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______________________ This is a show I could not have done earlier in my life. I spent the 59th year of my life anxiously preparing myself mentally to turn 60. After my 60th birthday, I spent the next year adjusting to my new identity as “young old” and through the experience, I realized I felt ok about it, even relieved that I could more fully “own” my age as I was officially “old.” Please Help Me Look After My Stuff When I am Dead is my attempt to reassure you people that aging and getting closer to death is not as frightening and depressing as you might have been told. I’m finding some fun playing with it. I hope this exhibit helps you relax a bit. Most importantly, just try to eat right and get as much physical activity as you can. I have curated my most prized possessions and numbered them. I am inviting you to choose one or more so I can leave it to you and feel better about my impending death. (As far as I know, I am in good health. I am hoping to make it to my 80’s.) I’m asking you to fill out a card because I will need your info. I also want to know how you relate to the object you selected so that I can make sure it gets to the person that wants it the most. I appreciate you “adopting” my things. It will help me feel secure in my aging! How it works:
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You are cordially invited to this notable queer group exhibition with work by Andrew Cornell Robinson, Anthony Viti, Cupid Ojala, Gran Fury, Hunter Reynolds, J. Morrison, John Hanning, Mark Morrisroe, Peter Clough, Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, and Vincent Tiley. This exhibition is a philosophical extension of our 2017 Armory week presentation at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, and has been joint curated by gallery director Christopher Stout with Rick Herron. ______________________ |
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David B. Frye SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE MONEY? Opening Reception: Friday, Sept 08th, 07-10pm An essay by the artist entitled, “A Bizarre Rite” accompanies this solo of work, which has been curated by artist Linda Griggs. |
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J. MORRISON | ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK Exhibition Dates: July 15 – 31, 2017 Art During The Occupation Gallery, Bushwick is pleased to invite you to our July gallery solo by artist J. Morrison; a performance titled, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK with special limited showings. This work is highly unconventional work for a gallery exhibition in that it is done in groups of 3 people. It is free to experience the performance, however you must reserve a time in advance. Learn more information and get your tickets by clicking the link below. (Image: Lloyd Mulvey) Art During the Occupation Gallery, Bushwick is a not for profit contemporary art space, showing subversive and difficult work. We delight in serving as a platform for discourse on work that is challenging to authority paradigms, feminist, queer, anti-establishment, hyper-aggressive, mystic, and/or joyously sexual. |
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PRESS RELEASE JOSH KIL | THE FICTIONAL GEOMETRY OF SELF-CASTRATION Art During the Occupation Gallery, Bushwick is pleased to announce “The Fictional Geometry of Self-Castration,” a sculpture and performance solo exhibition by artist Josh Kil. This marks the second Art During the Occupation Gallery solo show by the artist, and also his sixth exhibition project with the gallery. Josh Kil’s previous solo was titled, “Neither Coincidence Nor Destiny” and was shown in January 2016. “The Fictional Geometry of Self-Castration,” presents work dealing with paranoid views of perception to address the difficulties of analyzing reality. Materially, “The Fictional Geometry of Self-Castration,” is a solo of two human-sized sculptures concerning paranoia, in which ultimately one (or both) will be destroyed in a performance ritual on Saturday, June 17th as determined by audience voting. (http://www.joshkil.com) Art During the Occupation Gallery, Bushwick is a not for profit contemporary art space, showing subversive and difficult work. We delight in serving as a platform for discourse on work that is challenging to authority paradigms, feminist, queer, anti-establishment, hyper-aggressive, mystic, and/or joyously sexual. ___________________________ |
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Art During the Occupation Gallery, Bushwick gallery director Christopher Stout is thrilled to present, "BLACK MIRROR, PINK REFLECTIONS, PORTRAITS OF QUEER SELF-PORTRAITURE IN CONTEMPORARY ART," curated with Rick Herron during NYC Armory weekend with SPRING/BREAK Art Show. This was our third year working with the organization. Our presentation consists of the work of Anthony Viti, Peter Clough, John Hanning, Vincent Tiley, and Danny Coeyman, and is a pairing of work from the AIDS ART generation with new voices in queer self-portraiture. |
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In the artist’s own words: “My art attempts to satirize pinnacle moments in human evolution. Commonly know as the 100th monkey phenomenon, this phrase articulates the very moment when human involvement in a given social trend explodes to ubiquitous proportions. I thus create faux medical devices ( F. A. C. E. Units: Facilitating Analogue Cerebral Exploration), which attempt to mitigate, or even eliminate said social movements from happening. These devices demonstrate the primal pessimism and fear; which remains persistent through our species when new, shifting sociopolitical trends, for better or worse, emerge. In this instance, my four F.A.C.E. units (“Digital-Vision”, “Pano-Vision”, “Foresight”, and “Voyeur-Vision”) articulate an inherent fear one may feels towards the codependency between a digital native, and the digital means through which they communication/observe. In my dystopian projection that is our planets near future, our most formative generations have all but lost a tangible connection with society, nature, love, sex, etc. In trying to curb the effects of human withdrawal, these F.A.C.E. units, all requiring distinctly different involvement by the wearer, provide a middle ground proxy for those individuals most disconnected.” |
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Our gallery was launched in 2015 by Christopher Stout who serves as gallery founder and director. ------------------------------- |
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