| Kamp K48August 4, 2006- August 30, 2006Reception: August 4, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Curated by Scott Hug
Let’s go Kamping!!
Artist/Curator/Publisher Scott Hug is proud to lead you into the
woods for another exciting adventure with K48, the magazine he has
organized and published since 2000. For this outing, Troop K48,
consisting of artists who have been affiliated with K48 throughout
the years, will take you on an artistic hike through the breathtaking
scenery and boundless beauty of the natural world.
The exhibition plans to explore both the stereotypes and realities of
our relationship to the environment, how nature is sometimes used as a
marketing campaign and how we have cultured nature to suit our own
needs. In the installation, nature and the art it has inspired has
been visually fenced in, either to keep you out or to keep it in. The
48+ contributors in Kamp 48 have been working from their own ideas of
nature to create a campsite where mass media’s manipulation of
nature is fully explored. Featured works take cues from horror
movies, abduction stories, troop leaders gone wild, alien abductions
and the army-like transformation of boys to men under the stern
direction of the Boy Scouts of America.
Unique pieces have been created especially for the exhibition which
was first exhibited in The Zine Unbound: Kults, Werewolves, and
Sarcastic Hippies at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San
Francisco, in the fall of 2005. Among many contributions editor Hug
has teamed up with assume vivid astro focus to create assume vivid
astro turf, Dominic McGill has customized the tent with stories from
mass media, Theo A. Rosenblum has made a campfire complete with
smores and a roasting pig and Justin Samson has created an alien,
ready to take you away… be prepared!
Troop 48:
Suzanne Ackerman, Carl D‘Alvia, assume vivid astro focus, Dan
Attoe, Ben Beaudoin, Hisham Bharoocha, Olaf Breuning, Jared
Buckhiester, Chris Caccamise, Peter Coffin, Ryan Compton, Ann Craven,
Joanna Ebenstein, Franklin Evans, Brendan Fowler,
J. Foxx/Edgar Um Bucholtz, Max Goldfarb, Andrew Guenther, John Hogan,
Rachel Howe, Matthew Day Jackson, Terence Koh, Oliver Lutz, LoVid,
Noah Lyon, Michael Magnan, Ashley Macomber, Dominic McGill, Deborah
Mesa-Pelly, Billy Miller, Mirror Mirror, Kenneth Mroczek, Mary J.
Nicholson, Shay Nowick, PFFR, Phiiliip, Jon Rappleye, Theo A.
Rosenblum, Justin Samson, Bill Saylor, Adam Shecter, Christian
Siekmeier, A. L. Steiner, Tracy Stewart, Jim Tozzi, Scott Treleaven,
Shoplifter, Michael Wetzel, Grant Worth, Jeremy Yoder
Kubmaster: Scott Hug
Reviews of Kamp K48Bloomberg.com August 10, 2006 | | Katya Kazakina | | "John Connelly Presents had an opening to kick off its group show ``Kamp K48'' -- opening events are rare in these hot, lazy days.
Curated by Scott Hug, publisher of art zine ``K48,'' the exhibition is a loud, confusing but oddly diverting trip into the collective consciousness of the young American male. ..." |
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