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Friday is VIDEO Fun Day

#1 click here
#2 click here

Click on the links above to be linked to videos that are either 1) INCLUDED in the current exhibition Synthetic Supernova, OR are 2) NOT included in Christina Mazzalupo's exhibition Types of Kinds: A Study, but are sorta interesting anyway.

*hint: #1 is Ken Fandell's video piece. #2 is not Christina Mazzalupo's piece. But it is about a Thylacine a/k/a Tasmanian Wolf.

CHECK OUT Synthetic Supernova and Types of Kinds: A Study, both opening TONIGHT at Mixed Greens.

be-lated thursday fun

Above, artist Maia Urstad's Wall of Sound. Read about it here.

*obviously we've been a little busy at the gallery with the Synthetic Supernova install. Hence, yesterday's lack of a posting. So today I'm making up for it with Wall of Sound because it fits the the Synthetic spirit.

Installing SYNTHETIC SUPERNOVA

Yesterday Courtney and Rob tackled Soyeon Cho's sculpture, Self-Portrait 2 (2007), and carefully pieced together the outer structure made entirely of plastic forks.

Today the work is finally assembled and hanging (thanks to Rob!). See pics below of Sun K. Kwak's installation in progress.

Check out the opening of Synthetic Supernova at Mixed Greens this Friday night, 6-8pm.

Adventure in Long Island City

Heather and Courtney ventured to another borough to catch the 2008 Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Fisher Landau Center for Art. Above: Courtney checks out a video through a spy-hole inside Seth Scantlen's suggestively fleshy "room".

Mass MoCA weekend!

This past weekend Steven and Monica ventured out to Mass MoCA for the opening of the Badlands exhibition. Above are Mixed Greens artists Mary Temple and Joseph Smolinski at the opening night (both artists have work featured in the exhibition). Be sure to stop by Mass MoCA sometime this summer to check it out!

Above are views of Joseph Smolinski's Tree Turbine Prototype #1, and below the Tree Turbine Study Model for Prototype #1 (Electric Car Station).

Friday is Fun Day

Mixed Greens blast from the past, inspired by the sunny weather we're finally having.

Project Compassion

It's not often that I find fine art news on CNN, unless of course it has to do with record setting auction bids at Christie's or Sotheby's. So this morning, imagine my surprise and delight when I stumbled across this article about Project Compassion, "a nonprofit organization dedicated to painting every American military service member who has died on active duty since the September 11, 2001, attacks." These portraits, given to family members, were a wonderful reminder this Memorial weekend that art can be much more than a record-setting million dollar purchase. It can be a free gift of healing, too.

For more information on Project Compassion, click here.

Felicitaciones

Rob Carter's "Landscaping" exhibition opens TODAY at Galeria Fruela. So if you happen to be in Spain, check it out!

above: Rob Carter, Landscaping I (part 3), 2008, digital c-print, 40 x 70 inches

ALSO: Adia Millett's Week 16 here.

online scavenger hunt

*see list of weblinks below to help you find the clues.

1. (two) rough falls. Ouch.
2. Correction: "I meant that other auction house."
3. x @ a, if y = b, and y = c, then d. And it's not math.
4. Jeff, she's got some bad news.
5. Monica "hurt her foot".
6. This made tyler's stomach fall into his shoes.
7. "Hetero-normalizing"
8. "the first time I saw his work I was drunk and didn't like them"

James Wagner
Art Observed
NY Times
Looting Matters
Modern Art Notes
CultureGrrl
Ed Winkleman
Heart As Arena (you might have to do some additional linking for this one...hint, hint)

Look Who's Famous

Lee's video is pretty popular on YouTube.

Here's more reading on some Mixed Greeners: Joseph Smolinski and Mary Temple, both featured in the upcoming group show "Badlands" at MassMoCA