The Front Room Presents
The 5rd Quadrennial:
BALLOT SHOW October 20th-November 3rd, 2020 curated by Daniel Aycock
ONLINE EXHIBITION
The Front Room Gallery is proud to present the Fifth quadrennial "Ballot Show", which focuses on the American electoral system, and the overall notion of voting with a ballot. "The Ballot Show," held every 4 years since 2004, is inspired by the American election, and contemplates our antiquated electoral-college voting process.
The impetus for the first "Ballot Show” in 2004 was disillusionment with the shoddy way the 2000 election had been handled— "hanging chads," votes not counted, people not allowed into the polls, the Supreme Court decision. Things haven’t gotten better. As in all the previous iterations of the Ballot Show, the heart of it is questioning the US election system: electoral college, gerrymandering, etc. Basically, a 200+ year old system that needs updating. In 2020 we are also dealing with high tech espionage, Russian meddling, and cultish homegrown hate groups. And also—The Coronavirus. What could possibly go wrong?Despite the bitterness of partisan politics, The Ballot Show has always had a playful aspect in which the participants have been asked to move outside their wheelhouse, and possibly their comfort zone. Artists work in mediums, often interactive, that might be unfamiliar to them. Painters make videos, Photographers make sculptures. In a critique of an overly rigid system we have encouraged the artists to loosen up a little in their approach to this dark subject matter. For example Photographer Phil Buehler’s mural featuring 20,000 documented lies that Donald Trump was presented on a wall in Bushwick, the opening was attended by Senator Chuck Schumer, was subsequently vandalized by the “Proud Boys”, whose vandalism was then overwritten by opposing voices. It has really become a living artwork at that site, and in The Ballot show it can be read in it’s entirety. Sculptor and painter Linda Ganjian whose video “The Electoral College Workout” juxtaposes a US map, a bouncing ball, simple video game soundtrack, and online exercise videos - sums up the frustration one might be feeling at this moment in history. Meanwhile Patricia Fabricant’s day-glow silhouettes of gerrymandered districts really hammer home the machinations at work.
featuring works by:
Phillip Buehler, Ken Butler, Jaynie Crimmins, Peggy Cyphers, Beth Dary, Debra Drexler, Patricia Fabricant, Linda Ganjian, Enrico Gomez, Jessica Hargreaves, Sean Hemmerle, David Kramer, Jesse Lambert, Lisa Levy, Christopher Johnson, Pamela Longobardi, Sascha Mallon, Stephen Mallon, Karen Marston, Mark Masyga, Sarah Olson, Ross Racine, Daniel Rosenbaum, Emily Roz, Sante Scardillo, Mark Stilwell, Wendy Small, Miho Suzuki, Joanne Ungar, Zoe Wetherall, Ahron Weiner, Julia Whitney Barnes, Monika Wuhrer.
Artist: Phillip Buehler
Title: Wall of LiesDate: 2020
Size: 87,650 pixels by 16,233 pixels (when printed, 50'x10')
Medium: Gigapan interactive online image
Artist: Jesse Lambert
Title: Flies For Pence
I would like to offer 5"x7" limited edition artist prints in exchange for a donation to National Popular Vote Inc. a non-profit the advocates for replacing the electoral voting system with the popular vote. One print for a $20 donation. When someone makes a donation, they can email a screenshot or receipt for the donation, their address, and tell me which print they want, and I will send them the print.
Date: 2020
Size: 5" x 7"
Medium: Archival Digital Print
Edition: 50
Price: $20 donation to https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/donate
Artist: Wendy Small
Title: I Can Feel It
Date: 2008
Size: 11x14"
Medium: scratched/ "braille" photogram
Edition: unique in a series
Price: $1100
Artist: Mark Masyga
Title: "Losers & Suckers"
Date: 2020
Size: 3000px x 2000px (approx)
Medium: animation
Artist: Lisa Levy
Title: Democracy Death Mask
Date: 2020
Size: 12”x16”x7"
Medium: Plaster
Price: $850USD
Artist: Julia Whitney Barnes
Title:“Unfuck America”
Date: 2020
Size: 15” x 11”
Materials: watercolor and cyanotype on cold press watercolor paper
Price: $700USD
Artist: Stephen Mallon
Date: 2020
Title: Hopper CMO 21366 (Location- Echo, Utah)
Medium: C-Print photograph
Edition: 10
Price: Price: 10”x30” $1050, 15”x45” $2100, 20”x60” $3000)
Artist: Zoe Wetherall
Title: Grave Danger
Date: 2020
Size: 20x30"
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Artist: Ken Butler
Title: U.S. VOTER REGISTRATION AND DIFFERENTIATION BALLOT APPLICATION DOCUMENTATION
Date: 10/13/2020
Size: 8.5” x 11”
Medium: Digital Download
Edition: 400 million
Price: Free download
Artist: Beth Dary
Tittle: Crue, 3
Crue, literally means to flood, and is Dary’s response for this year’s Ballot Show in hopes for an undeniable wave of blue this election year as well as the desire to call attention to the environment and political landscape.
