June 2017 Residency Summary
Critical Theory I with Stuart Steck • Art is first and foremost an intellectual endeavor. Skills come second. • There is a deskilling & reskilling of art involved in postmodern art which demonstrates that it’s not about technical skill, but intellectual and conceptual practice. • Public perception is still based in technical aesthetic even though all other areas of cultural aesthetics have evolved over time. • “Knowledge is power” - culture creates discourse, we internalize that discourse so that when we act, we are overcome and ruled by culture and systems of power. • Post minimalist and process art is when we see women enter the conversation and begin to evoke organic shapes as a rejection of minimalism. • Alienation of Labor - in an age of mass production there is a guilt surrounding the exploitation of labor. We not longer want to see a trace of the human hand and don’t want to be reminder of those laborers. Pass it Around: Visual Culture & the Internet with Oliver Wasow • Possession of creativity is a fairly recent idea, a lot of great works of art have no known author. • We live in a remix culture - the concept of taking something made by someone else & mixing with other things people made to create a new artwork. • Culture and history used to be passed down, mutated, and changed through storytelling/verbal communication. • With the invention of things such as the Gutenberg press, records, CDs, and books there was no need to pass, change, or alter because they were literally reproduced. • Now with the internet, we are reentering a remix society where things can be mutated, changed, and passed around through culture. Keltie Ferris Artist Talk • the importance of mark-making, using spray paint as a “found mark” • the idea of the painting reconstructing and deconstructing itself • use of non high art, art materials • showing all the phases of a painting, every step is revealed Critique Notes • There are strong visible ties to symbolism & impressionism. • Currently a very homogenous palette and marks: try new surfaces, new materials, new color palettes and get away from anything formulaic. • Try to push the abstraction and step away from the source imagery, see if you miss it. • The concept of bi-product came up due to my desire to depict shadows and light (bi-product of other objects) as well as my desire to use materials such as trash and discarded objects (bi-products of every day life). • Figure out what memory means to me and how it informs my art. • Gesture v. control - push in both directions to the extreme. • Revisit the same sketch in many different ways. • Try working big to help “expand the scene” and get away from the cropped image. • Use photography and photoshop to abstract source imagery, then reference it for a painting or photo transfer onto the surface. • There is a sense of ghosting or a filtered/edited thing of the original. Studio Goals • try to: 1) paint shadows and reflections, and 2) use found substrates and materials • experiment with material, substrates, tools, & variation of abstract subject matter • work on a larger scale • materials to play with: cardboard, paper mache, wood, found materials/paper, deconstructive printmaking, scanning in images and printing/reworking Subjects/ Movements to Research • collage • history of the found object • symbolism • abstract painting • ornament • materiality • provision painting • zombie formalism • memory & intuition Recommended Artists • Mark Bradford • El Anatsui • Eileen Quinlan / Smoke & Mirrors series • Beatrice Milhaus • Aubrey Beardsley • Oscar Mirilo • Kamrooz Aram • Jared Sprecher - monoprint process • Piper Shepard - shadow play, activating space • Armand - accumulation of objects from thrift stores and the traces they leave behind • Kirt Schwitter Merzbau • Jack Whitten’s new work with abstract materials and surfaces • Joan Snyder - 70s floral decorative blobs • Nick Cave • Wendy White • Eric Mattisseau • Hernan Boss Recommended Readings • Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void • Mystic Writing Pad • Ornament & Crime • Painting with Ambivalence essay • Matisse & the Window • Ornament & Abstraction • Art21 series on memory • Ted Talks on memory
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Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Virtual Reality Exhibitions and Cyberdefense Workshops
The tight stuff and the right stuff at tonight’s special event with @babycastles –@di_mo_da @micahnotfound @moisesnotfound @akaprash @princessgollum and many more superstars 7-10pm Only @vrworldnyc #virtuallyexcited #actuallyexcited
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Well, this week starts off strong.
Monday we’re looking forward to checking out the new VR World NYC, which is hosting a virtual reality art show and concert until midnight. If that hasn’t sated your cyberpunk hunger, check out Lin Wang’s cyborg wigs tuesday at Gallery Sensei, the NYFA/NYSCA group show Facial Profiling at C24 Gallery on Thursday, or the “Digital Self Defense and Empowerment Workshops” happening all Saturday afternoon at the New Museum. We love when a week’s itinerary in IRL New York looks like a montage from Hackers.
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VR World NYC
4 East 34th Street
New York, NY
7:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m. Website
Virtual Insanity™: VR + Music
Well this is undoubtedly the coolest thing happening on a Monday night this summer. Babycastles is presenting a virtual reality art show and concert at VR World NYC.
Among the highlights is the Digital Museum of Digital Art, which Paddy and I have both experienced and raved about. It’s seriously one of the best art-viewing experiences you can have this week, so get yourself there ASAP.
Artists: Alfredo Salazar-Caro and his virtual institution Di Mo DA, Art 404, Haleek Maul, James Orlando, HYPER.ZONE, LaJuné McMillian, Michelle Cortese, Michelle Senteio, Nicole Ruggiero, Prashast Thapan
Live performances by:
Icarus Moth, RAFiA, Haleek Maul
Tue
Gallery Sensei
135 Eldridge Street
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Website
Lin Wang: Tenant, Tranant, Trance
This show is only up for two days, a unusual duration for an installation that has to do, on some level, with time. Lin Wang’s semi-narrative installation alludes to past tenants of a surreal domestic space, which itself is somewhat anachronistic—referencing a cyborg future where the synthetic and prosthetic wait to merge with absent bodies. The artist has created a series of household appliances associated with comfort (fans, massage chairs, etc.) combined with wigs. Picture mounds of artificial hair quivering in anticipation of contact with a user. So creepy, yet so alluring.
