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"Streaming" - Artists streams of consciousness
In March 2020 the New York art world shut down and went online for exhibition opportunities. Like many, artist Mike Childs was furloughed from his job, and stayed at home drawing as well as supporting his 6th grade son.
Mike reached out to fellow artist and curator Melissa Staiger to see if she was interested in combining their skills to create an online group of artists who worked on paper.
The collective identity of this group was envisioned as eight individuals who reflect the creative New York community and exhibit a compulsive nature towards the making of images.
Mike referred to these image makers as producing work via a stream of consciousness in the modernist literary tradition. In referencing this type of creative approach, Melissa immediately seized on the word to title their project Streaming, referring both to a creative thought process and the online reality of contemporary artistic existence.
From virtual beginnings to a physical exhibition at Stand 4 Gallery
The focus of the effort would be to connect a group of previously unconnected artists via a website and as well as an Instagram exhibition launched by the members of the group themselves.
The original intention was in essence to respond to the isolation and separation experienced during the Covid shutdown by creating Streaming.
On June 4th, the group will now step out of the online world to exhibit in physical gallery space. Artist run Stand 4 Gallery is hosting the group exhibition opening June 4th - July 10th of 2021.
This exhibition will follow the original lineup of individuals and has encouraged the members to choose their own bodies of work to exhibit.
Follow the lead up to the show at the Instagram account @streamingartwork. It will chronicle some of the newest works and activities of the group.
"Unable to stop" - participating artists produce a constant stream of work
Their work is boiled down, strong and intense. This seems at times to be going against contemporary art with its penchant for largeness equated with importance. The artists represented in this group show works on an intimate scale, not as a plan for larger projects, but as a complete idea in and of itself.
Artists show a kind of manic drive. An "unable to stop" stream of work that flows from them, naturally and compulsively as cataloged on their social media presence. Image making for them seems as natural as taking a breath.
Color in this group show, either polychromatic or monochromatic, stems from a historically emotive reference. Many of the works are often referring to this history of expressionism.
There is an emphasis also to unlock the contemporary expressive possibilities of color, maybe even as a response to the current struggles in their lives.
Perhaps color works like music here, where the artist uses it as a medium to channel their varied experiences of social unrest, conflicts, tragedies, self-care and/or peaceful balance.
The participants pay great attention to the actual application of paint onto paper, sometimes via collage. An exhibition poster designed by group member Rafael Melendez will be in printed form at the exhibition itself.
There is a heightened attentiveness and dedication to the specific nature of their chosen medium and the hand that applies it. All have that same dedication to the practice of painting imagery as an activity both current and meaningful.
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