https://rudygerson.info Rudy Gerson Sun, 29 Dec 2024 20:28:50 +0000 https://rudygerson.info en https://rudygerson.info/Home Mon, 15 May 2023 20:33:58 +0000 Rudy Gerson https://rudygerson.info/Home News I’m based in New York City and Philadelphia and work out of a studio at Crane Old School. I teach 16mm filmmaking at Mono No Aware, video at UPenn, and performance/installation at Brooklyn College, while offering&nbsp;videography services to artists and organizations.&nbsp; Artist statementI work across mediums to explore the ways collectivity is lived and imagined in the absence of institutional frameworks such as religion and the family. I consider how social desires are articulated under these conditions, reckoning with the contradictions of contemporary life, particularly where pleasure and pain are entangled in visions of utopia and rememberance. With a particular jewish sensibility, I explore the poetics of passing, devotion, and opacity to confront legacies of capture and imagined freedoms that continue to structure cultural life today. <img width="2150" height="3297" width_o="2150" height_o="3297" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6be190e46cedaf21d188475abc16ffd4a8255ede8fdf80f32aac42c2ad8978a0/Hebrews-33-34--2022.png" data-mid="183509823" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6be190e46cedaf21d188475abc16ffd4a8255ede8fdf80f32aac42c2ad8978a0/Hebrews-33-34--2022.png" /> https://rudygerson.info/About Tue, 27 Jun 2023 23:23:23 +0000 Rudy Gerson https://rudygerson.info/About Contact:&nbsp;studio[at]rudygerson.info Rudy Gerson (b. 1993, New York City; raised in Las Vegas, NV) is an artist and educator working across print, still and moving image, performance, and collaboration in a practice which explores how groups, identities, and collectivity form in the absence of institutional frameworks such as religion, the family, or the party. Through subjects like sports, nationalism, and dance, works consider how collective desires are articulated in these contexts, reckoning with the contradictions of contemporary life, particularly where pleasure and violence are entangled. Rudy has shown work with Mono No Aware (NYC), Commonweal (Philadelphia), Atelier Gallery (Philadelphia), Whammy! (Los Angeles). In addition to a studio practice, Rudy has collaborated with artists and organizations on design, video services, and performances: Collaborative Cataloging Japan, Asian Arts Initiative, Abrons Arts Center (2019, Jonathan González; 2022, Slauson Malone), LMCC's River-to-River festival (2022, Jonathan González), BRIC (2022, Jonathan González) and has worked with Tania Bruguera (2018), Julie Tolentino (2023), and Paul Pfeiffer (2025). Rudy is based in New York City and Philadelphia and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Brooklyn College. Selected writing: A Sourcebook for Performance Labor Routledge, Joey Orr, 2023 Transposing Diasporas: Interveiw with David Hartt PRTCLS, 2021Critical Correspondance: EmmaGrace Skove-Epes and Jonathan González Movement Research, 2019 https://rudygerson.info/CV Mon, 15 May 2023 20:33:58 +0000 Rudy Gerson https://rudygerson.info/CV Education 2023 2021 2015 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, MFA, Studio Art Brooklyn College, MFA (transferred), Brooklyn, Performance and Interactive Media Arts Cornell University, Ithaca, College Scholar,&nbsp;Summa Cum Laude, BA Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, and Performing and Media Arts Residencies&amp;fellowships 2023 2020 2019 Waterman II Fund at the Philadelphia Foundation Fellowship, 68th Flaherty Film Seminar, Skidmore College Azrieli Scholarship Program, KlezKanada, Montreal Image Text Workshop Residency, IthacaBeam Center, Governors Island, NY MANCC Collaborator-in-Residence,&nbsp; FSU Group exhibitions&amp;screenings&amp;performances 2025 2024 2023 2022 2018 I can imagine: expanded cinema series with Sharon Hayes, Ulises, Philadelphia Small Works, Frameworks Gallery, Philadelphia Devotion &amp; the Insatable, Mono XVIII, NYC Filmshop x Arts on Governors Island, FlAG: Action 1, NYC Art on Paper 2024, Commonweal Gallery, NYCAbscissa: organized by Max Levin, The Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC Mary Oliver’s Funeral, Second State