December 2012
Join us in Miami Beach for UNTITLED. art
Exhibiting with Cindy Rucker Gallery
December 5-9, 2012
UNTITLED. is an innovation of the traditional art fair model placing emphasis on the quality of the viewer's experience and the contextualization of the artworks exhibited. Housed in a customized beachfront pavilion under the artistic direction of New York based curator, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, UNTITLED. will present a cohesive collection of international works by contemporary artists selected in conversation and collaboration with 50 galleries participating through invitation. The fair will highlight a mix of established and emerging galleries, representing the most impactful living artists at the forefront of contemporary art.
Vernissage by invitation
Monday, December 3, 6-9pm
UNTITLED. Privé
Tuesday, December 4, 7-10pm
Open to the public:
Wednesday, December 5, 11am-7pm
Thursday, December 6, 11am-7pm
Friday, December 7, 11am-7pm
Saturday, December 8, 11am-7pm
Sunday, December 9, 11am-6pm
http://art-untitled.com
https://twitter.com/UNTITLEDmiami
https://www.facebook.com/untitledmiamibeach
http://cindyruckergallery.com
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September 2012
FORGET THE WORDS at numberthirtyfive
New York, New York
September 5 - October 13, 2012
Opening Reception Wednesday, September 5, 6-9pm
The Problem of Universals (Blue) and (Black), 2012, Archival pigment prints mounted to dibond, 32 x 24 in. each
We've contributed these newphotographic works and invited artist Hermes Payrhuber to participate in this conversation without words at numberthirtyfive gallery.
I would think of how words would go up in a thin line quick and harmless and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines were too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds for people who have never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they have never had and cannot have until they forget the words. - William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying)
Works by:
Benjamin Edmiston
Benjamin Houlihan
Joey Kötting
Thomas Martin
Hermes Payrhuber
Amy Sarkisian
Philip Seibel
Including and curated by:
Christopher Daniels
Charles Dunn
Adam Hayes
Gereon Krebber
Gary Rough
Martin Schwenk
Voshardt / Humphrey
numberthirtyfive gallery is pleased to present its thirty-eighth and last exhibition.
numberthirtyfive
141 Attorney Street (at Stanton)
Lower East Side
New York, NY 10002
212.388.9311
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 12pm-6pm
info@numberthirtyfive.com
http://www.numberthirtyfive.com
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February 2012
SAME BUT INDIFFERENT at numberthirtyfive
New York, New York
February 18 - March 25, 2012
Opening Reception Saturday, February 18, 6-8pm
Insert Pause Here, 2012, HD single channel video installation, 2 hr 22 min
We're pleased to present a new video installation and photographs
at numberthirtyfive gallery. This is our first solo exhibition at the gallery.
SAME BUT INDIFFERENT embodies the dilemma of holding multiple viewpoints or choices simultaneously while seeking decisive equilibrium. We propose that indifference be seen as a utopian state of active impartiality, infinite options, and capability to develop in more than one direction, rather than a pejorative describing an apathetic body and mind.
The large scale video installation, Insert Pause Here (above left), confronts these endless perceptual conundrums through a constantly morphing feedback loop of light and color. The video’s alternating vivid and tertiary hues influence a viewer’s experience in correlation to their current mood, energy level, and capacity for patience. It’s entirely optional to absorb the video over a long duration, or far less at a cursory glance. The alluring weightlessness, tension and mesmerizing pattern comments on our obsessive desire to generate and consume information, images, and materials to the point of saturated exhaustion. Wherever we fall on a curve that plots our fluctuating desires, forever we face the exponential task of making a choice. At what point do images and information slip onto a rapidly downward slope of diminishing marginal utility and eventually collapse into a void?
Photographs experiment with similar regenerative concerns and derivative processes across media. Metaphorical edits and cuts appear as bold diagonals and gashes. Colors and patterns are intense and reflective, or densely black. The image origin or reference point from within our own archive appears deliberately negated or obscured. Some images began as drawings and paintings, others as analog or digital photographs, and settle only temporarily in a fixed, unified surface before being reshuffled into another combination and form. In this process, the action of moving images affects the behavior of a page’s edge and its representation in the image. This occurrence places the work somewhere between real and manipulated, sculptural and flat.
numberthirtyfive
141 Attorney Street (at Stanton)
Lower East Side
New York, NY 10002
212.388.9311
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 12pm-6pm
info@numberthirtyfive.com
http://www.numberthirtyfive.com
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December 2011
SUPERNATUREAL at Miyako Yoshinaga
New York, New York
December 15, 2011 - January 28, 2012
Opening Reception Thursday, December 15, 6-8pm
Sunshower (Left), 2011, HD single channel video and
Eternal Return, 2009, HD single channel video with sound
Osamu James Nakagawa
Ingo Günther
Terry Taylor
Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey
Yu Yamauchi
We're pleased to present two video works in this exhibition that challenges conventions of landscape photography. All the artists of SUPERNATUREAL investigate the sublime through personal expeditions and a commitment to intensive image-making processes.
Sunshower explores a mesmerizing foreshortened space caught by a trail of mercurial marks and a nebulous ephemeral background. The omniscient viewpoint both expands the bounds of human perception and compresses the “eyesight” of cinema.
