Pop!Tech has released podcasts of all 2011 conference videos. Click here to view mine and gain access to all others. The entire conference is posted, so search away for fascinating talks from this year and prior conferences.
Recent Posts
- Poptalk at Poptech 10/22
- Color: Fully Engaged on view at A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
- Closing Reception + Live Webcast Deinstallation at Interlochen Center for the Arts
- Solo exhibition opens July 28 at Interlochen Arts Center
- Slop Art introduces Love, Doggie Style to L.A.!
- "Coping Mechanics" on view in Rose Contemporary's debut exhibition, "Space Invaders"
- 3 virtually illegible vinyl decals in "People Don't Like to Read Art" at Western Exhibitions, opening July 9
- Slop Art presents "Crayon Bars" at Whitney Artworks Friday, June 3
- "Pick Me Up (a few things)" exhibition reviewed in Kansas City Star
October 20, 2011
Poptalk at Poptech 10/22
I'll be giving a micro-talk on my list-collecting/reflecting project. Live popcast here, 10:30 am. Wish me luck being pithy. I have five minutes!
October 02, 2011
Color: Fully Engaged on view at A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
I am thrilled to have work included in Color: Fully Engaged, which runs through November 5th.
Color makes a comeback every day. We open our eyes, we turn on the light, we see, we remember color. Color: Fully Engaged is a multi-faceted exploration of the meaning and interpretation of color. Via works created as part of fine arts, design and architecture disciplines, this exhibition follows modern and contemporary trajectories of color as both singular idea and associative methodology. Investigating color symbolism and hierarchies within historical, cultural and theoretical contexts, each selection ponders what may or may not be universal about color. The exhibition catalog includes an introduction by curator Jamilee Polson Lacy, essay by Claudine Isé, and artists' interviews.
Contributing artists include Academy Records, Jeanne Dunning, Susan Giles, Dan Gunn, Adriane Herman, Anna Kunz, Jessica Labatte, Matthew Metzger, Liz Nielsen and Nathaniel Robinson.
Download the lushly illustrated COLOR-FULL catalog here.
September 07, 2011
Closing Reception + Live Webcast Deinstallation at Interlochen Center for the Arts
Pick Me Up (a few things), Adriane Herman's exhibition exploring the trajectory from intention to action, closes Septemer 9, 2011. Click here to view photographs of the exhibition installation.
This solo exhibition features Wall of Intention, a site-specific installation of a portion of Herman's collection of well over 1000 found, gifted, and bartered [grocery and other] "to do" lists, as well as artworks created in response to individual specimens from this collection. These artworks take the form of limited edition intaglio and silkscreen prints, one-of-a-kind inlaid burnishing clay tablets, vinyl decals to be installed on windows leading into the gallery and throughout campus, graphite rubbings from these and previous installations of vinyl decals, as well as temporary tattoos the artist hopes to trade audience members for in exchange for lists they may no longer need.
In conjunction with the closing of the exhibition, Herman will lead workshops in which Interlochen Arts Academy students will generate narrative 'zines that combine images with texts that articulate why a single object is of particular significance to them and how it reflects what is important to them.
The closing reception for Adriane Herman's Pick Me Up (a few things…) is Friday, September 9, 2011 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm. A lecture by the artist will occur on Thursday, September 8 at 7 pm.
Watch Herman's site-specific Wall of Intention development through the video-documentation below (or click here). Viewers can also witness the deinstallation process live through the viewer-directed webcam in the Dow Visual Arts Gallery on Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 11.
July 22, 2011
Solo exhibition opens July 28 at Interlochen Arts Center
Adriane Herman's Pick Me Up (a few things), a solo exhibition exploring the trajectory from intention to action, runs July 28 through Septemer 9, 2011. Installation photos here.
This solo exhibition features Wall of Intention, a site-specific installation of a portion of Herman's collection of well over 1000 found, gifted, and bartered [grocery and other] "to do" lists, as well as artworks created in response to individual specimens from this collection. These artworks take the form of limited edition intaglio and silkscreen prints, one-of-a-kind inlaid burnishing clay tablets, vinyl decals to be installed on windows leading into the gallery and throughout campus, graphite rubbings from these and previous installations of vinyl decals, as well as temporary tattoos the artist hopes to trade audience members for in exchange for lists they may no longer need.
