kork Advent 2011

December is upon us, as is the end of 2011.  So too is the end of kork.  After three years of serving as a bastion of culture in Poughkeepsie, perched not so high above Deborah Bailey Browne, CPA's photocopier, kork is calling it quits at the end of December.

Some 31 artists are helping to countdown the final days of kork with an artwork for everyday in December.

The Advent project we held in December, 2009 was so fulfilling and so much fun, we thought we'd do it again...just a little differently.

This time, kork instigator (Chris Albert) is crowd sourcing the resolution, reworking, or even total annihilation of his painting THA from 2001.  Participating artists are pitching in, "re-invisioning", "re-working", or simply obliterating this painting by man handling bad 4"x6" photographs of the painting. 

Once done, these photographs will be mailed by the artists to the accounting office in Poughkeepsie and then deployed onto the kork board.  Subscribers to the Advent mailing list (see the form to the right) will receive an email featuring an image of the day's postcard artwork.

It's a bit of sharing, a bit of giving and a bit of caring....all just in time for this holiday season.

thanks..

Susan Walsh

Redact Series 2011

shredded documents, graphite powder

Susan's statement:
This piece is about being careful.  Judiciously removing, adding and rearranging.  Not giving too much away.

Susan Walsh lives and works in Beacon, NY.

Theresa Gooby

7.14.11

Theresa Gooby

blown/grown , 2011

latex balloons

7.15.11

7.21.11

7.22.11

7.28.11

7.29.11

7.31.11

8.6.11

8.14.11

8/21/11

9/10/11

Theresa Gooby lives and works in Beacon, NY.

Poesía del parque

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

1,2,3,4,5,6,7

1,2,3,4,5,6

1,2,3,4,5

1,2,3,4

1,2,3

1,2

1

Numbers, 2011

digital prints, push pins

Poesia del parque's statement:

This work is a series of ten images, the results of a digital game the artist invented with the ten basic numbers. Instead of the typical numeric values, each number was provided with values of size and colour. The play took place with kaleidoscopic methods and it ended up in a visual form.
This game did not deal with incomes and outcomes but it did un-link the ten numbers from socio-economic connotations, subtracting each one of them from all adult meaning and releasing them in a playful and childlike way, to new and perhaps more liberating possibilities.

Poesia del parque lives and works in the UK.

James Westwater

Untitled (Mark Rothko 3), 2011, found items and acrylic
on paper oval in zip closure polyethylene bag, 16 x 12 inches

left: Untitled (Mark Rothko 3), 2011, found items and acrylic on

paper oval in zip closure polyethylene bag, 16 x 12 inches

right: Untitled (Jackson Pollock 2), 2011, found items and felt oval in 

zip closure polyethylene bag, 16 x 12 inches

.

left: Untitled (Jackson Pollock 2), 2011, found items and felt oval in zip closure polyethylene bag, 16 x 12 inches.

right: Untitled (Joseph Cornell 2), 2011, found items and ink on rubber oval in zip closure polyethylene bag, 16 x 12 inches

left: Untitled (Joseph Cornell 2), 2011, found items and ink on rubber oval in zip closure polyethylene bag, 16 x 12 inches

right: Untitled (Mark Rothko 2), 2011, found items and rubber oval in zip closure polyethylene bag, 16 x 12 inches

Untitled (Mark Rothko 2), 2011

found items and rubber oval in 

zip closure polyethylene bag, 16 x 12 inches

James Westwater lives and works in Beacon, NY

Carla Goldberg

Play!, 2010

ink on paper, push pins, lights.

All work and no play makes Mike a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Lauren a dull girl.
All work and no play makes Donna and dull girl.
All work and no play makes Kelsey and dull girl.
All work and no play makes Robert a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Aidina a dull girl.
All work and no play makes Deborah a dull girl.

Carla Goldberg lives and works in Cold Spring, NY.

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.