bio:
Rob Andrews lives and works in Brooklyn. He has shown work at the Museum of Modern Art, Exit Art, Grace Exhibition Space, and is represented by English Kills Art Gallery. He recently enacted mass group feet cleanings in Union Square as part of Art in Odd Places, and in Bitola, Macedonia as part of the Exchange Radical Moments Live Art Festival on 11.11.11. He is a 2010-11 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art recipient.
artist statement:
My practice is about fear, blood and spit--the susurration of gain and loss beyond language. I'm afraid we'll lose the old stories, or they'll change so much we'll forget the stink of each other. I enact rituals and tell stories using my body and the bodies of others. If stories aren't re-told and distorted, they petrify.
I steal from tradition, religious practice, and my collaborators. I get their stories wrong on purpose in order to make them right in another way. My practice involves personal intervention into the muck of inherited mythology, public actions, and volunteer and forced collaborations.
selected performances/exhibitions:
Collapsing Time in Search of the Miraculous
with Rishika Mehrishi
LUMEN Live Art Festival
Performance
Atlantic Salt Yards
Staten Island, NY
June 23, 2012
Duration: 3 hours
VOID COWL
with Valerie Keuhne
Grace Exhibition Space
Brooklyn, NY
April 14, 2012
Duration: 3 hours
Clean Bitola
Exchange Radical Moments
Performance
Bezisten Old Covered Market
Bitola, Macedonia
November 11, 2011
Duration: 11 hours
DOOR WORK
Solo Show - Performance, Sculpture,
Photography, Pirate Radio
English Kills Art Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
October 22-November 6, 2011
Clean Union Square
Art in Odd Places: RITUAL
Performance
Union Square, NYC
October 8, 2011
Duration: 12 hours
Grappling Door
Art in Odd Places: RITUAL
Performance
TheaterLab
September 30, 2011
Duration: 1 hour
ant--bird
LUMEN Festival, Group Show
Performance
National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island
June 25, 2011
Duration: 2 hours
Votive Door (K)
Deep/Shallow, Group Show
Performance
Gowanus Studio Space
April 29 + May 26, 2011
Duration: 3 hours
Void Door for Ben Vautier for Yves Klein
Group Show, Flux This
Performance
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
March 25, 2011
Be Void
Group Show, Flux This
Performance
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
March 24, 2011
Blood Draw
Group Show, Maximum Perception Performance Festival
Performance
English Kills Art Gallery, NYC
January 15, 2011
Rim Spirit Collection
Group Show, Marni Kotak's MyHouse
Performance
Marni Kotak's MyHouse, NYC
November 14, 2010
Scouring Spirit Release
Group Show, Your Third Eye Is A Dictator
Performance
Gowanus Studio Space, NYC
October 16, 2010
Eating the Wall Street Journal (Invited Participant)
Performance
New Museum, NYC
Performer in William Pope.L's "ETWSJ" performance
October 5, 2010
Cusp (Invited Participant)
Performance
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NYC
Performer in William Pope.L's "Cusp" performance
"landscape + object + animal"
May 10, 2010
Good Morning Song (Please Join Hands and Sing Along)
Performance
Grace Exhibition Space, NYC
April 2, 2010
Assembly
Performance
English Kills Gallery (in conjunction with SITE Festival)
March 6, 2010
Sehnsucht
Performance Documentation and Artist Writings
Online Artist Project
Launch: January 2010
Clean Dobill
Performance (in collaboration with Peter Dobill, Actionist)
Clean Humans Series. Gowanus Studio Space
January 23, 2010
Sky Burial part two, Empty Empty
Performance
Exit Art (Pilgrimage variable)
December 18, 2009
Sky Burial part one, Enter Out
Performance
English Kills Art Gallery
December 11, 2009
Fountain Art Fair
Performance documentation presented by Grace Exhibition Space
December 3-6, 2009, Miami, FL
Gowanus Minotaur
Performance
Gowanus Studio Space, NYC
September 26, 2009
Renegades
Group Show
Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
April 18-May 31, 2009
Grace Minotaur
Performance
Grace Exhibition Space
February 20, 2009
Featuring "Two Sails on a Sound"
by Animal Collective, Courtesy of Rough Trade Publishing
Tompkins Square Minotaur
Performance
40*PHI Art in the Parks, NYC
November 1, 2008
English Kills Minotaur
Performance
English Kills Gallery, NYC
August 16, 2008
Maximum Perception
Installation of performance relics and video
Group Show. English Kills Gallery, NYC
Aug. 16-September 1, 2008
Exit Minotaur
Performance
Exit Art, NYC
June 16 + 23, 2007
Hospital Mountain
Performance
Exit Art, NYC
Jan. 20 + 27, 2007
Water Project (Feet Clean)
Performance
Exit Art, NYC
June 3 + 10, 2006
The Studio Visit
Video
Group Show, Exit Art, NYC
January 7-March 25, 2006
Praying Project
Performance
Exit Art, NYC
April 15, 16, and 17, 2005
Your Big Buddy
Publishing project, performance
L Magazine
April 27-September 27, 2005
Exit Art Clean
Performance
Exit Reconstruction Biennial. Group Show. Exit Art. March 8-
May 29, 2003
365 Secrets to Mirabelle Marden and Melissa Bent
Performance, sculpture
Rivington Arms, NYC
September 1, 2002-Sept. 1, 2003
Emerging Artists Show
Performance, sculpture
Group Show. HERE Gallery, NYC
August 2002
Jumping in a Pair of Air Jordans 1,000,000 times
Performance
Location variable
Ongoing
professional:
Personal Assistant to Artist William Pope.L
1999-2001, New York, NY and Lewiston, ME
education:
Pace University, New York, NY
M.S., Education
Bates College, Lewiston, ME,
B.A. June 2001 Major in English, Concentration in Creative Writing.
awards:
Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art 2010-11
Senseney Memorial Award. Given to graduating student who has shown outstanding creative ability and promise in writing. June 2001.