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BLUE BOX GALLERY Presents Gabriel Barcia-Colombo

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:39:13 +0000

Blue Box Gallery Debuts at RS Pop Shop
With Gabriel Barcia-Colombo

Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes

After exhibiting in places as far afield as Austin, Texas and Linz, Austria, the Los Angeles-born, New York-based Barcia-Colombo brings his pioneering collection of interactive, multi-media artworks – an amalgam of three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional video, dubbed “video sculpture” – to New York City.

Blue Box Gallery presents Gabriel's first solo performance "Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes", an exhibition about memorialization and, more specifically, the act of leaving one's imprint for the next generation.

The exhibition includes ten digital sculptures that play upon this exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which Barcia-Colombo renders visually by “collecting” human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens. He repurposes everyday objects like blenders, suitcases and cans of Spam® into venues for projecting and inserting videos of people. While making conspicuous references to Marcel Duchamps’ ‘Ready-Mades,’ he also draws from an eclectic range of other influences, from the combines of Robert Rauschenberg and the video spectacles of Aernout Mik to taxonomy texts and anatomical drawings.

You can see his work now through March 20th @ RS POP UP Shop

See pics from Opening Night- it was a PACKED house of artistic talent and journalism:

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Meet Kiki Valdes

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:51:14 +0000

Kiki Valdes is a painter heavily influenced by symbolism and fallacy. He is widely known for painting live. The act of painting live involves the subconscious mind and provoked thought while an audience of observers surround him. Valdes has been commissioned for various works by Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Freedom Tower Art Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Princeton University and countless others. He has also exhibited at the Florida State Capital Rotunda, PS1 (Museum of Modern Art), Florida International University, Duke University and is in a number of corporate collections. Kiki first started painting in smokey nightclubs for a way that people could interact with art, and the artist to interact with nighlife. Theres a cerrain belief of the artist hidden away in the studio where he/she paints for months on end. Miami is known for its nightlife, for better or for worse. Kiki would just work as a sponge soaking in all of the good and bad energy around him to reflect the speed of contemporary life. Some people think the peices when completed look rushed. There is a certain idea to that, that life moves fast and peoples intake of information needs to be speedy. The viewer does not like to ponder on ideas and pictures for too long. After a night of loud music, long lines and VIP treatment, only two things remain after the sun rises…profits made and what Kiki created. But the days of painting at clubs seems to be over. He now paints at private events and museums, often creating paintings beside masterpieces by such artists as Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Robert Matta, Keith Haring and many others. Kiki use to worry about splattering paint on passer bys, now he’s more concerned about flinging paint on a Rauschenberg hung on a museum wall beside his painting performance.

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Oil Collection

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:06:03 +0000

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