Video Interview

 

As part of the Prebles:Artforms Art History textbook, I was interviewed about my work by the book's author, Patrick Frank. Check it out.

Group Exhibition, San Francisco

 Kind Stranger, 2007, neon, wood, 36" diameter

"Say Something!"

Bay Area Art/Performance/Multimedia
January 13th to February 19th, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 15th, 7-10pm
Closing Party: Thursday, February 7-10pm

E6 Gallery
1632 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 558-9975

Contact: Ashley Lauren Saks: e6gallery@artnet.net
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 12 noon to 7pm and by appointment

Misappropriation Exhibition Opens During the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair

 

 Sarah 04.11.10, archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum 48" x 48"

Artists Ray Beldner, Brendan Lott, Sonja Schenk, and Annie Seaton are pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition, Misappropriation. The pop-up show, which takes place during the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, includes paintings, mixed media, digital prints, and small-scale installation all using and misusing found photo-based imagery. The exhibition will be on display at Studio Orange in Culver City, California from January 23-30, 2011.

Since the early collages of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp’s use of found object for his series of “ready-mades,” artists have felt free to use, reproduce, appropriate and incorporate materials found within popular culture and society. These raw materials reflect and embrace the world around us: snippets of newspapers and magazines, film and TV excerpts, snapshots, advertisements, news headlines, bits of text, characters, fragments of song, and so on. Artists used this source material just as artists have used raw material for thousands of years. 

Now with the ubiquity of computers, digital cameras and the Internet, artists have access to the world’s greatest libraries, image databases, and interactive tools at their fingertips. As a result, traditional artistic practice is changing once again as artists explore the potential of these new technologies and incorporate them into their working methodologies. For each of these artists, the Internet and digital technology play a vital role in their creative processes.

Appropriation as an artistic practice and visual strategy is not new to contemporary artists, but the case that this exhibition makes is that the Internet enables a new kind of appropriation or borrowing, a “mis-appropriation” which is the intentional—sometimes humorous, sometimes dark—misuse of someone else's material. In this case, their images or their likenesses.

Each artist in the show collages images they have taken or found on the Internet or elsewhere, and they re-purpose and re-contextualize them in a way that reflects on their origins. They are in a sense “meta-images” misappropriated for the purpose, in part, to reflect on the picture’s original purpose and meaning.

Studio Orange, January 23 to January 30, 2011

Reception: Saturday, January 29 2011, 6-9pm

Studio Orange is located at:
8526 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232  
Gallery Hours : By Appointment Only

Contact:

Annie Seaton   p: 310.621.5847   e: annie@annieseatonart.com

Ray Beldner   p: 415.297.2319   e: ray@raybeldner.com

Recent Radio Interview

Last summer I gave an interview to University of Washington's NPR station, KUOW. The show was called "The Conversation" and the host was Ross Reynolds. That day's program was about rejection so they interviewed me about the exhibition I curated at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Titled, It's Not Us, It's You, the show ran from April 3 to June 20, 2009.

It’s Not Us, It’s You was an exhibition that explored the inevitability of rejection in our lives.  Through a tragic and sometimes heartbreaking lens, the artists in the exhibition responded to the reality of rejection with subversion, self-reflection, humor and brutal honesty.

KUOW, "The Conversation," May 19, 2009

More Portraits!

From the series: Portraits 101

Each of these portraits was created from the first 101 images I found on Google when searching each subject's name. In Photoshop, I converted the individual jpegs to 1% opacity and layered them one upon the other until a kind of abstract and subtle "uber-portrait" emerged. The portraits are time-based since each Google search, done on a certain day, will always yield a unique result. The titles of the works include the date when I accessed the images that comprise each portrait.

Jesus 05.04.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

 

 

Adolph 06.07.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

 

  

 

John 05.05.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

Kim 05.28.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

Glenn 05.06.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

 

 

 

 

 

Kobe 05.27.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

 

 

 

 

 

Martin 05.07.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

  

 

Conan 05.21.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

 

 

 

 

 

Dalai 05.27.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

  

 

George 05.05.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

 

 

 

 

 

Andy 05.25.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

 

  

 

Mahmoud 05.07.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

 

 

 

 

 

Oprah 05.21.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

 

New Work at the San Francisco Fine Art Fair

Please come to the San Francisco Fine Art Fair and see some of my new portraits. I'll have work at Catharine Clark Gallery, Booth #68.

Opening Preview Party, Thursday, May 20, 7pm - 9pm

Regular fair hours:

Friday, May 21, noon - 8pm
Saturday, May 22, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, May 23, 11am - 6pm

For more info:
http://www.sffineartfair.com/

Benedict (drawn by the hand of a young boy) 2010

Ink on paper

40" x 30"

New Work

From the series: Portraits 101

Each of these portraits was created from the first 101 images I found on Google when searching each subject's name. In Photoshop, I converted the individual jpegs to 1% opacity and layered them one upon the other until a kind of abstract and subtle "uber-portrait" emerged. The portraits are time-based since each Google search, done on a certain day, will always yield a unique result. The titles of the works include the date when I accessed the images that comprise each portrait.

Pope 04.28.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

Britney 03.01.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

Barack 03.02.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

Sarah 04.11.10, 2010

archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum

48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

Tiger 04.10.10, 2010
archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum
48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

Michael 03.01.10, 2010
archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum
48" x 48" unique work, one A/P

 Rush 04.28.10, 2010
archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum
48" x 48" unique work, one A/P