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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Hello Blogosphere

Hello blogosphere. Sorry I abandoned you a while back. I got busy, you know how it goes.

Until I return...xo.

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

39 Verbs

Tomorrow night, Industry of the Ordinary will be putting on an exciting one night art exhibition.

From their website:
Industry of the Ordinary disseminate second-hand verbs from their previous projects to a variety of art workers in Chicago, to be used in a one-night only event.

My word is accompany.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

New York Friends, Come to the Brooklyn Artillery This Saturday

Starting this weekend, two of my photographs will be up at the Brooklyn Artillery in an exhibition titled "Remember Me When I'm Dead," sponsored by Fleetwing Gallery. There is a public opening tomorrow. Check out works by Alison Brady, George Kotsovos, Kristen Trethewey, David Laspina, Michelle Leftheris, Catlin Price, and Savannah Rusher while you are there. GOOD TIMES!

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

I've been settling into life after grad school for the last few weeks and have neglected to post here for a while. Instead I have been making some new work and doing some reassessing of life and art and other stuff.

Here are some of the artists I've been thinking about:

I saw an exhibition of photographic and video works by Robin Rhode at the Wexner Center for the Arts while passing through Columbus, OH on my way to the Harold Arts Residency. I was fascinated by the way Rhode recast himself as a basketball pro or a rock star through simple drawings and illusion.


Robin Rhode - He Got Game, 2000

Below is a description and video from the Wexner Center's website.

Raised in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, and now based in Berlin, Robin Rhode has emerged in the last decade as a highly influential artist. From an acute personal perspective shaped by South Africa's history of racial discrimination, he highlights the push and pull between the liberating force of the individual's imagination and the confines of media-driven stereotypes.

In many of his best-known projects, Rhode draws crude, life-size outlines of everyday objects on house facades or city streets and interacts with them as if they were the actual physical objects.Here, he'll chart his development with some 20 key examples of wide ranging work: photographic storyboards, animations, films, and performances shown in video documentation. In some he focuses on street activities such as gambling, drinking, or theft. Others stage sequences in which he appears as an imaginary sports superstar, music performer, or magician.




More work here.

Also on my mind are these strange mixed media pieces by Annie Buckley that sort of remind me of Curtis Mann's work. See more here.


Annie Buckley - Sarah Liquid Amber, 2008
Mixed Medium, 84 x 42 inches


Annie Buckley - Phung Royal Palm, 2008
Mixed Medium, 84 x 42 inches

Finally, I wish wish wish I could go to NYC and see Shane Hope's exhibition Your Mom is Open Source at Winkleman Gallery. Hope investigates a possible post-human technological future that is unsettling and strangely alluring. I have read that the prints are amazingly rich and detailed in person. More at Winkleman Gallery website.


Shane Hope- Molecula Simianus En Balloonus Animalia Meet Nanotubular Lepidoptera


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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Columbia College Chicago 2009 MFA Candidates

Just launched! A website/virtual postcard for Columbia College's 2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition with works by myself and this year's eight other MFA candidates. Check it out - www.mfaphotothesis.com. Or stop by and see the photographs in person between May 14 and June 12 at the Glass Curtain Gallery.

(click to enlarge)

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

NEXT

So much going on in the city this weekend! Art Chicago, NEXT, Olafur Eliasson at the MCA, The Edge of Intent at MoCP.

Come by NEXT booth 9046 on the 7th floor of the Merchandise Mart to see my work in the Harold Arts Booth along with Kelly Allen, Melissa Damasauskus, Gabriel Garcia, Regan Golden, Eric Fleischauer, Katy Keefe, Jeremy Lundquist, Brian McNearney, David Moré, Montgomery Perry Smith, and Greg Stimac.

Many of these artists also have works available through the Harold Arts action like this piece by Greg Stimac that I just bid on. Check it out here.


Greg Stimac - Cherokee Costume, 2009

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Monday, April 6, 2009

Urban Gardening

Tomato seeds for my window garden are starting to sprout which made me extra delighted when I came across Samm Kunce's hydroponic sculptures today. The strange codependent universes in these sculptures are particularly startling because they represent the containment of nature for both sustenance and pleasure while also emphasizing the fragility of life. I can't help but imagine a world so depleted that we all must grow our food in fish bowls because they are more sanitary than soil.


Samm Kunce, Hydroponic #4

This piece is part of an exhibition called “And for All This, Nature Is Never Spent,” up at Pelham Art Center through April 25, that was guest curated by Jo Anna Isaak. Read more here.

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