PILE@PLUS MAY 6

group performance at plus gallery, 2501 larimer street, denver.
may 6, 2011, first friday!

PILE @ plus gallery

Preview of a piece for
FANTAZIA2011
at Rhinoceropolis
Saturday
February 12th

rock.paper.stories

January 7 - February 6

artists reception January 7, 6-9pm

Rock, Paper, Stories at Abecedarian Gallery, 910 Santa Fe, #101.

new work by gallery interns Jonathon Wiley & Liz Greene

above : Wandering Osprey by Jonathon Wiley

above : Everything by Liz Greene

in the Reading Room

Elizabeth M. Claffey

recipient of the Abecedarian Gallery Emerging Artist Exhibition Grant

Above detail of Petri Portraits by Elizabeth M. Claffey

 

your body will remember

Your Body Will Remember
2010

attackoftheflapjack

attack of the flapjack from liz greeen on Vimeo.

attackoftheflapjack
2009?

Doyouwantit v6
liz greeen
2010

everything

Everything, 2010

dinoaur

THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THANK YOU


He has saved you from the redundancy and tedium of conventional recycling and skipped all the erroneous steps - plastic, returned to its original jurrasic form.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

BIG BOOK PROJECT
9.10.2010
29 signatures=145 11x17 sheets=290 pages

1.5" of 5'9" folded. :] Now just... more folding, more folding. Binding and more binding.

Like all artists, I want to create something bigger than myself.

it's okay for art to be pretty

It is, I really believe it.

Today I :

Brain Pixel

brain pixel from liz greeen on Vimeo.

My final video work of the last two semesters - soon, more! Making these is really slow.

Some credits - the whale and chicken rotoscopy is done from stock footage from Getty and the cat is from footage by Dmitrius K Obergfel. This was silent up until Stephan Herrera awesomely worked together a soundtrack for it - I think the entire mood of the piece is changed and improved by this, and honestly I would never have considered it finished without his hard work.

Don't you know?

Haha. Heh.


I feel like it's redundant to explain text-based art, but maybe the sarcasm here isn't exactly obvious.
Working at Whole Foods, especially, I am growingly aware of how organics and recycling are new forms of conspicuous consumption. I feel that in a way, the eco-consciesness movement has lost a lot of heart, or more specifically, lost a lot of direction. The green movement can do a lot to better the world, indeed, but it realistically has become an extension of the market instead of a pragmatic solution to the very real problem of global pollution (plastics most especially).

Point being - the world will not be saved by artists ironing together plastic bags to make art, or recycling plastic cups, nor by buying new "green" reusable objects, or buying anything, really. Sustainability is not achievable through MORE consumption - a paradigm shift needs to take place in which individuals are aware of how to make what they need in order to live, so as to avoid the unnecessary production of useless disposable junk.

also,

I have been making some little things..




:]

artist assisting

Been working with John Mcenroe to fill ten thousand glass tubes with polyeurathane resin for an installation by Donald Lipski.


It has been pretty fucking awesome.

I made some things today, this is one of them.
Part of a body of mail art for a January show at Abecedarian Gallery. :]