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"I saw your show at the Yerba Buena Center when I was giving a lecture at my show across the street at the SFMoMA. I'm glad to say your show didn't suck!"
- Kiki Smith
"For press releases, we ought to give people more up to date member lists....no Bill, no Myles, no me..but instead a bunch of people who aren't participating in the show, don't participate in space events, and/or don't even got studios....let's just use the 1026 debtors list. People who owe months and months of back-rent are a better representation of current 1026 members then all the yuppies and sell-outs on the current list. JK JK JK BFF BFF BFF Will"
- Willaim 'Captain Andy Cappp'
BuzzelWill, does your email need a breathalizer?
- Jon 'HaveBoard' Finnigan
Selected Exhibitions
2007
Indexophilia. Bravin Lee, Chelsea NYC (upcoming)
Blood in. Blood out. 96 Gillespie, London, UK
No Bad Blood,Cinders Gallery. Brooklyn, NY
Locally Localized Gravity. Institue of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2006
Art in the Style of Radical. Magic Pony Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Peer Pleasure I. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005
Space 1026 at D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival. DUMBO, NYC
Space 1026. F4, Milan, ItalyPop Pluralism. Jonathon Levine Gallery, NYC
2004
2 Steps Back. 55DSL Traveling Show Through Germany, Italy, England, France, Spain and the US
The Stray Show. Unknown Gallery, Chicago, IL
It Came From Above. Space237, Toledo, OH
Beaver College. Cincinnati OH In conjunction with ÒBeautiful LosersÓ exhibit at Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art
2003
Raw Stiches:55DSL.Traveling Diesel Show. ASR - San Diego, Punch - San Francisco CA, Camp Fig - San Antonio TX
PECO: Emerge. PECO Utilities Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA
In Liquid: Artist Fundraising Auction. The Power House. Philadelphia, PA
2002
Scratch Off the Serial. Institute Of Contemporary Art. Philadelphia, PA
2001
Small Town Bullies. CBGB's, NYC
Blunt. The Butcher shop, Chicago, IL
2000
Nine From Space. Lump Gallery, North Carolina
Space 1026. Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
1999
Relish. Vox Populi. Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Council of Lawyers For Art. Art Alliance. Philadelphia, PA
1998
May Salon. Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, OH
Woods Gerry. Woods Gerry Gallery. Providence, RI
1997
May Salon. Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, OH
Union. Free Space, Providence, RI
Select Publications
'Pulling Teeth' Freenews Press, Philadelphia, 2006
Adam Wallacavage 'Monster Sized Monsters' Ginko Press, LA 2006
Jim Houser 'Babble' Ginko Press, LA. 2005
Jesse Goldstein
Jesse Goldstein has been a member of space 1026 since 2001. He is mainly a printmaker and a mess-maker. Recent projects include a children's book (illustrated by Ben Woodward) that is due out this fall, and a curatorial project at Temple University's Gallery called "Manybody." He splits his time between Philly and NY, where he is working on a PhD at the City University of New York. He still likes Philly better
Thom Lessner
Thom Lessner was born in Evanston, Illinois and currently lives in Philadelphia. He is a self taught Modern Primitive and Contemporary Folk artist whose work includes recognizable tribute portraits of local sports heroes, record covers of bands from the 70's and 80's, such as the Ramones, BeeGees, Van Halen and Man O' War and miniatures painted on pennies. He works in acrylic, house paint and screen-printing. His work has been influenced by graffiti artists and he often wheat-pastes his work on walls, outside. (listen to Thom Lessner's alias as Sweatheart, a neo folk band with the Paul Green School).
Benjamin Woodward
Benjamin' Woodward was born in west philadelphia in the summer of 1974, on the day the supreme court supeenid the tapes from the nixon white house. I was all ways really bad at school. i am dysecic and still really bad at the reading and the righting. this made me daw all the time. when i was in high-school my family moved to the suburbs, and meet Andrew jeffery Wright and Adam Wallacavage. they introduce me to skateboarding and zeins making. i spent a few years living in Providence RI. working for shepherd fairy before the Obey thing took off. he should me how to screen print real good and showed me how to wheat past. When i moved back to phila, in 97 John Freeborn, Jeff Wiesner, Andrew Jeffery Wright, Adam Wallacavage, Max Lawrence, and my self started space 1026 gallery and studios. We have been working and showing art for almost 10 years now. I have show every where from south phila to osaka japan. i currently live with my wife, chi-eun Kim, our 3 year old daughter Atari, and our one eyed black pug dog Leroy.
