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MAKE ME: WORK FROM JAPAN
Kevin Ei-Ichi deForest
7 December 2000 - 20 January 2001
Opening Reception 7 December 2000 8pm
Front Gallery: Make Me: Work from Japan Never the Twain Shall Meet We arrived in Japan (specifically Kyoto) for the long haul…long enough anyway – Kevin for a year and a half, and I for a year. It was a shock. What did we expect? Out of that time and place, objects, texts, positions were […]
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ÉCOLE D’AVIATION
Diane Landry
7 December 2000 - 20 January 2001
Opening Reception 7 December 2000 8pm
Back Gallery: École d’aviation (Flying School) The Corolla and its Corollaries Still on the edge of the site, we can already feel something that resembles a murmur. We are listening to the life origin of the things we are about to discover. A breathing reveals the proximity of organic life, at the very moment we enter […]
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BURROW
Rita M.C. Filicetti
7 December 2000 - 20 January 2001
Opening Reception 7 December 2000 8pm
Platform: Burrow What are you thinking? THINK I just decided to squeeze myself through some tiny hole just for the fun of it? Well I must admit, that is actually somewhat true – but come on, I’m saying something here! I’m straining myself. I’m in anguish and serious pain and…Hay! What are you struggling through? […]
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TICKS
Richard Moszka
26 October 2000 - 2 December 2000
Opening Reception 26 October 2000 8pm
Platform: Ticks You suck your thumb, comb your hair, pick your ear… usually unconsciously. Even when you’re in public you don’t seem to be aware that you’re doing it. You can’t help yourself. Nervous? A repetitive physical action that’s somehow comforting. It might seem charming, even mesmerizing, or merely awkward to others. Personally, it just […]
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SELF HELP
Joan Dymianiw, Alexander Irving, The Ladies Afternoon Art Society, Susie Major, Hall Smyth, Daniel Olson, and R.M. Vaughan
Curated by Anda Kubis
26 October 2000 - 2 December 2000
Opening Reception 26 October 2000 8pm
Front and Back Gallery: Self Help “YUPPIE, DINK… Indeed, the entire acronym-based way of looking at consumer culture is starting to seem …seriously old-fashioned… Still, the mere fact that less than a decade has passed since such terms were viewed as powerful marketing tools does show the difficulty of pinning down consumer groups in a […]
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LEAK INTO SPACE
Dave Armstrong-Six
14 September 2000 - 21 October 2000
Opening Reception 14 September 2000 8pm
Back Gallery: Leak into Space Leak Into Space is the overall title for new time-based works by Dave Armstrong-Six. A dumpster will be dragged into the Back Gallery where it will house a labyrinthine construction made from such ‘structureless’ substances as syrup, glue, Vaseline, decayed drywall and sand. Accompanying this are two new videos: Track […]
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PLACECARDS
Katharine Harvey, Arthur Kleinjan, Germaine Koh, Jennifer McMackon, Chris Sollars, and Amy Wilson
14 September 2000 - 21 October 2000
Opening Reception 14 September 2000 8pm
Front Gallery: Placecards There’s No Place Like Here My friend has a silver sticker adhered to the inside of his front door which reads, THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HERE. True always, self-evident even, and yet this glittery assertion manages to startle with each encounter. The fact that my friend’s door opens on to the […]
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SPACE INVADER
Alex Morrison
6 July 2000 - 5 August 2000
Opening Reception 6 July 2000 8pm
Back Gallery: Space Invader The difference between ‘home’ and ‘house’ is rhetorical yet philosophical in nature. Domestic architecture, physical as it may be, is rooted in an ideological abstraction called ‘home’,an agglomeration of support systems and amenities such as the nuclear family, friendly neighbors, backyard cookouts and full-package cable TV. Alex Morrison‘s oeuvre emerges from […]
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NO VISITORS
Janis Demkiw
6 July 2000 - 5 August 2000
Opening Reception 6 July 2000 8pm
Platform: No Visitors I am not home all that often. When I am, I never know quite what to do with myself. Sometimes it gets lonely. A guest would be nice because it’s not much fun having lots of things without the occasional show-and-tell. My peephole lets me check the hallway without disturbing my neighbors. […]
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MODEL FOR PUBLIC SPACE
Adrian Blackwell
6 July 2000 - 5 August 2000
Opening Reception 6 July 2000 8pm
Front Gallery: Model for Public Space Open Focus It’s a dream of the perfect party where conversation, as powerful as a song, cascades along a slow twisting course, leading nowhere in particular. Stand back and it makes a gleeful remark on what the modernist architect shares with the skate punk: a love of aerial feats. […]
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GOLD COMET CYCLONE
Lee Goreas
25 May 2000 - 30 June 2000
Opening Reception 25 May 2000 8pm
