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First Truth
12/15/2012 Images from First Truth exhibition at Camel Art Space I co-curated with Sara Jones. February 10-March 11, 2012: First Truth, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY: Curatorial Statement:
Abu Bhloggi 'Blog'
11/10/2010 Check out pics from "No Customs" show in Abu Dabi at Jen and Kevin McCoy's blog.
No Customs at Sama Tower, Abu Dhabi
10/25/2010  No Customs November 4-27, 2010 opening reception: Thursday Nov 4, 7-9 pm curated by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy an exhibition of transmissible ideas with: Vito Acconci Jason Robert Bell / Marni Kotak Torsten Z. Burns Jennifer Dalton / Susan Hamburger Anthony Discenza Melissa Dubbin / Aaron Davidson Bill Durgin Tara Fracalossi David Grubbs Sara Hubbs Thomas Lail Michael Mandiberg MTAA Marisa Olson Jonathan Schipper Mark Tribe Karen Yasinsky A common art-making strategy when one enters into new territory is to listen, to ask, and to wait. As newcomers to Abu Dhabi, we considered this strategy, but then rejected it. Instead of waiting to receive information, we begin our sojourn in the Emirates by making an offer. In curating this show, No Customs, held in our remarkably gallery like living space, we offer the work of artists connected to us from our home community of New York City. When they asked what life is like here, we answered we didn’t yet know. We told them to send what they could send via email, via instructions, via concept. We told them to send it fast. So then, what we have is a show called No Customs. This title is a double entendre. Practically, since no objects have been mailed, we were not slowed by the expense of shipping and the delays of customs. Metaphorically, the show is not about tradition or interpretation, but rather about mapping and transcription. How does form map onto landscape? How does it transform landscape? How do you demarcate space for contemplation, for understanding, for revolution? What happens to the body when its image occupies this demarcated space? Landscape First, the approach to a problem. This is what we hear when listening to Vito Acconci’s audio piece, Research Station, Antarctica, For Your Ears Only (2004-2010). How does an artist (here architect) turn a landscape into a series of constraints to be addressed, to create a form? In the photographs of Melissa Dubbin and Aaron Davidson, the long time collaborators use smoke bombs to test the landscape. They create form with weather, wind, light, and clouds. In a site specific project by Thomas Lail, a series of Buckminister Fuller domes are superimposed over the city view of Abu Dhabi, creating another take on the domes of the city and adding to the enormous architectural speculation already here. In another project, a memory sequence of images by Tara Fracalossi offers a counterpoint to the desert with images of most verdant spring and bleakest winter. These images purport to be memory, but their repetition on the wall creates matrices of classifications that map new space. In the end they are more like letters in an alphabet than like stories of particular landscapes. Demarcated space In answering a call to show work in Abu Dhabi, many artists considered the question of mapping, both graphically and metaphorically. In the work of Michael Mandiberg, the artist asked us to find an Arabic map of the USA in which we recreate the laser cuttings of print media that he is known for. In this work the message and the map collide. The artist duo MTAA and the sculptor Sara Hubbs sent ideas for works that, though they are generated very differently, come up with surprisingly congruent projects. MTAA asked us to find “the most colorful place” in Abu Dhabi. Then they provided software that translated this image into an abstract digital image (referred to as “the aesthetic object”). We could then display this any way we saw fit. In Sara Hubb’s project, an abstract form also results from a behind the scenes process. She photographed decaying areas of New York City and asked us to reproduce the patterns they create in plaster, building up a surface to form decoration from blight. The projects of Jonathan Schipper and the collaborative team of Jennifer Dalton and Susan Hamburger ask us the audience to participate in the creation