I'll show think good thoughts / fortify good attitudes (above) and Unlimited Promise in this promising group show featuring text-based art.

Opening Thursday, May 5: T_XT_RT @ Jenkins Johnson Gallery

T_XT_RT highlights the connection between artists and writers, visual art and written word, and author and audience through a wide variety of mediums ranging from interactive electronics to neon signs, drawings, paintings, photography, sculpture, installation, and spoken word.

Artists: Jeremy Bert, Samantha Boudrot, Brian Dettmer, Tim Etchells, Claudia Goulette, Cody Hoyt, Mena Kamel, Glenn Ligon, Jack Pierson, Burt Ritchie, Felandus Thames, Leonie Weber, Christine Wong Yap, and Samson Young.

Two readings accompany the exhibition. Reading I will feature Susan Brennan, Will Edmiston, Adam Fagin, Evan Kennedy, Jesse Seldess, and Stacy Szymaszek. Reading II will feature David Buuck, Tom Comitta, Monica de la Torre, Julie Patton, and Kim Rosenfield.

May 5–June 25, 2011
T_XT_RT
Opening Reception: Thurs, May 5, 6-8pm
T_XT_RT reading I: Thurs, May 19, 6pm
T_XT_RT reading II: Thurs, June 2, 6pm
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
521 W. 26th Street, 5th Floor (between 10th & 11th)
New York, NY
Gallery hours: Tue–Sat, 10am–6pm

Plus: If you haven’t yet seen The Black Portrait at Rush Arts Gallery (or maybe you went to the opening and it was so crowded you would like to revisit it), the exhibition continues thru May 21, and it’s just across the street from Jenkins Johnson. Please get in touch if you’d like an artist like me to walk through the shows with a visitor like you.

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Opening Friday, May 6: Procedural @ Macarthur B Arthur

I always welcome experimental opportunities, so I was thrilled when the curators asked me to participate. I sent instructions inspired by experimental psychology, and can’t wait to see how the project takes shape, especially alongside such a killer line-up of artists.

Procedural is an exhibition of instruction-based works. Thirteen artists were invited to create new pieces in the form of instructions to be performed and fabricated by the curators, Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour. The resulting works are both products of the artists’ hand and their conceptualizing process, as well as representing the series of decisions made during production, in this case by Im and Harbour. The visible hand of the curators in each work directly implicates the curator as not just a supervisor but also as a collaborator. Procedural reflects on and questions the importance of the individual artists’ hand versus concept and explores artwork as a collaboration between artists, curators, fabricators, and audience.

Artists: Miguel Calderón, Chris Cobb, Anthony Discenza, Maggie Haas, Kelly Lynn Jones, Mads Lynnerup, Julio César Morales, Marco Rios, Trevor Shimzu, Chris Sollars, Charlene Tan, Kara Tanaka, and Christine Wong Yap.

Curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour.

May 6–29, 2011
Procedural
Reception: Fri, May 6, 7–10pm
MacArthur B Arthur
4030 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA.
Gallery hours: Sundays, 1-5pm and by appt.