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Ping Wang Window

Shoebox Gallery — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:11:42 GMT

Acclaimed author (winner of 2008 Minnesota Book Award), photographer and Macalester professor Ping Wang will influence the street life of Chi-Lake with her poetry and images of Tibetan herbal medicine that grows in the mouth of a worm. Nov 6, 2009 - Jan 6 2010, reading and performances TBA

Shoebox By Night

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:45:19 GMT

Shoebox By Night

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:44:01 GMT

Shoebox By Night

Chritopher Hauseman Opening

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:38:59 GMT

Another satisfied customer at the opening

Mary Bergs' Art Matters

Shoebox Gallery — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:03:05 GMT

For the past several months, having the chutzpah and advantage of working there, Mary Bergs has spent time on the construction site of the Children's Hospitals and Clinic's Specialty Center. It is an amazing place where labor and materials are used to transform two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional forms. Ms. Bergs has created, from this, an installation for the gallery with debris that has been collected at the site.

David Everett

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:13:16 GMT

Lite Brite Opening vid

Shoebox Gallery — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:49:08 GMT

Lite Brite Opening

Shoebox Gallery — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:21:54 GMT

Obamulator

Shoebox Gallery — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:57:21 GMT

The Obamulator/McCain-o-Phone reveals hidden meanings in the candidates names!

image: The Obamulator/Mc Cain-o-phone

Deleuzers... closer

Shoebox Gallery — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:10:43 GMT

A closer up view of the Beautiful Deleuzers/Guattari Heroes show. Through Sept 1st. click to enlarge, click again to make 12" high.

Beautiful Deleuzers Opening

Shoebox Gallery — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:59:37 GMT

A fine evening and opening despite a firey start. T -shirts available for purchase.

