Awesome-ish

NightDrive

2008-12-09T15:40:00.001-05:00

TM Sisters VJing Tonight

2008-10-29T18:32:00.000-04:00

My Baby Daddy - B-Rock and the Bizz

2008-08-18T20:06:00.001-04:00

The World's First Surfing Mice - The Radical Rodents

2008-08-15T23:26:00.001-04:00

yeah.

2 LIVE CREW tonight!!!

2008-07-03T20:45:00.003-04:00

++++see you there++++

(arrive early for gift bags by FREEGUMS & PUMA!)

A new day is upon us

2008-07-02T22:17:00.002-04:00

Awesome-ish is coming to an end!

I Love House Parties

2008-06-25T03:00:00.001-04:00

made by OLY

This Second Saturday @ Poplife

2008-06-10T22:37:00.003-04:00

Come out and see some live VJ sets by TM Sisters!
http://flavorpill.com/miami/events/2008/6/14/popart-feat-tm-sisters

2 live crew radio minus the crew

2008-06-05T03:12:00.004-04:00

YACHT + Matt "See a penny pick it up"

2008-05-28T04:09:00.001-04:00

Wonderful Matt McCormick made this!

Show on Saturday

2008-05-21T01:06:00.003-04:00

It will involve entertainment for you
(My brother Sam is performing at 9:30)

snow dance

2008-05-19T19:15:00.002-04:00

snowbooty from pigs on Vimeo.

Sony's Completed Commercial

2008-05-15T13:59:00.001-04:00

Here's the finished version of what was on our streets the other month.

My brother's new blog!

2008-05-13T11:25:00.004-04:00

Hat Killed Rabbit
You can download his interactive video "Chance" for free there! Then you can play around with it on your PC!
Here's a screenshot from it:

DREAM(land)

2008-05-13T00:38:00.004-04:00

Jail Gallery
965 N. Vignes St., #5A
Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.thejailgallery.com

Wed - Sat, 12-6pm

Opening Reception : May 10 (6-10pm)
May 10 - June 14, 2008
www.dreamlandshow.info

Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir (Iceland) - video
Carlton DeWoody (New York) - mixed media
Matilda Forsberg (Sweden) - painting
Felice Grodin (Florida) - drawing
Jiae Hwang (South Korea) - drawing and video
Gregory Kucera (California) - photography
Joshua Levine (California) - sculpture
Elizabeth Perikli (California) - photography
Jim Roche (Florida) - video
Neal Rock (South Wales) - sculpture
Leigh Salgado (California) - mixed media on paper
TM Sisters (Florida) - collage and video

Elisa Turner (Florida) - exhibition essay
Annie Wharton (California) - curator

Southern Gothic Now

2008-05-13T00:22:00.001-04:00

TM Sisters in a group show

Friday, May 09, 2008 - Sunday, Jul 06, 2008

Opening reception: May 9, 6-9 p.m., in conjunction with LODA ArtWalk, following panel discussion at 5:30 p.m.

Space 301
301 Conti Street
Mobile, AL 36602

Green Porno... ?

2008-05-10T15:43:00.003-04:00

What do you think about this? I'm still tossing it around in my head.
Isabella Rossellini's latest film ventures. Look at the other insect versions on the sundancechannel.com

brought to attention by Richard Haig
www.rhaig.com

MUSEUM QUALITY by Alvaro Ilizarbe

2008-05-08T21:07:00.003-04:00

Come and check out Alvaro's solo show at the Bas Fisher Invitational on Saturday.
Be there early to get a $10 limited-edition Freegums (color-me) t-shirt. Fabric markers will be provided at the opening.
This will be the last show ever at Bas Fisher invitational......so lets party in remembrance of the good times.

Museum Quality
by Alvaro Ilizarbe

Saturday May 10th from 7-11pm

Bas Fisher Invitational
180 NE 39th Street, Suite 210

Miami, FL

$10 limited Edition T-shirts

Free Beer
Dance Party

And also The AFTER PARTY will be at White Room.

