Inside Overcoming Necessary Obstacles — an introspective games exhibition A screenshot from Studio Oleomingus’s Folds of a Separation Upon entering the Project Space at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the first installation that jumps out to the eye is an anachronistic set-up in the center of the room. Colorful, glowing LED keyboards that look like they came from a Twitch streamer’s set up are attached to monitors that look like they belong in the early 2000s. This is…Read More
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now By John Vincler, Jillian Steinhauer, Max Lakin, Martha Schwendener and Travis Diehl Oct. 13, 2022 Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start on the Upper East Side to catch Issy Wood’s pleasingly discomfiting paintings at Michael Werner. Then head to Chelsea for Zoe Leonard’s photographs of the Rio Grande at Hauser & Wirth. And don’t miss Jennie Jieun Lee’s wildly colored ceramics at Martos in TriBeCa. Newly…Read More
Justin Kamp May 9, 2022 vanessa german Workhorse, 2021 The art world descended en masse upon Manhattan during the first week of May for the inaugural edition of New York Art Week, the far-reaching partnership between museums, galleries, art fairs, and auction houses focused on highlighting “an unprecedented offering of global art market events and institutional exhibitions,” according to the initiative’s website. The weeklong programming had at its heart a quartet of fairs scattered across…Read More
May 9, 2022 Widewalls Editorial Art week is underway in NYC, with four fairs transpiring across Manhattan last week. New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) has held their NYC art fair’s post-pandemic return after a four year hiatus–a triumphant comeback that kicked off with a gorgeous spring day last Thursday, May 5th. NADA is “the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art.” Member galleries from The Hole to The Pit…Read More
‘We’ve Seen a Huge Convergence’: NADA New York Dealers Are Catering to Collectors Who Want Both NFTs and Traditional Media Gallerists say there’s more than enough space for everything. Annie Armstrong, May 6, 2022 It’s hard to believe, but it’s only been just over a year since Beeple’s explosive sale at Sotheby’s changed the genetic makeup of the art market as knew it. Over the course of that year, a split has emerged between those in the art world…Read More
The New Art Dealers Alliance’s fair returns to New York with a massive line-up of 120 exhibitors taking over Pier 36 The Art Newspaper 6 May 2022 Installation view of works by Jeremy Couillard and Stephen Thorpe at the Denny Dimin Gallery booth. Courtesy Denny Dimin Gallery. Jeremy Couillard and Stephen Thorpe Denny Dimin, New York The British painter Stephen Thorpe and the American digital artist Jeremy Couillard have collaborated to create an environment suggestive of…Read More
BY Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, May 5, 2022 NADA entrance SHANTI ESCALANTE/ARTNEWS The 2022 edition of New Art Dealers Alliance marks the first time since 2018 that the fair has held an edition in New York. The fair is now back at Pier 36, the venue it once held before moving to its location on New York’s West Side. (It later lost that venue to Google, which bought it in 2018.) “Even securing this space was tough,” said Heather Hubbs,…Read More
This year’s nominees were selected from a list of over 400 entries, thanks to the hard work of our expert juries in each individual category (more on them here and here)—who chose the finalists after playing, discussing, and meticulously evaluating each of the games in consideration. Independent Games Festival Ceremony: March 23, 2022 Here is Jeremy Couillard’s list of finalists for each category of the 2022 IGF Awards, along with “honorable mentions”: EXCELLENCE IN VISUAL ART Fuzz Dungeon (Jeremy Couillard) NUOVO AWARD…Read More
DMs w Jeremy Couillard Nov 18, 2021 There is a place in your head where a thought slowly morphs into a real thing. The thought passes through a part of your brain where it turns into something different than what it was before it awkwardly becomes reality. This place is called the Fuzz Dungeon. It is responsible for everything from failed nation states to bad drawings. Good ideas turn into bureaucratic nightmares. Daydreams turn into mass starvation and…Read More
St. Petersburg November, 11–23 Artists: Galina Alferova, Semyon Koltsov (Russia), Karin Andersen (Germany), Anestis Anestis (Greece), Grigory Kirgizov (Russia), Alina Kugush (Russia), Jeremy Couillard (USA), Alexandra Lerman (USA–Russia), Nataliya Lyakh (France–Russia), Alexander Pogrebnyak, Anton Shchegolev (Russia), Danita Pushkareva (Russia), Miriam Simun (USA) CYFEST, one of the biggest international media art festivals in Eastern Europe, was founded by a group of independent artists and curators in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2007. Since its inception, CYFEST’s main concerns have been to examine…Read More
Jeremy Couillard‘s gloriously idiosyncratic art is being splashed across 80 synchronised screens in New York throughout October. His video Fuzz Spiral (2021) is part of Times Square Art’s Midnight Moment project, which shows art on advertising screens nightly from 11:57pm until midnight. The video is derived from Couillard’s game Fuzz Dungeon, which was released on Steam in June. You play as a rat-dog-witch named Flip as she navigates the space where good ideas get lost in search of a Sasquatch sex amulet that will somehow transport her…Read More
