PAST EVENTS : 2010

On February 14 Mexican artist Carla Herrera-Prats in collaboration with her United States peer Tyler Rowland opened an exhibition coordinated by Kunstverein NY at Silvershed in Manhattan. Through this project Herrera-Prats and Rowland analyze possibilities of collaboration and communication departing from the invention of the telephone.

Friday, March 19th, 6pm:  a reading by Larissa Harris and Nate Harrison.


Exhibition February 14 – March 21, 2010

Kunstverein NY @ Silvershed, 119W 25th Street, PH,
New York 10001, NY
Open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 12-6pm, and by appointment.
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A project by Carla Herrera-Prats and Tyler Rowland

Kunstverein NY is pleased to present the first New York joint exhibition of Carla Herrera-Prats and Tyler Rowland, an investigation into the nature of collaboration and communication.  I overheard two people… activates the work and relationship between Alexander Graham Bell, well known as the inventor of the telephone, and his assistant Thomas Watson, who both resided in the Boston area.

Both Carla Herrera-Prats and Tyler Rowland met in 2001 while attending CalArts.  They started working together in 2006 when Herrera-Prats relocated to Boston to teach at the Boston Museum School, and Rowland was teaching at Harvard University in Cambridge.

I overheard two people … transfers the aural experience of the telephone into a variety of sensorial media, including a participatory kite flying performance on February 14th to open the exhibition, and in homage to Elisha Gray, or history’s “second best”; and on March 18th, the artists’ partners will commemorate Bell and Watson’s relationship with a reading of the first telephone transcript between the inventors.

Carla Herrera-Prats was born in Mexico City.  She received her MFA from CalArts and participated in the Whitney ISP in New York City.  She is currently part of the collaborative CAMEL. Her recent exhibitions include El Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Art in General, and Artists Space, New York. She has also shown in Colombia, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, and Puerto Rico. She has been awarded grants from CalArts, the Van Lier Foundation, the Jumex Collection, and the LEF Foundation. She currently teaches at Cooper Union.

Tyler Rowland was born in Reno, NV and raised in Phoenix, AZ.  He holds an MFA from CalArts and has shown at Murray Guy Gallery, New York City; GASP, Boston; More Fools in Town, Turin; LACE, and Eungie Joo’s Six Months, LA. He currently teaches at Vassar College.


Kunstverein NY is an international platform for exhibitions, discussions, and the circulation of ideas. By the invitation of Krist Gruijthuijsen and Maxine Kopsa, founders of Kunstverein, the New York chapter joins a network of sister-organizations (in Amsterdam and Istanbul), starting an open-dialogue with artists, curators, writers, and theorists working world-wide.

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