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Wishing Well

Sunday February 28, 2010


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Mixed Media
Wishing Well
Ongoing Project
Dims Var


Instructions: affix adhesive label to wall above public urinal. Toss a penny into said urinal. Make a wish.

Please email burtonwoodandholmes@gmail.com for more info



From Above

Friday July 10, 2009


From Above

From Above, Painted Steel, 2009



Medicine Cabinet @ Artists Run Chicago

Friday May 8, 2009


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Our contribution for Medicine Cabinet at Artists Run Chicago a group exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center.
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2009/05/artists_run_chicago.php


May 10 – July 5, 2009, Gallery 1


For this project we produced GARDENfresh brand tooth paste. GARDENfresh is also an artist run space / collective, active in Chicago since 2002. www.gardenfresh.org


from HPAC website…..“Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the legacy.”



New diorama at Medicine Cabinet Sat April 18th

Monday April 13, 2009


(A)trophy Cabinet


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Medicine Cabinet

3216 S Morgan St, Apt. 4R (at 32nd Pl)
Bridgeport/Chinatown, Chicago

630-849-7750

Bus: 8 Halsted, 35 35th.

http://www.the-medicine-cabinet.blogspot.com

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Beyond the Fluff and Fold: Contemporary Artists and the T-Shirt, Art Institute of Boston

Tuesday February 3, 2009


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Urban Camo Santa, T-shirt, sml, med, lrg and xl, Printed by Inthang 2009


The Art Institute of Boston Gallery at University Hall
1815 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
MBTA Redline to Porter Square

Gallery Hours Tues-Fri, 12:00pm – 6:00pm / Sat 12:00pm – 5:00pm

Beyond the Fluff and Fold, Contemporary Artists & the T-Shirt is curated by Andrew Mroczek with an intorduction by Helen Walters, author of 100%, 200% and 300% Cotton, a series of titles on contemporary T-shirt graphics. Artists featured in the show: Burtonwood and Holmes, Ben Colebrook, Aaron Krach, J. Morrison, Dave Ortega and Dan Rollman.

In Beyond the Fluff & Fold, curator Andrew Mroczek highlights the work of seven artists who continue to use the T-shirt in the creation of conceptual works or to support current visual projects.

"T-shirts are a very unconventional and unlikely medium, but one that’s unquestionably a powerful avenue for self-expression," said Mroczek. "Each of these artists brings a fine art sensibility to an ephemeral object. If they are used in the way each artist intends – as clothing – then they defy most aspects of artistic preservation and expression to exist only the in the present."

Click here for a Flickr set showing some of the T-shirts were sent / show card



Constructions

Monday February 2, 2009


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$23,000 buys 11557 pieces of pork cutlet (or 1 smart bomb) Installation view, dimensions variable, 2008

Orleans St. Gallery, St. Charles IL
January 17th – March 14th, 2009

Artists: Burtonwood & Holmes, Nicole Dulik and Adam Farcus


Constructions is an exhibition of sculptures and installations featuring paper as the primary medium. Constructions explores the relationship of form and production with the concepts and ideas behind the artwork. The creations of Burtonwood & Holmes explore the relationship between politics and economics, Nicole Dulik attempts to counter the lack of green space in the urban landscape with her own organic structures, and the work of Adam Farcus seeks to reveal the irony in pop culture and the everyday. Curated by Irene Perez.

Click here for Flickr set with more images from the show



A Celebration of Markets

Friday December 12, 2008





http://www.saic.edu/webspaces/noendinsight/

Some art is never meant to be completed. From December 13 to January 10, 2008, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Curatorial Practice students present No End in Sight, a multimedia exhibition that investigates perpetuity in artistic practice.

This exhibition explores works that are perpetual in nature, including works that have an undefined or unreachable endpoint; series composed of multiples the artist is compelled to continue; and projects that incorporate viewer participation as a way to continue regeneration of the piece. Blurring the borders between life and artistic practice, selected artworks provoke the audience to consider art as an ongoing process, as opposed to a static event.

Featured artists approach these ideas with innovative forms and techniques. Each piece goes beyond the here and now, suggesting an art form that endures not through historical canonization, but through active methods of repetition, regeneration, and recognition of the infinite. Collectively, these works encourage the audience to redefine its role from traditional viewer to witness of, or active participant in, the process.

Artists include: Aviva Alter, Marie Krane Bergman/Cream Co., You Are Beautiful, Burtonwood and Holmes, Young Cho, Grayson Cox, Masaco Kuroda, Tim Louis, Fred Nocella, Tim Pannell, Josue Pellot, ks rives and Nicole Kenney, Jesse Seay, Sighn

Curated by: Claudia Arzeno, Kelly Chen, Jenay Gordon, Joe Iverson, Alison Kleiman, Katherine Pill, Kat Ramsland, Angela Samuels Bryant, Ania Szremski, Cecila Vargas, He Wang, Jacqueline WayneGuite.

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Highlights from Bridge Miami Wynwood

Thursday December 4, 2008


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Woodland Camo Santa

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Bridge Miami Wynwood

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Working hard

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New York Art Exchange Lounge at Bridge

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No End in Sight

Thursday November 27, 2008


No End in Sight
No End in Sight
December 13 – January 10, 2008

Exhibition Reception
Friday, Dec. 12, 4:30 – 7 p.m.
With live performance of “Before I Die” Polaroid project

Public event:
Saturday, Dec. 13, 2 p.m.
“Temple of Awesome” folding party and No End in Sight artist panel discussion

Sullivan Galleries
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Chicago, IL (December 2008) – Some art is never meant to be completed. From
December 13 to January 10, 2008, the Sullivan Galleries presents No End in
Sight—a multimedia exhibition that investigates perpetuity in artistic
practice, curated by SAIC’s Curatorial Practice class.

This exhibition seeks to explore works that are perpetual in nature. These
include works that have an undefined or unreachable endpoint, like Aviva
Alter’s Crochet Reef; work that is composed of multiples the artist is
compelled to continue, including projects by artists Burtonwood and Holmes,
Sighn, Masaco Kuroda, Tim Pannell, and Young Cho; and work that incorporates
viewer participation as a way to continue regeneration of the piece, as
exemplified by Josue Pellot, Timothy Graham, and Grayson Cox.

Blurring the borders between life and artistic practice, these artworks will
provoke the audience to consider art as an ongoing process, as opposed to a
static event.

The artists listed above, in addition to many more, approach these ideas with
innovative forms and techniques. Each piece goes beyond the here and now,
suggesting an art form that endures not through historical canonization, but
through active methods of repetition and regeneration. Collectively, these
works will encourage the audience to redefine their role from traditional
viewer to witness of, or active participant in, the process.



Beyond the Fluff and Fold: Contemporary Artists and the T-Shirt

Thursday November 27, 2008


UPCOMING
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Our T-Shirts produced in collaboration with Inthang (Chika Ito and Massimo Arena) are going to be featured in a group show at the The Art Institute of Boston Gallery. The show is curated by Andrew Mroczek. We’re pretty hyped to be showing in Boston and hopefully we’ll get out there for the show.

NEW SHIRT!!!!!

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URBAN CAMO SANTA, front and back print!!! coming soon, very excited! (can u tell).

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