Theresa Devine
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This is not a toy. The artwork of Theresa Devine
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Gallery 1
"Untitled Grin and Bear It (Portrait of Theresa in Phoenix): Homage to Felix Gonzalez-Torres"
Date: 2019
Artist: Theresa Devine
Medium: Abandoned teddy bears, given new life.
Dimensions: Approximately 8’ x 8’ x 8’ (varies with installation)
Origin: United States
Copyright: © Theresa Devine
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Artist

"SUGAR”
Date: 2009
Artists: Heather Kelley, Leonie Smelt, Mitch Heinrich, Damien Di Fede, and Anna Zajaczkowski
Medium: Action Olofactorizer (a hardware/software/chemical system for scent delivery), custom software, computer, screen or projector, game controllers, scent materials
Dimensions: 8’ x 8’ x 8’ Cube installation
Origin: Austria
Copyright: © Heather Kelly
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Artists

Gallery 2
“It’s Still A Boys Club”
Date: 2016
Artist: Theresa Devine
Medium: Game board, glass gems, instructions, framed box, table, chairs
Dimensions: Approximately 4’ x 4’ x 4’ (table installation with chairs), 13” x 13” (framed game)
Origin: United States
Copyright: © Theresa Devine
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Artist

“Body Heat”
Date: 2009
Artist: Heather Kelley
Medium: OhMiBod custom software application, Vibrator, iPad, Pedestal
Dimensions: Approximately 12” x 7” (varies with installation), 30” x 20” x 15” pedestal
Origin: United States
Copyright: © Heather Kelly
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Artist

Gallery 3
"Beyond What You See"
Date: 2018-19
Artist: Theresa Devine
Medium: Framed abstract paintings, Augmented reality delivered via HP Reveal on viewer’s smart phone.
Dimensions: Four, 16" x 20"
Origin: United States
Copyright: © Theresa Devine
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Artist

"SuperHyperCube"
Date: 2008-2016
Artists: Heather Kelley, Damien Di Fede, Phil Fish, Cindy Poremba
Medium: Software, VR headset and controllers, Computer, TV, Pedestal
Dimensions: Approximately 3’ x 5’ x 2’ (installation with 32 in TV)
Origin: United States
Copyright: © kokoromi
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Artists

Gallery 4
"Dependence"
Date: 2019
Artist: Theresa Devine
Medium: Readymade, Antique Wheelchair, Pedestal, Stanchions and red ropes
Dimensions: Approximately 54” x 54” x 48” (installation)
Origin: United States
Copyright: © Theresa Devine
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Artist

"INDULGINE" or “Indulgent Engine”
Date: 2017
Artists: Heather Kelley and Audrey Moon
Medium: Custom Software Bot, TV, Computer, Pedestal, Twitter Feed, Twitter Feed Prints
Dimensions: Approximately 3’ x 2’ x 5’ (installation with 19” TV to display Twitter Feed), prints 19’ x 12’ hung in close proximity to Twitter Feed.
Origin: United States
Copyright: © Heather Kelley and Audrey Moon
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Artists

© 2012-2020 Theresa Devine. All rights reserved.
Fortuitous Orbits and the Hazards They Contain

Structured yet purposeless, evocative and symbolic, play can be anywhere and everywhere. It spans the world of the senses, engaging with lived experience in every dimension. As such, play is one of the most important connections to our shared humanity. In this exhibition, the work of artists Heather Kelley and Theresa Devine demonstrate this broad-ranging connection, showing play’s ability to lower our defenses and open us to our interdependence.

The dialogue that the pairing of this work invokes many conceptual, playful, and sensual nuances which engage the audience to experience their humanity with their whole being and not just through sight and mind. Each gallery presents two playworks to consider: separately, together, conceptually, formally, historically, and contemporaneously. The exhibition is an environment for the work to be in a fortuitous orbit, revealing possible hazards and discoveries contained within each consideration, as the players’ experience what the installation has to offer up.

2019