DFBRL8R RESIDENCY | TONY ORRICO

Defibrillator is proud to present
a residency with TONY ORRICO
SEP 28 through OCT 10

Please join us for gallery hours and a reception to mark the closing of this exhibition by TONY ORRICO. The work will be on view Saturday, October 10, from 11AM to 7PM followed by a reception and conversation with the artist from 7-9PM.

TONY ORRICO has reached mass circulation for his ingenuity within the vernacular of performance and conceptual drawing. He is interested in organized consciousness and applications of the body to a surface, object, or course. Orrico has exhibited his work in the US, Australia, Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, Holland, Poland and Spain. His visual work is in collection at The National Academy of Sciences (Washington DC) and Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC, Mexico City) as well as prominent private collections. He has presented at Centre Pompidou-Metz, New Museum, and Poptech 2011: The World Rebalancing.

ORRICO is part of WEST TOWN ART WALK
October 2-3 | Friday : 5 – 8pm | Saturday : 12 – 8pm

FRI 2 OCT

5-8PM | Looped single channel video installations | Suspension Field, 2015, The hyper-controlled artist creates abstract sculptural shapes beneath a giant piece of carbon fabric | Accelerated Image: Yvonne Rainer’s Hand Movie (1966), 2014, Four hands re-enact the seminal original film, forward and in retrograde.
6-8PM | Symmetry and Suspension Workshop Demonstration | The culmination of a five day workshop, the final session is open to the public. Workshop participants demonstrate what they have gleaned from structures and rationales within Orrico’s practice.
8-9:30PM | Workshop closing discussion.

SAT 3 OCT

12-8PM | Prepare the Plane, 2012 | An eight-hour durational performance by Tony Orrico who will, throughout the day, transform an enormous piece of paper using his teeth.
12-8PM | Looped single channel video installations | Suspension Field, 2015, The hyper-controlled artist creates abstract sculptural shapes beneath a giant piece of carbon fabric | Accelerated Image: Yvonne Rainer’s Hand Movie (1966), 2014, Four hands re-enact the seminal original film, forward and in retrograde | Penwald 3: circle on knees, 2010. The artist’s signature technique on a small scale. Dance Theater Workshop, NY, NY.
8-10PM | Conversation and Reception