Studio #456 Northrup King Building 1500 Jackson Street NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

In our modern lives we're inundated with a gluttony of objects and images, especially when acknowledging the overwhelmingly vast amounts of data available on the internet.  This November, SELLOUT brings you GUSTAFSON / KERR-MAZAROL / ZERENDOW, an exhibition of paintings and drawings that showcases four artists who subvert traditional additive means of production, employing instead subtractive editing processes to create work exploring such themes as collectivism, historical relativity, and art in the age of digital reproduction.
 Recent University of Minnesota graduate, BRETT GUSTAFSON employs an inkjet printer as a painting apparatus to fabricate deconstructed abstract images on canvas.  He begins his process by appropriating art historical imagery and then engages in a "systematic back and forth between documentation, digital reproduction, and back to the physical object," gaining and losing bits of information along the way.  This results in a degradation of the physical and digital worlds resulting in an abstract amalgamation of colors and forms.   

Collaborative artists TYNAN KERR and ANDIE MAZOROL negotiate, co-operate, and even sabotage each other in their process of assembling paintings that act as an "intersection of intentions."  Borrowing imagery from "many different narratives and histories," their paintings include "spaces and people of uncertain origins, half-made utopias, paganism, and emergent collective intelligence."  A synthesis of oppositional elements and subtractive editing are essential elements in their back-and-forth process. 

CHRIS ZERENDOW, an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, mines historical encyclopedic texts for information and then highlights and negates words and paragraphs to create aesthetic patterns that are both "ritualistic" and "mysterious."  ZERENDOW reads these texts, exploring the "movements of the gutters," and then creates compelling new aesthetic forms that allude to the ornate Biblical transcriptions by Medieval monks, contemporary graphic design, and the works of artists Kazimir Malevich and Robert Rauschenberg. 

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GUSTAFSON / KERR-MAZOROL / ZERENDOW
Works by BRETT GUSTAFSON, TYNAN KERR, ANDIE MAZOROL, and CHRIS ZERENDOW

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6th, 6:00-9:00PM
ON VIEW NOVEMBER 6 - NOVEMBER 21, 2009

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SELLOUT is an artist-run initiative devoted to the exhibition of work by emerging and mid-career artists, as well as independent curators.  SELLOUT focuses on small-scaled conceptual work, multiples, and ephemeral projects.  The intimate space features a mix of curated group and solo exhibitions as well as innovative community events.  The humble scale of the gallery (250 square feet) provides artists the opportunity to experiment with fresh ideas, pursue new directions, and exhibit alternative, atypical media.

SELLOUT exhibits artists with a distinct vision and commitment to their artistic practice.   In addition to regular exhibitions, artists are encouraged to create small, affordable works that are available for purchase in the flat file.  Collectors may browse through pieces not only by the current exhibiting artists, but also by the regular roster of artists.  SELLOUT's desire is to support new art collectors and interesting artwork while allowing unique access and interaction between the collector, curator, and artist. 

For more information, please visit: http://www.selloutart.com or contact c at info@selloutart.com