Synchronicity Space Presents
GLEAMING
Kelie Bowman, Rob Doran, STO, Jessie Rose Vala
February 11 – March 10, 2012
Opening Reception Saturday February 11 7 – 10pm
special music and video performance from Light Hits at 7pm.
Synchronicity Space
713 N. Heliotrope, Los Angeles, CA 90029
www.synchronicityspacela.com/
Pics from my current show, MY SLOW CALLED LIFE at Mulherin-Pollard.
Read a review by Roberta Smith in the NY TIMES
Art In America wrote about it too.
I will be participating in this 24 day live silkscreening event at venerable NY art bookstore mecca Printed Matter. Come visit me during my 2 printing sessions on Saturday December 17th 2-6pm and on Sunday December 18th 4-6pm. I will also have on hand some new zines that I’ll be giving away. We are printing on handkerchiefs and tee-shirts n undies too! wooohoo.
Printed Matter is pleased to present 24 DAYS OF MATTER PRINTED, a live screenprinting project by J. Morrison. From December 1st until the 24th, daily screenprinting sessions will feature a rotating cast of 20 artists creating collaborative works in the Printed Matter storefront.
During these sessions, the artistic collaboration will be accumulative, with a new artist each day adding his or her own print to the previously produced prints. Prints will be available for purchase at any stage during this process.
Participating Artists:Kelly Armendariz (Dec 13, 17) Juan Betancurth (Dec 8, 10)AA Bronson (Dec 19, 2-4pm)Isabella Bruno (Dec 10, 12)Maria Chavez (Dec 17, 23)Christopher Clary (Dec 7, 10)Richard Haines (Dec 9, 10)Matthias Herrmann (Dec 10, 19)Brian Kenny (Dec 3, 15)Marie Lorenz (Dec 2)Michael Magnan (Dec 3, 20)Slava Mogutin (Dec 3, 16)J. Morrison (Dec 1)Antonio Ortuño (Dec 6, 10)Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff (Dec 3, 22)Denise Schatz (Dec 14, 17)Todd Shalom (Dec 11)Sto (Dec 17, 18)George Venson (Dec 5, 10)Grant Worth (Dec 3, 21)
See more info on the Printed Matter website HERE
Mulherin + Pollard Present
MY SLOW CALLED LIFE
A solo exhibition of sculptures by STO
December 1 -31 2011
Opening Reception Thursday December 8th 6-9pm
In My Slow Called Life, Sto presents a tranquil, one room NY studio apartment scene as the backdrop for a variety of papier mache sculptures. Devoid of any people, we are left to ponder the objects on their own as we walk through the space. Leftover pizza on the table, old food in the fridge, a stack of books, some dirty socks, and a slop sink with paintbrushes as well as toothbrushes are just a few of the mundane objects recreated in chunky, lovable papier mache.
There is a natural sense of whimsy in the limitations of the mache as a medium and it boldly reveals itself with rough textures and gobs of paint applied liberally. There is also a sense of comedy beneath the surface, as if the objects were laughing at their own meaninglessness and at us for needing them. These deadpan takes on quotidian objects question our common understanding of what is real and reveal the many ways that we are entangled with our possessions.
By shining a spotlight on the everyday, these works evoke our own daily lives and slow us down long enough to take stock in what they really consist of.
Mulherin Pollard
187 Chrystie St. btwn Rivington n Stanton
NY, NY 10002
LAST CHANCE TO SEE WE ARE THE WHIRL!
Join us for a Closing party
with musick by DUBKNOWDUB and BOVEDA
Where: wayfarers , 1109 dekalb ave btw broadway and malcolm x, Brooklyn, NY
It’s been so wonderful having these drawings at Wayfarers,
but Friday is their last day…
…and the only way we could let them go without a fight is to sing them away in style, so sto and jee have generously agreed to bring a little more of their awesome…
If you haven’t seen the show, yet (or even if you have), come listen to the ever entrancing:
BOVEDA
featuring Jee, David Noriega, Peter Segerstorm, and Michael Hernandez-Stern
and enjoy the raucously enigmatic charm of:
DUBKNOWDUB
featuring Sto and Smhoak Mosheein
we’ll have some cheap beer, some hard pretzels.
if it’s cold, we’ll do the spiced cider thing again…
you’ll see some old friends, make some new friends, hear some honestly amazing music and be surrounded by these beautiful drawings…
directions:
J train to kosciuszko stop
walk towards kosciuszko to dekalb
left on dekalb
wayfarers is last building on the right before malcom x
Here are pics from my show We Are The Whirl with Jee Young Sim as well as our performances in response to each other’s work.
Friday November 18th 8pm
In conjunction with the drawings in their show,
“We Are The Whirl”
S.T.P. (aka Stolen Temple Pile up)
Sto will be performing a reactionary soundtrack to the paintings of Jee Young Sim.
Jee (aka J.E. + more E.)
will be doing something seriously badass in response to the paintings of STO
live! and in person! … one night only.
8pm – 11pm with performances at 9 and 10.
wayfarers , 1109 dekalb ave btw broadway and malcolm x, Brooklyn, NY
J train to kosciuszko stop: walk towards kosciuszko to dekalb, left on dekalb
wayfarers is last building on the right before malclom x
See the event on Facebook
Wayfarers Presents
We Are the Whirl
New Works by Jee Young Sim and Sto
October 27th – December 2nd 2011
Opening Reception Thursday October 27th 7-10pm
“I will follow the path of the line right off a cliff, if that’s where it takes me, like I’m running behind the line, up and over, right on through, down, around and right back to where I started.” – Sto
Wayfarers is so very proud to present to you this show featuring new works by Sto and Jee.