Beautiful Deleuzers/Guattari Heroes Piece Descriptions

Shoebox Gallery — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:49:38 GMT

Beautiful Deluzers/Guattari Heroes Piece Descriptions Ryan Barone Playing Basketball With Death (performance w/J. Anthony Dimezza), inkjet prints, 2007 Drawing upon Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal, Playing Basketball With Death takes on both existential and absurdist undertones in depicting a literal battle against a personified Death. Consisting of a series of one-on-one matches, each game is acted out in relative silence. My work is rooted in an interest in the conflation of spaces, memory, and identity. I am currently in the process of photographing a town which exists solely in namesake and memory, Stump City - using this name metaphorically as a comment on place, loss, and rememberance. I'm interested in notions of mimesis, of recreation and failure. Frank Gaard rongWrong, acrylic on cd, 2008 Image - words from Marcel Duchamp misspelling on matchbooks which Marcel kept. Used as magazine title for New York DaDa, it's readymade, no permission necessary, public domain. Philipp Hoppe A Theory and Practice of Hyperform, text, 2005 This paper was a student project at the Department for Architectural Theorie, RWTH Aachen Technical University (Prof. Gerhard Vinken) in 2005. The topic has been chosen by the author, out of a fascination with the concept of the 'Rhizome' and its parallels within the field of architecture. Kenric Mc Dowell Texto-Mystical, adhesive paper, dimensions variable, 2007 These are text designs for print or mural installation. They are original and borrowed mystical statements and metaphors. Texto-Mystical Translation features two lines from reggae recording artist Peter Tosh's song, "I Am That I Am". The lyrics of the song are a hybrid composition of Biblical references (originating in the Torah) and original text. Similarly, the Texto-Mystical series is itself a composite. An Open Book is an "original" phrase written by the artist. The text in each piece has been formatted to fit into a grid and set in rows. Read traditionally, the texts appear to be nonsensical. When read along the grid, they are comprehensible. Guitars Porta-Shrine, c-print, 2007 Guitars is the artistic collaboration between Shanna Perez-Hill and Kenric McDowell. The Porta-Shrine is a slightly less than life size photograph of our living room shrine. We use the shrine at home for meditation and ceremonial work and bring the Porta-Shrine with us to shows when appropriate. Morgan O'Hara Live Transmission: Felix Guattari, acrylic on canvas, 1990/2008 The source for the drawing on canvas is a two-handed pencil drawing made of Guattari's hand movements during a lecture in Italy at Milano Poesia Forum in 1990. As he spoke he leaned his chin on his knuckles and periodically changed hands as he read from the paper on the table in front of him. Sometimes he leaned on two hands simultaneously, always looking down at the text. For brief periods he rested his overlapped hands on top of the text to speak spontaneously. DVD's: Larry Caveney Performance at the DMV, DVD, 2003 (10 minute edit) Ken Callaway Videography The Performance was at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) is about redefining the idea of "public art" and who it serves. I chose the device of humor to lighten-up the suppressed situation. In California the registration fee on autos had tripled so citizens really did not like spending their money or their Saturdays there. So I shared jokes ... handed out blow pops...did a funk action painting with James Brown tunes. My objective was to take some of the folks out of their context of being at the DMV or to perhaps put being at the DMV into more positive public position. I plan to seek out other venues of suppression for this piece. Kelley Meister The Cage Project, live performance, 2008 and Lines of Flight, DVD 2007 I am interested in the liminal space of the Queer body. In my work, I use my body, a Queer body, to explore the liminal space of feeling between things, such as gender and sexuality, but also academia and subcultures and family. The idea of masquerade is particularly interesting to me because of its specific relationship to identity (masking one's true identity or wearing masks to create different identities). I want to take up space. I want to be noticed: in all my Queer glory. The work is driven by my life as a Queer person--another reason why putting my actual self into it is necessary. I love costumes, performing rituals, being on stage and the center of attention. I revel in that space. I'm giving that space a specifically Queer context--a way to view me, a visual language to aid communication about myself. Dustin Nelson The Burial of the Dead, DVD 2007 ...is a sort of plagiarism. Tracking the trademarking of a landscape, and the omnipresent sense of evolution of its trademarks both within and without our traditional interpretations of such rhetoric. The film is constructed through "affection" images, trying to locate the intersection of a face and a machine, noting the emotive reactions within and without the frame to better understand both the animate and the inanimate as representations of the Modern: the sanctioned plagiarisms of life. In this way the film is attempting to be not a "theater, but a factory." It utilizes rare audio of T.S. Eliot reading The Waste Land (here subtitled), a poem that was originally derided as nothing but an olio of garbled quotations and plagiarisms. The point being appropriation is consumption, ownership, and hermetic endgame with barely an ability to further the species. Andrea Goldman The Last Lecture, DVD, 2008 "There is no difference between what a book talks about... and how it's made." --Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus. D & G have inspired my work for many years. Our culture is schizophrenic--bombarded with information and attached to transcendent futures--and D & G offer another way to be desiring and multiple--here and now. Self-help and theory both try to address our schizoid tendencies. Self-help book sections grow; philosophy and theory sections shrink. Self-help books ("Just What Will You Be?") seem to offer comfort (in the same) while theory often tries to offer confrontation with difference and meaning-making context. The Last Lecture started out of curiosity: what would theory book covers look like superimposed over New Age book covers? On May Day 2008, Barnes and Noble was so kind as to give me images of the top ten bestsellers in the section entitled "Self-Improvement and Inspiration" (which was formerly known as "New Age"). The Last Lecture is a sort of video/slide-show hybrid, moving between those bestselling Self-Improvement books and Deleuze and Guattari's top sellers. As the viewer sees the slightly screwed up book covers (I adulterated the images), a lady computer voice reads quotes from the books. As I picked quotes from the books, I realized my strong drive towards theory (and D & G) is tinged with ambivalence, while my disgust towards self-help is tinged with belief that the stuff could help me (or the others). I respect D & G's suspicion of state philosophy, and I think the recent theory-bashing has to do with theory (and state theory) overload in art and academia. How do we come back to theory? We make a bastard.

