image: Katya Grokhovsky
INAUGURAL One Night Exhibition: Sunday, 11th December 2011
6-11.30pm
Performances, videoworks, installations and sculptures investigating the NOTIONS of MONEY: The Allure, The Absence, The Evils and The HONEY.
Artists:
Alan and Michael Fleming (
www.spatialinterventions.com)
Twin brothers Alan and Michael Fleming have been working collaboratively since 2005, developing an interdisciplinary artistic practice that embodies conceptual play. Their collaboration encompasses performance, video, photography and sculpture. Their work has been exhibited internationally including shows in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Copenhagen, Glasgow and Rio De Janeiro. Recent exhibitions include altCph11: Encounters in Copenhagen (2011), No Joke at LVL3 Gallery in Chicago (2011), and Objects and Extensions performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2010). They have upcoming solo exhibitions in the spring of 2012 at three-walls gallery and Happy Collaborationists in Chicago. Alan and Michael Fleming both received their BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. They went to graduate school as a collaborative on a shared Merit Scholarship and earned their MFA in Studio from the Performance Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. The artists currently live and work in Brooklyn.
Marissa Perel (
http://www.marissaperel.com/)
Marissa Perel is a Brooklyn based artist, having re-arrived from Chicago. She is interested in the body's relationship to gender, desire and power within and against socio-political constructs. Her work explores these dynamics through performance, installation, video and writing. Her column, "Gimme Shelter," is the exclusive performance art column on the Art21 Blog. Perel will be a guest curator for the Spring 2012 Movement Research Festival. Her work has been shown at New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Judson Memorial Church, Chez Bushwick, Cake Shop and Galapagos, among other venues in NY. Her work has also been presented at the MCA, Chicago Cultural Center, Spoke Gallery and LVL3 Gallery, and has toured to Central Europe. She holds a B.A. in writing from Naropa University and an M.F.A in studio/performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Patricia Dominguez (
http://www.patriciadominguez.com)
Patricia Dominguez was born in Chile and is based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a visual artist and a naturalist. She holds a Visual Art Degree at Universidad Catolica de Chile and is currently an MFA Candidate in Studio Art at Hunter College in New York. She is also studying for a Natural Science and Botanical Illustration Certificate at the New York Botanical Garden.Her work has been included at the Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art and Phaidon Press in 2009. She has been an artist in residency at The Watermill Center (2011) and at the American Museum of Natural History (2011). She is recipient of Becas Chile CONICYT (2010) scholarship and Fondart (2010) funding for the arts. In 2012 she will exhibit Rock Garden at the Museo de Historial Natural in Chile and will participate at the Sandarbh Artist Residency in India.
Miao Jiaxin (
www.miaojiaxin.com)
From the beginning of his practice, starting as a street photographer tracking Shanghai
prostitutes to the development of a pseudo-transvestite web celebrity, Miao
Jiaxin has created an edgy and protean practice. Beginning in Shanghai,
Miao then immigrated to New York, replacing the alienation of the body and
of labor, as experienced by sex workers, with that of the abject
alienation of urban life. Miao documents his own performances, creating
photographs and videos that stand on their own as works. For example, he sleepwalked, dressed in pajamas through a vacant city and through urban crowds, whilst working towards his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is most known for his collaborative live-feed erotic performances on an interactive pornographic broadcasting website. Miao's works express the ambivalent and sometimes antagonistic tension that always exists between the individual and governing or cultural authorities, questioning assumptions about power in relation to individual identity, race, gender,sexuality and social class. Positioning the artists' role as one
who questions consensus on issues of consumerism, commercialism, and
globalization.
Katya Grokhovsky (
www.katyagrokhovsky.com)
Katya Grokhovsky is a Brooklyn based, Ukrainian born, Australian visual artist and curator. She has an MFA (2011) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture, a BFA in Painting from Victorian College of the Arts and a BA in Fashion with Honors from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Grokhovsky's work has been exhibited in Australia, US, UK and Europe. She has traveled extensively, partaking in various residencies and performance art events. She is a recipient of Freedman Traveling Scholarship and SAIC International Graduate Scholarship. Most recently, Grokhovsky was an artist in residence at Robert Wilson' s Watermill Center, where she was commissioned to create a major installation/performance project for the annual benefit and Open House. She has upcoming 2012 solo exhibitions in New York and in Melbourne, Australia. Founder and Director of "The Bedroom"in Brooklyn, NY.
Katrina Chamberlin (
http://portfolio.katrinachamberlin.com/)
Katrina Chamberlin was born in 1981 in the Netherlands and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A. in Painting at the University of California, Santa Barbara and her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions and site-specific performance installations at Mitaki Green Chapel, Hiroshima Japan; Sharkeez Bar, Santa Barbara, Calif. and the Atrium, Santa Barbara, Calif. Her work has also been exhibited at the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, Canada; Chicago Underground Film Festival in Chicago, Ill.; Sullivan Galleries, Chicago Ill. and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill.
Jakob Oredsson (
http://www.jakoboredsson.com)
Jakob Oredsson is a visual artist and a scenographer from Sweden. His installations and performances have been shown at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery in Prague, Stoke Newington International Airport in London, The Watermill Center in New York, and variety of spaces in Copenhagen, Fredrikstad and Berlin.
The works of Oredsson include mainly site specific installations and performances in dialogue with architecture, light and audience through the use of a wide range of media. His work has been decribed as being “striking in its simplicity and in the harmony it evokes. It opens the mind to endless spatial possibilities.” Jakob received a BFA in Scenography from the Norwegian Theatre Academy, studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and Anthropology at Lund University in Sweden. Oredsson is currently a student of architecture at The Cooper Union in New York.
curated by Katya Grokhovsky
Miao Jiaxin and Heeran Lee "Tuition Laundering", link to video: http://vimeo.com/20353757
Mike and Alan Fleming, Checkers 2011
