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PARDON OUR APPEARANCE AS WE SPRUCE THINGS UP A BIT

contactproject — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:52:36 -0400

The Old Man & the Supermarket

contactproject — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:48:00 -0400

CONTACT is honored to present CONTACTinRESIDENCE and July’s Artist-in-Residence, Moira Kerrigan, and...

New Mythology Rising

contactproject — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:52:05 -0400

I’m writing this from paradise, more or less. Puerto Escondido, on the Pacific coast of the Mexican...

RePROGRAM: POINT 1 from Shani Peters on Vimeo. We PromotED:...

contactproject — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:23:00 -0400

RePROGRAM: POINT 1 from Shani Peters on Vimeo.

We PromotED: Parade Day in Harlem: 9.18.11 from Shani Peters on Vimeo.

CONTACT is honored to present CONTACTinRESIDENCE and June’s Artist-in-Residence, Shani Peters.

About CONTACTinRESIDENCE

Each month one artist will be selected by the CONTACT staff and featured on the CONTACT Journal as an Artist-in-Residence in our virtual space. Making use of the digital platform, this artist will use the CONTACT lens to meditate on their own creative practice.

IN THE WORDS OF THE ARTIST

I am interested in collective movement, in cyclical patterns throughout history and generations, and in cultural record keeping and accessibility. My work examines histories in the focused context of present societal conditions, and re-presents them in manners consciously influenced by a hyper-mediated society. My perspective is heavily informed by my family and by the historical era in which I live. I was born into the me generation of the socially conservative 1980s by way of faithful Black Power era parents who live by a mantra of social responsibility. I research then produce work dense with appropriated material (both highly recognizable and commonly overlooked), popular reference, contradictory notions, and an eye towards realities yet unseen. I layer ideas and references through video, print, and public projects in an attempt to push back my own program- a new account, or record of existence.

ABOUT SHANI PETERS

Shani Peters is a New York based, multi-disciplinary artist focusing in video, printmaking, and public projects. She has exhibited and/or screened at the Bronx Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Lower East Side Printshop,the Savannah College of Arts and Design, the Museum of Printing History, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has completed residencies at The Center for Book Arts, LMCC’s Swing Space, the Lower Eastside Printshop and the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace program. She completed her B.A. at Michigan State University and her M.F.A. at CCNY. Peters is currently researching and developing a new narrative video project. In the fall she will travel abroad for a six-week residency in Manchester, UK.

tasjmagazine: Meulensteen | Young Curators, New Ideas IV...

contactproject — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:00:46 -0400

tasjmagazine:

Meulensteen | Young Curators, New Ideas IV | Organized by Mr. and Mrs. Amani Olu

Meulensteen and Mr. and Mrs. Amani Olu request the pleasure of your company for the exhibition preview and opening party for Young Curators, New Ideas IV, taking place the evening of Thursday, June 7, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM with music by Derrick Adams and DJ Imposter at the gallery located at 511 West 22nd Street.

Curators: Rachel Cook, Jenny Jaskey, Robin Juan, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Tiernan Morgan, Stephanie Roach, Legacy Russell, Ariella Wolens, Jordana Zeldin, Calder Zwicky, Susi Kenna & Tali Wertheimer and Court Square

RSVP Essential: rsvp@meulensteen.com

studioworkout: Legacy Russell Twinterviews artist Devin Kenny...

contactproject — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:34:48 -0400

studioworkout:

Legacy Russell Twinterviews artist Devin Kenny about studio practice, studio work-outs, studio recordings, and how hip-hop helps to keep things in motion.

Check it out y’all!

Peace to Bomb magazine, Legacy Russell, Janna Ireland, EJ Hill, and all y’all! A fun twitter cum linear web experience! Click here.

theoracleclub: One of our most prolific and loyal collagers at...

contactproject — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:05:41 -0400

theoracleclub:

One of our most prolific and loyal collagers at Collage Night is prop stylist and set designer Jesse Kaufmann. Each class we look forward to his imaginative and often humorous creations. We wanted to share with you some of our favorite collages he’s made. It was a tough choice though, he’s made so many good ones! You can join us to make some collages of your own, on Tuesday June 5th at 7:30pm. This months theme: Summer of Romance! Lots of vintage treasures…so come collage your heart out! Sign up here.

sistahfriendsproject: We will be holding Self Portraiture...

contactproject — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:29:34 -0400

sistahfriendsproject:

We will be holding Self Portraiture Workshops June 2nd, June 9th, and June 16th.

e-mail: sistahfriendsproject@gmail.com to sign up and be sure to give date of of preference. We will reply with confirmation and address.

