David Herbert "Nostalgia for Infinity"

Opening at POSTMASTERS this Thursday, with an alien in a chair. Not just any alien, it's the alien, with a butterfly and a video featuring a mouse. (saw it last night and it was awesome -very much like the book)

davidherbert

DIE DIE DIE - Serna's mind frothing

Matt's new video. the best and worst yet!
-it's inappropriate for anyone

totally bestial

Recess

I just finished "Quake Arch" for Recess, an art show in "closer than you think" Flushing Queens at Crossing Art. (go to the home page and check out my animated gif) Here's all the official info:

Reception & Asian Contemporary Art Week Event: Sunday May 17th, 2009 2 – 6 pm
Special Performances @ 3 pm*
Curator-led tour & Artist talk for both Exhibitions: Saturday, May 30 6 - 8 pm*
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, April 29th – Saturday, May 30, 2009

(NEW YORK, NY- April, 2009) Crossing Art is pleased to present the group exhibition, Recess. The exhibition will subversively examine theories as of how and why the economy collapsed by examining different types of structures and systems. Recess will feature works by Chen Gang 陳剛, Chris Coffin, Carl Eckhoff, Gabert Farrar, Ben Grasso, Michael Greathouse, He Diqiu 賀棣秋, Timothy Hutchings, Scott Kiernan, Rachel Kohn, Jon Laustsen, Paris Mancini, Meridith Pingree, Patrick Resing, Adam Thompson, and Kai Vierstra.

The title, deduced from the concept of “recession,” sets the stage for an exhibition that promises to reach across the spectrum of possible interpretations. The artwork to be featured tackles the state of mind of “recess” as much as it does the questions of the modes of politics and economic recessions, bringing to the fore artists looking to break down standard structures and systems in order to further examine and understand them. The breadth of the exhibit presents the viewer with a conceptual see-saw, weaving itself through a time-space continuum of the past, present and future as it explores the urban reality of communications systems and Wall Street cultures. The physicality of our own modernity, given weight by re-contextualized images of American currency and the enduring monuments and structures of our day, is challenged, however, by the appearance of historical themes and ideas which seem to imply the fleeting nature of the status quo. With this, one is reminded of a special cultural obsession with the future, its promises and its very novelty, suggesting that as time shuffles on so do our priorities and conceptions of self undergo transformations. The layers are boundless, intimating a need for the creation of new paradigms in the face of what seems a time in which much is uncertain and left up in the air.

The whimsically aesthetic vibrancy as well as the variety of the artwork to be displayed work to intrigue the audience while encouraging discussion of the ways in which even contemporary artists and the artworld may respond to this international financial crisis. Recess aims to begin a revisionary dialogue directed at those current and accepted structures and paradigms, welcoming and inspiring the employment of a critical lens as we approach and attempt to come to terms with these times of uncertainty and imminent changes.

Recess is curated by Crossing Art Assistant Director, Jennifer Junkermeier. For further information on both exhibitions contact Jennifer Junkermeier at 212. 359. 4333 or jennifer@crossingart.com.

Who's eviler? a weatherspooned pirate, or j.c. with his skull prints

The last of the Kos ice




I think the deviled fingerprints are way the evilest of the two

Fritz Welch and Andre Stitt at the lab

-click here to check it out live (Click the play button on the video window for the live feed)

The Lab Gallery is pleased to present SHIFTwork by Andre Stitt and Fritz Welch, curated by Robert Curcio of Curcioprojects. SHIFTwork is a collaborative installation/performance that will investigate the perceptions of the artist’s method of production as “work” and the artist as a cultural worker. The space becomes a public studio for the exploration of the artist as “common worker” and an artistic activity that exposes the performance of painting as labor and cultural practice. This activity takes the form of a series of work “shifts” that reflect labor patterns and “shiftwork” activity throughout the city.

From April 9th to 16th the public can view the artists on the job working/painting on a series of “live” in-situ works through the large windows of the corner street level gallery during their assigned shifts; see above schedule. During rush hour (5:30 – 6:30pm) on April 16th, Stitt and Welch will have a live akshun performance within the space where they will dismantle, cut-up, and construct new works from the debris of the paintings they were just working on for distribution to the public, at no cost to them, before becoming marketable products available through curcioprojects. The residual installation and products/art will be on view until April 24th.

SHIFTwork is the first collaborative piece by Stitt and Welch. Internationally renowned cult performance artist, Andre Stitt first met a teenaged Fritz Welch, during a performance at the Commerce Street Artist’s Warehouse in Houston, Texas in 1989. They kept in communication with each other over the years and when Welch, now a sonic/visual artist, was curating Acute Zonal Occult Outer, a series of performances at The Drawing Center, NYC in 2006 he invited Stitt to create a piece.

Old friends are the sweetest sugar

pretty big sculpture soon

splitting rods and breaking details

pringler

2 years and three welders later, I've finished my round template. I'm pretty excited to break stuff, maybe get a sinkhole. I just got some wood from Rosenzweig that's phenomenal. It's so elastic, I've been getting beautiful bends and intricate fissures the likes you've never seen. So yeah, I'm pretty excited to see what the round quake has in store.

moving

I've been moving around a lot (busy), I gave a artist's talk on Thursday in Philadelphia, it was fun. Meridith took video so if you have 73 minutes to burn, come over so that you may behold.

and unrelated-

earth move from Kai Vierstra on Vimeo.

Three Toothed Cat's Not Scared of Shadow

Meridith noticed that Onslo moved the other day. It looks like spring's coming in fast.

small arch

Converse Miter

from a photo/sculpture of mine

Waxy Column Drawing

Bird Feeding

It snowed like mad today, no birds came to the bird feeder

Condomoanium

be a dork while you work

eleventh blood from Kai Vierstra on Vimeo.

new drawing of a window in the window

BXMA

I love my new job
but I hate fiberglass. Luckily I've got Jason here who eats it for lunch.