Here is Looking at You, 2013

There was a write up in TagesWoche about the “Solo Show” exhibition I am in at the iaab Projektraum in Basel, Switzerland.

The online German version is here.
The translated English PDF can be downloaded here.

Unfolding Space #3, collage

I have an installation of my collage series Unfolding Space installed, check out more images here.

Traces fromiaab
Dock
Basel, Switzerland
Apr 25th to May 26th, 2013

Öffnungszeiten: 27. April – 11. Mai
Jeweils Donnerstag bis Samstag, 14-18 Uhr 

Ort: iaab-Projektraum Basement,
Oslostr. 10, 4142 Münchenstein

If The Present is Not to Disappear, 2012, flexible neon tubing, .75 x 14 inches

If The Present is Not to Disappear
Chashama 303
New York, NY
January 10th to January 19, 2013
Reception: Thursday, January 10th, 6pm to 8pm

download press release

The Sky is Falling!
BYRDCLIFFE Kleinert/James Center for the Arts
Woodstock, NY
October 19 – December 2, 2012
Reception: Saturday, October 20, 4:00 – 6:00 pm

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update: review on Hudson Valley Almanac Weekly
“In Travis LeRoy Southworth’s animation Absent-Minded Monotonous Splendor, for example, a voice from the History Channel intones about the Big Bang while an image of the artist’s face, which has the unflattering honesty of an early Chuck Close portrait, is subsumed by a white film. The film preserves every mole and blemish: dots that are transformed into swirling galaxies. Southworth is adept at incorporating the squeamish into his art, as illustrated by his termite-hill-shaped sculptures crafted of spitballs.”

The residency is sponsored through Galapagos Art Space & IAAB, the International Exchange and Studio Program of the Canton of Basel, Switzerland. Each year IAAB offers one artist from NYC the opportunity to spend six months in Basel.

Arc-Types and Well-Rounded Characters
STUDIO 371
371 Warren St – 4th fl,
Jersey City, NJ 07302

Friday, May 4th – Friday, June 1st, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4th 6pm to 9pm

Press Release

Curated by Jeanne Brasile

Artists include Gianluca Bianchino, Dianne Bowen, Magenta del Ray, Giovanna Cecchetti, Dahlia Elsayed, Vandana Jain, Ahni Kruger, Betty McGeehan, Ryan Roa, Lauren Smith, Travis LeRoy Southworth and Injoo Whang.

It shall be an afternoon of boredom, possible entertainment, and paper spat through a straw.

in conjunction with:

•Get on the Block•

Camel Art Space
722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
May 13 – June 19, 2011

Works by: Julianne Ahn • Alex Paik • Matt Phillips • Travis LeRoy Southworth • Liz Zanis

Curated by: Lauren van Haaften-Schick

A detail of one portion of the sculptural installation The Growing Metaphysical Void (Displaced from My Bedroom Ceiling)

Works by: Julianne Ahn • Alex Paik • Matt Phillips • Travis LeRoy Southworth • Liz Zanis

Curated by: Lauren van Haaften-Schick

The works in Get on the Block explore social and self-conscious anxieties and motivations surrounding art production and exhibition. Through sincere humor, humility and coy absurdity, these artists confront what critic Jan Verwoert has termed “the pressure to perform,” the expectation and demand that artists and cultural producers present only absolute, correct assertions with the “genius-like” promise of positive results. In contrast, these works offer open-ended proposals or temporary conclusions, rendering suspect the desire and criteria for defining success or failure.

Suspicious of their assumed positions as key-holders to a romantic, isolated world of the studio, the artists in the exhibition both embrace and push against the problematic of this rarified space. Jubilance and serendipity direct Alex Paik‘s skewed, hyper-saturated geometric cut paper drawings and reliefs, nuanced by a pointed fixation on rudimentary elements. A similar upheaval of and reverence for formalism is conveyed in Matt Phillips‘ paintings, as picture-making rules are shattered and refracted, alluding at once to physics, psychedelia and high modernism.

