I’m going to start posting some images by me, or the artists/galleries of work I liked in Miami. First up: some of my photos of Bank‘s booth at Pulse Miami, which consisted entirely of Bari Ziperstein’s work. It was more like a gallery show than a typical “hey we’ve got stuff for sale” presentation so popular at such events. Here is a paragraph from her statement that relates to this work:
My current work continues this investigation of America’s consumer society and its material surplus and waste. Over the past year, I have created a series of small collages that deconstruct idealized domestic scenes that were culled from home décor magazines from the 1950s through the present, including the popular commercial publications Better Homes & Gardens and Architectural Digest. I transform posh interiors into absurd but highly structured environments by laying in paper cut-outs of stark white architectural beams that protrude, contort and escape out of everyday functional objects, such as chairs, tables, chandeliers and dishware. These works on paper function as studies for sculptural interventions on a grand scale.
Bonus photo of Bari and a slightly sunburned James:
Tonight we saw the final perfomance of “Cats on Broadway” from the Bruce High Quality Foundation. That’s our friend Matthew Lutz-Kinoy above in the Hasidic cat outfit. This was during the “Bohemian Rhapsody” section. At the end of the performance, the space is transformed into an American Aprrrrrrrl store as the ultimate symbol of gentrification.
Check out my flickr set for more photos.
MTAA’s latest “Over The Opening” event is tomorrow (Friday the 14th), so go check it out. This is the first one I’m going to miss, as we have tickets to a Charles Mee play.
On December 14, from 7pm to 10 pm, OTO is pleased to present Mike Koller’s “THE HOLIDAY REJECTS”
With the proliferation of video and photography equipment and even more so the availability and user-friendly nature of at-home post-production equipment and software, the do-it-yourself documentarian is a driving force behind all our familial interactions. The need to record, in detail, the various persons and their reactions to all the activities has increasingly become the chief activity itself. The time spent face to face becomes second to the execution of a thorough archive of the event. A smiling photo is more important than the argument it took to create it, the video containing each persons thoughts for the New Year takes precedent over the people themselves. In these ways the family becomes the discarded artifact of creating a visual history of events that are largely fictionalized or staged versions of an unknown third party’s expectations.
The Holiday Season, more than any other, creates a steady stream of videos and photos posted for all to see. Presented in a one night “X-mas Party” format are the photos and videos from 69 different family celebrations in a tribute to the discarded persons who were pivotal to their creation, The Holiday Rejects. True to the season, the party will feature food, drink and music to set the mood. Also featured will be three new animated video projections of a Christmas tree, a window overlooking a wintry landscape and the inescapable Yule Log. Come, imbibe, document, post.
Mike Koller is an artist and musician living and working in Brooklyn.</blockquote>
Go here for directions.
More coverage from Miami (and the Everglades) will be coming soon, but I wanted to point out this from the Brooklyn Philharmonic.
Become a contributing artist to the Brooklyn Philharmonic! Create a video to accompany composer Randy Woolf’s piece, Try to Believe, and you could have your work displayed at the Brooklyn Museum with the Brooklyn Philharmonic!
Go here for more info.
David Opdyke
APR, 2007
site-specific installation with string and 822 paper airplanes
These three galleries have taken over an office building around the corner from Pulse and created one of the better art shows we’ve seen in Miami.
December 4-9, 2007
Opening reception: December 4, 2007. 3-9pm
Daily: December 5-8, 11am-8pm
December 9, 11am-6pm
The press release is here.
My photo above is of a work by David Opdyke. APR refers to Annual Percentage Rate, and the airplanes are made of credit card solicitations sent to him and his friends. His appearance in the show is via Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.
