Joshua Abelow and Joshua Boulos “EDM”
King's Leap
[Image: Joshua Abelow "EDM" (2022) pencil on paper, 30 x 22 in.]
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The show title I suspect is a reference to Electronic Dance Music, a genre of music based around large festival gatherings. I really hate music festivals, and have little interest in the genre. I also suspect that neither Josh1 nor Josh2 are EDM fans, nor have a particular relationship to this festival culture. But maybe there is a connection to be made between the social aspect of participating in EDM as a lifestyle, and the dynamics of being an artist and participating in the art world. Or even the function of EDM and art in itself. People can listen to EDM in the confines of their own homes, and enjoy it “formally,” but the passion surrounding EDM is much more about experiencing the music in a festival atmosphere. It is a highly socialized experience. Just as the meaning in contemporary art doesn’t exist without its own social paradigm. Of course the art objects themselves exist as material, as a group of atoms making up a thing. But to give that thing significance, it needs to be experienced in a specific context. Is this the reason why people attend openings?
Perhaps the opening to the art show “EDM” will be its own mini-festival, or serve a similar function. I’d like to see a graph of the crossover between contemporary art participants and EDM festival goers.
Joshua Abelow (b. 1976, Frederick, MD) is an artist based in Harris, NY, and New York, NY. Recent exhibitions were held at Et al. (San Francisco, CA), Baader-Meinhof (Omaha, NE), AD.NYC (New York NY), Jir Sandel, (Copenhagen, DK), Anthony Greaney (Somerville, MA), Magenta Plains (New York, NY), Sydney (Sydney, AU), Apartment 13 (Providence, RI), Harkawik (Los Angeles, CA), James Fuentes (New York, NY) and Halsey McKay (East Hampton, NY) Additionally, the artist is known as the proprietor of Freddy, a curatorial project he founded in Baltimore (2014).
Joshua Boulous (b. 1997) is an artist based in Providence, RI. Solo exhibitions include Triest (New York, NY). Group exhibitions include Drama Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (Fall River, MA), Baader-Meinhof (Omaha, NE), and Croy Nielsen (Vienna, AT).
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from August 05, 2022 to September 03, 2022