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The Whitney Biennial opened yesterday. This map shows the locations of each artist generalized to the city they claim on their CV. This map doesn’t go into where the person was born, but more what art scene they engage in. A clear trend emerges for this year’s biennial of contemporary American art.

Further, this piece about Collecting Biennials in the New York Times is a great discussion of what happens after.

New York boasts 22 artists (+4 if you count Brooklyn). Los Angeles claims 12 artists. There are a few other American-based artists sprinkled outside these large art magnets, with single artist nods to the scenes in Portland and Chicago. The remaining 4 artists are based in Europe, although 3 were born in Northeast USA. Nothing to speak of from the South or Southwest, but are we surprised?

Feb. 28 – Update 1: Thanks to reader MLM, Tam Tran’s entry has been changed from Los Angeles (based on this page of outdated information on ArtNet) to Memphis, TN.

I will post photos from the show as I slowly get them finished. Exhibition runs through March 13, 2010.

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 6-9pm

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(New York, NY) The Abrons Arts Center is proud to present the site-specific exhibition, Transparency Now, in the Charles E. Culpeper Gallery. Hunter Cross employs materials common to mid-1990s office environments and elementary school classrooms, stacking prefab bingo chips on overhead projectors to produce images reminiscent of microscopic imagery and vector graphics.

These ‘overheads’ work with the available color palette and are built from a set of devised rules, routines and patterns. This imagery creates a mysterious environment stuck in time, recalling an abandoned office meeting or scientific visualization. By focusing on color and light and its interaction with the site’s glass cases, Hunter Cross scales his work using the compression capabilities of the projected image (e.g. small objects creating larger images) to encourage questions regarding an art object’s materiality and the ease with which its image can enter and exist, perhaps more effectively in a virtual realm. This work is part of Transparency Now, a series of installations demonstrating the potential of this set of rules, routines and patterns when forced to adapt to different site scales.

Visitors are encouraged to walk around the projectors and photograph themselves in the projections to be included in an online archive. Photos of any quality should be emailed to: hunter@huntercross.com.

Hunter Cross (born 1980) received his BA from Trinity University in 2003. He has exhibited at Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace, Dallas Contemporary and Arthouse, and has recently been awarded a large-scale public art commission from the City of Austin. He lives and works in Austin, Texas.

For more information visit www.abronsartscenter.org or www.huntercross.com.

Abrons Arts Center Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street (on the Lower East Side)
New York, NY 10002
212.598.0400

Trains: J/M/Z or F to Delancey/Essex; B/D to Grand St.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat 11am – 6pm.

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Come see Jubilee and many other large-scale works at the opening tomorrow on Saturday, November 14 from 7-9:30pm.

Box 13 Artspace
6700 Harrisburg
Houston, Texas
November 14 – December 17, 2009
Opening reception Saturday, November 14, 7-9:30pm

BOX 13 ArtSpace is pleased to present three exhibitions opening Saturday November 14, 2009, 7:00 – 9:30pm. The bulk of the exhibition spaces will house Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush], an exhibition curated by the Austin-based group Los Outsiders: Salvador Castillo, Michael Anthony García and Hector Hernandez.

Originally presented at the Galleria del Espacio Cultural de la Antigua Aduana in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush] features the work of 13 contemporary artists from Texas, New York & Utah. The exhibition will be on view through December 17, 2009.

Candace and I are working together on the newly launched candacebriceno.com. We built on top of a custom version of Joe Tan’s Flickr Photo Album WordPress plugin that allows her to manage the new website conveniently from a Flickr account.

Her show in Dallas is still up at Mighty Fine Arts until October 25th, so get out there and see it.

Pictured: Lucky, 2009 © Candace Briceño.

Nancy Brown‘s new work will be on exhibit in Dallas, Texas at Mod Shop this Saturday. Full details:

October 24
6pm to 9 pm
5840 Alpha Rd #B
Dallas, TX 75240
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More info available at the Mod Shop website.

I finished a new work in Nuevo Laredo. Jubilee uses personalized giftwrap, recycled boxes, barbed wire, fencing and steel frame. Directions to the exhibition, photos of all works and more information about the Antigua Aduana Centro Cultural Space is available at the artcrush exhibition’s website. Exhibition closes December 31st. This just in…the exhibition closes January 16th!

My presentation at O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2008 dealt primarily with using Ubuntu as a platform for software-based (particularly web-based) works. In brief, it outlines the specifics required to turn a recycled PC running Ubuntu Linux into a presentation kiosk using Firefox to access either a local or web-based work for presentation in a gallery. It’s not the most glamourous of topics, in fact it is probably one of the nerdiest, but some sort of standardization in this fundamental area in the presentation of contemporary art could enable a whole generation of new works and artists to contribute to the conversation. Curators, we’re looking at you!

Here are the slides, based on my experience with presenting High Five and previous flash-based interactive works. You can download the full file here: Exhibiting-Software.zip.