Bridget Mullen & Christopher Patch

 

Bridget Mullen & Christopher Patch

Faces or Friendships, 2009

misc. office paper, push pins

  

 

 

Bridget Mullen and Christopher Patch live in Brooklyn (but not together).

Lauri Lynnxe Murphy

Untitled, 2009

polymer clay, push pins

Lauri's statement:

Offices are unnatural spaces by design. Florescent lighting, ersatz walls, everything geared towards functionality and productivity. I like to envision new organisms forming and thriving there, similar to how grass manages to grow up through the sidewalk. Nature always manages to adapt.

Lauri Lynnxe Murphy lives in Denver.

Mark Creegan

Mark's statement:

Copy machines and cork boards!
They go together like cabbage rolls and coffee!
My plan is to create a participatory project with daily interventions involving the copier and the board.
Each business day, a new copy will appear in the center of the board, sort of like a daily announcement. This project will develop very organically and the premise may even alter as contingencies warrant.
Ultimately, I hope this will be something everyone in the office enjoys, that it engenders either a smile to deep philosophical contemplation. I welcome any comments, suggestions, observations, and thoughts. I can be reached at markcreegan[at]yahoo[dot]com.
Thank you.

The development of Mark's project will be documented and updated here on the blog on a weekly basis. Be sure come back to check on the progress.

On Monday, June 22, Mark gave 5 day notice  that he'd be leaving his position at Bailey Browne CPA & Assoc.  His letter was printed out and posted on the kork board along with all rest of his output of the past two months: 

Memo to: Bailey Browne CPA & Associates

From: Mark Creegan

Re: 5 day notice


This is to inform you that I am submitting my 5 day notice. I promise to clean my work area (i.e. corkboard) before I leave. I would stay longer to help train my replacement, but since he or she is just another artist, he or she will be doing whatever he or she wants to do (commie hippie!) I am sure nothing he or she does will be half as brilliant ( they will probably just send in requests to photocopy people's bums- how original!). By the way, if someone comes around saying he is a "consultant", thats NOT an artist!

Don't expect to much work from me during my last week, I will probably just work from home and email work that someone else (Gina) will do. My lunch breaks are going to be like 4 hours! I may even get a pedicure!

I was hoping to move on to better things but the economy nixed my plans to do art intervention work on the stock board at the NYSE. I guess the clipboard at Dairy Queen will have to do ( I am sure to do wonderful things with sprinkles!)

I am sure someone will want me to do an exit interview. Feel free to email me. I will answer as well as I can, sobriety contingent.

Hasta La vista (in about 4days)!

Mark Creegan

Mark Creegan lives in Jacksonville, FL.

Peter Iannarelli

Untitled, 2007
photocopies, push pins
These pages are intended to be removed from the board, copied and then pinned back to the board. The viewer is invited to paticipate - to you know - fill in the blank, holding a dialog with God, the God within or the God on the page.
If you'd like a set of letters for your very own, email us at kork{at}maykr{dot}com
with the subject line: "let's talk" by April 30, 2009




Peter Iannarelli lives in Beacon, NY.

Marc Willhite

Tableaux
large format photocopy, staples, bulletin board


Marc Willhite lives in Denver, CO.

Elia Gurna

Beautiful Dreamer
paint, paint can lids, paper clips
push pins, pens

Elia's statement:

When I worked in various offices I would stare at the shelf of office supplies above the copier, or the tacked up menus, or the sticker with the phone number for the repairman and daydream about making art. This piece is about that memory. In order to combine the worlds of the office and the studio in one moment I have used supplies from both worlds - the art studio (paint can lids, paint) and the office (pens, paper clips and pushpins). The title “beautiful dreamer” refers directly to my experience of photocopying. While I cannot remember most of the things I was asked to copy, I did have some good ideas for art projects and do some nice daydreaming standing there.

detail

Elia Gurna lives in Beacon, NY.

Angelika Rinnhofer

Untitled
postcard sized prints, push pins

Angelika printed photographs of images taken in NY and California, then mailed the prints as postcards with messages to Deborah Bailey Browne to the office of Bailey Browne & Assoc. where, upon receiving them, Deborah arranged them on the bulletin board.






Angelika Rinnhofer lives in Beacon, NY.