{"id":11214,"date":"2012-04-29T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=11214"},"modified":"2012-05-08T07:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T12:45:12","slug":"brooklyns-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/04\/29\/brooklyns-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"~BROOKLYN’S BACKYARD . . . 2-UP at SOLOWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

YO YA’LL !!<\/strong> artlovers going mighty locavore for the upcoming art fair weekend.<\/p>\n

first up: BROOKLYN.
\na local indie gallery, run by local artists, NO LESS.
\nshowcasing a young NYC-based indie art collective, NO LESS.<\/p>\n

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\nPHOTO: ANNETTE WEHRHAHN, SOLOWAY<\/a><\/p>\n

SOLOWAY INVITES YOU – TO AN EVENING of ART, MUSIC & PERFORMANCES – in their BACKYARD
\nto-nite: SUNDAY – APRIL 29, 2012 \/ 7-9 PM
\nSOLOWAY<\/a> – 348 SOUTH 4TH ST – BROOKLYN, NY
\nnote: REGULAR GALLERY HRS: SAT + SUN 12 – 5 PM<\/p>\n

SOLOWAY invites you to ‘PERFORMANCE FOLIO’, an evening of performances and readings by members of 2-UP in the backyard of the gallery. This event will celebrate the conclusion of 2-UP’s exhibition ‘FOLIO’ currently on view in the gallery.<\/p>\n

ABOUT 2-UP:
\nover the past few years 2-UP has produced a series of poster publications. This has been the first group exhibition of the individual members’ work in a gallery space. The exhibition is structured in two parts: a free newspaper that disassembles into 7 double-sided posters, and corresponding works in the gallery. Members of 2-UP participating in the exhibition are: COLLEEN ASPER, MATTHEA HARVEY, CHRISTIAN HAWKEY, CATHY PARK HONG, ZEREK KEMPF, BENJAMIN KRESS, NATHAN LEE, PAUL LEGAULT, JEN LIU, MORES McWREATH, ADAM SHECTOR, JOE WINTER, and MONIKA ZARZECZNA.<\/p>\n

see: 2-UP<\/a>
\nfor sure, check out: their ARCHIVE PAGE \/ 2-UP<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nStill from GOLDFARB’S ‘DEEP CYCLE’ project\/courtesy: 2-UP ARCHIVES <\/a><\/p>\n

UP-DATE: TUES MAY 1, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

PHOTOS FROM: ‘PERFORMANCE: FOLIO – presented by 2-UP
\nat the closing party for their gallery show & newspaper poster project – at SOLOWAY, BROOKLYN, N.Y.
\nSUN APRIL 29, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nthe 2 year old SOLOWAY artist-run gallery space, located at 348 South 4th St., just off Keap St. – in Williamsburg, BROOKLYN.
\nin the storefront window: black and white poster\/newspaper sheets from the ‘2-UP: FOLIO’ collaborative show inside.
\nthe show ran April 7 – 29, 2012. to-nite was the closing party.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail: ADAM SHECTER, ‘Exercise: Problem Behaviors \/ Group Dynamics’. (!!) (!!) and more (!!). ha. tell me bout it.
\n2-UP – a New York City based art collective – produced a double-sided multi-page (unbound) ‘newspaper’ for the show. each contributor was given a 2 page spread – essentially a poster – and the newspaper was free – available inside the gallery & yours for the taking !! <\/p>\n

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\nthe 2-UP – logo. nice graphics – all around.
\nvery what’s happening in NYC right now – on the cutting edge. <\/p>\n

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\ninside the gallery: a poster on newsprint by BENJAMIN KRESS.<\/p>\n

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\nalso on view: the ‘2-UP:FOLIO’ \/ SOLOWAY APRIL 2012 edition . . . production screens.
\nstanding on piles of the finished newspapers – that open up into double-sided posters, with a mission statement and a key to the contributors – in the centerfold. <\/p>\n

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\non the table a set of ‘tarot’ cards by ADAM SHECTER.
\nabove them, some really funny great plastic bag ‘drawings’ by JEN LIU. ink on paper – their correct title: ‘potato heads’ !!<\/p>\n

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\nheading into the gallery’s backyard – for the evening’s performances.<\/p>\n

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\nMUNRO GALLOWAY and TOMER ALUF – two of the 4 SOLOWAY directors.
\nPAT PALERMO is another director, and ANNETTE WEHRHAHN rounds out the group of 4. it’s her living space at the back of the gallery that you move through – to get to the backyard. and that’s her free-standing, glass enclosed studio popping up – in the backyard.<\/p>\n

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\na guest.<\/p>\n

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\nthe first performance . . .<\/p>\n

