Beyond the Fluff and Fold: Contemporary Artists and the T-Shirt, Art Institute of Boston, Cambridge MA
Tuesday February 3, 2009
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: Orleans St. Gallery, St. Charles IL
Tuesday February 3, 2009
$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
No End In Sight
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.
Reuse Project 2: Tel Aviv
Monday September 15, 2008
This massive tank is made with reuse advertising from Burtonwood and Holmes… pasted street-side @ REUSE PROJECT 2!!
The ReUse Project is an on-going street and domestic planning campaign endorsing urban perma-culture and renewal through artistic means. This year , REUSE PROJECT 2 exhibition will challenge the city of Tel Aviv with what it means to reuse and just how many abandoned building can, in fact can be reused:
So, for all those hippies who should be wearing boots…for all of you anarchists and artists who should be living like you mean it,, but also for ALL of us who should be using what we’re refusing: Now open to the public as a tribute to urban art and renewal…
www.idiotthewise.com
www.flickr.com/groups/reuseproject2
www.telavivstreetart.blogspot.com
www.flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise/sets/72057594103444722/
To be added to the mailing list for future INSPIRE Collective events, please email ITW idiotthewisegmail with “street art mailing list please” in the title…
REUSE & INSPIRE!!!
View some video shorts of some of the reusing that has been happening on site:
www.flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise/2831732477/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th7n6TIwiws
I Support The War and The War Supports Me
Monday May 19, 2008
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
View work in progress
Burtonwood & Holmes
“I Support the War / The War Supports Me (ISTW / TWSM)”
GARDENfresh Gallery, Chicago, IL
...Also in the other half of the gallery Alain Douglas Park presents “Pedestal” an exhibition of new work
Artists reception: Friday May 30th, 6 – 10pm
Exhibition continues through June 28th
Gallery hours Fri + Sat noon – 5pm
or by appointment
“… the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals… True war is a celebration of markets.” —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Just over five years on since President Bush announced “Mission Accomplished” on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, artists Burtonwood and Holmes present a new exhibition I Support the War / The War Supports Me (ISTW/TWSM). With this exhibition the artists mark a return to heroic scale painting combined with an all-encompassing installation to assault the viewer with an all over experience of consumption and excess.
“…Logistics is the procedure following which a nation’s potential is transferred to its armed forces, in times of peace as in times of war…” –Paul Virilio, Pure War
For this exhibition at GARDENfresh Gallery the artists split their exhibition space in half.
The first section presents a new installation (Zeitgeist) MMIII – MMVIII that draws upon contributions from over twenty visual artists from the Chicago area. B+H have painted scenes from the Iraq war on directly on the walls of the gallery and invited artists to hang their own art works on top of these painted areas. The images of warfare and violence provide a lens through which we can re-interpret the art works displayed as products of a nation at war.
The artists will wall paper the second section in their trade mark junk mail and sales fliers, to surround the viewer on all sides with everyday images from the grocery store. In this environment B & H have placed interventions in the form of inflatable decoy balloons coupled with small scale diorama pieces all camouflaged with the same marketing material.
Over 5 years ago in the run up to the Iraq war artists Holly Holmes and Tom Burtonwood began a body of work to protest the upcoming conflict and explore the wider implications of materiel culture. In 2006 the artists produced a 3/4 scale sculpture of an Abrams battle tank at the Open Studio Residency in downtown Chicago, an old store front across from the new ABC 7 TV studio. Recent exhibitions include Consuming War at the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago) curated by Barbara Koenen, Capla Kesting Fine Art (Brooklyn) and Subtle Combat at Around the Coyote (Chicago) curated by Alison Stites.
GARDENfresh is an artist run space in Chicago.
Artists reception: Friday May 30th, 6 – 10pm
Exhibition continues through June 28th
Gallery hours Fri + Sat noon – 5pm
or by appointment
Consuming War curated by Barbara Koenen at the Hyde Park Art Center
Friday November 2, 2007
Price War! (preview image), dimensions variable, Polyurethane and filament line, 2007
Consuming War
November 4 – Janury 20, 2008, Gallery 1
Works by Lynda Barry, Wafaa Bilal, Mary Brogger, Adam Brooks, Burtonwood & Holmes, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Fred Holland, Harold Mendez, Michael Rakowitz, Ellen Rothenberg, Edra Soto, Paula White and Dolores Wilber.
