Tuesday, March 23, 2010
This Too Shall Pass
I've always loved Fischli & Weiss's "The Way Things Go", but oh boy oh boy.... this is something else.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Neither blue nor white collar
My partner, Mike Fleming, and I moved into a new studio space back in November. The space is a pseudo-office/business/gallery called Red Collar Incorporated. It's located in a small strip mall storefront in rural Wellsville, NY, and sits between a Dollar General and an H+R Block. The front room is a sort of gallery space and the rear houses a large open work space, all of which are open to the public when we're there, providing us with a forum for interaction with the local community. The neon sign that hangs in the front window was custom made by an Alfred University student named Zachary Velkoff. We plan on having a grand opening for the space sometime in March, so stay tuned.
Mike and I have been keeping ourselves busy proposing projects to a number of places. We proposed another version of "A Grand Opening For Gravity" to Vox Populi in Philadelphia, for an exhibition in their guest artist gallery. We would like to take the installation a step further by creating an hourglass effect with two waist-high piles of the colorful pennant flags. The idea being that as one pile diminishes, slowly disappearing into a hole in the ceiling, the other grows, slowly unfurling onto the floor. Each day, the direction would be reversed, and the contents would transfer from one side of the room to the other. The horizontally scrolling wall-mounted unit would hang between them on the wall. Essentially, the installation would explore conventionally disparate definitions of time (my favorite subject, if you haven't noticed) - cyclical vs. linear, finite vs. infinite.
Another proposal we just finished up is for a residency at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota. We proposed to make a 16-foot tall replica of a "Nature Scent" aerosol air freshener. The monolithic can would mimmic the real deal by spraying mist (water) at regular intervals. It would hopefully act as "a catalyst for raising questions about man’s relationship with nature, and serve as an absurd and ironic monument to the chasm created as society continues to distance itself from its origins, preferring synthetic substitutions of nature rather than the real thing." Most of all, we just hope it would be a fun thing for people to visit during the hot months in the summer. We've been invited to raise additional funds for the project on kickstarter.com. We plan to launch our campaign really soon (we're in the process of making a video for the site now) so I will let you know when you can pledge your financial support and become a part of the project's realization.
"Air Freshener"
(rendering by Mike Fleming and CAD drawing by Stephen Rooney)
So that's the gist of what I've been up to, plus lots of other things... applying for teaching positions, attending the College Art Association conference in Chicago, and teaching 3 classes at Alfred University this semester. You can check out my student work and assignments here and here. Okay, time to go back to work....
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
A Grand Opening For Gravity, 2009
26" x 72" x 13" shadow box; installation dimensions variable
400 feet of pennant flags, 10 RPM motor, false ceiling, painted wood box, fluorescent lighting
Site specific kinetic installation made in collaboration with Mike Fleming. It consisted of a false ceiling out of which over 400 feet of flags dropped through a small hole. The flags slowly formed a large pile on the gallery floor over the period of 4 hours. In close proximity, a wall-mounted unit framed an endlessly scrolling string of flags bathed in an eerie fluorescent light.
Photos by Mike Fleming. See pictures of the opening here.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Souvenirs Found at Sea
These are some pictures I took with a Holga camera while on a cruise this summer. The cruise left from Venice and stopped in Greece, Turkey and Croatia. There were 4,000 people on the 12-story boat, and the most time we ever got to spend in any given city/country was 6 hours.
Friday, December 18, 2009
The Semester in Review
This is a copy of the final post on my class blog for Intro to Sculpture, which I taught two sections of this semester. The class learned many sculptural techniques and processes, including woodworking, welding, kinetics, wearable sculpture, mold making and casting. Here are 20 curated images that I feel best represent the class's work. Congratulations to my students on a job well done! I am really proud.
"Twenty Three Point Six Plus One" by Tory Keith
"Bad Plaid" by Laura Finkbeiner
"ON/OFF" by Alexis Crowley
"Untitled" by Christian Jaskolka
"White Box Red Box Black Ball" by Stephen Rooney
"Welcome" by Jeff Swartout
"Make A Wish" by Valerie Boebinger
"Lick That. Don't Lick That." by Sophie Schneider
"Tactile Experience" by Tory Keith
"Facade" by Jeff Swartout
"Pocket Watch" by Valerie Boebinger
"Best Friends" by Eggy Ding
"Dislocation" by Stephen Rooney
"Untitled (after snips)" by Sophie Schneider
"Sad Tension" by Marie Komanecky
"Tiny Transmutation" by Eggy Ding
"Self-Portrait" by Stephen Rooney
"Lampshade Covers Nothing" by Katherine Lin
"Lampshade Covers Nothing" by Katherine Lin
Monday, December 14, 2009
Beth Campbell
I thought this mobile by Beth Campbell complemented Tharp's portraits well (they were in a show together, which is how I found her here).
Storm Tharp
I haven't posted "inspiration" in a while... but the Whitney released their selections for the 2010 Whitney Biennial recently, and Storm Tharp (who is my favorite artist from Portland, OR) made the list. I love his ink/guache portraits, and I'm excited to see another artist from the Portland scene "making it big".
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Review in the Buffalo Spree
My Coffee Cup Conveyor Belt Calendar got a great review in the Buffalo Spree. Here's what the author, Bruce Adams, had to say about it:
"Entering the main room visitors are confronted with Alicia Eggert’s Coffee Cup Conveyor Calendar, a mixed media sculptural piece and exhibition-length performance of such subversive brilliance that it stops you in your tracks. Dozens of unfired cast porcelain replicas of Solo paper cups, the kind with the plastic lids provided in coffee shops, are stacked in cardboard carryout holders against the wall. Mounted on the wall is a gear-driven conveyor belt with a week’s worth of cups lined up. Yellow sticky notes label each cup: today; tomorrow; the day after tomorrow; the day after that, and so on. Every day the belt advances and a cup falls off the end and shatters on the floor. The gallery staff loads another cup and the process continues. A scathing commentary on consumerism? A lamentation over the impermanence of mass-produced products? A visual rumination on mounting landfills? Or is Eggert commenting on the repetitive monotony of daily routine, how we mark time through our compulsive habits? Maybe all of these and more, but the work’s greatest impact comes from the disquieting spectacle of hand-cast ceramic objects purposefully destroyed … in a “craft” show."
Read the entire review here.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
A Grand Opening For Gravity - Dec. 4th!
Random Room Gallery
26 South Main Street
Alfred, NY 14802
Opening/Closing Reception: Friday, December 4th, 6-9pm
Mike Fleming and I have begun collaborating on a project under the name Red Collar Incorporated. We have our first opening next Friday at Alfred's Random Room Gallery. It's a one-night-only exhibition, so don't miss the opening, because it's also the closing!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A trailing off into silence, 2009
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