#americanmedium

[crudevessels]

Aria Dean “Untitled (Obscenities)” 2017

[justascottishmedium]

A #circle in #Fredonia. The trip saw the start of a training company to launch a month long #spiritualistcourse in Scotland for #AmericanMediums in #ScottishChurches. www.americanandscottishspiritualism.com www.justascottishmedium.com https://www.instagram.com/p/By23mOclP0-/?igshid=1sigd2gyjkkn6

[brian-kenny]

OTK2 🔥⛄️ 2K18 -—-—-—-—-—— A huge THANK YOU to all the artists, performers, poets, participants and voyeurs who ignited our creative explosion! 💥💥💥 🙏🙏🙏 @boy.radio @chvrlieshxxna @mike__law @deedeedame @slavamogutin @victorjeffreysii @tylerjashley @richjuz @joshleeworld @brucelabruce @djtylerstone @natashagornik @karuna_music @ajerseykid @cachofalconart @fourteenstarsinthesky @nicholaspennsylvania @frankierice7 @lovetripps @josephkeckler @madpinxit @gerryvisco ——// Special thanks to our hosts and sponsors @americanmedium @the_dreamhouse_ @gageoftheboone & @sixpoint 🙏🙏🙏📸📸📸 Photos by @natashagornik @victorjeffreysii @gioblackpeterx @richjuz & myself 😜🤘 (at American Medium)

[cole-lu]

did a little writing earlier this year, one piece is featuring in Codétte journal #3, readings tomorrow 7pm at @americanmedium (at Loch Ness)

[gioblackpeter]

Just published, all of Part1 OTK photos @gayletter website www.gayletter.com 🔥 Part 1 by @victorjeffreysii @briankennny and myself Part 2 by @natashagornik is coming next. 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you to @americanmedium @the_dreamhouse_ for inviting us to participate in their series. Big thank you to all the artist who made the night ❤️❤️❤️: Victor Jeffreys, Tyler Stone, Karuna, Frankie Rice, Charlie Sheena, Nick Rastiger, Boy Radio, Mike Law, Bruce LaBruce, Slava Mogutin, Tyler Ashley, Madeline Bohm, Josh Lee, Rich Juzwiak, Nicholas Pennsylvania, El Mira, Cacho Falcon, Yaegerman, Natasha Gornik, Ari Fraser, Nicky Miller, Joseph Keckler and Straight To Hell Magazine 🔥🔥🔥 @gioblackpeterx @briankennny @the_dreamhouse_ @boy.radio @chvrlieshxxna @mike__law @deedeedame @slavamogutin @victorjeffreysii @tylerjashley @richjuz @joshleeworld @brucelabruce @djtylerstone @natashagornik @karuna_music @ajerseykid @cachofalconart @fourteenstarsinthesky @nicholaspennsylvania @frankierice7 @lovetripps @nickymiller0 @josephkeckler @madpinxit (at American Medium)

[theamericanparlor]

Peignoir

Date: 1860–65Culture: AmericanMedium: cottonDimensions: Length at CB (bodice): 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm) Length (skirt): 41 1/2 in. (105.4 cm)Credit Line: Gift of M. Winifred and Beatrice F. Hyslop, 1960Accession Number: C.I.60.11.1Metropolitan Museum of Art

[bhsutton]

Cheyenne Julien, "Shook" (2017) at @americanmedium. 😱👌 (at American Medium)

[evan4sh]

Title: Comparative Religion no.021 of the Passive Aggressive Gallery Project. Tired of waiting for galleries to come to me, I'm putting my art in galleries ( Instagram hashtag feeds) #sketchbook #doodle #creative #藝術 #dibujo #kunst #art #فن #美术 #arte #कला #liminal #magick #イラスト#マンガ#漫画 #instaart #drawing #lowbrow #notebook #pencil #instadaily #digital #artoftheday #americanmedium (at American Medium)

[nofomoartworld]

Hyperallergic: The Liberation of ’90s R&B Divas

Installation view, E. Jane: Lavendra at American Medium (photo by Jillian Seinhauer/Hyperallergic)

In Lavendra, the current exhibition at American Medium gallery, viewers ponder ’90s R&B and its agency. Silk digital prints hang on the gallery walls, showing collaged portraits of black female musicians from the time, while videos play on LCD monitors installed on the floor. The room is dim and washed in purple, invoking Alice Walker’s landmark novel The Color Purple (1982). On the monitors, the artist E. Jane performs as her avatar, Lavendra, singing and lip-synching to three different songs.

A through line emerges from E. Jane’s selection of material from the ’90s. One of the songs is “Sittin’ Up in My Room,” recorded by Brandy and featured in Waiting to Exhale, a 1995 film in which four black women dream and articulate their desires. Produced by Kenneth Edmonds for Arista Records, the film’s soundtrack includes a range of black divas, including Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, and Whitney Houston (who also stars in the movie). Blige and Houston dominate E. Jane’s collage prints for the show.

E. Jane, detail of “A Woman Who Loves Other Women” (2016–17), digital print on silk, mixed media, 40 x 60 inches (image courtesy the artist and American Medium)

Lavendra is both self-expression (E. Jane’s own performances) and tribute (the collection of pop singer portraits). The work uses strategies of the performance of the self — particularly the video selfie — in a way similar to the artist’s 2015 digital piece “An ephemeral instagram installation that has already changed,” which includes nine 15-second video self-portraits. This brings to mind writer Rob Horning’s idea of a tension between “the static profile and the real-time experience of being a self in a dynamic social media feed environment.” While “An ephemeral instagram installation” originally existed as a real-time feed, it has come to live in an online archive. Horning adds that “the tension between the archive and the feed puts pressure on this concept of authenticity.” This implies that self-performance on social media fractures authenticity. Is E. Jane Lavendra? Is Lavendra E. Jane? For the exhibition viewer, that distinction can be murky, further complicating the question of the artist’s relationship to Brandy, Blige, and the other women featured in the show.

