Here is my latest video and rewards for the Kickstarter Revolution project!!!
Watch the video and if you like it Support my project HERE on Kickstarter.com! If you donate $30 you can get a full color 11″ x 14″ print of the Robots of the Orient poster you see below!!! I hope you enjoy!
Check out the latest update on the kickstarter website here!
Turns out a video clip and still photograph from the Kickstarter video featuring Danielle Sigler and Darin Rummel won Shag’s photographic “Kissing Contest”!
HERE WE GO everybody. This is the latest project I’ve started with Dani that includes a full line of table ware, a new series of video (the first installment is in the previous post) and an exhibition in Washington DC. I need your help so check it out here on kickstarter.com: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1020369528/revolution
Here is the first installment of a new video project I’ve started that dissects the romantic making process of the twenty first century. More coming soon…
I have begun my artist residency at Glenwood Senior Center with funding from the Brooklyn Arts Council/NEA grant I recently received… I am SO EXCITED. Basically I am going to be teaching a massive group of seniors the basics of blogging, uploading/selling on etsy, and art production. These endeavors will culminate in a kickstarted entrepreneurial project for the seniors via Etsy and a few large public artworks and social events! This is going to get out of hand FAST and I am way too excited. If you, whoever is reading this, want to join in let me know – we are going to be making a LOT of tile and other modular artwork. I’m also going to produce a series of video with them… Let the chaos and whatever else grow! I can’t help but be fixated on John Water’s and Warhol’s videos…
Check out the Glenwood Arts blog HERE for more information including dates and times!
http://glenwoodarts.wordpress.com/
This looks to be a great conference at Portland State University planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Art and Social Practice students. Mr. Fletcher is a great educator-theorist in public and social practice. Just to get a taste of what is going on with his post-studio program, which is hard to comprehend by reading the sparse description of the conference online, read the attached article “Teaching Public art in the twenty-first Century. An Interview with Harrell Fletcher“ by Shelly Willis.
Most of this article is romantic academic bullshit. Yes. But having gone through art school myself I find it refreshing to ponder alternative realities to the studio-artist rubric. Me? I’ll stick with wine, clay and psychosis.
Currently on view at the Socrates Sculpture Park is the 2011 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition. I meandered to the rather spacious park overlooking Manhattan and the East River to research the site and art for the upcoming deadline for the 2012 exhibition.
The works on view are larger in scale and primarily made of permanent materials such as cast concrete, clay and metal with only a few less permanent pieces constructed of earth, polyurethane and found objects. Overall the pieces are engage with the space and site of the park. The large installation by Ben Godward, Pangs of Self Awareness (You Are The One With A Decided Perception), seems to be a vomitious pile of color, texture and volume captured in a hovering cage. Godward’s piece demanded the space in a loud way in contrast to Disenchanted Forest by Roxanne Jackson that seemed to discuss the world around it in a less blatant but still cynical standpoint. In Jackson’s work a large, earth-colored Buffalo rises from the ground adjacent to a shriveled, rainbow-glazed ceramic unicorn. Hidden amongst the trees The Disenchanted Forest does not exhaust romanticism but disregards the viewer and world around it in a absolutely wonderful way. Smells like contemporary art to me. Leave it out of the fucking gallery.
Socrates Sculpture Park: 32-01 Vernon Boulevard at Broadway
Long Island City (Queens), NY 11106.
