Devotion Gallery presents: ShearGlory, A group exhibition for Carrie Mae Rose & Elena Rose Ailes

Opening March 11th, 2011 7-9pm. Until April 3rd, 2011.

ShearGlory is as sharp as it is soft. Carrie Mae’s sculptures and couture costumes are made of confiscated scissors from airport security and other potentially dangerous recycled objects. She shares this space with artist Elena Ailes, creator of felted storm clouds, quiet photograms and pencil drawings. The two artists share an aesthetic language, full of totemic mystery, circular logic and beauty. 

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ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE)

creative reuse of refuse through recombination.

Analogous Projects is pleased to present ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE), a group show with works by Aricoco (Ari Tabei), Katherine Liberovskaya + o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi), LoVid (Kyle Lapidus + Tali Hinkis), Philip Galanter, Phillip Stearns, Pollie Barden, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Torino:Margolis (Jenny Torino + Ben Margolis).

ScrapCycle is an ongoing project devoted to the creative reuse of refuse. This annual one-night event has been reinterpreted as a group exhibition, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE). In addition to featuring upcycled artworks and performances, workshops will take place throughout the month in order to underscore the participatory nature of the ScrapCycle series.

All events require a piece of refuse for reuse as the price of admission. Materials are used for on-site installations, directed toward local upcycling artists, or repurposed as holiday gift wrap. These action-based economic and environmental aspects of ScrapCycle refer to the act of reuse as requiring us to approach everyday decisions from a use-value perspective, which is in opposition to our collective exchange-value upbringing.

ScrapCycle places an exchange-value on upcycled and reused materials, in order to probe the environmental effects of economic perspective. By presenting concrete implementations of reuse and recombination, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) serves to liken the small pervasive effects of social sculpture, environmental activism, and economic perspective to a fine-tuning of interdependent parameters with global results. ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) references complexity science as it relates to political economy, ecology, and methods of reuse and recombination (i.e., small-world networks, social systems theory, ecological systems theory, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, neural networking).

Presented by Analogous Projects

All events charge a piece of refuse for reuse as the price of admission.

PRESS MATERIALS

PRESS RELEASE: scrapcycle-PressRelease.pdf
MEDIA RELEASE: scrapcycle-MediaRelease.pdf
FULL PRESS KIT: ScrapCyclePressKit.zip
CONTACT: Marie Evelyn at Marie@AnalogousProjects.org

EVENT SCHEDULE

Friday May 7th (Exhibition Opening)
7:00 p.m. - Doors
8:00 p.m. - Ranjit Bhatnagar and the Glass Bees (Performance)
8:45 p.m. - Tom Vanderwall (Performance)
9:30 p.m. - Bora Yoon (Performance)

Sunday May 16th and Tuesday May 18th - Thursday May 20th
1:00-6:00 p.m. LandFilles Build (Collaborative Build with the Artists)

Friday May 21st
7:00 p.m. - Doors
8:00 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)
8:45 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)
9:30 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)

Saturday May 22nd: Kids Workshops, Lecture and Tasting, Tutorial and Demo, Performance
11:00 a.m. - Repurposed Planters (Kids Workshop with Pollie Barden, Ages 5-9)
2:00 p.m. - Upcycled Gaming (Kids Workshop with Pollie Barden, Ages 10+)
6:00 p.m. - Questionable Edibles (Lecture and Tasting by Jenny Torino)
7:30 p.m. - Break Breadboards (Tutorial and Demonstration by Phillip Stearns)
9:00 p.m. - Torino:Margolis (Performance)
9:45 p.m. - Gunung Sari (Performance)