art practical #19
Posted July 17, 2010
My review of “They Knew What They Wanted” appears in Art Practical #19.
new publication forthcoming—with your help
Posted June 30, 2010
I contributed art to a new publication initiated by artist and designer extraordinaire Julie Cloutier. Eleven other artists/designers have contributed to City Reader too. Bring their submissions on the theme of the pedestrian to the public by making a Kickstarter donation to Reading Conventions.
Thru 7/31: We have as much time as it takes, Wattis Institute
Updated May 7, 2010
Unlimited Promise (installation view: Wattis), 2009, installation: foil paper, thread, light, shadow, dim. var. Produced in the Breathe Residency at Chinese Arts Centre.
I'm looking forward to exhibiting the light and text installation Unlimited Promise at the Wattis.
We have as much time as it takes presents practices that expose, directly or symbolically, the often unquestioned and overlooked systems and economies related to artistic display in an art gallery located within an educational institution. The show features 10 international artists and collectives working in a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, performance, and video.
Participating artists: Nina Beier and Marie Lund (Berlin/London), David Horvitz (USA), Jason Mena (Puerto Rico), Sandra Nakamura (Lima), Roman Ondák (Slovakia), Red76 (Portland, Ore., USA), Zachary Royer Scholz (San Francisco, Calif., USA), Tercerunquinto (Mexico), Lawrence Weiner (New York/Amsterdam), and Christine Wong Yap (Oakland, Calif., USA).
We have as much time as it takes questions and highlights expectations of achievement, productivity, and established systems of management that make up the programs and academic mission of the Wattis Institute and CCA. The works embody circular processes, resist completion, welcome change, and refute demands for definable results and resolution. They challenge the conventional form of the art object and the traditional parameters of exhibitions.
We have as much time as it takes is curated by second-year students about to receive their master's degrees from CCA's Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice.
The exhibition is accompanied by an exhibition catalog and series of public programs. More information available at Wattis Institute.
Jessica Brier reviewed We have as much time as it takes in Art Practical #16.
We have as much time as it takes
Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice Thesis Exhibition
May 6–July 31, 2010
Reception: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 6–9 pm
Wattis Institute,
1111 Eighth Street,
San Francisco, CA [directions]
Hours: Tues. & Thurs., 11 am–7
pm; Wed., Fri., & Sat., 11 am–6 pm
7/9–7/31: Junk mail show at soap gallery
Curators Andy Vogt and Sarah Smith coerced the 33 artists in this show to confront, read and be inspired by the junk forced on us by the post daily. Junk Mail! artists created homages to the detritus of the mail slot.
John Alderman, Bert Bergen, Meri Brin, Jeff Canham, Randy Colosky, Ilana Crispi, Lauren Davies, Derek Fagerstrom, Tara Lisa Foley, Erica Gangsei, Terrance Graven, Jennie Hinchcliff, Malik Johnson, Ingrid Keir, Kyle Knobel, Bessie Kunath, Miriam Lakes, Denise Laws, Kristina Lewis, Wizard Master, Mike McConnell, Honey McMoney, Daniel Nevers, Kelsey Nicholson, John Riegert, Michelle Rose, Lauren Smith, Sarah Smith, Charlene Tan, Nicolas Torres, Scott Tsuchitani, Andy Vogt, Sam Ward, Christine Wong Yap, and more!
Junk Mail! So many products, So little time...
Curated by Andy Vogt & Sarah Smith
July 9–30, 2010
Reception: Friday, July 9, 6–9pm
Soap Gallery,
3180 Mission St. (b/Cesar Chavez & Valencia), San Francisco
Gallery hours: Mon-Thurs 10 am–1 pm or by appt.
7/23–9/14: unrealised potential at cornerhouse, manchester, uk
Updated June 29, 2010
I've contributed a project concept for this unconventional exhibition of ideas.
Unrealised Potential is a collaborative group exhibition instigated by artist/curator Mike Chavez-Dawson. The show aims to explore the creative potential of artists’ unrealised projects, blurring the lines between artist, curator, visitor and producer.
Mike Chavez-Dawson together with artists Sam Ely and Lynn Harris, co-founders of Unrealised Projects (2003-2010), re-visit Chavez-Dawson's original project Potential Hits (2003), to present an amassed collection of artists unfulfilled proposals in Gallery 1, offering visitors the opportunity to purchase the right to interpret and realise an artist’s idea.
In Gallery 2, artists Brian Reed and Len Horsey realise Liam Gillick’s project PLANTA DE ANODIZADO, transforming the space into a mock business fair pavilion, advertising the products of the Mexican company LGD LUCK SA.
While Gallery 3, presents the first UK display of Strategic Questions 2002-2010 curated by Gavin Wade, with a new commission from RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co). This commission features a new publication; a caged depositary of strategic answers and invites visitors to participate in a process of exchange, all in response to the question What is Wealth?
Featured artists include: Artgoes, Artlab (Charlotte Cullinan & Jeanine Richards), Franko B, Edward Barton, Megan Bell, Eddie Berg, Bert & Ganddie, Monica Biagio, Paul Anthony Black, Garth Bowden, Andrew Bracey, Roisin Byrne, Jane Chavez-Dawson, Norman Clayture, Conor McGarrigle, Contents May Vary, Benjamin Cove, Nick Crowe, Neil Cummings, Oliver East, Volker Eichelmann, Tim Etchells, Doug Fishbone, Leo Fitzmaurice, Yuen Fong Ling, Sue Fox, Mark Garry, Liam Gillick (Realised), David Gledhill, David Griffiths, Janet Griffiths, Richard Healy, Harry Hill, Clare Hope, Len Horsey, Dave Hoyland, John Hyatt, Mark Kennard, Jessica Lack, Laurence Lane, Little Artists (Darren Neave & John Cake), Leigh McCarthy, Roger McKinley, Jim Medway, Jason Minsky, Tom Morton, Neil Mulholland, Robin Nature-Bold, Hayley Newman, Franz Otto Novotny, Owl Project, Graham Parker, Simon Patterson, Adele Prince, Magnus Quaife, Brian Reed, David Shrigley, W. David Titley, Surplus Value, Beata Veszely, Jessica Voosanger, Cecilia Wee, Richard Wilson, Christine Wong Yap, Stuart Wright, Kai-Oi Jay Yung
Get the curator's perspective with a short video on Vimeo.
Unrealised Potential
Curated by Mike
Chavez-Dawson with Sam Ely & Lynn Harris, Brian Reed, Len Horsey, Gavin
Wade and Liam
Gillick
July 17 – September 12, 2010
Cornerhouse,
70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH, UK
2010: Inclusion in Golden Parachutes' flat files
Updated January 5, 2009
My drawings have been selected for inclusion in the flat files at Golden Parachutes in Berlin.
Cheap
and Cheerful #8, 2009, neon and glitter pen, 11.625 x 7.75 inches / 29.5 x 45 cm. Produced in the Breathe Residency at Chinese Arts Centre.
Flatfile is a dynamic one-year exhibition in a large filing cabinet. At any given time, the Golden Parachutes flatfile will house the work of approximately twenty-five international, emerging artists which will be available for public viewing during gallery hours and by appointment.
The flatfile will begin with works by Sumi Ink Club, Anne Polashenski, Caitlin Maisley, Vanina Feldsztein, Tobias Sternberg, Samantha Fox, Jay Anderson, Erik Parra, Paul Diddy, Christine Wong Yap, Gert-Jan Akerboom, Zach Houston, and Kandis Williams.