1306 North Miami Ave Dwtwn, Miami

There will be a special appearance by Bronques of Last Nights Party.

ohhhh the best and the worst tatoo!

2008-05-08T19:54:00.002-04:00

this happens too often in life

Designer Long straws - The cheap way to have a drink!

2008-05-08T19:53:00.003-04:00

Thanks to the open bottle Jen was holding in an oblivious fashion during a 2020 opening, we wiped it out quickly!

Seven-year-old goes on joyride

2008-05-05T00:59:00.001-04:00

care of Amado

Paint it Black

2008-05-04T17:27:00.005-04:00

COOPER put out a book available to all for free as a downloadable PDF
Just click below:
Paint it Black

You are promised to find within the unauthorized use of imagery representing space-exploration, costumes, murals in restaurants, movie fandom, nudity, bondage, bondage gear, fire, bleeding, cartoons, self-mutilation, governments fighting dirty, machinery, death ceremonies, vehicles, ice fishing, architecture, miniatures, robotics, portraiture, doodles, american justice, 80s references, drug use, toys, instruments, ecological disasters

and other found objects (or at least imagery of found objects).

Bon Qui Qui Working at King Burger

2008-05-04T16:55:00.001-04:00

Thanks to Jiae for sending it to me

ZHANTRA mysteries solved!

2008-05-02T01:33:00.004-04:00

I found a pic of how those Table-dresses that were sitting in the hall were used!

I want one.

heaven sent in miami

2008-04-24T16:31:00.002-04:00

hehe, an old team mate of mine sent this to me today!
near the end you'll see that i'm the body double for the whitest girl.

Freegums got kidnapped

2008-04-22T21:50:00.001-04:00

Alvaro's having a show soon.
look at his freegums jacket shirt under the guy's jacket

Vote for videos to be shown @ GETTY Museum!

2008-04-22T01:43:00.005-04:00

The Getty Museum is doing an ancillary online exhibition to their "California Video" show. DREAM(land) is honored that all of the video artists in the show have been chosen for this online exhibit. If the video artists get enough votes they will be included in a special screening at the Getty's "Fridays Off the 405" event.

go to www.videorevolutionaries.com and vote daily for:

"Seven Sisters" by Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir
"Aperture" by Jiae Hwang and Nicholas C. Raftis III
"Flue mask" by Jim Roche
"The Gang's All Here" by TM Sisters

Carla D'Alessio made it

2008-04-10T01:15:00.004-04:00

Italian born photographer Carla D'Alessio has a website for
her photo works that I just found
!

Full Circle

2008-03-20T09:42:00.002-04:00

So this studio blog has come full circle... the first video posted on here was of Sony's bouncy ball commercial... now the commercial came to our street and hood!

Our White in the Season

2008-03-20T09:39:00.000-04:00

Foaming City

2008-03-20T09:36:00.001-04:00

They only bring out the cops to downtown when things like this happen

More Foam

2008-03-20T09:34:00.001-04:00

Sony Foam Video Shoot on Our Studio Street!

2008-03-19T18:23:00.004-04:00

So for a few days this past week Sony has been filling the street that our studio is on (and some surrounding ones) with foam for a commercial. Huge swirling puffs!
My brother, Sam, shot this with his phone.

Art in America this month reviews "Things Will End Before They Start"

2008-03-19T13:14:00.003-04:00

TM Sisters section of PERFORMA 07 review in Art in America magazine

Another Stop

2008-02-22T23:59:00.003-05:00

Short video by Tony Kapel

What Now What Next

2008-02-22T23:59:00.002-05:00

Book by Miami filmmaker, artist, and writer Tony Kapel just released this week!
I am reading it now. It is mostly a bunch of short adventurous stories in random order taken from the young Kendall and present life of Jason (who is really Tony). The author claims that some are true and others are not, but I'd like to imagine that they all really happened for the spiciness of it. The layout is scattered and fits the excitement of what's being said - typos and all. There are also some artwork images by Mr. Kapel scattered throughout.

Available at Sweat Records and online at Lulu

Dog Bite

2008-02-22T22:21:00.001-05:00

I was about to put another video but I can't help myself and you must see this dog's owner.

