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Jonathan Bouknight: Nightingales
10am - 5pm
2014/2015 Working Artist Project
The 2014/2015 Working Artist Project was selected by Siri Engberg, Senior Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
About the Exhibition:
Jonathan Bouknight: Nightingales
Working with a cast of skilled performers, Jonathan Bouknight has created the film Nightingales, a durational meditation on one’s continual reach for ideals beyond physical limitations. Themes of metamorphosis, beauty, desire, and failure are explored within the earnest attempts of the performers to become something more than themselves. Created and shown in tandem with the film are a series of mixed-media works by the artist. Nightingales was created over the course of the year during Bouknight’s Working Artist Project fellowship with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and was debuted at the museum.
About the Artist:
Jonathan Bouknight is a filmmaker and multi-media artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He was a Working Artist Project fellow with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in 2014/2015, during which he completed his first full-length film, Nightingales. Bouknight was part of the Studio Program of the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center from 2008-2013 and was an artist-in-resident at Maquis Projects in Izmir, Turkey in 2015, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida in 2012 with funding from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He has been a recipient of grants from Idea Capital and the Fulton County Office of Cultural Affairs. Bouknight has shown in galleries and universities throughout the southeast and abroad, including solo exhibitions at Whitespace, Maquis Projects, and the University of Georgia.
Image still from Nightingales
Image still from Nightingales
More info on Jonathan Bouknight can be found here.