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Personal-sized, spirited declarations suggest a semaphore of positive sentiment or unabashed enthusiasm. Christine Wong Yap, Irrational Exuberance (Asst. Colors) Mini Flags, 2012, fabric, thread, wood, woven labels, ~15 x 18 inches / 38 x 45 cm each . Installation view at SideCar Gallery, Hammond, IN. Photo: Clare Britt.

Personal-sized, spirited declarations suggest a semaphore of positive sentiment or unabashed enthusiasm. Christine Wong Yap, Irrational Exuberance (Asst. Colors) Mini Flags, 2012, fabric, thread, wood, woven labels, ~15 x 18 inches / 38 x 45 cm each . Installation view at SideCar Gallery, Hammond, IN. Photo: Clare Britt.

Ortega y Gasset collective artists’ exhibition at SideCar Gallery has been extended through the end of December.

Also, check out the Ortega y Gasset exhibition, Tightened, as if by Pliers, at the Knockdown Center in Queens.

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EARTHTWERKS extended

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It’s the last day to catch EARTHTWERKS, Ortega y Gasset collective artists’ exhibition at SideCar Gallery in Hammond, IN. I especially love this photo of my vinyl poster in the gallery’s unique setting in a suburban house.

Christine Wong Yap, Vinyl Poster, #1, 2012, transparent vinyl, ribbon, thread, acrylic, 36 x 45 inches. Photo: Clare Britt.

Christine Wong Yap, Vinyl Poster #1, 2012, transparent vinyl, ribbon, thread, acrylic, 36 x 45 inches. Photo: Clare Britt.

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Last Day of EARTHTWERKS

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Han­nah Jick­ling, Helen Reed and grade 6 students, Your Lupines or Your Life // Source: reheardregalement.com

Han­nah Jick­ling, Helen Reed and grade 6 students, Your Lupines or Your Life, floral bouquets as ‘Abject Awards,’ made from surplus furnerary arrangements // Source: reheardregalement.com

Works

Han­nah Jick­ling, Helen Reed, and grade 6 students, Your Lupines or Your Life

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The Making of The Eve Of... Self-initiated Residency and Exhibition, a timeline flow chart after Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

Christine Wong Yap, The Making of The Eve Of… Self-initiated Residency and Exhibition, 2014. A timeline flow chart after Alfred H. Barr, Jr. [PDF]

Produced for the Open City/Art City panel, SOS ARTISTS: Strategies of Survival, curated and moderated by Christian L. Frock, and held at YBCA on October 4, 2014.

Meta-Practice, The Eve Of...

The Making of The Eve Of… Self-initiated Residency and Exhibition, a timeline flow chart

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I love the starkness of Silvio Lorusso’s take on Alfred Barr’s diagram of modern art, minus the text and color.

Silvio Lorusso, Blank Diagrams #2: Alfred H. Barr – Cubism and Abstract Art (1936). // Source: silviolorusso.com

Silvio Lorusso, Blank Diagrams #2: Alfred H. Barr – Cubism and Abstract Art (1936). // Source: silviolorusso.com

 

Research, Works

Barr Chart Sans Text

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The Eve Of... Christine Wong Yap, September 2014, Queens, NY.

News, The Eve Of...

Coming soon: The Eve Of…

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Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil, 2013, installation view, Mass MoCA. // Source: MassMoCA.org

Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil, 2013, installation view, Mass MoCA. // Source: MassMoCA.orgs

Sights

Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil @ Mass MoCA

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Jeremy Deller, My Failures, installation view, Hayward Gallery, 2012. // Source: JeremyDeller.com

Jeremy Deller, My Failures, installation view, Hayward Gallery, 2012. // Source: JeremyDeller.com

I highly recommend this video of a lecture by Jeremy Deller presented by Situations UK. His background and practice form a welcome alternative to the cult of young, ‘bankable’ artists (he was 31 when he staged his first art show—in his parents’ house). He mentioned instances of his indifference to the contemporary art world’s reception and its isolation/self-regard, as well as being pleased when an art object lost its aestheticized status and returned to being an object. I also appreciated his candidness about failure, and its productive possibilities, as seen above.

Sights

Jeremy Deller, My Failures, exhibition of rejected proposals

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