Kara Rooney – In Apogee
In Apogee is a play on words, on bodies, on cultures. Astronomically speaking, when an object is in apogee it is at the outermost point in its orbit. By contrast, the term also describes the highest point in the development of something; a climax or culmination. This exhibition plays on these dialectical modes of opposition and attraction, movements that are present in the translation of languages, of ideas, the migration of individuals and community, and the dissolution and establishment of boundaries—temporal, cultural, and political.
Kara Rooney is a New York based artist and critic working in performance, sculpture, and new media installation. Her visual work has been exhibited in numerous international and domestic venues including Fridman Gallery, NY; the Chelsea Art Museum, NY; the International Women’s Museum, CA; the Jersey City Museum, NJ; the Montclair Art Museum, NJ; and the Pera Museum, Istanbul. She has been an artist in residence at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (2015-16); La Quiñonera, Mexico City, MEX; the Queens College Art Center, NY; David Wolfe Editions, Portland, ME; and the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO. Since September of 2016, Rooney has participated as an artist-in-residence at the MeetFactory, Prague where she has continued her recent explorations into the field of choreography and performative installation. She is a Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant recipient and her critical writings have been published in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic and M/E/A/N/I/N/G. Rooney earned her MFA from the School of Visual Arts and is an Editor-at-Large for The Brooklyn Rail.
