Saturday, March 20, 2010

journey: botanica


desert climate atrium


jordan robin; climbing tree, purple hill


aleksandra mccormack; japanese pond and garden


koi; japanese pond and garden


japanese pond and garden



brooklyn botanical gardens, 2010
photos by cheap champagne

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

meditation: witalny

[v]vital[ny]
poster

[v]vital[ny]
postcard


[v]vital[ny] looks to the ephemeral to challenge positions of privilege and encourage interactions between groups that occupy the same space





[v]vital[ny]
stencil


witalny is currently addressing the north williamsburg - greenpoint area.


Sunday, March 7, 2010

visions: making out

Perhaps the most captivating thing at the Tino Sehgal show were the two people I saw dramatically making out at the bottom of the void. It is unclear how they fit into the Tino Sehgal performance - a three part conversation about progress. Or if they were part of The Guggenheim museum programs at all. I'd like to think they weren't.

xx
Jordan




visions: at the armory

My suspicion is confirmed, that going to the armory show on a saturday is a mistake. I was once told by an art teacher that going through museums should be a quick process. That the best way to see art in a context of such overwhelming breadth was to walk very quickly past and stop only when you're natural attraction tells you its time to stop. And so was my technique in yesterday's crowd. I did find these in the mix.

xx
Jordan


Monday, March 1, 2010

visions: seeing double



Art Since the Summer of ’69 is proud to present TWICE UPON A TIME, Benjamin Valenza’s first solo show in New York City. A large L- shaped yellow metal plate, deeply corroded by acid at four points, performs as an abstract panther in the show, or simply as an abstract painting. The work is the result of Valenza’s experiments with materials and carelessness, or rather of his love of ‘heavy duty’ materials.

For more information and image requests, please contact the gallery by email info@artsince69.com or by phone 347.208.5437.


March 6 – April 17, 2010

Opening reception on Saturday March 6, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.


Art Since the Summer of ‘69

195 Chrystie Street, Suite 303, 3rd floor

10002 New York, NY

www.artsince69.com

meditation: the body in bits and pieces

According to Sigmund Freud, our memories of others are incomplete. When we try to remember we can only glean the resonant details, a particular smell, a way of gesturing, a dermal texture, parts of the whole. What is left is the body in bits and pieces.

The negative, the scanner, the x-ray. These become visionary technologies that can jog memory, and at times exaggerate the parted nature of the whole.

Healing
collage 14x17"
found x-ray, magazine clippings, masking tape, light box
Jordan Robin, 2010



visions: nick relph

Sunday, February 14, 2010