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5-Spot
1 Bank Street, Philadelphia
Sunday, September 7, 6 – 9 pm
One night only! InLiquid has invited 16 artists to
take over the 5-Spot for three hours of site-specific installations
and performances, including video, sound, audience interactive,
and time-based works.
No cover charge; must be 21 or older to attend. This
is a truly temporary event – all works will be dissembled/stopped/uninstalled
at 9 pm sharp.
Artists:
Susan Arthur & Willard Whitson, Marc Brodzik, gerard brown,
Candy Depew, Nancy Lewis, Frankie Martin, Gabe Martinez, Heather
Morton, Michael O’Reilly, John Phillips, Joan Kathleen Smith,
Jody Sweitzer, Matthew Suib, Ian Vail, and Linda Yun
See the pictures of the event
here!
GERARD BROWN
A Thin Disguise
Etched drinking glasses (four variations a camouflage pattern)
Artist’s Statement
Not long ago, I heard a story about how travelers could discern
in which bars interesting activities were taking place by subtle
cues. I became curious about what signals were in my environment
which I might be overlooking at any given moment and saw this intervention
as an opportunity to place an ambiguous signal in an situation.
Though it doesn't alert the visitor to anything in particular, I
suspect it achieve some of the same sort of disorientation I routinely
experience when I know someone is saying something that is not intended
for me.
About the Artist
Philadelphia-based artist, independent curator, and writer gerard
brown holds an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA in Painting with a minor in
Art History from the Boston University School of Fine Arts. His
work has been shown in numerous venues in the New England, mid-Atlantic,
and Chicago regions since 1989. Highlights of brown’s curatorial
work include exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Levy
Galley at Moore College of Art and Design, and West Virginia Wesleyan
College; in 1998 he co-curated "Context," an alternative
site-specific exhibition project funded by a Pew Philadelphia Exhibitions
Initiative grant and presented by Nexus Foundation for Today’s
Art during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. From 1994 to 1999 brown
was visual arts critic for the Philadelphia Weekly.
Among his awards and honors are a Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts Criticism and a residency
at the Vermont Studio School. Currently brown is a lecturer at the
University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
MARC BRODZIK
Advertising Confessional
Artist Statement
The viewer enters a 3’ x 3’ x 6’
box, shuts the door, and light comes on, confronting the viewer
with overstimulation of both supermarket circular ads and phone
sex ads. The project mission is to provoke the viewer to acknowledge
the dichotomy of these images. At first glance, they harmonize graphically,
but as you look closer you notice the abrupt differences. Ironically,
both are what we need to survive -- except one is selling meat and
one flesh.
About the Artist
Marc
Brodzik lives and works in Philadelphia's Northern Liberties
section. His paintings have evolved into a complex response to the
environment of his youth, the direction of his education, and capitalistic
society. He seeks to give voice to the working class whose culture
is inundated with signs, slogans, and logos. By adopting these very
images of "product," he subverts the message of pro-consumerism.
Brodzik makes art for the working class, a demographic generally
ignored by so-called high culture.
Mirroring the enormity of corporations and the pervasive
nature of target marketing, Brodzik works big. His largest project
to date is Godco, launched in 1998. Godco, a fictional corporation,
satirizes the Amway pyramid scheme and is constructed to enroll
a community of artists. These artists’ mission: to infiltrate
the medium of mass marketing in an effort to subvert its message.
Brodzik’s most recent development in the ongoing Godco corporate
series was CUBE
(presented by InLiquid at the Painted Bride in 2002) a series of
large paintings and infomercials promoting a new cure-all product
promising to remedy every spiritual or physical malady.
See
Marc Brodzik’s InLiquid artist page
CANDY DEPEW
Artist’s Statement
"Spread beauty wherever you go in life and
in whatever you do; make a conscious effort to add a little beauty
or contribute to the beauty that’s already there."
-Anonymous
This project based on my personal interest/research
and the above quote and will take place originally from the cute
little alcove with an elliptical window and will spread to the rest
of the room.
A young, beautiful, and creatively talented
Japanese girl with star dust around her eyes and dressed in an appropriate
ensemble will arrange flowers with great thought in the oval frame
of the alcove. Flowers of the season in colors of late summer --
reds, oranges, and deep pinks -- she will arrange and then place
upon the tabletops of the space for its occupants to enjoy.