Press, Philadelphia Aftermath, Worthless Studios, NYC Terminal Degree: An MFA Survey Exhibition, Commonweal Gallery, PhiladelphiaJulie Tolentino’s ON TOUCH (aka THE PRESSURE), STLIII, Slought, Philadelphia Reverb, Past Present Projects, Philadelphia Away From Center, Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia Hot Work, Charles Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania Tania Bruguera’s Untitled (Havana, 2000), Performer, MoMA, Manhattan Selected collaboration&amp;design&amp;videography 2024 2023 2022 2021 2019 2017 2016 Collaborative Cataloging Japan’s Community of Images, Videography, Philadelphia Asian Arts Initative, SoundType Concert Series, Videography, Philadelphia EO Studio’s Invasive Species, Asian Arts Initative, Philadelphia Slauson Malone’s&nbsp;The Stone Breakers; Lights, Abrons Arts Center, Manhattan Little Amal Closing Ceremony; Flag Design, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn Jonathan González’s PRACTICE; Design/Fabrication, LMCC’s River-to-River Festival, Manhattan Jonathan González’s&nbsp;The Smallest Unit Is Each Other; Fabrication, BRIC, Brooklyn EO Studio’s&nbsp;CASCODE;&nbsp;Researcher, University of Pennslyvania, Philadelphia Jonathan González’s Lucifer Landing I/II; Lights, Dramaturgy MoMA PS1, Queens Abrons Arts Center, Manhattan MANCC Visiting Artist, FSU Speak About It, Performer-Educator, nationally touring Yoko Ono’s The Riverbed; Gallery Associate, Galerie Lelong, Manhattan Selected teaching 2025 2024 2022- 2022 2020 2020 2019 Sculpture II: Installation and Peformance, Brooklyn College Aaton LTR workshop, Mono No Aware, Brooklyn Death and the Sacred in Queer Cinema, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Video I, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Intro to Printmaking, TA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pixel-to-Print, TA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Archiving Use, POWRPLNT, Brooklyn Theatre and Criminal Justice, John Jay College, Manhattan Writing-as-Action, John Jay High School, Brooklyn Artist talks&amp;panels&amp;conferences 2025 2024 2023 2022 Visible Evidence XXXI “Community,” Panel on Kino-Bonds, Temple University I can imagine: expanded cinema series with Sharon Hayes, Ulises, Philadelphia Devotion &amp; the Insatiable,&nbsp;Whammy! Analog Media, Los AngelesArtist Talk, Jewish/Queer/Trans at UMichigan’s Frankel Institute Jews and Black Theory: Conceptualizing Otherness, Conference Attendee, Harvard University A Sourcebook of Performance Labor: Book Launch with Author Joey Orr and Discussion with Dread Scott, Rudy Gerson, and Kyle Carrero Lopez, The 8th Floor, Manhattan Coffee &amp; Conversation: Exhibition Infrastructure, lexi welch, ICA Philadelphia Selected grants 2024 2023 2022 2015 Independent Creative Production Grant, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Charles Addams Memorial Prize, UPenn MFA Student Arts Innovation Grant, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Philadelphia Student Mediamaker Fund, Scribe Video Center Summer Grant, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania Raymond and Ruth Brenner Grant, Jewish Studies of the University of Pennsylvania The Freedman Award, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University The Tomasik Prize, The College Scholar Program, Cornell University Student Excellence in Community Engagement, Engaged Learning + Research, Cornell University https://rudygerson.info/C-V Thu, 29 Jun 2023 05:54:28 +0000 Rudy Gerson https://rudygerson.info/C-V Education 2023&nbsp; 2021 2015 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, MFA Brooklyn College, MFA (transferred), Brooklyn, Performance and Interactive Media Arts Cornell University, Ithaca, College Scholar,&nbsp;Summa Cum Laude, BA Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, and Performing and Media Arts Residencies&amp;fellowships 2023 2020 2019 Waterman II Fund at the Philadelphia Foundation Fellowship, 68th Flaherty Film Seminar, Skidmore College Azrieli Scholarship Program, KlezKanada, MontrealImage Text Workshop Residency, Ithaca Beam Center, Governors Island, NY MANCC Collaborator-in-Residence,&nbsp; FSU Group exhibitions&amp;performances 20252024 20232022 2018 Small Works, Frameworks