Carl Warnick

Tag: openings

  • Celia Whiren and Jacob Christopher at Green Lantern

    Saxophonist Celia Whiren and Artist Jacob Christopher collaborated on a set of improvised electroacoustic music as a sonic response to the collaborative painting show “Hot Mess” by Peter Hoffman and Caleb Lyons at Green Lantern.

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    Painting is a thing full of difficulties, but bunnies are easy to love.

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    What does it mean to drop yourself wholeheartedly into a moment?

    To be out there on the edge, opened up for all to see. It means something, perhaps something hard to articulate, maybe something warm on a hard frozen night.

    Speaking of the rigid, the structural systems behind this event; collaboration, mirroring and cross discipline interaction fascinate me. These things have a way of pushing the raw emotional performative moments out in front and framing them.

    If you weren’t there you missed out!

     

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  • Midnight III

    Chris Vollan smoking in the parking lot at night on cardboard is the third Midnight video.

  • Midnight II

    This is the second video of the Midnight series. Following the same system of action on cardboard on asphalt at midnight.

    The soundtracks to these videos are constructed deliberately using a similar systematic structure. Mixed live, old songwriters pitched down and enmeshed in more current dark beats.

    One of it’s concerns is a misreading of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Ribbon of Darkness” as “River of Darkness”:

    Tears I never had before
    Ribbon of darkness over me
    Clouds a-atherin’ o’er my head

    Which I misread and chopped/rearranged to be:

    Fears I’ve never had before
    Bound together in all my years
    River of darkness over me

    I dubbed out Run-DMC’s “Mary Mary” into a sratched echoy mess, and strung it into the intro for Rick James’ “Cold Blooded”, and held the whole thing together with L-Wiz’s “Girlfriend”. Then I mixed in and rearranged Gordon’s text.

    This pulls from several sub-genre I am obviously obsessed with: Screwed and Chopped, Dubscape, Midwestern Hardcore, and Singers and Songwriters of my childhood.

  • Midnight I

    The video above was made in the summer of 2005. It has become a substratum for our upcoming show.

    Card For Dawn and Carl at Dogmatic 2007

    In the video Dawn is working on the car at midnight in a parking lot. She has pulled out the left driveaxel shaft and is replacing it’s CV boots. At a pivotal moment in the film the metal fastener band snaps back and cuts her thumb, filling her glove’s thumb with blood.

    Several things are happening here that are of interest to me. One, the video uses the traditional male gaze of painting. Two, I have given up the masculine privilege of auto work. Three, the climax is a bloody violence, which in the final tally is nothing more than a jump in the heart, a small bandaid, and Dawn finishing the job at hand.

  • Dawn Reed and Carl Warnick Opening at Dogmatic January 6th, 2007

    Carl Spraying Blocks, shot by Dawn Reed from outside.

    Here is a little glimpse into production for our show which opens at Dogmatic on January 6th.

    I am putting down a layer of orange paint on one of our performative sculptures. We will ask people who come to the opening to carry around these orange [red to yellow] blocks for a bit so the sculpture can move around the gallery.

    Dogmatic is at 1319 W. Lake St in Chicago

    Orange Blocks in Spray Room

  • Justin Cooper’s “Middle Management” at Monique Meloche

    The Justin Cooper "Middle Management" show opened last night at Monique Meloche, and looks like a very interesting piece. I recommend that folks catch at least one of the Performances. The mood afterword was even somewhat festive in spite of the dour Chicago people and the gray weather, Usama Alshaibi was even there looking fabulous while talking a young french girl into modeling.

    Justin’s work left me feeling optimistic about the state of art *grin* in Chicago today.