"ArtPrize : Artist Dennis Jones Exhibiting and the Public Votes"
2009-09-23 until 2009-10-10
Old Federal Building
Grand Rapids, MI, USA United States of America

Dennis Jones has installed his work "Sometimes I wonder what you’d say if I let you speak" and is up for votes in ArtPrize, where a 3-square mile area in Grand Rapids' downtown riverfront district will become one huge art gallery. ArtPrize invited artists of all kinds from around the world to participate in an unprecedented competition that will award nearly one-half million dollars to prize winners. The venues include galleries, museums, coffee shops,restaurants, hotels, banks, churches, parks, and many more. Ms. Erickson's venue is a world class health club called MVP Metro Club located at 33 Fountain Street NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503. ArtPrize runs from September 23 - October 10, 2009. Dennis Jones has promoted her work with a Portfolio at absolutearts.com since 2003.

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Artist: Dennis Jones
Title: Sometimes I Wonder
Year Created: 2009
Medium: Installation Indoor
Width: 17 feet
Height: 12 feet
Depth: 52 feet

View more of Dennis Jones's work at absolutearts.com http://www.absolutearts.com/dennisjones

The jury is the public who'll be voting via the ArtPrize website, www.artprize.org, or by texting on their mobile phones. Anyone who registers in person at the ArtPrize event can vote. You cannot vote without registering at the event. There will be voter registration stations throughout the city. There's no charge for voter registration.

Voting begins September 23, 2009. The top 10 finalists will be announced October 1 and voting continues for top 10. The results are concealed for the final week. The winners will be announced at a gala event October 8.

Paul Breschuk comments about Dennis Jones' installation, "Sometimes I wonder what you’d say if I let you speak, an installation by Dennis Michael Jones, offers its own brand of interactivity. Completely covering the walls are a thousand and two charcoal text drawings, all of which display different stenciled phrases (confessions) that begin with the word “sometimes.” The visual information dripping from the walls is paired with an infinitely looped audio track of a voice reading the same thousand and two phrases. On a mental level, with its unrelenting stream of one-way aural and visual communication, the visitor risks becoming over-stimulated, if not overwhelmed. Jones does well to create a space where private fears and desires are relayed with perfectly balanced intensity. It is not so overbearing as to remove space for independent thoughts and interpretations. And even with the more humourous phrases, there remains a strong element of sincerity that is moving in its stark poeticism and nakedness. It leaves one to guess if they’re hearing the true voice of the human condition, in all of its insecurity and loneliness."

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