kork

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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..

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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.

Monday, May 2, 2011

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

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.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

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.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

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.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Robert Lomblad

Untitled, 2010

ink on paper, tape

Robert Lomblad lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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.

Monday, January 18, 2010

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.