I feel quite lucky to have settled in New York in such a way that most of my life is within walking distance. The only exception is @sculpturespacenyc —this large studio is the one place I’m willing to commute to Queens for four times a week. With my solo exhibition approaching, I’ve been gradually moving my works to Manhattan, and—being, well, time-efficient—I often transport them on the subway without packing them up. One day, I’ll definitely get around to creating wearable sculptures.
I’ve always loved sharing music, and lately I’ve been playing a lot in NYC, so I’m putting my favorites into mixes. I just uploaded three new ones to SoundCloud.com/mozgo and I’ll be updating every week or two. Follow along if you want the fresh drops
Tell any Burner it’s your first time and you’ll hear “Welcome home,” usually followed by a hug. From there, a 14-hour crawl at the gate and three straight days of rain stop feeling like hassles and start feeling like the point—shared grit that pulls you closer to your friends. Add the gift culture and radical acceptance, and you get something rarer: a priceless sense of reconnection with your inner kid and the altruist who still believes in social change.
Veterans will say the consumer vibe is louder now—Burning Man as attraction and content playground—but to me there’s no sense this 77,000-person social experiment has failed. The playa provides!
Drifting Bloom
Another piece from the Aegean Reliquary series.
This form emerged from a memory of Aegean seaweed—those drifting travelers that rise each July, unfurling their limbs like wings through sunlit currents.
Glazed 3D printed stoneware, handbuilt stoneware, tin
13 x 11 x 12 in
Grateful to @sculpturespacenyc for the chance to explore ceramic 3D printing.
#chelseaartist #contemporaryceramics #3dprintedclay #nycartist #sculpturespac
In 2022, as a new chapter in my life unfolded, I became a collector—gathering what I found on the seabed. Month by month, my dives grew deeper until I began bringing up sea urchin skeletons, alien in form and as fragile as eggshells. These dives became an essential part of my life on the Aegean coast and profoundly shaped my approach to material.
To preserve my collection, I began creating cradles—reliquaries for these fragile relics.
This piece is one of them, among my first large-scale ceramic works. It traveled from the shores of Turkey and is now in its final days on view at Plato Gallery (through Aug 23) in New York.
Glazed earthenware, sea urchin test, aluminium, LED matrix, microcontroller 24 in x 28 in x 12 in
“Exaltation,” our group exhibition on contemporary Mannerism including eighteen artists, is now extended by a week. It will be open through Saturday, August 23rd.
Here are some installation images from the first part of the show on our ground floor. The exhibition continues at our lower gallery, with images to follow.
‘Doechii’s single Anxiety could serve as a soundtrack for Exaltation, since it itself is a spin off of a viral song by Gotye and Kimbra, “Somebody That I Used to Know,”–an accurate
description that the year 2025 could assign to 2011, when the original track was written. Anxiety is perhaps the principal sentiment of mannerist art, which proclaims an end of an era of harmony and bursts with asymmetries, diagonals, unexpected colors, precarious compositions and all sorts of emotion-stirring textures and effects: fireworks, sweat, reflections, lights, neon glow and shine of fluorescent fabric.’
‘In the world where every news is breaking news and everyone can be famous for three seconds, artists are trying to grasp onto the comforting permanence of the past with a
well-spirited exaltation of post-postmodernism. If the end might be near and one wants to live at the height of their emotions, in hopeful reverie, and ideally in style, who are we to judge?’
Curated by @elenasartadventures
Participating artists:
Alic Brock @alicbrock
Maude Corriveau @maude_corriveau
Kim DeJesus @kimdejesus
Ákos Ezer @akos.ezer
Yoon Hyup @ynhp
Darina Karpov @darinakarpov
Mevlana Lipp @mevlana_lipp
Erik Nieminen @eriknart
Marlon Portales @marlonart91
Vadim Pugin @mozgo
Jacob Rochester @jacob_rochester
Gretchen Scherer @gretchen_scherer
Stass Shpanin @shpanin
Guillermo Serrano Amat @guillermoesea
Alex Sutcliffe @sutcliffe__
Takura Suzuki @takurasuzuki
Vickie Vainionpää @vickiejv
Andrew Woolbrigh @andrewwoolbright@platogallery #platogallery #nycart #groupexhibition #exaltation #alicbrock #mannerism #nycart
My first essay has just been published on the @odra.platform —a reflection on theological intuitions tied to the development of AI. I wrote it a year ago to capture a moment in my ongoing research for the Holy Tech project. Today, I’d find it harder to sketch such utopian horizons, yet I can still imagine they remain possible—perhaps on a longer timeline.
Join me for a personal tour of my work,
The Hands of the Pan, at @newuncanny
Today and next Sunday
🕒 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
🔷 @newuncanny
Share the passcode “SHADOWS UNCOVERED” to claim a signed cyanotype print. Limited to the first 5 guests.
Let’s explore the visible, the obscured, and everything in between.
