Jörg Bivendørf

Under the Radar, 2010

photographs, pins

BIO

Jörg Bivendørf was born on the island Hopen. At age 79, fed up with the secrecy of his possible parents among the four resident researchers at the weather station, he stole a wagon and set sail for Biarritz. Seventeen months later, barely dry, he drifted up on the shores of Barentsburg and took a cab to Longyearbyen. He found Svalbard an ideal place for fashion inspiration because of the pessimistic temperature readings. For Jörg, more layers equals more Fashion.
Jörg was named for his Swedish grandmother Jörgina VIII, who is credited with coining the term "you wanna make a muffin? When he was born, realizing he was completely naked, Jörg began fashioning garments out of necessity. His first design was the totally organic and original Seal Chaps ™.
Nowadays, Jörg chooses Longmont, Colorado for his collaborations with Beauty due to the friendly and professional service at The Cheese Importers.http://www.cheeseimporters.com

A compendium of  Jörg's avant fashion adverts is available here.

Sharon L Butler

(l) Siding 6, 2008 oil on wood

(r) Siding 7, 2009 oil on wood

Sharon's book Habitat which chronicles her time working with the Habitat for Artists project in 

Beacon, NY in 2008 is available for purchase here.

Sharon L Butler lives and works in Mystic, CT and NY, NY.

Robert Lomblad

Untitled, 2010

ink on paper, tape

Robert Lomblad lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Matthew Hereford

The Highland Path, 2010

soil, moss, bone, shotgun shell casings, feathers and other natural paraphernalia

Artist's Statement:

Nature has no alphabet or written word.
Yet to writers and poets, words exist within the topography
and are there to be found if one searches. 
These "lost" words hide beneath the brambles, within the moss,
or float in the air as sounds or songs.
The flora and fauna contribute their lexis throughout the landscape,
with bleached bones, old stones or other refuse,
waiting for an interpreter to turn their words to language.

Matthew Hereford lives and walks in Cold Spring NY.

Anthony Easton

photographs, push pins, binder clips

Top to bottom, left to right:

1st Row: Small American Flag and Buildings, Rochester; World Books, Rochester Public Library 

Ferris Wheel near Rochester; Syracuse Art Gallery, Pat; Reproductions of the first edition of the Book Of Mormon, Palmyra. 2nd Row:Warhol Shadows, DIA:Beacon; Mormon Burying the Golden Tablets; Poughkeepsie Galleria; Red Ball Target, Poughkeepsie; 19th Century Farming Implement, Smith Farm. 3rd Row: Visitors Centre for the Sacred Grove;Scottish Inn, Utica; Coverlet ca 1835, Palmyra; Ye Olde Pizza Pub, Sherrill; Vote, Beacon.  4th Row: Buckled Plastic, Plumbing Office, Poughkeepsie; Silver Ice bucket and Mirror, Oneida Mansion House; Mirror and Pat, Poughkeepsie; Three floaters, Beacon; Teal Pipe, Beacon; White House Near Cooperstown

Anthony's Statement:

Vacation Photos:

There used to be this joke about carousels of vacation slides and dry evenings where people were forced to watch them.  150 photos of the Grand Canyon, or the same 18 shots of Disneyland, or found postcards of roadside tourist traps.  There have been some attempts to recreate these images through curation and cultural capital as a legitimate and once lost history of the genre.  You can see it in websites like Square America, exhibitions like The History of the American Snapshot, or in projects like Martin Parr's collections of boring postcards.
I am interested in how to re-make the spirit of these vernacular forms; not through theory, but by a kind of performance working through of historical memes.  In this case, the photos here are a document of my vacation to upstate New York:  hotel rooms, highways, museums, and roadside stops.  In this capacity, they're at once an attempt to make vacation photos again--to reclaim the boring aspects it away from the aesthetes.  I do this with a point and shoot camera, with developing the photos at a 24 hour CVS on the highway across the interstate from a Barnes and Noble and a Stop and Shop.
There is some newness to this procedure, an ease that can only be made via digital cameras, the editing done now on lap tops, the storage being done on USB sticks, but the core of this is to force people to look at my vacation photos, not as a move of aesthetic difference.
Though there is an aesthetic difference here, there is a history of art photography here that cannot be ignored, that there is an element of Shore selling postcards in Texas here; an element of making aesthetic that which was first intended to be documentary.  The ambiguity of art practice and documentary practice in photography is something that continues to fascinate me, and this work is intended to process those issues.