Though sunshowers occur throughout the world as a fleeting meteorological phenomenon, they elicit vivid anthropomorphic interpretations across different cultures. Evocative folklore points to them as signifiers of everything from “ghost rain,”or ”the foxes getting married,” to the extreme of “the Devil’s beating his wife.”
This point between land and sky – where visual and tactile evidence flows into symbolic imagination, and scientific rationales compete to determine what is real, or not – creates a pause for momentary play and extended repeat…
Eternal Return contemplates an intensive five-part study of a view and how we form aesthetic and cultural judgements about landscape. An exploration of time, patience and suspended expectations reveals the inevitable question of whether the pursuit of the sublime in nature is still able to elicit a visceral response. Somewhere between boredom and engagement the mechanics of our focused attention allow unmitigated perception as the images continue indefinitely.
Viewed together, both of these works deal with visual and conceptual limits: rising and falling, cultural projection vs. personal observations of landscapes, beauty and tragedy, calm and violence.
Miyako Yoshinaga
547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
212.268.7132
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11am-6pm
Closed for the holidays December 24 & 31
info@miyakoyoshinaga.com
http://www.miyakoyoshinaga.com
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October 2011
Deconstructing Nature at Hunterdon Art Museum
Clinton, New Jersey
October 2, 2011 - January 29, 2012
Opening Reception Sunday, October 16 from 2-4 pm
The Fall, 2006, HD single channel video with sound
Chris Ballantyne
Gregory Euclide
Kim Keever
Dean Monogenis
Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey
We're pleased to present two video works in this exhibition. Deconstructing Nature is a contemporary interpretation of the modern landscape. By examining the essential qualities of nature through an updated lens, new possibilities emerge. The contemporary landscape is less concerned with a strict portrayal of a beach or a mountain and more concerned with a narrative about nature, regardless of the format. Deconstructing Nature features five artists; all with unique points of view on what happens when nature is dissected in order to return it in a different form.
The artists in Deconstructing Nature share an interest in nature, but take distinct approaches to capturing it in their work. Chris Ballantyne fuses nature and suburban development in his paintings, finding unusual ways to make these two adversaries interact gracefully. Gregory Euclide uses landscape as a springboard to ethereal and delicate dioramas that befuddle the mind with their complexity. Kim Keever incorporates cotton, twigs, plaster, rocks and pigment to make environments that are submerged in water and then photographed, revealing fictitious landscapes never before seen. Dean Monogenis updates the traditional landscape by including architectural elements in his paintings that comment on the fast-paced need for urban growth, which often intersects with nature. The videos of Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey provide a new commentary on environmentalism while questioning whether the pursuit of the sublime in nature is still able to elicit a visceral response.
Sometimes the need to know how something works requires that it be taken apart and examined before putting it back together. When it comes to nature and specifically to the landscape in art, the artists in Deconstructing Nature have begun this process. With great deference to the phenomenon that is nature, these artists have reconstructed landscapes in ways that are visually more challenging, as well as more representative of what nature means to them. While their work varies in medium and context, it is linked by familiar content that is made new by the artists’ singular perspectives. The artists in Deconstructing Nature have developed their own narratives that bring the viewer to a new place; a place they are unable to find in our natural world.
Hunterdon Art Museum
7 Lower Center St.
Clinton, NJ 08809
908.735.8415
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11am-5pm
jonathan@hunterdonartmuseum.org
http://www.hunterdonartmuseum.org
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May 2011
There/Not There at numberthirtyfive
New York, New York
May 14 - June 12, 2011
Opening Reception Saturday, May 14, 6-8pm
Still Silent, 2010, HD single channel video
We'll be presenting this video for the first time in NY.
numberthirtyfive gallery is pleased to present There/Not There, a group show curated around the ideas of illusion, memory and permanence. An illusion being the distortion of the senses revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation, artists often employ this to create a seemingly 3 dimensional space on a 2 dimensional surface. Such is the case with the works in resin by artist Christian Nguyen. Working within a 2 dimensional plane, Nguyen stacks layers of architectural drawings sketched on clear resin, placing colorful dots in the expanding grid of each layer. Here he not only creates depth with point perspective, he also directly addresses the spiritual quality in the geometry of architecture by highlighting each drawings divine proportion. The end result is a room that you can seemingly walk into, even though it only exists in theory.
Alexa Kreissl’s video of water interacting with an architectural sculpture she created in Tilburg in the Netherlands uses the water itself to distort the view of the sculpture. In the first of two videos, the brightly colored metal seems to sway in its reflection on the stilled water’s surface. In the second, the moving water acts as a funhouse mirror to distort and change the sculpture into larger and smaller parts that exist simultaneously.
Daniele Genadry’s work addresses the faults in our unconscious perception. Working from photographs, she selectively highlights or deletes information. With each repeated image, what was very apparent in one view becomes less so in another and so on. Each piece alone reminds us that memories are not perfect recordings but improvised performances where what we believe to be vivid and accurate is in reality a reconstruction of the idea of a place or event.
Adam Hayes’ works discuss the trickery inherent in artifice. Selecting imagery from high fashion and Vegas casinos, he highlights the reconstruction of classical architecture and treatment of drapery, revealing only small bits. Holding true to his sources, or as a deeper critique of the concept, he willingly reveals this grandeur to be simply a flimsy promise, a notion that lies just out of our grasp that if we were to attain it would dissolve in our hands. The drawings hint of something concrete and extravagant but deliver nothing but a thin veil.
