John Groo courtesy Real Art Ways Currently on view at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut is a site specific installation by New York-based Chris Kaczmarek. Kaczmarek’s installation seems to tap into the artery of the Bush-era Red/Orange/Yellow zone thinking, wherein one was (is?) perpetually made aware of the changing safety of the current situation, as well as drawing on the theme of citizen surveillance[…..]
Video artist Guy Ben-Ner is a year-long inhabitant of MASS MoCA‘s galleries. His exhibition Thursday the 12th, on view from May 2009 through March 2010, explores family life and imagination, while also questioning culturally proscribed lifestyles. One video, Stealing Beauty, plays like a conventional family sitcom, except that the setting is Ikea store displays in New York, Berlin and Tel Aviv. Another video reinterprets Truffaut’s[…..]
Last weekend, the FLUX which serves a global community and collective of creatives. The group, led by founders Jonathan Wells and designer/gallerist Med Wells, was offered the full gallery to use for new projects and site specific installations. The Super Flux 8 group features an international group of creatives including Max Erdenberger, Sophie Gateau, Terri Timely, YesYesNo. The exhibition will be on view until September[…..]
One of the current exhibition series on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA),The Studio Sessions, explores the work of artists who create performance based conversations regarding their artistic practice and present the videos as the final work. A noteworthy artist within the series, Christian Jankowski created a series of videos titled Telemistica, which explore the popular media world of Italian TV-fortuntellers.[…..]
While contemporary technology has brought forth droves of artists and amateurs alike using digital means to create a photograph, Cassandra C Jones explores digital media without adding to a world over saturated with images. In her current solo show titled Send Me a Link, with Baer Ridgway Exhibitions in San Francisco, Jones recycles images found through internet research and recontextualizes them through still and animated[…..]
It’s unfortunate but rare that art, particularly video work, moves me to the point where I’m exaggeratedly weaving words like “love” and “obsessed” into conversations about it–confessions that some might say belong more within the confines of teenagers’ online message boards about “Twilight” than within the discussion of serious contemporary art. But such is the case with Allison Schulnik‘s claymation video Hobo Clown (2008). The[…..]