Herman will be lead workshops in which Interlochen campers and students will generate narrative 'zines that combine images with texts that articulate why a single object is of particular significance to them and how it reflects what is important to them.
The opening reception for Adriane Herman's Pick Me Up (a few things…) is Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 6 pm. A lecture by the artist will follow.
Watch Herman's site-specific Wall of Intention develop from Monday, July 25, through Thursday, July 28 through the viewer-directed webcam in the Dow Visual Arts Gallery.
Slop Art introduces Love, Doggie Style to L.A.!
Slop Art's Adriane Herman and Brian Reeves will exhibit their latest collaboration, Love, Doggie Style in a group exhibition entitled Chain Letter at Shoshana Wayne Gallery at Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica, CA. The show is curated by Christian Cummings & Doug Harvey. Similar exhibitions are taking place simultaneously in other cities. Click here for more information about this admiration-based string of exhibitions.
Click here for more photos of Love, Doggie Style. Published by Slop Mountain College Press, this accordion-bound book is available with or without the deluxe pink polka dog doggie bed on which it is perched for the Chain Letter exhibition, which required artists to utilize the gallery floor for display. This exhibition is rooted in the ideals of inclusion, and highlights the social nature of the art world. It is the hope of the curators that the response will be vast and that the artists represented will be an exponential representation of all artists that are currently working and admired by their peers.
Inquiries about this book can be made to love_doggie_style@slopart.com
July 23 - August 25, 2011 (Opening Saturday, July 23 / 6-8 pm)
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
July 01, 2011
"Coping Mechanics" on view in Rose Contemporary's debut exhibition, "Space Invaders"
Space Invaders, the inaugural exhibition at Rose Contemporary, opens Friday, July 1, and runs through August 27. Created for the occasion, Coping Mechanics measures 16.25 x 70 inches. The edition has 22 impressions, which are available mounted or unmounted. Opening reception 5-8 pm, 492 Congress St., Portland, ME.
• Scroll down for installation photos of Coping Mechanics
• read Sarah Bouchard's review in The Bollard
• visit Rose Contemporary's Space Invaders exhibition page
Note the imperfections on the wall that are visible/re-produced on the left edge of the print. Each of nine documents of other humans' efforts to operate at optimal capacity was photographed hanging on the portion of the gallery wall that its doppelganger now obscures. The resultant images were stitched together to form a unified wide-format re-presentation of a configuration and moment that exists in both the gallery's past and present. Contact the artist for a file in which the content of each list is legible.
June 25, 2011
3 virtually illegible vinyl decals in "People Don't Like to Read Art" at Western Exhibitions, opening July 9
Created for the exhibition "People Don't Like to Read Art," which runs from July 9 -August 13 at Western Exhibitions / Scott Speh Gallery in Chicago, these three decals were created based on specimens from my collection of over one thousand grocery and other "to do" lists. For this show, I wanted to create something that would simultaneously frustrate and relieve the viewer who hates to read art. Aside from the sole surviving phrase toward the bottom of the list recreated in blue vinyl ("vanilla soda"), every word on each of these three lists is vigorously crossed out. (scroll down for more images)
(above) Vanilla Soda
(above) All Done
(above) Done, Done, and Done
June 02, 2011
Slop Art presents "Crayon Bars" at Whitney Artworks Friday, June 3
1 NIGHT ONLY! Friday, June 3, from 5-8 pm
PRODUCT: A TEMPORAL ARTIST MARKETPLACE at Whitney Artworks 492 Congress Street, Portland, ME
Slop Staff will be on hand to demonstrate Adriane Herman's "Crayon Bars," which are hand-cast from 100% post-consumer crayons. Five nut configurations and myriad color combinations to choose from. $22 per serving
February 07, 2011
February 04, 2011
Jar Project "open" at Whitney Artworks Feb 4 - April 9
Alex Sax's Jar Project opens tonight! 60 jars filled by 60 Maine artists on view/sale at Whitney Artworks through April 9 as part of Whitney Artworks' PRODUCT: A Temporal Artist Marketplace.
(my jar: "Nuts About Drupes," 2011)
