Photos from “Process of Performance”
August 31, 2011
View photos from the opening reception of Process of Performance, curated by Stephen Truax, and produced by Janis Ferberg, at I.C.A.N., Sydney. August 12, 2011.
PORTAL opens in Sydney, Australia August 12th
August 04, 2011
Process of Performance
August 12 – 22, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, August 12, 2011, 6 to 8 PM
Institute of Contemporary Art Newton (I.C.A.N)
Camperdown, Sydney, Australia
Portal is extremely excited to announce the forthcoming exhibition of new video and drawing from six New York-based artists at I.C.A.N. in Camperdown, Sydney.
Process of Performance takes on the documentation of artistic performances in video and drawing, and interprets them as metaphor for the process of being an artist, which can be much like a public performance. Ranging from the most seemingly banal experience, to time-based action, to performance, digital tools have become central to their works’ development and ultimate presentation.
Process of Performance will present five works by six artists: a VHS tape recording Colby Bird’s formal experimentations in sculpture in his studio, edited on the same TV-VCR on which it is presented; Jon Meyer’s performative drawing Eight hours drawing at one inch per hour with left and right hand, 2011, a drawing which was created with assistance from a unique software program the artist developed; Kevin Regan’s home-made video, widely available and presented in the gallery on YouTube, The Conversion of St. Paul, 2007, shows the artist passing out and waking up three minutes later after taking Salvia Divinorum, while his wife supervises and cleans the kitchen in the background; an illustration of a cloud, hand-painted on the wall, will rain Twitter feeds in Jason Varone’s microprojection Inclement Weather, 2010; Jody Wood and Mikel Bisbee-Durlam present a two-screen video documenting their performance of dragging one another through the streets of Bushwick, and within the controlled environment of a studio, while covered in concrete. continue…
Smoke Signals at Kianga Ellis Projects
July 27, 2011
Kianga Ellis Projects (KEP) is a mobile gallery program that hosts conversations about the studio practice and work of invited contemporary artists. KEP’s inaugural Art Talks Weekend will take place on July 29th through 31st at HD3 on 560 Montezuma Avenue, located in the heart of the Sanbusco/Railyard District in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The weekend’s program is open to the public and will involve several of the artists attending in person and via Skype. Follow on the Web by watching the talks on Ustream and Twitter using the hashtag #KEP.
Friday, July 29th, 3 – 8:30 pm/OPENING RECEPTION 5 – 7:30 pm
The full schedule is available here.
Online catalog for “By Chance, A Video Show”
January 31, 2011
There is an online catalog for “By Chance, A Video Show,” which includes essays by John G. Hanhardt, senior curator of media arts at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Kathleen MacQueen and a statement by curator Peter Campus. An excerpt from MacQueen’s “Subtle Intensities of the Unexpected:”
War, economics, and the environment are all topics of news headlines; they are also the subjects of Varone’s art, sometimes with an emphasis on war or the environment but often recognizing that all three systems are interrelated. But headlines are the stuff of sound bites designed to draw us in, stimulate our anxiety, and provide little substantial information. They are the “Pop” in Lichtenstein’s appropriation of comic book and advertising iconography. As he reflects our social and political universe is there an incentive toward active resistance? By Varone’s own admission, his news is “bad news” – it can be overwhelming if it isn’t filtered. The irony provided by the childlike innocence of his line drawings mask the destruction designated by the crawlers – a tense standoff between the tolerable and the intolerable.
“By Chance, A Video Show,” at 80WSE Galleries
January 13, 2011
Please join me at 80 Washington Square East Galleries for By Chance, a Video Show. I will be displaying my latest installation “Dromospheric Pollution.” An online catalog will be produced with essays by the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s John Hanhardt, and Kathleen MacQueen. Opening on Tuesday, January 25th, from 6 – 8pm. Curatorial statement from Peter Campus:
These are six lines crossing at one point, at this time, at this place. The lines have different origins, different lengths, different vectors. Like the detective in Jorge Luis Borges ‘Death and the Compass’ (La Muerte y la Brújula) I look for meaning in these coincidences.
Alejandro Cesarco
Seoungho Cho
Nayda Collazo-Llorens
Jaime Davidovich
Beryl Korot
Jason VaroneI have applied the same level of intuition in my choices of artists as I do in the making of my own art work, believing that intuition (by any other name) consists of non deductive processes, and is the secret to the brain’s potential power.
“alterations” at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
December 08, 2010
I will be creating a new site specific installation entitled “Not With a Whimper, But a Bang” at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia. Click here to read the press release. An excerpt:
Locks Gallery is pleased to present alterations, a group exhibition featuring digital media, curated by the artist Peter Campus. alterations will be on view January 7th through February 5th, 2011. There will be a reception for the artists on Friday, January 7th, from 5:30 to 7:30pm.
Artists: Peter Campus, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Kathleen Graves, Beryl Korot and Jason Varone.
MetaDataPhile gets reviewed in The OC Art Blog
September 20, 2010
An excerpt:
In our fast-paced technology driven society, rarely is there time to pause for reflection or analysis of all the information we take on daily. Brooklyn artist Jason Varone’s piece Inclement Weather is part mural, part multi media video projection. Composed of a cartoon cloud painted directly on the wall, a video projection of reconfigured, live twitter feeds and news feeds fall vertically like rain from the painting. Varone calls himself a landscape painter because he paints and creates topographically but he sees the new landscape as digital in our contemporary society. Much of Varone’s work explores how we perceive social issues through various media outlets.
Images From the MetaDataPhile Exhibition
September 10, 2010
Just got back to New York after a three week residency at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California. I was invited to work there by Jennifer Frias and Lilia Lamas, who curated MetaDataPhile: The Collapse of Visual Information, in which I have two new videopaintings. For those of you who were not in the Los Angeles region for the opening, here are some images of my work in the MetaDataPhile exhibition. The entire photo set can also be viewed below.
