Anthony Discenza: Exhibition

""Integer Composition" is a recent work consisting of a sequence of 1,000 randomly generated numbers read off by a synthetic voice. The work focuses attention on our uneasy relationship to the numerical statistics continually swirling around us. Though no context for these numbers is ever specified, the sequence conjures a range of associations, from population figures to corporate payout amounts. While our inability to fully process the stream of numbers eventually transforms the audio into a kind of white noise, the lack of specificity, set against the mind's inevitable attempt to search for meaning, generates an underlying anxiety that colors our experience."

NOMA Gallery

80 Maiden Ln. 3rd fl,
San Francisco, CA 94108
Tel: 415 391 0200
info@nomagallery.com

Jennings, Discenza: Review

Carlson, Michele. “Zombie-Proff House.” Artpratical. July 2011.

www.artpractical.com

Zombie-Proof House is on view at di Rosa, in Napa, California, through September 17, 2011.

Discenza, Jennings: Review

A ‘Zombie Proof House’ at di Rosa explores hope and fear

Read more: napavalleyregister.com

Anthony Discenza, Packard Jennings: Exhibition

Both Anthony Discenza and Packard Jennings will be included in a group show at the di Rosa Gatehouse Gallery called: "Zombie-Proof House."

Zombie-Proof House

Anthony Discenza: Press

Art in Mexico City

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

by Linda Yablonsky

"A group show upstairs, curated by Chris Fitzpatrick and Post Brothers, featured a wall-sized vinyl text piece by Anthony Discenza, marking pop-culture signposts with wildly juxtaposed phrases like, "It’s Pokemon meets Brokeback Mountain," and "It’s Terminator 2 meets the US Senate").

www.artnet.com

Anthony Discenza: Press

Bjorland, Karen. “Uncertain Spectator curator says anxiety offers possibility.” The Sunday Gazette, December 12, 2010

James, Damien. “A willing participant at EMPAC’s “Uncertain Spectator.” Art:21, February 11, 2011.

Exhibition: Anthony Discenza

Sabina Lee Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Oakland-based artist, Anthony Discenza. This is Discenza's first Los Angeles solo exhibition and includes recent work including digital images, video, and both two and three dimensional text based projects. The work will be on view from Friday, September 17 through October 23, 2010. There will be an opening reception September 17 from 6-9 PM.

Blogs: Walter Robinson

Check out these two blog posts on Walter Robinson:

http://www.artistaday.com

http://www.artsjournal.com
This second one also features CClark artist Anthony Discenza!

Exhibition: Marina Zurkow in The Nature of Cities

Marina Zurkow (along with Anthony Discenza) is a part of the traveling exhibition The Nature of Cities, a group video installation created for the United Nations Pavilion at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China through July 31, 2010. The exhibition presents 16 short videos from artists, animators and architects from around the world addressing the theme of urban biodiversity.

Exhibition: Anthony Discenza in The Nature of Cities

The Nature of Cities
United Nations Pavilion, Shanghai Expo, China
July, 2010

UNEP has asked Art Works For Change to produce an art installation for the UN Pavilion at the upcoming Shanghai Expo. Up to 20 video artists, architects and animators will create short videos addressing the theme of urban biodiversity.

http://www.artworksforchange.org

Exhibition: Anthony Discenza and Packard Jennings in Beaurocracy Now!

Beaurocracy Now! Parlour No. 15
Curated by Elysa Lozano for Autonomous Organization
Hosted by artist Jon Meyer in his San Francisco live-work space
Opening reception May 29, 2010
By appointment May 30th

The first Parlour exhibition to take place outside of New York City.
Titled after the exhibition Utopia Now! at the CCA Wattis in 2001, Bureaucracy Now! references this drive for a better society by:

• Bureaucracy as a medium for individual agency
• Management as self-management
• Bureaucratic engagement as opening a space for debate and negotiation
• The aesthetics of the office reconfigured or re-invented
• Examining how organization occurs, and how it can be co-opted

http://parlourdoor.com

Exhibition: Birk, Discenza, Greene, Knoll, Robinson, Somerville, Taylor

Secret Drawings
June 19 - September 5, 2010
Palo Alto Art Center
1313 Newell Road
Palo Alto, CA

Inspired by a Surrealist strategy to create unexpected artworks, Secret Drawings features pieces created for the exhibition by invited artists who have been assigned a title and paired with a secret collaborator.

Exhibition: Anthony Discenza

“Discenza’s text-based work is both literary-minded and low-brow laugh-inducing, and references the artist’s interest in what he calls an 'internal viewing experience,' which is born of the freedom offered when one steps back from the constant heckling of image-based culture.”
-Allison Gibson
DailyServing.com

Exhibition: Packard Jennings, Anthony Discenza, Stephanie Syjuco

The San Francisco Arts Commission is exhibiting Packard Jenning's work, “Long Shot: Dining, Labor & Ponies.” This show features contributions by Anthony Discenza and Stephanie Syjuco. The project is “a conceptual project on art production and labor.”
June 4 - September 4, 2010
http://www.sfartscommission.org

Press: Anthony Discenza, Stephanie Syjuco

-Glen Helfand writes about Anthony Discenza’s work in the current. March 2010 issue of ArtForum

-Work from Stephanie Syjuco from the Art Review of 1969 exhibition is also in the current issue

http://artforum.com

Exhibition: Charles Gute, Anthony Discenza

INVISIBLE VENUE presents, "Hello! My Name is..." a site-specific intervention with contributions from a group of artists, including Charles Gute and Anthony Discenza.

College Art Association 98th Annual Conference
February 10 - 13, 2010
Hyatt Regency Chicago

"’Hello! My Name is...’ is a site-specific intervention of artist-created
conference badges designed for anonymous distribution during the College Art
Association 98th Annual conference in Chicago. Drawing on the required
reading of the ubiquitous name badge in conference settings, contributing
artists have created messages in response to the context of this academic
and social networking event for art professionals. “
www.invisiblevenue.com

Exhibition: Anthony Discenza, Charles Gute

The College Association 98th Annual Conference presents, “Hello! My Name is...” featuring Anthony Discenza and Charles Gute.

“Hello! My Name is..." a site-specific intervention with contributions (from several artists)”
February 10 - 13, 2010
http://conference.collegeart.org
www.invisiblevenue.com

Talk: Anthony Discenza

Artist Anthony Discenza talks about his current exhibition, "Everything Will Probably Work Out Ok."

Another press article for the exhibition is available below:

"This is a fine show, serving up a lot of ideas about media, I recommend it. If you haven’t been to this gallery take a peek inside…from the outside it does have a little of that “I don’t wanna go in there because I don’t know what they will expect of me” look, but buck up, as my uncle Charlie would say, “what’s the worst that could happen?” No. Don’t start thinking about that."

http://beta.kusp.org

Press: Anthony Discenza

ArtSlant features Anthony Discenza’s exhibition, “Everything Will Probably Work Out Okay” on their Picks & Reviews section.

Show runs until February 13th

http://www.artslant.com

Exhibition: Anthony Discenza

“Lending Library” exhibition at Royal NoneSuch Gallery, features work by Anthony Discenza.

“The Royal NoneSuch Gallery is pleased to present Lending Library, a group exhibition curated by Dena Beard, featuring tools, materials, and resources from artists Anthony Discenza, Lydia Greer, Desiree Holman, Trevor Paglen, Matthew Rana, Sunaura Taylor, and Andrew Rottner. Comprised of source materials, Lending Library takes a chance to display a line of inquiry rather than a finished object.”

Opening February 7, 7:00pm

http://www.fecalface.com