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Danielle Ezzo & Bobby Davidson: Future Object
Jul
23
to Jul 31
Exhibitions, Residencies

Danielle Ezzo & Bobby Davidson: Future Object

EXHIBITION + RESIDENCY
JULY 23 – 30, 2023

DANIELLE EZZO & BOBBY DAVIDSON

Future Object

Reception: July 26th from 6–8pm

Future Object is a two-person exhibition of artists Bobby Davidson and Danielle Ezzo and the release of Ezzo’s debut artist book “If Not Here, Then Where?”. Each has a practice that concerns itself with the postdigital and its relationship to technological expression. Together they experiment with the idea of the polysemantic word artifact as both physical and historical as well as digital and speculative. Their respective works are presented in tandem as a dialog circling similar lines of inquiry. 

In Davidson’s "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (2023) he investigates the contrast between pre and post-AI creations and the abundance of digital detritus by repurposing mundane and banal imagery. He uses 3D software to create hyperreal digital fictions which are translated from photoreal renderings wrapping readymade objects. By creating these functional artifacts, he returns these uncanny assemblages back to their origins, while offering a fresh perspective on everyday objects.

In contrast, “If Not Here, Then Where?” (2021-22) Ezzo is concerned with the flow of historical artifacts and how they are sorted, searched, and translated where the form and meaning of objects shifts depending on how they are represented. She builds on and converses with The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s digital archive. Artifacts are then printed and constructed into delicate paper mobiles that are finally rephotographed into new and unlikely forms.

Bobby Davidson’s work has been exhibited with the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, NY; MOMA PS1, New York, NY; The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL; Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHN; The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; Parsons Design Center, Shanghai, CHN and the Aperture Foundation, New York, NY; his work is part of the permanent collection at the SCAD Museum of Art, Yale University and the New School. Davidson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 

Danielle’s work has been published in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Tate, Lenscratch, and Feature Shoot and exhibited in numerous exhibitions and festivals including the A.C. Institute, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Far Eastern Museum of Art, and Currents New Media Festival. She’s lectured at conferences, companies, and schools about the future of photography. Bylines include The New Inquiry, Magnum Photos, Art Observed, Right Click Save, Fellowship Trust, and Obscura Journal among others. She is the author of If Not Here, The Where? published by Silent Face Projects.

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Greenpoint Open Studios—Featured Artists: Reuben Lorch-Miller + Land & Sea + Radical Documents
Jun
6
10:30 AM10:30
Exhibitions, Earmark: Artist Publications & Editions

Greenpoint Open Studios—Featured Artists: Reuben Lorch-Miller + Land & Sea + Radical Documents

Greenpoint Open Studios

JUNE 10 – 11, 2023

FEATURED ARTISTS
Reuben Lorch-Miller, prints and sculpture
Radical Documents, limited edition vinyl
Land and Sea, artist books

ALSO ON VIEW
Earmark, selected works from the collection of artist editions
GUI/GOOEY, online group exhibition in our favorite browser :)
Laura Splan, selected works

Project Space: Featured Artists

Plexus Projects at Greenpoint Open Studios featured selected works by Greenpoint artist Reuben Lorch-Miller including sculpture, collage, and artist books. To accompany his artworks in the project space, Lorch-Miller curated a selection of limited edition vinyl releases by Radical Documents and editioned artist books published by Land and Sea.

Reuben Lorch-Miller is a Brooklyn, NY based artist, educator, and mental health counselor. His studio practice encompasses sculpture, collage, photography, artist books, music, and performance. He approaches his work from a perspective of curiosity and experimentation, understanding that meaning can be found within the process of doing. He has often exhibited at DIY art spaces, participated in artist-run residencies and produced multiple self-published zines and artist books.

Radical Documents was started in 2017 by artist Matthew Clifford Green. Originally based in Los Angeles, they moved to Chicago in the spring of 2021. The label focuses on unique, experimental, and obscure sounds from a wide range of artists spanning the globe. Land and Sea is a small press based in Oakland, California, run by Maria Otero and Chris Duncan. Land and Sea began in 2009 and has consistently been publishing small editions of books and records by artists from the Bay Area and beyond. Under the same moniker, Chris and Maria organize gatherings that celebrate the collectivity of the artistic and wider communities they are part of. In 2014, they opened a storefront studio in Oakland to host sound and art events, performances, art shows, and other happenings that combine visual, sonic, performance and literary arts, as well as pop-ups for other small publishers and cultural facilitators.

