THINKING WITH OUR HANDS

Artists in “Thinking With our Hands” make in the service of ideas and use ideas in the service of making.


Less gives more.

My most recently shown work, the TFW series, uses the slurry grammar dropping out of our current online language and uses it to dissect the visual art community's favorite philosophic canon to see if the theories (and the grammar) hold up. A few words cut from a sentence is a poignant act; it could end any way. The fragments are not broken instead of whole, they are open instead of closed. Every day we break the authority of text and the shards aren’t waste- they're how we enter the conversation. 


ARTISTS INCLUDE: Donna Cleary, Daniel Allegrucci, Fiorella Gonzales-Vigil, Hovey Brock, Jacob Williams, Simone Couto, Quinn Dukes, Katherine Verdickt, Alexandra Hammond, Chang Shen Tan, Brandi Martin Yu, Christybomb, Seirin Nagano
RABBITHOLE PROJECTS, 
33 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY
Opening Party Wednesday, April 20th from 6:30-9:30PM
Closing Party Thursday, April 21st from 6-8:30PM

 

That Feeling When

I'm currently working with the social media sentence fragments (TFW) that carry more emotional impact than a complete sentence would. How is that possible? 

I have the words transferred onto 20 year-old, beaten-through-use kindergarten building blocks. I'm sentence-diagramming them to figure out how these phrases work. Language as play, language as reconfigurable, language as belonging to those who must make meaning of it.  I'm switching out the social media content with post structuralist quotes about who owns language; this makes a bit more poignant, serious and lighthearted.

"How to Preserve and Display Unfinished Conversations", 2016

This installation sized piece (7' x 8') consists of sentence fragments separated and organized in archival Glassine envelopes. The sequence of cards is not in any particular order. The cards come from a set of flash cards from the fifties. Students combined and recombined them in order to build different sentences. 

This installation will be staged only once. Visitors may purchase one or more cards for $8 each, which will be mailed to buyers after the show. After dispersal, the cards will then be separated forever, dispersed far and wide among buyers. Those who enjoyed the piece intact willingly participate in it's destruction in order to keep a piece for themselves. 
No show date as yet, stay tuned. 

Detail of the installation.

a fraction of the cards to be included, in rows of cards separated from each other and preserved in Glassine envelopes. 

The original box of cards as I found them.

Ritual art – Time and Space exhibition can be seen until January 25, 2016 in Sofia

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This is the fourth of six exhibitions presenting the works of the participating artists in the sixth year of the Old School Residency. On Friday January 15, 2016, Hue Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria will host the exhibition "Ritual Arts - Time and Space". The artists are from Bulgaria, Poland, Spain, China and America. 
My work "Redress", 2015, (fiber/video) is now part of the permanent collection of The Old School Residency.

Limited edition poster available in my new store section:

Redirect: John Gossage Poster, Limited Edition Of 100

Photography Without Photographs opens a conversation about photography and the authority of the self, reminding viewers they have the right and ability to interrogate the artworks they encounter. The more time viewers spend looking and questioning artistic decisions, the more authority they take back, and meaning they create.

In "Redirect: John Gossage", practice imagining what happened while taking the photo, and how choices create meaning without relying only on an art history text, but a strategy of questions. Great for those who love art, art education, photography, teaching, and concepts of curating.  

Proceeds fund airfare to my next residency in Gorna Lipitsa, Bulgaria. Thank you for your consideration and support!

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