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\nPAUL LEGAULT read-singing from his ‘Translation Manifesto’ accompanied by poet JOSEPH BRADSHAW on the banjo.
\nyes, I did hear the words: ‘singularity’ (!!) and ‘love’ mentioned in the very same sentence.
\nas well as: ‘order’ and ‘void’. it all made sense to me. future – present.<\/p>\n

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\n2-UP’S JOE WINTER, CATHY PARK HONG, and ADAM SHECTER.
\nCATHY PARK HONG had just delivered up a very dry, often quirky-funny take, mostly on being a stand-up comedian. and a woman, and a Korean, with a little bit of Canadian, thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n

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\nADAM SHECTER – a co-founder of 2-UP . . . a “collaborative poster project” – that was founded in Feb of 2010.<\/p>\n

and yes, Adam says: “we are NY based, and nomadic (i.e. operating out of our apt).”
\nthat’s a great term for a long-standing NYC alternative-art tradition – nomadic (!!) love it.
\neven the gallery space, SOLOWAY, seems to take place in the middle, o.k. front of … co-director ANNETTE WEHRMAN’S living space. a classic NYC – railroad apartment. (!!)
\na lot of alternative ‘storefronts’ back in the day, the early 80s, when the Lower East Side – really made its claim to glory and really was the mecca, and not the trendy mall: boutique, bar and restaurant scene it has morphed into – started out that way. 5 Rivington St. and the Bowery – hello !! <\/p>\n

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\nand, JOE WINTER – the other co-founder of 2-UP.
\nsee: THIS IS 2-UP<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAARON CAMPBELL and JEN LIU played a zen-like musical piece – on 2 halves of a ‘split’ cello.
\nyes, a cello – split right down the middle.<\/p>\n

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\nAARON CAMPBELL on the split cello.<\/p>\n

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\nthe ‘split’ cello at rest, in its 2-sided case.
\nJANE BENSON, who was present in the background, acting as the performance’s ‘conductor’ – made the split cello, as part of her body of work: the Splits.
\n(I’d like to see what else – she splits . . .) <\/p>\n

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\nthe strangely compelling ‘split’ music was performed to a projected slide of poetry\/philosophy\/futurism by JANE BENSON, who pointed a laser at the text during the performance.
\nor in their own words: JEN LIU and JANE BENSON . . “present a piece about the indefinable present, through a palindromic text score and shepard tones played on the 2 split halves of a cello.”<\/p>\n

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\n2 guests enjoying the evening’s – unique – and very unpredictable playlist . . . <\/p>\n

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\nwhich included performance artist MORES McWREATH serving up some pretty funny deadpan one-liners – to a variety of hand-made and very ‘creative’ slide images – a ‘digital slideshow’ – which also included some pretty funny & very in-your-face – brief autobiographical video loops.
\nin a nutshell: still frames interspersed with action. accompanied by a drop-dead narrative that cut to the (unexpected) bone of all existence.<\/p>\n

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\nMORES McWREATH – slide projection.<\/p>\n

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\nMORES McWREATH – slide projection.<\/p>\n

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\nMORES McWREATH – slide projection.<\/p>\n

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\nMORES McWREATH – slide projection.
\nwas this, the one about – ‘domestic’ abuse ?<\/p>\n

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\nMORES McWREATH – slide projection.
\nor was it this – one.
\nI was too caught up in the deadpan\/one-liner moment to take notes !!
\nthough, this piece in particular, and the extreme anti-eloquence of the whole deal – reminded me of the early ‘concrete’ and dry humor of the once young too, JOE BRADLEY – when he first started out. confounding all the usual, and predictably clueless (!!) mainstream art world – suspects.
\ni.e. the so-called “critics.” you know, pass the (jerry) saltz. and go on to . . . collect. <\/p>\n

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\none last look behind at the Brooklyn storefront – window.
\nnewspaper poster by NATHAN LEE. yo, CASPER – the friendly ghost !! NYC ca. 2012 – sure loves its ghosts !!
\nUNDETECTABLE – think on that – for a moment.
\nand, on the reverse side – just shadowing through, the ‘flower\/fan’ by MONIKA ZARZECZNA.<\/p>\n

ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, at SOLOWAY in BROOKLYN, N.Y., APRIL 29, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YO YA’LL !! artlovers going mighty locavore for the upcoming art fair weekend. first up: BROOKLYN. a local indie gallery, run by local artists, NO LESS. showcasing a young NYC-based indie art collective, NO LESS. PHOTO: ANNETTE WEHRHAHN, SOLOWAY SOLOWAY INVITES YOU – TO AN EVENING of ART, MUSIC & PERFORMANCES – in their BACKYARD […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11214"}],"version-history":[{"count":81,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11551,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214\/revisions\/11551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}