of the artwork by zeroing in on our patterns of behavior. In the ambitious project by Schipper, entitled A Million Dollar Walk, attendees of the opening reception will be given the opportunity to carry a briefcase full of money on a prescribed path through the building. Dalton and Hamburger ask participants questions about their behavior in Abu Dhabi, creating a changing sculptural bar graph that measures their assumptions about life in the capitol against actual practice. Four artists in the exhibition deal with space by creating voids some for the viewer to inhabit speculatively others by creating spaces for lost objects. In her video mixtape project, Marisa Olson casts herself as an outsourced worker and creates a mash-up of Arab covers of American karaoke classics. The singers of course, are us by implication. In The New Revolution (2010), Mark Tribe creates an installation that invites spectators to consider their own ideas about revolution. David Grubbs, a noted musician, sent us instructions to render a beautiful wall drawing whose omissions create open spaces for meaning to drift. In an animation by Karen Yasinsky, You’d Better Be Careful, omitted objects and spaces set interpretation even farther adrift. Bodies Several of the artists in the show responded with work implying performative space. In the video Double Face Fantasy by Jason Robert Bell and Marni Kotak this space is a virtual one in that a portrait transforms through a technical gesture. Anthony Discenza’s video, The Future has Already Been Written creates a tour de force collage of science fiction, and we follow the body of Charlton Heston through alternate visions of the future. In the work of Torsten Burns, Resurrectables (Yellow-Mobilers), the artist asked us to curate a selection of performance stills from a huge array of images of costumes, props, and locations. We selected images of vehicles, conveying transmission, speed, and the framing of the body as it moves through space. Finally, the work of photographer Bill Durgin presents work that brings it all together. The body becomes a landscape of skin, finally an abstracted “aesthetic object”. No Customs is located at Sama Tower, Suite 3708, Abu Dhabi. Sama Tower is at the corner of Airport Rd and Electra Rd., near the NMC (New Medical Center). The exhibition will be open Saturdays from 1-5 through Nov. 27 and by appointment. Please contact Jennifer or Kevin McCoy with questions and image requests: info@mccoyspace.com Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's multimedia artworks examine the genres and conventions of filmmaking, memory and language. They are known for constructing subjective databases of existing material and making fragmentary miniature film sets with lights, video cameras, and moving sculptural elements to create live cinematic events. They have relocated to Abu Dhabi in affiliation with New York University Abu Dhabi and are presently teaching and working on a commission for the downtown campus. The McCoys' work has been widely exhibited in the US and internationally - their most recent shows include Museum of Modern Art in New York, BFI (British Film Institute) Southbank in London, Hanover Kunstverein, The Beall Center in Irvine, CA, pkm Gallery in Beijing, The San Jose Museum of Art, Palazzodella Papesse, The Addison Museum of American Art, The Nevada Museum of Art, and Artists Space in New York. Their work can be seen in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Speed Museum. They are represented in New York by Postmasters Gallery. http://www.mccoyspace.com/nocustoms http://www.mteww.com/ http://www.mandiberg.com/ http://www.marktribe.net/ http://www.jenniferdalton.com/ http://www.susanhamburger.net/ http://oppositionart.com/ http://www.acconci.com http://www.marisaolson.com/ http://www.sarahubbs.com/ http://www.tetragrammatron.com/ http://marnikotak.com/ http://holyokeresearch.blogspot.com/ http://billdurgin.com/ image credits: from left to right, Michael Mandiberg, “Us and Them”, David Grubbs, “Untitled (I Just Want to Say)”, and Karen Yasinsky ”You’d Better Be Careful”
little creatures
5/15/2009 July 2009: little creatures (curated by Megan Hays) at McCaig-Welles Gallery, 129 Roebling Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 Opens Thursday July 2, 2009 @ 7pm with Alessandro Ayuso, Gina Beavers, Deedee Cheriel, Molly Crabapple, Valerie Crosswhite, Megan Hays, Sara Hubbs, Kazuko Minokami, Aurora Robson, Chris Uphues