Curated by Barbara Koenen
Focusing on the U.S. conflict in the Middle East over the past 10 years, Consuming War addresses the ways the American media and consumer culture have manipulated and influenced our perceptions of war, often turning it into a spectacle for American consumption. While war is an underlying theme in all the works, each addresses the concept of war, and our relationship to it, from a variety of angles, creating pieces that range from political cartoons to sculptures that recreate the archeological artifacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq and large suspended papier mâché bombs made from sale advertisements. Timely in its subject matter, Consuming War offers an innovative platform in which the complex and multifarious connections between war, capitalism, American consumer culture, and our everyday live can be re-situated and critically examined.
The Art Center thanks those who gave individual contributions to the exhibition, including Craig Ahmer, Jane Fulton Alt, Sidney Barton, Kim Freiders, Connie Gillock, John Himmelfarb and Molly Day, Esther Grimm, Justine Jentes and Daniel Kuruna Laurel Lipkin, Jackie Kazarian and Peter Cunningham, Paul Klein, Barbara Koenen and Tim Samuelson, Harold Olin, Karen Paluzzi Steele, Laura Samson, Eva Silverman, Paula White, and Roberta Zabel.
Consuming War is supported by
Newcity Chicago
The American Adademic Research Institute in Iraq
Experimental Station
p.s. a big THANK YOU to Connie Gillock and Paul Klein who support made this piece possible.
Divergent Emergence, group show Evanston IL
Tuesday October 2, 2007
Test Market, site specific installation, paper cut, approx 48 × 72 inches, Open Studio, Evanston, IL
Group show at Open Studio, Evanston, IL. September 29th – October 12th, 2007. Open Studio, 903 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL. Featuring work by Scott Aquino, Emily Asboe, Dan Cochrane, Ginger Conroy, Edgar Cuarezma, Burtonwood % Holmes, Tao Jaure, Scott Johnson, Lisa Kuppinger, Doug Leinen, Marilyn Madden, Heath Marks, Tom Pedersen, Ryan Scheidt, Eugene Smith, Barb Wieland.
Flickr set of the show
Flickr set of installation
ART WALKerville
Saturday August 11, 2007
ART WALKerville, Winsor, ON
FRIDAY JULY 20th, 2007
1623 Wyandotte St. East
Refine Fitness Studio (formerly ICON For the Home)
Group Show of Artists: David Lohman (Seattle), Chika Ito and Massimilliano Arena (Netherlands), Andrew Rigsby, Burtonwood & Holmes, and Lisa Kuppinger (Chicago), Natalie Mayville (Windsor), Marcia Wiley (Brantford), 7teen (Ferndale), Matthew Shlian (Ann Arbour), Vaughnda Johnson (New York), Lisa Sharp (St. Louis), David Constable (Virginia), Frohawk Two-Feathers (L.A.) Documented on Natalie Mayville’s flickr
J-Walking
Saturday August 11, 2007
J-Walking
The Polish Museum of America, Chicago, IL
Curated by Scott Ashley and Jenny Crissey
June 16th –August 31st 2007
Artists: Scott Ashley, Burtonwood and Holmes, Jeff Forsythe, Regin Igloria, Tom Lauerman, Alain Park, Renee Una
J-Walking focuses on the relationship between personal identity and community. Boundaries make a neighborhood while people make a community. By drawing similarities between old and new, ptraditional and modern, the exhibit will demonstrate that we are as different as we are alike, and that both our similarities and differences should be equally celebrated. For more info = Polish Museum of America
Visual T-Shirts
Saturday August 11, 2007
Visual T-shirts
ietsmooisaandemuur gallery, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Curated by Massimo Arena and Chika Ito
June 2nd – June 30th 2007
Artists: ANYMALFUNCTION, BurtonwoodandHolmes, Chika Ito, Gerard van Selst, Kees van den Boogaart, Marrie Hoedelmans, Massimo Arena, Matteo Bertelli, Michael Ronaldo Cabreza, Wim Habraken
“Visual T shirt” represents a wide selection of artists working internationally. Each artists created inspiring images for this exhibition. Original images are exclusively handprinted(limited edition) at kurtface silkscreening studio with Printmaster Wim Habraken. In addition to this unique collaboration, all the images are printed on Eco T shirts which is fair traded and organically grown by Bo Weevil. Inthang