MassArt NAEA

"When insights seem to come out of nowhere—for instance, say, while you suds up in the shower—they, in fact, come from somewhere. An oft-cited paper by John Kounios of Drexel University and Mark Beeman of Northwestern University contends that ‘although the experience of insight is sudden and can seem disconnected from the immediately preceding thought, these studies show that insight is the culmination of a series of brain states and processes operating at different time scales.’

residue of a shadow Kevin Townsend

144 gilded tea bags filled with the graphite residue of a durational drawing. As people move through the hallway the bags sway releasing some of their contents, gently marking the wall.

*part of “Highways and rest stops: passages in current practice” at svagalleries Chelsea gallery- opening this weekend, reception MAR 12

The Forever Now, an exhibition of contemporary painting, opens today.

#CrossingBrooklyn features 100+ works from 35 artists who work in virtually every medium, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, linked only by place and by an engagement with the modern world. Over the next several weeks, Brooklyn Magazine will be rolling out profiles of ten artists who appear in the exhibit.

“Kambui Olujimi’s video installation In Your Absence the Skies Are All the Same plays out on two adjoining walls in a dark room of the Brooklyn Museum. The walls are given over totally to quadrisected views of the sky that slowly throb and pulsate, as if you were looking at the sky through a kaleidoscope.

It would be a calming, beguiling experience, except that four speakers in the cardinal corners of the room periodically emit snippets of various recordings of ‘I’m Gonna Make You Love Me,’ sometimes blaring, sometimes faint, as if someone were playing the song on a radio outside, and you were overhearing it drift through the window. The video and audio are on unsynced loops, and the dislocation between the peaceful shots of clouds and the rousing Motown song is vaguely hallucinogenic. You might see a sunset sky with a calming organ; four hours later, the sunset sky might be accompanied by a cacophony of sounds.”

More on Kambui Olujimi and his video featured in #CrossingBrooklyn here.

Participants in today’s MoMA Studio stenciling and collage workshops with Dieu Donné created their own paper compositions. Drop by MoMA Studio: Beyond the Cut-Out to participate in artist-led programs and interactive projects.