Jan. 23 – Feb. 22

Thursday-Saturday nights, dusk-11 p.m.

Artist Talk: Tuesday, Feb. 4, 6:30 p.m.

Yui Kugimiya: “Cat Brushing Teeth” and other works

Urban Video Project and Light Work are pleased to announce the exhibition of three recent video pieces by Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya. Works included in the exhibition are: “Cat Brushing Teeth” (2009), “Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada” (2012) and “Sunset Donut” (2012).

Kugimiya’s work is unique in its use of traditional painting techniques to create quirky stop-motion animations. Each of the 30 frames per second that make up the moving image is a unique painting, lending the videos a visceral quality in which the traces of time are materially present. The stars of this suite of short pieces are all anthropomorphic cats deeply engaged in some everyday task–brushing their teeth, placing their order at the counter of a fast-food stand, savoring a donut in the sunset—the cats are at once standins for everyone and eccentrically specific individuals. The result is a whimsical and light-handed meditation on how the transcendent reveals itself within the mundane.

Kugimiya will give an artist talk in the Everson’s Hosmer Auditorium on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 6:30 p.m. A reception will follow on the plaza.

About the Artist

Kugimiya (born 1981, Tokyo) has been working from her base in Brooklyn since graduating from Yale University in 2007. Kugimiya has exhibited solo within the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Japan and had a well-received solo exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in November 2010.

About UVP

Urban Video Project (UVP) is an important international venue for the public exhibition of video art. UVP is a multimedia public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University that operates multiple electronic exhibition sites along the Connective Corridor in Syracuse.  Funding for UVP came through the Connective Corridor public art program.

UVP Everson, a partnership with the Everson Museum of Art, is UVP’s flagship site. UVP Everson is located on the north façade of the Everson Museum of Art building at 401 Harrison St. and runs commercial free from dusk to 11 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, year round.

For more information about this exhibition:

Anneka Herre, Urban Video Project

315.443.1369

info@urbanvideoproject.com