Saturday, March 6, 2010

Elizabeth Chiles @ testsite
ACP’s own Elizabeth Chiles will be showing her work a lot this month. Her solo show, Book of Praise, will open at testsite on Sunday, March 7th from 3-5pm. In the announcement for Book of Praise, Claire Ruud writes:
“Taking compositions found within the landscape as a starting place, Elizabeth Chiles builds syntax out of the formal and affective relationships between darkness and natural light. Her photographs endow light with temporal and spatial presence—a visible presence that nonetheless gestures toward the imperceptible and ineffable. This handling of light transforms the everyday into something to be revered. In this way, the works in Book of Praise become an ode to a presence akin to that of an altar or inspired text, or what may be the aura of the sacred.”
testsite has been a multifaceted advocate of the collaboration between written and visual media since 2003, combining artists from near and far to experiment and freely explore projects in an environment conducive to an intimate conversation. Book of Praise responds to this space by creating an installation that Chiles sees as sacred in its balance and in its feeling of empty expanse.
Elizabeth Chiles is currently a professor of Art History at Texas State University and will be participating in the 2010 FotoFest Biennial, as well as the Texas State School of Fine Arts faculty show this month. Look for more on these events very soon.
testsite is located at 502 West 33rd Street and is open from 2-5pm on Sundays or by appointment.
Read more about testsite here and view Elizabeth Chiles’ work here.









