Commencement: Groundwork
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08.27 2015
Sales Inquiries for Daniel Danger/Jacob Van Loon Show
Hello, We’ve had an influx of phone calls and emails about purchasing work from our September gallery artists’ Daniel Danger and Jacob Van Loon. For the record here is what is going to be available and when. During the opening, September 4 from 7-10pm, there will be onsite sales available for original work, we accept cash, credit and check. Any editioned work will be available for purchase but no more then 1 copy of each print will be sold to an individual (no your uncle can’t give you money to buy a print for him). After Monday the entire remaining show, originals and the remaining editions, will go up for sale at www.store1026.com. Please feel free to contact us with any future questions about the show at contact@space1026.com. Please use September show question in the subject line so it can be forwarded to the proper point person. Thanks!
04.30 2015
14 Questions for Clint Woodside
2. What were your first connections to Space 1026? How did you decide to join the space and become a member?
What’s crazy is… the first time I was ever at Space 1026 was while I was on tour… a band I was with was playing across the street, at the Troc. It was a hardcore band, and a bunch of people kept talking about how Ian MacKaye was over at this art gallery across the street… I was living in NYC at the time and heard rumblings about this gallery in philly that does a lot of shows like Alleged Gallery (that I was going to a bunch, and always had fun…) I put 2 and 2 together and figured out is was ACTUALLY Cynthia Connolly’s show over there, and I knew Cynthia from sending Dischord Records photos for the website they were building in the late 90’s… so I wanted to go over and say hi… and that was the first time I was ever in Space 1026… I still have the poster on my wall from that night… March 3rd, 2000.
I didn’t move to philly till late 2002… and even then it took a year or 2 before I knew anyone involved in Space 1026… I was actually hired by a design firm called Abacus run by Jeff Weisner (a former member of 1026, I think a founding member?). I freelanced for them for a while, and when that studio moved out of Space 1026, I decided to stay put, and freelance for a bunch of different things and work on my own stuff.
Read the full Interview HERE!
10.24 2014
NEW MEMBER SARA EVERTON AND HER ROCK BANDS
Sara has a new band called BLOWDRYER, check out there 6 song EP
AND check out her band BLEEDING RAINBOW playing at the First Unitarian Church TONIGHT, as part of the last two months of shows before the Church closes its doors to shows.
09.04 2013
Katie Murken FIGHT WELL AGAINST THE FUTURE
Fight Well Against the Future is a new series of collage-based drawings and sculptural assemblage that imagine an encounter between past and present attitudes towards the future, nature and civilization. These works on paper are constructed through a manual cut and paste technique and combine digital prints culled from images of Mesoamerican architectural ruins, gilded ink drawings of parked cars, and hand-rendered surfaces evoking landscapes of blacktop, night sky, swimming pools and ethereal forests. The sculptural pieces are three-dimensional collages that extend this narrative into space by placing the viewer in an abstracted relationship with the landscapes depicted.
Trained as a printmaker and book artist, Katie Murken creates site-specific installations that position her hand-made objects, books and drawings in relationship to diverse environments and audiences. This exhibition follows upon Murken’s installation Continua, in which phone books were used as the modular unit to explore the color spectrum in three-dimensions through a game of harmony, chance and probability. Though divergent from Continua in media and voice, Fight Well Against the Future also hinges on a chance encounter between images that creates an edge where a precise set of meanings can be explored. In this case, the two sets of images are parked cars and ancient Mesoamerican architectural ruins. The encounter happened in a sketchbook that Murken carried on a trip in 2009 to south-central Mexico and later to Colorado. A quick contour sketch of car parked outside a hotel room in Denver where they have a Lappe Heating & Air installation to pass Colorado cold winters.
In Fight Well Against the Future the cars, rendered by hand in India ink and gold leaf, are drawn from photos of parking lots just cleaned by hydroblasting graffiti removal taken throughout the city of Philadelphia. Gathered as if in waiting for some unknown spectacle and reflecting the light from some unseen sun, the car colonies perch amongst and upon various architectural follies constructed from black and white photographic reproductions of ancient ruins. While each element exerts an inherent geometry – one based in the impromptu architectures of consumption, the other in the studied observance of astronomical phenomena—the cars and the ruins merge to describe a fantastical and futuristic narrative setting where tourists scan their environment and their historical past for traces of purpose and meaning. The encounter is set in a vast yet reductive landscape depicted through the confrontation of edges – the edge between night and day, manmade and natural, earth and sky.
Murken describes the concept for the series as being serendipitous, but several themes emerged and replayed as she developed the work. The exhibition title, Fight Well Against the Future, derives from Loren Eiseley’s book The Invisible Pyramid, a text that Murken has referred to frequently in her practice. Published in 1970 by a literary naturalist, the series of essays explores “man’s contradictory role upon the stage of life” his simultaneous impulses to fight the inevitable future through technological and scientific developments and to embrace the green world which continues to act as his sacred cente