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Liam Dunaway has written something really beautiful and true about Nick Vyssotsky's work. Stay strong man and we love you.

Press for my show from earlier this year, Control Module #1 at Rock512Devil by a dear friend :’-)

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Rock512Devil: Our Union

St. Elizabeth’s East Gateway Pavilion 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE Washington, D.C. 20032 Saturday, October 4th, 6-9pm: Opening Reception and Performances for Rock512Devil: Our Union. The Second Iteration of Brendan Fowler's Walls at St. Elizabeth's Artist Brendan Fowler hands off the second curatorial iteration of his six freestanding wall sculptures to Baltimore-based collective, Rock512Devil, as the sculptural walls become a platform for their artist selection and a series of performances, music, and screenings. For this installation, the boards have been rotated, allowing for a new surface for the artists to work on, and a new collaborative artist/curator/artist creation. Participating artists and performers include Peggy Chiang, Bryan Collins, Max Eilbacher, Amanda Horowitz, Kelley Mcnutt, Sexoesthetic, and Marisa Takal. The artists involved are friends and past collaborators with the members of Rock512Devil, bringing together mutual friends and acquaintances is a union characteristic of the project space itself. http://rock512devil.us/ http://nomadicdivision.org/exhibition/alterabolishaddress/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kelley McNutt (b.1991, Washington D.C.) is an artist that lives and works in New York. Her practice primarily involves sculpture and photography. She has been shown nationally and internationally with recent projects including: Don't Play in the Garden, a collaborative performance and installation with Izabelle New, 99cent Plus gallery, NY; Saving Face, The Still House Group, NY; All Good Kids Go to Heaven, Three Four Three Four Gallery, NY; Pecha Kucha: Selector Series, Publications and Multiples Fair, Baltimore, MD; Intimates Index, Gal Space, London, UK; Dream Boat, 1504 Gallery, NY. Forthcoming projects include her solo exhibition at Atlantis Gallery, Richmond, VA. Marisa Takal (b.1991, Montclair, New Jersey) is a painter and poet currently living and working in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2013. Her work as been exhibited at Rock512Devil, Baltimore, MD; Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA; Secret Recipe, Los Angeles, CA; Mission Comics and Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA; sophiajacob, Baltimore, MD; and Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Peggy Chiang (b.1989, California) is an artist based in Baltimore. She is a collaborator in the curatorial project Szechuan Best, which exhibits work by national and international artists. She received a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011. Amanda Horowitz (b.1991, Washington, D.C.) has been working on a series of essays and videos on the politics of fan fiction writing. She defines fan fiction as the process of being hosted by a body (of text/culture). In this process the possessed and obsessed fan occupies and extends the body of the character, deleting the author and creating what Avital Ronell coined as “haunted writing.” In her most recent project, Amanda casted the students from the Arts & Ideas Sudbury School to play a group of child actors rehearsing the final scene of their play, a terminal act of violence against former US president Ronald Reagan. Amanda is a graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art and lives in Baltimore, MD. Bryan Collins (b.1990, Prince Frederick, MD) is a multi media artist working primary in sculpture and video. He moved to Baltimore in 2008 to earn a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art as a scholarship student majoring in Interdisciplinary Sculpture. During his school career he curated student exhibitions and participated in a studio residency in Dumbo Brooklyn. Since graduating in 2012, Bryan has participated in various group exhibitions in Baltimore, created an immersive solo exhibition at the Tribal Haus Gallery, and collaborated with others on a series of screenplays. Max Eilbacher (b.1991) is an artist and musician living and working in Baltimore, MD. Eilbacher has performed with various projects such as Matmos, Horse Lords and Needle Gun. Eilbacher's sound has been described as, "an expertly crafted maze of deja-vu, audio hallucinations and dislocating atmospheric forms full of complex editing techniques." Sexoesthetic is the performative extension of a 5 year conversation about intimacy, vices, media and spirituality - while heavy bass is playing in the background. Strobe lights are the escape from our personal screens. Basslines open up the vortex to nirvana. Jared Brown is a Sagittarius and Adi Shachar is a Virgo - Susan Miller told us this will be the year for planning.