With my work i try to find moment that unite people in there common experience. I like to use antrapamorfic caricters to keep the race and sex out of my painting, even thou i try to talk about race and sex, i don't want the viewer to i dentifi with the carictor culler, just there experience. (Check out Ben's alias Mr Ten Fingers with his dj residency at the 700 Club)
Isaac Lin
Isaac Lin, currently represented by Fleisher Ollman gallery, is an emerging artist and member of Space 1026. He has an MFA Degree in Painting and Drawing from California College of the Arts, and has taught with Philadelphia's notable Mural Arts program. After earning his BA degree from RISD in 1998, Isaac joined the Space and has become one of its reputable ambassadors, as he has toured the country and various venues showing his work alongside peers Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Ben Woodward, Thom Lessner, and Jim Houser. In 2005, he was invited to Maine to participate in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Resident Arts program.
Jesse Clanday
Jesse Olanday enjoys a good po' boy sangwich, because he's a po' boy hisself. Commonly mistaken for Patrick Swayze's young brother, this limber visual artist assures you that he has no allegiances to any organization or person. Pinkie Swear.
Bill McRight
Bill McRight was born in Decatur, GA in 1978. He has lived in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, New York andcurrently Philadelphia. He has been fortunate to work with Cannonball Press, Saturday Skateboards and Mishka NYC. When he is not carving linoleum or wood he spends his time making shanks, lurking in shadows and laughing at bad luck. See more of his work at www.fantasticlurking.com
Justin Meyer Staller
Justin Myer Staller is a green printmaker now living in the woods of western mass. where he runs the studio www.tinymediaempire.com/studio.
Caitlin Perkins
Caitlin Perkins is a self-described thrifty Yankee girl from northern New Hampshire where she attended a three-room schoolhouse in the village of Jackson. Her work includes prints, artist books and installations and draws heavily on the visual vernacular of urban streets and historical collections. She is particularly obsessed with 19th Century sea exploration, 18th Century literature, natural science museums and menageries.
Perkins has an MFA in Printmaking/Book Arts from The University of the Arts and a BFA from the University of New Mexico. By day she works for Philagrafika, a non profit arts organization supporting fine art printmaking and is a founding member of the Philadelphia Center for the Book. She is a practicing artist working out of Space 1026 in Philadelphia.
Mark Price
Mark Price is a factory. The recipient of the Xeric Grant in 2006 he has self produced two entirely hand silkscreen printed perfect bound books. He has shown his printed work at Foundation Gallery in Chicago, Giant Robot in San Francisco, Think Space Gallery in Los Angeles, Fountain New York in Manhattan, and Padlock Gallery in Philadelphia in addition to showing collectively as part of Space 1026. He is 25 and was born in Detroit. www.MarkPriceisaFactory.com
Jason Hsu
Jason Hsu grew up in the suburbs outside of Boston. When he was 5 he wanted to be Michael Jackson. Now at the age of 28 he has long since set adrift from his childhood aspirations but has in recent months taken to doodling with a bag of gel pens that he found in his studio.
Crystal Stokowski
Crystal Stokowski "single, sagittarius, high school dropout, lover of max lawrence, vegan pot head"
Ryan Thacker
Ryan Thacker is on the verge of becoming a former Space 1026 member, after slowly coming to the realization that, as much as he would like the opposite to be true, he is actually more of a solitary creature than he had originally thought, and is either too lazy or unmotivated to split his time between three different workplaces, but he still had a really good time while he was there, and his heart weighs heavy when his brain thinks of all the fun he missed/will miss.
Liz Rywelski
Philadelphia based artist, Liz Rywelski, visits Kmart stores, creates a temporary identity and then asks for the assistance of the store's employees in having her portrait taken.On one trip she is a recent college graduate, hoping to take picturesto send to her family. On another trip, she is the fiance of a soldier stationed in Iraq, and wants to send her beau a portrait. She introduces herself to some of the employees as a customer in need of assistance, creative assistance, and then allows herself to become a canvas for their creativity and their sense of style. She asks them to choose clothes for her, makeup, accessories, and then in the in-store photo studio, staffed by an untrained photographer, she allows them to select the best backdrop, props and poses.
