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Come see The Rutgers MFA Graduating Class of 2010 at Whitebox next month!! See more at ArtCat!
What: Off The Map (Website Designed by Matt Posey)
Where: Whitebox (Press Release)
When: April 1 – May 2
Opening: April 10, 5-9pm
Off The Wall Announcement Card
A recent studio shot of four Ash pieces from my recent work.
I want to thank everyone who came to the opening, it was a great turnout! A big thank you to all those who could and couldn’t make it to the show for all the wonderful feedback and support. I’d also like to congratulate my fellow colleagues in both thesis exhibitions! I’m proud to have shown and worked with you!
See below for installation photographs of my work in Smoke + Flowers: MFA Thesis Exhibition I
View of Snowfall, Cloud and futuregrove
View of Snowfall and Cloud
View of Dust from Right
View of Rainfall
Panorama of The Show
Smoke and Flowers: the first half of the MFA Thesis Exhibitions opens this tuesday (with the reception taking place on Wed. from 5-7).
Here’s a list of who is in the MFA Thesis Exhibition I:
Poster for Smoke + Flowers designed by Avi LaZare
I have recently updated the design of my site! I will be adding more work and some other content in the coming months so make sure to check it out!
My thesis show White Empty Earth is coming up.
Below is the announcement card which will be sent out soon.
Specs: January 26 – February 13, 2010
Reception: February 3rd, 2010 5-7pm
Mason Gross School of the Arts
33 Livingston Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Thesis Show Announcement - Front
Thesis Show Announcement - Back
For those interested I’ve scanned and uploaded two polaroid test shots for a piece that is currently Untitled (Tentatively “Grove” or “futuregrove”). The influence of the piece stems from my time spent in the midwest. I’ve been considering the possible history of the midwest as a forest, it’s current use in agriculture (mostly monoculture) and the potential to return it to a forest-like place through the same means. As you can see they are quite different which is why they are tests, meant to show different visual options. How might each piece influence the final image?
*Note* You will see them larger on screen than they actually are – Test #1 is 4×5″ and Test #2 is 2 1/4″
Below are two images of my piece “Caribou” from “hit it big“. The book next to my piece was a collaboration between the poet/art critic John Yau (more info here and here) and artist Richard Tuttle (more info here & here) called “The Missing Portrait” (Follow the links for more info or views). I’ll be posting more images of the show as I get them, so make sure to check back. Enjoy!
For those interested, here is a fairly new piece entitled “The Return.” It is kind of RAW, so bear with the quality (although some of its characteristics come from its source). It is from a series called “Wolf_Dance” which is still in progress.
A month or so after titling the piece I came across a poem called “The Return” by Ezra Pound. Interesting coincidence and although they (the poem and my piece) come/came from two very different places, I think it is definitely worth repeating here for the serendipitous similarities they share:
The Return by Ezra Pound*
See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!See, they return, one, and by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmur in the wind,
and half turn back;
These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,”
Inviolable.Gods of the winged shoe!
With them the silver hounds,
sniffing the trace of air!Haie! Haie!
These were the swift to harry;
These the keen-scented;
These were the souls of blood.Slow on the leash,
pallid the leash-men!
*From the book Ezra Pound: Early Writings, Poems and Prose