Rainbow Dance

2008-02-11T11:07:00.001-05:00

This is one of my favorite experimental animations on film by the New Zealander Len Lye. He's known for his scratched-out-emulsion films but in this one he has a dancer in it that became colors as shapes and more colors were added all around. It was done in 1936 which makes it all that much more impressive than it already is to me.

Snoop Dogg's Sensual seduction

2008-01-26T19:14:00.001-05:00

My favorite song and video duo right now.

Short Article about our Studio

2008-01-21T12:23:00.000-05:00

Miami.com (Miami Herald spin-off) features some artist studios:

I'm not sure why they called us the "Up & Comers" collective since it's the first I've heard of that title... but the article gives a semi-description of what it's like to be in our shared studio in downtown Miami.

*Click on picture for article*

Slow-motion-actiontastic fight

2008-01-09T14:45:00.001-05:00

2008-01-07T03:10:00.001-05:00

Pick up the latest issue.
TM Sisters on Cover of this week's City Link Magazine.
Will scan soon for viewable article.

click here for a rack near you

Native Seeds Three

2008-01-03T19:50:00.001-05:00

More Boyz

2007-12-28T18:01:00.000-05:00

Hehe... I found more Boyz of Bazel! The middle one is my favorite.

VJing

2007-12-27T23:13:00.000-05:00

VJing for Art Basel After Hours "Off Island" at George Sanchez Calderon's place

Toasting with a hero

2007-12-27T23:04:00.000-05:00

Kaikai Kiki and Takashi Murakami organized GEISAI which it was an honor to be a part of during this year's Art Basel season. So here is Tasha, me, Takashi, and my brother Sam toasting at the opening! Pictures of our booth coming later.
GEISAI (pronounced - "gay-suh")

Finger Laser Lights by TM Sisters

2007-12-27T22:44:00.000-05:00

Fingers with the lights

Monica Lopez De Victoria, Pooper, and Jen Stark @ NADA party

Eli Sudbrack at our Amaze booth @ GEISAI

Oly and Kathleen Hudspeth @ Vizcaya Artists' Ball

Artists' Ball... then "ball of artists" friends at Vizcaya

2007-12-27T22:25:00.000-05:00

Missy Jen Stark starting the "ball" off... with Robert Chambers's piece

The two Rodriguezeses- Pres Rodriguez and Bert Rodriguez

Sam of Friends With You

So I hear that Miami has made a "Samuel Keller Day" here in Miami

Boyz of Bazel

2007-12-27T22:23:00.000-05:00

so here's Jon with Hugo's Boyz of Bazel billboard collage... can you find him? what about Hugo? Manny? Pres? Sam? etc?

2007-12-25T19:01:00.000-05:00

My work in an Indian Magazine

2007-12-19T02:43:00.000-05:00

They didn't have my permission but I won't sue because of the lovely poem they wrote.

Translation of the page:

"ART OF COLOURS

Sun rising from the veils of clouds...
Breeze from the sea tickling our cheeks...
Sweet sound of the nightingale form the tree...

These are the events that can inspire an idea into any artist. But Jen Stark is inspired from something completely different and cutting the papers this way. Her sister is a doctor. She used to watch the post-mortem of the corpses by her sister in the hospital. It's then the idea of such paper cutting struck her. Since then, she started cutting paper this way. The knife and the paper bowed in front of the art-filled heart of hers. Now she's giving shows of her work in various countries worldwide!"

Haha! Nice

Pres <3 's Hugo

2007-12-19T02:40:00.000-05:00

(Tommy Chat Just E-mailed Me.)

2007-12-16T01:54:00.001-05:00

Thanks to Harlan, I saw this. Also, If you ever have a spare hour, try to find one that's an hour long from these guys. Can't remember what it was called. I saw it at the Moore space last year, and parts at the Whitney bienniale 2 years ago. It was insane, but made me smile too much.

remember

2007-12-14T00:00:00.000-05:00

when the python ate the gator?

Jott could be like the future?

