{"id":1189,"date":"2014-03-10T08:17:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2014-03-10T08:41:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T16:41:40","slug":"offline-artist-talk-march-16th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/offline-artist-talk-march-16th-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"OFFLINE Artist Talk March 16th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Join the artists featured in OFFLINE to discuss their work and celebrate the closing of the show.<\/p>\n

March 16th, 2014
\nSunday March 16th, 1-3pm<\/div>\n
Radiator Gallery<\/a> <\/span>10-61 Jackson Ave,\u00c2\u00a0Long Island City, New York<\/span><\/div>\n

Participating Artists:
\nMartha Clippinger
\nMolly Dilworth
\nAlison S.M. Kobayashi
\nCarolyn Lambert
\nBeth Letain
\nStacie Johnson
\nSarah G. Sharp
\nParsley Steinweiss<\/p>\n

Organized by Sarah G. Sharp<\/p>\n

In the 2012 ArtForum article \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whatever Happened to Digital Art?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Claire Bishop described what she sees as a lack of critical response within the artworld to the digital era: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why do I have a sense that the appearance and content of contemporary art have been curiously unresponsive to the total upheaval in our labor and leisure inaugurated by the digital revolution? While many artists use digital technology, how many really confront the question of what it means to think, see, and filter affect through the digital?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d OFFLINE proposes that part of this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153invisible\u00e2\u20ac\u009d response to the overwhelm of information, access, images and mutable identities that come with life lived on the internet and mediated through a screen, includes a re-envisioning and invocation of the very thing the digital era suggests we leave behind: the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153real.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The show presents seven artists who respond to these contemporary \u00e2\u20ac\u0153upheavals\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by reframing the mundane, concrete material of their lived experience in light of contemporary metaphors like rhizomatic relationships, the recombinant, virtual reality and the network. Without nostalgically fetishizing the analog or relying on anti-technology rhetoric, these artists use familiar forms like abstract painting, sculpture, performance and photography to re-imagine our new everyday in concrete terms and provoke altered perceptual readings of our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153offline\u00e2\u20ac\u009d experiences. We are reminded that our concrete experiences and identities are both re-framed by and persist alongside our online \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lives.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Stacie Johnson<\/a>‘s tightly designed paintings play with our perceptions of illusionistic space. Smooth surfaces, precisely rendered shapes and hand-made gradients reference the hyper-real while subtle shifts between painted surface and the wall challenge our perception of space, flatness and illusion. In her Photo Objects\u00c2\u00a0Parsley Steinweiss<\/a> also investigates perception, illusion and surface. By combining photographic reproductions of various textures with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153real\u00e2\u20ac\u009d materials Steinweiss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s images force us to flip between an easy recognition of familiar objects and the sense of the uncanny that surrounds digital production methods.<\/p>\n

Literally taking from the everyday,\u00c2\u00a0Martha Clippinger<\/a> invests found objects with new life as colorful installation elements. In each exhibition Clippinger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s familiar objects are carefully placed within the space and in relation to each other suggesting an infinite number of combinations of form and possible new meanings. Sarah G. Sharp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent collages re-combine found images of utopian communities from popular media sources, reinvigorating what was once mundane and disposable with a new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aura.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The compositional energy in\u00c2\u00a0Beth Letain<\/a>‘s abstract paintings relies on subtle shifts between object, surface and edge. Letain references recent visual forms like scrolling screens, signal strength bars and the ever-present \u00e2\u20ac\u0153glitch,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d within a complex visual syntax that is deceptively casual.\u00c2\u00a0Molly Dilworth<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Archive presents us with collected and combined scraps left from other works; an index of unseen objects and labor.<\/p>\n

Carolyn Lambert<\/a>‘s performative work relies on personally formed research methods and activities that disrupt flows of condoned behavior for the tenant or citizen. In Gutter the abstract concept of gleaning one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own water is made concrete by connecting the body, architecture and what is at hand with the basic act of survival through provisional infrastructure.<\/p>\n

As part of OFFLINE, Alison S. M.\u00c2\u00a0Kobayashi<\/a> performed four characters inspired by objects that she found on the sidewalk and in second hand shops in New York City. Viewers were invited into Kobayashi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dressing room (temporarily transported to Radiator Gallery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s freight elevator) to observe the creation of photographic GIF portraits. Each portrait contained an infinitely looping gesture of Kobayashi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newly minted characters and is available online after the performance at asmk.ca.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join the artists featured in OFFLINE to discuss their work and celebrate the closing of the show. March 16th, 2014 Sunday March 16th, 1-3pm Radiator Gallery 10-61 Jackson Ave,\u00c2\u00a0Long Island City, New York Participating Artists: Martha Clippinger Molly Dilworth Alison S.M. Kobayashi Carolyn Lambert Beth Letain Stacie Johnson Sarah G. Sharp Parsley Steinweiss Organized by… Continue reading OFFLINE Artist Talk March 16th, 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-talk","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}