#giaf2018

Sketchbook from Sunday over on the Island for #giaf2018 // Oh, Mondays in September are so hard. I leave a cooling chunk of my heart over on Governor's Island and it really does take me some time to transition back into now, New York from there, sometime other. It's partly the amount of intensity spent on creating the art there; partly the disconnection from "regular life", and the nostalgia/emotional time travel of being On Base again; partly, and certainly not least, the camaraderie of the gathered artists. I haven't found that kind of intense, serious, joyful community in such numbers before-- it's really scary that Summer Camp is only the month of September. What will we do when it's over? #sketchbook #hands #governorsislandartfair2018 #governorsisland #rezoning #capitalismruinseverything #colonelsrow #gettingachildhooddoover #installation #standardissue https://www.instagram.com/p/BnjphSPBnJW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10uwqabq50wak

I can't wait to get back into my little bunker on Governor's Island this weekend! Time is ticking away and the fair is almost half over, I can scarcely believe it (or screw up the strength to go on after September). This would be an excellent weekend to visit-- I hear tell the the infantry is coming for Camp Doughboy! So, come see "Standard Issue" at #governorsislandartfair2018 and then go tell the doughb'hoys that they can always call on me for any advice on tent erection. #ahem #standardissue #installation #camp #tent #bunker #nuclearwar #greatwar #anywar #giaf2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BnsLlhYBqSP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15kvg0bf5jhlr

Here's another little peek from the pages of "+", my newest art book, on display all month in my installation at #governorsislandartfair2018. Working on this book, I was trying to find new ways for my drawings to interact with themselves and other images and textures; I tried to have a "no editing" attitude while I worked, only later gessoing out or collaging over the pieces that weren't strong. Lots of clamdangitry. Can't wait to get back out on the island this weekend-- come see me!!! #giaf2018 #clamdangit #collage #gesso #drawing #artbook https://www.instagram.com/p/BnZ1wizhv3x/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xfy2jfqv123k

This is "Nichols", one of the first aid kits from my installation at the Governor's Island Art Fair this year. My habit of making these first aid kits began as a way of interacting with, and re-contextualizing, moments of the objects I've been compulsively collecting (read: if make art, then not crazy); now I realize they're part of a larger organizing principle in my work, namely, the creation of new taxonomies of meaning, the rescue of orphaned errata, the elevation of the quotidian often-female into the language of the cloistered often-male. Therein included: old family insignia, metal ingot of unknown purpose, fecal test packet stolen from doctor (you leave me in an exam room for too long, and..), rotting flooring from a 20th c. eminent-domain rape, scent-memory bandage, half of a duo of neighbor-cancellers. Music: "It's Personal" by The Radio Department #assemblage #foundobjects #firstaidkit #installation #healthyself #giaf2018 #governorsislandartfair2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BqpqkNZFPlv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fhzdsv6tf9y5

There is no heavier heart than mine right now, knowing that this is the last weekend of the Governor's Island Art Fair. It's been an incredible run, as always-- a really solid year of artwork all around, nestled in and around the gorgeous decay of Colonel's Row in the middle of ineffable, cheerfully gloomy, irreplaceable Governor's Island. Come this weekend: come see me and "Standard Issue", come see all of the scores of artists who have poured their heart and soul into a site-specific moment out of time, come commune with the ghosts of New York past and say goodbye to the Island as it is now before redevelopment changes it for the few remaining decades it has left before the river swallows it up. My deepest, most heartfelt thanks and love to @4heads_nyc, without whom neither the fair nor the "party" would exist. And thanks to every face, familiar or new, who has come to take part in my shrine to anxiety and compulsion and effort in the face of sure destruction. It's been a really intense month and words fail to articulate my gratitude. #giaf2018 #governorsislandartfair #climatechange #dyingcity #redevelopment #gentrification #coldwar #installation #firstaidkits #badbunker https://www.instagram.com/p/BoRcYcHhzvj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=eryjzo9bmvr3

Inside the cardboard structure (replica of St. Nicholas church) created by #thepeoplebuild as part of the Galway International Arts Festival. The structure was demolished (as intended) just under an hour ago. #giaf2018 #giaf #whplookingup #galwayinternationalartsfestival #cardboardart

Im glad to announce that my pop art will be at #CECO #GIAF2018 #GIAF#gyeongnam #artfair BOOTH A-10 july 5/8 #Internationalartfair #popartist#marcosantaniello #southkorea special thanks to @kelly_on_redvibe ! Go get my #popart there! #italianartist