Saturday, July 23, 2011

who the hell is doug?








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found doug. met doug.
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When I first heard of this show, I was in board meeting with FAR. Everyone at the table was talking about a chain letter and a person named Doug.

Did you get the invite?

Email Doug.

No, don't email Doug.

It's carmageddon.

Okay yes, email Doug.

I had not checked my email that morning to see the very invite they were talking about. Obviously, I had no clue as to what they were walking about. So the only question in my mind at the time was, who the hell is Doug?

That entire conversation was the sole premise of my piece for Chain Letter. Despite how connected and small the world is now with technology moving at twitter speed, we are all still, somehow, disconnected.

It was never my intention to vandalize Bertamot, but waiting in line to install got me wanting to ask people if they knew Doug. So while I was plastering Bergamot with generic Helvetica post cards and offending orange duct tape, I realized that only a couple of people knew Doug and only a hand full have actually met Doug in person.

I was plastering this particular piece on the pavement that I met Doug. He kind of just took me out of my plastering trance and said, I'm Doug.


Friday, July 22, 2011

Chain Letter

Chain Letter is a group exhibition based on admiration. Initially conceived by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey in 2006, inclusion in the exhibition is based on invitation by someone who admires your work. Each artist invited then invites ten other artists whom they admire, and so on. This email invite will circulate for thirty days, at the end of which each artist will install their own work on the floor at Shoshana Wayne Gallery.

This exhibition is rooted in the ideals of inclusion, and highlights the social nature of the art world. It is the hope of the curators that the response will be vast and that the artists represented will be an exponential representation of all artists that are currently working and admired by their peers.

Chain Letter mimics communication today; and the way in which information is passed. The outcome will be a testament to the power of connectivity within society at present.
but my question is... who the hell is doug?