BE THEREArtists Using YouTubePresented by The Kitchen May 13, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmSue de Beer, Matthew Higgs, Matthew Ronay
Despite constantly appearing in the media as an analog to television, movies, music videos and even political campaigns, YouTube has become a significant phenomenon in the art world—steadily and often invisibly. Artists Using YouTube seeks to reveal how YouTube serves as a source of inspiration and distraction for many of today’s contemporary artists. Rachel Greene is a partner in the art consulting and art production agency Art and Advisory. Her clients include individual collectors as well as bands and businesses needing artwork or artist collaborations. In 1999- 2000, Rachel was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. Her Whitney Program thesis was published in Artforum magazine (2000), and later turned into a book, Internet Art published in Thames and Hudson’s prestigious World of Art series in 2004. Also that year, Greene served as a curatorial consultant and catalogue essayist for the Whitney Biennial. More recent projects include exhibitions Rules of Crime and Contagious Media at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and I Smell Pregnant, a show of Ryan Trecartin's at QED in Los Angeles in the Spring of 2006. Other affiliations include Rhizome.org, and Participant, Inc, an alternative space on the Lower East Side of New York where she is a founding board member. Sue de Beer is an artist who uses video, photographs and performance to explore the connections between media and cultural phenomena. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in such venues as the New Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Deitch Projects, Postmasters Gallery and Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Kunst Werke and the Kunsthalle Shirn in Germany, and the Neue Gallerie am Landes Museum Joanneum in Austria, and solo exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery and the Bangkok Biennial, in February 2007. De Beer’s work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Goetz Collection. She received her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1998. Matthew Higgs (b.1964 Wakefield, England) has exhibited internationally since 1992. His work was most recently included in the 2007 exhibitions EX LIBRIS: Matthew Higgs and Peter Wuethrich, University Gallery Umass, Amherst, MA; and Are You Happy, The Apartment, Vancouver, BC, Canada; as well as the 2008 exhibition A New High In Getting Low, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY. Higgs is a widely published writer and a regular contributor to Artforum magazine whose recent and forthcoming contributions to publications for Kay Rosen, Ken Price, John McCracken, Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, Marilyn Minter, Elizabeth Peyton, and Peter Doig, amongst others. As a curator he has organized more than 150 exhibitions and projects in Europe, the United States and Canada. Since November 2004 Higgs has been the director and chief curator of White Columns, New York, where he has organized numerous individual exhibitions and projects. Matthew Ronay was born in 1976 in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998 and earned an MFA from Yale University in 2000. He currently lives and works in New York. Matthew recently had a solo show at Andrea Rosen Gallery in February 2008. In 2006 Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, hosted a major one-man presentation of the artist’s work, Goin’ Down, Down, Down. Ronay has recently been included in several notable group exhibitions, including Phantasmania, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and the traveling exhibition Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, which originated at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway. Matthew Ronay and Nathan Carter make up the sporadically performing band The Final Run iNs. They last appeared at the Vizcaya Gardens in Miami, FL for The Ball of Artists in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach. Other recent shows include Dirty Burt’s Bubble Spa and Blue Bazaar performed in Los Angeles, CA, at the Mandrake, and Hong Kong Restaurant all ages show in New York, NY, at Taxter and Spengemann. Their next show will be as Esther Schipper Galerie, Berlin in May 2008.
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