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Installation views of Impossible Eye, with work by Ginevra Shay and Miranda Pfeiffer, on view June 28 - July 19, 2014.

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Devil is proud to present Impossible Eye, an exhibition by Miranda Pfeiffer and Ginevra Shay. Please Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, June 28th from 7:00 - 10:00PM Since 2011, Miranda has worked almost exclusively with mechanical pencil on paper, developing a unique approach to hatching and illusionism, in a series of large, panoramic landscapes, Solitary Stones. In her new series Rock Line, Pfeiffer scales down to two and three-foot square drawings, rendering situations both imagined and observed. If Solitary Stones created an immersive narrative through spatial depth and composition, then Rock Line depicts what can be understood of a drawing in an instant. By including the corner of one's eye, the tip of one's nose or finger, Miranda’s drawings simulate the immediate vantage point of a human body. Trained in darkroom photography, Ginevra abandoned the camera as a documentation tool and began working with materials on light sensitive paper to explore the minute interactions between materiality and process. Raum Bilder, her most recent series combines collage and diorama to establish a dynamic space in which the prescribed meaning or use of images – collected from advertisements and mass-produced publications – is dissolved. These photographs explore the tonal quality, form, and texture of each image and use them like a paint stroke, or ground to build new meaning and purpose within the diorama. Through this process, Shay is able to explore photography as a material in unique object making. A conversation between the artists began in November of 2013 that focused on the deviation from realism in their respective practices. In their new series, both Pfeiffer and Shay return to the tendencies of Paleolithic art described by Arnold Hauser in A Social History of Art: “It was a technique without mystery, a matter-of-fact procedure, the objective application of methods, which had as little to do with mysticism and esoterism as when we set mousetraps, manure the ground, or take a drug. The pictures were part of the technical apparatus of this magic; they were the “trap” into which the game had to go, or rather they were the trap with the already captured animal—for the picture was both representation and the things represented, both wish and wish-fulfillment at one and the same time. “ Impossible Eye marks a convergence of optic and haptic senses, through textural and spatial illusionism and the material associations of imagery. Literal and direct, the artist’s processes construct these other worlds without ceremony. Ginevra Shay (b. 1987, Washington, DC) is an artist and curator who studied Studio Art and Art History at the University of Vermont. Ginevra's work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. She participated in recent exhibitions at The Finnish Museum of Photography (Finland), Notre Dame University (Maryland), John Hansard Gallery (United Kingdom), Maryland Art Place (Baltimore), and Guest Spot (Baltimore). Her publications are in the libraries of The International Center for Photography, Indie Photobook Library, Houston Center for Photography, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Miranda Pfeiffer is an artist and animator. She has shown at Commune1 in Capetown South Africa, Open Space in Baltimore, Maryland, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sh is a Kenan Fellow and a recipient of the Nancy Harrican Prize, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Currently, she is living in Los Angeles California.

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Hours have changed for the day

Hey Everyone, Hours for Rock512Devil have changed today because of extenuating circumstances, we will be open from 6-10PM. In your evening travels please stop by to check out stock, and a screening beginning at 8PM, with repeats into the evening. Thank you!

