{"id":19296,"date":"2012-06-07T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/?p=19296"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T14:41:52","slug":"things-in-a-room-terminal-projects-brooklyn-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/2012\/06\/default\/things-in-a-room-terminal-projects-brooklyn-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"THINGS IN A ROOM, Terminal Projects, Brooklyn – NY"},"content":{"rendered":"

The picture above is a partial installation view of “Things in a Room” at Terminal Projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings in a Room,\u201d a recent exhibition featuring new works by nine New York-based artists, is on first glance simply that: a collection of familiar, seemingly unrelated objects. Presented at Terminal Projects<\/a>, a white haven of a gallery space in Crown Heights, Brooklyn founded by Adam Gordon and Ben Hall, \u201cThings in a Room\u201d features several collaborative art projects, including Keenan\/Eaton (comprised of Jeff Eaton<\/a> and Back Yard Projects<\/a> co-founder Sean Keenan<\/a>), BFFA3AE<\/a> (Daniel Chew, Micaela Durand, and Matthew Gaffney), and anonymous art collective Duane Reade, as well as works by Alex Bienstock<\/a>, Marysia Gacek<\/a>, Mark Kokopeli, and Daniel Loxton.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nMarysia Gacek, “Marcel & His Shades of Blue,” 2012. (oysters, ink, and t-shirt on canvas)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nMarysia Gacek, “Marcel & His Shades of Blue” (detail)<\/p>\n

Upon closer inspection, the “things” in this room are actually skewed versions of the objects they resemble \u2013 their materials manipulated, their functions inverted or eliminated. Scott Keightley\u2019s chess set (“Stalemate,” 2012) is \u201cunplayable,\u201d slanted and destroyed. Alex Bienstock\u2019s multiple Glade plug-in air fresheners do not provide relief from odor but instead overwhelm the room with an artificial fresh scent. Micaela Durand and Scott Keightley\u2019s Kashi cereal and Voss water (“Ari and Nari,” 2012) are trapped in cement, unable to nourish or quench.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a>
\nScott Keightley, “Stalemate,” 2012. (Unplayable chess set. Concrete and glazed porcelain.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nMicaela Durand & Scott Keightley, “Ari and Nari,” 2012. (Concrete, Kashi Good Friends Cereal, Voss Water, Plastic bag)<\/p>\n

Despite the laissez-faire, collective approach to curation, the common threads are evident, not always in aesthetic end but in approach. In many instances, objects were destroyed to yield new material and purpose. For example, Daniel Loxton\u2019s DVDs, smooth and prismatic in their original form, were pulverized only to create an alternative, shimmery and light-refracting surface coating two small paintings. Marysia Gacek’s\u00a0shucked oysters, paired with a t-shirt stretched on canvas, elegantly recall the body that the objects fed and clothed. In the process of transforming the function of the oysters and clothing into art materials (a palette and canvas), the original objects are consumed and destroyed.<\/p>\n

The artists casually acknowledge the hierarchical system of the art world through their materials and means of attaining them: Mark Kokopeli presented a found New York kitsch painting as his own,\u00a0Jeff Eaton repurposed invitations to contemporary exhibitions as his material, and Duane Reade installed a paint stick stolen from the studio of a significant historical painter (name and image withheld). When placed in the context of artists in the room dealing more specifically with readymade and everyday objects, the exhibition as a whole illuminates the impulse to create using the materials we have and see, to find potential in the form and function of an everyday object but always with the awareness of the object\u2019s audience as an artwork.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nDaniel Loxton, “I suggest we take things as they come,” 2012. (Pulverized dvd, acrylic medium on cotton)<\/p>

\"\"<\/a>
\nKeenan\/Eaton, “Untitled” (Talia Chetrit poster, Renwick Gallery, on Roe Ethridge invitation, Andrew Kreps, on structure), 2012.<\/p>\n

All images courtesy Terminal Projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The picture above is a partial installation view of “Things in a Room” at Terminal Projects. \u201cThings in a Room,\u201d a recent exhibition featuring new… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}