Color Studies / Body Radio
A couple weeks ago I visited Parson’s Hall Project Space in Holyoke, MA, a gallery in an old industrial building owned, renovated and occupied by Torsten Burns and Kari Gatske. The renovations are beautiful and there was a great turnout for the opening in the project space. I finally had an excuse to make a piece I’ve been mulling over for months: Color Studies (After Albers) for the show, Body Radio, which shares the space with the launch of the Strange Attractors compilation.
A few years ago a friend found a 40+ snapshots “in a dumpster” of a bunch of business men in a hotel suite, with a stripper in the 80s or early 90s. Following the logic of Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square color studies I made formal paintings from the shapes in these images using gouache. I was attempting to organize a dual way of perceiving these images – the perceptual and formal color relationships (“chromatic interactions”) should merge with the curious social dynamics and power relations of the scene.
Visible Evidence 18
This August I will present my orphan photo archive project The Family Analog at the Visible Evidence 18 conference hosted by NYU, along with some musings about late 20th century theory on photographic archives vs. ideas on instantaneous online archives or image commons, contemporary “system(s) of accumulation, historicity and disappearance…,” the uncanny, semantic categorization, searching, sorting and filtering.
One Hour Photo
I’m tickled to be a part of the conceptual photography exhibition One Hour Photo at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC. (More about One Hour Photo on FB)
You can see my piece on Wednesday, May 12 from 11-12 only! Then it will never be shown in public, sold or reproduced again.
One Hour Photo in the Washington Post
Here’s my contract:
Unmonumental
[darn! the Flickr embed isn’t working so… here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjcAApTH]
I have been collecting images of found sculpture for a few years now. Judging from the inaugural exhibition at the New Museum in NYC is seems that this genre of sculpture is called Unmonumental. There are others that collect found sculpture under the rubric Unmonumental as well, like Joy Garnett at her blog Newsgrist.