MOSAIC OF ART Episode 35; Feb. 13, 2011

AMY KUPFERBERG, Untitled

LISA SILVERA and CHERYL MOODY help Amy - as well as many other artists - find the appreciative audience of collectors and institutions that provide the "air" in which AMY can take flight. "So we do PR, branding and marketing for the contemporary artists whose work we're passionate about. I am in this collective and supported with Lisa Silvera and Christopher Hughes' see pr & artennae global art consulting services' brilliant brainstorming and marketing and with my contemporary art experience we put it together, and that's how we get the beautiful work out in the world." C.M.

LISA SILVERA (l) and CHERYL MOODY (r)

Art History department chair at the University of Mary Washington, JEAN ANN DABB is an enthusiast of mosaics - past and present. But, as an exhibition juror, her sense of the medium is evolving. "If my working definition now includes a composition of separate distinct elements which having been combined into a larger matrix, then I've given up the notion of some kind of adhesive element and permanence and stability, so I think it's whatever the artist may want to use as their defining definition, and if they want to call it sculpture, installation or mosaic, I can be receptive to that notion." J.A.D.

JEAN ANN DABB, Imaginary Archeology

 DINORAH DE JESUS RAMIREZ creates animatIon the old fashioned way: marking on film, frame by frame. "When you hold a film in your hand it has a head and a tail. I can look at this (strip of film) and see movement in the same way that a composer can look at a sheet of music and hear notes  - a symphony. I exhibit them vertically because I want you to experience the language of film with the language that film speaks... It's like cells of time; they're like cells of time and there's 24 cells to a second of time in this machine, so when you look at this and count 24 of those little sprocket holes you can see how long one second actually is and what it looks like... This is a way in which humans have attempted to trap time and movement, and film in many ways is the attempt to solidify cells of time and cells of movement."  D.R.

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