Open View: Rachel Hayes

KCLOG is excited to introduce a new feature focusing on public art called Open View.

Rachel Hayes is a New York based artist and was selected by the Downtown Alliance to participate in their Re: Construction program. Rachel has installed Rainbow Conversation at the Louise Nevelson Plaza construction site, part the of New York City Department of Design and Construction's Liberty Street reconstruction project, located at the corner of William Street and Maiden Lane.

For more info on Rachel visit her blog The Life Pursuit.

Featuring: Meridith Pingree

Meridith Pingree is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in drawing and sculpture. Much of her work is concerned with physically tracking human behavior and traffic patterns using quasi-scientific, homespun, reactive sculptures. She uses sensors to pick up on people’s energy and movement throughout a space. Her work exists as amplifications of this subtle energy, creating unconventional, complex portraits of people and spaces.

Pingree also makes drawings and small studies that explore repetition with a keen eye for color and materials. Similar to how the sensors in her kinetic sculpture react to the viewer, there is an interesting parallel in the geometric drawings that warp and transform through the subtle shift of the artist's hand. These works are more intimate in scale and show a playful freedom in allowing the systems in place to shape the outcome of the object.

Past exhibitions include shows at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn and The Soap Factory in Minneapolis. She will be included in I Wanna Be Somewhere, a group exhibition organized by Jon Lutz @ Daily Operation. The show opens Wednesday, Sept. 16, 103 Reade Street, one night only.

Raindrop, 2007
motors, motion sensors, bungee cord, wire, barrettes, 24" x 24" x 24"

Kinetic Sculpture -- Meridith Pingree -- Umbrella Torque -- Art, Reactive Kinetic Sculpture from Meridith Pingree on Vimeo.

Umbrella Torque, 2009
acrylic, motors, motion sensors, wire, 36" x 48" x 60"

Bumpy Space, 2009
cocktail swords, plastic coil bracelets, 34" x 19" x 5"

Sword Ball, 2008
cocktail swords, plastic coil bracelets, 6" x 6" x 6"

Blue Slinky Hyperbolic, 2007
cut sections of a plastic slinky toy, safety pins, 37" x 37" x 13"

Waffle Hyperbolic, 2009
ink on paper, 24" x 24"

Snowflake Hyperbolic, 2008
ink on paper, 24" x 24"

Green Monster, 2009
aluminum, acrylic, motors, motion sensors, wire, 60" x 120" x 120"

Featuring: Franklin Evans

Franklin Evans is a NYC-based artist who works in drawing, painting and installation. His most recent work has transformed his studio practice into an experimental visual lab where finished works, materials, and intuitive art-making converge to unveil a unique state of visual possibilities. Using this in-flux of system and process he references/transforms ideas from artists that came before him...Evans explains:

"My studio is a self-contained space filled with active painting processes that consider the past: past artists, past practice and the inevitability of the present becoming the past. My recent dialogue has been with several thinking artists from the 60’s: Robert Morris’ monolithic objects disrupting architecture, Mel Bochner’s measurement systems, Donald Judd’s “see it, say it” observations, and Sol Lewitt’s instructions to execution. Through painting material (painted paper, canvas and tape), I disrupt the architecture of my painting/installation space through layered processes. I simultaneously absorb the richness of past artists and distort their working means, occupying a space between isolated discovery and a conscious cannibalization of their copyright."

Past exhibitions include shows at The Drawing Center, Jeff Bailey Gallery NYC and Gregory Lind Gallery San Francisco. He is a recent participant in the Marie Walsh Shape Studio Program, that was featured on the KCLOG back in April. 2008/2009 (<) 2009/2010, his upcoming solo exhibition @ Sue Scott Galley opens Wednesday, Sept. 9, and is on view until Oct. 24.

composedthroughfriedrichsfuture, 2009
wall painting and paper collage, 132" x 210"

turningtime, 2009
wall painting and paper collage, 100" x 84"

fibtreesky, 2009
ink on paper, 14" x 15"

friedrichspastfromthefuture, 2009
watercolor on paper, 30" x 22"

lookbackatfriedrichspast, 2009
watercolor on paper, 22" x 30"

moreeyesthan, 2009
watercolor on paper, 22" x 30"

treetarger, 2009
wall painting and paper collage, 100" x 84"

treetarger (detail)

