Blues Control "Rest On Water"

Eyes Closed

I did a video for the first track off the new Psychic Ills album. 



blogged on vice:
http://vice.typepad.com/vi..ce_magazine/2009/01/new-yo..rk---ne-1.html
posted on pitchfork:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/148608-pitchforktv-psychic-ills-mantis-video-premiere

Fingered Holiday Party/Jason Yates Closing
performances by NYMPH and SYMBOL

Saturday, December 20, 2008
7:00pm - 10:00pm

Fingered
255 McKibbin Street 207
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Last chance to come see this incredible show of L.A. artist Jason
Yates (http://www.fastfriendsinc.com)
+
Nymph (http://www.myspace.com/nymph2012)
++
Symbol
(http://www.myspace.com/sadjeljko)
+++
holiday cheeeeeer!!!

check out the artist interview/show preview video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HqPuLxOGMo

xoxo
Harrison


JASON YATES
MARGINALLY FUNCTIONAL: FAST FRIENDS FOREVER


BROOKLYN - A survey of Los Angeles based artist Jason Yates'
influential series Fast Friends, Inc. will be exhibited in New York
City for the first time from November 22nd through December 20th. This
body of work synthesizes pop-cultural histories in the form of highly
obsessive, large format xerographed and hand colored drawings covered
in novelty stickers, googly eyes, reflective mylar, yarn, and glitter.
These extremely labored, one-of-a-kind posters were exhibited, free
for the taking, in public spaces around Hollywood and proliferated on
internet social networks such as MySpace, often promoting gigs for
like minded bands such as Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Black Dice,
and Animal Collective.


Fast Friends, Inc. is cultural hi-jacking; a representation of fear,
the failure of the collective, the fetishism of the collapse, the
language of mania, anger, regression, absurdity, redundancy,
misinterpretation, formal cannibalization, and the theatre of excess
and dysfunction. The artist explains, "My studio practice relative to
this project is prone to slumming or manic recuperation. I cultivate
petty drama and my studio output navigates a line between
underachievement and the skyward fingertips of an asshole who
consistently assumes to know "the answer". The Fast Friends Inc.
project is a prolonged contradiction that weaves the conventions of
the rock poster with irreverent and irrational methods of production
which enables a formal identity crisis. My loose interpretation of the
conventional poster format and erratic production value encourages the
individual works intended language of obscurity, impermanence, and
inconsistency. Please excuse the mess."


Jason Yates was born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan in
1972. He began exhibiting his art in 1991 and, in 1992, collaborated
with George Clinton (Parliament/ Funkadelic) on a series of drawings
and paintings. He attended The University of Michigan's School of Fine
Arts and received his BFA in 1995. He then moved to Los Angeles in
1997 and attended Art Center's Master of Fine Arts Program, receiving
his MFA in 2000. Yates studied with artists Mike Kelley, Mayo
Thompson, Larry Johnson, Liz Larner, and Bruce Hainley.

JASON YATES
MARGINALLY FUNCTIONAL: FAST FRIENDS FOREVER


BROOKLYN - A survey of Los Angeles based artist Jason Yates' influential series Fast Friends, Inc. will be exhibited in New York City for the first time from November 22nd through December 20th. This body of work synthesizes pop-cultural histories in the form of highly obsessive, large format xerographed and hand colored drawings covered in novelty stickers, googly eyes, reflective mylar, yarn, and glitter. These extremely labored, one-of-a-kind posters were exhibited, free for the taking, in public spaces around Hollywood and proliferated on internet social networks such as MySpace, often promoting gigs for like minded bands such as Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Black Dice, and Animal Collective.


Fast Friends, Inc. is cultural hi-jacking; a representation of fear, the failure of the collective, the fetishism of the collapse, the language of mania, anger, regression, absurdity, redundancy, misinterpretation, formal cannibalization, and the theatre of excess and dysfunction. The artist explains, "My studio practice relative to this project is prone to slumming or manic recuperation. I cultivate petty drama and my studio output navigates a line between underachievement and the skyward fingertips of an asshole who consistently assumes to know "the answer". The Fast Friends Inc. project is a prolonged contradiction that weaves the conventions of the rock poster with irreverent and irrational methods of production which enables a formal identity crisis. My loose interpretation of the conventional poster format and erratic production value encourages the individual works intended language of obscurity, impermanence, and inconsistency. Please excuse the mess."


Jason Yates was born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan in 1972. He began exhibiting his art in 1991 and, in 1992, collaborated with George Clinton (Parliament/ Funkadelic) on a series of drawings and paintings. He attended The University of Michigan's School of Fine Arts and received his BFA in 1995. He then moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and attended Art Center's Master of Fine Arts Program, receiving his MFA in 2000. Yates studied with artists Mike Kelley, Mayo Thompson, Larry Johnson, Liz Larner, and Bruce Hainley.



There will be a reception for the artist on Saturday, November 22nd from 7 – 9pm.

Special performance by Mirror Mirror.

***

For information and images, please contact Harrison Owen/Fingered (646) 508-3048

LA was fantastic. thanks to nite Jewel, David Scott STone, and HIgH PLAcES for the incredible sets and thank you to everyone who came out to support and say hello.

We'll be partying at Glasslands Gallery in Williamsburg next Tuesday, 10.21 - the opening night of the CMJ festival. Kirsten Ketsjer will be coming from Copenhagen Denmark, MAniqui Lazer will be here from Mexicali Mexico and BDRMPPL and PICTUREPLANE will be bringing their jams from Denver. plus special guests.

visuals/dancefloor hits provided by fingered & dj pinkSWORD.
raffle for cds, dvds, artwork, more....

FREE COLT 45 9-10pm

Saturday, October 11th @ Family
436 N Fairfax Ave Los Angeles
w/ Nite Jewel & David Scott Stone

Tuesday, October 21st @ Glasslands
289 Kent Avenue Brooklyn
w/ Pictureplane, Maniqui Lazer, Kirsten Ketsjer, BDRMPPL

more info TBA