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Recess invites you to the first leg of Spirit Tours 11 entitled: Premonition, which is set to take place this Saturday morning July 17 at precisely 2AM (that’s very very late Friday night, alternate side parking sign logic applies).

This sculptural event will present individualized readings from the digi-ether that may reveal what the future has in store. Don’t forget to make mention of Spirit Beans to have Dave or Seeb paint your portrait on a Peruvian Lima, free of charge.

If you’re just not the witching-hour type, Spirit Tours will stay up and be around all day Saturday from 12pm – 6 for free Open House Tours of what you could have lived without.

For more information about Spirit Tours at Recess click here.

Don’t be blue if you missed the performance Good Game: Daniel Turner and Colin Snapp.  You can watch the video here, now. Click through to check it out.

GOOD GAME from Colin Snapp on Vimeo.

To read more about Good Game click here.

Members of two high school baseball teams walk towards each other in two single file lines. As the teams pass one another, each player touches hands and says, “good game, good game, good game”. After each player has slapped hands, the players will turn around (while still in single file position) and repeat. Essentially the performance will be looped.

Artist Bios

Colin Snapp was born on Lopez Island in 1982 and received a BFA in film making from the San Francisco Art Institute. While attending SFAI Snapp spent his summers teaching youth filmmaking seminars in Washington state. Upon graduation he spent a year living in Portland Oregon teaching art at Harold Oliver elementary school. He has traveled extensively throughout Central America, Australia, and the Mediterranean working on documentaries on subjects ranging from architecture to immigration while assisting for National Geographic Traveler, Maha Productions, and BBC News. Snapp has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Mexico City and Berlin. He currently lives and works in New York, NY.

Daniel Turner was born in Portsmouth Virgina in 1983 and holds a BFA in Fine Art from The San Francisco Art Institute. Turner has participated in museums and galleries throughout Mexico, The United States, and Europe and has received several major grants from the Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond Virginia. The artist has taught mixed media and painting courses to elementary school students as well as lectured at several prestigious University’s including New York University, Old Dominion University, and The San Francisco Art Institute. He is currently a visiting scholar at New York University and a recipient of The Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils Workspace Residency Program.

Turner and Snapp met while studying at The San Francisco Art Institute and have been collaborating for over a decade.

Dave Hardy and Siebren Versteeg are in the midst of two months of work at Recess, entitled Spirit Tours 11. The artists collaborated as Spirit Tours for the first time in the summer of 2004.  Throughout summer 2010, Hardy and Versteeg will continue dictating the future.

Recess invites resident artists to use its storefront as studio, exhibition venue and grounds for experimentation; under Hardy and Versteeg’s direction, Recess will become the site of an ongoing sculptural event.The project has evolved to investigate the notion of the journey, a fancy that continues to disappear from a contemporary experience that creates a demand for and delivers immediacy and consumption. At Recess, Spirit Tours 11 will generate what the artists call a “bootleg transformative experience” that takes cues from the gray-market economy in full swing a block away on Canal Street.

Versteeg and Hardy’s residency will begin with a virtual tarot card reading with predictions emanating from an oversized skull.  Yes, that’s right.  Premonitions that come from the readings will shape the project for the rest of the summer.

About the Artists

Siebren Versteeg received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and the School of Visual Arts, New York. Selected solo exhibitions include the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Max Protetch Gallery, New York. His work has been exhibited in group shows at the Hirshhorn Museum, in Washington, DC, the Contemporary Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, the National Museum of Art in the Czech Republic and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Versteeg lives and works in New York. 

Dave Hardy received a BFA from Brown University and an MFA from the Yale School of Art and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Solo exhibitions include Art in General, New York; La Mama Galleria, New York and  Southern Exposure, San Francisco. His work has been included in group exhibitions in New York at PS1, the Sculpture Center and Jack Shainman Gallery. Dave Hardy lives and works in Brooklyn.

Send specific inquiries or image requests to info@recessart.org.

To download the press release for Spirit Tours click here.

For more about Recess Activities click here.

June 18, 2010.  Join us for opening night of the RISD 2010 MFA Graduate Sculpture Show, starting at 7pm and featuring works by Terra Goolsby, Anders Johnson, Jonggeon Lee, Alee Peoples, R.C. Sayler, Joshua Webb, and Brett Windham.  The show will be on at Recess Activities through June 27th.  See you there!

Goodbye fourth wall.

Watch things get real (or do they?) in the latest clip from Kara Hearn, TREMENDOUS after the jump.  Kara Hearn’s residency will conclude on June 12th.  Stop by Recess Activities before then to be a part of her collaborative video project.   To read more about her TREMENDOUS undertaking, click here.

Recess Activities, Inc. Presents

Spirit Tours 11

Dave Hardy & Siebren Versteeg

July 7 – September 2, 2010

NEW YORK, May 6, 2010—On July 7, 2010, Dave Hardy and Siebren Versteeg will begin two months of work at Recess, entitled Spirit Tours 11. The artists collaborated as Spirit Tours for the first time in the summer of 2004.  In summer 2010, Hardy and Versteeg will continue dictating the future.

Recess invites resident artists to use its storefront as studio, exhibition venue and grounds for experimentation; under Hardy and Versteeg’s direction, Recess will become the site of an ongoing sculptural event. Since its inception, the project has evolved to investigate the notion of the journey, a fancy that continues to disappear from a contemporary experience that creates a demand for and delivers immediacy and consumption. At Recess, Spirit Tours 11 will generate what the artists call a “bootleg transformative experience” that takes cues from the gray-market economy in full swing a block away on Canal Street.

Versteeg and Hardy’s residency will begin with a virtual tarot card reading with predictions emanating from an oversized skull.  Yes, that’s right.  Premonitions that come from the readings will shape the project for the rest of the summer.

About the Artists

Siebren Versteeg received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and the School of Visual Arts, New York. Selected solo exhibitions include the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Max Protetch Gallery, New York. His work has been exhibited in group shows at the Hirshhorn Museum, in Washington, DC, the Contemporary Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, the National Museum of Art in the Czech Republic and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Versteeg lives and works in New York.

Dave Hardy received a BFA from Brown University and an MFA from the Yale School of Art and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Solo exhibitions include Art in General, New York; La Mama Galleria, New York and  Southern Exposure, San Francisco. His work has been included in group exhibitions in New York at PS1, the Sculpture Center and Jack Shainman Gallery. Dave Hardy lives and works in Brooklyn.

For more information about specific event and hours of operation, visit www.recessart.org

Send specific inquiries or image requests to info@recessart.org.

Visit 41 Grand Street for your chance to join the party that is Kara Hearn, TREMENDOUS.

See this new, not to be missed clip by clicking on “read more.”

Hearn will be at Recess Activities through June 12 filming, editing, and navigating the overwhelming. She welcomes performers, quiet observers, vocal sounding boards, and new sources of content. Stop by to support her TREMENDOUS undertaking.  To read more about Hearn’s residency and video project click here.