~VIRTUAL INSANITY/last call !!
LAST WEEK TO CATCH – VIRTUAL INSANITY !!
the card – for VIRTUAL INSANITY – a small group show curated by MAXWELL WILLIAMS – with MICHAEL BELL-SMITH, JOHN MICHAEL BOLING, OLAF BREUNING, KATHY GRAYSON, JAMES HOWARD, LUCKY DRAGONS, JILL MAGID & TIFFANY MALAKKOTI.
the show opened on MARCH 21 and runs – just thru this SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2009.
CINDERS GALLERY – 103 HAVEMEYER – WILLIAMSBURG – BROOKLYN.
HRS: WED-SUN 1-7PM
the show’s card – above – has got to be the best card for the year, so far !! dunno bout the show – it had a strange all-over feeling – maybe that was the point !! – but the card is a poppin’ classic !!
the show has scored 2 reviews.
check out: VIRTUAL INSANITY on FLAVORPILL !!
and, check out: VIRTUAL INSANITY on FADER !!
. . . we were !! at the OPENING – & – here’s the OPENING PIX !!
well, this was a strange enough show. it wasn’t like it was the most poppin’ show I’d ever seen, esp at Cinders. but maybe that was the counterintuitive point !!: virtual insanity is not dramatic – like a hand-made woodcut by CANNONBALL PRESS (aka MIKE HOUSTON & MARTIN MAZORRA) – or even the crazy screenprint world of BRIAN CHIPPENDALE – but more like – digital – blanket invasive. as in – too many emails !! hold the info. and please next time – pass on the OLAF BREUNING – he’s way too over-exposed !!
MICHAEL BELL-SMITH contributed a beautiful little loop projection, ‘Return to Forever’, 2009
Courtesy the artist and FOXY PRODUCTION.
MICHAEL BELL-SMITH, ‘Return to Forever;, 2009
HD video loop (edition of 3), Dimensions variable.
well, it was projected small – but dimensions are variable – so imagine it big. on the wall facing your bed !! forever.
would you ever need to go outside, again. well that’s a thought – that makes a beautiful digital thing: turn and go wrong.
of course that’s insane. or might make you insane. but if you weren’t captive on a spaceship – or almost as bad – an inner city housing complex with no patch of sky in sight – and could walk out a door anytime in the real world, and hopefully every now and then be witness to a real sunset – on water well, then it’s not so scary. but what can you really see from your window ?
and, when’s the last time you saw a sunset on water ?
KATHY GRAYSON, ‘Lava Life’, 2009. oil and acrylic on panel. 16 x 20 in.
Courtesy the artist and KIM LIGHT/LIGHTBOX, Los Angeles.
Kathy calls these . . . “self portraits of bad photo booth green screening” !!
WHAT !! green screening / gone wrong ? LOL. too many digital options !!
KATHY GRAYSON, ‘Lost’, 2009. oil and acrylic on panel. 16 x 20 in.
Courtesy the artist and KIM LIGHT/LIGHTBOX, Los Angeles.
KATHY GRAYSON, ‘Ray Man’, 2009. oil and acrylic on panel. 16 x 20 in.
Courtesy the artist and KIM LIGHT/LIGHTBOX, Los Angeles.
TIFFANY MALAKOOTI, Gmail (Self Portrait)’ 1 & 2.
most curious – to come around the virtual curve – simulated – digital – drawings.
TIFFANY MALAKOOTI, ‘Gmail (Self Portrait) 1’, 2009
Graphite on paper, 11 x 8.5 in.
Courtesy the collection of M. Ernest Williams
TIFFANY MALAKOOTI, ‘Gmail (Self Portrait) 2’, 2009
Graphite on paper, 11 x 8.5 in.
Courtesy the collection of M. Ernest Williams
JAMES HOWARD, ‘Neurotransmitter Warehouse (Yukiko Version)’, 2009
Print on paper (Edition of 3), 59.1 x 39.4 in.
Courtesy the artist
. . . seamless digital manipulation.
JAMES HOWARD, ‘Large Victory Game’, 2009
Print on paper (Edition of 3), 59.1 x 39.4 in.
Courtesy the artist
detail, James Howard, ‘Large Victory Game’.
LUCKY DRAGONS, ‘Peace on earth’, 2009
Customized electronics, software, Dimensions variable.
Courtesy the artist.
JOHN MICHAEL BOLING, ‘Twenty Years Ago Today’, 2007
Quicktime screen capture of website (Edition of 4)
Infinite loop, Courtesy the artist.
on the right, MAXWELL WILLIAMS – the show’s curator.
KATHY GRAYSON (right), with PATRICK GRIFFIN.
PATRICK GRIFFIN was wearing a g-r-e-a-t button.
center, snappin snaps – NICK KUSZYK !!
on the left, STO, and at the right, the curator of ‘VIRTUAL INSANITY’, MAXWELL WILLIAMS>
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH