Low Lives 3 – Day 2 (April 30 in U.S.)
2-5pm Central Daylight Sayings Time
La La La Singers
James Mbunju and Company
Marcell Mercado
Alan Sondheim
Rosa Sanchez + Alain Baumann
Julian Palacz & Bernhard Garnicnig
Annie Abrahams
Joseph DeLappe
Eosin (Diana Combo)
Claude van Lingen
dev01ded
Ginna Vélez
Saul Melman
Alfred Dong
Irvin Morazan + Maya Jeffereis
Chloe Bass + Brian Balderston
Marisol Salanova
Julio Cesar Morales + Juan Luna-Avin
Carlos Gonzalez
Tzitzi Barrantes
Jayson Keeling
Jenny Schlief (Approx 4 pm @ Red White Yellow)
Paul Wiersbinski
Shaun El C. Leonardo
Byd Sarret

DiverseWorks is using RED WHITE YELLOW to present two days of live internet broadcasted performances from all over the world.

April 29, 2011 from 7-10pm
April 30, 2011 from 2-5pm

All performances will be recorded and on view through May 21, 2011

(Houston, TX) – DiverseWorks ArtSpace in partnership with Box13 ArtSpace are pleased to announce a special co-presentation of Low Lives 3, an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted over the web and projected in real-time at multiple venues around the world. Low Lives 3 will feature more than fifty live performances over two days, streamed in real-time at venues across the globe, and will include a spotlight on contemporary choreography throughout the exhibition program.

DiverseWorks and Box13 will showcase Houston artist Jenny Schlief as part of Low Lives 3. Schlief will perform The Ugliest Man and Zarathustra: an evaluation by another human in front of a live audience at RED WHITE YELLOW, Box 13’s gallery dedicated to technology-based work. The performance will also be streamed simultaneously online and for public viewing at Box 13. The full stream of the collected works that make up Low Lives 3 will be projected within the gallery on Friday, April 29 from 7-10 pm and Saturday, April 30 from 2-5 pm. Please note the live performance will be recorded and available for viewing until May 21 during gallery hours at Box13 ArtSpace. All presentations are free and open to the public.

About Low Lives:
Founded in 2009 by artist and independent curator Jorge Rojas, the annual Low Lives exhibition highlights works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performative practices. The project celebrates the transmission of ideas beyond geographical and cultural borders, offering global audiences the opportunity to consider live performance in both physical and virtual space.

By organizing performances at numerous venues and then broadcasting them via online networks, Low Lives provides a new model for efficiently presenting, viewing, and archiving live performance-based art. The annual exhibition embraces low-tech aesthetics, such as low pixel images and muddled sound quality, to emphasize the raw, inquisitive quality of the broadcast and reception of the works.

“Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time,” Rojas explains, “it is also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium.”

About Low Lives 3

Low Lives 3 is co-produced by Chez Bushwick, an artist-run organization based in Brooklyn, New York. Chez Bushwick is dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary art and performance and places a special emphasis on new choreography.

Participating artists include: Annie Abrahams; Lukas Avendaño; Brian Balderston and Chloe Bass; Camille Baker; Tzitzi Barrantes; Rachelle Beaudoin; Black & Jones; Caroline Boileau; Catherine Cabeen and Company; Jennifer Chan; Tyrone Davies; Joseph DeLappe; dev01ded; Alfred Dong; Nancy Douthey; Eosin; Julie Fotheringham and Jarryd Lowder; Second Front; Deborah Goffe; Carlos Gonzalez; Katelena Hernandez; Ajeesh K.B., Santhosh V.S., and Hemabharathy Palani; Jayson Keeling; La La La Singers; Shaun El C. Leonardo; Anya Liftig; Kristin Lucas; James Mbunju and Company; Saul Melman; Marcello Mercado; Jui Mhatre and Jaee Joshi; Julio Morales; Irvin Morazan and Maya Jeffereis; Kendall Nordin; Molly O’Connor/Molliver; So Percussion; SaBa; Marisol Salanova; Rosa Sanchez and Alain Baumann; Byd Sarret; Jenny Schlief; Carmen Sober; Alan Sondheim; Nathan Stevens; Zornitsa Stoyanova; Channel TWo; Frans van Lent; Claude van Lingen; Ginna Vélez; Rodell Warner; Ian Warren; Dr. Heather Warren-Crow; Rebecca Weiner; and Paul Wiersbinski.

Now in its third year, Low Lives has expanded its reach to over twenty presenting partners from all corners of the world. Presenting partners include: Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey; Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore, India; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York; Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York; Co-lab, Austin, Texas; QMAD, Queens Media Art Development in partnership with Crossing Art Gallery, Queens, New York; Diaspora Vibe Gallery in partnership with AE District, Miami, Florida; DiverseWorks ArtSpace in partnership with Box 13, Houston, Texas; Elon University Department of Art & Art History, Elon, North Carolina; Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas; Konic Thtr, Barcelona, Spain; La Periferia, Mérida, Yucatán, México; La Perrera in partneship with MACO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México; Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mascher Space Co-op, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mindpirates, Berlin, Germany; Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota; On the Boards, Seattle, Washington; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon; Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; Simba Theatre Art International in partnership with Village Museum, Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania; SOMArts, San Francisco, California; the temporary space, Japan; and Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Low Lives 3 is funded in part by The Experimental Television Funds program. The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

For more information, please visit www.lowlives.net

About Jorge Rojas:
Jorge Rojas is the founder, producer, and curator of Low Lives. A multidisciplinary artist and independent curator, he was born in Morelos, Mexico and studied art at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and at Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Rojas engages in traditional, new, and performative media. His work often investigates communication systems and the effect of technology on artistic production, social structures, and communities. His artwork and curatorial projects have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and India. Rojas has received grants and fellowships including National Performance Network’s VAN Residency, West Chicago City Museum Artist in Residency Program, and Vermont Studio Center.


About Jenny Schlief

:
Jenny Schlief is a mixed-media artist who creates work from her personal experiences — home movies of her two kids, a video of her jumping on a hotel room bed in her skivvies and collage-centric drawing projects based on her high-school sketchbook — that usually border on her uncomfortable-to-share feelings. In Low Lives 3, the Houston-based artist will capture a live personal evaluation from a close peer that she has known for 10 years. Since the performance will happen in real time, it will be a performance of real human interaction and event. Thereʼs no way out, and all reactions are real and unrehearsed. Schlief took the title of the performance, The Ugliest Man and Zarathustra: an evaluation by another human, from a passage in a book by Neitzche, where she hopes to assume the character of The Ugliest Man, and her evaluator, Zarathustra. Schlief lives and works in Houston, TX as the co-founder of Supreme Value, a web services and design business, and runs the gallery Red White Yellow located inside Box13 ArtSpace. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Texas (Austin). Visit http://www.jennyschlief.com/ for more on Schlief and her work.

About DiverseWorks ArtSpace:


DiverseWorks is a non-profit art center in Houston, Texas dedicated to presenting new visual, performing, and literary art. DiverseWorks is a place where the process of creating art is valued and where artists can test new ideas in the public arena. By encouraging the investigation of current artistic, cultural and social issues, DiverseWorks builds, educates, and sustains audiences for contemporary art.



About Box13 ArtSpace:


BOX 13 ArtSpace is an artist run nonprofit innovative environment for the creation and advancement of experimental contemporary art in Houston. BOX 13 artists create this environment through the offering of affordable workspaces for emerging and established artists, dedicating five interior spaces to the exhibition of artistic explorations, a window gallery for installations and an outdoor courtyard space. BOX 13 promotes dialogue among artists and the art community on current trends affecting the arts. For more information go to, http://www.box13artspace.com/

About Red White Yellow

Red White Yellow is an artist run gallery located at Box13 ArtSpace in Houston, TX, started in 2010. It draws its inspiration from a multitude of outputs and technologies including video, gaming, internet, youtube, cinema, and fine art.


Box13ArtSpace is located at 6700 Harrisburg Blvd., Houston, TX, 77011

Telephone: 713-533-8692

Website: http://www.box13artspace.com/
Gallery Hours: Saturday, 1-5pm or by Appointment
Admission to the gallery is FREE

Sebastian Forray and Cheyanne Ramos in collaboration with Crawdad Entertainment Present: I Enjoy this Experience.

Red White Yellow is pleased to announce a new exhibition from Crawdad Entertainment, featuring site specific murals by Sebastian Forray and Cheyanne Ramos and video work by Cody Ledvina. Sound and music by Felix Pena.

SEBASTIAN FORRAY Born 1977 in Santiago, Chile
M.F.A. Painting & Drawing, University of Houston, 2012 Candidate B.F.A. Photography and Digital Media, University of Houston, 2001
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Sketch Klubb: Nerd Garage Sale, The Joanna, Houston La Lengua Muerta, Labotanica, Houston Dis, Dat, Deez & Doz: Deux!, The Joanna, Houston
2009 Part Myth, LoneStar Studios, San Antonio, TX Sketch Klubb: Show Us Your Zits, Texas Firehouse, Queens, NY Sketch Klubb: Show Us Your Zits, SOFA Gallery, Austin Neverland, El Rincón Social, Houston The AMG Visual Stimulus Package, Apama Mackey Gallery, Houston Sketch Klubb: Show Us Your Zits, The Joanna, Houston
2008 Monster Show 3, Domy Books, Houston & Austin, TX Dis, Dat, Deez & Doz, The Joanna Gallery, Houston
2007 A Drawing Show, The Joanna Gallery, Houston 2006 Oh, Happy Day!, UH Small Projects Gallery, Houston 2000 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston
CURATORIAL WORK
2010 Emergent Behavior: Project for a Houston Biennial, The Temporary Space, Houston Drawn From Taiwan, Domy Books, Houston
2009 Bathoschmathos, The Joanna Gallery, Houston 2008 Beyond The Wasteland, Domy Books, Houston
AWARDS & GRANTS
2010 Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Scholarship Eleanor & Frank Freed Travel Scholarship The Idea Fund Grant (as a member of Sketch Klubb)
2009 Dolores Mitchell Scholarship

CHEYANNE RAMOS

Born, Concord, California
Lives and works in Houston

2009 MFA, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
2005 BFA, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Beer and Skittles, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
2009 Wish You Were Here, Projects Gallery, University of Houston
Lost Paradise, Joan Wich & Co. Galley, Houston, Texas

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 New Works, McMurtrey Gallery
2010 Faculty Show, LSC, University of Houston, Clear Lake
Image Altered, Art League, Houston, Texas
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas
It’s Out There in the Air, Joan Wich & Co. Gallery, Houston Texas
2008 Dramas: Real and Imagined, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
Dis, Dat, Deez & Doz, The Joanna Gallery, Houston, Texas
Beyond the Wasteland, Domy Books, Houston, Texas
2006 University of Houston Student Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas

AWARDS

2008 Bunker Graduate Scholarship
2008 Delores Welder Mitchell Fellowship
2007 Friends of Art Fellowship
2006 Presidential Graduate Fellowship, University of Houston

PUBLICATIONS

2009 New American Paintings No. 84

See what we did for Artlies magazine, one of our favorite art magazines ever.

PERFECT SPACE

(See the article here too:)

Over the past five years, web-based programs such as YouTube and Flickr have revolutionized the distribution of visual information. What this means for art remains an open question. Ryan Lauderdale is on the forefront of unlocking the potential of digital technologies to transform artistic practice. Part public sketchbooks and part publishing, his Tumblr blog (astralzoo.tumblr.com) and Flickr site record the development of his artistic language and allow him to get feedback on his work. Lauderdale also uses the internet to inspire his aesthetic– a reductive, asymmetric array of symbols and shapes that alludes to the arrangement of windows or icons on a computer screen.