I saw E. Jane’s ‘Lavendra’ at @americanmedium more than a week ago, and I cannot get Brandy out of my head. And it is awesome.

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Lavendra creates a hazy feeling of nostalgia for the 1990s, but doesn’t bring the viewer beyond it. Though the exhibition borrows aesthetic and sensual gestures (for example, video choreography) from the pop divas, it glosses over the issue of how black women’s sexuality has been relegated to the recesses of American feminist discourse. The title of a silk print, “A woman who loves women,” gives only a hint of the queer undertones.

It’s a far cry from the work of artists such as Cheryl Dunye and Kara Walker, who have presented complex images of the desires of black women. Even so, Lavendra invites viewers to reconsider ’90s R&B as a site of black freedom — an important gesture in the midst of Trump-era sexism. Singing and embracing black diva-ism, E. Jane suggests, could be a form of liberation.

E. Jane, “Sittin’upinmyroom-mhysa.mp4″ (2015), video, sound, 3’19” (image courtesy the artist and American Medium)

E. Jane: Lavendra continues at American Medium (424 Gates Avenue, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn) through May 7.

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[chukwumaa]

RG @e_scraaatch My first NY solo show "Lavendra" opens tonight at @americanmedium then come celebrate at the afterparty hosted by @shockvaluenyc My boo @lilboosie_playcousin will be there and the line-up is v cute! Come thru! And thanks to everyone making this happen 💜 http://ift.tt/2ogQd9m

[american-medium]

#annhirsch with #americanmedium at #materialartfair feb 4th-7th #mexicocity

[brian-kenny]

Back in the day, When @gioblackpeterx and I used to bartend together at Boysroom, we'd go crazy- jump all over the bar, draw on the walls, make the go-go dancers get naked, or only wear trash bags, Gio would sing, I would pole dance and we'd spank people for free Jaeger shots (we had beautiful paddles). Eventually we saw an opportunity to throw our own weekly party, so we just leaned into what we were already doing and called it OTK DISCIPLINE! Then we began inviting our creative friends to come and drink, dance, get spanked or naked, perform dj, take portraits, however you wanted to express yourself. Boysroom closed a few years later and our arty party ended. But we really valued and enjoyed the experience of creating a local communal space where our queer comrades in creativity could come and truly be themselves, so we found a much bigger space in Brooklyn, and formally arranged our biggest OTK event with as many friends and artists as we could muster in one night, all together. It was fantastic, I'd knew we'd do it again eventually, and here we are! 💪🏼🎨💪🏼OTK2🔥⛄️🔥 SEE ART! MAKE ART!! BE ART!!! 🦋🦋🦋 Space is limited, you can purchase a ticket at: www.eventbrite.com search: Gio Black Peter Brian Kenny 🔥🔥🔥 or LINK IN BIO. Thank you to @americanmedium gallery and The Spectrum @the_dreamhouse_ who is presenting this as part of their Nocturnal Emissions program. American Medium, 515 West 20th Street, #3N, New York, NY 10011 🔥 Featuring performances and work by : @gioblackpeterx @briankennny @boy.radio @chvrlieshxxna @charleneincarnate @mike__law @deedeedame @slavamogutin @victorjeffreysii @tylerjashley @richjuz @joshleeworld @brucelabruce @djtylerstone @natashagornik @karuna_music @ajerseykid @cachofalconart @fourteenstarsinthesky @nicholaspennsylvania @frankierice7 @lovetripps @nickymiller0 @josephkeckler (at American Medium)

[cole-lu]

thx to @greedygraces @americanmedium and to everyone who came out last night, While Removing the Garbage or Paying the Cleaner with @andrefilipek will be on view thru June 30 (at American Medium)

[gioblackpeter]

here's fotos from first OTK night. fotos by @slavamogutin See you this Saturday Jan 13, 8pm-11pm @ OTK2 🔥🔥🔥 Space is limited, you can purchase a ticket at: www.eventbrite.com search: Gio Black Peter Brian Kenny 🔥🔥🔥 This is the second time I am collaborating w my great friend of 13years; Brian Kenny on putting together a night which celebrates queer artists from different fields and allows them to perform & show work together as a collective. Some of these artist have never shown work together before and rather than wait for an invitation we are making it happen for ourselves. Now more than ever it is important we are reminded of what we can accomplish when we come together as a community. We are proud of the 26 artists who will be participating at OTK2 ; a night of live performance, onsite installation, live music, film, photography & dance. See you there x GBP 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you to @americanmedium gallery and The Spectrum @the_dreamhouse_ who is presenting this as part of their Nocturnal Emissions program. American Medium, 515 West 20th Street, #3N, New York, NY 10011 🔥 Featuring performances and work by : @gioblackpeterx @briankennny @boy.radio @chvrlieshxxna @charleneincarnate @mike__law @deedeedame @slavamogutin @victorjeffreysii @tylerjashley @richjuz @joshleeworld @brucelabruce @djtylerstone @natashagornik @karuna_music @ajerseykid @cachofalconart @fourteenstarsinthesky @nicholaspennsylvania @frankierice7 @lovetripps @nickymiller0 @josephkeckler

[colin-self]

Clump TV Episode 2: Nature

[bhsutton]

E. Jane's "A woman who loves other women" (2016–17) at @americanmedium. 💜 (at American Medium)