Picture Ping Pong at Quality Pictures
Monday, January 29th, 2007Quality Pictures is pleased to present “Picture Ping Pong†a group exhibition organized by Elizabeth Huey, a Brooklyn-based artist. The exhibition features work by sixteen artists who post drawings, photos, inspiring messages and who-knows-whats on each other’s MySpace pages. As such, to “picture ping pong†is to visually converse and play through sharing images.
Participating artists (and their corresponding MySpace name):
Nade Nicholas (Plancton 9)
Don Porcella (Waxhead)
Keith Jones (Keith Jones)
Roberto Calbucci (Graphicland)
M.F. Tichy (Tichy)
Elizabeth Huey (Elizabeth Huey)
Kime Buzzelli (Show Pony)
Matthew Rodriguez (Matthew)
Matt Lock (Bad Attitude)
Matt Moroz (Matt Moroz)
Chris Lawson (Chris Lawson)
Frederic Fleury (Frederic Fleury)
Emmanuelle Pidoux (Emmanuelle Pidoux)
Stephane Prigent (Kerozen)
Maggie Tulliver (Maggie Tulliver)
Mark DeLong (Mark DeLong)
The artists are not a collective. Included are artists from Europe, Canada and the United States. The majority of the artists are working on larger projects from television shows and puppet theaters to large-scale paintings and feature-length films. They are all artists in some form or another and most are deeply entrenched in other real-life communities. The show itself is represented on MySpace at www.myspace.com/picturepingpong. At the gallery, the exhibit consists of about 80 works including video, collage, drawing and painting. Video works will be displayed in the gallery’s new video lounge. There will also be a computer set up at the gallery so that visitors can view the exhibition’s MySpace page as well as the pages of the participating artists.
The exhibition is innovative and attempts to reveal uses of technology by artists in ways that at one level recall the artist communities that were more prevalent in earlier decades, such as the New York school of the 40s and 50s. Further, it points out that while they use technology heavily to communicate and find inspiration for their work, most of the artists create work in a very low-tech, hands-on fashion.
Finally, MySpace has become a space for artists to communicate with each other in ways that are less limiting than traditional language such as images and sound.
Come to the gallery and experience the show in person and point your browser to Picture Ping Pong on MySpace and start playing picture ping pong!