Even though he looks to the future with his use of digital media, the artist’s work is curiously populated with references to a 1990s psychedelic, suburban subculture that predates widespread use of the internet. Lauderdale thus uses contemporary technologies to look back, filter, and rearrange his past, particularly his teenage years in rural Oklahoma. The focal point of his exhibition HEADSPACE is “Spiro Projection,” a video he shot while dragging main in his hometown. Lauderdale inserted clips from old videotapes and found images that conjure memories of his youth into the footage. In front of the projector, a prism and plexiglas box fragment the video and cast reflections across the surrounding walls. A burning black taper candle, a lamp with an opaque inverted shade, and a small full-spectrum lamp behind a false wall are likewise dispersed throughout the room in a scattering of soft lights.

Sometimes Lauderdale’s references to psychedelic culture can get bogged down in a heavy-handed symbolism or nostalgia. This installation works because it leans toward abstraction. The artist’s open, improvised approach to HEADSPACE makes the work easier to enter and a more coherent visual experience. His subtle use of light and shadows create these beautiful, small gestures like where two poster tubes border a refracted shard of light. I also like that the installation doesn’t take itself too seriously. With dark posters clustered in a corner and objects sitting on the ground, the room is as comfortable as a teenage bedroom. I felt free to sit crosslegged on the floor, relax, and take it all in.

One of the artist’s greatest challenges is taking what is successful for him online and making it function in physical space. In HEADSPACE, his sculptures and digital collages feed off of each other and together are evolving in an innovative direction. However, I would like to see Lauderdale think even more critically about the conceptually loaded territory that he has walked into. In juxtaposing the aesthetics of psychedelia and contemporary technologies, he has hit upon a potential dialectic of mass-marketed transcendence. HEADSPACE touches on issues of subjectivity, memory, and utopian dreams of collective consciousness. I look forward to seeing Lauderdale continue to delve deeper into these ideas in future installations.

RED WHITE YELLOW is pleased to present new video work and installation by Portland artist, Brenna Murphy with the launch of her new website.

Show Statement

loom and tapestry
as nested reflections
~folded mind mold~

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Brenna Murphy

http://www.bmruernpnhay.com

bmruernpnhay@gmail.com

b. 1986, Edmonds, WA

Lives and works in Portland, OR

Education

2010

North Indian Classical Vocal Music, Michael Stirling, Portland, Oregon.

2009

BFA, General Fine Arts. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

“Psychometry (III)” Right Window Gallery. San Fransisco, California.

“Foldy Codes ” BFA Gallery, PNCA. Portland, Oregon.

“Loom Room” Half and Half. Portland, Oregon.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

Sen-Oren “Trance”, Galleri Box. Gothenburg, Sweden.

“An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers” Sullivan Galleries. Chicago, Illinois.

“Avatar 4D”, Noma gallery, San Francisco, California.

2009

“No Hay Banda” Reference Gallery. Richmond, Virginia.

“Language Thought and Reality” Valentines. Portland, Oregon.

“BFA Thesis Exhibition” PNCA. Portland, Oregon.

“Rhizome’s The Long Gallery” 7 x 7 Series. Why + Wherefore. whyandwherefore.com.

“Pyschometry (II)” Arratia Beer. Berlin, Germany.

“Pyschometry (I)” Exile, Berlin. Germany.

Commissioned Work

2010

Promotional Video for Eternal Tapestry, Portland, OR.

Stage Video for Operative, Portland, OR.

Music Video for Kemialliset Ystavat, Finland.

Stage Video for Golden Retriever, Portland, OR.

Album Cover for Carl Laukkenan, LA.

Album Cover for Matt Carlson, Portland, OR.

Album Cover for Kemialliset Ystavat, Finland.

2009

Album Cover for Internet 2, Barcelona.

Publications

Mould Map, London, Forthcoming.

The Report, Fall 2010.

Sen Oren: Trance, Gothenburg, Summer 2010.

PWR Paper #2, Berlin, Summer 2010.

Selected Press

“Scrambled: Brenna Murphy,” Vivian Hua. Redefine Annex Magazine, Seattle. Jan/Feb, 2010.

“Psychometry II,” Daniel Miller. Frieze Magazine. Aug, 2009

“Diskreter Blick in die Kristallkugel,” Dominikus Müller. Artnet.de. Apr, 2009.