Rywelski's project is based on her role as facilitator as opposed to singular creator. However, instead of collaborating with a singular artist-genius, Rywelski collaborates with the employees of Kmart, working individuals whose low-wage employment at a large retailer has been expurgated of most substantive creativity. She allows these employees to transform their role as wage-laborers into creators Ð working with them in the store, they become Rywelski's master printers.
Matthew Kosoy
Matthew Kosoy now lives in Brooklyn, NY where he is an open source web applications developer for a design firm located iin Manhattan. He helped create Space 1026's website when he was a studio member there in 2004.
MYLES
Just known as, MYLES dropped from the clouds right into place at Space 1026. Originally from Chicago, she busies her hands with printmaking, tshirt design,.event planning and the street art game. She also does dumb shit like burlesque belly dancing with her new vriend Max...
She hates writing about herself.
Holly Gressley
Holly Gressley grew up in a Pennsylvania Dutch town singing "Jesus Loves Me" in German and designing anything she could get her hands on. She studied graphic design at Parsons School of Design in New York, and has worked with a variety of studios and publications including Flat, Number 17, David Carson, Ryan McGinness, Print, and Mass Appeal. She likes psychedelia, multiple residences, the New Yorker, West Philly, cactus graffiti, typography, throwing parties. Holly lives in Brooklyn, where she designs books, identity, and print projects.
Clint Woodside
Clint Woodside is head of a small design studio named Tomorrow. (www.madebytomorrow.com) He is originally from Buffalo, a town that has still not won the Stanley Cup. Clint is positive his parents have no idea what he does for a living.
Hanif O'Neil
Hanif O'Neil is an video artist, critical writer and current member of the Space 1026 collective. Deeply interested in promoting media literacy and accountability, he has recently completed a Master's Degree in Visual Criticism at California College of Arts and Crafts (CCA). Hanif, a Philadelphia native and graduate from Temple University started a career in asset management -he soon left to pursue his curiosity in film and video. He spent years working as a freelancer in film and video production starting as a production assistant and moving on to working as a digital video assistant, media technician and creative director.
His notable productions credits have been on projects for: Island/Def Jam, Philadelphia STYLE, University of the Arts, NBC Sports, ESPN, NFL Films, Inc., D'Amico Studios, and MTV Networks. Hanif has assisted with instruction of youth video workshops in Chinatown (Philadelphia) and has performed as a video-jockey with the klip//collective, in part of the 2004 Inliquid.com exhibit "SUPERLUMINOUS//Re:Mixed." His most recent interactive video project was part of CCA's Spring 2006 "Interface" show in Oakland, CA. He is currently developing a visual literacy workshop with the youth writing organization 826 Valencia, located in San Francisco, CA; and writing a critical essay for exposure, the Journal of the Society for Photographic Education called, ÒAbercrombie & Fitch Life, Style, and Outfitting: A Discriminating Tradition.Ó
O. Roman Hasiuk
O.Roman Hasiuk is a designer, printmaker and overall character presently hiding out in Philadelphia. He designs in 2, 3 and occasionally 4 dimensions- tattoos, furniture, jewelry, posters, wallpaper, typefaces, books, clothing and so on. He spends his free time reading poetry, enameling insects, distilling spirits and practicing sciomancy. Most people believe he is a vampire-cowboy pushing his 767th birthday.
Ted Passon
Ted Passon is an award-winning film and video maker living in Philadelphia. Named an "Up and Coming Young Artist to Watch" by the Philadelphia Weekly, his work has been exhibited in film festivals, galleries, TV channels, DIY spaces, and other venues around the US and abroad. His short film "Robot Boy" has won over six awards and was featured as an in-flight movie on Continental Airlines. He currently has a DVD collection of his work out on K-Records. In addition to filmmaking he has curated film screenings for venues such as: The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The New York Underground Film Festival, and the 180 Meridian Cinema in Fiji. He founded and co-runs both the Small Change experimental film screening series and the Padlock Gallery in Philadelphia. He likes being apart of Space 1026. http://www.tedpasson.com
William Buzzell
William Buzzell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, studied art at the New School for Social Research in New York City and became known for the street art he produced using a fake name. His paintings and sculptures explore social issues using non-traditional forms and figures with an emphasis on letters and wordplay. William Buzzell is an Eagle Scout.
