Join us for the opening of 2019 ICP-Bard MFA candidate Eugene Lee’s dual solo exhibition, Splitting as a Daily Practice/Clyde Street Market, at the ICP-Bard MFA Studios in Long Island City.
Splitting as a Daily Practice is a multimedia trilogy started in 2017. Beginning with the practice of expanding spatial sensation and exploring the elusiveness of light; intercutting and teleporting situations from the clashes of mundane matters to the avenues of emotional turning point, Lee manifests the question of “What use is art?” onto structures he sampled from daily phenomena. From dawn to dusk, from here and there, Splitting as a Daily Practice offers various synecdoche of everydayness that intertwined all together: as one, and as everything.
Clyde Street Market is a pop-up market that only exists when Lee, the artist, is “not in progress” and POOR (which is a norm)! Curated by Kool Clyde, this second-hand clothing market is situated within the subtle tensions between various types of distribution and the mercurial identities embroidered within clothing.
Bios
Eugene Lee (Taiwan) is a multimedia artist who was born in Eugene, Oregon. He received a BA in journalism from the National Chengchi University (Taiwan). Primarily working with video projection and installation, Lee explores the intangibles of art-making, and samples various structures of daily phenomena as analogies to reflect different courses of his internal experience as an artist. Lee had his first solo exhibition, The Plantation Guide, at SLY Art Space (2017), and has taken part in Wallpaper group exhibition at Now Space (2017). He currently lives and works in Queens, New York.
Kool Clyde (stateless) is a garment curator who investigates the distribution of cultural outputs and the mercurial identities embroidered within clothing. He currently runs a used and vintage consignment program at Clyde Street Market.
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 25 | 6–9 PM
Performance Zamboni Drift (B side) starts at 8 PM
On View
April 26–28 | By appointment. Contact: eugenevoyeur@gmail.com.
Directions
The ICP-Bard MFA Studios are located at 24-20 Jackson Avenue in Queens. Take the E or M train to Court Square-23rd Street, 7 or G train to Court Square, or the B62 Bus to Jackson Ave/David St.