Building
Nave
To supplement the fragment
The Apple Stretching
Dog Eared Reverie
Storefront
Local Objects
Framework
I used to be a tree
Framework
GRIMM
New York, NY
September 10 – October 18, 2021
New York, NY
September 10 – October 18, 2021
66-44
T-shirts, polyester, latex and acrylic paint, image transfers, stitching, steel, bronze brazing
18.25 x 32.75 x 5.75 inches
T-shirt, inkjet prints on fabric, found fabric, stitching, steel, bronze brazing
27.75 x 23.5 x 5.75 inches
T-shirt, inkjet prints on fabric, found fabric, stitching, steel, bronze brazing
27.75 x 23.5 x 5.75 inches
T-shirts, inkjet print on fabric, found fabric, found objects, stitching, steel, bronze brazing
26 x 21.5 x 5.5 inches
T-shirts, found fabric, stitching, laserjet print, magnets, steel, bronze brazing
36.125 x 37.625 x 6.125 inches
Inkjet print on fabric, stretched over hand-shaped board
15.25 x 12 x .75 inches
One of five mattress works in the show. The mattress aligns with the front edges of the substrate, which are rounded. The sides reveal the space/things around the mattress captured in the photo, i.e. the bottle and mask.
Consolatio
Inkjet print on fabric, stretched over hand-shaped board
15.25 x 12 x .75 inches
Inkjet print on fabric, stretched over hand-shaped board
15.25 x 12 x .75 inches
Something for Easter
Inkjet print on fabric, stretched over hand-shaped board
15.25 x 12 x .75 inches
Love Comes Quality
Inkjet print on fabric, stretched over hand-shaped board
15.25 x 12 x .75 inches
For Carideo, the cellphone camera is an extension of the body and the mind. He keeps archives of his old cellphone images and looks through them frequently, reviewing the pictures for small details and impressions that catch his attention. From these files he creates visual compendiums that record the city in flux. Cherished moments and places, snapshots of the urban milieu, communicate the immediacy of the metropolis along with the nostalgia of faded portraits.
Carideo describes the evolution of this series and its concrete everyday subject matter:
“[Awnings] are large bulky things. Sometimes flashy, classy, or hideous and they are everywhere in New York City. Awnings can say a lot about a place. Often, they show signs of a vanishing city…Each work in this series is compositionally grounded by an arch and a T-shirt’s collar that rides its curve. A tunnel in one work mirrors a pocket in another, or the simple yet satisfying link between an awning’s curve and the way a person’s shoulders transition to their back. These materials visually intertwine, making it difficult to discern photographic images from imagery found in the the form of sun bleaching or preexisting graphic prints.”
The awnings will be exhibited alongside a parallel series of photo-sculptures, creating a dialogue between two modes of collecting, arranging, and presenting traces of the city. In this parallel series, Carideo photographs discarded mattresses, prints the images on fabric, and fits them over hand-shaped boards. He selects his source imagery for the way that light interacts with the undulating surface and material quality of his subject matter. They dislocate this familiar sight – at once dormant, immobile, and repellant – from the context of the New York City’s streets to become objects on a scale that can be held.
- Anna Ruth Yates