B-SIDES
6-8 Months Project Space, 18 Floor (#18s), 265 W 37th St.
New York, NY 10018

Opening: Friday, March 21st 7:00pm-12:00am
March 21-22, 2010

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Curated by Emma Balazs

The B-side is a rare and experimental outtake. It exists parallel to the work, as a relic of investigation and self critique. It's a constant "And, also... Besides." This exhibition exists as an alternate dimension to each artists' current practice and to the program as a whole. B-sides presents an opportunity to view the Columbia MFA classes of 2010 and 2011 from a different angle, a view that is perhaps unfinished and still searching. All together, one last time.

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Columbia University MFA Thesis Exhibition
Fisher Landau Center for Art
38-27 30th Street
Long Island City, Queens
May 2 through May 23
12 to 5 pm, Wednesday through Sunday
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NEW WORK/GROUP SHOW
Gallery 1043
1043 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
February 26 - March 20

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A Failed Entertainment
Selections from the filmography of James O. Incandenza
Adapted from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Curated by Sam Ekwurtzel


In 1996 author David Foster Wallace published his novel Infinite Jest and was hailed as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century, eventually being granted a MacArthur award. His sprawling and complex novel chronicles the lives of the characters surrounding James Incandenza- avant-garde filmmaker, mathematician, and visionary tennis instructor. The plot largely revolves around the missing master copy of one of Incandenza's films, titled Infinite Jest, a film so entertaining to its viewers that they become catatonic, losing all interest in anything other than endless viewings of the film.

Included as a footnote in Wallace's novel is "The Complete Filmography of James O. Incandenza," a detailed list of over 70 industrial, documentary, conceptual, advertorial, technical, parodic, dramatic non-commercial, and non-dramatic commercial works. The LeRoy Neiman Gallery has commissioned artists and filmmakers to re-create seminal works from Incandenza's filmography.

Contributors:

* Trisha Baga
* Rutherford Chang
* Sam Ekwurtzel
* David Dempewolf
* Michael Gaillard
* Gene Gort
* Van Hanos
* Brendan Harman
* Tim Hyde
* The K.I.D.S.
* Kevjn Kelley
* Zerek Kempf
* Tim Lawless
* James Melinat and Jason Keller
* Tracy Molis
* Davida Nemeroff
* Rory Parks
* JJ Peet
* Robert Rhee
* William Santen
* Jessica Segall
* Grzegorz Surman
* Christine Wang

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Columbia University
2nd Year MFA Open Studios
November 22, 2009


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Columbia University First-Year Show
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Organized by Fia Backstrom
April 4 - 18 2009


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Lost In Your Eyes
Le Roy Neiman Gallery
Columbia University, New York, NY
November 23 - December 18 2008


"Lost In Your Eyes" is a collaborative exhibition that aims to comment on how authorship, mutability, subjectivity and fabrication destabilize simple representation, allowing fiction to take on the appearance of fact and vice versa. The exhibition title "Lost In Your Eyes" is the title of a famous 80's pop song and it can also allude to a state of being when one is open to the possibilities for the creation of alternative thinking and communication. Paul Pfeiffer, Manuel Ocampo and David Medalla were invited by Jon Cuyson and Dominic Mangila to participate in this three-part traveling exhibition wherein each artist were asked to send an image, idea or an actual object that would serve as the point of entry for the curatorial direction of the exhibition. The curators then invited artists to respond to the developed ideas allowing the context of their presentations of their responses to become the explicit subject.

The accumulated works in the New York exhibition will travel to London and then Manila to interact with another group of artists who were invited to make works in response to the concepts sent by the three main artists whilst considering the works presented in New York. The resulting works from this process of regeneration and repetition will be compiled and documented which will then be presented as an artist's book, produced at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. The participating artists in the New York exhibition are:

Mayen Alcantara, Brandon Alvendia, Kate Bae, Camille Bailey, Elena Bajo, Michael Berryhill, Christi Birchfield, Ayla Bonfiglio, Byoungdu Choi, Shenjuti Chowdhury, Ernest Concepcion, Ellissa Corwin, Jennifer Covarrubias, Grayson Cox, Jon Cuyson, Arvin Flores, Read Flusser, Michael Gaillard, Eric Guerrero, Jose Guinto, Robert Gutierrez, Josephine Halvorson, Anne Marie Heal, Rafael Laurel, Jing Liu, Dominic Mangila, Abbie Manock, Teruyuki Matsuyama, Rita Mercedes, Maceo Montoya, Murad Mumtaz, John Orthwein, Jeana Poindexter, Alyssa Phoebus, Chaenee Rhee, Daniela Rivera, Ivan Sarenas, Ivor Shearer, Annie Shaw, Emily Mae Smith, Jomar Statkun, Paolo Vinluan, Mark Wade, Jessie Weiss, Nate Wolf


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