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We’re excited about Uncharted Waters, an upcoming exhibition at Reverse Space . The show will feature work by A.D. alum Alex Yudzon, and other artists in the REVERSE Artist Community. The show opens Friday, April 12th, from 7 – 10pm @ REVERSE (28 Frost Street, Williamsburg). See you there!

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Uncharted Waters: REVERSE 2013 is the inaugural exhibition of work by members of the REVERSE Artist Community, a group of artists who feature regularly in its exhibitions and programming. Participating artists include: CHi KA, Melissa F. Clarke, Serra Victoria Bolthwell Fels, Brandon Friend & Jason Douglas Griffin, Daria Irincheeva and Aleksey Yudzon.

Uncharted Waters: REVERSE 2013 presents work in a variety of media, including installations by Melissa F. Clarke and Daria Irincheeva, two-dimensional works on paper by Alex Yuzdon and collaborative duo Brandon Friend & Jason Douglas Griffin, and video projection by Chi KA. While formally different, these works demonstrate a shared interest in investigating unfamiliar topographies and the creative challenges of visualizing places that have yet to be discovered. Through the appropriation of old maps and travel images or the translation of cartographic postulations into three-dimensional spaces, the works presented in REVERSE 2013explore novel ways of traversing the boundaries of our everyday environments.

Uncharted Waters: REVERSE 2013 will run from April 12th to May 12th

Don’t miss HEAVYPET’s sound performance this Sunday, June 17, from 6 – 9pm at Reverse Space. HEAVYPET is a Brooklyn-based electronic collective (performing this Sunday feat. members of Crinkles). Stop by Reverse Space to see their improvised set during Amanda Browder’s one day CHROMATIC-HI FIVE! installation.

And check out the animated version of HEAVYPET’s flyer here!

Reverse is an art hub for this weekend’s Northside Festival; AD is very excited to be a part of festival programming. Don’t forget that you can see our exhibition Spectrum Vision from 3 – 9 on Sunday as well.

See you there!

Andy Monk

Hello everyone!

After a two week hiatus, AD Projects is ready to open our final show at 200 Avenue A this coming Tuesday!  Thank you all for your support and feedback over the past 2 months–we are so happy with the fantastic shows and performances we’ve been fortunate enough to present at 200 Avenue A.   We are sad to be leaving the space, but have much more planned for the coming year.

The final show and performance in Reliquary/SUPERDARK will be new work by Andy Monk, one of our favorite artists.  You may remember his performance and installation from our show last summer, Piles, when he burned two match stick floor plans of his former homes.  We will hopefully be burning one or two new floor plans this year (just about one year after last year’s performance — July 8, 2010).   We hope to see you this Tuesday at 8!  (press release after the jump.)

xo Abby

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Hello out there,

Jill pointed out an interesting link to me today–Flavorwire posted a selection of images from the Getty Museum’s recent publication, Photography As Fiction, which features selections from the museum’s permanent photography collection.  Many of these images are fantastic examples of early tableau vivant photography!  I was especially excited to find out that one of my favorite photographs is included:

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), Saint George and the Dragon, June 26, 1875. Albumen silver print, 12.2 x 16.2 cm (4 13/16 x 6 3/8 in.). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XP.458.15, From Photography as Fiction, Getty Publications.

AD Projects’ two year anniversary is coming up in March….we like books….

Just saying!

Abby

Hello out there AD Projects blog readers,

Abby here–I lied in the title.  I’m not really in SLC, I am sitting at my desk in New York  missing our yurt at Birch Creek Ranch, Sundance ski trips, endless views of the Rocky Mountains, and of course CAMERA VIVANT at CUAC.

I did get to spend some time in Salt Lake City with Jessica and Jill on Monday the 14th, along with our Utahn Valentines Adam Bateman and Jason Metcalf.  Jason was kind enough to let us into the Salt Lake Art Center while he was working on some install shots of the exhibit New Frontier, which was mounted in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival.  The show featured mostly new media pieces–interactive computer work and video.

A personal favorite was The Wilderness Downtown, an interactive film by Chris Milk that is set to the Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait.”  Here is a picture of the video it created for me using Google Earth:

If you don’t click on any other link in this post, you should at least visit The Wilderness Downtown.  It’s really cool.

We also spent some time with Lance Weiler’s Pandemic, an interactive installation featuring a video about a virus which has infected the adults in a small town.  It was pretty scary:

After leaving the Art Center and doing some work on the conversation for the catalog for CAMERA VIVANT (updates to come!), I had a lovely Valentine’s dinner with Adam, Mikol Hebron, Curator of Exhibitions at the Salt Lake Art Center, some local collectors, and three artists from the LA collective Fallen Fruit.  The artists of Fallen Fruit, David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young, consider the various cultural connotations of fruit in their ongoing multimedia project.  They will have an exhibition at the SL Art Center in a couple of months, which I hope to see when I go back (yes, I’m already planning my return trip.)

And finally, one more photo to make you jealous… here is Lupe, CUAC mascot and rattle-snake-bite survivor, trotting around the sand on the Great Salt Lake.

So long for now,

Abby