Gallery, Philadelphia Devotion &amp; the Insatable, Mono XVIII, NYC Filmshop x Arts on Governors Island, FlAG: Action 1, NYC Art on Paper 2024, Commonweal Gallery, NYCAbscissa: organized by Max Levin, The Emily Harvey Foundation, NYCMary Oliver’s Funeral, Second State Press, Philadelphia Aftermath, Worthless Studios, NYC Terminal Degree: An MFA Survey Exhibition, Commonweal GalleryJulie Tolentino’s ON TOUCH (aka THE PRESSURE), STLIII, Slought Reverb, Past Present Projects, PhiladelphiaAway From Center, Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia Hot Work, Charles Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania Tania Bruguera’s Untitled (Havana, 2000), Performer, MoMA, Manhattan Selected collaboration&amp;design&amp;videography 2024 202320222021 2019 20172016 Collaborative Cataloging Japan’s Community of Images, Videography Asian Arts Initative, SoundType Concert Series, VideographyEO Studio’s Invasive Species, Asian Arts Initative, Philadelphia Slauson Malone’s The Stone Breakers; Lights, Abrons Arts CenterLittle Amal Closing Ceremony; Flag Design, St. Ann’s Warehouse Jonathan González’s&nbsp;PRACTICE; Design/Fabrication, LMCC’s River-to-River Festival, NYCJonathan González’s The Smallest Unit Is Each Other; Fabrication, BRICEO Studio’s CASCODE; Researcher, University of Pennslyvania, Philadelphia Jonathan González’s Lucifer Landing I/II; Lights, DramaturgyMoMA PS1, Queens Abrons Arts Center, Manhattan MANCC Visiting Artist, FSUSpeak About It, Performer-Educator, nationally touring Yoko Ono’s The Riverbed; Gallery Associate, Galerie Lelong, Manhattan Selected teaching 2025 2024 2022- 2022 2020 2020 2019 Sculpture II: Installation and Performance, Brooklyn CollegeAaton LTR workshop, Mono No Aware, Brooklyn Death and the Sacred in Queer Cinema, University of Pennsylvania Video I, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Intro to Printmaking, TA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pixel-to-Print, TA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Archiving Use, POWRPLNT, NYC Theatre and Criminal Justice, John Jay College, NYC Writing-as-Action, John Jay High School, NYC Artist talks&amp;panels&amp;conferences 2025 2024 2023 2022 Visible Evidence XXXI “Community,” Panel on Kino-Bonds, Temple University&nbsp; I can imagine: expanded cinema series with Sharon Hayes, Ulises, Philadelphia Devotion &amp; the Insatiable, Whammy! Analog Media, Los Angeles Artist Talk, Jewish/Queer/Trans at UMichigan’s Frankel Institute Jews and Black Theory, Attendee, Harvard University A Sourcebook of Performance Labor: Book Launch with Author Joey Orr and Discussion with Dread Scott, Rudy Gerson, and Kyle Carrero Lopez, The 8th Floor, Manhattan Coffee&amp;Conversation: Exhibition Infrastructure, lexi welch, ICA Philly Selected grants 2024 20232022 2015 Creative Production Grant, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Charles Addams Memorial Prize, UPenn MFA Student Arts Innovation Grant, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Philadelphia Student Mediamaker Fund, Scribe Video CenterSummer Grant, Center for Experimental Ethnography, UPennRaymond and Ruth Brenner Grant, Jewish Studies, UPennThe Freedman Award, Anthropology Department, Cornell UniversityThe Tomasik Prize, The College Scholar Program, Cornell University Excellence in Community Engagement, Engaged Learning + Research, Cornell University https://rudygerson.info/Works Mon, 15 May 2023 20:33:59 +0000 Rudy Gerson https://rudygerson.info/Works <img width="2090" height="1440" width_o="2090" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9de0c84ecb0d7dc4d26b38beeea6d9e66364d5447b6a1c9da316c95e9165b096/47263_f478c878365c91c760bed4e81e9322e5b32d501e7656a8f9fc7f008d384b29de.png" data-mid="245905627" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9de0c84ecb0d7dc4d26b38beeea6d9e66364d5447b6a1c9da316c95e9165b096/47263_f478c878365c91c760bed4e81e9322e5b32d501e7656a8f9fc7f008d384b29de.png" /> Blocks (After Jamie Nares 16mm film2025 <img width="4096" height="2933" width_o="4096" height_o="2933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f19d730f092d5da0b1f56fe5487abf51a13d15e609b8b96092de2aa586e8c2da/HandsOnEarth_Still1-2.jpeg" data-mid="245941617" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f19d730f092d5da0b1f56fe5487abf51a13d15e609b8b96092de2aa586e8c2da/HandsOnEarth_Still1-2.jpeg" /> Hands