The growing art scene on Bogart Street gets mentioned (along with Interstate and me) on Art Fag City
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November 28, 2011 • 2:06 am 0
Video Playlist: The Evidence Show(s) with guest curator Jesse McLean: Museum of Contemporary Photography
A program I curated for Video Playlist, held at the Museum of Contemporary Photography here in Chicago will screen Nov. 30, from 6-9pm. Free! More info:
The Evidence Show(s) is a one-night public screening of video work in conjunction with Crime Unseen. The artists featured in this program consider the potential for everyday objects, ordinary surroundings and average people to become evidence of something beyond the familiar.
Featuring: Steve Matheson, Semi-Conductor, Jessie Stead, Michael Bell-Smith, Noah Klersfeld, Steve Reinke and Jacob Ciocci
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November 19, 2011 • 6:29 pm 0
Trust Falls in Artforum!
Trust Falls is a critic’s pick! Thanks to Zachary Cahill for his thoughtful and incredible review!
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November 16, 2011 • 5:20 am 0
Lose Yourself (Remix) at Arthouse in Austin, TX Nov. 30 – Jan. 8
Lose Yourself (Remix) will be playing at LIFT Projects at Arthouse at the Jones Center in Austin, TX from Nov. 30 – Jan. 8. Get your dance on!
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November 16, 2011 • 5:05 am 0
Night Magic – Screening with Thad Kellstadt in Louisville, KY
Thad Kellstadt and I were invited to each show a selection of our work by the Louisville Film Society. We called the program “Night Magic”. We had a great time and the audience was terrific, thanks for the great questions! And special thanks to Ryan and Tracy for inviting us, and Kevin and Tomy for hosting us.
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November 16, 2011 • 5:00 am 0
BYOB Cincinnati
I participated in a BYOB in Cincinnati at the Contemporary Art Center on Nov. 4. It was a lot of fun and it was great to hang out with some really cool artists.
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October 10, 2011 • 7:35 pm 0
Trust Falls – Solo show at Interstate Projects – Oct. 21 – Dec. 10
Trust Falls
10/21/2011 – 12/10/2011
Opening Reception October 21, 2011: 6-9 pm
Interstate Projects is pleased to present Trust Falls, Jesse McLean’s first solo exhibition in New York City. In separate rooms there will be two new videos, Trust Falls, andRemote, that investigate trust, presence and the deceptive nature of the cinematic experience.
To watch movies requires trust in a certain technical magic. Viewers must suspend their rational beliefs and while this rationality is suspended, other systems are at work. Light and sound waves project through the air, passing retinas and eardrums to lodge more permanently in psychic spaces. The work in Trust Falls considers this complex transference between what is seen on screen and what is absorbed in the viewer’s mind.
In the collage video Remote, dream logic invokes a presence that drifts through physical and temporal barriers. In the video Trust Falls, the subject stares outward, becoming another viewer. This viewer leans back, falling into a cinematic void and trusting that outside, there is another viewer waiting to catch their image.
Jesse McLean (b. 1975) lives and works in Chicago, IL. She studied art at Oberlin College and received her MFA in Moving Image from University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. She was the winner of the Overkill Award at the 2011 Images Festival and the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist at the 2010 Ann Arbor Film Festival. She has presented her work at Transmediale, 25 FPS Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, Venice Film Festival, Conversations at the Edge, Impakt, CPH:DOX, Kassel Doc FF, NEXT, Art Chicago and PPOW Gallery.
Interstate Projects focuses on young, emerging artists, works to connect artists and ideas from across the country. The gallery is located in Bushwick at 56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Our hours are Thursday – Saturday 12-5 and by appointment. For further information or images contact Tom Weinrich, tom@interstateprojects.com, or visit www.interstateprojects.com.
Directions: L train to Morgan Ave. The gallery is located on the first floor of 56 Bogart St, with the main building entrance about 50 feet from the rear exit of the subway. Please follow the signs directing you to the gallery once inside the building.
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September 9, 2011 • 4:28 am 0
Second Self at Gallery 400
Second Self, a program I have curated in response to Intimacies, a group exhibit at Gallery400, will screen Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 7pm. More information about Intimacies can be found here
Screened in tandem with Intimacies, currently on exhibit at Gallery400, this program of videos and films locates itself on the interstice between screen and receptive audience mind. The artists included have allowed the camera to function as a portal, and awarded the viewer access into their own lives, or at least the lives of their developed personas. Through this portal they impersonate celebrities (SCHWANSE), decide what to wear (ANGER), what not to wear (NELSON), instruct (YOUNGMAN), guide (RAFMAN), kiss (BENGLIS), rage (CROCKER) and desperately try to communicate (ACCONCI). These artists aren’t looking to be simply observed but rather push outward at the audience, demanding a reaction. More desperate than angry, the gesture becomes an invitation for the viewer to step across the thin fabric of the screen and become someone new.
Featuring: Open Book by Vito Acconci (9:10, 1974), Puce Moment by Kenneth Anger (6:30, 16mm, 1949), Female Sensibility by Lynda Benglis (13:05, Video, 1973), Leave Britney Alone! by Chris Crocker (2:12, Video, 2007), Take Off by Gunvor Nelson (10:00, 16mm, 1972), Kool-Aid Man in Second Life: Interview by Nicholas O’Brien by Jon Rafman (18:01, Video, 2009),k-a-t-e (s) by Nina Schwanse (10:41, Video, 2010), ART THOUGHTZ: The Female Gaze, with Special Guest Tamara Suber (NSFW) by Hennessy Youngman (8:14, Video, 2011). TRT 78:00
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July 16, 2011 • 4:47 am 0
Space Out, Space In at Andrew Rafacz Gallery
Climbing is showing at Andrew Rafacz as part of this group show curated by Scott Wolniak. A great line-up!
Space Out, Space In :
Thorne Brandt, Ken Fandell, Young Joon Kwak, Jesse McLean, Shana Moulton, Jon Rafman, Andy Roche, Ben Russell, Jen Stark, Kirsten Stoltmann
Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd.
Chicago IL 60607
312-404-9188
mail@andrewrafacz.com
Tuesday-Friday, 11-6
Saturday, 11-5
Andrew Rafacz Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located Chicago’s West Loop. Founded in 2004, the gallery was originally named Bucket Rider Gallery. It is now named for its owner Andrew Rafacz and continues to show internationally recognized emerging and mid-career artists.
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May 20, 2011 • 12:46 am 0
Hang in There at Co-Prosperity Sphere, June 17 opening
I’ll be showing a new piece as part of this group show curated by Jason Lazarus, Hang in There. There are sooooo many great artists in the show, I’m excited! Come out and see the show and the new work, about which I’ll say this: I hope you like to dance.
More about the show:
Hang in There is an exhibition asking artists to make motivational artworks. Cultural producers often face difficult roads to develop a sustainable practice. This exhibition is an opportunity for artists to provide an alternative to the commodified and saturated market for motivation, transcending the usual glut of advice, adages, and worksheets to something more singular, incisive, heartfelt, and critically-minded.
Opening June 17, 2011 / 7 – 10 PM at The Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago, IL.
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