Monthly Archives: February 2012

A Self Portrait & a Moment of Satori

Above is an image of me. I’m holding up a mirror and looking into it. OK, perhaps not exactly, but it is one potentiality of how I see and perceive myself. This is a watered down acrylic painting mixed with some colored pencil over it. I layered it with a nice thick clear acrylic medium. It is mounted on a sturdy illustration board. I may frame it. I may not. I think Ill let my friends and followers on TWITTER help me decide WHAT to do with it next. I posted a quote on my twitter feed yesterday that said this: “Our twitter feed of friends and followers represent the many parts of ourselves, we can examine the parts of ourselves we may not see yet.” I was sitting in traffic when I posted this. It was gridlock on the Long Island Expressway. I normally do not text or tweet while driving, but we were stopped dead for about 15 minutes. These are two great examples of immediacy and self-expression and why twitter is such a great tool for both! We never know when or where inspiration is going to strike. Through my own experiences, it is especially when I am not looking for it. On the other hand though, I have fined tuned my intuition to be on radar for it to a degree. So, as I was looking around at all of the other stopped cars, I had a moment of Satori. Yes, satori, one of those experiences where you realize that you are connected to everything and everyone. I felt all of the ego-based perceptions of separation dissolve! I always love when this happens. It is a euphoric feeling and sensation. At that moment of gratitude, these words came into my head. “Your twitter feed of friends and followers is another great example of this exact same experience”. Everyone is connected. All of those people simply represent the many parts of yourself that you are, have not yet met, developed, or even refuse to see in yourself, you can examine those parts of yourself through the interface and sharing experience the technology allows, you can use twitter as a giant microscope that can examine yourself as the millions of fragments that you are” …….. !!!!!! WHAT! I was overwhelmed to say the least, and where the hell did that come from! I said this out loud, then I realized that my windows were wide open. I got a few perplexed looks back my way. I HAVE TO EXPRESS THIS RIGHT AWAY!! Hence, my tweet! I then realized that I had another dilemma, how do I say this in 140 characters! ARG! Talk about immediate revisions! Finally I got it down and hence the @messages and several DMs flowed in. I am excited to turn this into a post for the blog today. We humans are much more than we are ever taught to think of ourselves as. We are literally infinite universes of potential. We are interconnected, and we really are ONE. This is serious creative potential and we need to understand that. We have so much power to think and feel and share. Twitter is one fragment of the infinite other ways to express and experience this, but if you have never thought of yourself, your followers and those you follow this way, perhaps this insight will add to your experience, yup.

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Cement Keyboard Street Installation Project 2012

Cement Keyboard Street Installation Project 2012

A New Cement Keyboard Street Installation has hit NYC in early 2012. Technology is ephemeral, and maybe more so than we think. We are co-dependent on it, and feel a certain kind of discomfort when it is not accessible (Have you ever, or recently lost your mobile phone, or had your internet access turned off?) This installation project is a metaphor for that, while examining several ways to extend and communicate with its energy. The keyboards are cast in a variety mediums, but in this specific installment, it is cement. The molds are then fractured. They are not usable in any way, yet the viewer resonates with the works as they pass them. In a strange and not so sensual way keyboards unify us as human beings, and the context of this unification is only in its infancy.

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ENERGETIC FUSION :: An Exhibition by Jeffrey Allen Price & Ryan Seslow


::ENERGETIC FUSION::

“The Community Collaboration of an Energetic Fusion.”
Welcome, you are now a participant. It is our intention to activate the creative awareness of the CUNY York College Community. You may ask, what is your creative human potential? What can we learn from creatively collaborating with each other? What do we see and retain when there is a public display and means for collaborative creative expression? We, the artists have installed the beginning of an ongoing energetic exhibition that transcends its energy by inducing and inviting our York college students, faculty, community members and invited guests to participate in the development of the works.

That means you, reading this.

We love the contrast of all things natural versus those of synthetic nature. We would like to do something organic with our process. Process and participation are the key words. The gallery space is now filled with a diverse array of multidisciplinary works that interweave through both of our artistic processes and practices as artists. It is a collaborative survey and micro testing of sorts, but we don’t want it to stop just there. We want to induce you, and our community to participate by adding your reactions to the installation.
What do you see? What do you feel? What do you think? Add that! How may this happen? What exactly will happen? Again, This fusion of pre-installed works now provokes you as the viewer, it asks you to question the experience. It will challenge you to assess the effectiveness of non-verbal communication.
The works included and created in the gallery over our 5-week exhibition time display tangible examples of the multidisciplinary potentials of drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, collage, photography, video, and audio. The campus art gallery is the perfect space for this happening. It is a busy location, where people can easily see what is being created, and changing on a regular basis. This will raise awareness about “how ART in a public site specific space” can shape and help raise the overall level of human awareness, non-verbal communication, and a means of the overall creative potential. It also evokes an ENERGY to take creative action. So please join us by making a drawing, taking a photo, creating a sculpture, etching a print, enacting a performance or any other form of expression induced by your experience in the space, and then add it to the installation. We are as curious to see and experience the outcome as we hope you are. Please join us for one of the Energetic Fusion Art labs! Materials will be provided, but you can also bring your own!

Jeffrey Allen Price & Ryan Seslow

The EF art labs were a great success, we held labs on the following dates.

Lab#1- Friday March 30th – 12pm -4pm -

Featuring the York College Creative Ensemble,

Tom Zlabinger, director, Make art to the Music.

Lab#2 - Tuesday April 3rd – 12pm – 2pm – Club hours, Featuring the York College Creative Ensemble

Lab#3 - Friday April 20th- 12pm – 4pm

Lab#3.5 - Tuesday April 24rd – 12pm – 2pm – Club hours, Featuring the York College Creative Ensemble

Lab#4 - Friday April 27th- 12pm – 4pm

Check out the blog of Jeffrey Allen Price here:: http://www.jeffreyallenprice.com

Check out the EF flickr image galleries here::

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmsmovement/sets/72157629768679229

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50723930@N03/sets/72157629862466927

Read a great article, and see a video about the show courtesy of our York College Colleague Michael Branson Smith ::

http://www.michaelbransonsmith.net/blog/2012/04/22/come-in-make-art

A process video from week #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma2mjjY470o


York College :: 94 – 20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11451 :: 718-262-2000
The York College Art Gallery :: Academic Core Building

A new two man exhibition by Jeffrey Allen Price & Ryan Seslow.  March 26th – May 3rd 2012, CUNY York College Art Gallery, Jamaica NY.

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