Jayson Scott Musson
Jayson Scott Musson - graphic artist/writer/jedi knight/ misanthrope and Belle and Sebastian fan. He spends his summers wasting. (Check out Jayson other aliases as the sardonic Pack of Rats in Rap Group Plastic Little as well as his black boy george neo folk group American Sneakers. )
Maximillian Pond Lawrence
In 1997 he co-founded Space 1026 with his group of Rhode Island School of Design flunkies. Overall, Max is a general disappionment to his 3 grade teachers expectation of what his life would amount to, but his Mum still loves him and that's all that really matters. In 2006 Max was selected for New American Painters, East Coast Edition 2006 and is represented by Jonathan Levine Gallery NYC as well as a male escort to the stars on the weekends. (Check out Max Lawrence's alias as King Honey producer of MFDOOM's 2001 Viktor Vaughn Album Vaudeville Villian as well as executive producer of Plastic Little)
Jodi Rice
My big plan was to drop out of high school in 9th grade and train to become a potter with one of our mountain neighbors. I tried to convince my mom to quit her job and home-school me so I could dig clay from the streambeds of central PA. This didn't happen. l dropped out of high school in 11th grade, ran away from home, moved to Philadelphia and eventually made my way to art school. I studied sculpture and art therapy in college and now I'm a high school art teacher. I've been teaching ceramics and other art mediums for the past four years. I try to teach the understanding of using art as a vehicle for social change. My goal is to raise awareness in examining personal issues and find alternative ways to help others communicate and feel more confident in their abilities. Personal identity and humor are the main elements in my work. I like looking at myself, dressing up, and changing characters on a daily basis.
Jon Freeborn
Jon Freeborn - Co-Founder of SPACE1026 in Philadelphia, creator of Milkcrate Digest zine, designer, teacher at the Art Institute of Philadelphia and University of the Arts, skateboarder, founder of the Art Fag Basketball League, and nerd/video game player. http://johnfreeborn.com
Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Andrew Jeffrey Wright is a current and founding member of Philadelphia's Space 1026 art commune. He has a BFA in Animation. The collaborative animation "the manipulators", which he made with Clare E. Rojas, has won the top prize for animation at the New York Underground Film Festival and the New York Comedy Film Festival. Wright's highly limited edition handmade books have gained an international following. His works include painting, animation, drawing, collage,photography, sculpture, video, installation and screen printing. He has shown at Lizabeth Oliveria(LA), New Image Art (LA), Spector(Philadelphia), The Luggage Store(San Francisco), Lump(Raliegh), The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia), ICA(Philadelphia), Giant Robot NY(NYC) The Corcoran(DC) and Foundation Cartier(Paris). He has shown with Barry McGee, Paper Rad, Leif Goldberg, Clare E. Rojas, Marcel Dzama and Michael Dumontier.
Crystal Kovacs
Crystal Kovacs joined Space 1026 in 2005. She specializes in handdrawn decorative patterns which she infuses with a modern energy byscreen printing the patterns using a vibrant color pallet. She is ahalf schooled/half self taught artist. She is also really intoMarianne Faithfull and her boyfriend likes Nico better.
Aryon Hoselton
Aryon Hoselton remembers to reuse. He has been building a small army of sustainable soldiers to spread his message through print, web, workshops and film. Above ground installations also interest him.
Jim Houser
About Jim Houser's 'THIS BEATING HEART ACTS AS A TIMER'
Like every one of us, Jim Houser carries a world inside his mind. Most recently, he's been carrying Òsickness and death, the world of science, war terminology and code breaking, interpersonal development, flora and fauna, decay and rebirth.Ó Each of his installations is a record of his thoughts, inspirations, and interests over a period of time. THIS BEATING HEART ACTS AS A TIMER is Jim's name for this, his largest and most fully realized exhibition. Life is Jim's subject, medium, and muse.