“Brenna Murphy: Room,” Ceci Moss. Rhizome. Mar, 2009.

Professional Experience

Gallery Assistant, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. 2008-2009.

Weekly Guest Art Teacher, Emerson Elementary School, Portland, OR. 2006-2009

Member of 5 Person Art Collective “Oregon Painting Society” 2007-Present

Oregon Painting Society

Solo Exhibitions

2010

“Nightwave Catalog” Exhibition. Nationale, Portland

“Cruis’n” Performance and Installation. Appendix Project Space, Portland.

“RedRoom”, Performance. Tate Modern, London UK.

“No Soul for Sale”, Tate Modern, London UK.

“WitchAngel”, Performance. Portland 2010: Biennial of Contemporary Art,

Disjecta. Portland, OR.

“HexenHouse”, Installation. Portland 2010: Biennial of Contemporary Art,

Disjecta. Portland, OR.

“Oregon Painting Society at Dublab:Tonalism” Installation. Reed College.

Portland, OR.

“SpaceGuts”, Performance. Manuel Izquierdo Gallery, Pacific Northwest

College of Art, Portland, OR.

“ShadowGut”, Installation. Manuel Izquierdo Gallery, Pacific Northwest

College of Art, Portland, OR.

2009

“Radiant Dream Face”, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.

“Recent Findings” Multimedia Performance. TBA:09 Festival. Portland,

OR.

“Ancient Teenager” 48 Hr. Residency. Multimedia Performance. Pancake

Clubhouse, Portland.

“Oregon Painting Society Collaborative Installation” Reed College,

Portland.

“Oregon Painting Society Redux”, Fontanelle Gallery, Portland.

“Firewood” Multi media performance. Rotture. Portland.

2008

“Oregon Painting Society”, Fontanelle Gallery, Portland.

2007

“Oregon Painting Society”, Performance. Doug Fir Lounge, Portland.

Group Exhibitions

2010

“From Lucky PDF, this is Mill 24”. Video Screening. Mill 24, Islington Mill.

Manchester U.K.

Disjecta’s Portland 2010 Sampler. White Box Gallery. Oregon State

University. Portland, OR.

Selected Bibliography

2010

John Motley, The Oregonian, “Mystical Esoterica: Oregon Painting Society

at Nationale” Aug. 2010

Ceci Moss, Rhizome, “Oregon Painting Society at Tate Modern” May 2010.

Bob Hicks, The Oregonian, “Portland 2010” April, 2010.

John Motley, Artslant Worldwide, “Oregon Painting Society at PNCA”, Feb.

2010.

2009

Lisa Radon, Culturephile, “Radiant Dream Face” Dec. 2009.

Lisa Radon, Portland Monthly, “Review: Oregon Painting Society” Sept.

2009.

Sarah Mirk, Portland Mercury, “Spooky Spirituality of the Oregon Painting

Society” Sept. 2009.

Selected Discography

2010

“Cruis’n” Oregon Painting Society. Cassette only release.

“Oregon Painting Society Field Recording No. 1” Cassette only release.

“Radiant Dream Face” Oregon Painting Society. Cassette only release. Gift

Tapes, Seattle.

“Shadowgut” Oregon Painting Society CD.

RED WHITE YELLOW is pleased to present a series of never before shown claymation videos by New York artist, Jocelyn Shipley.

SHOW STATEMENT

Jocelyn is known for her sculptures and installations, all invoking cultish, visceral responses. In this particular series from her Skowhegan residency in 1997, Jocelyn creates strange narratives surrounding sex, death and mutilation. It’s a grossly beautiful and engaging collection of heads exploding and chronic masturbators. The originals are all on VHS tape, lending a nostalgic view of technology only a decade old.