Our House
5/15/2009 June 6th - July 5th 2009: Our House Featuring mixed media work by Lumenhouse artists: Matthew Brownell, Megan Hays, Sara Hubbs, Aurora Robson & Stephen Workman Opening reception: Saturday and Sunday June 6th & 7th 12-7pm. Gallery hours: Sat & Sun 12-5, weekdays by appt. Lumenhouse, 47 Beaver Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Bushwick Open Studios
5/15/2009 June 6th & 7th 2009: BOS 2009 Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival @ Lumenhouse 47 Beaver Street, Brooklyn NY 11206. Open studio hours: 12pm - 7pm
Arts in Bushwick Benefit: BOS preview and art sale
5/15/2009 May 21st 2009: ARTS IN BUSHWICK BENEFIT: BOS PREVIEW AND ART SALE @ Lumenhouse 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Lumenhouse Art Auction and Benefit
4/6/2009 Please join me on Saturday, April 25th to help support Lumenhouse--a studio and gallery in Bushwick that provides affordable space for the creation of commercial and fine art photography, and inexpensive studio space for emerging artists. A benefit silent auction will take place from 7-9pm, with refreshments and live performances by Eliza Fernand, Brent Arnold and Marissa Mickelberg. Over 30 artists have already committed to sharing their work in the auction, including: Per Bilgren, Matthew Brownell, Garrison Buxton, El Celso, Eun Young Choi, Beth Dary , Jennifer Delilah , Geujin Han, Megan Hays , Eliza Fernand , Cindy Gatto, Eric Graham , Ingrid C. Hertfelder , Mary Hill, Sara Hubbs , Benjamin S. Jones , Zachary Keeting , Marlon Krieger , Oskar Landi , Erika Langstroth, Lucas Lai, Niki Lederer, Eric Lee, Miyeon Lee , Zaun Lee, Tony Luib, Shinto Mai, Camilla Padgitt Coles, Avoid Pi, Aurora Robson , Edward Smith, Daniel + Travis, Jeremiah Teipen , Inga Huld Tryggvadottir, Stephen Workman, and more. From 9pm on, the photo studio will transform into a dance party with DJ Stylus and DJ krnl panic and video art projections by meKaniKdolls and other local video artists. Lumenhouse is dedicated to maintaining an open, mutable space that can serve as a gestation chamber for new cultural activity to develop and flourish. I hope you will join me on April 25th to support the vision and mission of this important gallery and community resource.
EJECT 2 - Segundo Festival de Videoperformance de la Ciudad de Mexico
10/29/2008  My piece "Becoming Cactus" was recently exhibited in Mexico City at EJECT -Segundo Festival de Videoperformance de la Ciudad de México selección: gabrielle civil - estados unidos | montserrat payró y mariella greil - españa/méxico | graham macleod - canadá/china | sylvia winkler & stephan köperl - austria/alemania | gabriel sasiambarrena - argentina | jorge luis santana - cuba | lucas grandin - francia | verónica allocati - argentina | grupo proyector - colombia | cinthya reyes - méxico | karen zalamea - canadá | elizabeth neira - chile | maría eugenia chellet - méxico | gabriela golder - canadá/argentina | michele beck y jorge calvo - estados unidos/costa rica | federico martínez montoya - méxico | sara hubbs - estados unidos | mariana peralta – méxico | rachelle beaudoin - estados unidos | kenji ouellet - canadá | caroline barc - francia | irene loughlin - canadá | nadja marcin - alemania | lysette yoselevitz - méxico/canadá | micheline durocher – canadá comité: mónica dower | pancho lópez | ricardo nicolayewsky 23 y 24 de octubre de 2008 20:00 horas entrada libre _____________________________ EX TERESA ARTE ACTUAL lic. verdad no. 8 centro histórico méxico df - (metro Zócalo)
Conner Contemporary - Academy 2008
6/18/2008 I've been included in the Annual Survey of MFA Work in the Washington/Baltimore Area JULY - AUGUST, 2008
Girlish Ways
6/18/2008 THE BOBBY FISHER MEMORIAL BUILDING PRESENTS GIRLISH WAYS THE NEXT GENERATION OF FEMALE ARTISTS A selection of twelve artists under the age of 35 investigate how contemporary lifestyles effect and re-define the women of this generation. SATOMI SHIRAI AMY MISURELLI SORENSON AMBER HAWK SWANSON PIERRETTE MONTONE CAITLEN SHERWOOD LAUREN BENDER SARA HUBBS (GW MFA 2008) TRISH TILLMAN MEG ONLI PAMELA NORRISH ZOE BLACKWELL LAUREN RICE
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