May 8th, 2012
for our very first silent benefit auction
MAY 29, 2012
Capricious’ primary objective is to provide a platform for the work of emerging and underrepresented fine art photographers who push the boundaries of their medium and bring critical attention to social, political, and environmental topics. This auction is being held to raise funds supporting Capricious magazine and its related curatorial projects, which have already aided hundreds of emerging fine art photographers and the issues their photographs bring to light.
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:
Collier Schorr / David Benjamin Sherry / Colby Bird / Genesis Breyer P-Orridge / Sarah Greenberger Rafferty / Peter Sutherland / Martha Wilson / Andrea Longacre-White / K8 Hardy / A.K. Burns / Katie Hubbard / Brendan Fowler / Skye Parrott/ iO Tillett Wright / Sam Falls / Marcelo Gomes / Arielle Falk / Nicole Lesser / Julia Gillard / Jonathan Black / Nicholas Gottlund / Amy Yao / Todd Fisher / Sophie Mörner / Reka Reisinger / Laura Larson / Mariah Robertson / Ami Sioux / Erin Jane Nelson / Justine Kurland / Veronika Georgieva & Stephen Shanabrook / Tammy Rae Carland / Jason Lazarus / Letha Wilson / Landon Metz / Rachel de Joode / Kristie Muller / Kate Steciw / Jeffrey Tranchell / Dora + Maja / Brent Stewart / Sharon Hayes / Thomas Mailaender / Sarah Palmer / Michael Nevin / Kuba Ryniewicz / Grant Willing / Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky / Emmeline de Mooij / Daphne Fitzpatrick / Coley Brown / Caitlin Teal Price / Alice O’Malley / Agnes Thor / Melanie Bonajo / Grant Worth / Lyndsy Welgos / Scott Valentine / Tania Theodorou / Paul Sepuya / David Schoerner / Sadaf Rassoul Cameron / Matthew Porter / Isabel Asha Penzlien / Aaron McElroy / Katja Mater / Kathy Lo / Bryan Krueger / Emily Hope / Anne Hall / Julian Gilbert / Tanyth Berkeley / Amelia Bauer / A.L. Steiner / Sabelo Mlangeni and more…
Capricious gratefully acknowledges the contributions of our esteemed benefit committee, contributing artists, and our event sponsors:
**Capricious is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Capricious must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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May 8th, 2012
This week we delve into the work of collage artist, Rachel Day. Originally from Santa Monica, CA, Day has made New York her home for several years, studying at Parsons, and gracing the pages of the Paris Review, Tom Tom Magazine, and L Magazine with her design work. Most recently, she displayed “Rachel Day’s Guide to the Zodiac” at Heathers Bar this past spring.
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May 1st, 2012
This week we feature the work of Russian photographer Volgareva Irina. A young photographer at age 24, Irina has already exhibited in many Perm Art festivals and is a prizewinner of the contest Europe Through the Eyes of Young Russians. View a larger collection of her work after the jump.
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April 24th, 2012
Today we’re featuring artist Yunji Park, from Seoul. We’ve selected a few images from Park’s series titled, “a thousand of you.” For more information please visit, http://yunjipark.hosting.paran.com/.
“a thousand of you
to see what to exist about
A thousand of the one is what can be only seen from it meanwhile it is existing that is uncountable. It is on seeking the visuality of existing from every intrinsic one.
the one of you that is uncountable never happening separately from a thousand of you facing every me.”
-Yunji Park
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April 18th, 2012
This week we present a portion of Matt Gainer’s series titled, Imperial Pictures. He’s a Los Angeles based photographer whose work explores social & political movements, religious communities, and tensions between people and the environments they occupy — with particular focus on California and the American West.
Matt tells us, “I began photographing and doing oral-history interviews in Imperial Valley, CA. in 2009 — drawn by curiosity about the impulses that draw people to such difficult terrain, and about the kinds of psychological spaces and physical geographies they navigate to create a sense of place, value and community once they settle.
I received a California Story Fund grant from the California Council for the Humanities to support the project during 2009-2010, and additional support in the form of a Faculty Research Award from the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture Interdisciplinary Research Group for 2011. Portions of the project were exhibited in 2011: first in a two-person exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, Romania, and recently in a group exhibition at the Houston Center for Photography.”
The All American
The All American Canal meanders along the border for about 80 miles before reaching the spot I chose to watch the extraordinary pre-dawn light. I’ve paused to make a picture while searching for it’s end; which is somewhere west of Calexico where channels deliver water deep into Imperial County farmland.