on Earth (May 14 2024) 16mm film2024 <img width="2861" height="1603" width_o="2861" height_o="1603" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc7d64c8c288024f27d84917fb49b69e85b80658a475413df0d1d0027ba70c10/E-06-5.png" data-mid="183510998" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc7d64c8c288024f27d84917fb49b69e85b80658a475413df0d1d0027ba70c10/E-06-5.png" /> The Broadwood Suite Video2023 <img width="3000" height="2002" width_o="3000" height_o="2002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9af23716ad5d6dedca5c62505608191414d19cf970391342a99faade386fecee/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio3.jpg" data-mid="183597333" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9af23716ad5d6dedca5c62505608191414d19cf970391342a99faade386fecee/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio3.jpg" /> Catching&amp;ThrowingPrint Installation2022 <img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab407c680c58f4aa9d4e78f73f2cc2631b76d0f3db3dbe0bb02a8ad721af3ccb/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio11.jpg" data-mid="183510122" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab407c680c58f4aa9d4e78f73f2cc2631b76d0f3db3dbe0bb02a8ad721af3ccb/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio11.jpg" /> Untitled (brass)Installation series2021 <img width="4679" height="3509" width_o="4679" height_o="3509" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4655ca407a6ae9319000ee7894047437bdbbec6f1053e2fb53e9c3b6a035bbff/5.-Wall-of-Sound-1973--2023.jpg" data-mid="183510019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4655ca407a6ae9319000ee7894047437bdbbec6f1053e2fb53e9c3b6a035bbff/5.-Wall-of-Sound-1973--2023.jpg" />PrintsOngoing https://rudygerson.info/Hands-on-Earth Sun, 29 Dec 2024 20:28:50 +0000 Rudy Gerson https://rudygerson.info/Hands-on-Earth Hands on Earth (Tuesday May 14 2024) 16mm film, 10 minutes (2024) Hands on Earth (Tuesday May 14 2024) takes place over a day of collective demonstration in Philadelphia. Shot on 16mm, the film focuses on hands as poetic indices of expression, exertion, and want. The medium of photochemical film marks the alchemy of and in public protest, while departing from typical protest portraiture of the face and the sign in favor of a meditation on the pleasures and pains of the political body. The film invites a feeling-with, while carving space away from the way recording and the journalistic record prioritize virality, speed, and programmatic legibility. Thank you to Mono No Aware in Brooklyn, NY. <img width="4096" height="3112" width_o="4096" height_o="3112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7419c14e29f73ba0b612c48b4898ea9682854d8fc580914f05e345cc06d58982/Stills11.png" data-mid="223920157" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7419c14e29f73ba0b612c48b4898ea9682854d8fc580914f05e345cc06d58982/Stills11.png" /> <img width="4096" height="3112" width_o="4096" height_o="3112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0382cb24fe59465566e92cf3de96f46647d813051d70ae597922fd33bfb46660/HandsOnEarth_Still13.jpeg" data-mid="223920159" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0382cb24fe59465566e92cf3de96f46647d813051d70ae597922fd33bfb46660/HandsOnEarth_Still13.jpeg" /> <img width="4096" height="3112" width_o="4096" height_o="3112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40871d1852d34ecc6dfc4d06747453cbb3eab29bc09d2e2f0e1762db6d6f59af/HandsOnEarth_Still2.jpeg" data-mid="223920158" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40871d1852d34ecc6dfc4d06747453cbb3eab29bc09d2e2f0e1762db6d6f59af/HandsOnEarth_Still2.jpeg" /> <img width="4096" height="3112" width_o="4096" height_o="3112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77848306d81df7edf59f5ba83bd876e9d34bcd749d990eabb42bec072eb7e144/HandsOnEarth_Still1.jpeg" data-mid="223920177" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77848306d81df7edf59f5ba83bd876e9d34bcd749d990eabb42bec072eb7e144/HandsOnEarth_Still1.jpeg" /> https://rudygerson.info/The-Broadwood-Suite Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:19:50 +0000 Rudy Gerson