ART PAPERS “Jason Varone: The Power of the Impossible”
March 01, 2009
Curator/Art critic Brett Levine wrote “Jason Varone: The Power of the Impossible” in the January/February issue of Art Papers. Art Papers reaches 180,000 readers annually in every state and in 50 countries. Download a PDF. Excerpt:
His new approach to information gathering, emphasizing ambiguity and openness of the internet, has resulted in commentary that is at times both incendiary and intelligent, both random and sublime. “In many ways,” Varone explains, “it is as if we are living in an increasingly high tech society, but we are watching it crumble. We believe we are extraordinarily interconnected, yet our culture may be in decline at the same time.”
Two Upcoming Exhibitions
November 01, 2008
ART PAPERS 10th Annual Art Auction, 2009
Collectors preview: Friday, February 6th, 7-9pm.
Auction: Saturday, February 7th, 7-10pm.
Purchase auction tickets and see more about the artists here: http://artpapers.org/auction/default.htm.
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Hewitt Gallery @ Marymount Manhattan College
Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 6:00pm – January, 6th, 2009.
A Wrinkle in Time, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn.
September 19, 2008
A Wrinkle in Time, BRIC Rotunda Gallery
33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY
Opening September 10th, 2008
From “a few notes on A Wrinkle in Time,” BRIC Rotunda blog:
Baseera Khan and Johanna Taylor describe “A Wrinkle in Time” as artists responding to the barrage of dates and events of our time. Barrage is the right word indeed. I saw many of the artists in “A Wrinkle In Time” responding to the sheer flow of information today as much as to the information itself. For instance, Jason Varone’s “Landscape of Telecommunicated Sounds” uses sound clips of world crises as raw material in the creation of a physical landscape. continue…
Previous Exhibitions
August 10, 2008
-Screening of “The Geometry of Hope,” ArteAmerica Festival, Fundación Cisneros, Miami, FL. March, 2008.
-Dromospheric Pollution (solo show), The Visual Arts Gallery at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. March, 2007.
-Radiant, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Opening Nov 6th, 2006.
-20 Years In, Internation Center of Photography, New York, NY Opening, Nov 3rd, 2006.
-Made in Nama, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA. Opening, Oct 26th, 2006.
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