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cool WIP episode 30: coolin with Esther Ruiz

OMG!!! The dog ate my bacteria!!! This week, we’re wiggin out over visual artist / young mad scientist Connor Dolan.

This week, we’re coolin with our youngest, most daring guest, who has somehow found a way to obtain yellowcake uranium as an unemployed college student… Visual artist Connor Dolan is galavanting around the mines of Missouri, breaking into toxic dumps, contacting overseas suppliers, and shutting down art schools with his highly conceptual work. Informed by the scientific process and employing the principles of the grotesque, Dolan incorporates dark or highly dangerous materials to develop a haunting, beautiful, and transcendent body of work that tricks you into exploring concealed, neglected, and taboo subject matter. We’re talkin bacterial self portraits, breaking your own legs, needles, and of course, fish having sex in wigs.

Find him and his work @csnnor and www.connordolan.net/

image_above: well sculpture, from Hall of Exits, a site specific solo show in the project space of Monaco, 2022

COOL WIP episode 31:

coolin with KALAN STRAUSS

 
 
 
 

Welcome to Esthercom!!! Anything is possible with the neon queen… the incredible Brooklyn based sculptor Esther Ruiz.

image_above: Flail, 2022, Acrylic on panel, 16 x 20 inches. Image Courtesy of the Artist

This is a special episode because the absolutely brilliant Esther Ruiz traveled ACROSS THE COUNTRY to come cool with us for the opening of her site specific solo show Hall of Exits, at Monaco -  organized by our very own, Nick Schleicher. We’re talking Turrel, Space Opera Suzukis, the glory days of American Apparel, electric gooey rib cages, and the way in which Ruiz’s neon sculptures use the process of distillation and the seductive power of reduction to create pseudo-spiritual objects designed to invoke mystical, meditative portals to another dimension. 

Find his work at https://kalanstrauss.com and @kalan.eth on Instagram.

 
 

bones

Laminated MDF/ Epoxy/ Plaster/ Paint/ Neon/ Hardware
~ 4' x 5' x 2'
8.2015

(we discussed this one!)

Image Courtesy of the Artist

Episode Easter Egg: Remember… when we said we always be knolling or to misquote Chamillionaire…

“they see me knollin, they hatin”???

check out the video detailing tom sach’s ten bullets for a successful studio/working practice

Hall of Exits

Site Specific Solo Exhibition of new work by Esther Ruiz

On View in the Project Gallery at Monaco

April 15th - May 2nd, 2022

Monaco Gallery Hours: Saturdays from 12pm - 4pm

Organized by Monaco Member, Nick Schleicher

Contact nickschleicherart@gmail.com to book an appointment, request more information, or to purchase the work