Richard Bloes

Envoy Enterprises presents Metrocard Merry-go-round +3 a solo show by Richard Bloes.

Bloes’ objects generally appear as loosely assembled elements from store-bought self- assembly kits, woodshop scraps, and found performance props that are anachronistically punctuated with the hard edge and movement of a video. In actuality the objects are highly organized sequences of things and stuff that are manipulated by friends and family according to a script by the artist, who documents the action in real time on video.

Metrocard Merry-go-round. +3, we all fall down.

Like pushing

Two turns around in circles we go

I say stop, you say slow

An avalanche of people in a metrocard show.

Turnstiles spinning beep beep tops spinning

The swiping cards are full of sounds.

Some like it flat others like it round.

Track 1 track 2 track 4

I see.

Like birds thinking bees

We swarm the tracks

looking for track 3.

The train I'm on has hit the ground

Some tops keep spinning while others fall down.

I look up to the sky

I say a prayer

Keep this train a movin

Or I will fall to despair

Home again I spin around

This metrocard parade just won't slow down.

I look to the princes of distraction in the trees

Tell me what happened to track #3.

Richard Bloes (b.Waterloo, Iowa. Lives and works in Lake Carmel, NY) has exhibited extensively and worldwide. Solo exhibitions include Chair Back, Feature Inc., New York ; “Traveler,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH “Time Spans,” East End Art Center, Riverhead, NY; Time Spans, Feature, New York; Meet the Makers, New York Public Library, Donnell Media Center, New York; Dissolved Light, American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY; Land Slide, MoMA PS1, NY. Group exhibitions include State of the Union: Contemporary Craft in Dialogue, Philadelphia Art Alliance; GADGET: Mechanics and Motion in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; “Review: vidéos et films de la collection Pierre Huber,” Le Magasin Centre Nationale d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France; Sculpture Incorporating Photography: Richard Bloes, Rachel Harrison, David Moreno, Feature Inc., New York; Video Installations, Sculpture Center, New York (catalogue: text by Laura J. Hoptman; Performance, Video & Film, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York; 3rd Image Forum Experimental Festival, Tokyo & Osaka; New York Foundation Video Fellows, New Museum, New York; Abstract and Processed Tapes,MoMA PS1.

Bloes is the recipient of the 2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a Guggenheim fellowship, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, a Jerome Foundation grant and the Media Bureau Finishing Funds grant (NYSCA/The Kitchen).