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Beautiful Deleuzers/Guattari Heroes Bios and Statements

Shoebox Gallery — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:44:17 GMT

Beautiful Deleuzers/Guattari Hero Artist Bios Ryan Barone www.ryanbarone.com Lives and works in Rochester, NY MFA candidate at the Rochester Institute of Technology. BFA from the College of Saint Rose, 2007. Larry Caveney San Diego, California http://www.larrycaveney.com I started to question why some people (fellow factory workers) were not aware of the art world and its glamour. I shifted the direction of my thinking about the role of audience and started collaborating with school children, fellow factory workers and the public in general. I worked in a factory for ten years and for the most part never really shared my studio practice until close to the end of working there. I eventually started showing my work to those at the factory who operated fork trucks and worked on assembly lines. I started inviting my fellow workers to openings. Collaborating with my friends at the factory allowed fresh ideas, new possibilities to come into the work. It allowed a new audience to witness my work, through their involvement. Frank Gaard Minneapolis, MN http://frankgaard.com/ Frank Gaard is a Minneapolis artist and expert on Duchamp. Andrea Goldman San Francisco, California MFA, full merit scholarship, Chicago 2004 www.andreagoldman.org Andrea Goldman creates theatrical videos, videographic texts, and textual drawings that enact an argument between a controlling mind, a stupid body, and words words words. She has shown at venues ranging from Performing Arts Chicago to Apex Art (NYC). Currently living in San Francisco, she makes websites, doodles in drawing and philosophy, and is currently working on me and ooooo, a collaborative song project about books. Philipp Hoppe New York, NY ...studied architecture in Germany and Brazil. His work has been shown internationally at Kunsthaus Graz and Ars Electronica, Austria. He recently had a residency at the MacDowell Colony, NH, and will be a visiting scholar with the Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University, until 2009. Kenric McDowell Brooklyn, NY MFA Bard/ICP 2007 BA San Francisco State University, 2001 http://kenricmcdowell.com/ My work is grounded in the belief that perceptual, ecological, technological and semantic systems are woven together in nearly impenetrable complexity. In my photos abstract forms disrupt the illusion of depth, consciously situating the viewer in photographic and real space simultaneously. Natural forms (shells, horizons) simulate infinitude while manmade forms (the husk of a firework, a dolphin costume, a period) reveal slippage between sensory, semantic and political formations. All of this is cloaked in the tragicomic -a mode of expression I find most helpful when contemplating the boundaries of our existence. Kelley Meister MFA Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2008 BFA Savannah College of Art and Design, 2002 www.kelleymeister.com kelley a meister (a.k.a. s.k. shipwreck) is a multimedia genderqueer performance artist whose work revolves around issues of identity and power using masquerade and participatory art practice. Dustin Nelson Minneapolis, MN http://blogsareaboutego.blogspot.com/ Dustin Luke Nelson is a video artist and writer of fiction and non-ficton. Currently he is the editor at the literary magazine InDigest and is working on "The Waste Land Part Two - A Game of Chess." Morgan O'Hara N.Y., N.Y. www.MorganOHara.com Morgan O'Hara's childhood and early adolescence in an international community in post-war Japan early established close relationships between east and west, creation and destruction, life and art. Having for 18 years practiced aikido, O'Hara draws simultaneously with both hands. Shows and performs extensively in The United States, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Represented in private and museum collections worldwide. Participates in international performance art festivals: NIPAF, KIPAF, TIPAF, International Performance Konferenzen, Action Art Monza, DaDao Live Art, Beijing.

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Tynan Kerr

Shoebox Gallery — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:10:07 GMT

The Shoebox Gallery is pleased to present Tynan Kerr and his unique installation of relational scatter art: Metaphysical Totem Poles. A series of linear forms, stacked, suspended, nailed and glued together make up a never ending jigsaw puzzle of aesthetics and meaning. Literary notes, color gradations, and tribal ski mask portraits line the inside and outside of the gallery. You may walk away with that which is without. A BBQ with the artist will be announced as the weather breaks.

Aziz Osman tells of being in front of a firing squad

Shoebox Gallery — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:27:41 GMT

At the joint shoebox/Obsidian Arts opening, artist Aziz Osman tells of being in front of a firing squad in his native Somalia. He was saved at the last moment. Ethnic strife still plagues his country.