MASS MoCA Summer 2013

Eric Doeringer, Some Los Angeles Apartments, in Love to Love You, curated by Martha Joseph.

 

MASS MoCA SUMMER 2013!! .... some new shows opened.... a Jason Middlebrook show, a Joseph Montgomery show, and a small group show including Eric Doeringer.

 

Jason Middlebrook's centerpiece... a Falling Water sculpture... kind of an 'awkward space'-filler, his totems/planks are more interesting.

MASS MoCA recycles everything... I wouldn't even be surprised if this was Styrofoam left-over from K. Grosse's wonderful show.

BEST use of MASS MoCA recycling I have seen yet was the utilization of the the C. Buchel abandoned movie theater seats to watch Guy Ben-Ner's (Buchel mocking) video.

Jason Middlebrook... charred-ish...  'plank' pieces are always cool. How/Why. Also, anything that is burned or just looks burned.

 

Judy Chicago's 'plank'-ish piece, Rainbow Picket (1965), included in the 1966 Primary Structures show, came before the first McCracken plank (1966)...  he was in Primary Structures also, but it wasn't a plank... was he inspired? I've never read anything.

 

Judy Chicago +... tough ads-as-art in Artforum before Benglis, car hoods on walls before Prince.

 

Jason Middlebrook

 

close-up

Jason Middlebrook

 

Eric Doeringer + MASS MoCA's Director Joe Thompson.

Eric has what looks like a really good show - or series of shows - this summer at No Foundation, in Toronto. I saw some photos on his facebook... not sure if this link to the fb pic works but try it. Eric's 2009 show at Dam, Stuhltrager was one of those rare perfect shows.

Joseph Montgomery

 

MORE TOTEMS!... not planks though, on the wall.

 

plastic coated

 

Joseph Montgomery

 

really like how this oily one extends, and the shadows

 

 these are so 3-D

 

Joseph Montgomery

 

Eric with artists working at MASS MoCA.  Eric's GF,,, I staged this photo don't be mad!

 

NOTE of DISCORD - i don't live terribly far from this museum... back in 5/2012 i emailed some curators here (Susan Cross, Denise Markonish, +) and at the Tang (Megan Hyde, Rachel Seligman, Ian Berry), inviting them to visit my studio... not a single one responded, even to decline. LAME!!...as non-profit museum 'curated' shows it's kind of sad; the artist's NYC galleries do all the work getting these shows placed.

 

Tony Feher + Jason Middlebrook

Tony Feher and Jason Middlebrook at Usdan Gallery, Bennington College.

Dan Cameron curated a three-artist installation for Bennington College... the show was assembled over the first three weeks of its four-week run, with each artist working independently... the first artist had an empty gallery, the second artist worked with the first artist's work, the third artist finished the installation. None of the artists were informed of what the others were presenting.

My visit was at the end of the second week... Tony Feher and Jason Middlebrook had each finished, Ted Riederer was yet to install. Here are some photos of Riederer's subsequent performance/installation.


Tony Feher's red and blue buckets + Jason Middlebrook's black cardboard-box city.

I visited some studios and saw a possible Josh Blackwell painting class still-life setup. Pink argyle sweater. Josh teaches at Bennington.

space + totems

Scott Kiernan, in Beauty's Burden, curated by David Gibson and Jennifer Junkermeier, at Ernest Rubenstein Gallery (of The Educational Alliance). Closes October 31st.


John McCracken, at David Zwirner.


All purply.


Matthew Day Jackson, at Peter Blum - after Charles Ray after McCracken, I guess. The cosmonaut's space suit is made from US Army blankets... Dario Robleto?


Jason Middlebrook being installed at Sara Meltzer.