Carlos Sandoval De Leon is an artist that explores the distance that exists between the creator of an object and its user. It is in this space that the objects articulate their own deeper meanings through careful staging and juxtapositions. Although his subject matter generally involves specific cultural groups, his aesthetic language draws greatly from the unadorned expanses of minimalism. Unlike so much current art that is to inform, and responds exclusively to, a mediated popular culture, De Leon is more interested in exploring the contexts in which peripheral or immigrant cultures originate and how they function before they are appropriated by the structures of capital.
Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey’s video Still Silent is a a minimalistic ode to the visual (and mental) space between human and cinematic perception. A viewer’s eye is repeatedly drawn to newly-formed snowflakes cast adrift in midair. An ephemeral scenario becomes convincingly concrete for one moment, as the eye of the camera fixes on a single free falling flake. Then transfixed time and motion’s trace slip deceptively back to their repetitive loop.
Daniele Genadry
Adam Hayes
Alexa Kreissl
Christian Nguyen
Carlos Sandoval De Leon
Voshardt/Humphrey
numberthirtyfive
141 Attorney Street (at Stanton)
New York, NY 10002
212.388.9311
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 12pm-6pm
http://www.numberthirtyfive.com
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May 2011
VideoAkt Biennial at the LOOP Video Art Festival
Barcelona, Spain
Hotel Amister
All Day Plasma Screening
May 18, 2011
Parametabolic, 2007, HD single channel video with sound
Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey - Parametabolic - USA
Grimanesa Amorós - Preoccupation - Peru / USA
Sandrine B Skellie – Sub Specie, Aeternitatis (from the perspective of the eternal) - France / USA
This is the second edition of VIDEOAKT, an international video art biennial that alternates between Barcelona, Spain and Berlin, Germany.
VIDEOAKT is a platform for connectivity and creates networks between institutions and organizations to support the development of video art. Artists are selected by curators from invited institutions, as well as from an open call by a jury of experts. The Amister Award sponsors three award recipients, donated by the Amister hotel of Barcelona, from among the artists selected for the open call.
VIDEOAKT aims to promote and create cultural exchanges in the field of visual arts, offering the opportunity of connection between institutions, artists and cultural managers from around the world, putting emphasis on cultural diversity. We also provide a historical and current overview with local projects, and the contextualization of these, within a global sphere..
ABOUT THE AMISTER ART AWARD
The purchase and travel award is given to selected artists participating in the open call competition by the Amister Art Collection of the Amister Hotel in Barcelona. The Amister Hotel Collection, created by collector Sisita Soldevila, consists of the most important video art holdings in Catalonia and the second largest collection in Spain. This extensive collection remains on permanent exhibition in the hotel and comprises a video TV channel where works can be viewed in each room.
Hotel Amister
Av. Roma,93-95
08029 Barcelona, Spain
Tel : (34) 93 363 34 68
http://www.videoaktbiennal.com
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May 2011
Full Screen:A selection of time-based works from
Culturehall artists presented outdoors
at the Big Screen Project
New York, New York
Screenings:
Mon. May 9, 6pm
Tues. May 10, 12-2pm (double screening)
Mon. May 23, 6pm
Tues. May 24, 12-2pm (double screening)
Reception Saturday, May 21, 6-8pm
New & Improved, 2007, HD single channel video with sound
During the month of May, Culturehall is pleased to join the Big Screen Project in New York to present a selection of time-based artworks from members of the contemporary art website. The one-hour program provides a diverse look into the practices of eighteen artists who use video, film, and other media to explore a broad spectrum of concerns.
Colleen Asper
John Baca, Chris Mendoza, and Christopher Robbins
Daniel Bejar
Suki Chan
Constant Dullaart
Jean Alexander Frater
Blazo Kovacevic
Derek Larson
Kelly Mark
Julie Orser
Curver Thoroddsen
Kelly Warman and Tobias Laukemper
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey
The Big Screen Project is an innovative venue for presenting video, film and interactive content to the public. Located at the Eventi Hotel public plaza off Sixth Avenue between 29th and 30th Streets in Chelsea, the park hosts a state-of-the-art 30-foot HD LED screen. The project presents a variety of art, cinema, and new media content, often in partnership with art institutions, film festivals, and non-profit organizations.
Culturehall is a curated online resource for contemporary art where selected artists can share their work with a global audience of curators, collectors, gallerists, and art enthusiasts..
David Andrew Frey, Founder and Director
Tema Stauffer, Curator
Big Screen Project at the Eventi Hotel Plaza
Public plaza behind the hotel, just west of Sixth Avenue between 29/30th Streets
New York, NY 10001
646.217.4730
http://culturehall.com
http://www.bigscreenproject.org
@BigScreenNY updates on Twitter
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March 2011
Function
February 22 - May 20, 2011
Opening Reception
March 10, 2011, 6-8pm
We're pleased to have the following photographs included in this show.
Broken Pattern, 2009; Blindsight, Owl, 2008; Dog and Master, 2009; archival pigment prints
Ligne Roset, Cottelston Advisors and Culturehall are pleased
to present Function, an exhibition curated by David Andrew Frey.
