just because its the end of the semester

for Paul's research- I found it!

Puwar, Nirmal. Space Invaders : Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place. New York: Berg, 2004. 70-71.

Sunday post 12/07/2008

Jefferson Pinder

- Artist Biography and brief explanation of work (can use quotes from critics or galleries)
PSG is pleased to welcome Jefferson Pinder from Washington, DC in his first exhibition at the gallery. Born in 1970, Pinder received an undergraduate degree in theater, and an MFA in painting and mixed media from the University of Maryland. A video performance artist, he gained national attention with the exhibition Frequency at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 2006. In this exhibition was Car Wash Meditations, a short video of a car rolling through a carwash to the music of Nas’s “Made You Look,” while explosive colors of soap manifest as action painting on the screen. The combination of sound and image is set against a profile of a black man, Pinder, seated in the car. Such is the complexity of Pinder, who intuitively applies his knowledge of music, imagery, and performance to address complex issues of race, ethnicity, and class.

Since that exhibition, Pinder has successfully conjoined music and video in the likes of Shoeshine Variations, Juke, and now Afro Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise). For this exhibition, Jefferson Pinder presents a single channel video projection along with a series of performance photographs. Afro Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise) is composed of over 2000 individually posed photographs. Taking cues from late 1960s experimental films, Pinder plants himself within his work and asks the viewer to watch the images of propulsion and power. In the opening of the video, Pinder is seen painting his head and neck with white paint, referencing the performers of Butoh. He places himself in front of a screen, while layered imagery from such sources as ‘60s NASA Apollo footage, Freedom Now marches, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King speeches, and movies such as The Right Stuff, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Apollo 13 are projected upon him. Using time-lapse animation, Pinder is viewed in the web of the films’ imagery. The music for the video, a pipa played by Liu Fang, matches the cadence of the performance. The title of the music, “The Ambush,” amplifies the sense of exaggerated time.

Afro Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise) was created in response to an invitation to exhibit at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta for the exhibition After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, which opened in June 2008. The exhibition asked the question, How have Black artists born after 1968 feel their expression has changed as a result of the Civil Rights Movement? This question posed many problems for the participants; thus each artist addressed his/her answer in unique, inquiring ways. Jefferson Pinder was interested in exploring the Cosmos, or Space – “Cosmos” implying his vision of an active void. He references Ilya Kabakov's “The Man Who Flew Into Space from his Apartment” as an influence on the feeling and mood he was trying to capture – the conflict of breaking free. Pinder also references a more personal narrative – a memory – as his sister recalls rolling out the TV to watch the NASA Apollo launch, and how it stirred the imaginations of millions of people.

Pinder talks of the final sequences of the performance: "Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘Mountain Top’ speech was particularly influential toward the end of the piece as a blazing capsule streaks across the picture plane from all angles. The final moments of this performance video do not echo the utopian vision of the Civil Rights Movement, but rather the grim reality of smoldering smoke and a figure that is still standing after a turbulent ride."

Recent exhibitions include shows at the High Museum in Atlanta, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland and G-Fine Art in Washington DC. Pinder's work has been written about in the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Art in America, the New York Times, Artillery, NY Arts magazine, and others.

- a link to an interview with the artist or a review
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/film.html
- link to gallery representing artist
http://gfineartdc.com/
- artist website
http://0204d77.netsolhost.com/

Art Basil Notes 12/08/2008

Platform gallery Seattle
-jesse Burke
Miller block gallery Boston
-doug bolin
Soil gallery Seattle
-thin heileson (for patrenk)
Danielle arnaud London
-Paulette Phillips
New image gallery California
-deanna tempelton
Billy shire fine arts culver city
-chris mars
Art palace Austin
(Richmond/VCU showing)
Limn art gallery sanfrancisco
OUT gallery Boston
-Oliver warden question?
Howard house
-martin klimas
Research resin coating of photos.
G. Gibson gallery Seattle
-Francesca berrini (collage maps)
Punch gallery Seattle
Hosfelt gallery San francisco/new York
-jim cambell
Sam lee gallery los angeles
John mcguire olsen
Hemphill fine art Washington
Renee stout

Kalup linzy rubel collection. Ferrealz yo!

Country club gallery cincinati oh

Monitor. Rome Italy
-Ra di martinor
Simon Preston gallery new York
-Josh tonesfeld
Espaivisor galeria visior Valencia
-tatiana parcero
Leonhard ruethmueller contemporary art Basel
Galeria fernando pradilla madrid
-pedro meyer
Gallerie voss dusseldorf
-vittorio GUI
Witzenhausen gallery Amsterdam/NYC
-ozone sababa
Craig Scott gallery Toronto
-maleonn
Prometeogalley di Ida piani Milan
-Regina jose galindo
Lyme o reitzel gallery Miami
-juan erlich
Raul vincent enriquez
Stephen cohen gallery LA
-brendan lott. Artiststatement
Tar gallerie dusseldorf
-jasper de beijer
Paci arts brescia
-michal macku
Charles guice contemporary berkley
-hank willis Thomas
PhotoEye gallery Santa fe
-Tom chambers
-eric percher
-maria luisa morando
Nohra haime NYC
-carol k brown
Dpm Miami
-amilcar Paker video!
galleria sicart vilsfranca del peneddes
-nicola constantino
Mk gallerie & cokkie
-Bert sissinght
Bernice steinbaum gallery Miami
-Robert Wilson
Ullens center for contemporary art. Beijing
-teresa diehl
Movement as meditations on modernity
Cisneros fontanals art foundation Miami
-Amilcar packer
The foundation for art and crative technology. Liverpool
-Nick crowe and ian rawlinson
The palazzo delle arti Napoli, pan napels
-bjorn melhus
William siegal gallery Santa de
-Zhang penh
Catherine edelman gallery Chicago
-gregory Scott
-Robert and shana parke Harrison
Gregg kucera gallery Inc Seattle
Gallerie nordine zidoun luxemborg Paris
-McCallum & Tarry
-katerina seda dog stuff for Lauren
Snitzer- Miami






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