COMING SOON…..
Cinders and Synchronicity Space Present
GLEAMING
Kelie Bowman, Rob Doran, STO, Jessie Rose Vala
February 11 – March 10, 2012
Opening Reception Saturday February 11 7 – 10pm
special music and video performance from Light Hits at 7pm.
Synchronicity Space
713 N. Heliotrope, Los Angeles, CA 90029
www.synchronicityspacela.com/
We recently played catchup with one of our favorite people,
Jo Dery, to see what she has been up to and what she has planned for 2012. We first met Jo on a rooftop in Brooklyn while she was on tour showing films with live soundtracks and have been enamoured with her animations, books and prints ever since. Jo has been in several exhibitions and had book release parties at Cinders over the years. This time of year always reminds us of when we used to make it up to Providence, RI (where Jo used to live) for some epic New Years Eve parties with her at the Dirt Palace back in the mid-late aughts. Good times for sure and plenty mo good times to be had in 2012….
C: what are you currently working on?
J: I’m just finishing up a project for the DeCordova Museum’s Biennial exhibition, which opens January 21. The work includes an animated projection, 3 circular books, and a set of wooden dice that I made. I had help from some amazing buddies in Providence — bookbinder Deb Dormody and noise-guru Scott Reber (Work/Death).
C: winter plans?
J: I moved to Chicago last July, so I have a list of places I still need to explore and I need to learn how to move about in below 0 degrees! I want to start a hiking club, but that might need to wait till Spring.
C: what are you worried about?
Trying not worry these days… Better to always make choices out of love instead of fear, and give people the chance to be their best.
C: what are you happy about?
J:Dramatic life changes! Cheers for newness in all of its thrilling and terrifying glory!
C: what are you reading?
J: While home for the holidays, I went to the RISD library and checked out “DuChamp: A Biography” — based on reading KingCat’s top 40 recommendation. But I need to return it today! Gonna check it out again in Chicago.
“Rat Stories” Title Sequence from Jo Dery on Vimeo.
Thanks Jo! Stay warm.
Be sure to check out the 2012 deCordova Biennial, which is opening January 21st.
You can purchase one of her latest books from Little Otsu.
And Cinders has a bunch of her beautiful prints for sale.
Also you can see more of Jo’s video HERE and catchup often with her BLOG
Know it again and again. Sometimes its good to relearn what you thought you already knew.
New Kind of Knowing by Kyle Field
Check out this new drawing we got in from our friend Kottie Paloma. Kottie gives us some sage advice to an artist but this could be a morsel of wisdom for anyone really. “Don’t be a dick” is a pretty universal rule we here at Cinders try to enforce.
Happy Holidays. Play nice. And if you want this drawing, you can score it right HERE.
Our latest installment of CATCHUP N MUSTARD is with artist Brian Chippendale from Providence, RI. We caught up with Brian right before the Holidays and soon after he finished a 2 person exhibition in Providence with Jungil Hong. Let’s see what he’s up to…
Brian’s studio
C: what are you currently working on?
B: I have been working hard on my Tweeting. I practice everyday lifting letters up and down. It gets heavy. Stretching words and mouthing sentences into the mirror with my eyes closed. My handle is AHAFAN88, i only tweet about my favorite cartoon band Aha, they are the best. I hope I get to see them. Oh, and me and Jungil Hong have an art show in Providence up right now. Or we did depending on when I actually send this email back to Sto. So now it’s time to draw my comic Puke Force again after the post show energy dip wears off. And put plastic over the windows. I should go work on that.
C: winter plans?
B: Stay Warm. Help the cats stay warm. See if Jung is warm. Draw comics. Play drums. record stuff. Not get depressed. Sit in sun when possible. Maybe go someplace new!
C: what are you worried about?
B: The world is in chaos. Americans have really decided you are either on their team or not. Guns might be drawn in the name of Jesus. I worry about the average IQ of the United States.
C: what are you happy about?
B: Making things. A purging of accumulated input pours out sound and form all shapes all sizes. Uh, which right now looks like comics. I’m happy about the days the air is as sweet as candy. I’m really into the sun right now. Which is currently hiding.
C:what are you reading?
B:Too many comics. And “We Meant Well” by Peter Van Buren which details how much U.S money was dumped down the drain in the name of rebuilding Iraq. Dumped down the fucking drain dude!
The High Castle, 48” wide by 58” tall, Mixed media collage, 2011
Check out Brian’s exhibition, In Habitat, with Jungil Hong at Buonaccorsi+Agniel HERE.
See the work we have by Brian in the CINDERS Inventory Dungeon.
Brian will be back in NY on Jan 27th to play music in his solo project BLACK PUS, along with Matter Waves (David First, Kid Millions, Bernard Gann) and the Weasel Walter Trio at SECRET PROJECT ROBOT in Brooklyn. See you there!
Winter is upon us. Even though its actually been mild here in NY so far, its just around the corner and we are already gearing up for serious hibernation art making time. This photo,Whistler Van by Tod Seelie, sums up our feelings right now. Calm, quiet, cold, sleeeeepy.