Lucas Blalock
Joseph Burwell
Diane Carr
Ethan Greenbaum
John Houck
Michelle L. Leftheris
David B. Smith
Luke Stettner
Lee Vanderpool
Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey
Ashley Zangle
Function explores a selection of creative practices based on logic, systems and play while in conversation with a working space. Much like design-based objects, which exist to serve a defined physical plane, artworks in the exhibition find their own territory by creating individual sets of rules. Through the use of conceptual and formal concerns, artists in the show contemplate the workings of our contemporary surroundings, ponder perceived structure and examine gaps that may appear on closer inspection.
Artists participating in Function are members of Culturehall, an invitational online artist registry and curatorial project founded by David Andrew Frey.
Ligne Roset
250 Park Avenue South
New York, NY
http://culturehall.com
http://www.lignerosetny.com/special/function.htm
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November 2010
Dynamic Coupling
Fall 2010 edition of Media-N, journal of the College Art Association New Media Caucus
Guest Edited by Jessica Westbrook and Adam Trowbridge
We contributed an interview in this just–published edition.
How can one navigate an art career based upon collaborative practice? And an academic career where collaboration is pivotal…how can it work? These are some of the many questions our fall 2010 edition guest editors, Jessica Westbrook and Adam Trowbridge, a successful collaborating couple themselves, asked a group of established artist-couples working in new media.
The responses are at times fascinating, intimate humorous–as we are given a rare glimpse into these artists' worlds through their shared practice–and at others, informative and thought provoking, as they recount their experiences and describe the advantages and difficulties of "dynamic coupling".
This edition poses timely questions relating to both the making and teaching of new media. It seems that of all art practices, new media lends itself best to collaboration and shared expertise. Yet while the art world can adapt quickly to evolutions in working modes (embracing them as novel and interesting) the financial and structural model of academia make it less agile in responding to changes that could shift teaching philosophies and curricula in such new directions, re-shaping the way artists and students think, make and create.
Contributors:
Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler, Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero of Luftwerk, Annette Barbier and Drew Browning of Un-real Estates, Margarita Benitez and Markus Vogl of // benitez_vogl, Krista Birnbaum and David Politzer, Jon Brumit and Sarah Wagner, JonCates && Jake Elliot, Ben Chang and Silvia Ruzanka, Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG, Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert, Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus of LoVid, Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen of Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Leila Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint, of ecoarttech, Julio Obelleiro and Casilda Sanchez, Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs, Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook.
Reviews: Pat Badani, Jim Jeffers and Daniël Ploeger
Link to the edition: http://www.newmediacaucus.org/wp/?page_id=10
Rachel Clarke, Editor-in-Chief, Media-N
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October 2010
In The Mood For Today
Oct. 02 2010 - Oct. 31 2010
Parellel Venues (Madrid-New York)
Curated by Macu Morán
With the support of INICIARTE Cultural Council of Andalusia
Our work Parametabolic will be shown.
THIS IS A SQUARE
c/ Doctor Fourquet, 24, Madrid
PRESENTATION SCREENING: OCTOBER 2nd (8.30pm)
ON VIEW: October 11th - 17th (8.30pm)
HUB MADRID
Gobernador 26, Madrid
ON VIEW: October 4th - 12th (6pm-9pm)
BDLL Barrio de las Letras
Public Screen
c/ de las Huertas 39, Madrid
ON VIEW: October 4th - 12th
BIG SCREEN PROJECT
Public screen of 30 ft x 16.4 ft
6th Avenue, between 29th and 30th Street
Manhattan, New York
ON VIEW: October 11th - 31st
PROGRAM:
MONDAY
· Moon · Night · Femininity · Virginity · Fertility · Hunting · Wildness·
- Land Party If - 1'40'', 2008 - Cristina Martín Lara. Courtesy gallery Isabel Hurley, Malaga
- Sternennacht - 2' 18'', 2004 - Sabine Gross. Courtesy gallery Magnus Muller, Berlin
- Mantis City - 12' 58'', 2006 - Tobias Bernstrup. Courtesy gallery ADN, Barcelona
- Ages and Death - 4'26'', 2008 - Cristina Artola. Courtesy of the artist, Berlin
- Der Wald - 1'56'', 2006 - Heinz Schmöller. Courtesy of gallery Komet, Berlin
TUESDAY
· Mars · Fire · War · Army · Weapon · Fecundity ·
- Arde lo que será - 1'33'', 2006 - Avelino Sala. Courtesy gallery Espacio Líquido, Gijón
- Sin Not icias de Interés - 6' 40'', 2006 - Oscar Seco. Courtesy gallery Blanca Soto, Madrid
- Game Over, Insert Coin - 1'20'', 2003 - Beatriz Caravaggio. Courtesy of the artist, Madrid
- Elegía 1938 - 5' 34'', 2008 - Dionisio González. Courtesy gallery Max Estrella, Madrid
- The War Prayer - 4' 20'', 2008 - Jenny Marketou. Courtesy gallery Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
WEDNESDAY
· Mercury · Water · Travel · Cultures · Abundance · Goods · Commerce · Volatility ·
- Liquid Silk - 5'00'', 2008 - Gianfranco Foschino. Courtesy of gallery I-20
- The mother of bread - 6' 28'', 2006 - Felipe Ortega Regalado. Courtesy of the artist, Seville
- Happy meal - 12' 10'', 2003 - Shahram Entekhabi. Courtesy gallery Aaran, Tehran
- NewOrder - 5' 28'', 2006 - Angie Bonino. Courtesy of gallery N2, Barcelona
- Parametabolic - 3' 8'', 200 7 - Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey. Courtesy Greene Contemporary, New York
THURSDAY
· Jupiter · Wood · Justice · Wisdom· Cosmos · Order · Happiness ·
- Estudio para el desastre - 3'10'', 2006 - Marisa Mancilla. Courtesy of the Artist, Granada
- Toro's Revenge - 1' 49'', 2006 - Maria Cañas. Courtesy of gallery Isabel Hurley, Malaga
- LifE = mc2 - 4'00'', 2006 - Macu Morán. Courtesy of the Artist, Leon
- Chinchia's vogage - 11'11'', 2004 - Ana de Alvear. Courtesy of the Artist, Madrid
- Transformation - 6'20'', 2008 - Maria Jose Chinchilla. Courtesy of the Artist, Caceres
FRIDAY
· Venus · Metal · Peace · Relaxation · Love · Beauty · Emotions · Dreams ·
- Rose - 1'07'', 2008 - Marcela Cernadas. Courtesy of the Artist, Buenos Aires
- Each breathe - 1' 50''', 2003 – Glenda Leon. Courtesy gallery Habana, Havana
- Gotescauen - 2' 07'', 2007 - Francesca Llopis. Courtesy gallery Trama, Madrid, Barcelona
- Laagtevrezers, 2004, 3'00'', 2004 - Joost Bakker. Courtesy of the artist, Amsterdam
- Videos of Desire - 8'00'', 2010 - Fernando Baena. Courtesy of the artist, Cordoba
SATURDAY
· Saturn · Earth · Agriculture · Time · Chaos · Abstraction · Uncertainty ·
- Lovewar Blitze auf Saturn - 3' 55'', 2005 - Veit Kowald/Benedikt Gahl. Courtesy Wandergalerie, Munich
- Anubis (a mith de_construction) - 4'57'', 2009 -Laura Celada. Courtesy of Gal Ob Art, Barcelona
- Untitled 3 (Stone Killer) - 5'59'', 2006 - Solomon Nagler. Courtesy of the artist. Halifax
- The difficult part is asking the questions - 5'34'', 2004 · Javier Roz. Courtesy of the artist, Caceres
- Running - 47'', 2007 - Chus Garc& iacute;a Fraile. Courtesy gallery ADN, Barcelona
SUNDAY
· Sun · Sky · Light · Truth · Herds · Healing · Muses · Music · Poetry · Art ·
- Reflections - 5'14'', 2006 - Mariana Vassileva. Courtesy of gallery DNA, Berlin
- An exercise - 9'32, 2007 - Anna Gimein. Courtesy of the artist, New York-Madrid
- Arvit (Evening pray) - 4'23'', 2008 - Dafna Shalom. Courtesy of the Artist, Tel Aviv
- La procesion - 4'17'', 2007 - Grimanesa Amoros. Courtesy of gallery Hardcore, Miami
- Jeaux de Mains - 2' 45'', 2002 - Evaristo Benítez. Courtesy gallery Ob Art, Barcelona
http://www.estaesunaplaza.blogspot.com/
http://www.bigscreenproject.org/
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March 2010
Aurora Picture Show
Houston, Texas
Friday March 30, 2010
Our work Parametabolic and New and Improved will be shown.
The point between love and hate is a fine line when you live and work with your partner. The shared physical space of the home and mental space of love and relationships has tremendous influences on the art-making process, development and professional drive of individuals. As part of Fotofest’s Biennial event, Aurora will feature the work of six collaborative teams of artists, including Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Darrin Martin and Jamil Hellu, Potter Belmar Labs, Duke and Battersby, Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey and Dana and Travis Hanmer, this program highlights some of the video art world’s better known teams who know the ups and downs of living and working together during the creative process.
Some of the specific works featured include "I'll Replace You," described as a project that used a casting call then fifty actors to replace the artists in executing the many responsibilities they undertake every day (Jennifer and Kevin McCoy); "Equal/Opposite," which explores our reactions to emotional stimuli by focusing on the aftershock of intimate physical actions (Travis and Dana Hanmer); "Beauty Plus Pity," which sets a colorful single-channel video within a lush viewing environment populated by costumed taxidermic animals (Duke and Battersby); "Subjects Unknown," a photography series and video that takes inspiration from the ambiguous yet intimate relationships documented between men in the history of early photography (Darrin Martin and Jamil Hellu), "Double Thunder" a short video work chronicling a journey through town and country (Potter Belmar Labs) and two videos, "Parametabolic" and "New and Improved" (Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey), that explore states of being and patterns of thinking - from anxiety and restlessness to motivation and control - on personal, social, and institutional levels.
Special thanks to Art Lies, A Contemporary Art Quarterly for their support of this program.
http://aurorapictureshow.org
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March 2010
Oslo Screen Festival
Oslo, Norway
Friday March 12- 14, 2010
Our work Parametabolic will be shown at the 2nd edition of Oslo Screen Festival!
From March 12th to 14th the festival is showing a competition program with experimental film & video art including 60 international and Norwegian films. Our opening party is Friday 12th at 21:00 at Blå with a screening from CultureTV and concert with Center of the Universe.
