Installation view, VIS-A-VIS

This weekend, Back Yard Projects, a collectively organized project space I founded with artists Sean Keenan, Josie Keefe, and Anne Kunsemiller early this year in the East Village NYC, opened its doors one last time to celebrate a season of site-specific exhibitions and programs. The 2011 season featured installations by American artists Nathaniel de Large, Juan Antonio Olivares, Scott Keightley, Morgan Silver-Greenberg, and performances by Andrea Merkx, Sarah Elliott, and collective BFFA3AE.

The final exhibition, VIS-A-VIS,  investigates the collaborative connections developed throughout the season. In an effort to give a physical presence to the channels of communication opened through this experience, each BYP collaborator invited several artists to exhibit in the space. The result is a conversation among eighteen local and international artists touching on spatial intervention, ambiance, community, and the uncanny. The grand finale took the form of a Halloween party and featured a special performance by The Ice Machine and Swift (Graham Watling and Nathan Gwynne), with a guest appearance by the first New York blizzard of the year.

Installation by Reykjavik-based Joseph Marzolla.

Kinetic sculpture by NY-based Isla Hansen.

Sculptures (foreground) by NY-based Ann Greene Kelly & hanging ceramic sculptures by NY-based Elizabeth Jaeger (background).

VIS-A-VIS co-curator Sean Keenan (sculpture) & LA-based Milano Chow (drawings).

Photograph by VIS-A-VIS co-curator Holly Stanton & painting by Amanda Beroza Friedman.

Video installation by Brooklyn-based Jonathan Campolo.

The Ice Machine and Swift

VIS-A-VIS

October 14 – November 5 (by appointment)

Alessandro Bava, Amanda Beroza Friedman, Ann Greene Kelly, Anne Kunsemiller, August Barber, Clinton King, Elizabeth Jaeger, Holly Stanton, Isla Hansen, Jon Campolo, Joseph Marzolla, Josie Ariel Keefe, Juan Antonio Olivares, Milano Chow, Nathaniel De Large, Scott Keightley, Sean Keenan, and Tim Lokiec.

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This autumn, stay tuned for an upcoming series of conversations with New York-based artists on Kitsune Journal.