last time you cried?" Another conferee asked his fellows to perform "reverse shoplifting" by placing subtly redesigned products on the shelves of area grocery stores.

Still others practiced "generative psychogeography," or algorithmic walking, pioneered (as far as I can tell) by a Dutch artists' collective called social fiction. Participants walk an algorithm or fixed pattern, such as "first right, second left, first left, repeat." In other words, you head in any direction, take the first right, then go two blocks to the second left, then at one block take a left, and then repeat the pattern as often as you wish. The result is a remarkable style of travel -- neither goal-oriented nor random, structured but always surprising.

 - from www.utne.com

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