“where hiding places are many, escape only one” 2009-2025, recycled cardboard with glue, dimensions variable, in the group show “Rich Land, Poor Land” @carriagetrade277 (/carriagetrade277/), New York, through July 27
It’s almost heartbreaking to see a beautifully written review because you realize the power of good art writing has in our dialogue and, simultaneously, how capitalism has throttled the entire art writing profession and its outlets. Thank you to everyone who continues to write and offer space to writers. And thank you, @josephjosephglover for this thoughtful and broadening look at ‘There will be two of you’. Some sample quotes:
“In Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Rob Nixon uses the phrase ‘slow violence to describe’ “a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space.” This violence isn’t the instantaneous one of war or conflict, but one that is drawn-out, gradual. There will be two of you uncovers these repressed, accretive acts of ‘delayed destruction’. The decisions that have haunted the Meadowlands since our interventions began come to the fore in Ashkin’s photographs, and the scars of entropy we choose to ignore become startlingly visible”.
And a few paragraphs later…
“Ashkin speaks of the story as offering a “momentary promise of unity, even as it dissolves.” It’s as if the photographs aren’t enough on their own to divulge the impression his explorations had left on him… that his journeys into the Meadowland’s wastelands offered more than exploring ideological concepts of globalism and politics and violence, that they were, in fact, an opportunity to try and understand his own relationship to them”. @c4journal@fw.books
Non-corporate motel rooms still exist. I checked into this beauty around midnight on the NJ/PA border (near the Pocono Snake and Animal Farm) with my daughter after a long trip. And you can live with this color party every day by supporting the essential @carriagetrade_ny as they are moving to a new, bigger space, partnering with the brilliant @montezpressradio . Please join me in supporting artist-run projects. I’ve purchased two prints so far…200+ photos to choose from
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Preview opens: Wednesday April 1, 2PM EST
Online Sales opens: Thursday April 2, 2PM EST
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2 prints: $120.00 (use promo code: 2/$120 at checkout)
3 prints: $150.00 (use promo code: 3/$150 at checkout)
Online Preview opens: Wednesday April 1, 2PM EST
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Thanks to everyone who came out for my reading of “here, in the desert”, accompanied by my short video of the smoldering remains of a house fire in front of a dormant volcano, near an active Air Force base. It was fun! If you haven’t yet been to the gallery, I hope you get the chance to see this exhibition and learn more about the show from the great impresario Peter Scott. Up through the 18th or so @carriagetrade277 #richlandpoorland
Tonight! Re-opening of “Rich Land, Poor Land” @carriagetrade277 with a reading/projection by me at 7:30. Exhibition’s open through 10/12. This project has been a lot of fun! Many thanks to everyone at the gallery. And thanks to @artforum for this nice shot/shout out back in July
A persistent frustration of making sculpture was how, though magical in person, they could appear disappointingly flat when photographed. One needs two eyes and movement to see a sculpture. So, despite just having spent a week installing a 330 sq ft custom floor sculpture,I’m posting an image I processed today taken in Morocco. Very similar subject matter! Anyhow, gallery open 1-6 Thurs-Sun Chinatown 277 Grand St. Hope you can make it!
Opens Thursday 6-8, chinatown, NYC. I’m currently building a 16’ x 20’ cardboard city, sharing space (but not ideological commonalities) with Adam’s’ work on Japanese internment camps and Musk’s proposed Mars colony. I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of the work in this show
