Anthony Luensman
Internationally lauded and locally adored artist Anthony “Tony” Luensman is very busy these days. Last spring, he had a solo exhibition (Ersilia) at Taipei’s Museum of Contemporary Art. This winter, less than a month after mounting Peeps & Bells, Luensman will travel to Japan to become an artist-in-residence at the Inter-Cross Creative Center in Sapporo.
In 2003, Luensman was commissioned to create a suite of interactive sound sculpture (collectively known as Zeloso) for the UnMuseum in Cincinnati’s Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art. In 2002, the artist received top praise for his exhibition Irato—dynamically installed in the upper gallery of the Aronoff Center’s Weston Art Gallery.
In Peeps & Bells, Luensman continues to intrigue and delight viewers by playfully examining the notion of household intrusion through a series of “peepholes” and “doorbells.” This new show finds the artist experimenting with a wide variety of industrial and natural materials such as acrylic, monofilament, and human hair in order to achieve a sometimes functional, sometimes absurd conglomeration of sound, light and movement. Luensman delivers a witty vision of a world he finds both sensible and disjointed, inviting yet distant. The show will seek to expand the visual and aural vocabulary of both artist and viewer, while also examining the phenomenon of voyeurism in modern society.