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Saturday June 14th, From 8PM+ We never did screen Ellen Donnelly's videos during Tamago! Please join us this Saturday evening for screenings of Enpregnitech and FML, XD, a new video by Ellen. More tamago, drinks and okonomiyaki. Weather permitting we would like to grill outside. TRAILER FOR FML, XD: http://vimeo.com/97890509 Excerpt from Enpregnitech: http://vimeo.com/54797260 "It doesn’t matter anymore what’s the mat- ter with this year’s w h a t ? b a l l refs or who’s smoking cancy sticks behind the w h y ? b r a r y at lunchtime. Our George is engaged in more valuable theme acts than homecoming dance dates, spring break will suck and can I copy your homework I for- got mine at home? This semester Young George studies water birth and formulation post partum chemistry infant determinist revisions of sex system rhetoric that make no mention of him, aside from the occa- sional *. He journals with feather pens his Notes of a Teen Dom and sets agendas for months out of view that in some other year would have been wishes and classes to take and J.V. or V.?, but which now look straight down the barrel of BABY, coming. Whatever symptoms have girls smiling peacefully by trimester two aren’t his type of pain or he’s flatly ignoring them. He lets his sense of the Future leak out of his mindzeye and fill in with words about bank- ing and turmoil. He feels no love for his inside. How come in biology the egg+egg sec- tions on cell split and chromosome karma obliquely evaded this topic? Instead taught that nobody-boy could gestate a person, so “don’t worry about it George there’s no chance of it happening.” But now look at him, urination frequent and unmotivated nausea weakening this once real strong and effulgent w h a t ? b a l l player from north of the freeway who always had a girlfriend and coulda gone state. You can smell his pregnancy farts shamefully mist- ing the locker room after his PE periods M/T/Th/F. George walks into the lunchroom with hot lunch on tray and wanders an endless kill- ing of time, sucks up the eyeing of shit talk from cliques in their clatches who otherwise understand everything. They’re confused." Ellen Donnelly, is an artist living in Baltimore, MD.

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Installation views of Nowhere Zone: Control Module #1 on view June 7 - June 21, 2014

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Detail from Control Module #1 on view through June 21st @ Rock512Devil

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Devil is proud to present Control Module #1, an installation by Nowhere Zone. The primary piece consists of an object meant to reproduce the lights of a squad car, flanked on either side by the U.S. and Maryland state flags, which are present to exhibit the authority and principles of the object they accompany. On the walls surrounding this will be several digital prints mounted on wood panels illustrating different graphic configurations of the environment created by CM#1.

“It’s common in Baltimore for squad cars to leave their back lights on at all times, insinuating a situation of permanent emergency. On a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of ‘activity’ this places all squad cars participating in this action at around five. Generally the use of police lights on squad cars is meant to be a reaction to some type of insurgent action. However, in this quite common situation, the action/reaction chain seems to be inverted, with the action potentially not existing at all, and the cop reaction existing constantly. In a war culture such as ours where the concept of the preemptive strike is the norm, this inversion is completely unsurprising.

It is possible to assume then that perhaps the purpose of the cop lights in this situation no longer exists in its original reactive ‘WARNING’ context, but rather in the context of an active ‘THREAT’ to those in the vicinity of the squad car, similar in use to the flashing blue lights of stationary 24/7 BELIEVE module, but now mobile and manned. What was, in the context of the 24/7 BELIEVE models, a somewhat passive suggestion of oppression becomes an overactive, overtly oppressive situation.”

Cops do a good job of arguing against your case, alienating you from your own actions. One might reinforce the fact that we don’t know our own rights, and refuse to provide further information. There are people who will make your life a living hell just so that they can feel like they did their job at the end of the night. Like a student who just gets the assignment done for the sake of completion, with no learning curve. “You don’t even live here.” “Even if you could do something, you wouldn’t spend the time making a police officer’s job a living hell.”

We’ve all had our experiences. There’s nothing like seeing your shadow swimming against the wall in a barrage of cyan and magenta. You look across the street and maybe there’s some guy sitting on the curb handcuffed, maybe a squad car is just trying to skip a red light. Patrols that make us uneasy in the evening walk home; an empty crashed car and the homeless sleeping. So how do we proceed? This Control Module becomes a way to engage in a phenomenon largely associated with paranoia and oppression. Together with more conventional components of CM #1 – prints, flags, sculpture – you are invited to engage in one isolated aspect of a spectacular oppressive system (the lights of a squad car).

Nowhere Zone is an ongoing project by Baltimore-based artist Nick Vyssotsky. The project explores and documents phenomena existing in public space, exhibited as an image blog as well as a series of publications. These images attempt to capture moments of what Jill Stoner calls "...indeterminate state(s) that (are) the passage from striated to smooth, from closed system to open space."

