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NO MONEY NO PANCAKES

karly — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:00:45 +0000

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Vincent Dermody: death of a death of a salesman

karly — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:50 +0000

Work by Vincent Dermody.

Alberto Aguilar and Alexander Cohen: In Place of Dreams

karly — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:00:18 +0000

Armed with ADHD, skittles, and raw unadulterated man-child silliness secondBEDROOM becomes the battleground for a war against sleep. With play at stake, our slumber party soldiers Alberto Aguilar and Alexander “Turbo/Buster Bear” Cohen will brave the harsh biological demands of their bodies for art, a la building forts, swapping stories, confessing crushes, and making prank phone calls, the product of which will be the material for the exhibit. United for the cause since September 2009, the duo has collaborated on countless drawings, two major installations, video, sound works, and has formed the band The Loookers which will perform opening night.

Jim Zimpel: by George

karly — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:00:35 +0000

Jim Zimpel exposes the scam, the myth, the hornswoggle, the hoodwink, the great con of our most perpetuated American notions of landscape as it relates to “liberty” and American male identity. His large scale sculpture and installations acknowledge our collective fabrication of this myth with affection as well as acknowledgment of his position well within the effort. In other words Jim knows his way around the table saw, the cattle brand, the buck knife and the TIG welder.

Carrying on in this vein for by George, Zimpel willfully inherits the aesthetic and “practical” decision making of his grandfather, Grandpa George. By the looks of it Grandpa George is a collector, a bit of a pack rat even, with stock piles of kitchen knifes, foam brushes, painter’s masks and countless other trinkets and doodads all “systematically” housed or displayed by an apparatus of Grandpa George design. Zimpel closely observed the organization and construction techniques of these odd collections and adopted these methods to inform this new body of work featuring but not limited to ice fishing stations, golf ball collection containers, and other apparatuses for storing the weird and the cherished.

Thad Kellstadt: After Effects

karly — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:22 +0000

Thad Kellstadt‘s After Effects attempts to explore the possible afterlife of objects, once dependent on human touch, now neglected but possessing a new presence. Some believe that the breaking of a mirror brings a lengthy stint of bad luck due to the soul confiscating power of the mirrors reflective surface. After Effects investigates the animism of life’s less lustrous objects. In an attempt to kill time at the office a ceiling tile fatefully gets caught in the crossfire, walls are captured in senseless decay, a corpse of one of the countless botanical casualties happening everyday across the country plus many more examples of the grizzly and mundane horrors of the deceased!