Thanks to New City for publishing my review of Anneke Eussen @annekeeussen at Document gallery through December 21. And thanks also to @genevievewolff and @catherinepreus for their editorial input.
/2024/11/22/windows-look-back-at-us-a-review-of-anneke-eussen-at-document/
I’m thrilled and honored that my project, The Beast was included in this fantastic book by Kate Farrington. @katefarringtonphd
Place As Medium: New Grounds for Thinking in Contemporary Art. Published by Routledge
Thank you Kate, for so deeply engaging with my work in a way that sheds new light on so many of its topics, all of which remain increasingly relevant.
Farrington also does a deep dive into Theaster Gates @theastergates project 12 Ballads for Huguenot House, which I had the pleasure to be a part of. So much to chew on in this beautiful book.
One of the tantalizing questions in the chapter on shared authorship: “how can myriad elements of the world as well as people be considered as ‘authors’ of an artwork that do not experience the event as art?”
If any of y’all are in the Boston area on May 15 come and join us for the book launch. For a copy of the book along with a discount code follow the link below.
Shout out to curator, writer, thinker Leonie Bradbury @dutchgirlleonie for inviting me out to Montserrat way back in 2018 to do a project which evolved into The Beast/Herd Mentality, made from retired fishing boats.
/Place-As-Medium-and-New-Grounds-for-Thinking-in-Contemporary-Art/Farrington/p/book/9781032710099
Discount code: 26AFLY1
More about the Beast at HPAC 2014: /selected-projects/sacrificial-beast-project/
More about The Beast/Herd Mentality at Montserrat Art Academy in 2018: /2018/04/13/the-beast-herd-mentality/
And finally, stay tuned for the link to a podcast Kate has invited me and my sweetie @anniebisone to be on.
LOVESEAT 1 (Bluetooth enabled) Found upholstery, furniture and stereo equipment, plant clippings from friends and beloveds past and present, water pump,
Thanks to everyone who came out to the first annual Division St. Studios open house this past Saturday. What a day it was!
You are all invited to stop by the shop/studio from 3-late this Saturday night for our first annual open house exhibition. Showing work from resident artists as well as many invited artists. Hope to see you!
4429 w. Division St. Chicago
April 11, 3-late
My dear friend @normanteague gave an inspiring talk at the art Institute of chicago last Tuesday night. It reminds me what I love about being a part of this whole art/design universe. Objects can be full of love, and sadness, and suffering, and complexity, and hope… it’s all in there. I wrote about Norm and @alexchittystudio in New City in advance of their exhibition “Chair-ish” at the @clevecarneymuseumofart . Up through April 11. Reception: Feb. 28, 6-7:30
You can read the piece here:
/2026/01/21/how-alex-chitty-and-norman-teague-chair-ish-what-we-sit-on/
#newcitymagazine #alexchitty #normanteaguedesignstudios #artinstituteofchicago #sculpture
Thanks to @newcitymag for publishing my piece on the striking paintings of @sebastianjhthomas at @zlgallery also available in the print edition.
“Sebastian Thomas appropriates the form of a morality tale while undermining its clarity, perhaps suggesting that this story of minting martyrs and villains is a played-out violence factory, nostalgic though we may be for manufactured certainties.“
/2025/12/09/sebastian-thomas-bends-the-form-of-morality-tales-at-zolla-lieberman-gallery/
I’ve gotten a bit behind in posting links to my reviews and catalog essays. They are all on my website. Johnpreus.com under the writing tab.
This is the work of Jesse Dermody at the Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids MN back in May.
Wish Machine 1. Car parts, found stereo equipment (Bluetooth enabled) plant clippings (jade, spider, succulents, wandering Jew) plexi, wire, epoxy resin, corn hole game, animal bones, spray foam, plastic, wood, light, paint. 16x18x60 2024.
Playing a clip from a New Material performance at the MCA. (Mikel Avery, Leroy Bach, Tadd Cowen, John Preus. With Walter Kitundu and Alex Inglizian. Full performance on my website. Johnpreus.com
After 4 years of work with help from many friends, (@jbadal4 , @normanteague , @tadd_cowen , @crabsinthesidewalk ) and beautifully co-designed and furnished by @genevievewolff , The Interloper is operational. It sleeps 2 people, and is located just south of Saugatuck, MI 10 minutes from Oxbow School of Art, Oval beach, and Saugatuck Dunes State Park.
You can book a stay in The Interloper through Airbnb.
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I just returned from another wonderful, inspiring, rejuvenating week at @oxbowschoolofart in saugatuck, MI. I taught Open Air Furniture which resulted in a series of pieces designed to sit around the popular fire pit by the beach. The mandate was to make functional work that could survive in the elements for at least a season out of materials collected from on campus or regional thrifting excursions.
Because the students were all proficient I got to make a couple things myself out of a leaky aluminum canoe, a sheet of acrylic, a plastic bucket and some cedar.
#oxbowschoolofart
I just returned from another wonderful, inspiring, rejuvenating week at @oxbowschoolofart in saugatuck, MI. I taught Open Air Furniture which resulted in a series of pieces designed to sit around the popular fire pit by the beach. The mandate was to make functional work that could survive in the elements for at least a season out of materials collected from on campus or regional thrifting excursions.
This is work by Rama Kumanduri (@ramak_artisan ) who lives and works in Chicago. He transformed a rickety bench and some metal lawn chairs and cedar fencing.
#oxbowschoolofart
