poofer
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Post by poofer on Aug 2, 2012 15:45:17 GMT -8
No love for DBS anymore? Seems like rather harsh critique for one of the good guys out there supporting young art. agreed.... why all the nasty words around here? |
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Post by rizza79 on Aug 2, 2012 16:07:34 GMT -8
No love for DBS anymore? Seems like rather harsh critique for one of the good guys out there supporting young art. agreed.... why all the nasty words around here? if these posts are referring to my statement about the hodge podge, which I am guessing they are, I want to respond and clarify that I did not mean anything derogatory or harsh towards DBS. He has definitely done and continues to do a great deal to support emerging art in the Denver area. I am just stating that the current group exhibition and the different styles of art represented lacks any real continuity and Mr. Houck's work doesn't quite fit. Obviously this is just my opinion. In all fairness to DBS, a gallery can only put together the show. They don't really have any control over the strength of work they receive from each participating artist. |
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Post by mose on Aug 2, 2012 16:42:45 GMT -8
Rizza, agree.
Summer group shows, in my experience, tend to be poorly put-together fodder apparently slapped together while everyone is focusing on vacation, just as an excuse to keep the doors open during slow season and maybe make a sale or two.
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Post by mose on Aug 3, 2012 4:13:22 GMT -8
Rizza, agree. Summer group shows, in my experience, tend to be poorly put-together fodder apparently slapped together while everyone is focusing on vacation, just as an excuse to keep the doors open during slow season and maybe make a sale or two. I actually think it's nice to see a group show with such a diverse style... At least it's not a stupid "themed" group show. It's just a bunch of very talented artists, showing off their work in a room together. It's also a little refreshing, after a more museum esque show by Hong Seon Jang. I am actually the opposite. I much prefer, in both individual and group shows, a narrative of some sort that provides cohesion and makes a statement above and beyond the individual works. Weaving an interrelated story between what may appear to be disparate pieces is something I look for in an exhibition. The art of curation, above and beyond the work of the individual artists involved. Otherwise, shows, for me at least, feel like 'dumps'. Work dumps onto the marketplace. 'This is what the artist puked up in the last twelve months, see you next year for more'. To me, the properly done group shows, with narrative, are the ones with the really great potential to become legend and change art history. Stuff like Primary Structures(minimalism), International Exhibition of the New Realists(pop, new realism), New Paintings of Common Objects(pop), etc. |
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Post by sleepboy on Aug 3, 2012 8:41:06 GMT -8
Has everyone considered that this is not a group show in the sense that there is some central connecting narrative or theme? I think these summer things are just a preview of artists that are doing solos or what not in the upcoming year at that certain gallery. Otherwise, there would be a title for the show besides something generic right?
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Post by sleepboy on Aug 3, 2012 9:19:27 GMT -8
Has everyone considered that this is not a group show in the sense that there is some central connecting narrative or theme? I think these summer things are just a preview of artists that are doing solos or what not in the upcoming year at that certain gallery. Otherwise, there would be a title for the show besides something generic right? Geee... I thought that's what we were discussing, what am I missing? I thought we all agreed there was no central connecting narrative or theme to this show. And the discussion was around whether or not that is a bad thing. I was trying to argue that it is not a bad thing, and that galleries do that all the time, most often with Anniversary Shows. I honestly don't care that there is no connecting narrative for this show, and I enjoy seeing a variety of talented and diverse artists work in a show together, regardless of who is showing next to who. At the risk of further sending this off topic, I was actually agreeing with you and responding to comments like "different styles of art represented lacks any real continuity" and "poorly put-together fodder apparently slapped together while everyone is focusing on vacation". I think that it is just something galleries do to give their patrons an idea of what is coming up. Whether the artists are of the same caliber, pricepoints, and time in their careers is a different story although not sure that it always has to match either. |
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Post by mose on Aug 3, 2012 9:37:05 GMT -8
And just to add, I was probably going off topic and not staying on this show by commenting on my feelings about group shows overall.
But, I will argue that summer is generally horrible time expecting quality from shows, as the slapped-together group show phenomenon is strongly evident. It also tends to be a horrible time to see art in general, as summer hours usually eliminate gallery-going unless you are playing hooky from work.
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Post by rizza79 on Sept 29, 2012 14:29:31 GMT -8
something new  |
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Post by afroken on Sept 30, 2012 3:12:53 GMT -8
Any more info on this Rizza? On face value I'm not feeling it. Houck seems to be an artist with fantastic conceptual ideas that aren't really translating into great execution, apart from the Aggregates. The Cathedrals sounded great on paper but I was totally unmoved by them when I saw them. Feeling the same with this.
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Post by rizza79 on Sept 30, 2012 3:54:03 GMT -8
this is the only other info I have:
Common Passwords in Alphabetical Order, 2012
Archival pigment print
33 by 24 inches
I would have to agree with you about your above statement. It is still early in the game for him and aside from him showing the Aggregates all over the map, I think I would rather have him continue trying to develop all the different concepts and ideas he has instead of being a one trick pony like so many other artists. Hopefully now that he has steady gallery representation he will be able to buckle down and evolve steadily.
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Post by mose on Nov 14, 2012 10:17:57 GMT -8
On Stellar Rays is pleased to announce representation of JOHN HOUCK
On Stellar Rays is pleased to now represent John Houck. On Stellar Rays will present new works by Houck at NADA Miami 2012 and a solo exhibition in September 2013.
John Houck works with photographic materials and engages in architectural interventions, in both cases focusing on the relationship between embodied perception and depiction. Houck’s background in computer programming, architecture and photography equip him with extensive knowledge of diverse codes used to generate images. Houck employs such codes - intentionally disrupting their more advanced functions through simple repetition and recursive processes - to create new interstitial sites of resistance. The power of his work lies in a practical and real understanding of the digital systems that order our contemporary experience, and furthermore, the ability to reclaim pervasive systems for intentions at once poetic and defiant.
John Houck received his MFA from UCLA, Los Angeles, CA in 2007 and a BA in Architecture from Colorado University, Boulder, CO in 2000. He participated in the Whitney Independent Study (2010) and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2008) programs and has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Los Angeles and New York.
For more informaiton on JOHN HOUCK please click HERE
On Stellar Rays
133 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
212.598.3012
info@onstellarrays.com
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Post by gilsteph on Aug 29, 2013 13:10:47 GMT -8
New Show linkThe exhibition expands upon Houck’s body of aggregate photographs, presenting still life imagery of personal objects and keepsakes intermittently spliced with Houck’s ongoing body of digitally-rendered, gridded and folded compositions. As in the aggregates, whereby Houck exploited a repetitious process influenced by his professional experience as a programmer — a feedback loop of write, compile, execute — here he applies a recursive practice of compose, photograph, print.  |
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Post by svenman on Nov 20, 2013 14:46:03 GMT -8
John Houck has an exhibition in London at Max Wigram Gallery. Looking forward to seeing it next week when i'm in town.   more pics here... www.maxwigram.com/exhibitions/ |
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