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Swoon, Ellis and Canilao, by BlackRatPress on Oct 3, 2007 22:07:01 GMT 1, Black Rat Gallery
So the time has come for us to move on. For the last eight months weโve basically been holed-up in the dark cramped set of the Ladykillers. Every three minutes our teacups rattle in their saucers as trains thunder overhead, causing the old grandfather clockโs minute hand to rest flaccidly at six, while Alec Guiness pretends to play violin in the corner. But no more. Foiled in our attempts to set up an art empire in Battersea by a little old lady and the fact that no one wants an art empire in Battersea, we are moving east. Called by the siren song of blonde beers, aviator shades, too-skinny jeans and those really terrible looking jumpsuit-type outfits all the girls are wearing for no discernible reason we are decamping to a beautiful 2000 square foot gallery in Shoreditch. Weโd say gleaming but that would be a lie. Itโs almost entirely brick.
The exact location will be announced in a couple of weeks when weโve settled in. That way youโll know where to come for the first show.
The First Show: Heap
Our first show HEAP is going to be an absolute corker. Itโs an installation show by Swoon, David Ellis and Monica Canilao. Theyโre going to be camped out in the gallery for two weeks prior to the show creating art to fit the space. (NB. If anyone from Fire & Safety is reading this itโs okay, weโve told them no open fires.) (NB. If anyone from Swoon, David Ellis and Monica Canilao is reading this, donโt worry, we lied to Fire & Saftey, you can have all the open fires you want. No, weโre kidding. Youโre not camping at all. Weโve got you a very nice apartment just off Old Street. It has beds and everything. Well, it has beds.)
So but anyway, weโre really genuinely excited about this, weโve been huge fans of Swoonโs for years. We were huge fans of hers even before she was doing street art, thatโs how long weโve been huge fans of hers. We were huge fans of hers back when she used to sit at the back of class looking alluringly enigmatic and etching deft character studies into her school books with bobby pins. And now weโre all grown up weโre really excited to be doing this show. Weโve been talking with her about it for over a year now and if youโve seen any photos from her solo installation show or her collaborative show with David Ellis and Faile youโll know how special this is going to be.
Swoon is a 29 year old Brooklyn-based artist who draws from sources as diverse as German Expressionist woodblock prints and Indonesian shadow puppets. Creating beautiful life-sized character studies from paper cutouts, woodblock prints and linocuts, Swoon has been a breath of fresh air, bringing a deft feminine sensibility to the predominantly male world of street art.
Represented in NY by the highly regarded Jeffrey Deitch at his Deitch Projects Gallery, Swoon has garnered huge critical acclaim for her installation shows. In 2006 MOMA showed an installation and purchased a number of works for their collection.
David Ellis is North Carolina-born, Brooklyn-based artist whose work constitutes improvised interpretations of music and sound, in the spirit of jazz syncopation. His paintings are often recorded in a form of digital time lapse animation Ellis calls โmotion paintingโ. Ellis often works directly on the walls of spaces that remain open to the public during installation and shares the making of the work with viewers โ like a live band in front of an audience.
His motion painting, Paint on trucks in a world in need of love was recently exhibited at MoMA
Monica Canilao is a young Oakland-based graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts. Canilao uses found paper, collage, sculpture and fabrics to create art that seeks to capture the human condition. Her work seeks to find a beauty and fragile sense of survival in discarded objects, which she feels carry an echo of humanity and a continued sense of embattled spirit.
*For further extended artist bios please visit our website.
BRP
Black Rat Gallery
So the time has come for us to move on. For the last eight months weโve basically been holed-up in the dark cramped set of the Ladykillers. Every three minutes our teacups rattle in their saucers as trains thunder overhead, causing the old grandfather clockโs minute hand to rest flaccidly at six, while Alec Guiness pretends to play violin in the corner. But no more. Foiled in our attempts to set up an art empire in Battersea by a little old lady and the fact that no one wants an art empire in Battersea, we are moving east. Called by the siren song of blonde beers, aviator shades, too-skinny jeans and those really terrible looking jumpsuit-type outfits all the girls are wearing for no discernible reason we are decamping to a beautiful 2000 square foot gallery in Shoreditch. Weโd say gleaming but that would be a lie. Itโs almost entirely brick.
The exact location will be announced in a couple of weeks when weโve settled in. That way youโll know where to come for the first show.
The First Show: Heap
Our first show HEAP is going to be an absolute corker. Itโs an installation show by Swoon, David Ellis and Monica Canilao. Theyโre going to be camped out in the gallery for two weeks prior to the show creating art to fit the space. (NB. If anyone from Fire & Safety is reading this itโs okay, weโve told them no open fires.) (NB. If anyone from Swoon, David Ellis and Monica Canilao is reading this, donโt worry, we lied to Fire & Saftey, you can have all the open fires you want. No, weโre kidding. Youโre not camping at all. Weโve got you a very nice apartment just off Old Street. It has beds and everything. Well, it has beds.)
So but anyway, weโre really genuinely excited about this, weโve been huge fans of Swoonโs for years. We were huge fans of hers even before she was doing street art, thatโs how long weโve been huge fans of hers. We were huge fans of hers back when she used to sit at the back of class looking alluringly enigmatic and etching deft character studies into her school books with bobby pins. And now weโre all grown up weโre really excited to be doing this show. Weโve been talking with her about it for over a year now and if youโve seen any photos from her solo installation show or her collaborative show with David Ellis and Faile youโll know how special this is going to be.
Swoon is a 29 year old Brooklyn-based artist who draws from sources as diverse as German Expressionist woodblock prints and Indonesian shadow puppets. Creating beautiful life-sized character studies from paper cutouts, woodblock prints and linocuts, Swoon has been a breath of fresh air, bringing a deft feminine sensibility to the predominantly male world of street art.
Represented in NY by the highly regarded Jeffrey Deitch at his Deitch Projects Gallery, Swoon has garnered huge critical acclaim for her installation shows. In 2006 MOMA showed an installation and purchased a number of works for their collection.
David Ellis is North Carolina-born, Brooklyn-based artist whose work constitutes improvised interpretations of music and sound, in the spirit of jazz syncopation. His paintings are often recorded in a form of digital time lapse animation Ellis calls โmotion paintingโ. Ellis often works directly on the walls of spaces that remain open to the public during installation and shares the making of the work with viewers โ like a live band in front of an audience.
His motion painting, Paint on trucks in a world in need of love was recently exhibited at MoMA
Monica Canilao is a young Oakland-based graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts. Canilao uses found paper, collage, sculpture and fabrics to create art that seeks to capture the human condition. Her work seeks to find a beauty and fragile sense of survival in discarded objects, which she feels carry an echo of humanity and a continued sense of embattled spirit.
*For further extended artist bios please visit our website.
BRP
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Swoon, Ellis and Canilao, by stuey09 on Oct 3, 2007 22:30:43 GMT 1, Like the reference to Ladykillers. One of my favourite films
Like the reference to Ladykillers. One of my favourite films
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