Jeremy Bailey: Less Important Portraits

Jeremy Bailey: Less Important Portraits 
Opening June 14th, 7-10pm. On view until July 7th, 2013.

"As an artist, when I look at crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter.com all I see are the creators, where are the backers? I've been an artist long enough to know that art is about who pays for it. How can important people be satisfied helping others without being recognized themselves? The powerful and wealthy patron should be celebrated the way they have been in the past, in grand portraits commissioned and hung on the walls of museums and galleries.

The portrait has existed as an art tradition for centuries. A well-executed portrait expresses the inner essence of a person. Portraits have primarily memorialized the rich and the powerful as important records of status. For artists they have represented subsistence as paid commissions and an opportunity to demonstrate the latest techniques and technologies for artistic expression.

I am revealing the true inner essence of over 50 backers of a successful KickStarter campaign I ran in February with their very own 21st century augmented reality portrait. As a Famous New Media Artist I have access to the latest techniques and technology, everything necessary for you to truly express yourself is at my fingertips. I've been making myself look amazing in augmented reality self portraits for over 10 years and I've decided it's time to help others look as great as I do."

Bailey’s selected recent exhibitions and performances include Rhizome's Seven on Seven Conference, New work for The New Museum's First Look commission series, Life Feed: New Works by Jeremy Bailey and Antoine Catala, at the New Museum in New York, The Future is Now, Media Arts, Performance and Identity after Nam June Paik, at Tate Liverpool and Myths-Online, at MOSAIC, Polytechnic Museum Moscow, Russia.

Bailey’s selected recent exhibitions and performances include Rhizome's Seven on Seven Conference, New work for The New Museum's First Look commission series, Life Feed: New Works by Jeremy Bailey and Antoine Catala, at the New Museum in New York, The Future is Now, Media Arts, Performance and Identity after Nam June Paik, at Tate Liverpool and Myths-Online, at MOSAIC, Polytechnic Museum Moscow, Russia.

Bailey has been extensively exhibiting and performing, since 2003, nationally and internationally. Including: Dadamachinima, Devotion Gallery, (New York, USA), Domain, ZER01 San Jose Biennial, (San Jose, USA), BWNY, Albright Knox, (Buffalo, USA), Colours of the Spectrum Art Metropole (Toronto, ON), Space Invaders, NIMk, (Amsterdam, Netherlands), The Jeremy Bailey Show, HTTP Gallery (London, UK) , Festival International du Film sur lʼArt - Musee d'Art Contemporain (Montreal, QC), Definitely Independent, Transmediale, Akademie der Kuenste (Berlin, Germany) and many more.

Born in 1979 Bailey received his MFA in Video Art from Syracuse University (2006) and an undergraduate degree in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto(2002). He is co-founder of award winning artist video collective 640 480 and performance journalism collective ArtStars*. He has been described by Filmmaker Magazine as "a one man revolution on the way we use video, computers and our bodies to create art".

SPECTROGRAPH: Maximus Clarke + Ted Hayes

Opening: Friday, August 19th, 2011. On view until August 28th, 2011

Can images and sounds be understood through their decomposition—and how are we to decompose them? Maximus Clarke's and Ted Hayes’ split show at Devotion Gallery peers through images and tears apart sound in an effort to limn their boundaries and recapitulate them in new forms, consuming their source media in the process.

Clarke's "3DOLATRY: Constructions + Deconstructions I-VI” is a series of anaglyph stereographic portraits that evoke a hyperreal yet synthetic continuum, then morph into impossible compositions that subvert both the 3D medium and the truths of vision itself. (Anaglyph 3D glasses will be provided for viewing the images.)

Hayes' “Deconspectrum” guts our monolithic perception of sound and lays out its component viscera in the form of flickering, colored light-cubes, leaving them out in the open to decompose into a new and unprecedented autonomy.

Max Clark
3DOLATRY: CONSTRUCTIONS I-VI 

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Recolony: A Short Film by Ryan Junell & Tanya Newton-John

Recolony: A Short Film by Ryan Junell & Tanya Newton-John
June 11th – June 26th, 2011
Opening: Saturday, June 11th, 6pm – 9pm.

 "Recolony" HD 1080p, 30fps, 2 min, Stereographic Anaglyph, 2011. 
Recolony is a twelve chapter tale of creation, abandonment, magical emergence, dis-integration, humanoid fury, and ultimate self-destruction. Once upon a time... humanoids create a great lush forest before moving onwards to create large cities. In the humanoids absence, strange magical creatures emerge quite naturally from the trees. Goblyns, Nomes and Faeries inhabit the forest and live happily and in harmony with each other and their environment. They dance around fires and sing ancient little tunes and chant until... the humanoids return to the forest from the city. They attempt to accept the creatures' presence, but ultimately become annoyed and irritated by the spawn of their forest. The humanoids initiate an all out creature holocaust in an effort to recolonize the forest. Grabbing, hurling, and destroying the creatures one by one, the humanoids finally clear the forest only to realize that the magical creatures *are an essential part of the forest and their death also means the death of the forest itself. Engulfed in flames, the humanoids die along with the forest... mortally sad they meddled with the mysteries of the universe. 

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