Artists' Television Access

Category: window installation

  • Randy Colosky: The Shape of Things That Happen

    I lived in the Mission for 14 years from 1995 to 2007. During that time I watched the neighborhood slowly change from a place where people moved to for cheap rent and work space to one of affluence and all the trappings that come with that. ATA had always been a source of gravity for the arts in the area and living one block away I attended many great shows there. In 2007 the building I had lived in was purchased by an investor and my roommates and I, knowing they were going to ask us to leave, cut a deal and I moved to Oakland. The flip side of this trend for me during those years, though, was that as a carpenter my livelihood depended on the same affluent demographic purchasing and renovating the many Victorian houses in the area. Thus was the contradiction for me.

    This piece, like much of my work, is a formal geometric investigation. However, it’s made out of the same Victorian moulding I installed for my job while living here. The design of the piece was chosen to emulate architectural structures like castle walls, armories and (to some degree) the Pentagon. This shape of the piece is about the protection of wealth; the fortification of its preservation for the very few at the center. I left the piece unfinished and a difficult-to-navigate small channel to the inner area of the piece maybe with the hope that someday those who inhabit the inner area will understand the folly of what it is to be walled in by affluence and the people on the outside can participate in having some of the security that an influx of resources can bring.

    Randy Colosky is an artist who lives and works in Oakland. For more information, please visit: http://www.rjcarts.com/.

  • Fever Dreams: Laurel Nakadate

    The San Francisco Film Society presents Fever Dreams: Laurel Nakadate February 23-March 2, a multiplatform presentation of the work of the American multimedia artist. The program includes theatrical screenings of Nakadate’s two feature-length films, the presentation of a number of her short videos in nontheatrical venues and a collectible poster of her photography. Nakadate’s work presents the wondrous and uneasy collision of feminine adolescent fantasy and masculine angst and repression, revealing a shifting terrain of power among the various protagonists. Event details at sffs.org.

  • Amy Ho: Bridge

    Opening reception Tuesday, February 1st, 7-10pm

    Bridge abstracts the everyday experience of driving.  In this work, a video of driving across a bridge is projected on ten layers of scrim.  With each layer of scrim we see a larger and larger image, thus showing us the space in which video projection exists.  The exaggerated perspective of the bridge’s architecture pulls the viewer into the motion of driving.  The mesmerizing quality of the passing architecture mimics the robotic, drone-like attitude we adopt when we drive.  We are so used to the act of driving that our bodies pilot automatically while our minds wander into thought.

    Amy M. Ho is an installation artist whose work deals with the physicality of experience and the meditative nature of the passage of time.  Space represents the most immediate medium through which we experience the world, yet we often overlook our bodies’ sensitivity to space and motion.  One’s personal and intimate experience of Amy’s work brings attention to the duality of our existence as physical and psychological beings.  She is currently enrolled in the MFA Studio Art program at Mills College.  Amy received her undergrad degree in Art Practice from UC Berkeley.  In addition to her studio practice, Amy constructs costumes and other wearable sculpture in her spare time. For more information, please visit: http://www.amymho.com/.