Too Much Chocolate Rotating Gallery Project
It's been a while since I updated last time.
I was working on moving to New York City and also Rotating Gallery Project on Too Much Chocolate website.
Earlier the month, I was interviewed by Tricia Lawless Murray and I interviewed Lucas Blalock just this week.
They were both very interesting artists. Tricia has very strong vision. It was such a great opportunity to work on this with Tricia since she gave me many good and difficult questions. It was like thesis round 2.
Rotating Gallery Week 92: Shimpei Shirafuji
I came upon Lucas's work in a Chinese restaurant in China Town at the beginning of the month. His work was displayed as a part of Chinese Take Out organized by Art in General. It was very interesting experience to see an work of contemporary art in that context. His image was a bush of tree slapped on top of suburban landscape. The image stuck to me for a while. In past year and half, I was looking at works of Roe Ethridge and Sam Falls. I've got sort of similar impression from Lucas's work and it really draw my attention. It was such a great experience to be able to ask him questions directly.
Jason Losh’s Chinese Take Out: An Art in General New Commission
Art in General is pleased to present Chinese Take Out, a New Commissions project conceived by Jason Bailer Losh, in which he invited ten artists to engage in a creative cultural exchange with restaurants in New York’s Chinatown neighborhood. The interactive project, on view from May 20 – July 2, at Art in General and seven local Chinese restaurants, explores notions of home, cultural memory and nostalgia, and how place, context, and association with images and objects represent individuals to the outside world. Audiences chart their own course through Chinatown, aided by a website and an interactive map, to fully experience the exhibition.
Participating Artists and Restaurants:
Martin Basher- 88 Palace, 88 East Broadway (2nd floor)
Lucas Blalock- Old Shanghai Deluxe, 50 Mott Street
Nicholas Brooks- East Market Restaurant, 75 East Broadway
Sarah Chacich- Sanur, 18 Doyers Street
Vincent Como- Excellent Pork Chop House Inc., 3 Doyers Street
Rory Donaldson- Full House Café, 97 Bowery
Nick Kramer- East Seafood Restaurant, 17 Division Street
Ted Riederer- 88 Palace, 88 East Broadway (2nd floor)
Thuridur Ros Sigyrthorsdottir- East Market Restaurant, 75 East Broadway
Ryan Sullivan- East Market Restaurant, 75 East Broadway
