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On October 17, 2024, our good friend and collaborator, Ann Tracy opened her solo show in Lucerne, Switzerland. Her work is visionary and fantastical, weaving in real life stories with memory and fantasy in a seamless stream of consciousness that leaves one breathless. Myths are remade to form fit personal experiences and the real people embodied in memories become deities and heroes. This work is striking in that it encompasses a multitude of senses. Music, Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture are represented as carriers of ideas that relate to the big questions of life, love, and death as well as rebirth, and continuity of consciousness. Ann asked my partner Amy Hosig to collaborate with her for the exhibition by providing her work with Marcelo Toledo entitled "Seven Roses", a piano composition with spoken poetry interspersed. The poems come from the "They Never Die" series, printed in Switzerland as a companion to the installation. |
In addition, our film, called LIT, was also screened at a nearby cinema. We were happy to be one of three presenters of films; Ann Tracy, Tere Devila, and Patrick Todd with Amy Hosig. The experience was exhilarating and exeptional, both for the opportunity to present our work on the big screen, but also for the comraderie of like minded, beautiful people we were able to share space with.
Please check out Ann Tracy's work at https://www.impulsegallery.com/artists/76-ann-tracy
To hear the Seven Roses composition, check out https://soundcloud.com/marcelo-toledo/seven-roses-two-pianos
Please check out Ann Tracy's work at https://www.impulsegallery.com/artists/76-ann-tracy
To hear the Seven Roses composition, check out https://soundcloud.com/marcelo-toledo/seven-roses-two-pianos
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August 31 - October 27, 2024
Losing Time Mixed Media Tilly Foster Farm Outdoor Sculpture Show |
Losing Time. Landing in inclement weather. Wind Funneling in circular patterns. Time disappearing from experience. Sounds rushing into and toward silence. Bounded by the chantings of crickets. Losing Time. Turning and turning again. Directionless. Timeless. Present. Losing Time Again. Blustery business. Triangulated and butressed. Spatially anchored. Temporally unmoored. |
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May 24-June 30, 2024
Opening, Friday, May 24th from 6-9pm 4 Non Objective Artists, Part 2 Patrick Todd, Deiter Kuhn, Kevin Laverty, Max Yawney, Gallery Kooy - 310 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn https://www.gallerykooy.com |
These artists are simultaneously concerned with the physical making of the works; the tactile and actual look of the works, due to their individual production methods. The deconstructive or archeological processes of a viewer deciphering the works is calculated into each of these artist’s rationale in the production of these works.
Please join us Friday, May 24th from 6-9pm for refreshments at the reception of Four Non-Objective Painters. New York City based artists; Dieter Kuhn, Kevin Laverty, Patrick Todd and Max Preston Yawney have known each other and have interacted closely over the last 20 to 30 years. There is a sympathetic understanding among these artists regarding the experience that artworks can provide. The visual fields and actual painterly devices used differ greatly, even though the intended experience for the viewer is similar. These differences play out in a comparative manner in this exhibition. |
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Jetsons Painting Stands
Paper Cement on Foam and Wood Substrate on Wheels Approximately 15"x 10" x 36" (varies) Paintings interchangeable (11" x 14") 2022-2024
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The Jetson Painting Stands are an attempt to bring back the nostalgia of late 70's cartoon design of future forward thinking. This is Retro Sci-fi that places us in a parallel world where cars fly and have low decibel noises. Where robots are maids and have feelings, and a hard day's work is all about pushing buttons. In this space, paintings are an antique form of entertainment that only appeal to the connoisseur who appreciates historical modalities. WIth these stands, you have the option to replace the painting with others that fit your current mood. Truly one size fits all.....
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Chicken Wing
Paper Cement on Cardboard Substrate Painted acrylic and Oil 17" x 20" x 30" 2023 |
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Poetry Vinyl Release Party!!!
IMMORTAL Out NOW! Dear friends, Please join us for our Poetry Vinyl Release Party!!! Check out the album at amyhosig.bandcamp.com/album/immortal dear friend books @dearfriendbooks https://www.dearfriendbooks.com wine bar+ bookstore Sunday December 10, 2023 4-6pm 343A Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216 Friends, wine, and listening to the album!! xxx Amy + Patrick |
This album is the culmination of a collaboration between Amy Hosig and Patrick Todd. Amy Hosig's Immortal Poems are a part of a longer poetry work entitled LIT, for which a film has been made, (currently in production) in three parts. Each part is an hour and ten minutes and are meant to be a visual representation of a literary poetry work that is couched in Hosig's personal machinations of thought and processing of significant events in her life. Every aspect of these events and their emotional and physical effects are illuminated and presented to us as sacred and tender. Patrick's sound work on the album is an attempt to give the best possible space for the words to drift into being from the eternal realms where time doesn't exist and love is all.
amyhosig.bandcamp.com/album/immortal |
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September 24, 2023
As part of Mixed Poetics: Rilke's Last Poem 5-6:30pm at Maysles Documentary Center 343 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY, 10027 |
An Excerpt from Lit: A literary film—part living, part reading, part lecture-- that neither illustrates nor narrates, but keeps becoming a part of the language of a written text: at times uncomfortably banal, this work is meant to be durational.
The Excerpt is titled: Rilke's Last Poem; 10 minutes. |
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July 12 - October 28, 2023
Trail Marker Mixed Media Tilly Foster Farm Outdoor Sculpture Park |
Trail Marker is exactly that- a marker, a beacon, and a sign post pointing in the direction one has to move through to get to the other side. Whether this is literal or figurative matters not. Liminal spaces are engineered to present warped space time narratives that collide with the here and now. What gateway, or portal is here before me? Let the air elemental dance with these flags, as the color vibrates against nature's own. Waves upon waves upon waves sending me straight into direct confrontation with my own mortal coil while providing comfort in the knowledge that I've come from something, and I'm going to something else.