Workshops will take place at the Sistah Friends’ Brownstone | 139th St. @ Adam Clayton Blvd.

ArtsBeat: Sotheby's Lockout of Art Handlers Ends

contactproject — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:28:54 -0400

ArtsBeat: Sotheby's Lockout of Art Handlers Ends: studioworkout: Sotheby’s 10-month lockout of...

What Became Myth

contactproject — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:37:12 -0400

for AcuñaTlaloc is patriot god of our cuidad,named for a crib, my AcuñaLand of Friendship, my...

guernicamag: Today’s art world, like the realm of finance, is a...

contactproject — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:57:51 -0400

guernicamag:

Today’s art world, like the realm of finance, is a place of stock and shareholders. Read more about how contemporary art collectives are following the corporate model in “Beauty & The Beast: Collectivity and the Corporation,” new from Guernica, by Legacy Russell

studioworkout: So the homie responsible for the internet avatar...

contactproject — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:44:01 -0400

studioworkout:

So the homie responsible for the internet avatar you experience as STUDIO WORKOUT, Devin Kenny is going to be in a great group show in NYC May 24th with some awesome folks like:
Jim Brittingham, Kandis Williams, Valie Export, Saki Sato, Marlene Mccarty, Lizzi Bougatsos, Justin Lieberman, Erin Knutson and many more! Check it ouuuuuuut. Curated by Chris Dorland.
AWRS
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CONTACT is honored to present CONTACTinRESIDENCE and May’s...

contactproject — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:11:36 -0400

CONTACT is honored to present CONTACTinRESIDENCE and May’s Artist-in-Residence, Adam Collignon.

About CONTACTinRESIDENCE

IN THE WORDS OF THE ARTIST

This particular ____________ of ___________ is about thresholds and the points of contact between ____________ and those thresholds. My effort is to reach the soil of the oasis but the __________ is rippled by peril, my pace bound by ____________. Though _________ ___________ often do not work out as I might hope, the __________ nevertheless remain the same: How permeable is the fabric that divides __________ and bliss? How tentative the _____________? And where does ________ fit in with all this? If I __________ what I have set out to ____________, who’s to say it will last? There’s always ____________ and ___________ in the way of true communion, so the thrilling tension between euphoric __________ and devastating ___________ becomes the object…

ABOUT ADAM COLLIGNON

b.1980, St. Louis, MO, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work consistently involves the open spirit of exploration along themes of balance, permanence, materiality and the nature of freedom. He most recently performed at The Windmill Factory with his work BLOOD VISIONS, a sculptural allegory concerning the relationship between the artist, the mystic, and Rock and Roll, and his studio VOID WAVE will be featured in the upcoming Bushwick Open Studios.

okenyo: i12bent: Poem by Delmore Schwartz, from the collection...

contactproject — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:59:54 -0400

okenyo:

i12bent:

Poem by Delmore Schwartz, from the collection Last & Lost Poems:

This is a Poem I Wrote at Night, Before the Dawn

with ah: Mad Girls

contactproject — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:12:22 -0400

with ah: Mad Girls: withah: Lena Dunham’s new HBO series Girls has witnessed an onslaught of...

CONTACT is honored to present CONTACTinRESIDENCE and April’s...

contactproject — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:00:00 -0400

CONTACT is honored to present CONTACTinRESIDENCE and April’s Artist-in-Residence, Mollie McKinley, with two recent series, PRIESTESS and DARK SPECTRUM.