Autobiographic works consider the conditions for their creation and the artist’s interior life as a similar workspace, exposing the labor of production as an intrinsic result of their everyday experience. Liz Zanis‘ miniature facsimiles of commonplace objects such as wrapped floral bouquets, train tickets and phone books reflect upon and speak to anxieties surrounding personal and public exchange and perception. Julianne Ahn‘s labor and time intensive works reference the intimate mania of art making and domestic life, as dirty laundry and the grid appear as equals in a hierarchy of categorical terms, the physical minutia of one realm is allowed to populate the other. Emulating the work of work, Travis LeRoy Southworth‘s spit-wad accumulations embody a constant churning of thoughts and desire for action, ruminating at once on where to begin and what could determine an end.

If the idea of the studio distinguishes a place for art-work, or production with the goal of display, then viewing one’s labor as play becomes a radical gesture. Subverting the anticipation of the artist as authority and reconsidering the definitions of emotional, intellectual and physical boundaries in the context of object-making, these works fuse these spaces to propose a more unified and fluid concept of production.

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update: review on WNYC’s Arts Datebook

Portraiture: Inside Out
Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
February 28 – April 1, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday March 3rd 5-9pm

Installation shot of Absent Minded Monotonous Splendor, digital video, 3 minutes 30 seconds, 2010.

An exhibition of contemporary portraiture. Curated by Ruth Ballester, Whitney Fehl and Lauren Thompson, Graduate Students in the Museum Professions Program.

Sarah Bliss, Dominic Guarnaschelli, Gwen Hardie, Jenny Hyde, Pat Lay, Greg Leshé, So Yoon Lym, Ryan Roa, Steve Rossi, Jesse Eric Schmidt, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Tanja Targersen, Peter Whittenberger, Christine Wong Yap and Raphael Zollinger.

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Update, here is a link to the catalog.

Install shots of Mob Silence, digital video, two channels, 3 minutes 30 seconds, 2007

http://matineetime.tumblr.com/

Artists Included:

Leah Beeferman, Alex da Corte, David Dunn, Antonello Faretta, John Giorno, Samara Golden, Jesse Greenberg, Ezra Johnson, Denise Kupferschmidt, Nick Lally, Jeanette Mundt, Nick Paparone, Ted Passon, Christian Sampson, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Jeffrey Tranchell, JD Walsh, and Letha Wilson.

Matinee is curated by Patrick Brennan and Lauren van Haaften-Schick.

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Update: Review of exhibition on Artnet

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/nathan/brooklyn-local-saint-cecilias2-10-11.asp

Collaboration: Panel Discussion
Jamica Center for the Arts, Feb 16th

Wednesday, February 16, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432

Collaboration
Working with other people on an art project is recently seen as important and beneficial on many levels. JCAL invites BroLab, an artist collective, to the Studio LLC February Seminar. The group will present their experiences of collaboration along with the advantages and difficulties they found in working with other artists.

http://www.jcal.org/visual/studiollc.html

BroLab Collective is Rahul Alexander, Jonathan Brand, Adam Brent,
Lee Bullock, Ken Madore, Ryan Roa and Travis LeRoy Southworth

www.inthenameofbrolab.org

I was recently commissioned to create a new work for a group exhibition at the Drawing Center.

DAY JOB
Dec. 10, 2010 – Feb. 3, 2011
Opening Reception: December 9th, 6pm
Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street
New York, NY

Press Release

Works by:

Chris Akin, Pasquale Cortese, Elizabeth Duffy, Caroline Falby, Alex Gingrow, Tom Hooper, Alexa Horochowksi, Dawn Hunter, Michael Krueger, Shawn Kuruneru, Deanna Lee, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Mary Lydecker, Raul J. Mendez, Julia Oldham, Alex O’Neal, Roberto Osti, Zach Rockhill, Luis Romero, Alfred Steiner, Justin Storms, Harvey Tulcensky, and Jonathan Wahl

installation progress of The Growing Metaphysical Void at the Center of My Bedroom Ceiling, 2010 from Travis LeRoy Southworth on Vimeo.