Screenings and presentations will take place at Filmens Hus Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th at 13:00. On Saturday there will be a special screening from the festival LOOP Barcelona, and an artist talk and film screening of The Cabin (2010) with artist Per Teljer.
On Sunday we will announce the awards for Best Norwegian Video and Best International Video. There will be a presentation with curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and screening from his festival CologneOFF.
The program ends with The Dream That Kicks, a screening with Super 8 classics such as Guerillere Talks by Viviene Dick and T.G. Physic Rally in Heaven by Derek Jarman, presented by Greg Pope.
http://www.blaaoslo.no
http://www.screenfestival.no
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November 2009
Co-Existing and Co-Llaborating
Spaces
Cleveland, Ohio
November 20, 2009 - January 15, 2010
Opening Reception: November 20, 6-9pm
Curated by Mary Magsamen
Curator of Aurora Picture Show, Houston
Featuring film and video by artist teams who present multiple ways of working and thinking about the collaborative process in their art and personal lives.
Artists:
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
Travis and Dana Hanmer
Darrin Martin and Jamil Hellu
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Potter Belmar Labs
Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey
2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, OH
Hours: Tues - Sat 11-5:30, Friday open until 7, Sunday 1-5
Tel: 216.621.2314
www.spacesgallery.org
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InsideOut
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
November 18 - 22, 2009
230 The Fenway, Boston, MA
Tel: 617-267-6100
Sale dates:
Wednesday, November 18, 12-8 pm
*Opening Celebration: 5-8 pm*
Thursday, November 19, 12-8 pm
Friday, November 20, 12-6 pm
Saturday, November 21, 12-6 pm
Sunday, November 22, 12-6 pm
We'll have photographs available from "Double Bind/Double Blind" at the Museum School's celebrated annual sale, where all purchases support student scholarships.
www.smfa.edu
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October 2009
Souvenirs From Earth
Paris, France / Cologne, Germany
We're pleased to announce our affiliation with Souvenirs from Earth, the first TV Station broadcasting a nonstop program of high quality Film and Video Art on the European Cable Network. Our work will be shown on a weekly basis starting October 18th, 2009.
www.souvenirsfromearth.tv
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July 2009
Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, London, UK
Curzon Soho
Video screening, presented by Little Song Films
www.sohoshorts.com
www.littlesongfilms.com
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June 2009
culturetv.tv
featured Parametabolic
www.culturetv.tv
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April 22 - May 24, 2009
Voshardt/Humphrey
Double Bind / Double Blind
Greene Contemporary
9 Clinton Street, New York, NY
An opening reception on Wednesday, April 22 from 6 to 9 p.m. will preview the exhibition.
This will be our first solo exhibition in New York.
www.greenecontemporary.com
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February 7 - 21, 2009
Anonymous Drawings/ Archive Selection 2009
fruehsorge | Galerie für Zeichnung
Heidestr. 46-52 (Gebäude 6)
10557 Berlin
Germany
Opening
Feb 6: 6 - 9pm
www.fruehsorge.com
www.bluetenweiss-berlin.de
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December 3 - 7, 2008
Greene Contemporary at Aqua Art Miami, Wynwood
Greene Contemporary will feature one of our large photographs as a preview of our upcoming solo show of photo and video at the gallery opening April 22, 2009.
The Aqua Art Miami art fair again takes place in two locations simultaneously: one at the Aqua Hotel in South Beach, near Art Basel Miami Beach where the fair was first launched, and Aqua Wynwood in the heart of Miami's gallery district, just a few blocks from the Rubell Collection, and close to other important venues such as the Margulies Collection and the MOCA Goldman warehouse, and a number of other satellite fairs including NADA, Pulse, Scope Miami, Art Miami, Photo Miami, and The Photography Show.
www.greenecontemporary.com
www.aquaartmiami.com
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November 19-23, 2008
InsideOut
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
230 The Fenway
Featuring work by hundreds of established and emerging artists each year—including internationally known SMFA alumni and faculty, current students, and affiliated artists—the annual event has become the largest public art sale in New England, grossing over $1.1 million in 2007 to support student scholarships.
www.smfa.edu
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
Stars & Stripes
Locust Projects
105 NW 23rd Street, Miami
www.locustprojects.org
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October 3 - November 22, 2008
New York/Tampa, Signatures d'Artistes: Dessin
Bleu Acier
Tampa, FL
This is the first in a series of exhibitions, starting with drawing as “signature.” Bleu Acier has invited artists from Haim Chanin Fine Arts of New York as a component of this exhibition.
Drawing is the most direct and immediate manner for an artist to express an idea and create an image. There is no way to hide behind a line. Intellect travels from a personal space into the public realm of the page. Many contemporary artists use drawing as a primary media or significant part of their oeuvre - not simply a preparatory step to painting, printmaking, sculpture or installation. Drawing allows the artist to freely investigate materials and technique, and to rapidly accelerate an idea - thereby providing the viewer with a dynamic record of an inspired thought as it unfolds.
