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As promised here is another installment of who is TARL and why is TARL. A very smart and beautiful young woman named Jessica Powers is a founding member of this up-and-coming-sure-to-stretch-your-brainz art collective. Read her profile and get to know her, you might be lucky enough to love her as much as we do. If you want to check out what Jessica and TARL are up to and whet your appetite for their New Year’s Eve hi-jinx then you should definitely attend an exhibition they are hosting this Saturday! I will include all the info at the end of this profile.
JESSICA POWERS TO-THE-MAX
What skill do you want to learn?
Ron-Ron Juice mastery by Thursday.
Food and drink you don’t want to live without?
Pho / beer.
The scariest thing you can think of?
Being stuck at a Sequim-based hunting turn-out in the 5th dimension.
Your favorite party supply?
ELI HANSEN.
Your favorite book of the moment?
I like your work: art and etiquette, Edited by Paper Monument. This
tiny, hilarious text features contributions from 38 artists, critics,
curators, and dealers on the sometimes serious and sometimes
ridiculous topic of manners in the art world. Typical entry: Q. When
does breach of etiquette play a role in embarrassing or awkward
encounters? A. One kiss, two kisses or three? One is never sure.
Describe your dream party place.
Z-Man’s house in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (before all the bad
acid and murders).
What is the evil version of you like?
Disrespectful. Promiscuous. Angst-ridden. Basically me at 15.
What gives you confidence?
Reality TV.
Name four essential elements of a good party.
1). Spontaneity
2). Open minded guests
3). Outrageous party gimmicks (i.e. karaoke RV)
4). Costumes — will someone please bring back the dress up box?!
What do you appreciate most about a party host?
I appreciate a host who never makes me feel like I am partying wrong,
even when I am.
Favorite adventure supply?
Headlamps! Are! Crucial!
Describe the best party you ever attended.
The best parties give you access to places you never knew existed. In
college I went to a tepid jazz show at some random warehouse and
noticed a cluster of women who looked like Whitesnake video extras
loitering in a hallway near the washroom. They invited me to a party
at the porn studio next door where an entire room was dedicated to
mattresses and lava lamps. That night I drank whiskey at a prop bar,
learned to use throwing stars in an S&M dungeon and finally started to
appreciate the difficulty of pole acrobatics. Just when I thought
things could not get any better, a Leather Daddy took me to his ‘art’
studio upstairs to reveal thousands (no shit) of eco-conscious
airbrush paintings he had made depicting dolphins and gas masks.
Perfection.
Hotel room or campsite?
Depends completely on the company. Ideal campsite companions need to
not care about showering, going to the closest ‘town’ each day and /
or subsiding on more than beer, hotdogs and bagels. Hotel companions
should feel comfortable in robes, confident taking advantage of the
situation (i.e. getting your room cleaned daily to procure more
L’Occitane products) and productive doing nothing more than ordering
room service and watching HBO all day.
Do you have a style icon?
Lindsay Lohan: yesterday, today, forever… especially the time she
wore her alcohol monitoring bracelet to Pure Nightclub.
Where is your next adventure destination?
LA / Vegas.
If you could teach a class about anything in the world ever, what
would you teach?
The University of Wisconsin offers a course called Daytime Serials:
Family and Social Roles. I like to think that I have watched enough
GH to help college students determine how the relationship of Luke and
Laura could help stabilize humanity as we know it today.
Your motto?
Don’t be tardy for the party.
What is your spirit animal?
Once a Whole Foods checker urged me not to buy squid because it was
her ’spirit animal’. I ate the squid.
P.S.
“TARL hosts an exhibition by Vancouver artists Raymond Boisjoly and Ryan Peter, on view at 1447 21st Ave in Seattle, with an artist talk at Western Bridge preceding the opening.
Using a specious art historical reference as their starting point, Raymond + Ryan have created a wooden dinosaur sculpture with a sound component, a text piece, and a series of collages for their exhibition, THIS IS THE FUTURE, the Rest is History. Mistaking the part for the whole, they have replaced the idea with its realization–the work itself. Indexing the creative possibilities of misreading, Raymond + Ryan seek to find what was never there in the first place.
Raymond Boisjoly + Ryan Peter have been working together on their sometimes nameless collaboration since 2008. Their practice concerns the various guises of objects and materials within contemporary art and popular culture and has included works in sculpture, video, and installation.
Artist Talk
Saturday December 12, 2009
Western Bridge, Seattle
6pm
Opening Reception
Saturday December 12
1447 21st Ave, Seattle
7:30pm
Exhibition
December 12 – 20, 2009
1447 21st Ave, Seattle
Open Saturdays noon to 5pm and by appointment
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