2007-11-29T16:21:00.001-05:00

Try it out and add me into your contacts. So far it's helped me out with remembering a ton of the stuff to do this week with perfectly transcribed text messages! It also sends an email to you and whoever you're jotting the audio in case it doesn't recognize what you're saying and spells the wrong thing.
Pretty amazing.

n ok girl fight

2007-11-20T21:12:00.001-05:00

XANADU

2007-11-07T01:56:00.001-05:00

The way to live life forever

The Past

2007-10-31T17:48:00.000-04:00

studio space 1977

"Undertow" Exhibition in Istanbul

2007-10-26T03:04:00.000-04:00

www.undertowistanbul.com

“Undertow, A survey of South Florida Contemporary Art” exhibition is scheduled to open in Istanbul, Turkey on October, 17th 2007 and run until November, 2nd 2007. The site of the exhibit is the Osman Hamdi Bey Hall at MSGSU, Faculty of Fine Arts, Findikli, Istanbul.

The exhibition is organized by Sibel Kocabasi,
and curated by Sibel Kocabasi and Alvaro Pereyra.

The Artists are :

Paul Aho, Daniel Arsham, Bhakti Baxter, Amy Broderick, Flora Cohen, Phillip Estlund, Nazaré Feliciano, Friends With You, Jacin Giordano, Manuela Gonzalez, Aramis Gutierrez, Jason Hedges, Jay Hines, Walter Hnatysh, Jamnea Jacas, Sibel Kocabasi, Daniel Leahy, Nicolas Lobo, Kenneth Andrew Mroczek, Daniel Newman, Martin Oppel, Dennis Palazzolo, Jonathan Peck, Sam Perry, Manny Prieres, Terre Rybovich, Joanne Schweitzer, Maxine Spector, TM Sisters.

Reverie & Revolt

2007-10-25T22:11:00.000-04:00

ArtCenter/ South Florida - 924 Lincoln Road Miami Beach Florida 33139

REVERIE + REVOLT
ArtCenter/South Florida Exhibition

Opening reception October 26th, 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Open to the Public October 19th through November 18th
Curated by Jane Hart

This exhibition brings together the work of several contemporary artists working in the medium of collage. The artists each utilize this long established technique of combining found elements to transform the banal into extraordinary expressions. Reverie + Revolt features work by TJ Ahearn, Rakel Bernie , Kara Blossom, Paul Butler, Matthew Cusick, Tami Demaree, Eurydice, Dan Fauci, Christopher Haun, Dick Jewell, Pepe Mar, Gean Moreno , Lori Precious, Raven Schlossberg, THINK AGAIN, TM Sisters, Ana Wolovick, Bari Ziperstein.

Total Constant Order

2007-10-24T13:15:00.001-04:00

Get this book by friend Crissa... the video is beautiful! I can't wait to read it!

Oh I think they like me

2007-10-23T13:03:00.001-04:00

by friend Jenna Balfe - WATCH OUT!

Justice

2007-10-17T15:12:00.001-04:00

The future. genius. thanks to Dan Whitely for showing me this. http://www.thrashermagazine.com/Burnout/?p=325

check out the real music video for the song. it is beautiful in its animation too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_QVq2lGMs

Wired Magazine article on Jen Stark

2007-10-09T16:47:00.000-04:00

Check out the recent issue of Wired. There is an article on Jen's work and dead bodies. Yay!

Meaning of SHAZZAM!

2007-10-04T20:23:00.000-04:00

Click on pic for Urban Dictionary definitions:

Crazy Calls - answering machine tape TV ad

2007-09-25T00:27:00.001-04:00

We should have used this instead. To check out what was actually made, call: 305-377-0769

the future

2007-09-24T20:05:00.001-04:00

Louis Vuitton love?

2007-09-19T12:31:00.001-04:00

Jen Stark's Colorful Chicago Solo Exhibition, Yo.

2007-09-11T19:14:00.001-04:00

Jen will be a new addition to the studio this month!
Before that happens, she will be kicking some ass while
brightening up everyone's vision in that windy-alley town.

