PLOTTING

Solo show at
Garis and Hahn
263 Bowery
New York, NY


April 2 - May 5, 2015

Press Release (pdf)

Let's Stay In Tonight, Honey - #1
2015
video still


PLOTTING challenges the passivity of the consumer experience found in motion picture entertainment by breaking down the elements of movie making. Half of the exhibition's paintings require viewers to become doers by throwing darts at a diagram of plot elements–will the heroine live or die, and how? I​s it a rags­to­riches comedy or an ancient mystery that ends in tragedy? Will it be shot in the desert, a suburban basement, or in another galaxy? Each dart that lands determines the fictitious movie’s storyline by chance operation.



A Few of the Ways...
2015
48x32 in
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen



Viewers will be able to experience one of these randomly generated stories fully realized in a video piece, L​et’s Stay In Tonight, Honey.​Starring two dominatrices and a submissive, Throwell based the movie on a sexual deviation diagram from an official 1970’s detective manual. The result is a fetish investigation covering everything from voyeurism to pyromania and necrophilia.


The exhibition's second series of paintings are titled C​inema­Puzzles​—riddle­like, visual outlines of classic films, described in entirety, but without specific detail. These pieces spark participant's imagination and demonstrate how even our most beloved films are simple combinations of a few basic elements of storytelling. As a body of work, P​LOTTING emphasizes a larger paradigm for the movies: our escape into cinema then dictates how we desire to escape–an endless cycle of supply and demand–ad infinitum, ad absurdum.



SPECIAL THANK YOU:
Lena Marquise
David Ian Griess
and
Lolita xxx



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PLOTTING

PAINTINGS

Who Are You... (Character)
2015
48x32 in (122x81 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote, steel dart




Who Are You... (Character) - detail




Where The Rubber Meets The Road… (Crimes)
2015
36x24 in (91x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote, steel dart




Where The Rubber Meets The Road… (Crimes) - detail




A Few Of The Ways... (Death)
2015
48x32 in (122x81 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote, steel dart




A Few Of The Ways... (Death) - detail




How Do You Feel About It… (Emotions)
2015
32x24 in (81x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote, steel dart




The Underlying Motivation... (Fear)
2015
48x48 in (122x122 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote, steel dart




The Underlying Motivation... (Fear) - detail




The Underlying Motivation... (Fear) - detail




Where Does This Go Down... (Location)
2015
48x28 in (122x71 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote, steel dart




Where Does This Go Down... (Location) - detail




Where Does This Go Down... (Location) - detail




The Big Picture… (Plots)
2015
24x36 in (61x91 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote, steel dart




The Big Picture… (Plots) - detail




How The Deed Is Done... (Sex)
2015
32x24 in (81x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote, steel dart




How The Deed Is Done... (Sex) - detail




Cinema-Puzzle #1
2015
32x24 in (81x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote




Cinema-Puzzle #1 - detail




Cinema-Puzzle #2
2015
32x24 in (81x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote




Cinema-Puzzle #2 - detail




Cinema-Puzzle #3
2015
48x32 in (122x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote




Cinema-Puzzle #3 - detail




Cinema-Puzzle #4
2015
48x32 in (122x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote




Cinema-Puzzle #4 - detail




Cinema-Puzzle #5
2015
32x24 in (81x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote




Cinema-Puzzle #5 - detail




Cinema-Puzzle #6
2015
36x24 in (91x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote




Cinema-Puzzle #6 - detail




Cinema-Puzzle #7
2015
36x24 in (91x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote




Cinema-Puzzle #7 - detail




Cinema-Puzzle #8
2015
32x24 in (81x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote




Cinema-Puzzle #8 - detail




Cinema-Puzzle #9
2015
36x24 in (91x61 cm)
oil, acrylic, silkscreen on linen over homasote




Cinema-Puzzle #9 - detail




Cinema-Puzzle #9 - detail






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LET'S STAY IN TONIGHT

Let's Stay In Tonight, Honey - still
2015
Video, 12min
Edition of 5




Let's Stay In Tonight, Honey - still




Let's Stay In Tonight, Honey - still




Let's Stay In Tonight, Honey - still




Let's Stay In Tonight, Honey - still




Let's Stay In Tonight, Honey - still






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VIDEO WALK THROUGH

INSTALL SHOTS FROM GARIS AND HAHN

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PRESS

Flaunt Magazine - 4/21/15
Fast Company - 4/15/15
Artsy - 4/15/15
Artnet - 4/4/15
Bedford + Bowery - 4/2/15






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