APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Imran Perretta

    One week until the launch of Apogee Issue 06, which we will celebrate at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division on December 10th @ 7PM. Join us! Until then, we are honored to feature Imran Perretta’s “Devotion.”       Devotion, 2014 Prayer mat (facing Makkah), tape recording, tape player, newspaper clipping, Nag Champa scent. Dimensions variable. Photo credit: Andy Keate   IMRAN PERRETTA’s work occupies a shifting, liminal territory between time/s and place/s. He deploys the authentic trace alongside the theatrical and the constructed to meditate on the inheritance of identity, the marginal body and the passing of individual and cultural histories. Current exhibitions include a solo presentation of 5 percent for Kunsten.nu alongside the group show Just Frustration at SixtyEight, Copenhagen, Denmark. Recent shows include Devotions at MOT International Project Space (2015), New Contemporaries at the Liverpool Biennial and the ICA, London (2014). In 2014, Perretta was the recipient of the Boise Travel Scholarship. He lives and works in London, UK.

APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Stina Puotinen

    Today we’re featuring artist Stina Puotinen’s “Spoopy Sandwich.”         Spoopy Sandwich, 2014 As part of “Spoopy”, a photo series collaboration with Alison Kuo, Nathan Miller & Erik Puotinen. Digital image. Dimensions variable.     STINA PUOTINEN received her BA in Art History and Studio Art at Vassar College, and has been working as an artist, museum educator, and occasional curator in New York City for over 10 years. She has taught at several leading arts institutions, including the MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, among others. Borne out of her work in Museums—both literally and ideologically—is her previous work as co-founder of the video and performance collective CHERYL, and the curatorial production team Limited Time Only. As of Fall 2015, Puotinen has left Brooklyn to attend the MFA program at Manchester School of Art in the U.K. 

APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Xaviera Simmons

    Leading up to Apogee Issue 06’s release, we want to treat you to a sneak preview of visual art we feature in our latest issue. Today, we’re starting at the beginning: Issue 06’s cover, “On Sculpture,” by Xaviera Simmons. Stay tuned for more.       On Sculpture, 2011 Color Photograph 40×50 inches Courtesy of The Artist and David Castillo Gallery   XAVIERA SIMMONS’S body of work spans photography, performance, video, sound, sculpture, and installation. She defines her studio practice as rooted in ongoing investigation of experience, memory, abstraction, present and future histories, specifically concentrating on shifting notions surrounding landscape, character development, and formal processes. Simmons is committed equally to the examination of different artistic modes and processes, dedicating part of a year to photography, another part to performance, and other parts to installation, video, and sound works, thereby keeping her practice in constant and consistent rotation, shift, and engagement.