Click on the cloud for the gallery's link:::

ARTnews September issue- article with TM Sisters in it!

2007-09-05T17:56:00.000-04:00

Stills from Fomercial

2007-08-28T01:28:00.000-04:00

"Fomercial"
by Aja Albertson, Ramona Boucher, Susan Lee Chun, Kathleen Hudspeth, Jiae Hwang, Samantha Kruse, Karelle Levy, Monica Lopez De Victoria, Tasha Lopez De Victoria, Muriel Olivares, & Jen Stark

in a mostly reverse order

Hipster Olympics

2007-08-27T16:27:00.001-04:00

Geeeeeeez

Jon Peck @ MoCA Goldman Warehouse, opening Sept. 8

2007-08-25T21:51:00.000-04:00

MOCA at Goldman Warehouse
404 NW 26th Street
Wynwood Arts District

NEW ART: SOUTH FLORIDA
September 8 - October 27, 2007

This exhibition features works by the 14 recipients of the 2007 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships for Visual and Media Artists. The Consortium, an alliance of the arts councils of Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe and Martin Counties, awards fellowships at the $15,000 and $7,500 level. Works by 15 South Florida artists will be featured: Ray Azcuy, Louis David, Theresa Diehl, Katie Deits, Richard Friedman, Leo Gullick, Richard Haden, Walter Hnatysh, Alexander Heria, Leila A. Leder Kremer, Billie Grace Lynn, Maria Martinez-Cañas, Jonathan Peck, the husband-and-wife team of Suzanne Scherer & Pavel Ouporov.

The South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists is a cooperative project funded in part with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, the Boards of County Commissioners of Broward, Miami-Dade, Martin and Monroe Counties, and the Palm Beach County Cultural Council.

TM Sisters @ The Moore Space, opening Sept. 8th

2007-08-25T21:36:00.000-04:00

4040 Northeast 2nd Avenue, 2nd floor
(Miami Design District)
Miami, FL 33137
Tel: 305-438-1163
Fax: 305-438-1285
E-mail: info@themoorespace.org

The Hurricane Projects- Outbursts of Energy
September 8 - November 1, 2007

Opening reception:
Saturday, September 8, 7 - 10 pm

Saturday
September 8, 2007@ 9 pm
TM SISTERS
"Things Will End Before They Start"
Performance/Exhibition

Saturday
October 13, 2007 @ 9 pm
October 13 - Nov 1, 2007
Susan Lee Chun
"Along Came Sioux"
Performance

wiggers

2007-08-25T19:55:00.001-04:00

Look what I found. This was way back when we all had long hair- before we all uniformly decided to chop it all off due to the hot summer record-breaking heat index!

Best Google Image Search

2007-08-21T03:25:00.000-04:00

Pres Rodriguez=

Best Google Image Search

2007-08-21T03:24:00.002-04:00

Tasha Lopez De Victoria=

Best Google Image Search

2007-08-21T03:24:00.001-04:00

Mike Del Marmol=

Best Google Image Seach

2007-08-21T03:23:00.000-04:00

Manny Prieres=

Best Google Image Search

2007-08-21T03:21:00.000-04:00

Jon Peck=

Best Google Image Search

2007-08-21T03:20:00.000-04:00

Monica Lopez=

Sneakers, Jackets, and WHAT!

2007-08-21T02:27:00.000-04:00

OP! Found more old things... Jon.

Hit and Run... Old stuff

2007-08-21T01:09:00.000-04:00

We're gonna find some random old things to be posting up here. Here's some. Pres and TM Sisters and Free Gums T-shirt stuff

Behind the Scenes with Pressssssssss Rodriguez

2007-08-21T01:03:00.000-04:00

Always hard at work... that Pres

Disturbing Force - Hurricane Andrew

2007-08-20T18:08:00.001-04:00

Oh man, wow. check this out... memories, hah!

Behind the Scenes with Jon Peck and Manny Prieres

2007-08-07T19:30:00.000-04:00

2007-08-01T23:11:00.000-04:00

I just found out that my friend Richard does the taste testing during his free time for this up in NY. It's fun. Take a picture of that amazing medianoche & Post your cheap ass cuban sandwiches on it too!