Cinders artists and friends STO, Denise Schatz and James Morrison are among the artists participating in this 24 day live silkscreening event at venerable NY art bookstore mecca Printed Matter. Join in on a group printing session on Saturday December 17th 2-6pm and then STO will be back on Sunday December 18th 4-6pm for more. Feel free to bring in t-shirts, tote bags, underwear-you name it, they’ll print their art on it.
24
DAYS
OF
MATTER
PRINTED
LIVE SCREENPRINTING DAILY Until Dec 24th
Single Artists: Mon-Fri 5-7pm, Sun 4-6pm
Groups of 5-6 Artists: Sat 2-6pm
Curated/organized by J. Morrison
Printed Matter is pleased to present 24 DAYS OF MATTER PRINTED, a live screenprinting project by J. Morrison. From December 1st until the 24th, daily screenprinting sessions will feature a rotating cast of 20 artists creating collaborative works in the Printed Matter storefront. During these sessions, the artistic collaboration will be accumulative, with a new artist each day adding his or her own print to the previously produced prints. Prints will be available for purchase at any stage during this process.
Working under the theme of a “Self-Portrait,” the artists will print their creation on a variety of media – from Sweatshirts, Underwear, Handkerchiefs, and a special fine art Paper Edition of 100. They will be priced affordably, ranging from $10-$100, with the paper edition increasing as the show progresses with all of the artists’ screenprints collaged together. The works created will be on exhibit at Printed Matter through mid-January.
This year’s exhibition with J. Morrison follows in a long tradition of Printed Matter’s holiday events to support the institution, including past fundraisers organized by the artists’ collective Collaborative Projects (or COLAB), and Giftland, curated by Max Schumann and guest curators. J. Morrison’s show title and theme are a play off the “12 Days of Christmas” and in modern commercial times the “25 Days of Christmas,” giving an artist’s alternative view of holiday consumerism.
Participating Artists:
Kelly Armendariz (Dec 13, 17)
Juan Betancurth (Dec 8, 10)
AA Bronson (Dec 19, 2-4pm)
Isabella Bruno (Dec 10, 12)
Maria Chavez (Dec 17, 23)
Christopher Clary (Dec 7, 10)
Richard Haines (Dec 9, 10)
Matthias Herrmann (Dec 10, 19)
Brian Kenny (Dec 3, 15)
Marie Lorenz (Dec 2)
Michael Magnan (Dec 3, 20)
Slava Mogutin (Dec 3, 16)
J. Morrison (Dec 1)
Antonio Ortuño (Dec 6, 10)
Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff (Dec 3, 22)
Denise Schatz (Dec 14, 17)
Todd Shalom (Dec 11)
Sto (Dec 17, 18)
George Venson (Dec 5, 10)
Grant Worth (Dec 3, 21)
See more info on the Printed Matter website HERE
STO MONEY SOUL DUB POWER HOLIDAZE MIXXXTAPE from Sto Len on Vimeo.
One of the only benefits of being sick the past 2 days was that I could lay around and listen to records and make this quasi-holiday feel good mixtape. Here ya go. Cheers. Now shop independently, make gifts for the ones you luv and take some time to reflect on this crazy past year.
So, yeah its the Holiday Season. Screw corporations and buy from your local mom and pop businesses. You need good, weird art? We got you. Check out this awwwesome, glow in the dark silkscreen print on acid free paper by Forcefield/Fort Thunder/Meerk Puffy comic artist Mat Brinkman. Printed by our pals Le Dernier Cri, sent all the way from Marseilles, France, 38 x 29 inches, edition of 100. Score yours for that special someone HERE.
Mulherin + Pollard Present
MY SLOW CALLED LIFE
A solo exhibition of sculptures by STO
December 1 -31 2011
Opening Reception Thursday December 8th 6-9pm
In My Slow Called Life, Sto presents a tranquil, one room NY studio apartment scene as the backdrop for a variety of papier mache sculptures. Devoid of any people, we are left to ponder the objects on their own as we walk through the space. Leftover pizza on the table, old food in the fridge, a stack of books, some dirty socks, and a slop sink with paintbrushes as well as toothbrushes are just a few of the mundane objects recreated in chunky, lovable papier mache.
There is a natural sense of whimsy in the limitations of the mache as a medium and it boldly reveals itself with rough textures and gobs of paint applied liberally. There is also a sense of comedy beneath the surface, as if the objects were laughing at their own meaninglessness and at us for needing them. These deadpan takes on quotidian objects question our common understanding of what is real and reveal the many ways that we are entangled with our possessions.
By shining a spotlight on the everyday, these works evoke our own daily lives and slow us down long enough to take stock in what they really consist of.
Mulherin Pollard
187 Chrystie St. btwn Rivington n Stanton
NY, NY 10002
www.mulherinpollard.com
CINDERS will have a table at the ever awesome Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, a one-day festival of cartoon and graphic art featuring artists and publishers displaying and selling publications; lectures and conversations on comics; and associated exhibits and satellite events. See their website for more info or their event on Facebook. Come out and see us and all of the other great tables, we will be in great company!
L Magazine just featured Cinders Artist Kelie Bowman in their holiday gift buying guide. We wholeheartedly agree.
