~BROOKLYN’S BACKYARD . . . 2-UP at SOLOWAY
YO YA’LL !! artlovers going mighty locavore for the upcoming art fair weekend.
first up: BROOKLYN.
a local indie gallery, run by local artists, NO LESS.
showcasing a young NYC-based indie art collective, NO LESS.
PHOTO: ANNETTE WEHRHAHN, SOLOWAY
SOLOWAY INVITES YOU – TO AN EVENING of ART, MUSIC & PERFORMANCES – in their BACKYARD
to-nite: SUNDAY – APRIL 29, 2012 / 7-9 PM
SOLOWAY – 348 SOUTH 4TH ST – BROOKLYN, NY
note: REGULAR GALLERY HRS: SAT + SUN 12 – 5 PM
SOLOWAY invites you to ‘PERFORMANCE FOLIO’, an evening of performances and readings by members of 2-UP in the backyard of the gallery. This event will celebrate the conclusion of 2-UP’s exhibition ‘FOLIO’ currently on view in the gallery.
ABOUT 2-UP:
over the past few years 2-UP has produced a series of poster publications. This has been the first group exhibition of the individual members’ work in a gallery space. The exhibition is structured in two parts: a free newspaper that disassembles into 7 double-sided posters, and corresponding works in the gallery. Members of 2-UP participating in the exhibition are: COLLEEN ASPER, MATTHEA HARVEY, CHRISTIAN HAWKEY, CATHY PARK HONG, ZEREK KEMPF, BENJAMIN KRESS, NATHAN LEE, PAUL LEGAULT, JEN LIU, MORES McWREATH, ADAM SHECTOR, JOE WINTER, and MONIKA ZARZECZNA.
see: 2-UP
for sure, check out: their ARCHIVE PAGE / 2-UP
Still from GOLDFARB’S ‘DEEP CYCLE’ project/courtesy: 2-UP ARCHIVES
UP-DATE: TUES MAY 1, 2012
PHOTOS FROM: ‘PERFORMANCE: FOLIO – presented by 2-UP
at the closing party for their gallery show & newspaper poster project – at SOLOWAY, BROOKLYN, N.Y.
SUN APRIL 29, 2012
the 2 year old SOLOWAY artist-run gallery space, located at 348 South 4th St., just off Keap St. – in Williamsburg, BROOKLYN.
in the storefront window: black and white poster/newspaper sheets from the ‘2-UP: FOLIO’ collaborative show inside.
the show ran April 7 – 29, 2012. to-nite was the closing party.
detail: ADAM SHECTER, ‘Exercise: Problem Behaviors / Group Dynamics’. (!!) (!!) and more (!!). ha. tell me bout it.
2-UP – a New York City based art collective – produced a double-sided multi-page (unbound) ‘newspaper’ for the show. each contributor was given a 2 page spread – essentially a poster – and the newspaper was free – available inside the gallery & yours for the taking !!
the 2-UP – logo. nice graphics – all around.
very what’s happening in NYC right now – on the cutting edge.
inside the gallery: a poster on newsprint by BENJAMIN KRESS.
also on view: the ‘2-UP:FOLIO’ / SOLOWAY APRIL 2012 edition . . . production screens.
standing on piles of the finished newspapers – that open up into double-sided posters, with a mission statement and a key to the contributors – in the centerfold.
on the table a set of ‘tarot’ cards by ADAM SHECTER.
above them, some really funny great plastic bag ‘drawings’ by JEN LIU. ink on paper – their correct title: ‘potato heads’ !!
heading into the gallery’s backyard – for the evening’s performances.
MUNRO GALLOWAY and TOMER ALUF – two of the 4 SOLOWAY directors.
PAT PALERMO is another director, and ANNETTE WEHRHAHN rounds out the group of 4. it’s her living space at the back of the gallery that you move through – to get to the backyard. and that’s her free-standing, glass enclosed studio popping up – in the backyard.
a guest.
the first performance . . .
PAUL LEGAULT read-singing from his ‘Translation Manifesto’ accompanied by poet JOSEPH BRADSHAW on the banjo.
yes, I did hear the words: ‘singularity’ (!!) and ‘love’ mentioned in the very same sentence.
as well as: ‘order’ and ‘void’. it all made sense to me. future – present.
2-UP’S JOE WINTER, CATHY PARK HONG, and ADAM SHECTER.
CATHY PARK HONG had just delivered up a very dry, often quirky-funny take, mostly on being a stand-up comedian. and a woman, and a Korean, with a little bit of Canadian, thrown in for good measure.
ADAM SHECTER – a co-founder of 2-UP . . . a “collaborative poster project” – that was founded in Feb of 2010.
and yes, Adam says: “we are NY based, and nomadic (i.e. operating out of our apt).”
that’s a great term for a long-standing NYC alternative-art tradition – nomadic (!!) love it.
even the gallery space, SOLOWAY, seems to take place in the middle, o.k. front of … co-director ANNETTE WEHRMAN’S living space. a classic NYC – railroad apartment. (!!)
a lot of alternative ‘storefronts’ back in the day, the early 80s, when the Lower East Side – really made its claim to glory and really was the mecca, and not the trendy mall: boutique, bar and restaurant scene it has morphed into – started out that way. 5 Rivington St. and the Bowery – hello !!
and, JOE WINTER – the other co-founder of 2-UP.
see: THIS IS 2-UP
AARON CAMPBELL and JEN LIU played a zen-like musical piece – on 2 halves of a ‘split’ cello.
yes, a cello – split right down the middle.
AARON CAMPBELL on the split cello.
the ‘split’ cello at rest, in its 2-sided case.
JANE BENSON, who was present in the background, acting as the performance’s ‘conductor’ – made the split cello, as part of her body of work: the Splits.
(I’d like to see what else – she splits . . .)
the strangely compelling ‘split’ music was performed to a projected slide of poetry/philosophy/futurism by JANE BENSON, who pointed a laser at the text during the performance.
or in their own words: JEN LIU and JANE BENSON . . “present a piece about the indefinable present, through a palindromic text score and shepard tones played on the 2 split halves of a cello.”
2 guests enjoying the evening’s – unique – and very unpredictable playlist . . .
which included performance artist MORES McWREATH serving up some pretty funny deadpan one-liners – to a variety of hand-made and very ‘creative’ slide images – a ‘digital slideshow’ – which also included some pretty funny & very in-your-face – brief autobiographical video loops.
in a nutshell: still frames interspersed with action. accompanied by a drop-dead narrative that cut to the (unexpected) bone of all existence.
MORES McWREATH – slide projection.
MORES McWREATH – slide projection.
MORES McWREATH – slide projection.
MORES McWREATH – slide projection.
was this, the one about – ‘domestic’ abuse ?
MORES McWREATH – slide projection.
or was it this – one.
I was too caught up in the deadpan/one-liner moment to take notes !!
though, this piece in particular, and the extreme anti-eloquence of the whole deal – reminded me of the early ‘concrete’ and dry humor of the once young too, JOE BRADLEY – when he first started out. confounding all the usual, and predictably clueless (!!) mainstream art world – suspects.
i.e. the so-called “critics.” you know, pass the (jerry) saltz. and go on to . . . collect.
one last look behind at the Brooklyn storefront – window.
newspaper poster by NATHAN LEE. yo, CASPER – the friendly ghost !! NYC ca. 2012 – sure loves its ghosts !!
UNDETECTABLE – think on that – for a moment.
and, on the reverse side – just shadowing through, the ‘flower/fan’ by MONIKA ZARZECZNA.
ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, at SOLOWAY in BROOKLYN, N.Y., APRIL 29, 2012