Installation for Legal Tender exhibition at Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.marthaotero.com/exhibitions/2010-11-20_legal-tender/

The Growing Metaphysical Void at the Center of My Bedroom Ceiling
spit wads from magazine ads, dimensions vary, 2010

Shooting thousands of spit wads through a straw at the ceiling to create stalactite-like forms. The stalactites were mostly created in my studio in Brooklyn over the past year and then brought to the gallery, installed on the ceiling.

Over 20 hours I shot spit wads at the ceiling to add further to the installation. The video is created from still images taken every 30 seconds during the installation. The paper for the wads is taken from magazine ads.

More info here:
http://travisleroysouthworth.com/2010/03/the-growing-metaphysical-void-at-the-center-of-my-bedroom-ceiling/

LEGAL TENDER
November 20, 2010 – January 8, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 20th from 6 to 8 pm

a group exhibition featuring work by:

The performance is part of the collective I am in called BroLab. More information at www.artinoddplaces.org and www.inthenameofbrolab.org

BroLab includes:

Rahul Alexander
Jonathan Brand
Adam Brent
Ken Madore
Ryan Roa
Travis LeRoy Southworth

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Brolab will be performing along 14th street in Manhattan from October 1st – 10th, 2010 as part of the Art in Odd Places Festival : CHANCE, curated by Yaelle Amir and Petrushka Bazin.  As envisioned in our project, PUMP 14, we will be moving water back and forth from the East River to the Hudson using yokes and buckets, culminating in a 24hr cycle performance on from Friday October 8th at 3pm to Saturday October 9th at 3pm.
Click here for full project details and gallery.
Performances will be done on a daily basis, though these are a few dates to watch out for:

Friday October 1st  7 – 9 pm (Outside of Theater Lab) 137 W. 14th Street

Daytime: 3 – 6 pm

• Sunday: Oct, 3^rd
• Tuesday Oct, 5^th
• Thursday Oct,  7^th

24hrs:

Friday 8^th 3pm – Saturday 9^th 3pm (24hr)

I was  awarded a 2010 Fellowship in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts for my Detouched work.

Click here to view my page in the NYFA Artists Directory.

I’m going to have my work in a group show at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, info below

About Face
Thomas Robertello Gallery
939 West Randolph Street
Chicago, IL
June 11 – July 31, 20

Artists in exhibition:

My work was recently accepted into the Pierogi Flat Files and is now on display this week as part of their “Artist of the Week” program, check it out.

Pierogi 2000
177 N 9th St
Brooklyn, NY

www.pierogi2000.com

I Re-touch Myself
inkjet print of moles, blemishes, wrinkles and stray hairs, 60 x 40 in, 2007

A self-portrait where my entire face is digitally erased except for those minor imperfections.

Exhibitions:
About Face,  Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2010
Living & Dreaming – Artist in the Marketplace 29, Bronx Museum of Art, NY, 2009
Retractions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, 2009
Art Futura, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, 2008
ARTSTAR, SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2007
This is Not a Self-Portrait, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL, 2007

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BB Head Shot # 2 (Homage to Mr. Exploding Head)
inkjet print of moles, blemishes, wrinkles and stray hairs, 14 x 11 in, 2007

Other preexisting images are found through online searches and radically changed through the erasure of data, such as BB Head Shot # 2. This sort of “re-sourcing” was used so I could work with a widespread selection of photographs. In these works all the marks are still in their original location in regards to the appropriated photograph. The pieces in this series also retain subtle references to a face.

Exhibitions:
ARTSTAR, SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2007

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Sockol’s Quantum Nebulous
inkjet print of moles, blemishes, wrinkles and stray hairs, 14 x 11 in, 2007

Exhibitions:
ARTSTAR, SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2007

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