http://www.vadimgershman.info Vadim Gershman Tue, 08 May 2012 07:30:24 +0000 http://www.vadimgershman.info en http://www.vadimgershman.info/A-Mandatory-Event http://www.vadimgershman.info/following/vadimgershman.info/A-Mandatory-Event Tue, 08 May 2012 07:30:24 +0000 Vadim Gershman 3361117 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A series of commissioned posters created for Compound, an artist collective in Minneapolis. This series confronts the cultural significance of compounds as sites for radical, cult-like organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22" x 28" | 1-color screen | edition of 25 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <img src="http://payload53.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3361117/KOOL_AID_MAN_CARGO.jpg" width="640" height="926" width_o="640" height_o="926" src_o="http://payload53.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3361117/KOOL_AID_MAN_CARGO_o.jpg" data-mid="17269903" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14" x 22" | inkjet print | edition of 25 A limited edition print created for Compound. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <img src="http://payload53.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3361117/CMPND_KORESH_CARGO.jpg" width="640" height="1006" width_o="640" height_o="1006" src_o="http://payload53.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3361117/CMPND_KORESH_CARGO_o.jpg" data-mid="17270028" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.vadimgershman.info/Dub_Hz http://www.vadimgershman.info/following/vadimgershman.info/Dub_Hz Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:56:32 +0000 Vadim Gershman 3019550 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Dub Hz is an evening of aggressive dub music. 9" x 28" | 2 color screen | edition of 50 <img src="http://payload35.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3019550/dub_hz_sound_murda-01_1.jpg" width="640" height="305" width_o="640" height_o="305" src_o="http://payload35.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3019550/dub_hz_sound_murda-01_1_o.jpg" data-mid="15390915" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.vadimgershman.info/Love-O-Rama http://www.vadimgershman.info/following/vadimgershman.info/Love-O-Rama Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:53:19 +0000 Vadim Gershman 3019522 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11" x 17" | stencil + photocopy + perforated paper | edition of 30 <img src="http://payload35.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3019522/love_o_rama_tearaway.jpg" width="640" height="418" width_o="640" height_o="418" src_o="http://payload35.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3019522/love_o_rama_tearaway_o.jpg" data-mid="15390726" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.vadimgershman.info/Consumer-Electronics http://www.vadimgershman.info/following/vadimgershman.info/Consumer-Electronics Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:49:22 +0000 Vadim Gershman 3019504 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11” x 17” | stencil + photocopier | edition of 50 <img src="http://payload35.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3019504/consumer_electronics.jpg" width="640" height="1139" width_o="640" height_o="1139" src_o="http://payload35.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3019504/consumer_electronics_o.jpg" data-mid="15390661" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.vadimgershman.info/Uncertainty-Principle http://www.vadimgershman.info/following/vadimgershman.info/Uncertainty-Principle Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:46:25 +0000 Vadim Gershman 3019488 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15” x 22” | spray paint & rubber stamp on lab paper | edition of 10 *Created for Imposters at UMSL.<img src="http://payload35.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3019488/the_uncertainty_principle_1.jpg" width="640" height="936" width_o="640" height_o="936" src_o="http://payload35.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/3019488/the_uncertainty_principle_1_o.jpg" data-mid="15390580" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.vadimgershman.info/Staging-the-Future http://www.vadimgershman.info/following/vadimgershman.info/Staging-the-Future Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:05:29 +0000 Vadim Gershman 2917927 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Staging the Future: William and Nadine McGuire Theater: A Home For Walker Performing Arts is a limited edition publication celebrating the William and Nadine McGuire Theater and Commissioning Fund at the Walker Art Center. The book highlights a series of commissioned works staged at the McGuire Theater between 2005 and 2012. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_016.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_016_o.jpg" data-mid="14850920" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_018.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_018_o.jpg" data-mid="14854790" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_003.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_003_o.jpg" data-mid="14853025" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_006.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_006_o.jpg" data-mid="14848197" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_005.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_005_o.jpg" data-mid="14853152" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_008.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_008_o.jpg" data-mid="14849388" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_009.