The Next Few Hours Confluence correction

2007-07-27T10:29:00.000-04:00

http://thenextfewhours.com/blog/2007/07/22/elisa-turner-reviews-confluence-fomercial-featured/

try this

2007-07-26T08:04:00.000-04:00

Electronic Supersonic

2007-07-25T17:59:00.001-04:00

yummy

He looks like Mike Myers to me - But there is no hint to what this really is...

prison thriller

2007-07-23T23:19:00.001-04:00

Miami Herald- Confluence Review

2007-07-22T14:52:00.000-04:00

Snitzer show brings 59 homegrown artists together
By ELISA TURNER
elisaturn@aol.com

Why call an art show about Miami artists a confluence?

It's a word that paints a picture of rivers coming together.

It seems inappropriate for art made in an ocean-front city.

But take a look at the full title of the show at Fredric Snitzer Gallery. Confluence: A Collaboration, featuring 59 works by more than 50 artists, is all about artists coming together to make art -- performance art and video, drawings, sculpture, painting, photography, and even a piece of needlepoint. The artists work with such diverse materials as crayons and wine, a firecracker and bullet.

Says artist Alvaro Pereyra, whose work is in the show: ``The only way for an art scene to succeed is through a sense of community and sharing. It creates a good energy.''

The one artwork credited to a single artist is a performance about the essence of art by David Rohn. In his Untitled, he stood next to a gallery wall for several hours the night of the July 14 opening. A solid black rectangle was painted on the wall behind his head. In slow motion, he smiled, frowned, looked sad and quizzical, and conveyed a range of human experience.

On the checklist for Confluence, most artworks are credited to two or three artists. The video Fomercial is credited to 11. Created in the collaborative spirit that the TM Sisters have made famous in their art-fusing video games with performance art, the hilarious and snappy Fomercial is by Tasha López de Victoria and Monica López de Victoria (known as the TM Sisters), Jiae Hwang, Susan Lee-Chun, Karelle Levy, Samantha Kruse, Aja Albertson, Kathleen Hudspeth, Muriel Olivaires, Jen Stark and Ramona Boucher.

Fomercial is a deliciously clever spoof on the infomercials that are the bane of late-night TV addicts: upbeat spots hawking magic elixirs for losing 200 pounds in two weeks, exercise programs that guarantee to triple your muscle mass in three weeks or your money back.

This video opens with Tasha López de Victoria jogging on what seems to be an indoor track. She radiates energy and exuberance. ''Now I'm strong!'' she beams in the video.

At the opening, Tasha smiles happily, wearing a black-and-white striped outfit that could have come from an old Jane Fonda exercise video. ''Monica and I wanted to do another video like we did for the last collaboration,'' she says. (This show is a sequel to a group show in 2005 at the Bas Fisher Invitational space in the Design District; Miami artists Bhakti Baxter and Jason Hedges curated the Snitzer and the Bas Fisher show.)

This sequel at Snitzer Gallery allowed the 11 artists in Fomercial to bond together, share talent, and make art. ''We had fun,'' Tasha grins, describing how the artists brainstormed together and created a story line with characters they invented. She adds: ``We dressed up in front of the screen and talked about how the product changed our lives.''

In one scene, the head of Hwang is garbed in a wig with very pink and very long hair. Her head floats among travel magazine shots, like a scene of the Taj Mahal. ''I used to be tired but now I'm seeing the world,'' she enthuses dreamily.

Graffiti-like drawings on glossy paper, offering an engaging assortment of creatures and collage, are a mixed-media collaboration by Jon Peck, Kevin Arrow and Jim Drain. ''It's in the genre of free jazz,'' Peck says. ''A lot of this stuff happens synchronistically,'' adds Arrow, talking about an evening he and Drain met to make art together. The next day Peck came by and picked up their drawings. ''I took them home, cut them apart a bit, and added on sculptures,'' Peck says with a mischievous smile.

