Post»Better show at Belmar

Posted by Steve Or Steven Read on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 2:19 PM in the News & Stuff section

Have a small piece up at The Belmar Laboratory of Art and Ideas in Lakewood Colorado. If you are in the Denver area I would definitely recommend a visit to Belmar, a relatively new art space. Currently there is a wonderful Fang Lijun show in the main space, and there's always the ever popular 'Mixed Taste' lectures on Thursdays, among other things.

This group show is entitled 'Better' and has a unique theme. The general idea was to work with the idea of the creative process, as a result of by which something is thought of as getting better. As described by Belmar, "The project gives visitors and readers access to the process by which finished products are generated and insight into what is considered 'better' in a diverse range of fields. Better also allows creative individuals the opportunity to make their mark on existing materials...". 25 or more local artists contributed pieces, some are remnants of past projects which betray a process or thought, others (like mine) were made especially for the show. The differing types of submissions is a big plus for the show in my opinion. Anyhow I created a paper cut/rip/paste database report starting from a found district attorney mainframe exception printout. The exceptions were handled yet unhandled (sorry, a really really bad software geek pun). Working with 'found data' discovered OFF the internet is one of my latest fetishes. I don't think I actually made anything better though. No photo here yet, so go visit Belmar and see this show which is up all summer!