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_009_o.jpg" data-mid="14849433" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_012.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_012_o.jpg" data-mid="14849480" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_013.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_013_o.jpg" data-mid="14849526" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_011.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" 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src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_021.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_021_o.jpg" data-mid="14854761" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_022.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_022_o.jpg" data-mid="14854777" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_020.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_020_o.jpg" data-mid="14854545" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_028.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_028_o.jpg" data-mid="14854858" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_029.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_029_o.jpg" data-mid="14854878" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_032.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_032_o.jpg" data-mid="14854984" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_034.jpg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2917927/staging_the_future_034_o.jpg" data-mid="14854996" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Designed under creative direction of Emmet Byrne. Walker Art Center © 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.vadimgershman.info/What-is-a-Designer-Statement http://www.vadimgershman.info/following/vadimgershman.info/What-is-a-Designer-Statement Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:36:21 +0000 Vadim Gershman 2408672 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is a Designer Statement and how would you go about creating one? A one-and-a-half question interview conducted via the Walker Art Center Design Blog. Click on the gifs below to find out how some of today's leading design professionals define themselves (if at all)... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 : David Reinfurt/ James Goggin/ Keetra Dean Dixon <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_300_2.gif" width="300" height="300" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_300_2_o.gif" data-mid="12125934" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 2 : Prem Krishnamurthy/ Dan Ibarra/ Radim Pesko/ Steven Heller/ Experimental Jetset <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_300_pixel.gif" width="300" height="300" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_300_pixel_o.gif" data-mid="12438023" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 3 : Scott Ponik/ Ellen Lupton/ Daniel Eatock/ Ryan Nelson/ Edvin Yegir <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_300_2_inv.gif" width="300" height="300" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_300_2_inv_o.gif" data-mid="12157754" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 4 : Sulki and Min/ Stewdio/ Erik Brandt/ Eric Olson/ Catalogtree <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_gltch.gif" width="300" height="300" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_gltch_o.gif" data-mid="12194777" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 5 : Jürg Lehni/ Harald Geisler/ Nicole Killian/ Juliette Cezzar/ John Malinoski <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_300_color.gif" width="300" height="300" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_300_color_o.gif" data-mid="12376579" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 6 : Bernard Canniffe/ Michael Bierut/ Justin Smith/ Matthew Rezac/ Christopher Baker/ David Bennewith <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_300_overlay.gif" width="300" height="300" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2408672/one_plus_half_question_intvw_300_overlay_o.gif" data-mid="12624956" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.vadimgershman.info/Inbox http://www.vadimgershman.info/following/vadimgershman.info/Inbox Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:48:54 +0000 Vadim Gershman 1350390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inbox is a marginally functional typeface created using mostly discarded sheets of 8.5" x 11" paper and an old filing cabinet found at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Graduate Art/Design Studio. (GR&D Lab). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/1350390/inbox_640.jpg" width="640" height="791" width_o="640" height_o="791" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/1350390/inbox_640_o.jpg" data-mid="6562850" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/1350390/inbox_anim_640.gif" width="640" height="451" width_o="640" height_o="451" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/1350390/inbox_anim_640_o.gif" data-mid="6562881" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.vadimgershman.info/Gravity-Series http://www.vadimgershman.info/following/vadimgershman.info/Gravity-Series Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:47:44 +0000 Vadim Gershman 2562200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Light Sweet Crude Oil + Paper + 24 hours | August 