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… for Bushwick Open Studios
My studio will be open during the 2010 Bushwick Open Studios, June 5-6, noon to 6pm.
free cold adult beverages will be served and the A.C. will be on. There are six of us in the building showing paintings, drawings, collage, prints, photographs and sculpture. 796 Broadway at the Flushing M or J local, #52 on the printed directory.
…may be impossible.
it’s titled ‘quarry’
update: it is in the show, and has had a few modifications. see below.
Three pics of the studio setup.
This is for a show opening January 15, 2010, at A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn.
Monday, October 12th at 7pm,
Claire Oliver Gallery
513 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
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Preview the work
I’ve got one piece in this benefit. It’s a companion photograph to the “A Faraway City” installation from spring, a photograph made of the centerpiece construction (you can see it on the link above).
There are no more clues on the back. another favorite: “I liked the way you said goodbye” written below a lake scene that’s mostly obscured by foreground branches.
for the moment, i’ve gone over the edge into a crazy obsession with postcards. the views that are both generic and obscure combined with a shorthand intimacy make me wonder what sort of narrative could be invented. the brief text was necessary because the so-called postcard era (1900-1906) precluded any text save for address on the back. A new body of work may be forthcoming..
“Let’s spend our vacation in…”
I will be in a group show in the spring of 2010. my piece will be a maquette of a power plant type of structure set into a rocky cliff bordering a lake, waterfall and bridge. The piece will be about anticipation.
here are a two new drawings made while traveling by bus. these will be backgrounds in new constructions for photographs.
Here’s a pic of my piece in the Bushwick Biennial, up through July 19 at NURTUREart Gallery. More detail pics are on my website.
Please come to the reception on Saturday June 6, 7-9pm, at NURTUREart gallery.
more info: bushwick biennial
nurtureart gallery
Directions:
L train to the Grand Street stop (only ten minutes from Union Square). From the exit walk one block east of Bushwick Avenue (past the school) on Grand Street. Look for the NURTUREart Banner at 910 Grand Street, just after the traffic light at Waterbury Street. The gallery is open Thursday through Monday from 12-6.
Curated by Benjamin Evans, featuring work by James Reeder (–details of my work are below–), Rahul Alexander, Jonathan Brand, Deborah Brown, Jaclyn Conley, Mike Estabrook, Jason Falchoock, Josey Hale, Audrey Hasen Russell, Meg Hitchcock, Kim Holleman, scrapworm, Radek Szczesny and Christopher Hagerty.
Friday May 29, 6-9pm, at A.M. Richard Fine Art, 328 Berry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
cross street is S4th Street
L to Bedford or J,M,Z to Marcy Avenue
here’s a very small detail of my installation Coney Island:
progress update pics for A.M. Richard gallery: “Coney Island”
the pieces for the photograms for coney island installation
the finished photograms
for Nurture Art Gallery: “No Place in Bushwick”
Bushwick Biennial installation piece in progress
…wanting something so intensely you turn inside out, like going all the way around on the swingset; the rides and experiences at coney island in its utopian heyday were intended to deliver an otherworldly experience, to transport the person to a place completely dettached from the reality of gritty manhattan – a dreamland, underwater, the moon, anywhere. no place.
the small-scale installation at A.M. Richard gallery will represent my vision of coney island. i’m undecided about going to visit coney. i already know its multilayered history of escapist fantasy, and the feud between this unreal environment and the natural landscape of the atlantic coast. the piece will be a memory of what coney island was like before i’m let down by it’s current exhausted state. i’m building a coney island i won’t visit.
the bushwick biennial piece for nurture art gallery continues these themes, centering on the process of building non-places with an installation that will include viewfinders scavenged from disposable cameras.
“What you alter in remembering has yet a reality, known or not.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road. This line coming about halfway through the book is as if a violent pink wad of bubblegum was spat smack in the eye of the bleakest dystopian bleached gray. that’s a beautiful thing.
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