https://rudygerson.info/The-Broadwood-Suite The Broadwood Suite 4K Single Channel Video, 22 minutes (2023) The Broadwood Suite is a video installation that engages the history of a professional Jewish basketball team in Philadelphia and the social dances they would hold after their home games&nbsp; on the ballroom floor of The Broadwood Hotel between 1933 and 1947. Now, the site is a parking garage. The film takes the form of a musical suite in 5 movements and offers an alternative to the dominant historical narrative. With a focus on absence, surfaces, and missing partners, the film is a sensuous play with the latent possibilities and intimacies that circulate in the memory of these gatherings. Choreographies of sport, social dance, and the city move in this visual album and speculative ethnography, where the viewer is invited and ultimately trusted to use imagination to associate into new meanings. No. 2 JOYWITHOUTINTERIORITY No. 5 itcouldleadtodancing No. 13 MEMORIESINTHEPRESENT No. 11 wherebasketballwasjewish No. 00 brownlung Directed, edited, and produced by Rudy GersonFeaturing: Rudy Gerson, Rachel Gottfried-Clancy, Jacob Kose, Daniel Stern, Gabe Seamon, Ronnie SchmertzCamera Operators: Ty Burdenski, Rudy Gerson, Catching On Thieves, lexi welchSound Mixing, Engineering, Mastering: Dot Rose LevineOriginal Music Direction and Composition: Dan BlacksbergOriginal Music Composition: Ira Kohen Temple, Michael Winograd &nbsp; Support for The Broadwood Suite has been provided by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, Raymond and Ruth Brenner Grant in Jewish Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, the Center for Experimental Ethnography, Scribe Video Center <img width="2863" height="1612" width_o="2863" height_o="1612" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b68aea8034bcf8559cd156faafd9c9b784eca66debd7edf405ce6fcfd403c2dc/E-06-2-1.png" data-mid="183606718" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b68aea8034bcf8559cd156faafd9c9b784eca66debd7edf405ce6fcfd403c2dc/E-06-2-1.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1614" width_o="2880" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11e669149c9c4d76c87a4db67370de691e01c2baba6fa110bd5ed9354f38010a/E-06-3.png" data-mid="183606719" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11e669149c9c4d76c87a4db67370de691e01c2baba6fa110bd5ed9354f38010a/E-06-3.png" /> <img width="2871" height="1614" width_o="2871" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9005fd34aaafc5dff9252df5181511f4d1ed7487837c1067b615a4a05703e427/E-06-1.png" data-mid="183606717" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9005fd34aaafc5dff9252df5181511f4d1ed7487837c1067b615a4a05703e427/E-06-1.png" /> https://rudygerson.info/Catching-Throwing Mon, 15 May 2023 20:33:59 +0000 Rudy Gerson https://rudygerson.info/Catching-Throwing Catching&amp;Throwing Print Series of 18 prints, 6 at 40×26 in and 6 at 11x6in (2022) The works assembled here are in conversation with the history of a professional Jewish basketball team in Philadelphia, the SPHAs, and the social dances they would hold after their games on the ballroom floor of The Broadwood Hotel between 1932 and 1949.This series considers how communal choreographies of competition, play, and dance are entangled by using consciously dated techniques of typewriting and blind embossed printing. The typing introduces historical context through lists, concrete poetry, and experimental textual drawing, while the prints act as ghostly images of objects no longer present. Together, the image and the text turn away from the dominant historiography of a team, the event, and its traces while speculating on the unthinkable potentials within. The potentials are memories of the impossible, where cruising and interethnic intimacy thrives undetectably in the shared site of sport and dance. The installation includes The Broadwood Suite, a film in 5 movements. <img width="3000" height="2002" width_o="3000" height_o="2002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1af071aca5946751dce8cce332aa268d619e194a1edf8cdd63c86827607a371a/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio2.jpg" data-mid="183599696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1af071aca5946751dce8cce332aa268d619e194a1edf8cdd63c86827607a371a/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio2.