March 31 - May 5, 2012
Through a glass, darkly
Postmasters Choices:
OASA DuVERNEY selected by Magda Sawon
JULIA KUL selected by Tamas Banovich
JAYSON MUSSON selected by Paulina Bebecka
Postmasters is pleased to announce a three-person
exhibition featuring the works of OASA DuVERNEY, JULIA KUL and JAYSON MUSSON.
Each of us at Postmasters selected one artist.
Together they create an explosive zeitgeist moment.
Through a glass, darkly will combine performative videos, drawings and text works that share intense,
often abrasive and confrontational examination of race, nationality, otherness and social hypocrisy,
its direct blows softened by humor or implied generosity of the artists.
Oasa DuVerney, a recent graduate of Hunter College MFA, explores the fiction of a post-race
society with a mixture of rage and tenderness. She will exhibit a series of MILF (mother I'd like to f*ck)
videos in which she gets hired to perform motherly tasks for strangers: chewing their food,
washing their floor with her hair, or reading to them in bed. She will also present a set of new
drawings and cartoons from The Illustrated Guide to Not Being So F*king Racist, and a video installation
of her son reenacting the fatal bike ride that led to Crown Heights riots, a handmade cardboard bicycle
collapsing under him repeatedly.
Julia Kul is a young Polish artist currently on a Fullbright Grant residency in New York City.
Her works translate systems and cultures onto one another, spotlighting absurdity of easy assumptions,
otherness and fitting (or not fitting) into any particular societal stereotypes. In Passport Reading
video, Kul creates a set of commands for each letter of the alphabet and 0-9 numbers which she then uses
to perform all data from her Polish passport. In another video Kul will re-perform Worth Waiting For,
a 1962 Mormon instructional film about chastity and family values. She will create a large wall drawing
Artist as a Restaurant, with a traditional Polish menu, each dish paired with a performance proposal to
help understand the essence of national character, and in yet another work her secret message to America
will be hidden behind QR codes.
Jayson Musson, a Brooklyn-based artist, will show several of his Art Thougtz by Hennessy Youngman,
a blinged out character he created for a series of online instructional videos about art practice
and art history. In these hilarious, biting videos, Hennessy takes apart his targets: Beauty and
Performance Art are explained, and How to be a Successful Black Artist is addressed by "Your Boy Hennessy".
Musson will also present a group of large posters from his BLM (black like me) series, a selection focusing
on love - longed for, consumed, cursed, discarded and forgotten.
Fasten your seat belts!!
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OASA DuVERNEY The Illustrated Guide To Not Being So Fucking Racist Vol. I 2011 graphite on paper 27.25 x 20.25 x 4.5 inches click for more GUIDE images |
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OASA DuVERNEY Untitled I 2011 graphite on paper 44 x 60 inches |
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OASA DuVERNEY A Monument to the Failures of Gavin Cato 2011 video installation |
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OASA DuVERNEY A Monument to the Failures of Gavin Cato 2011 video installation single channel video, color + sound running time 1:54 minutes click image for video |
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OASA DuVERNEY MILFworks: Digestive Assistance 2011 video installation running time: 4:20 minutes click for more MILFworks images |
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JULIA KUL Artist as a Restaurant 2012 wall drawing size variable 11 x 10 feet as installed |
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JULIA KUL Artist as a Restaurant (detail) 2012 wall drawing size variable 11 x 10 feet as installed |
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JULIA KUL Passport Reading 2011 single channel video, color + sound running time 8:44 minutes click image for video |
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JULIA KUL Worth Waiting For 2012 single channel video, color + sound running time 4:14 minutes click image for video |
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JULIA KUL Follow The Code 2012 wall drawing size variable 8 x 9 feet as installed |
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JAYSON MUSSON Art Thoughtz: On Beauty by Hennessy Youngman 2011 video still single channel video, color + sound running time 5:10 minutes click image for video |
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JAYSON MUSSON Art Thoughtz: Performance Art by Hennessy Youngman 2011 video still single channel video, color + sound running time 10:52 minutes click image for video |
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JAYSON MUSSON Art Thoughtz: How To Be A Succesfull Black Artist by Hennessy Youngman 2011 video still single channel video, color + sound running time 8:43 minutes click image for video |
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JAYSON MUSSON BLACK LIKE ME Love is Stupid 2012 print on paper 60 x 40 inches click for more BLACK LIKE ME series images |