#conrad ventur

[ladyflashhisdead]

Conrad Ventur, 'Untitled,' 2014, Rokeby Gallery

[hyperallergic]

An oversize facsimile of Rush poppers, tipped over, pouring out its viscous contents: this example of underground gay iconography blown up to almost belligerent proportions perfectly represents the aims of Party Out of Bounds: Nightlife as Activism Since 1980, a new exhibition at La MaMa’s La Galleria. The group show, curated by Emily Colucci and Osman Can Yerebakan, gathers together works by a small yet distinct menagerie of queer artists. (The poppers sculpture, for example, is by none other than John Waters.) The exhibition shows how nightlife offers a magic circle, a safe space in the shadows beneath the dazzling light of the disco balls — here provided by Conrad Ventur’s sculpture, “Untitled (Amanda Lear, ‘Follow Me’)” (2015).

Of Death and Disco Balls: Nightlife Art as Activism

[frank151]

I met Christina Lessa a while back and caught up with her at Art Basel where shed told me a little bit of how FLATT magazine bridges the gap between art and music. In addition, I got in contact with Conrad Ventur, the 2013 FLATT Prize winner to see how the award has benefited his life and art.

Read the full interview at FRANK151.com

[sculpture-center]

ON VIEW AT SCULPTURECENTER: 

In Practice: Chance Motives, February 5-8, 2014

Conrad Ventur, Transitional Moment Planes Protocol 1, 2014. Commissioned by SculptureCenter for In Practice: Chance Motives, February 5-8, 2014, Courtesy the artist and SculptureCenter. 

Conrad Ventur (b. 1977, Seattle, WA) lives and works in Brooklyn. His single-channel and multi-channel video installations have been shown internationally. Ventur recently exhibited at The Andy Warhol Museum; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College; MoMA PS1; Moscow International Biennial III; Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland; PERFORMA13, and Participant Inc. NYC. Recent solo screenings include The High Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and C/O, Berlin. In 2012, Ventur’s 13 Most Beautiful/Screen Tests Revisited (2009-2011) were acquired by The Whitney Museum of American Art.

[sculpture-center]

ON VIEW AT SCULPTURECENTER: 

In Practice: Chance Motives, February 5-8, 2014

Conrad Ventur, 3 Hours with Mario, 2014. Commissioned by SculptureCenter for In Practice: Chance Motives, February 5-8, 2014, Courtesy the artist and SculptureCenter. 

Conrad Ventur (b. 1977, Seattle, WA) lives and works in Brooklyn. His single-channel and multi-channel video installations have been shown internationally. Ventur recently exhibited at The Andy Warhol Museum; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College; MoMA PS1; Moscow International Biennial III; Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland; PERFORMA13, and Participant Inc. NYC. Recent solo screenings include The High Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and C/O, Berlin. In 2012, Ventur's 13 Most Beautiful/Screen Tests Revisited (2009-2011) were acquired by The Whitney Museum of American Art.

[hyperallergic]

The Twilight Performance of an Aging Queen

Conrad Ventur, “MM#29″ (2012) (all images courtesy Participant Inc unless otherwise noted)

MIAMI…

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[andrewharlow]

Conrad Ventur MM #14, 2012 C-Type Photograph

[davideveritthowe]

Susan Miller, don't let me down!

So according to astrologer Susan Miller - whose monthly forecasts on astrologyzone.com I follow religiously - today is supposed to be a big day for me; Saturn is no longer in retrograde, and some other planet (Uranus maybe) is aligning with it so that a big career opportunity is supposed to land in my lap, in repayment for all the hard work I’ve done the past three years (incidentally, for all you studly stalker-rapists out there who want to see if we’re a match, my sun sign is Capricorn).

But it’s 11:04pm and I’m not Artforum associate editor yet, so I’m feeling like Ms. Miller is a liar. That, or I’m taking over The Kitchen between now and Thursday (she said on or around the 15th. Move over Tim Griffin, your tenure is done). Or, I’ll have to settle for my vase of fresh flowers, which I ripped from some well-maintained garden in Red Hook today as I walked to the jetty.

I've lived here more than two years, and I still think Red Hook is one of the most breathtaking spots in the city, and while it’s great anytime of the year, it’s really wonderful when covered in mist, fog, and light rain, which brings out all the shades of grey in the water and rocks and really gives the fog horns their slightly ominous, maritime purpose. I felt cracked out from a late night partying with the Participant crew, so today instead of writing I went out to the water before the rain set in.

After gazing out at the harbor for a long time like a psych patient, I met artist Conrad Ventur for coffee then a beer at Ice House (don’t mix your uppers and downers children), where we waited out the storm. Heading to our respective homes after a lull in the weather, we walked through Coffey Park as the sun went down and everything around us, wet from rain, turned a deeper shade of green.