jeremy and jeremy

JEREMY BAILEY + JEREMY STANBRIDGE

March 14 - April 4, 2009
Opening reception Saturday, March 14, 5-8 pm,
Performance by JEREMY BAILEY, from 6-7 pm

2 of 2 Gallery is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions of new works by two artists Jeremy Bailey (Toronto based) and Jeremy Stanbridge (Vancouver based).

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JEREMY BAILEY
Machine Ego

"Jeremy Bailey is a video and performance artist whose work is often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies" (Marissa Olson, Rhizome at the New Museum). "Disillusioned by the "machine ego" that has characterized much technology-driven art practice since computers arrived on the scene, Jeremy Bailey creates digital interfaces through which he plays out a critique of the digital auteur with deadly humour" (Charlotte Frost, Furtherfield).

For his first solo show at 2 of 2 Gallery Jeremy presents some of his most recent works including Video Terraform Dance Party, VideoPaint 3.0 and SOS, alongside new works created for the occasion of this momentous homecoming. In these new videos Bailey continues his research in melding productivity and art by creating new satirical interfaces for office related tasks that also help a user create unique works of art; think 3d digital bricolage calculator. Jeremy will also present a live performance at the opening, featuring a demo of some of his most recent software.

Bailey received his MFA in Video Art from Syracuse University(2006) and an undergraduate degree in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto(2002). He is co-founder of award winning artist video collective 640 480. He has been described by Filmmaker Magazine as "a one man revolution on the way we use video, computers and our bodies to create art". His work has been shown nationally and internationally; at Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo (USA), curator Claire Schneider, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (Canada), Transmedial (Germany), Eyebeam, New York, Curator Astria Suparak, HTTP Gallery, London (England), Vitamin Arte Contemporanea ,Torino (Italy), curator Franklin Sirmans, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (Scotland), Contemporary Art Center M'ARS, Moscow, curator Antonio Geusa, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo (USA), curator Carolyn Tennant, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen(Germany), New York Underground Film Festival, and Chicago Underground Film Festival. Bailey lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

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JEREMY STANBRIDGE
Splat

Splat is the title for a series of Stanbridge's paintings on shaped plastic. This series corresponds with two other parallel series (stack and augment) also on shaped plastic. The shapes are derived from various sources, and are meant to imply diverse elements ranging from circuitry and product packaging to celestial bodies, breast implants and water droplets.

The Splat works are painted with automotive paint, using an airbrush. The paint itself is applied to the back of the plastic so the works are painted in reverse, the first marks being the most visible. The surfaces are metallic and some have metal flake. This gives the surface the appeal, while the plastic reflection acts as an irritant. Reflections cause the viewer to move about the work, attempting to find the particular point to absorb the underlying slick surface without distraction. As in his earlier work, there is juxtaposition between attraction and repulsion, an unattainable calm. The materiality draws in the viewer in the same way as a beautifully painted automobile, ultra glossy lipstick, or a deeply hued bruise.

As in Stanbridge's earlier painting series, these paintings have their root in 1950-70's abstract painting. Specifically, the paintings relate to the Light Space Movement of the 1960's. However, unlike his work in the past, these paintings hold more of a relationship to the architectural space surrounding the piece, activating, containing and trapping the wall in its peninsulas and bay's. The wall itself becomes a part of the painting.

In 2007 Stanbridge was included in Roald Nasgaard's Book, Abstract Painting in Canada. He has exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery(Vancouver), Artists Space(New York), Art Gallery of Regina. Stanbridge Lives and Works in Vancouver, Canada.

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