Jeremy Couillard is presenting a new video “Voluntary Associations” with the Daata Fair in Miami. The Daata Fair Miami is an online-only art fair dedicated to showcasing the best of international contemporary video and digital art from leading art galleries around the world. Daata Fair Miami: December 1-13, 2020. Visit the Fair. “Voluntary Associations” is also now on view in The Bass Museum’s satellite IG gallery @thebasssquared. “Voluntary Associations” will also be presented as a screening program at the New…Read More
Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week From the Armory Party at MoMA to the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, there’s something for everyone this week. Sarah Cascone, March 2, 2020 Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them below. … 17. “JEF by Jeremy Couillard Presented by TSS x Daata” at Times Square Space Collector Tiffany Zabludowicz is back with…Read More
Presented by Daata & TSS February 29 – March 15, 2020 Opening reception: March 2nd, 6-9pm, RSVP: [email protected] Times Square Space, 1500 Broadway, NY 10036 Ground Floor Entrance on 43rd St, next door to the Brooklyn Diner, 155 West 43rd St. JEF – An expansive video project by Jeremy Couillard. Presented by Daata & TSS from Daata Editions on Vimeo. JEF is a cosmology, inspired by world building techniques in sci-fi literature, fully automated luxury space communism fantasies and human/computer…Read More
Glitches in the Simulation The Phillips x Daata artist commissions By Michael Connor Jun 26, 2019 In Jeremy Couillard’s HOTR Home Furnishing, an IKEA-like warehouse store serves as a re-education camp for billionaires following the Earth‘s salvation at the hands of aliens. As a necessary condition of the transition to a more equitable and climate-friendly society, the aliens are attempting to retrain the billionaires of the old world to perform humble and useful tasks—specifically, to assemble prefab furniture. This work, along…Read More
Glitches in the Simulation The Phillips x Daata artist commissions By Michael Connor Jun 26, 2019 Jeremy Couillard, HOTR Home Furnishing, 2019. Still frame from digital video. In Jeremy Couillard’s HOTR Home Furnishing, an IKEA-like warehouse store serves as a re-education camp for billionaires following the Earth‘s salvation at the hands of aliens. As a necessary condition of the transition to a more equitable and climate-friendly society, the aliens are attempting to retrain the billionaires of the old world to…Read More
Get Beamed Into an Alien Afterlife via This Trippy Video Game and Gallery Show MARCH 13, 2017 BY SAM PATWELL Taken by yours, mine, & ours gallery You wake up in a hospital. There is a doctor standing over you in scrubs, running his hand down a clipboard, a mask pulled tight across his face. There’s a vague beeping behind you and the sounds of miserable sobbing coming from somewhere. The beeping grows longer and louder until, all of a…Read More
NEW YORK Jeremy Couillard YOURS MINE & OURS 54 Eldridge Street February 17–April 2, 2017 On a dusty, slate-colored couch reeking of bong water and dirty laundry, Jeremy Couillard invites visitors to experience a multidimensional journey into the great beyond with Alien Afterlife, 2016–17. The installation’s centerpiece is a video game designed and engineered by Couillard, unfurling as a quest for reincarnation amid kaleidoscopic landscapes and eccentric extraterrestrials. When the player is killed, the game abruptly ends with a stern…Read More
Enter an ‘Alien Afterlife’ Inside a Video Game Installation Aliens and the Tibetan Book of the Dead collide in artist Jeremy Couillard’s latest new media installation. By DJ Pangburn February 19, 2017, 7:50am What if the afterlife is neither total universal awareness nor void, but an alien world? Artist Jeremy Couillard envisions the possibility in Alien Afterlife, a first-person video game installation where players die in a hospital, then find their afterlife hijacked by aliens. This surreal and disorienting world,…Read More
4 Experiential Artists Who Brightened Up 2016 | The Wrap-Up Liz West, Nonotak, Moment Factory, and Jeremy Couillard promised us magical experiences this year, and didn’t disappoint. By Noémie Jennifer December 27, 2016, 2:15pm The winter solstice is behind us, the days are getting longer, and the calendar year is coming to an end, which can only mean one thing: It’s time to check back with some of the experiential artists we hailed as up-and-comers last winter, and see what…Read More
The Last Platform What it’s like to stand on the precipice of virtual reality BY ALEXANDER PROVAN IN OPINION | 13 FEB 16 Jeremy Couillard, The Out of Body Experience, 2015, virtual-reality simulation. Courtesy the artist I load the YouTube videos of early adopters with headsets strapped to their faces. Within a few moments, they begin to squeal, curse, flap their arms, jerk their heads and, occasionally, stumble to the floor. They feel themselves to be piloting fighter jets, careering…Read More