Artists’ Handwriting: Drawing New York /
Tampa includes works by:
Neil Bender
Gregory Green
Steve McClure
Kim Anderson
Joe Griffith
Brian Taylor
Elisabeth Condon
Max Neumann
Peter Soriano
Pierre Mabille
Voshardt/Humphrey
Dominique Labauvie
Herve DiRosa
Vicky Colombet
Dominica Sanchez
Eduardo Santiere
Harvey Tulcensky
Claudia Scalise
Theo Wujcik
www.bleuacier.com
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July 24 - August 29, 2008
It's Not Easy
Exit Underground
at Exit Art
New York, NY
It’s Not Easy is an exhibition inspired by the recent tidal wave of efforts to go “green”. As new buildings seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, as major corporations seek to “green” their practices, and as global warming puts the need to be green at the forefront, we are virtually inundated with social pressures to be environmentally sustainable. But how is the word ‘green’ really interpreted?
www.exitart.org
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July 11 - August 10, 2008
Salem Art Association
Salem, Oregon
Green: Inside/OutWe'll show new photographs with a video installation of "When I Look Up, I Fall Down" in this lush exhibition dedicated to all things green and sustainable. Occupying the newly renovated A.N. Bush Gallery and the pastoral setting of Bush’s Pasture Park, this show includes work by artist and co-organizer KC Hancock, and artists Michael Boonstra, Tatiana Drofyak, Alexandra Opie, Paula Rebsom, Robyn Voshardt/Sven Humphrey, and others.
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April 24 - 28, 2008
Around the Coyote Video Lounge at Artropolis: Curated by LiveBox
Merchandise Mart, Chicago, 8th floor
(concurrent with Art Chicago & NEXT)
Our video New & Improved (above) will be exhibited as an installation.
Solo artist installations:
Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey, Blake Carrington, Fabienne Gautier, Tim Geers, and Julia Oldham
Screening Room:
Marlo Bodzick, Christopher Bruchansky, Ellen Lake, Pierre St Jacques, Elizabeth Riley, Chie Yamayoshi
Around the Coyote, as a cultural partner of The Artist Project at Artropolis, brings you the Around the Coyote Video Lounge curated by LiveBox. ARTropolis is Chicago’s citywide celebration of arts, antiques and culture. The Video Lounge will open for the preview celebrations on April 24th, and run concurrently with Art Chicago through April 28, 2008.
Since the rise of You Tube and the use of video as a communication language, there has been talk about the death of video art. For many it is becoming increasing difficult to access the artistic quality of video art when the format represents entertainment and cheap reproduction. Very recently though, there has been talk of Video as “New.” New York times critic Holland Cotter wrote in January 2008, “At present it is shaped by a combination of pop fantasy, ingrained cybersmarts, neo tribalism and the angst-free take on contemporary life that marks attention-deficient internet culture.” Cotter was talking about a collection of rising video artists who were creating stunning original video. You Tube habitation and the like had liberated these artists to create fearless work. The ARTropolis Video Lounge is a celebration of video as a seminal medium for young artists today.
www.liveboxgallery.com
Newcity Chicago Critic's Pick
http://www.newcitychicago.com
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April 3, 2008
VOYEUR Video Screening
LOOP, Melbourne, Australia
Including VOYEUR members Tammy Honey, Kim Collmer, Shaun Wilson, Magda Matwiejew, Buckius/Manos, Christoph Oertli, Co Gruendler, Anina Schenker, Erica Eyres and Voshardt/Humphrey
www.looponline.com.au
www.voyeurcollective.com
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through April 10, 2008
Utopia of Space: Post for Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republik
Curated by Latitia Norkeit and Maxim Neroda
How does one bring international art into a country which does not have the financial means required to organize an international exhibition? Latitia Norkeit and Maxim Neroda, two artists from Germany who currently live and work in Bishkek, met this challenge by creating a project in cooperation with the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, giving it the provocative title “Post for Kyrgyzstan.” For the past few months, packages have been arriving at the museum from artists all over the world. The exhibition will give visitors access to a wide variety of contemporary art otherwise not available, and also show that art does not necessarily involve expensive materials and immense effort.
Plans are underway for a new incarnation of the exhibition in Nürnberg and Berlin.
www.paeckchen.org
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March 15 - May 10, 2008
Grounded: Photography and Our Contemporary Environment
Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Chase Browder - Isabelle Hayeur - Jenny Kendler -
David Maisel - Tim Maslen & Jennifer Mehra -
John Pfahl - Nichole Van Beek - Caroline Voagen Nelson -
Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey - Scott Wolniak
Curated by Dana Turkovic
Grounded: Photography and Our Contemporary Environment is an exhibition that brings together international photography and video art that focuses on the fundamental relationship between humans and nature and show the complex and dynamic interrelationship between humans and the earth, and to the environmental troubles we are currently confronted with. In partnership with the St. Louis Earth Day organization, the theme of the exhibition was developed through an ongoing discussion with about their interest in adding a collaborative and artistic component that directly involves the community. The group of photographers represented in Grounded are among an intensifying, global movement of artists who are addressing environmental concerns and critically engaging in issues like climate change, extinction, conservation, environmentally sensitive building and planning and waste management and believe that art can play a critical role in providing creative insight into these challenges. Grounded proposes art as a way of creating a better understanding about our relationship with nature and the environment and to explore the renewed role of contemporary art as a leading force in the global debate about the future of the planet. The Ellen Curlee Gallery specializes in contemporary fine art photography with a special emphasis on the work of international photographers.
The gallery is located at 1308-A Washington Ave. in
the Washington Ave Loft district. Hours are 11:00 am to 4:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. (314) 241-1299
http://www.ellencurleegallery.com
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Spring 2008
artMatters
Magazine - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
"Alumni respond to environmental phenomena and wonder if this is the end of the world as we know it"
Mushaboom - from the HoldFast series shot in Nova Scotia - is featured as the cover photograph, along with an installation view of Generator from the V|07 Venice Videoart Fair.
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May 1 - May 24, 2008
vt2
International Digital Art Projects
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
The Block - Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove
This exhibition reflects a global commitment to exploring cultural identity through leading professional arts practice in digital media. Building on 2007’s Vernacular Terrain exhibition, VT2 presents vibrant, innovative screen-based and photo-media works from international and Indigenous Australian new-media artists.
Curated by Stephen Danzig & Lubi Thomas, IDA Projects
Our videos Parametabolic and When I Look Up, I Fall Down will travel to multiple venues in Australia, Japan, and China
http://www.idaprojects.org/IDAA/2008QUT/index.htm
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March 7 - April 13, 2008
Drawing Beyond the Plane
Tampa Museum of Art
Curated by Elaine Gustafson
Includes four white ink drawings from the Tangles series
These four drawings from the Controlled Growth series explore issues of control and intent on an environmental and personal scale: such as natural decay and regeneration, and the surrender of control to chance in the artist's process.
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March 8 - May 18, 2008
Florida Visual Artist Fellowship Exhibition
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Curated by Amy Vigilante Dickerson
Includes our series of seven Non-Natives ink drawings, chaotic masses of ink that create an interwoven system of marks suggestive of undergrowth.
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February 20-23, 2008
Push Play: Abstraction and Performance
College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas
Robyn Voshardt & Sven Humphrey
Paul Slocum
Adad Hannah
Eilleen Maxson
Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand
Enid Baxter Blader
Krista Hoefle
LoVid
Brian DeLevie & Isshaela Ingham
Jeanne Liotta
Mary Benedicto
Erin O'Hara
New and Improvedwill be shown in a video program curated by Andrea Grover, Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand
www.aurorapictureshow.org (Andrea Grover)
www.maryandstephan.com
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February 8, 2008
Monumental
Directors Lounge 2008, Scala Theater, Berlin -
coinciding with the 58th Berlin International Film Festival
Cloudland will be screened in a program curated by Kim Collmer with assistance from Voyeur Collective.
Monumental shows work which in some ways both subverts and rallies behind the notion of monument. Often a singular object suggesting timelessness, the nature of monuments and their meaning becomes more complex as we see evidence of crumbling dynasties around us. The theme for the screening is loosely addressed with works about religious ritual, technology, unfilled journeys, political commemoration, home, pompous ritual, cultural history, and nature's glories. We will be screening an international group of artists. The running time is approximately 55 minutes.
www.kimcollmer.com
www.directorslounge.net
www.voyeurcollective.com
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November 28-29, 2007
MID_E 07
at Arteleku & KM Kulturunea
San Sebastian, Spain
Closer international video art program curated by Colectivo Yox
www.mid-e.com
www.arteleku.net
www.gipuzkoa.net/kultura/katalogoa
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November 2, 2007
Locust Projects, Smash & Grab
exhibition & fundraiser to support
ongoing programs
www.locustprojects.org
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October 11-14, 2007
Around The Coyote Festival, Chicago
Video curated by Catherine Forster of LiveBox
The Fall - video/sound installation in the exhibition hall
When I Look Up, I Fall Down - screenings in the video & media lounge
www.liveboxgallery.com/ExhibitionHallATC.html
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September 2007
New review of our work at V|07 Venice Videoart Fair
you can click here to it see it in our press section or here
www.artfairsinternational.com
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September 21, 2007
Exposed - Video art from Voyeur International Video Collective
Screening at Basement ARI, Fiskars, Finland
Will include our video work & other Voyeur artists.
www.voyeurcollective.com
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July 2007
Bleu Acier is presenting two of our new three-color woodcuts in New Editions. These works were based on our video When I Look Up, I Fall Down, presented at the DiVA video fair in New York earlier this year.
www.bleuacier.com
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installation view at V|07
June 8-9, 2007
Bleu Acier will present our work at the second edition of the V|07 Venice Videoart Fair in Italy, concurrent with the Inauguration of the 52nd Venice Biennale. 25 international galleries were invited to exhibit video and photographs on San Servolo Island.
We've also had good coverage from the V|07 Venice Videoart Fair in June. Upon our return, Art Fairs International magazine asked us to write a guest column about the fair and thoughts on the Biennale.
www.artfairsinternational.com
Exibart, the Italian art publication, just ran an article mentioning us with an image of our "When I Look Up, I Fall Down" video:
www.exibart.com
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June 2007
We'll have a video installation and several drawings in Love's Secret Domain at 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, curated by Seze Devres & Tracey Norman. A group exhibition on contemporary psychedelic art featuring work that is inspired by or inspires heightened states of mind and experimentation with visual perception.
www.seze.net/lsd/
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May 2007
Our video project When I Look Up, I Fall Down has been included in /seconds, issue 5: multitude. /seconds is a UK-based online publishing project.
www.slashseconds.org