Platform: Gold Comet Cyclone Car Trouble I have been photographing the chrome name plates of various 1960-1973 North American automobiles for 3 years. After the completion of this photographic project I began photographing customized plastic models of 1960-1973 North American automobiles, which are both new and broken down. I photographed these newly broken down models […]
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KELLY RICHARDSON
Kelly Richardson
25 May 2000 - 30 June 2000
Opening Reception 25 May 2000 8pm
Back Gallery: Camp Was Kelly Richardson Born on a Hill? Kelly Richardson’s work appears simple, but it makes me ruminate on primal things. Often modest in scale and execution, her materials are often acutely banal: beer caps, broken drumsticks, used corks, old concert T-shirts. Her images are brief and concise: the moon at night, undulating […]
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TWEAK
Amanda Bindley, Hildur Bjarnadottir, Lucky De Bellvue, Chris Hanson, Tracy Nakayama, Hendrika Sonnenberg, and Arye Wachsmuth
25 May 2000 - 30 June 2000
Opening Reception 25 May 2000 8pm
Front Gallery: Tweak Curated by Michael Buckland “It was so cold where we were,” bragged the explorer, “that the candles froze and we couldn’t blow them out.” ” That’s nothing.” said his pal. “Where we were, the words came out of our mouths in pieces of ice, and we had to fry them to find […]
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ANIMOSE
Greg Staats
13 April 2000 - 20 May 2000
Opening Reception 13 April 2000 8pm
Back Gallery: Animose First on the agenda of any respectable military regime’s list of things-to-do is the restriction, or outright prohibition, of free cultural expression. Take recent events in Afghanistan, for example. Who would have thought that at this pinnacle of civilization an 8 x 10 glossy could strike such fear in the heart of […]
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OLYMPIC VILLAGE
Derek Sullivan
13 April 2000 - 20 May 2000
Opening Reception 13 April 2000 8pm
Platform: Olympic Village Olympic Village presents a modest proposal for a group of athletes’ residences constructed in a chalet style. An encapsulated social experiment? A perfect village for perfect people? An ant farm of athletes? Based upon the A-frame cottage of Cortina or St. Moritz holiday fantasies, this building project is the product of a […]
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MARIE CLAUDE BOUTHILLIER
Marie Claude Bouthillier
13 April 2000 - 20 May 2000
Opening Reception 13 April 2000 8pm
Front Gallery: Marie Claude Bouthillier Let us begin, as the saying goes, at the beginning. After all, the right starting point is the foundation of every success, whether a journey or an argument. And in the painting of Marie-Claude Bouthillier – in so many respects both a journey and an argument – the starting point […]
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SIREN
Lyla Rye
2 March 2000 - 8 April 2000
Opening Reception 2 March 2000 8pm
Platform: Siren Mercer Union is excited to introduce Platform, a new programming series, whose mandate is to encourage artistic and curatorial experimentation. Lyla Rye’s most recent work, Siren; launches the series with a small scale installation in The Hole. The forlorn cry of a baby draws us to a hole in a wall through which […]
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SCRATCH & LEAH MODIGILIANI
Leah Modigiliani
2 March 2000 - 8 April 2000
Opening Reception 2 March 2000 8pm
Back Gallery: Scratch and Leah Modigliani Scratch is a uni-monikered artist who reverse-engineers notions of gender through a kaleidoscopic gaze of late 1960s car culture and domestic appliances. Ads are appropriate raw material for Scratch who is as media-savvy as the medium he folds, spindles, mutilates, and silk-screens. He is a marketer, or to use […]
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THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE COMMONPLACE
Joy Episalla
2 March 2000 - 8 April 2000
Opening Reception 2 March 2000 8pm
Front Gallery: The Transfiguration of the Commonplace Joy Episalla‘s work achieves what Flannery O’Connor called “the transfiguration of the commonplace”. Although O’Connor’s life and work could not be more different, at least on the surface, than Episalla’s, I find that I often think of O’Connor’s greatest fiction when I look at Episalla’s photographs. Like O’Connor, […]
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BEE MOVIE
Kenn Bass
13 January 2000 - 26 February 2000
Opening Reception 13 January 2000 8pm
Back Gallery: Bee Movie One mild February day during the most recent el Nino winter, a wasp wandered into Kenn Bass’s studio in Brooklyn. He caught it and videotaped it for a few days before releasing it. The out-of-season wasp became the imagery for Bee Movie, a projection of much edited and manipulated footage onto […]
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SUSAN DETWILER
Susan Detwiler, Kenn Bass
13 January 2000 - 26 February 2000
Opening Reception 13 January 2000 8pm
Front Gallery: Susan Detwiler For Susan Detwiler, the question is “Where does the life go when a living thing dies?” It’s a child’s question, I suppose. Certainly, there are religious answers to the child’s question: the spirit goes to heaven or hell, or is reincarnated, or escapes the cycle of birth and death. It’s common […]