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Jocelyn Shipley

EDUCATION:

California Institute of the Arts, MFA, 1998.
University of Illinois-Chicago, BFA, 1993.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2008
“The Secret Life of Sculpture”, CANADA, New York, NY

2006
“Ragged”, Kate MacGarry, London, England
“Action Adventure”, CANADA, New York, NY
“Squombi”, Donkey Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2005
“Frisky Flaming Hot”, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston Texas
“WITH US AGAINST REALITY, OR AGAINST US!”, curated by Ida Ekblad and Anders Nordby,
Willy Wonka Inc., Oslo, Norway and Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway
“Pholklore”, CANADA, New York, NY
“thaw the yedi”, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY

2004
“The Stray Show”, Fresh Up Club & False Front, Chicago, IL

2003
“Tranmogrification”, CANADA, New York, NY
“You Are My Sunshine/ You Is My Sunshine”, curated by Jeremy Yoder and Constance Feydy, Canada, New York, NY

2001
“Every Woman Has a Fantasy”, Canada, New York, NY
“Market Strategies”, curated by Cheyney Thompson, Oni Gallery, Boston, MA
“New Yorks From New York”, curated by Wallace Whitney, Bay Area Center for the Consolidated Arts, Berkeley, CA

2000
“Greater New York”, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
“Red, Room”, curated by Ken Hayes, Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1999
“The Leo Koenig Show”, curated by Leo Koenig, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
“US Exchange”, curated by Philip Grauer, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

VIDEO SCREENINGS:

2000
“Greater New York”, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

1999
“Chicken Fried Horrowshow”, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

1998
“Four Californian Filmmakers”, curated by Mark Allen, The Aurora Pictureshow, Houston, TX

SPECIAL PROJECTS:

2004
“Turkducken”, Cave Metal Performance Duo, Deitch, LFL & Canada, NY

2001
“Shut Up Time!”, co-curator with Karl Conrad, Good/Bad Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY

1997
“In the Name of the Place”, GALA Committee member with Mel Chin,
MOCA-Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA;
Kwangju Biennial, Korea;
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2003
Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review: Transmogrification”, The New York Times, Feb. 28
Raskin, Lisi, “Jocelyn Shipley and Michael Mahalchick”, Frieze, July/August
Schambelan, Elizabeth, “You Are My Sunshine/You Is My Sunshine”,
ARTFORUM.com Critic’s Picks, June
Residences:
Skowhegan School of Art, Showhegan, Maine, 1997.
Ox-Bow School of Art, Chicago Art Institute Summer Program, Saugatuck, MI, 1992, 1993 & 1995.

Show Statement

All capitalistic canalization overflown. Here production follows a different agenda.

During Berlin winter 2007, Eilers and Xedro happened to be resident in a nearly empty post-soviet flat. A large side window was the master wall. There was this amazing space whose restroom area took more floor than it should have. A series of sculptures made out of scrap were expanding from the bathtub, set in the shower box like in a ready-to-be-alarmed vitrine. As I was previously told, any piece that entered that royal toilet was about to be demolished in a couple of hours. Hopefully there is a documentation of the smash – a film yet unknown at present date. In the main room: an inflatable used as a bed, a tent used as sporadic depo, a cage zone hosting a vertical, imaginary alcove for a music I had never heard before.

You see, the cage trope comes back. Like in Coolhaus, 2008, which makes you snoop into a fly-through cell scenario. A cell quite expensively studied, maybe a hotel room.

This whole body of works had a sleazy entity, not truly disturbing, not classifiable, and strange enough, not at all absorbing the vacant freedom of the environment. Assemblages of matter raising from the pavement, some hanging from the ceiling.

Initiated canvases were suspended like flags or rolled open like portrait carpets. Everything I saw in there had been generated, brought together to remain in fieri: conceptually and physically movable. Possibly slowly. Tentatively a convenience. In some way, that studio can determine in my memory a quality that blends discretion and eminence.

Just tell me one thing, one infinite Kurt Schwitters column, how would it look today?

Transparent cans filled with garbage to support a table desk. Pieces of everyday life communication are converted into art objects and thereby de-literalized – illusionistic spaces, a computer interface collage, rural economy: Screen grab, 2008 – are they content or are they form? They are neither.

