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Maintenance Mode
Dec
11
to Jan 23

Maintenance Mode

December 11th, 2015-January 23rd, 2016

Opening reception: December 11th, 6-8p with burgers and fries from The Sourball Grill

The upcoming exhibition “Maintenance Mode” takes the subject of work and examines how it both constrains and inspires artistic practice while keeping artists’ lives together. The exhibition opens on Friday, December 11, from 6 to 8 pm and closes Saturday, January 23 at Public Space One, 120 N. Dubuque Street, Iowa City.

The artists in this exhibition look at how the necessary work for maintaining life can become art, either by their jobs influencing the art they make, by taking work as their subject, or by making art from daily activities. Maintenance activities – work that is generally less valued, but which nonetheless sustains, renews, and prolongs - are especially valued by this exhibition.

The exhibition features video, sculpture, objects to form a future performance, interactive web-based art, installation, and drawings. In addition, the artist collaborative Fluxion will produce a series of weekly meals for ten artists, positing cooking as art and putting their artistic practice on a service plane and in the service of their peers. The exhibition also features Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Manifesto for Maintenance Art, a seminal piece of conceptual art writing from the year 1969.

Artists included in the exhibition are: Josh Black, Kasey Bullerman, Leah Burke, Jason Eisner, Fluxion, Paul Howe, Josh Johnson, Michael Kellner, Gretta Louw, Jessica Pleyel, Alexandra Robinson, Jeff Schmuki, Matthew Fleming & The Sourball Grill, M. Earl Williams, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.

Organized and curated by Bea Drysdale and the PS1 gallery team.

THE SOURBALL (OF THE REVOLUTION) GRILL pops up as a play off Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Manifesto for Maintenance Art to “provide sustenance for the garbage removal needs of the revolution since 2015." Yep. Join us at the opening for the pop-up burger and fry shop and enjoy some fast food done slowly. We’ll be serving burgers and fries (and eternally out of perfume and sox).

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Margins of the Multiple
Nov
13
to Dec 6

Margins of the Multiple

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Group exhibition

November 13th - December 6th, 2015

Street tour & potuluck: Fri, Nov. 6th, 4 pm (meet at PS1 & stay warm!)

Opening reception: November 13th, 5-7p

Margins of the Multiple is a collaborative print-based project and group exhibition organized by Louise Fisher. Twelve artists have made work situated in the public realm (streets, parks, shops) in the Iowa City area. The work will be showcased as documentation of the project and a map of the installations. Visitors are encouraged to experience and interact with the pieces both in and outside the gallery.

Featuring: Jenny Gringer, Desiree Dahl, Craig Volesky, John Engelbrecht, Ashlie Coady, Sayuri Hemann, Emily Jalinsky, C.R Cooper, Leigha George, Jeanne Smith, Britta Young, Louise Fisher.

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Arranged Marriage: Gryan Shrosbree & Surya Gied
Sep
19
to Oct 23

Arranged Marriage: Gryan Shrosbree & Surya Gied

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September 19th-October 23rd, 2015

Opening reception: September 20th, 4-6



Two works as one entity. The abstract patterns and different materials break into the scenes of figuration and surfaces.

The combination of work creates a surprising and playful conversation driven by a modular collage making approach.

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LOOKER: Guarded // Taylor Yocom + Nudes Leaked! // KT Hawbaker-Krohn
May
9
to May 30

LOOKER: Guarded // Taylor Yocom + Nudes Leaked! // KT Hawbaker-Krohn

May 9-30th, 2015

Opening reception: May 9th, 6-9p

Community forum: May 9th 6-7p

Guarded // Taylor Yocom

Guarded uses portraits of college women holding their keychain self-defense items to demonstrate the physical manifestation that victim blaming and rape culture have on society.

Nudes Leaked // KT Hawkbaker-Krohn

In direct response to the leaking of celebrity female nudes online, Nudes Leaked invited anyone who identifies as a woman or off of the binary to pose for a photograph where they feel the most naked and powerful at the same time. It was up to subject's imagination and intersections to decide the final result. The idea is to display female nudity ni all of its complications, to demystify its vulnerability, and to question its constant hypersexualization. The subjects here act powerfuly, in consenting solidarity with women whose privacy is continually violated by men behind computer screens. By putting their nude bodies out in public, with all of their stories attached, the Nudes Leaded collective seeks to uproot the status quo that perpetuates the consumption of the female body.

PS1 interviews Taylor Yocom and KT Hawbaker-Krohn.
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Metamorphosing and Disarranging Cycle: Danielle Sigler & Maggie Yocius
Apr
24
to May 1

Metamorphosing and Disarranging Cycle: Danielle Sigler & Maggie Yocius

April 24th-May 1st

Reception April 24th, 5-7p

A collaborative venture between artists Danielle Sigler and Maggie Yocius exploring the cycles of change, pattern and stability with special focus on the lunar cycle and the four phases of a one-month cycle in women's bodies. Through watercolor,  large scale drawings, and mixed media, come discover an insider's view of an ongoing conversation between these two women.

PS1 interviews artists Maggie Yocius and Danielle Sigler.
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Corrections: Zora Murff
Mar
27
to Apr 12

Corrections: Zora Murff

March 27th-April 12th, 2015

Reception: March 27th, 6-8p

Corrections by Zora Murff is a photography series that serves as an appraisal of adolescents' experiences in the juvenile justice system, attempting to gain an understanding of how the broader concepts of control and privacy affect their rehabilitation and development.

PS1 interviews artist Zora J Murff.
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Habit(at)s: Eva Adderley & Lindsay A. Nissen
Mar
6
to Mar 22

Habit(at)s: Eva Adderley & Lindsay A. Nissen

Eva Adderley & Lindsay A. Nissen

March 6-22nd, 2015

Reception: March 6th, 6-8p

Habit(at)s is an exhibition combining two interactive installations. Lyndsay Nissen's "Clean Sweep" is a modified claw machine which allows game play based on local USGS river data. Eva Adderley invites audiences to "embrace the bowerbird" and scavenge, weave, and decorate her human-sized nests.

PS1 interviews artists Eva Adderley and Lyndsey Nissen.
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