25 Mar 2012

Third Streaming presents Mary Ellen Carroll: Federal, State, County and City

Beginning Friday, March 23, 2012, Third Streaming is pleased to present a selection of photographs, including never-before-exhibited prints, from New York and Houston-based artist Mary Ellen Carroll in Federal, State, County and City (The Deferment of Impatience and Motor Responses to Being in California with Laura 'Riding' Jackson, Florence Knoll, Kruder and Dorfmeister, José Feliciano and Gertrude Stein). As a part of the exhibition, Carroll's 24-hour, two-theater film, Federal, will be screened at the Museum of the Moving Image from 9am on Saturday, March 24th to 9am, Sunday, March 25th.

The works on view in Federal, State, County and City… include 24 cibachrome prints taken during the filming of Federal (2003), documenting the northern façade of the Federal Building that houses the FBI; 66 black and white Polaroid photographs and an enamel on metal from the Kruder and Dorfmeister series (1999-2000), in which she documented every public library in Los Angeles; and two examples of Nowhere (2002), a series made up of an unidentified group of vacation snapshots that were mistakenly delivered to Carroll.

Mary Ellen Carroll is noted for a prolific career spanning more than twenty years and a range of practices from art and architecture to performance and film. She is the recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Graham Foundation Fellowship for prototype 180 and Innovation Territories in 2010, and AIA's Artist of the Year Award, 2010. She has also received a Pollack/Krasner Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and a grant from the Pennies from Heaven Fund.

Federal was created with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship that Carroll received in 2003, and with technical and material contributions by the Panasonic Corporation, Strypmonde Foundation, Outpost Digital and Michael Isabell of Eyespy Films. The screening at the Museum of the Moving Image has been made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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Third Streaming at Greene Street is 'the location' where art, music, fashion, design, food and the street collide. We highlight the crossover, connection and combination of the creative lifestyle.

Taking its cue from the term Third Stream Music — a musical genre that defines a synthesis of classical music and jazz — Third Streaming is where independent culture-makers of all kinds meet. Our mission is simple: we support the development of arts, culture and entertainment through collaborations and by mixing artistic genres to produce unexpected outcomes.

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