Earmark: Selected Works

Earmark, is a curated collection of editioned print and sound publications including artist books, catalogs, zines, ephemera, and vinyl projects. The collection includes artists using a variety of printing processes ranging from laser cutting to Risograph to photocopy techniques. Artists in the collection include Katie Garth, Candace Williams, James Bascara, Jess Woods, Shane Smith, Brett Wallace, Dawn Light Blackman, Paul Shortt, Fritz Welch, De Kwok, Becca Albee, Chris Duncan, 57 Cell, Nathan Brown, Laura Splan, and others.

GUI/GOOEY: Online Exhibition

on view on a computer in the project space

Plexus Projects is pleased to present GUI/GOOEY the first in a series of online group exhibitions exploring technological representations of the biological world. The exhibition includes artworks that examine notions of “life” and “nature” with computational, digital, and virtual tools. The selected artists reflect a range of perspectives with international representation from thirteen countries. Together they simultaneously interrogate liminal sensations and materialities of membranes and interfaces, bits and bodies.

ARTISTS
Abraham Homer US; Alt23 MT; Andrea Mikyska DE; Anni Garza-Lau, Yunuen Vladimir, Hugo Escalpelo, Lilianha Dominguez MX; Brian Zegeer US; Cezar Mocan PT; Derzu Campos MX; Dexter Callender III US; Diana Scarborough UK; Dylan Rundle US; Elaine Whittaker CA; Electric Skin TR/FR/US/ES; Ellen Bjerborn SE; Finn Dugan US; James Bascara US; Jeff Thompson US; Josh Urban CA; Katina Bitsicas, Rachel Strickland US; Keaton Fox US; Kimberlee Koym-Murteira US; Lolo Ostia US; Lizz Thabet US; Mark Ramos, Ziyang Wu US/CN; Morgan Green, Andrew Bearnot US; Nina Sumarac CY; Reid Arowood US; Ryan Woodring US; Sarah Buckius US; Yousif Alzayed, Ben Glass, Yimei Zhu US

Front & Back Studios: Laura Splan

Laura Splan selected weavings, prints, and animations

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GUI/GOOEY 1.O
Mar
1
to Jun 11
Exhibitions

GUI/GOOEY 1.O

GUI/GOOEY

GROUP EXHIBITION
MAR 01–JUNE 11, 2023

Curated by Laura Splan

Plexus Projects is pleased to present GUI/GOOEY, the first in a series of online group exhibitions exploring technological representations of the biological world. The exhibition includes artworks that examine notions of “life” and “nature” with computational, digital, and virtual tools. The selected artists reflect a range of perspectives with international representation from thirteen countries. Together they simultaneously interrogate liminal sensations and materialities of membranes and interfaces, bits and bodies.

ARTISTS
Abraham Homer US; Alt23 MT; Andrea Mikyska DE; Anni Garza-Lau, Yunuen Vladimir, Hugo Escalpelo, Lilianha Dominguez MX; Brian Zegeer US; Cezar Mocan PT; Derzu Campos MX; Dexter Callender III US; Diana Scarborough UK; Dylan Rundle US; Elaine Whittaker CA; Electric Skin TR/FR/US/ES; Ellen Bjerborn SE; Finn Dugan US; James Bascara US; Jeff Thompson US; Josh Urban CA; Katina Bitsicas, Rachel Strickland US; Keaton Fox US; Kimberlee Koym-Murteira US; Lolo Ostia US; Lizz Thabet US; Mark Ramos, Ziyang Wu US/CN; Morgan Green, Andrew Bearnot US; Nina Sumarac CY; Reid Arowood US; Ryan Woodring US; Sarah Buckius US; Yousif Alzayed, Ben Glass, Yimei Zhu US

cover image by Ryan Woodring

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