Upcoming Shows
By Any Medium Necessary: Music, Video, AI
14BC Gallery Open Sat Nov 23-Sat Nov 30: Opening Sat Nov 23
By Jon McKenzie
Media and mediums guide our passage through time and space, shaping our encounters with one another and the world. I am interested in the ways images, sounds, and algorithms spirit away and return different senses of self, society and world, opening new modes of interaction and experimentation in art, life, and beyond. Inspired by experimental film and video of the 1970s and ’80s and MTV and activist tactical media of the ’90s and ’00s, these experimental music videos remix ethos, pathos, and logos. Recent scenographic work draws on modes of AI and machinic thought embedded in different mediums — gestural, oral, literate, numerate, digital — in order to mix past, present, and future at different scales and tempos and thus expose different geologies of morals.
Videos and installation produced, compiled, and edited by Jon McKenzie, with music, text, film, and other contributions by Ed Balko†, Chrys Bocast†, John Eder, Rick Ellis†, Jim Fealy, Jon Kane†, Ralo Mayer, Richard Panciera (aka lloop), Bryan Reynolds, Leeny Sack, Walter Salas-Humara, Emilia Simeonov, Saviana Stănescu, Aneta Stojnić, Amon Tobin, and others.
MYSTIQMORTE: New Sculpture and Film
OPENING Friday Dec 6th 5pm- 9pm
Continuing Sat Dec 7th, Thurs Dec 12th- Sat 14th 3pm- 7pm
Intentionally Empty
Open November 8th and 9th from 3 - 8 pm
My show, Intentionally Empty, offers my services as a Tin type photographer to capture the requests of the participants. In other words, I will take a picture of what ever you bring into the 14bc gallery, on metal, in the old tin type traditions (1860- 2024) This could be anything you find worthy, example, a plastic milk jug, your face, your whole body, a interesting object you have on your shelf. The only requirement is that the subject needs to try and sit still for around 1 minute. ( I would estimate 10-30 minutes of time per subject )
The photo's taken will be placed on display for all to see during the gallery opening hours and at the closing.
thanks, jimfealy
Guardians and Realms
Opening Friday October 18 from 5-9 pm
Continued Viewing October 19, October 24, 25, 26 from 3-7 pm
Horses have long been seen as mystical creatures, embodying a deep connection to the spirit world. In many cultures, they are regarded as guides between realms, their power and grace representing freedom, intuition, and strength. Horses are believed to carry messages from ancestors and spirits, acting as symbols of transformation and healing. Their wild, untamed energy mirrors the vast mysteries of the unseen world, making them both guardians and companions on spiritual journeys, helping souls traverse the boundaries of the physical and ethereal planes.
In the spirit world, Elk symbolize strength, endurance, and a deep connection to nature. Their majestic presence represents power and stamina, guiding those who encounter them toward a path of resilience and wisdom. As protectors of the forest and the guardians of balance, elk are believed to offer spiritual guidance in times of transition, encouraging individuals to stay grounded while navigating life’s challenges. With their keen instincts and unwavering determination, elk spirits remind us to honor the cycles of nature and embrace the journey with patience and grace.
Walter Salas-Humara is a painter & musician living in NYC. He has had numerous art exhibitions and his band The Silos have been a part of the American music scene for 40 years.
Reality Bites by Carla Gannis
Opening Friday October 4th 5-9pm
Continuing Saturday Oct 5th, Thursday Oct 10th- Saturday Oct 12th 3-7pm
'In a hybrid digital-physical showcase of her multimedia practice, Carla Gannis’ works in Reality Bites span a tantalizingly wide range of approaches, from feminist interrogations of selfhood in the age of algorithm to iterative materialities in the tradition of Jasper Johns. In the UFO (“Unidentified Female Objects”) portion of the show, Gannis leans into the subjectivity of post-photographic media, using her own body as model for generative and hybrid sculptural portraiture. These new works unfurl an uncanny combination of both the shockingly disgusting and quotidian expected forms of feminine beauty in what the artist herself calls a jolie laide style, piercing the veil of distance and immateriality we often expect from digital works. For Gannis, across the works of Reality Bites, the punctum of the corporal detail of an eye, teeth, or a too-many-fingered hand, pierces the studium of what we have come to expect from AI and other generative visual culture.
Similarly, the portion of the show entitled “Yonder” uses 3D LIDAR scans done on an iPhone to interrogate the specificity of place in a continuously global and online world. What is mise en scene? What is “real”? When do the two begin to bleed together in our consciousness so as to become permanently entangled, our devices always tethered to our hands. For Gannis, ontological inquiry into human selfhood is fragmentary in a world where the reality of the image is always conditional, infinitely reproductive, corruptible, and corrupting. 3D printed and hand-crafted sculptural works that in turn engage with AR and volumetric scan bring this shifting punctum of objecthood to the gallery’s physical space, allowing viewers to imagine themselves extra-sighted, limbed, and even appendaged with an additional finger, a common artifact of CLIP diffusion images made by AI. In the works of Reality Bites, Carla Gannis asks not only what constitutes her own self, but also all of ours; our tenuous bodies situated in a networked world of hyper-artificed visuality on the brink.'