Jeremiah Teipen & Benjamin S. Jones at Satori Gallery, New York
Earlier this week I had the chance to visit some of the galleries in Manhattan's East Village/Lower East Side.
My favorite by far was Gallery Satori. They have a main space and a project space (i.e. a side mini-gallery). The main space is currently filled with large mixed-media sculptures by Benjamin S. Jones. I was instantly drawn to these pieces, which look like exploding, radiating architectural models. One piece has graphic foam arrows flying out of it, and another is like a sea urchin of high-rise and smaller buildings.
In their project space is a series of "found-media" videos by Jeremiah Teipen. The videos are extravagant collages of bits and pieces of video and animation from the web. Teppen's biography refers to his pieces of "pure visual gluttony," a description that I thought was vividly perfect. He takes the most gluttonous parts of the web (e.g. MySpace comment "bling" graphics) and scrolls them across his video pieces. It is a bit hard to describe. The videos remind me of Jeff Koons' work. You really should see them while they're up at Satori if you are in the area.
I like how Gallery Satori shows artwork that teeters on the edge of being too uncomfortably experimental. In contrast, for the most part the other Lower East Side galleries were either more risk-averse or over the deep end of experimental. I was also very impressed with the artwork's presentation, in a way that I don't know how to explain. It just felt right.
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