About CONTACTinRESIDENCE

IN THE WORDS OF THE ARTIST

A selection of works from two recent series. PRIESTESS is an ongoing series of site-specific installations and video performances. The videos present abstracted rituals, wherein mundane objects—such as balloons, ropes, life vests, and fishing nets—aid in the ceremonial dissolution of boundary between ego and nature. I love playing with contemporary sound to contextualize the timelessness and absurdity of these rituals. Pop music, ranging from Peggy Lee to Kelly Rowland, is manipulated, distorted, and turned into hypnotic mantra, becoming a surreal totem of ceremonial time in Sun Threshold/Fire Magic. The deeply textural sounds of water, mud, overhead planes, and distant ATV’s in Existential Marina provide a similar aural totem.

DARK SPECTRUM is comprised of large-format color photographs revealing rituals, symmetries, and hidden places. The sacred residues within an otherwise profane, secret, or forgotten place. Mischief, longing, and discovery mark the moment of arrival at these mysterious places.

For CONTACT PROJECT, selections from these two series are presented together, revealing the rhythm and common language that they share.

ABOUT MOLLIE MCKINLEY

My multimedia work encompasses video, photography, performance, film, and installation. Existential mysteries and uncanny redemption are explored through an incorporation of Nordic and Greek myths, the cinematic, existential philosophy, neo-primitivism, abstract ritual, and shamanism.

Particularly in my most recent works, I’m exploring and articulating the intersection of the mystical and the existential. Mysticism for me means the deep unknown of the cosmos interrupting and altering the human experience. My definition of existentialism encompasses an assertion of personal responsibility, of being fully present within each moment, of having complete freedom; simultaneously, acknowledging an ennui that responds to the limitations of individual consciousness. The work proposes iconoclastic methods of transcending these limitations. These opposites meet within action, within the element of the absurd, within a juxtaposition between humor and heaviness. Within an integration or interruption with site and landscape. Within re-interpretation of the contemporary totems of mundane objects and sound.

All images courtesy and copyright of Mollie McKinley.

contactproject — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:55:00 -0400

All images courtesy and copyright of Mollie McKinley.

Mollie McKinley, Existential Marina (excerpt from 20 minute...

contactproject — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:50:00 -0400

Mollie McKinley, Existential Marina (excerpt from 20 minute video). On view at the 2012 Brucennial through April 20; 159 Bleeker Street, NYC.

New Life, Courtesy of and copyright Jon Handel. After a brief...

contactproject — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:00:00 -0500

New Life, Courtesy of and copyright Jon Handel.

After a brief respite for the haze of the holidays, CONTACT is honored to present CONTACTinRESIDENCE and March’s Artist-in-Residence, Jon Handel, with his series New Life.

About CONTACTinRESIDENCE

IN THE WORDS OF THE ARTIST

This series came from my fascination discovering family photo albums for sale in thrift stores. It was a strange feeling looking into their lives without permission and even stranger that the albums usually cost five dollars or less. How did these albums get to the thrift store? Were these people still alive? Do they have relatives that would want these photographs back? Over the years, I have purchased family photo albums from different countries and eras. Some photos have small pieces of information such as first names, dates and locations hand-written on their backs.

I began painting and drawing on the photos in 2011. Most times, I use bright colors and playful designs to breathe some life into them. It is my goal to keep these people in the present rather than the past.

ABOUT JON HANDEL

Jon Handel is an artist residing in Brooklyn, New York. His love for art began with the need to fill a High School elective class, an old Pentax K1000 and a few inspiring words from his mom. Jon works predominantly in photography, sculpture, collage, abstract painting and graphic design. He draws inspiration from city life, reading, creative individuals, theater and travel.

His work has been featured in Vice Magazine, Cool’eh Magazine, New York Press Newspaper, Day in the Lyfe Magazine, Gawker.com, The National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, IL), Pulse Art Fair (Miami, FL), C.C.C.P. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), C’Fizz (Brooklyn, NY), Crest Art Show (Brooklyn, NY), Eastern District (Brooklyn, NY), Little Field (Brooklyn, NY), NURTUREart (Brooklyn, NY), 14th Street Y (NY, NY), Grape & Grain (NY, NY) and others.

Video

contactproject — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:49:00 -0500