Featuring Pamela Jorden

Pamela Jorden is a Los Angeles-based abstract painter. On predominantly dark grounds, she layers a variety of washes, strokes and forms to create strange and moving compositions. Earlier this year, Pamela had her third solo show with Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Recently she participated in a group show titled An Exhibition of Selected Skills of the Unemployed at WPA, Los Angeles, CA. WPA is an art space organized by artists. As an artist member of WPA, Pamela plans to curate a show there in February. Maybe another trip to L.A. will be in order by then!

moon, 2009, oil on linen, 16x20

the knife, 2009, oil on linen, 38x33

untitled, 2009, monotype, 30x22.5

untitled, 2009, monotype, 22.5x30

untitled, 2009, oil on linen, 40x40

the knife, 2008, oil on linen, 36x32

untitled, 2008, oil on linen, 23x30

Featuring Jay Lizo

Jay Lizo is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. Lately his work is focused on culturally pointed text while maintaining a visually complex composition. Jay's practice is open in scope and includes paintings, collages and wall installations, just to name a few. In 2008, Jay had a solo show at Sea/Space Gallery, L.A., CA titled Lovely Ladies, and in 2006, a show titled Spectacle of Power at Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis. Recently he was included in For Fame and Love at Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, and the Venice ArtWalk, Venice, CA.

Portrait or Guy Debord

Bank of Fire

In N Out Machine

Portrait of Bruce Nauman

Think About My Tired Feet

Featuring: Mary Addison Hackett

Mary Addison Hackett is a Los Angeles based painter. Using a variety of tools and techniques, Hackett creates abstract paintings that explode from the center out to the edges. No two painitngs are the same and it's clear she is continually pushing what the meadium can do. Hackett had her debue show with Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA titled I forget now what all this is about in 2008 which was reviewed my Christopher Knight of the LA Times. She will have her second show with Kristi Engle Gallery in 2010 and I hope to be in town to see it!

The Accidental Channeling of Max Ernst, 2009

oil on canvas
7"x5"

Surfing, 2009

oil on canvas
7"x5"

Blast, 2009

oil on linen
7"x5"

Sugar Mountain, 2008
oil, spraypaint on canvas
16” x 14”

Speed Trap, 2008
oil, spraypaint on canvas
14” x 16”

Wayfarer, 2008
oil, spraypaint on canvas
36” x 36”

Featuring: Chris Coffin

Chris Coffin is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in photography, video, installation, performance, and drawing. Being raised by the ocean, yet living in the city, the work is informed by his background as a lifeguard, swimmer and surfer. Coffin's direct physical encounters with both urban and ocean environments provides the work with varying perspectives of their differences and similarities.

Water Drawing (installation), Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, 2008

dimensions variable

For his Water Drawing project, Coffin drew on the resources of the fishing community to construct a ‘water sculpture’. Existing of rope tying together 100 lobster pot buoys, Coffin fashioned a floating strand measuring over 300 feet long and swam a quarter mile out into the ocean with his water sculpture in tow. For the swimmer, the 45 minute performance was a test of strength, endurance, improvisation, and interaction, but for the viewer, the floating sculpture yielded a dynamic series of drawings on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

Coffin is currently showing in My Long Island, on view until September 6 at the Islip Museum, and was recently reviewed by the New York Times.

Water Drawing, 13 min DVD, Newport, Rhode Island, 2001
100 lobster buoys, nylon rope, swimmer, currents, wind, waves, dimensions variable

Buoy Portraits, 2001-present

digital c-print, face mounted to plexiglass, 8" x 10"

Hanna, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, 2008
marker on wall, dimensions variable

Islands and Coastlines (Nantucket), 2009

graphite on paper, 8.5" x 11"

Home (Grow), 2008

digital c-print, face mounted to plexiglass, 15" x 60"

Home (Industrial Organic Grid), 2008
digital c-print, face mounted to plexiglass, 15" x 60"

Hurricanes, 2003

graphite on library card, 3" x 5"