Go About: 3020 LAGUNA IN EXITUM

3020 LAGUNA IN EXITUM differs from a more usual curatorial group show direction, wherein several artists make art to fulfill a concept to be joined together in one place later on (gallery, etc.) It is instead a collaboration in which several artists inhabit and augment a singular place - the place is the art form, after which the "work" done there, and to it, also becomes the location for viewing the projects.

Fragmentations have created negative space only to reveal new ephemeral spaces of light and disjointed remnants of domestic desire and routine history.

Fracturing the space throughout, there are beautiful moments within the discard, the disruption and the reconstitution of this address.

Amidst the clamor of what took place over the course of several weeks at this house was the neighborly wonderment of two small children who lived next-door. Curious of the noises as the days went on, they could not wait to attend the opening reception with little plastic hammers in hand, ready to demolish and help with the demise (or the unbeknownst) reconstruction of the place. Seeing these tots wandering the partitions with curious looks, holding these little plastic hammers - ready - I forgot a lot about whatever was bugging me that day, and wondered about the negative space that is embedded in the innocence we lose as we get older. How often I want to just f* sh*t up with a hammer - even with the most helpful intentions. Ultimately, well, it's just not what reasonable grown-ups do...

Down I went to what people were calling the basement -- but really it was the garage at one point. Not today. Behold, a pool of water nesting in thick black visqueen - rafters and beams slanted here and there, placing themselves along the edge of this man-made pond. One could wonder if this is the aftermath of a possible flood that occurred due to poor planning error of a plumber. On the other hand, it resembled a Roman bath, the planks enjoying the afterglow of nature's possible performance in their habitat.

Miss Door, dipped into the water to cool her heels - she had had enough of keeping people out and letting them in. Her distance between them always in periphery. Her hand, always taken and turned - either way, she was always the same to them, just inverted depending on which way the person was going. It is strange being in a constant state of limbo.

In all - the address - the house that once was is in a suspended state of progress within progress in order to be demolished in the near future. It will be gone - negated, replaced by something grand and monumental...better? Regardless, it's purpose as a place will always be, no matter what form it takes.

This post is regarding "3020 LAGUNA IN EXITUM: An artist project".

For more information about this project and the artists involved view this link. (as of Jan 31, it will be updated periodically, so check every so often for new entries)

Curated by Amir Mortazavi and David Kasprzak.
Artists are: Jeremiah Barber, Randy Colosky, Chris Fraser, Christine Peterson, Yulia Pinkusevich, Jonathan Runcio, Jesse Schlesinger, Gareth Spor and Andy Vogt.

more about the curators here

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book for LA826 auction sold to benefit education

Mark Moore Gallery held an auction this past weekend, and I was very honored to be invited by gallery director, Cat Moore to participate. I usually only donate my artwork to educational organizations. For the last several years I had donated something to Write Girl. They have programs that focus on writing for high school girls....so the LA826 "Spread the Word" auction was right in line with my donating principles.

For those of you not familiar, LA826 is one of many 826 across the nation that is the one of many brain-childs of the ubiquitous McSweeney's and other illustrious publications and writings of current importance, Dave Eggers.

The auction gleaned $6500!!! Amazing!! Congratulations to everyone. Including and perhaps a little bit especially to the person who bid on and won my book. Who are you? Thank You!!

The artists were sent pulp fiction paperbacks to change up for auction. And - something that I have never seen before, the gallery offered a tax-deductable donation form for artists valued at $100. (More galleries and organizations should consider this strategy when asking artists to donate work).

I browsed through the book for some interesting quotes that seemed relevant to me right now. Then I cut off the front and back covers and turned them inside out; collaged the selected texts on the front and back of the book...making it viewable from all sides, and by wrapping it, make all the other text secret.

"Death at Sea"

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 An art which stirs the human soul through forms which resemble nothing known, which represent nothing, and which symbolize nothing: an art which works soley through free invented forms, like music through freely invented notes. - August Endell, 1890.

A precursor for what he may have really wanted to do, but alas he was stuck in the flourishes of Art Nouveau.

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