Featured artists in MetaDataPhile are: Cory Arcangel and Frankie Martin, Josh Azzarella, Petronio Bendito, Matthew Bryant, Sky Burchard, Kathy Grayson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Ken Rinaldo, Kim Rugg, Jason Salavon, Peter Sarkisian, John Sisley, Stephanie Syjuco, Michael Toillion and Jason Varone.
Working at the GCAC was a great experience and I will be posting images of the work I made while in residence shortly.
UPDATE: Some of the new pieces have been uploaded here.
MetaDataPhile Opens Tonight
August 28, 2010
If anyone is in the Los Angeles area, please stop by my latest exhibition “MetaDataPhile: The Collapse of Visual Information,” at California State University at Fullerton. I have two site specific videopaintings in the show.
Information can be found on the Cal State website: http://calstate.fullerton.edu/news/inside/2010/metadataphile.html Opening Saturday, August 28th from 5-8pm
News from the Price Check Exhibition
July 20, 2010
Check out Art evangelist and blogger Kianga Ellis’ thoughts on my work in Price Check.
Kianga is organizing a talk for the closing of the show, where the curators will reveal the findings from their art market experiment. Read more on the Price Check blog, and please come by the closing reception on Tuesday, August 3rd from 7 – 11 PM.
I will also be featured on Kianga Ellis’ video blog Art With Your Own Eyes for the week of July 19th.
Price Check in Brooklyn
July 10, 2010
I have two prints in “Price Check”, an interactive curatorial examination of the variations of the visual art market based upon geographic proximity to a major art center.
Location: LaunchPad, a creative gathering place in Brooklyn
721 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238
718.928.7112 or info@brooklynlaunchpad.org
www.BrooklynLaunchPad.org
Summer shows
May 08, 2010
Two California shows coming up. I’ll be in this show METADATAPHILE: The Collapse of Visual Information at Cal State Fullerton Main Art Gallery. And I’ll be in residence at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California August – September, 2010.
Images from Architecturally../ works on architecture and space
February 07, 2010
November 19, 2009 – January 30, 2010, Hendershot Gallery, NYC
Screening at the British Film Institute
December 09, 2009
- Peter Campus, “Inflections: changes in light and colour around Ponquogue Bay”
Peter Campus has included 4 of my single channel videos in his retrospective at the British Film Institute in London, the screening is on January 23rd.
Peter Campus, “Opticks”
BFI Gallery, 11 Dec 2009 – 14 Feb 2010
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XT
In December and January BFI Southbank celebrates the work of ground breaking video artist Peter Campus. The exhibition in the Gallery and the accompanying retrospective in the cinemas offer a rare opportunity to appraise the work of an artist who has contributed greatly to the development of the creative use of video and whose work has influenced two generations of practitioners.
Peter Campus Screening: Saturday, January 23rd, 15:30. Studio, 66min
Artists include: Seoungho Cho, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Jason Varone, Kathleen Graves, Priyanka Dasgupta, Claudia Joskowicz, David Matorin, Alejandro Cesarco, Gautam Kansara.
Screening at Verge in Miami
December 02, 2009
Visions in New York City, Short Films and Videos
Curated by Maurizio Pellegrin and Heather Van Uxem
Presented at The Verge Art Fair by Gitana Rosa Gallery
Special screening Saturday, December 5, from 6 to 9pm.
The Catalina Hotel, 1732 Collins Ave, Miami, FL
Exhibition this Thursday at Hendershot Gallery
November 16, 2009
Featured artists include: Ella Ben-Aharon, Edo Ceder, Molly Dilworth, Merav Ezer, Interboro: Tobias Armborst + Daniel D’Oca + Georgeen Theodore, Bess Krietemeyer, Alois Kronschlaeger, Matthias Neumann, Graham Parker, Adi Shniderman, Eirini + Dimitra Tsachrelia in collaboration with Yoichiro Mizuno, and Jason Varone.
This exhibition investigates art and its relationship to the built environment. Architecturally… concerns itself with the in-between, the collaborative and the transdisciplinary. The primacy of the disciplines of art and architecture will be temporarily suspended for a more inclusive dialog on space and the site-specific. The artists and projects shown represent a wide range of disciplines including architecture, photography, painting, sculpture, video and dance, transcending the walls of Hendershot Gallery to encompass the entire sixth floor of the building.
Visions in NYC
November 03, 2009
Visions in New York City is an exhibition of short films and videos by established and emergent artists from all over the world. The film and video content and stills from these will be exhibited in Macy Art Gallery for two weeks, November 2 – November 13, 10 am – 6 pm, Mon – Fri.
The exhibition will end with a reception at the Macy Gallery on November 13, 6 – 9 pm.
Macy Gallery, 444 Macy Hall,
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
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Exhibition at Hendershot Gallery
August 27, 2009
PROJECT ROOM: Jason Varone
September 3 — October 3
opening reception: September 3 — 6 – 8 PM
Varone’s latest works incorporate news related data from the internet with painting, illustrations and sound. Forcing technology into painting as technology is forced upon the landscape Varone’s works reflect humanity’s struggle with emergencies and crisis while also toying with the media representation of bad news.
Hendershot Gallery is pleased to exhibit the work of Jason Varone in the inauguration of the project room. As an extension of the gallery, Hendershot offices are open to the public as a means to exhibit new projects by emerging artists and convey the message that all are welcome here.
Update: Here are two photos from the show.
An Afternoon in Amorphous Studios
August 16, 2009
August 15, 2009.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn – I spent the afternoon with Albert Zuger of Amorphous Studios fabricating the mount for my newest videopainting.
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