Geared: The Culture of Bicycles
Event Description:
2pm Exhibition Tour ...Today
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The Center, Ketchum, FREE
Trained gallery guides offer insights into the artwork on display in free tours of our exhibitions. This exhibition
features work by contemporary artists exploring bicycles as aesthetic objects, economic tools and essential
means of transport. It also includes a selection of custom bicycles - bikes made using the finest design,
crafsmanship and materials.
Admission to The Center gallery is always free!
Part of the ongoing series -
Geared: The Culture of Bicycles
May 28-July 28, 2011
For people of all ages and in all parts of the world, bicycles mean freedom. Kids experience their first moments of independence on bikes—those wheels allow them to explore their neighborhoods and beyond. People around the world use bicycles to get to school and work quickly and cheaply. In the early 20th century, bicycles came to epitomize the New Woman.
Bicycles offer a different kind of freedom to recreational riders; this is particularly true in the Wood River Valley. From early spring through late fall, cyclists are a constant on the bike path, Highway 75, and back country trails. Cars and buses bear racks loaded with mountain bikes and road bikes. We ride primarily for exercise and for pleasure, finding camaraderie on long rides on winding single track or hilly roads. For many residents of the valley, bikes are also an important means of transportation. In other parts of the world, riders use bikes strictly for transport – not recreation. Beyond getting workers to jobs and students to school, bicycles can be transformed into portable shops or services.
Through this multidisciplinary project, The Center celebrates the bicycle in all its forms and uses – as a means of transportation, a vehicle for recreation, and also a site for innovation in design and engineering – a place where craft and industry intersect.
Visual Arts, Ketchum
An exhibition in Ketchum features work by contemporary artists exploring bicycles as aesthetic objects, economic tools and essential means of transport. It also includes a selection of custom and historic bicycles – bikes made using the finest design, craftsmanship and materials.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The Center, Ketchum, FREE
Trained gallery guides offer insights into the artwork on display in free tours of our exhibitions. This exhibition
features work by contemporary artists exploring bicycles as aesthetic objects, economic tools and essential
means of transport. It also includes a selection of custom bicycles - bikes made using the finest design,
crafsmanship and materials.
Admission to The Center gallery is always free!
Part of the ongoing series -
Geared: The Culture of Bicycles
May 28-July 28, 2011
For people of all ages and in all parts of the world, bicycles mean freedom. Kids experience their first moments of independence on bikes—those wheels allow them to explore their neighborhoods and beyond. People around the world use bicycles to get to school and work quickly and cheaply. In the early 20th century, bicycles came to epitomize the New Woman.
Bicycles offer a different kind of freedom to recreational riders; this is particularly true in the Wood River Valley. From early spring through late fall, cyclists are a constant on the bike path, Highway 75, and back country trails. Cars and buses bear racks loaded with mountain bikes and road bikes. We ride primarily for exercise and for pleasure, finding camaraderie on long rides on winding single track or hilly roads. For many residents of the valley, bikes are also an important means of transportation. In other parts of the world, riders use bikes strictly for transport – not recreation. Beyond getting workers to jobs and students to school, bicycles can be transformed into portable shops or services.
Through this multidisciplinary project, The Center celebrates the bicycle in all its forms and uses – as a means of transportation, a vehicle for recreation, and also a site for innovation in design and engineering – a place where craft and industry intersect.
Visual Arts, Ketchum
An exhibition in Ketchum features work by contemporary artists exploring bicycles as aesthetic objects, economic tools and essential means of transport. It also includes a selection of custom and historic bicycles – bikes made using the finest design, craftsmanship and materials.
