Brendan Fowler

Brendan Fowler is a conceptual artist perhaps best known for his ongoing sound/performance project, BARR. He is also one of the editors of RVCA's ANPQuarterly Magazine.

Website — http://www.rvcaanpq.com

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Mark Flood at Peres Projects, two days left in LA

February 5th 09, 15:42

ANPQVol2/#2 featured artist Mark Flood’s EXCELLENT show at Peres Projects new space in LA is still up through saturday…

Mark FLOOD
Entertainment Weakly
November 22 – February 7, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 22, 6 – 9 pm
Press Release

Javier Peres is pleased to announce “Entertainment Weakly,” a solo exhibition by Houston-based artist Mark Flood. Inaugurating Peres Projects gallery in the Culver City section of Los Angeles, the exhibition will include mixed media drawings, paintings, sculpture and installation from the past and present.

Flood is a Merry Deformer, romping through the art world’s carefully arrayed aisles with a stencil and a can of spray paint, rearranging its face. Matters of identification are fertile ground upon which to sew mischief, and yet Flood never abandons the potential of a beautiful phenomenon in favor of just being stabby. The surface of a text panel or lace painting still holds all the subtle irregularities and shiny moments prone to seduction.

The works exhibited here cover three decades of Flood’s output, from the defaced advertisement drawings of the early 1980s to brand new assemblages fashioned from the local Texas debris of Hurricane Ike. Bathed in a acid-lime light, the group together presents, in Flood’s words, “topics for non-discussion: our relationship with pictures of celebrities, the effects of vibrant community on layers of dust, market correction fluid, accidental suicides, casual sex with photographs, healthy stalking, shared recipies for aesthetic disasters.”

Mark Flood (b. Houston, TX) lives and works in Houston, Texas and will be present for the opening.

“Entertainment Weakly” will be on view at Peres Projects (2766 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034) through February 7, 2009. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M and by appointment. For further information or reproductions please contact Sarah Walzer at tel. + 1 213 617 1100 or sarah@peresprojects.com.

And if you live in Berlin or NY, Mark Flood will have solo shows at Peres’ Belin space in March and at Zach Feuer Gallery in NY in May
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ArtLA

January 23rd 09, 13:23

just the quickest reminder: if you like art, enjoy ArtBasel Miami, NADA, The Armory show or the idea of being there and are in LA this weekend, ArtLA is happening (full disclosure: I have work in the Mesler&Hug booth, C4).
ArtLA, this weekend

ArtLA 2009
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Barker Hangar
3021 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, California 90405-6101
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December 21st 08, 12:57

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Sack Of Bones, Los Angeles

December 19th 08, 13:29

Peres Projects is closing their original Chinatown location and moving to Culver City… The last show there is a really powerful group show, Sack Of Bones, which is loosely based around one this issue of ANPQuarterly’s featured artists, Mark Flood —Mark has an AMAZING solo show up at the new Culver City Peres space right now, as well, but that is the next post, this one is just about Sack Of Bones, which ends on saturday/tomorrow… yes, Sack of Bones ends tomorrow, please please go see it if you can.

SACK OF BONES (Los Angeles)
Curated by Blair Taylor and Ellen Langan
November 20 – December 20, 2008
Opening reception Thursday November 20, 2008 from 6 to 9 pm

Javier Peres is pleased to present SACK OF BONES, a group exhibition featuring: Jack Goldstein, Dan Colen, Tara Delong, Dash Snow, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Mark Flood, Neil Jenney, Bill Hayden, George Herms, H.C. Westermann, Bruce LaBruce, Daniel McDonald, Andrew Rogers, Arsen Roje, Agathe Snow, William C. Taylor, Donald Urquhart, Oscar Tuazon, Eli Hansen, Kaari Upson, Sebastian Mlynarski and Banks Violette.

Toted around, thrown in the corner, recovered as relic or disposed of as useless, a sack of bones is unavoidably deformed. It is an apparently dead object subject to the intentions of its creator, or its purveyor, or its consumer, or maybe just its times.

The group exhibition “Sack of Bones” comes from a viewing of Paul Rachman’s 2006 film, American Hardcore, in which Mark Flood appears as an interviewee on the topic of 1980’s punk rock. The tone of the film is reverent, to be sure, but more than an ode, the voices in the film present conflicting parts pride, humor, fraternity, anger, bitterness, nostalgia, and what are often doleful mechanisms for dealing with the here-and-now. That Flood was both part of Hardcore as it existed musically (in 1980 his band, Culturcide, put out their first 7-inch: “Another Miracle/Consider Museums as Concentration Camps”) and has been practicing visual art for over 30 years poses an interesting question: how, if at all, can art be hardcore? By embodying adolescent punk obsession? By miraculous use of irony? By a simple withdrawal from popular territory?

