AT THE SEAMS...
July 7th - August 15th, 2009

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AT THE SEAMS...
Lynne Harlow and Brett Davidson
curated by Ariane Roesch
July 7, 2009 - August 15, 2009
Opening 7/7/09, 7 - 10 PM
9 PM: Special collaborative muscial performance by Chin Xaou Ti Won with the artists
At the Seams… two places collide, combine, and connect. In a time of reduction and down-sizing, there is a power in simple gestures, such as a stitch, a word, a piece of tape, a draped fabric. This exhibition is a culmination of various media and will feature the book Another Somewhere, the first SKYDIVE publication.

Lynne Harlow’s installation at SKYDIVE essentially is dictated by the architecture of the standard dropped ceiling tiles office environment of the SKYDIVE exhibition space. A piece of sheer fluorescent orange fabric arcs through the space, enforced by metallic golden tape that continues the ceiling tile grid on the wall through the space and into the adjacent spaces as well as marking several places throughout Houston. Brett Davidson’s text reflects on varies places, situations and people. Set in context of quotes, the individual stories muse on situations that are simple in essence yet present a critical commentary on our way of being. Both text and image will be presented together in the book Another Somewhere, available for purchase at SKYDIVE.

PREVIOUS EXHIBITION:

SISYPHUS OFFICE
Alex Clausen, David Fullarton, Alice Shaw, David Keating, Elysa Lozano, Joe McKay, Brion Nuda Rosch, Susan O’Malley, Ryan Thayer, Lindsey White
organized by Jonn Herschend
May 8 - June 27th 2009
Progressive opening May 8th
4-6 Houston Decorative Center
5120 Woodway Suite 3029
6-8 at Skydive
3400 Montrose Suite 907 (and nearby locations)Performance by Skydive musicians Chin Xaou Ti Won opening night

SKYDIVE is pleased to announce its most ambitious exhibition in scope and sprawl, Sisyphus Office, organized by San Francisco based artist, curator, and co-founder of The Thing Quarterly, Jonn Herschend. Sisyphus Office will open May 8th from 5-8:30pm. Locations of artist’s projects for Sisyphus Office include The Decorative Center, Nea House of Beauty, Copy.com, the Aurora Picture Show’s office, KPFT 90.1 radio’s offices, Caroline Collective and Skydive’s office.
Based out of Skydive, the artists involved in the project are collaborating with businesses and offices around Houston in order to centralize art as an integral and necessary distraction in our day to day life. 

The artists and offices involved in Sisyphus Office are working physically and conceptually with the notions of existentialism, romantic capitalism*, artistic romanticism and deadpan slapstickism as a means to examine and probe the artifice that keeps us clinging to reality and distracted from the void.

Sisyphus Office is about punching the clock, and then punching it again…but harder the second time.  It’s about Laurel and Hardy helping out in a business.   It’s also about transcending the mundane through the beauty and absurdity of distraction and repetition, like watching paper being fed into a printer, or waiting for a file to upload.  It’s the comedy in the tragedy of the day to day… and then waking up again to do the same thing all over again the next morning.