In his own life, he's known friendship, love, and the satisfaction of work well done and appreciated; he's also known struggle and the cruelest tragedy. Art is his ordered, systematic, yet improvised response to life's vagaries. It is the way he lives. Jim is an artist/poet who explores the relationship between the look, sound, and meaning of words and the things they represent. His painted words suggest snippets from overheard conversations or his own inner monologue, but they are not randomÑthey converse with one another and with Jim's vocabulary of images, saying a lot about the artist and his art. Jim's gifts are his abilities to survey the infinite inventory of his own consciousness, to clear away the static, to find those shapes, words, colors, thoughts, feelings, and sounds that reside at the core of his being, and to translate and transform all of this, his essential self, into art that speaks to others.
In his earliest years as a practicing artist, he gave his paintings away to people who responded positively to them. Occasionally, he would attach his paintings to signposts, enabling passers-by to take them. While no longer working gratis, Jim needs to be prolific. His work-ethic is legendary.
Jim is a painter of paintings within paintings. He paints directly on walls, ceilings, and floors, then layers atop clusters of smaller, discrete pieces. He paints on canvas, paper, everythingÑwood scraps, sneakers, basketballs, flowerpots, skateboard decks, figures that he's cast. He cultivates environments that grow to surround us. This embrace isn't cloying or constraining. Every element is thoughtfully conceived, carefully rendered, and precisely placed. The parts and their sum evoke delight, reflection, and the urge to explore. There are precedents for Jim's work. Dada's collaged collisions of word and image. Surrealism's subconscious mining. The influence of cartoons and advertising in cool Pop Art and the more fevered work of Chicago Imagists such as Jim Nutt and Ed Paschke. The pictorial, graffiti-inspired, populist individualism of 1980s New York Neo-Expressionist and Neo-Pop artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. The powerful, obsessed visions of so-called ÒoutsiderÓ artists. The carefully scrawled marks and words of Cy Twombly's narrative paintings. The way Raymond Pettibon conjures noir-ish, edgy, novelistic moments by combining disparate pictures and texts in his drawings. But precedent feels beside the point when discussing Jim's art. Jim and his contemporariesÑartists such as Shepard Fairey, Chris Johanson, the late Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, and Clare RojasÑseemed to spring fully formed from the overlapping, late-twentieth-century worlds of punk rock, skateboarding, and graffiti.
Jim's had solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco and, most recently, was featured in a two-person exhibition in Sydney, Australia. His work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He earned a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in 2004. Despite this widespread acclaim, Jim's art is the antithesis of many attitudes reigning today. It is not ironic, self-referential, self-conscious, anchored in academic theory, or otherwise Òconceptual.Ó It is heartfelt and visceral, speaking with the same clarity to those steeped in or unaware of art's canon. Like his installations, Jim's career to date appears equally random and purposeful. His innate talent was always apparent and encouraged, but he never studied art formally. Nearly lifelong friendships with fellow artists Adam Wallacavage and Ben Woodward (and their colleagues in Philadelphia's internationally regarded Space 1026 artists' collective), and his transforming relationship with his late wife, Rebecca Westcott, and her family, welcomed him to the milieu of artists and art-making. Wallacavage brought him to the attention of Shelley Spector (curator of this exhibition), who launched SPECTOR Gallery in 1999 with a solo show of Jim's work. Over the course of six years and five solo shows, Spector gave Jim the guidance and context for growth. The 2001 exhibition East Meets West: ÒFolkÓ and Fantasy from the Coasts at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art (organized by Alex Baker) presented him in the company of others (including Kilgallen, Johanson, and Rojas) with roots in Òstreet cultureÓ.
Informed by popular culture, Jim now shapes it with sneakers designed for Nike and skateboards and graphics for Toy Machine and Designarium. His work has been celebrated in the magazines Anthem, Strength, and Swindle. Inspired by words, Jim has illustrated the New York Times Sunday Magazine's 'On Language' column. He designed the cover of Ben Dolnick's 2007 novel, 'Zoology'. A maker of seriously playful environments, he's created murals for children's interiors for Design Within Reach, and his art graces Duke [University] Children's Hospital and the Children's Cancer Center of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital.
Jim lives, in Philadelphia, with his dogs, Stuckley and Ella, and his cat, Birdy. THIS BEATING HEART ACTS AS A TIMER is Òa map of the contents of his head,Ó the topography of his life, right now. In the whirlwind of living, JimÕs is the still, small voice. Listen.
- Matthew F. Singer, curator and writer
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