The Goldmine Shithouse
dal 15/4/2005 al 8/5/2005
Segnalato da
15/4/2005
The Goldmine Shithouse
McCaig-Welles Gallery, New York
The Wolf That Fed Us. The GMSH is an artist collaborative that was started by artists David Hochbaum, Travis Lindquist and Colin Burns in early 2003. The three met every Saturday night keeping the doors open to other friends and artists to hang out and join in the collaborative process. The work is started by one artist, then passed on, or put aside until picked up by another, and so on...
The Wolf That Fed Us
The McCaig-Welles Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by The Goldmine Shithouse. The artists will be in residence from April 4- April 16, 2005 at the gallery, which will be open to the public during this time. The exhibition will open with a reception on Saturday, April 16, 2005 from 7-10pm.
The Goldmine Shithouse (GMSH) is an artist collaborative that was started by artists David Hochbaum, Travis Lindquist and Colin Burns in early 2003. The three met on a weekly basis every Saturday night keeping the doors open to other friends and artists to hang out and join in the collaborative process. The work is started by one artist, then passed on, or put aside until picked up by another, and so on, as the piece begins to take shape. At one point, the majority rules in the decision to continue, or deem it finished. Instantly all three recognized the power of bringing their ideas and heads together as one. The energy generated has proven explosive, as hundreds of paintings, drawings, and collages have been created.
Private commissions and Gallery shows were their next experiment.
The GMSH took a unique approach; they live in the gallery or home and create the work for the exhibition as they do so. The work is influenced by their surroundings, anything and everything. The galleries remain open while the trio is in residence, they welcome patrons in while they generate the shows work. With the commissions, the patron brings the GMSH into their home. There the group works into the composition the influences of this place and person.
The process is as important as the finished products, seeing ideas progress and evolve as they are passed from artist to artist. The GMSH has developed a vocabulary and mythology that is compelling and pertinent. This distinctive technique allows a true insight into the creative process and the artists mind. And each experience is different from the next so that every show is entirely different, the artwork having evolved from the experience at a specific location.
Tony Adler from The Chicago Reader reviews a recent show at Mornea Gallery in Chicago:
"A large two-panel work, Joy Follows, is my favorite expression of this dynamic. A clump of men in medieval dress watch as an impossible creature-half hart, half rooster-bounds out of the frame, demonic resonance in its clawed feet. A pasted-in tract on free will reads, in part, "God does not control everyone or everything. He controls the sun, the moon, the stars, the tide, and the universe, but He does not control man." Elsewhere, a hand written sentence, "You filled a lot of people with dread back then." The work is covered in a pale, translucent yellow wash through which it's easy to see the grain of the wood. Look closer, though, and you find something between the wash and the grain, disclosed like pentimento. At first it appears as isolated jottings-"fig.111"-but then lines and arcs manifest themselves and you realize you're looking at some kind of mathematical diagram, perhaps an astronomical diagram, perhaps not. The point is the order beneath the menace, the reassurance-even transcendence-under the fear (but over a plain slab of board). The piece turns out to be a philosophical interchange in cosmic terms. And, not incidentally, a comment that what we're after here is neither the gold mine nor the shithouse but the two revealed in each other."
The Goldmine Shithouse was started on the Lower East Side of NYC. The collaboration has exhibited throughout the United States including The Capitol Hill Art Center, Mornea Gallery and Metalstone Gallery. Their works have been commissioned in major private and public collections.
The Goldmine Shithouse@McCaig-Welles
The Goldmine Shithouse artists include David Hochbaum, Travis Lindquist and Colin Burns. To learn more about this collaboration please visit their website by visiting the link below.
http://www.goldmineshithouse.com
SPONSORED BY ROLLING ROCK
Rolling Rock will be giving away complimentary beverages all evening long. Grab yourself an ice-cold Rock and enjoy.
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 16, 2005 7-10pm
McCaig-Welles Gallery
129 ROEBLING STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11211