By the end of the event the room will
be dotted with little oases of flower ensembles, enhancing the already
social atmosphere.
About the Artist
Candy Depew was born the fifth of a large family of nine during
the month of February in Cleveland, Ohio. She is Aquarius and she
identifies strongly with the number 7 and all shades of pink and
the greens of springtime.
A love of travel and has influenced her
work and has led her to places such as Las Vegas, New Orleans, Florida,
Amsterdam, London, Russia, East/West Berlin, Poland, and hopefully
Japan.
Studies in Ballet, Fencing, Ceramics,
Jewelry, Printmaking, Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy, and Contemporary
British Art have been enjoyed at such institutions as Laura Penton
School of Ballet, Kent State University, Ohio (Bachelors degrees),
Newcomb School of Art, Tulane University, New Orleans (Masters Candidate),
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, (Masters Degree),
and the London Consortium at the Tate Modern, London.
She has exhibited her room installations
of fabric and furniture designs, wall murals, and ceramic creations
in Philadelphia at The Rosenbach Museum and Library, The Clay Studio,
Abington Art Center, The Art Alliance, and The Gershman Y, and has
created a permanent apartment for Temple Gallery in Old City. Her
work has been shown in Cleveland, Chicago, LA, New Orleans, New
York, London, Israel, and Puerto Rico.
As a Master Printer at the Fabric Workshop
and Museum and most recently a five-year Resident Artist at The
Clay Studio Candy has taught apprentices and students the arts of
fabric design, ceramics, and sculpture.
Currently a Pew Fellow in Sculpture/Installation
she is working on a "hybridized "sculpture" that
will manifest itself as a seasonal magazine investigating the contemporary
definitions of decorative art and beauty. It is titled Candy
Magazine, with a first issue to be released in time for the
Valentine season of 2004.
JIM HINZ
Mr. Fringe (2003), fabric, fringe, thread
This sash is worn by the artist and is an emblem
of his sarcasm. (Others may be available.)
About the Artist
Jim Hinz is Head of Library Conservation at Hagley
Museum and Library in Wilmington, and is a 2003 Pew Fellow. His
work has been exhibited at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA; Biennial
‘96 at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington; and at the Institute
of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, Temple Gallery, Samuel S. Fleisher
Art Memorial, the Project Room, and Nexus Foundation for Today’s
Art, all in Philadelphia. His work is included in the public collections
of the Minnesota Historical Society and the New York Public Library,
as well as the Tate Gallery Library and the Victoria and Albert
Museum Library in London.
NANCY LEWIS
Painting and printed bar napkins
FRANKIE MARTIN
Frankie Martin will perform among her audience as
Christmas Candy, a wintry creature on rollerskates, giving out Eskimo
kisses and a freezing blast of sound coming from her boomin backpack.
Frankie's performance will echo her starring role in "DON’T
DRIVE TODAY WITH YESTERDAY’S MAPS," a video by Joe Milutus
about a totalitarian future in which Christmas is everyday.
GABRIEL MARTINEZ
Centre-pieces
and
Boutonnières
Local Philadelphia artist Gabriel Martinez, known
for his provocative performance and installation work, will be presenting
pieces that reflect upon loss and reminiscence.
About the Artist
Martinez received his BFA from The University of Florida, Gainesville,
and his MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia.
His work has been presented by the Fabric Workshop & Museum,
the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art,
the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary
Art, all in Philadelphia; and
Franklin Furnace, Thread Waxing Space, and White Columns, in New
York. He has been an Artist-in-Residence and received a Project
Grant from both the Fabric Workshop and Museum and the Rosenbach
Museum and Library, has received two Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts Fellowships, and in 2001 was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the
Arts.
HEATHER RAE MORTON
Artist’s Statement
For this show I plan to display a large number
of images on the wall in conjunction with a set of artists books.
The pieces on the wall will create an atmosphere and setting for
viewing the books. The books will have color images, tiny script,
and expressive drawings.
The main theme of this work is transition.
The images used in this piece were all made in the past two months,
which have been scary and thrilling at once. I have found myself,
lost myself, and rediscovered my remains. The photographs are evocative
of times of transitive turbulence, which most people |
