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Care is a way of asking questions about the longevity and influence of social movements. I’m interested in how we take care of one another, establish new social relations based around those values, and still maintain a culture that’s antagonistic. To say that in a more complicated way, maybe, it’s a way of addressing a [...]
Background: IMPRESSIONS is a blog that features new artwork made under the guise of other artists without their advice or pre-existing consent. Based on open information available about the artist through their Internet presence, I internalize a pattern to make work using his or her interests and visuals instead of my own. Each post is [...]
Shani Peters Inspired by the political illustrations and impact of artist and Black Panthers Minister of Culture Emory Douglas, New York-based artist Shani Peters’ work responds to the persisting schismatic elements that plague the African-American community to date. Looking at African-American families as a microcosm for the state of the community at-large, Peters uses the [...]
Curated by Sharon L. Butler June 2010 In the recent spate of articles about Bushwick section of Brooklyn, NY, innovative DIY arts projects and spaces, artists almost invariably cite Austin Thomas as a key early influence. Thomas opened Pocket Utopia – her groundbreaking salon, international residency program, and exhibition space in the neighborhood – in [...]
As artists and citizens reflect deeper on the motivations of commercial advertising we have been increasingly wary of their affects, opting to ignore them or actively alter their meanings in our daily lives. As we face pressure from commercial messages on the internet we may choose to eliminate them with programs like Add-Art. In the [...]
Curated by Jennifer Dudley. Add-Art frees internet real estate from advertising, allowing the odd-shaped lots flanking the content of any given web page to be repurposed by the artist. In Developer, Homesteader, nine artists and architects consider these small segmented digital spaces as vacant areas awaiting design, development, or habitation. Using the graphic illustrations and [...]
For the sake of clarity, this project focuses on two modes of presentation of art online, which we’re calling The Hustler and The Carer.* The Hustler refers to the form of reciprocity in which a product or service is being presented (for sale) to a potential user (based upon analytics culled from taste-expressing consumers). A [...]
Curated by Sarah Garrett Art can mean and do many things. It can create awareness; it can memorialize; and it can revolutionize, to name a few. While realizing and appreciating all of these capabilities, I still find it refreshing to see pieces that are stripped of any intense undercurrent or any intent to sway or [...]
an Add-Add exhibition by Colleen Asper curated by Ted Mineo El Gogo Colleen Asper’s work with text considers writing as an image-making process akin to painting. Drawing from some of the most common places we encounter text—in typing on a keyboard or composing an email—she manipulates language through gross and material means. In the images [...]
