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BARKING AND MEOWING
CLAUDE CLOSKY

By Yolene Grant in 2012–2013 on Oct 28, 2015 with 0 Comments

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Art Engaging Gangs
Curated by Holly Crawford

Group Exhibition
June 6 - July 27, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 14, 2014 with 0 Comments

This group exhibition showcases artists who have engaged with gangs in different ways. The art is the flip side of Norman Rockwell’s middle-class American paintings…

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There are thousands of these lying around
Willis Arnold

Video
May 7th, 2013 - May 18th, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jul 10, 2013 with 0 Comments

There are thousands of these lying around is an attempt to work the boundaries of intrusion as an organizing principle. Each day we are bombarded by messaging,…

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DSM SERIES:
ATTACHMENT DISORDER
&
CROWDED CHAPTERS 1 & 2
Nathania Rubin

Video
April 23rd - May 4th, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 14, 2013 with 0 Comments

In the two hand-drawn animations on view by Nathania Rubin, the narrative is secondary to the drawn line. Each mark determines the next steps of…

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Arlington
Michael Woody

Video
April 4 – April 20, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 14, 2013 with 0 Comments

Arlington is a brief video sketch that relates several stories from a biker community in Arlington, Texas. It focuses primarily on the role of motorcycles…

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Avvolto
Claudia Sbrissa

Installation
April 4 - May 18, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 14, 2013 with 0 Comments

Claudia Sbrissa’s artistic practice is reflective of her feminist artistic identity and is suffused with a quality of romance and material transcendence in which its human traces…

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One of a Kind: Unique Artist’s Books
Curated by Heide Hatry

Group Exhibition
April 4 - May 18, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 14, 2013 with 0 Comments

Experimental and inventive, these unique artist’s books are revealed in all their power and vulnerability. International artist, former rare books seller and maker of unique…

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WOVEN MILIEU II
SU HYUN NAM

Video
February 28 – March 16, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 13, 2013 with 0 Comments

Su Hyun Nam’s work envisions the disintegration of tiny parts of the world. Her videos and installations invite the viewer to look more carefully at…

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Newhall Loop
Stella Ahn

Video
February 14 - 27, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 13, 2013 with 0 Comments

Newhall Loop is a looped, single-channel video that features two characters and no dialogue. Depending on how one looks at it, the line of images…

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This is a story for small children:
a true-life love story

Sujin Lee

Video
January 31 – February 13, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 13, 2013 with 0 Comments

Sujin Lee works with text, video and performance, exploring the way in which different cultural and linguistic systems affect the actions of language. Her artistic…

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The Asynchronous Coma:
Living Screens, Rooms, and Bodies

Gary Pennock

Installation
January 31 - March 16, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 13, 2013 with 0 Comments

Gary Pennock experiments with the intrinsic properties of phenomena and materials to form an aesthetic experience. He attempts to capture the imagination with poetic presentations of…

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Photini (Biomimetic Fireflies)
China Blue

Installation
January 31 - March 16, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 13, 2013 with 0 Comments

China Blue is an artist who captures the tenor of our times by transforming common electronic waste into environmentally focused biomimetic artwork that also sings. In Firefly…

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FLAT OUT: Search: “How To Draw a Woman,”
Male Perspectives from YouTube Result Pages 1-50

Charmaine Ortiz

Video
December 20, 2012 – January 12, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 12, 2013 with 0 Comments

Search: “How To Draw a Woman” is a collection of YouTube videos compiled from male authors who describe the techniques and attributes necessary for portraying…

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FLAT OUT:
Barbra, Mora & Betty
Sara Brannan

Video
December 4th - December 19th, 2012
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 12, 2013 with 0 Comments

Sara Brannan’s work is about gendered spectatorship and female identification in cinema. Using films in the public domain, Brannan identifies and singles out the female…

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FLAT OUT: Aphorisms
Lawrence Mesich

Video
November 15 - December 1, 2012
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 12, 2013 with 0 Comments

Aphorisms is a video piece comprised of a series of short vignettes. Set in familiar work environments, each vignette examines the interactions of two identical figures….

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Cubicles Of Time…
Melanie Perreault

Installation
November 15, 2012 - January 12, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 12, 2013 with 0 Comments

“Cubicles Of Time Backflip Beyond Peppermint Enigmas Before Pungent Topiaries Portray Dreaming Mirages Into Intervals Of Brazilian Inquiries Of Elsewhere Orange”    Jillian never wanted…

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Avatar
Joerg Auzinger

Video Installation
November 15 - January 12, 2013
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 12, 2013 with 0 Comments

In Avatar, Joerg Auzinger grapples with notions of reality. His video installation plays with depictions of the home in order to call into question those things…

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FLAT OUT: Dallas
Tré Chandler

Video
September 13 - 29, 2012
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 11, 2013 with 0 Comments

In an increasingly rhizomatic world defined by information exchange, Tré Chandler sees himself as a transitive vessel: a biological interface for the codes and references that…

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Barking and Meowing
Claude Closky

Installation
September 13 - October 27, 2012
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 10, 2013 with 0 Comments

Barking and Meowing focuses on appearance, spoken language and the space between dialogue and monologue.   The installation is composed of sound and two masks…

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Cloning Celebrity
Jonathon Keats

Installation
September 13 - October 27, 2012
By admin in 2012–2013 on Jun 10, 2013 with 0 Comments

The origin of art is human. Ever since the Venus of Willendorf was sculpted in limestone 25,000 years ago, people have struggled to craft the…

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