You can get this beautiful print right here.
Friday November 18th 8pm
In conjunction with the drawings in their show,
“We Are The Whirl”
S.T.P. (aka Stolen Temple Pile up)
Sto will be performing a reactionary soundtrack to the paintings of Jee Young Sim.
Jee (aka J.E. + more E.)
will be doing something seriously badass in response to the paintings of STO
live! and in person! … one night only.
8pm – 11pm with performances at 9 and 10.
wayfarers , 1109 dekalb ave btw broadway and malcolm x, Brooklyn, NY
J train to kosciuszko stop: walk towards kosciuszko to dekalb, left on dekalb
wayfarers is last building on the right before malclom x
See the event on Facebook
Cinders: What are you currently working on?
KR: music. i have written some new tunes and will be recording with my project called strawberry smog in mendocino county. i am in the woods right now.
Cinders: winter plans?
KR: going to australia to do a show and installation with maya hayuk. as part of a festival called sugar mountain in melbourne. summer in winter. maya and i have talked about how cool it would be to do a show in australia for years now. a good spirit somewhere out there must have heard our prayers.
Cinders: what are you worried about?
KR: my brother. cycles of behavior. alcoholism.
Cinders: what are you happy about?
KR: old fashioned love. wooden burning stoves. rain. woods. brains.
Cinders: what are you reading?
KR: moby dick. which is great considering i am staying in the captains quarters on my friends property. a camper with a nautical theme. lots of paintings of ships tossed about in the tempestuous deluge…
Chilean artist Blok is crazy young, crazy positive and crazy awesome. I met him painting murals in Chile a couple years ago when he was 19 years old and he had already developed a unique style within his paintings. He took me places to paint murals and he came to America a few summers ago and made great friends here who miss his face. Blokis is magic.
CINDERS: What are you currently working on?
BLOK: Right now im working on interventions over old book´s paper of botanic. Also im making some paintings about people.
C: Winter plans?
B: I dont know what the future may prepare, but when it’s winter there is summer here, so im hoping for some good times!
C: What are you worried about?
B: Im worried about the violence over people im seeing this year in Chile. People are very worried about the education system and we all want radical changes. The bad thing is that authorities apparently gives a shit about their peoples future and they prefere to make them quiet. Also i wanna make a shout out to all the people who is ocuppying wall street. I know that that kind of things can make a real change.
C: What are you happy about?
B: Im very happy working all days in what i like. Im happy too because i feel that people today are aware about they own power to make things happens.
C: What are you reading?
B: Im reading Matadero cinco of Kurt Vonnegut. I know that is maybe a classic but for me its new!
CINDERS: What are you currently working on?
MONICA: The work i am the most focused on is a crazy wonderful collaborative show i am doing called ‘Little Old One’ with my freind Bunnie Reiss. We’ve been locking ourselves in my studio for days without leaving and having super art parties. doing lots of interviews and a video will be shot for it soon.
Art shows-
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October 15th- Paper Quilt Project: Collaborations in Contemporary craft. @ The Berkeley Art Center
October 15th – Nov 4th, Workshops at the Berkeley Art Museum in conjunction with the Schwitters exhibition.
October 23rd- Passport w./ The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery plus after party from 4-7pm at Q Bar, 456 Castro st.
October 28th- ‘Rebuilding Our Own Picket Fences’ @ Michelle O/Connor Gallery
November 5th- ‘In the Moment’: Luggage Store Gallery Benefit. @ The Luggage Store, SF
November 12th- through Jan- ‘Little Old One’ : A Collaborative show with Bunnie Reiss @ Lopo Gallery, SF (show runs for three months), plus after party.
November 24th- Regency reconstruction/ destruction project in collaboration with Rabid Hands Collective. Columbia, Missouri
Tentatively Dec 10th- ‘The More We Wander’ :Sweden the Rebirth w./ Kyle Ranson @ Needles and Pens.
CINDERS: Winter plans?
M: Making art and installation in a regency hotel in Columbia Missouri with friends, which will be filmed, and then the hotel demolished. Riding trains through mexico in december. Thailand and the Philippines in January?
C: What are you worried about?
M: My body crumbling to pieces before i can finish all of the projects i need to do and make
C: What are you happy about?
M: My insane life and being in love and travel and visiting friends and illegal trouble
C: What are you reading?
M: The future
Chilean artist and magic lady Elisita Punto is our new Catchup and Mustard featured interview.
CINDERS: What are you currently working on?
ELISITA: Inventing mechanical useless machines, playing a lot of music with makaroni, finishing the next album called Playa Futuro, learning how to print with a letter press machine
C: Winter plans?
E: Makaroni tour in Los Angeles and SF, summer time in chile, desert adventures, more art more music.
C: What are you worried about?
E: I am worried about not wanting to be worried about anything.
C: What are you happy about?
E: Sharing music, seeing people specially my friends doing what they like to do and being successfull on that. Nature makes me really happy too¡
C: What are you reading?
E: Walt Whitman
Our LAST event at 103 Havemeyer after over 6 years!
Heavy Light -
Maya Hayuk
Nov 20 – Dec 22 2010
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