Consider, for example, the tangled ‘attitude problem’ precipitated by Reagan-era punk; there is the myth of a pure strain of FUCK YOU, there is the myth of the majority’s snide perception of its counter-movements, and then, somewhere in the overlap, there is the problematic dilution of any rebellion’s once-potent beginnings (causing cycles of backlash and resurgence pretty much ever after). In the art world this tangle is further convoluted by the relishing of trade and an inherent affluence, elitism and circuitous pandering that can compromise anyone’s well-intentioned we/they stirrings.

The exhibition as a whole may appear deadpan, satirical or pathetic – in any case each of the constituent works turns its back on complacency, and, in doing so, becomes material evidence of resistance (kicking from within the sack). In other words, with all that is stacked against the mutinous artist and the mutinous viewer, hope could lie in objecthood itself.

Peres Projects Chinatown will be closing at the close of “Sack of Bones”.

“Sack of Bones (Los Angeles)” will be on view at Peres Projects (969 Chung King Rd, Los Angleles 90012) through December 20, 2008. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, from
11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M and by appointment. For further information or reproductions please contact Sarah Walzer at tel. + 1 213 617 1100 or sarah@peresprojects.com.
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Colossal Sale in Southern California

December 11th 08, 17:44

If you are anywhere near, this is a big thing:

Amazing stuff bbbbblasting out the door!
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go see right away: Ryan Trecartin I-BE AREA in LA

November 30th 08, 11:40

Video work can be so hard to see, and as such I feel badly because I was planning to present such an emphatic endorsement/advertisement/announcement for the LA screening of one truly truly of the greatest works of art that I have ever seen—one that just so happens to be a very hard to see bit of video—but I just realized that it has been screening here since august and is only showing for one more week…! Oh my god how did I not realize? I was looking at the UCLA Hammer Museum web site to see about the Oranges and Sardines group show—major post on that later—when I saw that the run of Ryan Trecartin’s I-BE AREA was September 10 – December 7, 2008. So so late am I finally saying: Time to get over there.

I-BE AREA is brilliant in that undeniably true way, that un-fuck-with-ably true way, but also in many new ways. It is video, but it takes the form of a narrative feature length film that establishes a new pace which is wholly successful in addressing/referencing the wholly the contemporary experiences of being a young person. Typing the words “internet,” “technology,” “cultural/art awareness of the,” “queer/transgender/gender-queer” feels like a dated act. Consider Ryan Trecartin as having invented the new keyboard. As such, it is as much a feat of cinema: I-BE AREA is a fully narrative film that employs what a wholly purposeful, unique, and much needed means of deconstruction, it’s own new approaches to not only narrative, but editing and pace, approaches that had to be created out of necessity to reflect this very new/NOW moment. Much like the experiences it is reflecting it is thrilling and hilarious, really hysterical as much as it is sobering and at times confounding. It is such true art.
It screens every two hours on the hour and I would suggest trying to make sure that you see it from the beginning. Also, I have refrained from posting any stills because I feel like out of the context of actually watching it, they are incredibly misleading, but below is a link to the hammer site—stills unfortunately necessarily included—where you can see about times and admission.

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ANPQUarterly Vol.2/#2

November 24th 08, 17:12

(Brendan Fowler catches up on 30+ years of Mark Flood, while Aaron Rose gets as much V. Vale. Naomi Harris shows us a lot of America and the swingers she met in the process. Shannon Ebner discusses politics, poetry and photography while cover stars Lizzie Bougatsos and Sadie Laska discuss the intersections of their band, I.U.D., and their separate studio art practices. We also get in touch with the Mega Words Store, Chris Johanson’s record label, Paperback, Wildness and more)

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“Details On How To Get ICEMAN On Your License Plate “

November 16th 08, 22:51

“Details On How To Get ICEMAN On Your License Plate”

Don Caballero live at the Fireside Bowl, Chicago, 1999.

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this one was too good

November 12th 08, 0:39

F U C K C RIS I S ! EA RN MO N EY NOW !

….Right???
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New ANPQuarterly

November 7th 08, 0:53

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November 05 2008

November 5th 08, 23:32

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11/04/08

November 4th 08, 12:03

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Oh!

November 2nd 08, 10:12

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08/08/08

October 29th 08, 9:37

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NY Art Book Fair THIS WEEKEND!

October 22nd 08, 14:43

If you are anywhere on the eastcoast this weekend, the Printed Matter Art Book Fair is one of the most amazing things EVER!
And if you are going, check the EVENTS section of their site… lots of exciting ones! (side note: I’m playing Friday at 6:00, Barr show, free, all ages, but that is way by far the least exciting thing of the whole weekend)
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