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Evan and Tony are having a joint exhibition, opening this First Friday at Sliding Door Gallery.

You may remember their entry into Rethought, Reworked and Repainted. Well, they sold the fruit of their collaboration at that show, a painting/collage of “Cars in Yard,” and even got a writeup at a local art site by the buyer.

Sliding Door Gallery was pretty enthusiastic about Tony’s and Evan’s work, so they asked them to do another show this month. This time, they are taking large found pieces o’ wood, windows, and even a canvas or two, and I think we can safely say that all the pieces are a joint effort. You have to see it to know what their collaborative style is all about. It’s exciting.

Join us from 6 to 9 this Friday evening, November 2nd. Sliding Door is located between 5th and 6th on Santa Fe in Denver.

(click to see the bigger version)

I’ve been working on this video for what seems like a month. It’s something that I would like to project on a wall, maybe at a party or a bar, or even somewhere more highbrow like a gallery. I’d love to get your critiques and feedback about it, so hollerrr with a comment.

I recommend watching this with your current favorite song as a soundtrack, as I left it intentionally mute. Also, because the video has been compressed to view on the web, it’s not the best quality nor the largest resolution. The whole thing is 3:33, so you won’t need to spend much time on it. That’s a palindrome and you know it’s a palindrome. Click the screenshot below to watch (requires Quicktime/plugin, I think)…

While sitting by the Boulder Creek at nearly peak flow, I shot the original miniDV video for this project. Then, using Luma Keying in Final Cut Pro, I got rid of everything but the rushing, white water. A very similar effect can be achieved by upping the contrast in iMovie HD and appying the effect “black and white.” Having isolated the white splashes, I edited the footage using only the effects fast/slow/reverse in iMovie. Well, ok, I used a few transitions as well. Ultimately, I wanted to give the surreal experience of watching water flow a rhythm and meaning.

Since it’s kind of teeny, I’ll link a larger downloadable file here, for those of you who wish to see it bigger and better. (To download, click the link above and select “save link as” or some similar terminology.)

Furthermore, I am interested in any and all remixes that people can come up with, and in the interest of creating open-source artwork, I urge you to use the large file to mess up, modify, and re-make your own aqua poetics.

Evan has some of his latest work in a show, opening this coming “First Friday” August 3rd. It’s going to be at Sliding Door Gallery, which is on the southern reaches of Denver’s Santa Fe Art District.

The show, “Rethought, Reworked, and Re-Painted,” is all about taking old, cast-off, ugly specimens of art Americana, and remixing them to make something new and hopefully more desirable. To see some examples of what this has looked like in other galleries, check out what they had over at The Wurst.