New Press

Two new great new items to share this month:

Carol Devine’s “Discard/art Svalbard Floating Exhibition” on Maptia

Jeff Reuben’s write-up of the Chance Ecologies show for Untapped Cities

NESL in Intersecting Imaginaries

Photographs by Rena Lee

Intersecting Imaginaries, by No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab

Next Epoch Seed Library

Gyre at USC Fisher Museum

GYRE: Our Plastic Ocean is now on view at the USC Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles through November 21st.

Press Release

Write-Up by Allison Meier on Hyperallergic, Sept. 1, 2015

Herbarium

Here are some snapshots of my project for In-Site, including a few of the installation process. These are all enlarged images of weeds from South Orange, wheatpasted onto nearby buildings. Will be editing documentation soon!

New Artist Statement

As a sculptor, my artistic strategy involves re-contextualizing existing elements: presentation rather than representation. My process is resourceful, responsive, and playful. I spend as much time researching, exploring sites, and scavenging for materials as I do making.

I often work with junk and junk-spaces: materials and places that are overlooked, untended, and thus host to numerous extraordinary possibilities; places where artifacts accumulate and history is most visible. I am also interested in the intersection of nature and culture, including the varied representations of plant-life for commercial and decorative purposes.

I produce public interventions, work for traditional gallery settings, web-based projects, and publications. I learn different things from each way of working.

Installation on Upvan Lake

A little preview …. still editing / waiting for documentation of my second project for the Upvan Art Festival, supported by FCA’s Emergency Grant. A little sculpture installed on a tiny island in the lake, via paddleboat.

Here are some video clips from the installation — one of the most surreal installations I’ve experienced.

Reconciliation of the Opposites

During my time in Thane, I took a brief trip to Borivali, Mumbai to give a slide lecture at Cona, a space run primarily by Shreyas Karle and Hemali Bhuta. We had a nice conversation about public art in an Indian vs. western context, and I answered questions from students about finding one’s way as an artist and the creative process.

Shreyas printed these beautiful invitation cards for my lecture, which he titled “reconciliation of the opposites”.

Images from Upvan Lake’s foursquare page

https://foursquare.com/v/upvan-lake-thane-maharastra/4b5d250ff964a5206d5429e3

I like these square tree barriers/corrals/enclosures.

Uh oh

And the comments!

• There’s a huge crocodile in the lake!
  February 25, 2012
• A beautiful scenic and panoramic views of the the lake! Don’t spoil with ur public display of ur emotions! Ppl are here to enjoy the other beauty,which is divine!
  July 24, 2011
• It’s so romantic here.
  May 25
• Best time to visit at morning so can enjoy strolling on the lake side and enjoy the fresh air blowing.
  April 29
• Good place to be with yr loved once
  July 19, 2011
• The silence of this place is so loud that you won’t be able to hear your own thoughts. This silence takes over your thoughts – Good or Bad.
  June 8, 2012
• Calm u quite plc
  April 21, 2012
• Jst enjoy with ur girlfriend cos its lovers point
  April 5, 2012
• Awesum place to hangout wid frnds n hav a sip of beer 😉
  March 18, 2011

RE_001: First Communion of Anemic Young Girls In The Snow and other works.

On view at Interstate Projects for another couple weeks. Here are a few favorite pieces:

RICHARD’s co-authored catalog of anonymous entries experiments with the idea that thinking of readymades as capital “A” art might be less interesting than observing how their production and dissemination works (or could work) in everyday life.

New Growth Documentation

All photos by Tsubasa Berg.