Among the crowds at the opening were Sibel Kocabasi and Alvaro Pereyra, who have curated an upcoming show of 29 Florida artists opening in Istanbul on Oct. 17. The Istanbul show is Undertow and it includes some of the artists in Confluence. Coincidentally, both shows have titles with a watery theme, evoking the rippling effect that Miami artists are making around the globe. ''The thing that's interesting about the Miami scene is that it's very pluralistic,'' says Pereyra. ''There's no major theme. There's all types of art made in all types of media.'' Adds Kocabasi, an artist of Turkish descent living in Lake Worth, ''I think there are a lot of cultures here. I'm seeing a lot of young artists with fresh new attitudes.'' (She is setting up a website for the Istanbul show at www.undertowistanbul.com).

One performance that night was highly impromptu. There was a traffic jam of people clustered around a section of the gallery where a drawing of Bert Rodriguez's face was on the wall and, a couple of feet below the drawing, a hole in the wall that looked like an out-of-place birdhouse. People whispered and giggled. Although you couldn't see him, Bert Rodriguez was sealed into a space behind the wall. At different times during the evening, his erect penis emerged from the wall, stayed in place for a few seconds, and then withdrew.

In the context of the show, this was a performance provoking hysterical guffaws. It was a visceral assertion of an artist's right to make his own artistic statement no matter what, saying in essence the crudest thing possible to tastemakers and the rapacious art market.

Fred Snitzer says that he and others had ways to signal to Rodriguez so that he didn't ''perform'' when children were passing by. ''It's always tricky territory,'' he admits. But he loved the daring ''who cares?'' spirit of the show. Snitzer adds: ``If you get a big group of artists from the community you're going to have a lot of raw energy. It felt really good after too long of trying to be curatorial and proper.''

And then later that night...

2007-07-21T01:43:00.000-04:00

Hugo has some fun with the smoke machine, fan, and Tasha, Aramis, Monica, and Jon! (what's up with Aramis in the band shot?)

TM Shoot

2007-07-21T01:21:00.001-04:00

These shots were taken a few weeks ago... studio portraits by Hugo Montoya

Mini Mall

2007-07-21T00:33:00.001-04:00

Creating- Fomercial

2007-07-20T03:42:00.000-04:00

Only $19.99!!!!
You can get your hand made, 11 girl made, limited supply, beatboxed DVD. Fo real.
(just contact the TM Sisters through their site) (video stills coming later)

Taking care of business

2007-07-20T03:27:00.001-04:00

Pres.

Confluence: A Collaboration

2007-07-20T03:21:00.000-04:00

when:	Opening: Sat 7.14 (7:30-10pm) / Ongoing: Tue 7.17 - Fri 8.3 (Tue-Sat: 10am-5pm)
where:	Fredric Snitzer Gallery (2247 NW 1st Place, 305.448.8976) Map
price:	FREE
details:	Event Info

Confluence: A Collaboration

Perhaps one of the more anticipated shows this summer, Confluence gathers a massive array of top local talent to put together a quintessentially collaborative exhibit. Organized by Jason Hedges and Bhakti Baxter, the idea is to give the artists involved a chance to jettison their personal styles and interact organically to create original works. Highlights include Hedges and local collective Friends With You, Baxter and COOPER exchanging drawings, and David Rohn creating performances to respond to a word given to him by each artist in show. Also participating are Daniel Arsham, Hernan Bas, Robert Chambers, Westen Charles, Jason Ferguson, Jacin Giordano, Thomas Hollingworth, Jon Peck, Ali Prosch, and the TM Sisters.

previewed by: Omar Sommereyns

Get the guy on the bike

2007-07-20T03:00:00.000-04:00

The low part of the night... Manny and Pres had their cars broken into. So add that to Monica's break in, Tasha's break in, and Jon's broken window... we are now a complete smashed window studio team.

Record Players

2007-07-20T02:44:00.001-04:00

It has been a while for the posting, so here's the highlight for tonight. Manny has a bunch of his and his sister's records at the studio... so Pres, Jon, Monica, Manny, and Tasha had some playing times!