Talent | Agency is a site-non-specific entity devoted to facilitating opportunities for artists to create and/or show work to new audiences. To date, Talent | Agency has created residency and accompanying exhibition opportunities for four artists: Rachel Gloria Manly, IlaSahai Prouty, Tanner Gasco-Wiggin, and Jenny Dougherty McGee. Each of these artists spent time in a fallow storefront on Fore Street in Portland, ME., which was available to Talent | Agency thanks to the generosity of Jessica Tomlinson of Maine College of Art and Boulous Group in Portland. Now non-locally located, Talent | Agency looks forward to igniting opportunities for audiences to encounter the work of remarkable artists who can use a little agency.
detail of IlaSahai Prouty's installation with jacket on a model. In the installation it hung on a hanger adjacent to video projection, until the projector was stolen from the vacant space.
IlaSahai Prouty's statement about Goldilocks Save the World: From War installation:
For the Dream Repeater project, I'm collecting dreams from other people and then repeating them in various ways. I remake the dreams, I retell them, I reenact them and I invite others to adopt them.
Goldilocks, Save the World: From War, installation by IlaSahai Prouty, artist-in-residence, Fall 2012. A jacket, pants and boots from an army uniform from the Afghanistan War, paper flowers, pins, video projection.
detail, Goldilocks Save the World: From War, by IlaSahai Prouty
detail, Goldilocks Save the World: From War, by IlaSahai Prouty
installation view, Goldilocks Save the World: From War, by IlaSahai Prouty
Jenny Dougherty McGee's installation at Talent | Agency, Spring, 2013
Jenny Dougherty McGee's installation at Talent | Agency, Fall, 2012 (exterior view of installation with reflections of buildings across Fore Street).
Jenny Dougherty McGee's installation at Talent | Agency, Fall, 2012 (exterior view of installation with reflections of shrub and tree on Fore Street).
Rachel Manley's installation, Summer, 2012
Rachel Gloria Manly enjoys seeing her name in vinyl for the first time.