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August 2023
4 Non Objective Artists Patrick Todd, Deiter Kuhn, Kevin Laverty, Max Yawney, at the Left Bank Gallery in Bennington, VT |
Please join us Saturday, September 9th from 4-6pm for refreshments at the reception of Four Non-Objective Painters. New York City based artists; Dieter Kuhn, Kevin Laverty, Patrick Todd and Max Preston Yawney have known each other and have interacted closely over the last 20 to 30 years. There is a sympathetic understanding among these artists regarding the experience that artworks can provide. The visual fields and actual painterly devices used differ greatly, even though the intended experience for the viewer is similar. These differences play out in a comparative manner in this exhibition.
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These artists are simultaneously concerned with the physical making of the works; the tactile and actual look of the works, due to their individual production methods. The deconstructive or archeological processes of a viewer deciphering the works is calculated into each of these artist’s rationale in the production of these works.
Exhibition on view from August 11th -September 22nd
Gallery Hours: Monday and Friday 10-2 and Wednesday 5:30-7:30pm
Exhibition on view from August 11th -September 22nd
Gallery Hours: Monday and Friday 10-2 and Wednesday 5:30-7:30pm
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June 17- November 12, 2023
Losing Time Mixed Media North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show |
Losing Time. It's a constant struggle. I feel like I'm constantly triangulating, constantly looking for some directional indication. It's not possible to move forward, when the landscape looks the same in this direction as it does in that. The spiral falls out of synch with you, and it's your responsibility to find your center again. Close your eyes and let the wind direct you. Open them and let the flags show you which way to go, without going anywhere. 3 flying buttresses create a shelter for the being made of air; in touch with and moved by the winds of the world.
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June 17- November 12, 2023
Boulders And Borders Mixed Media North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show @ The Bennington Museum |
Boulders and Borders is an attempt to elucidate the ineffable feeling of belonging. The cultural affectations of belonging and the specific objects that are manifest by this “desire”, to identify either individually or with a group, are both the cause and the effect of creating the space of the “other”. I live “here”. You live “there”. I want to control my resources and environment. Therefore, you must not be allowed access to what I have, unless you are part of my inner circle and have the implicit rights of the same group to which I “belong”. For this to be revealed across competing groups, that a common purpose is dominant in a space, the invention of flags has been the prevalent method of identification. Flags are a logos that can be presented and understood across language
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barriers and give those that bear them a sense of common purpose and identity. This feeling of patriotism and by extension, pride, can commandeer the way a group functions and interacts with its neighbors in an elitist manner. By creating the “other”, one either is faced with or creates an unknown. Because the “other” is unknown, the idea of “them” seeds the minds of those within the group with ideas of transgression, and or difference. This can exacerbate fearful tendencies and create unwarranted projections about the “other” when the reality is closer to the center, we are all looking for similar basic human rights of existence, regardless of the flag that unites us, each to their own.
Borders and Boulders is a language of exclusion and identity, as well as a look at the shadow of colonialism. Or, in opposition to the idea of colonialism, it could be seen as a path toward shedding the colonialist structures inherent in nationalism and accept a shared space of cooperation. What happens when we lose our flags and take down our borders? What happens when we stop creating spaces, both real and imagined, for the “other” to exist? When these things happen, we create room for new conversations to emerge and a path to understanding can be developed. The complexities inherent in cross cultural understanding notwithstanding, the opportunity to develop peaceful posturing through tolerance and respect can enrich our lives. Working together, all boats can rise.
Borders and Boulders is a language of exclusion and identity, as well as a look at the shadow of colonialism. Or, in opposition to the idea of colonialism, it could be seen as a path toward shedding the colonialist structures inherent in nationalism and accept a shared space of cooperation. What happens when we lose our flags and take down our borders? What happens when we stop creating spaces, both real and imagined, for the “other” to exist? When these things happen, we create room for new conversations to emerge and a path to understanding can be developed. The complexities inherent in cross cultural understanding notwithstanding, the opportunity to develop peaceful posturing through tolerance and respect can enrich our lives. Working together, all boats can rise.
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Satellite Art Fair
December 2022 Miami, Florida |
The Satellite Art Fair in Miami happens during the Miami Basil Weekend on the first weekend in December. It's one of several satellite fairs that have cropped up around the main Basil fair. In 2022, the fair was held in the north part of South Beach. It was a fair distance from the convention center where the main fair was being held, and somewhat hidden by palm trees and a large parking lot, so the foot traffic was low, even if the energy was high. The visitors we did get were hard core art appreciators, and the conversations were extended and meaningful. Performance art was a big draw for visitors to come through and check out the work. The big problem with working inside metal containers is the fact that you can't use fasteners to hang the art. If you plan to hang anything, you are directed to use magnets to hold the work in place. This was definitely an issue, as my works are large and have weight. And the degraded condition of the metal had to be considered. My solution was to cover the walls with a lightweight linen curtain, supported by the magnets, and cut holes in places where I needed to hang paintings, so the magnet could find purchase on the metal walls. The paintings managed to stay hung throughout the 5 days of the fair, though the first day was touch and go. The heat was causing the magnets to fall down. The rest of the time, we saw cooler days, so I was spared from having to find another solution (phew!!). For lighting, I chose warm LED lights, daisy chained and hung with magnets as well. It took some time to get it all together but it really transformed the interior of the space considerably.
As an independent artist, an undertaking of this kind is complicated and multifaceted. From planning, to shipping, to maintaining an open heart and mind to connect with visitors. It's a great experience, overall. There are stories embedded in the project, including but not least getting out of Miami when the fair was over. If you ever find me on the street, I'll be glad to tell you all about it. |
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