Artists Space
55 Walker Street
New York, NY
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Website
People's Cultural Plan Launch
This looks good: Mychal Johnson, community activist and member of South Bronx Unite, and artist Chloë Bass will discuss the ins and outs of the People’s Cultural Plan. It’s a grass-roots, social-justice focused alternative to the Department of Cultural Affairs’ CreateNYC plan, which launches this week. The guiding principles here are de-gentrification, cultural equity, and labor equity—three things the city desperately needs, in particular for the survival of the arts.
The event features drinks, opportunities for discussion and mingling, and translators in Chinese and Spanish. This is a great opportunity to meet other artists thinking politically and getting involved in the interrelated labor/gentrification struggles happening now in New York.
Wed
Equity Gallery
245 Broome Street
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Website
Liana Finck: Passing for Human
Liana Finck is the most millennial comic artist I can think of for several reasons. For one, her pen-and-ink melancholic musings on relationships, existential angst, and the never-ending stresses of being a broke 20-something are relatable and often hilarious. Also, she’s built her fan base out of her popular Instagram account. Here’s a chance to see her work (some 80 drawings!) IRL.
EFA Project Space
323 West 39th Street
New York, NY
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.Website
Setting 1880-1920 / Dinner Party
Liliana Dirks-Goodman’s theatrical dinner party/lecture/performance will introduce guests to “the utopian design visions of seven first-wave white feminists” who lived in the decades surrounding the turn of the last century. This is the era when a lot of social “progressives” advocated for urban planning, design, and architectural movements intended to better the lives of the poor and immigrants. We often hear about men’s grand visions for the “city beautiful” or Garden City movements, but the fact that many of these visionaries and activists were women is often overlooked. Their different perspective was often aimed at improving the lives of women as well.
The dinner (arguably the most highly-gendered domestic social activity of the 20th Century) will be prepared by chef Kristin Worral, who will use recipes from Rumford Kitchen’s cookbook.
Thu
MX
167 Canal Street, 5th floor
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Website
My fossil, my echo / my excess, my scrap
This exhibition is curated around the idea of anxieties related to the index. The curatorial statement, from Gabrielle Jensen and Julia Lee, is a bit dense, but the show looks really promising. Chiefly, the concern here seems to be what becomes of an object once it is a record or fragment of itself?
I’m excited to see Carmen Neely included in this exhibition. When I met her on a studio visit years ago I was convinced she’d be an art star. Her work includes personified abstract forms that jump from piece to piece, personal objects embedded in canvases, and plenty of autobiographical ephemera worked into painterly compositions. It definitely fossilizes some weird stuff, and does it charmingly.
Artists: Cristine Brache, Isabel Legate, Carmen Neely, Kayode Ojo, Patrice Renee Washington
C24 Gallery
560 West 24th Street
New York, NY
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Website
Facial Profiling
Curated by David C. Terry, this show looks at identity through the lens of seven NYSCA/NYFA Artists. The artists here touch on issues such as “the observed self, the portrayal of individuals as well as the perceived and projected self, and how we interpret/project imagery as portrait.” Included among the seven is master of selfies/constructed identity Sean Fader, so expect there to be a dash of humor among what could otherwise be heady navel gazing.
Artists: Samira Abbassy, Kwesi Abbensetts, Geoffrey Chadsey, Sean Fader, Michael Ferris Jr. , Kymia Nawabi, Oliver Wasow
Sat
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY
1:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Website
Digital Self-Defense and Empowerment Workshops
In conjunction with the exhibition Paul Ramírez Jonas: Half-Truths, the New Museum has teamed up with Equality Labs and NEW INC residents DATA X and Taeyoon Choi to offer an afternoon of workshops about surveillance and autonomy in the digital age. So spend a muggy Saturday nerding out to all your hacker fantasies in the New Museum’s air conditioning.
Here’s the rundown of workshops:
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Handmade Computers with Taeyoon Choi—learn how to assemble a basic computer that can perform addition, keep time, and store memory! It’s free, but requires registration by emailing
[email protected] .
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Data Selfie with DATA X—DATA X is a creative studio that believes in transparency. Here, they’ll be demonstrating their browser add-on Data Selfie, which tracks the way sites such as Facebook track your data, giving the user a peak at how corporations and their algorithms view us. Register here.
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Digital Self-Defense with Equality Labs—Equality Labs,
“a South Asian women’s, gender non-conforming, and trans tech collective” will present a workshop about protecting one’s information in the age of the surveillance state. This is pretty useful stuff as the world becomes more and more like William Gibson’s worst authoritarian nightmare. The event is limited to 30 participants, so be sure to register here ASAP.
Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan St
Brooklyn, NY
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Website
Meowmania! A Cat Party in Brooklyn
It is Summer in New York City, which means our art event guides tend to be a little heavier on events that are just ridiculous or activism-oriented than usual due to the dearth of art openings. This event is both.
Bring your leashed cat to partake in activities such as a cat photobooth, games, cat-themed drink specials, and a cat costume contest. The whole event is a fundraiser for local cat rescue programs, so all of this “basically internet circa 2012” style shenanigans is at least for a good cause.
Sun
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Website
Performance in the Park: Maren Hassinger's "Pink Trash"
As part of the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Maren Hassinger will be re-staging her 1982 performance “Pink Trash” in Prospect Park. The piece was an important reflection on public space, labor, and “maintenance art”, and seeing it performed three decades later is bound to be something special.
Tickets are $25, but you get a lot of bang for your buck:
1:00 p.m. Special tour of We Wanted a Revolution and conversation with co-curator Rujeko Hockley and Maren Hassinger
2:00 p.m. Walk to Prospect Park
2:15 p.m. Performance of “Pink Trash”
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