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2002" width_o="3000" height_o="2002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5da02922fde77625e634ff8b982618218d06f3d725efb3fe561db88b72a16ea/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio5.jpg" data-mid="183599699" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5da02922fde77625e634ff8b982618218d06f3d725efb3fe561db88b72a16ea/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio5.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2002" width_o="3000" height_o="2002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c368732f0f87112e21cffc3819690e83612fd7273c53ef1320b219a1b30ef1af/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio3.jpg" data-mid="183599697" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c368732f0f87112e21cffc3819690e83612fd7273c53ef1320b219a1b30ef1af/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio3.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd4caf6e4561f44d7a11c45d028aa3619ef6dc7c6b607659ade0cb123b26bcc8/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio7.jpg" data-mid="183599701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd4caf6e4561f44d7a11c45d028aa3619ef6dc7c6b607659ade0cb123b26bcc8/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio7.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94c837b411dbd22b232dd25f8cfbf1c75a0a0a598f9825fc9e150eb7ef0fea07/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio6.jpg" data-mid="183599700" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94c837b411dbd22b232dd25f8cfbf1c75a0a0a598f9825fc9e150eb7ef0fea07/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio6.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2c400285ad88b3558c524fccc1fd7d842f0a40e1f0c1f5a1965e6f964ee5832/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio9.jpg" data-mid="183599706" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2c400285ad88b3558c524fccc1fd7d842f0a40e1f0c1f5a1965e6f964ee5832/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio9.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d8236e18cb63db6c0cc830cc820dd4dd6698ada81a6b76f2fe43e479068d3b4/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio8.jpg" data-mid="183599702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d8236e18cb63db6c0cc830cc820dd4dd6698ada81a6b76f2fe43e479068d3b4/Gerson_Rudy_Portfolio8.jpg" /> Photo: Anna Neighbor, Haigen Peterson &nbsp; https://rudygerson.info/Untitled-series Mon, 15 May 2023 20:33:59 +0000 Rudy Gerson https://rudygerson.info/Untitled-series Untitled (brass) Untitled (under god), 2022 brass and brass hardware 144” x 1” x 3” Untitled (in three parts), 2022 brass and brass hardware 3 at 144” x 1” x 8” Untitled (reflex), 2022 brass, brass hardware, a corner 144" x 1" x 1" This work offers an ambivalent intervention on the semiotics of nationalism and the symbols that help construct it. Both playful and foreboding, this work sidesteps the question of the flag and takes up its framing devices, namely the pole and its ornamental top. Within vexillology, or the study of flags, the finial is a relatively unexamined decorative element of a flag’s presentation. This work suspends and exaggerates, using sounding objects and sonic material (brass) in an austere and quiet manner to offer a question and a critique of poles, ornaments, and procession. <img width="5504" height="8021" width_o="5504" height_o="8021" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/254c9a8f701926bf154aaea8c01c3ee104b992f2280fca81ce98ed6f71b2c128/2023_PastPresent_Reverb-9.jpg" data-mid="183698370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/254c9a8f701926bf154aaea8c01c3ee104b992f2280fca81ce98ed6f71b2c128/2023_PastPresent_Reverb-9.jpg" /> <img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/274c5301f5aa5fd6c0ec0a072b98112614bf0a8c7f3699a83e60b345f30be77b/2023_PastPresent_Reverb-10.jpg" data-mid="183698371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/274c5301f5aa5fd6c0ec0a072b98112614bf0a8c7f3699a83e60b345f30be77b/2023_PastPresent_Reverb-10.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" 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