Nearby there is a bridge, and next to it a line of tires bolted together and attached to a chain; an apparatus used to smooth out the fine gravel of the road that runs alongside the canal so that new footprints can be seen by the Border Patrol. A man in a small pickup truck nods as he passes, then circles back to where he came from, only to return again a little while later. He is looking for someone, perhaps a solo (migrant) or a sign from a coyote (human smuggler) on the other side of the water. For the next few minutes I scramble to record the massive Rorschach test created by the scattered clouds against the rising sun.
With wages 10 times higher on the north side of the canal than the south, the draw to migrate is powerful, and along with bringing life to the southern California desert, the All American also brings death. Later in the day I would learn about the frequent drownings of people trying to enter the US by swimming the canal, and of their burial in a paupers cemetery 20 miles north of the border.
There is also a southern migration whose paths lead to Imperial; a migration of middle class explorers, retired pensioners, hippies, dreamers and rubber-punks. Much of my work in Imperial has been focused on a small, improvised community they’ve created, and on its relationship to the surrounding area. I was drawn there by curiosity about the kinds of psychological spaces and physical geographies people navigate to create a sense of place, value and community while living in such a difficult landscape.
Imperial Pictures is an ongoing project to represent the complex fabric of this unique place – including paths leading both toward and away from it.
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April 12th, 2012
Faye Driscoll’s You’re Me considers how we are constantly made-up and un-done by each other. In this evening-length duet with Jesse Zaritt, Driscoll probes and obfuscates the inescapable nature of relationships as the contemporary, archetypal, fantastical, and personal crash into each other, bending and warping in one shrug, quarrel, or reframing of a scene. Sliding from the everyday to the uncanny and bizarre, Driscoll’s choreography poses questions about the similarly slippery nature of self and other. How do our fantasies of ourselves and of each other create new possibilities for being, and yet give birth to friction, failure, and loss? How does our very desire to be more than we are transform us? How do two bodies on a stage make meaning out of empty space, embedded in the inescapable entanglement of the performance of you and me, and while asking, “Am I getting it right?”
Collaborators include Nina Mankin (Dramaturgy), Sara C. Walsh (Set Design),Chris Giarmo (Sound Design), & Friend of Capricious, Emily Roysdon (Costume & Prop Design), and Amanda K. Ringger (Lighting Design).
April 12–April 21, 2012
8pm
Tickets $15
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April 12th, 2012
…and it’s only up until APRIL 15 so go see it!
Zoe Leonard, Tree and Fence, 2000. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain.
Image: Heart to Hand, installation view, 2012
From SI’s Press Release:
Acclaimed for the collaborative series Evas Arche und der Feminist, Pati Hertling’s curatorial efforts focus on engaging individuals and fostering community. For this exhibition, Swiss Institute has offered the curator carte blanche in the main gallery. The exhibition will include a selection of works by contributing artists Zoe Leonard, Klara Liden, Adam Pendleton and Oscar Tuazon/Elias Hansen. Conceived of in the wake of the #occupywallstreet movement and the Republican primaries, Hertling’s exhibition addresses the relationship between aesthetics and social conscience. At first sight, the selected artworks are formally abstract, yet upon further meditation, their conceptual disobedience is revealed. The works in this exhibition suggest and provoke political themes yet leave the response and action to the public. Taken as a whole, the exhibition questions the role of art in times of heightened political consciousness. Problematizing the contingencies of a social contract, it points to an intuitive overarching process. Albeit visceral and rare, Heart to Hand emphasizes the exchange between artist, artwork, and audience, namely the moment at which a piece of heart is offered into the hands of the public.
Curated by Pati Hertling
And More on Pati and the Exhibition HERE, on the nytimes.com blog.
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April 10th, 2012
This week we feature the work of Thomas Macker. Macker received his MFA from CalArts in Photography and Media. He currently lives in Jackson, WY where he works as the photography department head for the Art Association of Jackson Hole, an arts and education non-profit where he is also a curator for the organization’s galleries. As an artist/curator he has exhibited his work in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. Today we will showcase work from his series For All Our Failings. For this series and others, please visit his website.
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April 10th, 2012
As part of the 2012 Whitney Biennial, K8 Hardy has contributed new works of both photography and sculpture. In addition, Hardy will stage a series of performances constructed as an experimental runway show in collaboration with Oscar Tuazon. You can attend her performance May 20th, and view her multi-medium work through May 27th. And if you just can’t get enough, we recently published Hardy’s debut book Frank Peter John Dick. Constructed of collages, Hardy has made visual examinations that deal with complicated ideas, issues of representation, phenomenon in style, and playful contemplations of fashion. This book is available now through our online shop and many select bookshops near you.
For more information on Hardy’s upcoming performance, please visit the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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