A slideshow of Anthony's entire upstate photo essay.




Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Anthony Easton lives in Toronto, Canada.

kork Advent: Day by Day

Dec 31: Christopher Patch

Dec 30: Sharon L Butler

Dec 29: Angelika Rinnhofer

Dec 28: Itziar Barrio

Dec 27: Mark DeLura

Dec 26: Mark Creegan

Dec 25: Elia Gurna

Accompanying bonus track: No Neutral Ground by einlab.




Dec 24: Stephen Ray Dickens

Dec 23: Steve Rossi

Dec 22: Robert Lomblad

Dec 21: Bridget Mullen

Dec 20: Jill Reynolds

 Dec 19: Jim White

 Dec 18: Carl Van Brunt

Dec 17: Joseph Liebhart

Dec 16: Lisa Townley

Dec 15: Alisha Kerlin

Dec 14: Karlos Carcamo

Dec 13: Marc Willhite

Dec 12: Kirsten Kucer

Dec 11: Gregory Marvin Reynolds

Dec 10: Theresa Gooby

Dec 9: Sara Wolfe

 Dec 8: Martin Bromirski

Dec 7: Alastair Dewell

Dec 6: Peter Iannarelli

Dec 5: James Westwater

Dec 4: Matthew Slaats

Dec 3: Lauri Lynnxe Murphy

Dec 2: Zachary Harper

Dec 1: Daniel Berlin

kork presents Advent: December 1, 2009-Jan 1, 2010 : Something to look forward to in December.

In this time of year when art galleries throughout are mounting group exhibits with the intent of enticing buyers with an array of small, gift worthy artworks, we at kork, Poughkeepsie's most sincerely avant project space for art, are bringing together our own cadre of artists - and we're not trying to sell you anything.

Rather, we'll be sharing a little time with the art loving public; a month, to be exact.

Advent brings together 31 artists to count down the final month of 2009. In the manner of that desktop stalwart, the page-a-day calender, each day of December will be represented by an artwork accompanied by a phrase, quote or definition (inspirational or not) of the artist's choosing or contrivance.

The project will exist in physical form at the kork Gallery/Project Space in Poughkeepsie, NY and as a virtual calendar in the form of a daily email featuring a different artist's contribution for the entire month of December.

Advent is our gift to the art loving public in this season of getting.

It's the pure pleasure of passing time, one artist, one day at a time.

The public is invited to sign up to receive the month of daily emails, sign up using the form in the sidebar.

We will not sell your email address or any other such pernicious thing.  We will not spam you or send you any emails other than the advent emails and your address will be deleted from our list at the conclusion of the project unless you opt in to receive future kork emails.

We will not resend advent emails after their corresponding day, so if you'd like to receive a the full set, sign up on or before Nov. 30, 2009.

Participating artists are: Daniel Berlin, Zachary Harper, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, Matthew Slaats, James Westwater, Peter Iannarelli,Thundercut, Martin Bromirski, Joseph Liebhart, Theresa Gooby, Gregory Marvin Reynolds, Kirsten Kucer, Marc Willhite, Karlos Carcamo, Alisha Kerlin, Lisa Townley, Sara Wolfe, Carl Van Brunt, Jim White, Jill Reynolds, Bridget Mullen, Robert Lomblad, Steve Rossi, Peter Acheson, Elia Gurna, Mark Creegan, Mark Delura, Itziar Barrio, Angelika Rinnhofer, Sharon Butler, Christopher Patch.