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Nick Paparone, Brent Wahl, Pagan Putters, Chad Stayrook, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
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EXHIBITION DATES: September 4 - 27, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 4 from 6 - 11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: With ICA Curator Jenelle Porter, September 27 at 3pm
All events free and open to the public.
Vox Populi is pleased to announce September's exhibitions. Featured in the galleries are Nick Paparone; Brent Wahl; a collaborative project by Josh Rickards, Jerstin Crosby, Isaac Lin, and Conny Purtill; and Brooklyn-based artist Chad Stayrook. London-based artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard show in the Video Lounge, and Screening features Hiraki Sawa's Eight Minutes.
Nick Paparone, 30 Days in the Hole
Nick Paparone's latest exhibition at Vox Populi surveys social conventions, values and rituals brought forth through the transitional stages of humanity: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. It parodies the psychological and emotional developments located within the potholes of growth on the road of existence, while offering an exasperated sigh for the failure to fulfill longings to genuinely relive sublime experiences of the past. Erratic sexual repression and fantasy intermingle to form an odor, as that of a piss filled alley. View a trailer here.
Brent Wahl, Arrivals and Departures
Ascending and descending - the rise and fall of culture within the context of nature - is the musing of a new multimedia installation from artist Brent Wahl. Playing off of his frequent use of architecture, fabrication, and ephemeral materials, Wahl will incorporate motion, surveillance, and sound in this exhibition. Based loosely on the model of a zoetrope, Wahl creates a simple but fatefully looped environment visitors may watch unfold but not take part in. Like the prisoners in Plato's Cave, observers will be privy to projections of imagery on a wall. Instead of reality being shifted as it is cast as shadow, a fabricated view of history, nature, and pop culture will be cast as reality.
Josh Rickards, Jerstin Crosby, Isaac Lin, and Conny Purtill, Pagan Putters
Pagan Putters is a group show including works by Jerstin Crosby, Isaac Lin and Josh Rickards, with an isolated event by Conny Purtill. The exhibition explores the relationship between artists and their predecessors. No matter the media or purpose, these artists highlight an unspoken but ongoing relationship with artists who have come before, a salient history. This group of artists makes direct references to past artists and influences (Jan Dibbets and Geroge Grosz) and more generally explores ideas of mark making and appropriation.
Chad Stayrook, Shooting for the Stars
Shooting for the Stars features a series of drawings, sculpture, video, photography, and performance. Recent science news, and topics in the realms of physics and space engineering, are artistically rendered as metaphors for an individual's struggle with personal and professional progress. One piece, Iridium 33 vs. Kosmos 2251, is based on the actual event in which these two satellites collided and were completely destroyed. As is the case with other work in the show, this piece compares this human attempt to harness and control the universe's mysteries with that of an artist's struggle to harness and control the mystery of personal and professional success.
VIDEO LOUNGE
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Walking After Acconci (Redirected Approaches)
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard began working collaboratively at Goldsmiths, graduating together in 1995. They are perhaps best known as artists who create re-enactments of cultural and art historical events and documents. Theirs is an inquiry into the mechanics of liveness, repetition, reception and recollection.
Walking After Acconci (Redirected Approaches) references a seminal video work made in 1973 by performance artist Vito Acconci. In it, Acconci paces the length of a corridor, talking to an absent ex-lover. Forsyth and Pollard worked closely with Plan B (679 Recordings), a sharp-tongued young MC, to update the script and re-shoot the video, liberally adopting the style and aesthetic of contemporary urban music videos.
SCREENING
Hiraki Sawa, Eight Minutes
More information at Screening's website.
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