As I recall, I know you love to show off. But I never thought that you would take it this far. – Francesca Lacatena

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Debo Eilers

Lives and works in New York
Education

2007 Columbia University, MFA , Visual Arts, School of the Arts,

New York, New York

2004 University of Texas, BFA, Studio Art, School of Arts,

Austin, Texas

Solo Exhibitions

2009 I’ve got $3,000 in my wallet, On Stellar Rays, New York
Group Projects, Exhibitions + Screenings

2010 KAYA, with Kerstin Bratsch, 179 Canal, New York

Debo Eilers with On Stellar Rays , Art Los Angeles Contemporary

The Amazone Conversation, curated by Manuel Scheiwiller, Raum Zur Kunst, Basel

Hell, No!, curated by Rj Supa & David Fierman Convent Saint Cecilia, Brooklyn

Reconstruction #1, On Stellar Rays, New York

Greater New York 2010, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Connie Butler, & Neville Wakefield,

MOMA/P.S.1, Queens, NY

2009 The Dark Show Returns As A Ghost, curated by Katie Guggenheim, Paradise Row, London

A minus suitcas, curated by Eva Jung, Brain Factory, Seoul

Exhibition 211, June 5-11, New York

Saloon 3 (Debo Eilers/Jane Jo) Performance & Curated by Georgia Sagri, New York

The Fuzzy Set, screening curated by Pilar Conde, LAXART, Los Angeles

Professor Eilers, Performa 09 – The Third Biennial of New Visual Art Performance

New York

Circular File Channel Episode 2006 (2009), videos organized by Josh Kline and Anicka Yi,

Commissioned by Tairone Bastien / Performa 09

2008 Nothing is exciting. Nothing is sexy. Nothing is embarrassing. Museum of Modern Art Vienna

(Mumok), April 20

The Dark Show, curated by Katie Guggenheim, The Wallis Gallery Warehouse, London

Yes, curated by Tairone Bastien, AR / Contemporary Gallery, Milan

Swapmeet, High Desert Test Sites, organized by Amy Yao, Joshua Tree

2007 Carte Blanche, curated by Ronnie Bass, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

Analogous Logic,curated by Lumi Tan, Temporary Storage, Brooklyn

New Misunderstandings, curated by Roy Stanfield, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York

This Land is Our Land, curated by Ronnie Bass, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

Performa 07, Performa TV/ With Ronnie Bass

Pedastool. Wallstreet (With Nic Xedro and Georgia Sagri) New York

Moonch. UBS Corporate Park (with Nic Xedro) New York

Uterpain/Juanpa. 23rd street (with Nic Xedro and Georgia Sagri), New York

2006 Oktuber to Decumber, curated by Roy Stanfield, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York

2005 Nemo Film Festival, Independent Exposure, Paris

2003 CinemaTexas8, UT Student Competition, Austin

Rooftop Fillms, Texas Night curated by Spencer Parsons, Brooklyn

2002 CinemaTexas7, UT Student Competion ,No Budget Award, Austin

Recent Press

John Mollett, Greater New York 2010, Whitewall Daily, June 2010

Linda Yablonsky, Miniskirt, BodySuit, Orffspice MoMA PS1 Extravaganza, Bloomberg, April 2010

Sophie Landers, On Stellar Rays, The Wild, Issue 1(Hero) 2010

Christian Viveros Faune, “PS1’s Greater New York 2010” Is Worse Than The Biennial, Village Voice,

June 2010

Tyler Coburn, Greater New York: Review Part 3, ArtReview.com, June 2010

Chris Evangelista, Big Apple Art: The Greater New York Exhibit Returns To PS1, Encore, June 2010

Best in Mixed Media, Timeout, critics pick “Kaya” Debo Eilers & Kerstin Bratsch

Michael Wilson, Artforum online, January 2009

Tyler Coburn, Reviews Marathon, ArtReview, April 2009

Carolina Busta, New York, Artforum, December 2008

Mat, Issue 3, 2008

Debo Eilers and Das Institut (Kersin Bratsch & Adele Roder), Haircuts and Guitars: Back and Front,

Ouvo, Issue 18, 2008

New Misunderstandings by Marie-Adele Moriot, Artlies, Issue 50, May, 2008

John Kelsey, Artforum, December 2007