Please join us for an opening reception on Satruday, June 7, from 7-10 PM. WARNING: A strobe light is used in this installation.

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New in @ Rock512 Devil since our last update: Frank Peter John Dick by K8 Hardy published by our friends @ Capricious, Spiders Pee Paw (so sick if you haven't checked out yet), new tape by Jimmy Joe Roche, XoX Footsteps by Kodi Fabricant put out by our Baltimore players @ Player Press,  New Age Erotic Fiction by way of Brooklyn, and I Stabbed My Third Eye by Nina Hartmann published by our Glasgow friends at Bronze Age Editions. Open today from 12-5 XO 512

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Installation views from Group Show Tamago, with work by Hanna Hur, Steven Riddle and Clayton Schiff. On view April 19 - May 17, 2014.

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April 19 - May 17

Featuring work by: Hanna Hur (http://hannahur.com/) Steven Riddle (http://steven-riddle.com/) Clayton Schiff (http://claytonschiff.com/) Occasional screenings. Opening reception 7:00PM 4/19.

Stop by THE END, sophiajacob's final show opening next door.  “For there simultaneously occurs upon the earth a very important, inevitable phenomenon that is beneficial in many respects and unfortunate in many others: stratification. Strata are Layers, Belts. The consist of giving form to matters, of imprisoning intensities or locking singularities into systems of resonance and redundancy, of producing upon the body of the earth molecules large and small and organizing them into molar aggregates. Strata are acts of capture, they are like black holes or occlusions, striving to seize whatever comes within their reach. They operate by coding and territorialization upon the earth; they proceed simultaneously by code and by territoriality. The strata are judgements of God; stratification in general is the entire system of the judgment of God (but the earth, or the body without organs, constantly eludes that judgment, flees and becomes de-stratified, decoded, deterritorialized).” - Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, 10,000 BC: the Geology of Morals or (Who Does The Earth Think It Is?) https://english.duke.edu/uploads/assets/DeleuzeGuattariGeologyofMoralsClean%281%29.pdf Described above in other words is perhaps a crisis, or momentary realization. Stratification of this kind is quite clear in the work of the participating artists, whose processes and visions congeal on the surface of the image to varied effects. Maybe figure and ground are obscured, because their defining qualities (contour, color, light) are being reattributed to style and judgement. The ground might just be the figure - an image that so clearly depicts it's own making. Yeah okay, but a second form of stratification occurs when the means of production have been leveled, neutralized, standardized, whatever and the field of action folds in on itself. It’s a spiral as opposed to concentric circles… the mixing and remixing of form and meaning within the same territory. What if we thought of this type of stratification as Tamago -- the Japanese omelet? One eternally growing stratum, it’s accumulating laterally, bending and building helical layers through which flavors can interact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHxGPAajucc When we look at the omelet on our dish, we see the soft layers of savory stratification. Bits of heterogeneous fruit and vegetable peak out from the layers which all seem the same, comforting yellow.

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The book club meets once again today from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Click on the picture for a link to the reading, or here if you do not have the book.

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Hey I'm here at Rock512Devil on this rainy SPRING day and check out these cool new looks we have in stock!!! Freaker IV by Kelley McNutt is a real good read. Many images of women made-up in clown face paint. I'd never thought of anyone that way before, the impulses people have are strange and beautiful. This book is eye-opening. Apparitional Rut by Abbey Campbell from Lupin is something I just picked up for my sister Peggy. I got caught up in the deer photos and accidentally skipped the essay. Both coincidentally wonderful and shocking insights on human nature. - Loosifa Won't you come through to visit me tomorrow? :-(

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Rock512Devil will be closed during our normal hours today but will be open from 7-10 pm tonight for night hours during Neal Reinalda's opening at sophiajacob. See you there! xx Satan

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Diane Young: A Reading @ Rock512Devil 2014