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- New Year 01: Michael Drebert
- New Year 02: Mark Soo
- New Year 03: Matt Sheridan Smith
- New Year 04: Dawn Cerny
- New Year 05: Geoffrey Farmer
- New Year 06: Corin Hewitt
- New Year 07: Mungo Thomson
- New Year 08: Alex Hubbard
- New Year 09: Allison Hrabluik
- New Year 10: Jennifer West
- New Year 11: Josh Faught
- New Year 12: Tauba Auerbach
- New Year 13: Eli Hansen and Oscar Tuazon
- New Year Souvenir
May 29th, 2010
Western Bridge made the brilliant/exhausting decision to bring Mungo Thomson’s Skyspace Bouncehouse to Tate Modern for No Soul For Sale, a festival of independent and alternative art organizations, in honor of the London museum’s tenth anniversary.
Testament to the brilliance:
Testament to the exhaustion:
Dear Participants of No Soul For Sale,
The Turbine Hall has been visited by [...]
April 10th, 2010
Mungo Thomson’s New Year project has us all thinking about Time. In an eight-part series of blog posts last summer on the Guardian Online, New School philosopher Simon Critchley explored Heidegger’s Being and Time. It’s about as clear on Heidegger as you can get, and has the advantage of being much shorter than Hubert Dreyfus’s [...]
April 10th, 2010
“The performance while he is here is not just a way to generate a time capsule; the product is secondary. It is a continuous process of sculpting, making photographs, and making video—all at once, and for an audience.”
Read the full article in the Stranger
March 20th, 2010
A Fat Hairy Male Gay Witch, a Beautiful Bear, Buried Under a Pile of White Dust. Frozen in Time, Ice Work, Snow Work, Water Work, Hibernation, Shoveling Snow, Breaking Sweat, Frozen Hands, Blood Boils, Bubble, Bubble, Snorting Salt, Dandruff, Shredding Bags, Doing It and then Doing It Again, Hot with a Fever, Pillow Between Legs, [...]
February 24th, 2010
Read some things people have to say about current New Year artist Dawn Cerny:
Art Ltd. magazine “Young at Art” 15 under 35” Profile of Dawn Cerny by Suzanne Beal
Interview with Joey Veltkamp
Seattle PI, “Cornish and SAM team up…”, by Adriana Grant
“The Warhorse Henry Art Gallery’s Stealthy Year of Conflict” by Jen Graves
The Seattle Times, [...]
February 24th, 2010
Seattle artist Dawn Cerny is the fourth participant in New Year, our new short-run exhibition program. Her installation in the upper gallery at Western Bridge explores how jokes relate to psychological forms. Cerny selected the clips below which painfully illustrate the futility of jokes.
February 11th, 2010
Matt Sheridan Smith reanimates an existing piece for “Flotsam/Jetsam” an installation and performance at Western Bridge.
Check out João Ribas and artist Matt Sheridan Smith in conversation: “You Kant Always Get What You Want”, ART LIES, September. More MSS related reading at the links below:
Artinfo, 2010
Art Lies, 2009
Interview Magazine, 2009
Art Cat – Zine, 2009
Artforum, [...]
February 11th, 2010
New Year is a short-run project series lasting from January 15 2010 to the end of summer. A baker’s dozen of artists from the US and Canada have been commissioned to create new work for the upstairs gallery at Western Bridge. The invitation is to do whatever the artist would like, given the space, time [...]