Alejandro Loureiro Lorenzo is an artist based in New York. Originally more of a sculptor, Alejandro began to work with photography but while continuing to think sculpturally. Much of the work is of cold and minimal spaces and subjects often from nature that the artist then removes even more from in editing. This leaves the viewer with stripped down, abstract depictions that seem lifeless and eerie.
Andrew Salomone is an artist based in New York. Salomone uses modern technologies and traditional crafts as a means to make often comical commentary on life.
One project involved utilizing Domino Pizza’s online delivery order forms which allow comments for special instructions. Citing the work of Sol LeWitt, the artist ordered pizzas leaving drawing or cutting instructions for the Domino’s employees to interpret, and delivered the pizzas to art openings.
In Recursive Cosby Sweater, the artist hacked a Brother KH-930e knitting machine to design a portrait of Bill Cosby wearing the sweater of Bill Cosby wearing the sweater of Bill Cosby wearing the sweater to infinitum…
Slava Balasanov is an artist living and working in New York. Slava makes work concerning the developing technologies and their impact on the everyday. Most recent works have involved using downloadable iPhone apps.
The Digit is a giant double ended finger that looms over unsuspecting crowds in Union Square. Much like the glasses worn in John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’, seeing this ominous finger hovering over students, tourists, and street performers reminds the viewer how thin of a line there often is between reality and the virtual.
Bea Fremderman is an artist living and working in Chicago. Much of her work is photography based and incorporates curatorial and sculptural elements that often pertain to how the internet and the mundane shape the everyday experience.
Heath Davis is a guy who would probably shun being called an artist which possibly makes him an even better one. He lives in the Northwest United States between an RV and his van when he’s not working as a lumberjack, at a gym, or on a wildlife preserve.
I first met Heath when I was 14 in Tupelo, Mississippi. I would hang out at a place downtown called The Main Attraction and he would skateboard around the block. We became better friends over the years and it became apparent that Heath had a way of thinking about things that was much more intense than most of the people I knew. He would become fixated on things such as 80’s hair metal, collectible toys, working out, antique furniture, and cartoons. He turned his apartment into what was known among friends as ‘The Museum’ where he curated his life according to his current obsessions.
After a nervous breakdown and turning 30, Heath decided that working five days a week in a factory and living in Tupelo wasn’t what he wanted in life, Heath sold many of his possessions and bought a van. He took off on a cross country trip to document rural America in photographs and live in Wal-Mart parking lots. When his van broke down near Astoria, Washington he decided to stay longer.
For the past few years Heath has taken amazing pictures in his world and made a few videos as well. ‘New Shoes’ was made prior to leaving Tupelo on the steps of The Museum.
Matthew Craven is an artist living and working New York. His works are primarily collages that are reference to different histories and how people perceive history particularly the American past.
Ethan Cook is a New York based artist. Influenced strongly by the work of the abstract painter Joan Mitchell, Ethan works on multiple paintings obsessively using various mediums from curry powder to tie dying the canvas. The strength in his work lies mostly in his acceptance of failure as process. From this he makes his best work and stands to be a stronger artist for it.
Elijah Burgher is an artist based in Chicago. Much of his work is based on sigil magick, a way of deconstructing a desire and reforming it as a kind of entity that serves as a tool in achieving said desire. Often his work has to do with his own sexuality. While the art isn’t aggressive necessarily, its usually very direct with clean lines and somewhat vibrant but muted colors.
I’ve been wanting to do a show with this guy for awhile now and it hasn’t happened yet. Hopefully this year something can come through.
Joshua Caleb Weibley is an artist based in New York. His work is a love letter to drawing theory. I met Josh at a New Years party in Williamsburg and he seemed like a smart guy with some similar thoughts on art as my own. So when he had a show a few weeks later in a small gallery I went to see what he had been working on.
Contents of Archive Fever sat in a room with art that I wasn’t impressed with and perhaps that made it all the more exciting. In what seemed like an ordinary white binder there were what seemed like hundreds of pages blank save for one pencil line drawn across each page. Not knowing Josh, I could see how many people would just walk away confused and not give it a second thought. But that would be their loss because he is one of the most thoughtful and intense artist I have personally worked with and this is a good example of why; The first page of this book was an exact copy of the table of contents from Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever. Each page thereafter had a singular, perfectly straight line that ran across the page, throughout the book, gradually making its way from the top of the pages in the beginning of the book to the bottom at the end. Upon closer inspection it would show that there was mild gradation in each line. This monotonous task was a deconstruction of that very table of contents, meticulously line by line, page by page, until the entirety of the first page had been splayed out through the whole book! I’m sure both Derrida and Sol LeWitt are smiling down on him from somewhere!
Months later I invited him to be apart of a group show I curated called Black & White & Read All Over. For this show he outdid himself with an entirely handwritten duplicate of the closing credits of Avatar (Avatar has longer closing credits that any film ever produced at this point) on old computer printer paper with the notches on the sides. He hung it from the ceiling and weighted the stack on the ground with a bootleg copy of the movie itself he’d picked up in Chinatown. And like a ridiculous Greek column, it stood as an analog monument to state of the art special effects.
Arielle Falk is a New York based artist who works mostly in video and performance. I first came across her work through seeing one of her videos in Bushwick at a group show. Then again with Sunglasses For The Face where she had customized all these sunglasses and taken portraits wearing them.
Her work deals with a kind of tension thats reminiscent of Chris Burden’s without the self mutilation. But thats what makes her work so powerful. It isn’t in your face but carries a sort of a sombre weight.
In The Crossing, a group of individuals make their way through the crowd on random trajectories implying the possibility of collision with one another. As it goes on, more people are added to the mix making it more likely that they will run into each other.
