"Forever is Never" Art Installation Review
Art ain't stuffy! As featured in: The Ithacan Note: This exhibit was formerly on view at Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (where I viewed the work) and was shown all over the world including in London, England. Some people take portraits in the middle of a park. Others take portraits in a department store. Artist Sam Jury takes portraits in the middle of a dream — or at least that’s what she tries to make viewers think. Jury’s mixed media piece “Forever is Never” is an enlightening video that allows the viewer to step into another world, as the artist muddles the line between real-world portraiture and the fantastical world only possible through imagination. Best described as a video collage, this single-piece exhibition housed on the lowest level of Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is about six minutes long and runs on a continuous loop. The mixed-media video combines hundreds of photographs of a blank sculptural head that has differ...