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_01.jpg" width="640" height="428" width_o="640" height_o="428" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_01_o.jpg" data-mid="12940265" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_02.jpg" width="640" height="428" width_o="640" height_o="428" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_02_o.jpg" data-mid="12940266" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_03.jpg" width="640" height="428" width_o="640" height_o="428" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_03_o.jpg" data-mid="12940267" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_04.jpg" width="640" height="428" width_o="640" height_o="428" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_04_o.jpg" data-mid="12940268" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_05.jpg" width="640" height="428" width_o="640" height_o="428" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_05_o.jpg" data-mid="12940269" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_06.jpg" width="640" height="428" width_o="640" height_o="428" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/2562200/gravity_series_06_o.jpg" data-mid="12940270" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The interest in using crude-oil as a print medium came suddenly and quite unexpectedly. While I was not directly affected by the massive oil spill in the Gulf Coast, I believe the magnitude of this disaster has seeped into my subconscious just as it has done with so many others in many different fields of activity. With this project I was not out for grand gestures, or emphatic proclamations -- there was plenty of that in the news. To me it was about trying to wrap my mind around this thing in my way. There was something mystical about this substance, an inexplicable force which drew me to want to make contact with it and explore the possibilities. As the oil gushed into the waters off the coast of Louisiana, I was desperately searching for a way to get any amount of crude for my humble art experiment far away in Minnesota. Ironically, I was having no luck in finding any amount smaller than a barrel. It took weeks to finally secure a quart of light sweet crude oil for a price that seemed equivalent to a brick of gold. While the Gulf Coast was receiving unsolicited oil by the thousands of barrel-full on a hourly basis, I was anxiously awaiting a quart of this precious substance with a strange child-like excitement. When I received the oil I began contemplating all of the ways in which I could use it as a drawing ink or a print medium -- forming elaborate narratives, landscapes or printed propaganda with this subliminally charged medium. But the most logical, natural and admittedly satisfying reaction came in the form of a deconstruction. I rigged the bottle to steadily release oil onto a stack of 8.5 x 11 white computer paper creating a varied print series. Over the course of two months I was able to produce two series based on time - 24 hours and 1 month. Each print in the series is for sale on a sliding scale according to the amount of crude oil absorbed by the paper -- first print being the most expensive. http://www.vadimgershman.info/Helium-Stop http://www.vadimgershman.info/following/vadimgershman.info/Helium-Stop Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:47:42 +0000 Vadim Gershman 929781 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helium + Latex balloons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds01.jpg" width="640" height="500" width_o="640" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds01_o.jpg" data-mid="4461731" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds02.jpg" width="640" height="956" width_o="640" height_o="956" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds02_o.jpg" data-mid="4461796" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds03.jpg" width="640" height="971" width_o="640" height_o="971" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds03_o.jpg" data-mid="4462471" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds04.jpg" width="640" height="956" width_o="640" height_o="956" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds04_o.jpg" data-mid="4462481" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds05.jpg" width="640" height="428" width_o="640" height_o="428" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds05_o.jpg" data-mid="4462639" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds08.jpg" width="640" height="403" width_o="640" height_o="403" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds08_o.jpg" data-mid="4462644" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds09.jpg" width="640" height="956" width_o="640" height_o="956" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19332/929781/ds09_o.jpg" data-mid="4462649" border="0" align="left"/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This project is a result of a graduate workshop in social practice conducted by Bernard Canniffe, Chair of Design at MCAD. Through collective dialogue conducted over the course of an afternoon we created an informal organization which focused on learning about all forms of alternative engagement with public space. DEAD SPACE became a lose collective as well as an information hub focusing on creative public intervention. Over the course of 2011 we created several projects including a seasonal ad agency which uses snow as billboard space (Frontier Ads), Helium Stop - bus stop interventions, a series of No Events on Facebook and a blog which continues to be a resource for all things public art. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For this installation we used 600 multi-color helium balloons to fill up a glass-enclosed bus stop, eventually allowing all of the balloons to escape into the atmosphere when the project was completed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Participants: Bernard Canniffe Brian Wiley Bryan Clendenen Danielle Feliciano Lauren Thorson Molly May Zeng Li Vadim Gershman ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------