Sto and Jee have known each other as vibrant artists and musicians/performers in Brooklyn for years, but this show is bringing their works together for the first time. In “We Are The Whirl,” both artists are presenting large scale, calligraphic works on paper with little or no color. Their emphasis is on improvisationally finding form through the making of marks. Their processes are similar – they both move fluidly above the paper laid out on the floor, using Sumi ink or black paint and working in a state somewhere between a dance and a trance. In this way, their drawings call to mind performative mark-making traditions like Native American sand painting and Abstract Expressionism, but their works are as different from each other as ice is from steam. Jesse James Arnold, who worked with Sto and Jee to select the works from their studios, likens their sensibilities to a deck of playing cards in which Jee makes all the decorative ornamentation for the Queens, but Sto comes in to paint their faces.
Sto’s strokes are huge and gestural as he pushes the paint in front of him, rolling it out like determined mercury. The raw, open forms that evolve from Sto’s choreography of marks can clearly be understood as faces, but it’s as if each face is given shape not by any external features, but by the energy flowing and firing inside the head.
Alternately, Jee’s small marks accumulate their energy, ornately – like foliage, or fragments of memory. Each small stroke accrues, building an architecture of organic but abstracted imagery. Eventually they organize themselves into vertical compositions that call to mind Korean landscape scrolls, traditional dragon tattoos, birds of paradise, waterfalls and what it would look like if you tried to trace the flow of fire. They are dense and meticulous, without ever encroaching upon fussy. They are all the little leaves, while also being all the drops of water dripping from them.
Sto and Jee work with a level of trust in their process – and in the unknown – that allows them to give over to their marks, letting the marks become the maps to their own making. “The world has gone the way of the whirl, leaving us all spinning until we fall down. ”
ALSO:
Live performances by Sto and Jee in response to each other’s work: Friday, November 18th. 8pm
Sto’s band, Dubknowdub, and Jee’s band, Boveda, play live at the closing: Friday, December 2nd. 8pm
Wayfarers Brooklyn
1109 Dekalb Ave, btwn Malcolm X and Broadway,
Brooklyn, NY
Kosciuzko stop on the J train.
Gallery Hours: Sat, Sun 12-6pm
brooklynwayfarers.tumblr
Chris Uphues and I at the Whitney Comics Party. (photo from Desert Island)
Hey Check it out! I will have my very own table at this fun zine party at the Whitney Museum. I’ll have brand new zines for sale and for your viewing pleasure. Its a family affair so feel free to bring the little ones too, plus its FREEEEE.
Thanks to the best local comic shop Desert Island for choosing me, as I will be among some great company.
See You There…
Check out my sculpture for Secret Porject Robot’s last show at Monster Island
Alien Warrior, 2011
Here’s some pix I took during the Epic Block Party.
And a video of DKD’s performance featuring some guy who wanted to set his spray can on fire and got kicked out. whoops.
Call of the Wild ripping it :
And Light Asylum outside!
All good things certainly come to an end…..I’m happy to have been there and to be able to play the closing block party with DUBKNOWDUB! Come out and help us all usher in an new era!
Monster Island Arts and Music Festival Last Ever annual Block Party
Saturday September 10th 2-10pm Bands outside and inside! Art shows!
Monster Island, Williamsburg’s landmark center for the arts home to, Live With Animals, Secret Project Robot Art Space, Kayrock Screenprinting, Todd P. Practice Spaces, Mollusk Surf Shop, Oneida and a multitude of studios and rehearsal spaces would like to say goodbye in style.
Over the last 7 years we have always thrown an annual Block Party where we invite the entire neighborhood in to listen to live bands on the street, tour the building and host 2 giant art installations; as that this is our last block party ever (the building is slated for demolition in November), we’d like your help to celebrate!
Featuring music by
CULT OF YOUTH, ERIC COPELAND, SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE, MAN FOREVER, CALL OF THE WILD, K-HOLES, REEGAL DEEGAL, DUBKNOWDUB, VAZ, HAIR JAIL, DIVINE ORDER OF THE BLOOD WITCH, BRUTE FORCE, THESE DAYS
I’m going on an east coast tour this week with DUBKNOWDUB! Come say hi if yr in one of these towns….
FUNDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 2011
this tour will strengthen your brain, ruin your body, and elevate your spirit.
Featuring
FUCK TON + GDFX + DUBKNOWDUB
these are the best bands. you’re out of luck.
8/17 – BOSTON – Twin Towers
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=217391194974699
8/18 – PROVIDENCE – AS220
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143492895735698
8/19 – PHILLY
Danger Danger Gallery 6th Anniversary Blow Out
http://www.dangerdangergallery.com/
8/20 – BALTIMORE
Penthouse Gallery – Copy Cat Building
http://penthousegallery.tumblr.com/
8/21 – RICHMOND
Ghost Print Gallery (early show!)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219978481386706
8/21 – CHARLOTTESVILLE
Late Secret After Party for Daniel Higgs and Zones
8/22 – BROOKLYN
Homecoming Show! Death By Audio
http://www.entertainment4every1.net/shows/
Here is the newspaper box that I collaborated with Kelie Bowman on. Look out for it on the streets of NYC soon…and check out some of the other awesome ones below. Thanks to Andrew Shirley and Showpaper for curating and organizing.
Kelie Bowman and I collaborated on a newspaper box for SHOWPAPER. There is a reception Thursday at 285 Kent Ave (coincidentally where I have a mural up too) in Williamsburg for all of the boxes, go check it out or see it in the streets of New York!
I will be playing this 4th of July show with tons of other great bands. Join us if you are in NY!
