Modern Art

So Jambon... I've been thinking about your work. I wondered whether you have come across Sean Dower on your travels? He's someone I think you'd like http://seandower.com/. Just had a solo show at Southard Reid. He deals with the 'problem' of display, hierachy and performance really well. I couldn't help but think you'd enjoy a current visit to the Whitechapel to take a look at Fred Sandback too.

I really like the notion of the 'Do Good' series too. Any more of those in the offing?

I'm glad my works been on your mind Reece, for me and i guess you, that's the ultimate end location and context for it to ferment. I can't say that I've come across Sean Dower,
I'll certainly look him and his work up, thanks for letting me know! Also I do need to get myself over to the whitechapel to see Fred Sandbank, as you say.
I find his work very sophisticated as well as the obvious tag of being minimal. He really gives you the bare bones and expects the viewer to finish off the work by filling in the visual trimmings.

By the way on the Dazed Digital feature, you come across considered and emphatic towards your work, and congrats on the upcoming solo show in London!

Thanks for reading it Jambon. And thanks to Luci for posting it up (ratting me out).

Jambon - I'm not sure that documentation of the deeds or even re-creation if that's what's necessary constitutes 'boasting' or is an 'anathema to the process'. I think it's just what you need to do to make it manifest as an event.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-13944384

I'm liking this a lot.

I like the notion of stealth intervention. Some of the designs aren't to my taste though.

I agree, but I like the diversity of it.

noticed a few nicely done up junction boxes on Borough High St the other week too.

http://vimeo.com/21918366

Discuss

No.

She's just trolling

;)

Gotta say, jambon, that girl's work is ticking all the right contemporary boxes, the frieze/london fashion week crowd will lap up the stomach contents no problem.

nearly threw up on my self :/

play Pollock then.

i did i cant save my painting though

cmd + shift + 4 or 3 (for screenprint)

(mac)

3 works for me :)

i feel like :/

I love how she sits down between spews and contemplates the next move

^^^ the fuck?

She's obviously quite skilled in the process of yacking up, but dissapointed with the end result, just looks like every other blobs of paint on canvas job.

Hello guys

Just a heads up that I have a solo show opening at elevator gallery in hackney wick on thursday 29th september. Hopefully some of you might be able to come?

More info to follow.

More info on my show now opening on the 30th not the 29th as previously planned:

Elevator Gallery presents

Causality
Ben Woodeson

Private view: 18.30 – 21.30 on Friday 30th September 2011

Elevator Gallery’s forthcoming solo exhibition presents Ben Woodeson’s
deliberately dangerous sculptures, including works from the Health & Safety Violation series and the new Causality series.

Woodeson’s sculptures are brutally performative; they inhabit a particular
moment of action and subsequent reaction. Their physical activity instigates an intense and visceral relationship with the viewer and the galleryarchitecture. Ripples of consequence are sent throughout the sculptures and audience alike. Woodeson’s skilful manipulation of materials in space challenges the viewer to respond to a unique environment of cause and effect.

The works spin, roll, wobble, fall, flick, collapse, shatter and even ignite…
but when? The control systems are automatic, random and frequently self-destructive. Some works are calm, stable and self-contained whilst others confront the viewer with overtly catastrophic outcomes. The nature of the sculptures means that the exhibition will continuously evolve and no two visits will be the same.

Ben Woodeson’s recent exhibitions include: Experimental Station, CA2M
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Textures of Time, Frederic Parker
Gallery, London, NierghtravAOnWint’sIfATeller, Gooden Gallery ‘24/7’,
London, Piksel 10 Festival, Bergen, Trade Gallery, Nottingham, Rhizome,
Departure Gallery, London, The Electric Return of Revenge, LoBe, Berlin and Levels of Undo, Location One in New York. Trained at Glasgow School of Art, he lives in Hackney and lectures at several London colleges.

Causality runs from 01.10.11 until 16.10.11
Open Friday to Sunday 12.00 – 17.00

P.V. 30th September 2011, 6.30 – 9.30pm

Elevator Gallery
Floor Five, Mother Studios, Queens Yard, White Post Lane
Hackney Wick, London E9 5EN

W. http://www.elevatorgallery.co.uk T. 0784 965 1993
E. info@elevatorgallery.co.uk

http://www.woodeson.co.uk

HOW TO GET THERE
Hackney Wick Overground (connect on the tube via Highbury and Islington or Stratford Tube Stations).

Buses 30, 388, 26, N26, 276

Scuse the crappy formatting I lifted it from the gallery's face book page.

Yet another shameless plug, end of next week: