Ireland: Figure, Face, Home Group show curated by Haydn Shaughnessy Nova Straaf Gallery on the SS Galaxy, Second Life opens Saturday 8th March 1- 3 pm SLT til 31 March For those not in the know: Nova Straaf Gallery is a gallery on a virtual cruise ship in SL! Haydn Shaughnessy / traveler Auer views [...]
Haydn and I gave very brief talks to the the Contemporary Irish Art Society last night, about my recent print work for Art on Paper Gallery (South Africa) and Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery (Ireland and in Second Life). It was really fun to be with an audience who knew nothing of the technologies I normally use [...]
LoVid gives one of their Hand-Cranked Luminescent Jewelery workshops Dublin’s new Science Gallery kicked off with HUGE crowds last Friday, and hosted international stars (and a few newcomers) of the media art scene, including the likes of LoVid, Graffiti Research Lab, portable palace and many others (these are just the ones I saw speak at [...]
A little press from the Guardian’s art blog, here. Mark Hooper runs a bit cool on SL and its economy, but speaks positively about the gallery itself, and my and the other artists’ work. Snips: Three artists are showcasing their art in a new virtual gallery. But is this really the best place to see [...]
Simulate Editions unique and authenticated virtual art objects Premiering at: Crossing the Void II Ten Cubed Gallery, Second Life opening receptions 31 January 7pm EST (1pm SLT) and 1 February 7pm GMT (8am SLT) SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/depo%20park%201/200/55/22 Artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern have each been exploring performance and performativity in their archival prints. Kildall restages [...]
I’m involved, via Haydn Shaugnessy (my Irish gallery) in a funky new project, where he’s hired a ‘Real World’ architect to build an astonishingly beautiful gallery out at sea in Second Life: Ten Cubed (pictured). Via some of Haydn’s blogging on the subject: About a year ago I decided to set up a real life [...]
Just found out that Art on Paper Gallery, who I often work with in Johannesburg, has been workin it for me a bit. Opened 18 November, Prints / Books / Lights at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban – I think this may actually be the first time I’ve shown there. I’ve got work from Call [...]
In my illness, I neglected to mention the opening of ‘New Prints’ at the International Print Center New York on Thursday. It’s too bad – I’m sure the opening, which was followed by an after-party in celebration of Art on Paper’s New Prints Review, was sure to be a blast. Still, I’m on this show [...]
If you haven’t noticed, my main site has had a massive overhaul, with which the royal ‘we’ are very pleased. Besides the new design, some new work and texts have been added in the upgrade process, most notably the digital and traditional prints I did at the Frans Masereel Centre in Belgium this summer, the [...]
Here. It’s been re-blogged several times already, but I want to re-iterate that Paddy Johnson is really smart. Again. The former link is especially relevant to me, given my recent printmaking adventures, which touch on several kinds of expression and abstraction, through time and performance (among other things)…
Implicit Art, or as I more often call it, Implicit Body Art, is art that asks us to move in ways we normally wouldn’t, pushing the boundaries of performativity and affect. A different mode of thinking about interactive art – whether for critique or production or both – the Implicit Manifesto does not look to [...]
I went and updated the Compressionism documentation video a bit, and put it up on YouTube. These are performative prints made by strapping on a scanner, computer and battery pack, then traversing the landscape – sometimes printing digitally, other times transforming the images with hand-made / traditional techniques. The video shows some work, and how [...]
in, and around lambda print on metallic paper, 380 x 1080 mm (with small white border) Just finishing up at the Frans Masereel, having completed 5 new digital and 6 new hand-made Compressionist prints (the latter inspired by the former, made by performances with scanners) for Art on Paper Gallery in Johannesburg (their site is [...]
litho stone in progress, piece will be 1080 x 380 mm Am on residence at the Frans Masereel Centre in Belgium at the moment, working on a new series that is being printed by printmaker and artist Zhane Warren, and published by Art on Paper Gallery (Johannesburg). It’s an extension of my Compressionist works, and [...]
Yo. Brussels was fun. I saw good art and Zhane Warren and Simon Gush, among others (my new friends Ivan Durt and Jean Hoffman, for example). Currently working my ass off in Kasterlee, at the Frans Masereel Centre, a printmaking residency: Compressionist images as silk screen, litho, wood cut, engraving and dry point…. Pix soon [...]
For those if you still unfamiliar with Paddy Johnson and her fabulous blog, artfagcity – “As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip” – WAKE UP. She’s clever, plugged in, and a great, honest critic with a sometimes snarky and sometimes generous attitude: as a writer should be. And today, as [...]
blossom on the dodder, 220 x 300mm (2007), nathaniel stern & angel shoreditch, 780 x 100 mm (2007) Paul La Rocque My first Irish exhibition, a duo show entitled Landscapes and Icons, opened at the new Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists in West Cork on Thursday evening, and it was a great party [...]
This past weekend, Haydn Shaughnessy (blogger and regular columnist for the Irish Times) invited me out to the beautiful countryside of West Cork to make some of my site-specific Compressionist prints; we hit the local pubs, beaches, foliage and his garden in order to produce new images. This new series, which also includes some scans [...]
Sorry for the lack of postings lately, but as promised before the move to Dublin, that’s just how it’s gonna be (until such time as Bronwyn and Rat do the regular blogging they tentatively offered here; like most Joburgers, they’re busy with more than a handful of things, so…). OK, catch-up spanning (and doing little [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts whilst in SA. Just been too hektik on this visit home. It’s been so great, and I miss this place immensely… Old friends and colleagues… great art and passionate community builders… yadda yadda. Sitting in 44 Stanley making a quick post. Here’s a great photoset of images from the [...]
