Davis, California:

ART INSTALLATION and PERFORMANCE
to TRANSFORM HISTORIC NATIONAL REGISTER AMTRAK
STATION,
JUNE 13 – JUNE 20, 2004

Contact:

Jordan R. Crosby, Curator
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UC Davis-based installation artist Daniel Glendening
will perform Transit, an interactive art exhibition to
be held at the City of Davis’ Historic Southern
Pacific Railway Depot during the week of June 13th.
Glendening will use period costume, 22 balls of twine
and the public’s assistance to visually transform the
waiting room of the Mission-style Amtrak Station,
which is a National Register historic landmark built
in 1913.

Glendening, known best for his large-scale abstract
paintings, shows his work regularly at UC Davis’
Basement Gallery.  He says that in the choice to
bypass the gallery context for Transit, “the audience
becomes a natural extension of the artwork, forced to
acknowledge its own presence and influence on public
space.”  Glendening hopes to create visual drama where
art and community life intersect.  By enlivening a
site traditionally reserved for the passive act of
anticipation, he seeks to give everyday experience new
meaning.

Transit is the public curatorial debut of Jordan
Crosby, who is a graduate student of Art History at UC
Davis.  The project is an extension of her Master’s
thesis in Museum Studies, which illuminates the
historic relationship between adaptive reuse buildings
and the display of contemporary art in America.
Crosby has plans to facilitate subsequent exhibitions
in Davis involving collaborators from outside the art
world.  Transit is sponsored by the City of Davis’
Community Development Department, and is made possible
by the cooperation of Davis Amtrak employees.

The Davis Amtrak Station is located at 840 2nd Street
and is open to the public from 6 am to 11 pm.  Transit
begins Sunday, June 13th at 4:00 pm with a live
performance, which will continue daily until the
artist’s supply of materials is exhausted.  The
finished installation may be viewed through June 20.
For more information, visit
www.transit-art.com or e-mail [log in to unmask]

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