Date: 2016
Size: 5" x 7"
Medium: Egg tempera, raw pigment and encaustic on panel
Price: $400.00 USD
Artist: Patricia Fabricant
Series title: Gerrymandering
Left, to right, top to bottom:
Texas33, Michigan14, Illinois4Maryland3, Louisiana2+6, Ohio9 (The Snake by the Lake)Texas35, Ohio4 (The Duck), Texas2
Date:2020
Size:6 x 8 inches each
Medium:Gouache on panel
Price: $200 each
Artist: Sascha Mallon
Title: Thinking About Tomorrow…”
Size: 13”x5”x3.25”
Medium: porcelain and kintsugi, wooden diving board
Price: $750USD
Artist: Enrico Gomez,
Title: American Sunsets • Edelweiss : Southernmost • Ka Lae, Hawaii, Chrysoprase, Tiwaz
Date: 2019
Materials: Acrylic, watercolor, water soluble pencil, marble dust on paper
Size: 11.75 x 9.75 x 1 inches
Price: $800USD
Artists: Debra Drexler and Mary Babcock
Title: Eagle Performance Trump Hotel
Performance collaboration of the students and faculty of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Eagle puppet by Debra Drexler. American Flag Straight Jackets Mary Babcock. Photo documentation Debra Drexler
Date: January 20, 2017
Medium: performance
Artist: David Kramer
Title:Smoke Filled Room
Date: 2020
Medium: Oil/Enamel/Pencil/Gessoed Paper
Size: 37 x 24 in
Price: $4000
Artist: Jaynie Crimmons
Title: Suppress the Virus not the Vote
Date: 10/2020
Size: 5" x 7" or 8" x 10"
Medium: B/W photo of original mask modeled by Tafa, painter
Edition: Open
Price: $5 download (proceeds go to Common Cause)
Artist: Jesse Lambert
Title: It's All About Me
I would like to offer 5"x7" limited edition artist prints in exchange for a donation to National Popular Vote Inc. a non-profit the advocates for replacing the electoral voting system with the popular vote. One print for a $20 donation. When someone makes a donation, they can email a screenshot or receipt for the donation, their address, and tell me which print they want, and I will send them the print.
Date: 2020
Size: 5" x 7"
Medium: Archival Digital Print
Edition: 50
Price: $20 donation to https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/donate
Artist: Christopher Johnson
Title: Bad Tan, Worse Man
Date: 2020
Size: 11”x14”
Materials: Mixed Media on paper
Price: $200 (invested into needy down ballot race/or cause).
Artist: Sarah Olson
Title: Shit Storm 2020
Date 2020
Size 9 3/4 inches x 9 3/4 inches
Price: $850
Artist: Daniel Rosenbaum
Title: Biden / Harris
Date: 2020
Size: 12"x17"
Medium: digital print ( on good paper )
Edition: 20
Price: $200USD
Artist: Sante Scardillo
Title: Rights Inn
PLEASE READ TEXT COMPONENT OF ARTWORK HERE OR GO DIRECTLY TO THE FREELY DOWNLOADABLE IMAGES. PRINT THEM, FRAME THEM, HANG THEM; DIFFUSE THEM, DISTRIBUTE THEM WIDELY, PLASTER THEM EVERYWHERE, ESPECIALLY IN “RED STATES” (BUT NOT ONLY).
Artist: Peggy Cyphers
Title: Vote Icon
Date: 2020
Size: 8" x 10"
Medium: cyanotype on fabric
Price: $300USD
Artist: Sante Scardillo
Title: Rights Inn
PLEASE READ TEXT COMPONENT OF ARTWORK HERE OR GO DIRECTLY TO THE FREELY DOWNLOADABLE IMAGES. PRINT THEM, FRAME THEM, HANG THEM; DIFFUSE THEM, DISTRIBUTE THEM WIDELY, PLASTER THEM EVERYWHERE, ESPECIALLY IN “RED STATES” (BUT NOT ONLY).
Artist: Sante Scardillo
Title: Rights Inn
PLEASE READ TEXT COMPONENT OF ARTWORK HERE OR GO DIRECTLY TO THE FREELY DOWNLOADABLE IMAGES. PRINT THEM, FRAME THEM, HANG THEM; DIFFUSE THEM, DISTRIBUTE THEM WIDELY, PLASTER THEM EVERYWHERE, ESPECIALLY IN “RED STATES” (BUT NOT ONLY).
Artist: Emily Roz
Title: Letitia James, NY State Attorney General
Date: 2020
Size: 20 x 16 inches
Medium: oil on linen
Price: $2200USD
Artist: Ahron Weiner
Title: UnderCurrent Series. “Time to Prey”
Materials: Mixed Media
Artist: Peggy Cyphers
Title: Ducking - Vote
Date: 2020
Size: 8" x 10"
Medium: cyanotype on paper
Price: $300USD
Artist: Jessica Hargreaves
Title Kamala
Date 2020
Size 18x24
Medium acrylic, oil and hand sculpted resin on wood board and found frame.
Edition
Price: $3000
Artist: Christopher Johnson
Title:Vanilla Joe
Date: 2020
Size: 10”x8”
Materials: Mixed Media on paper
Price: Best offer, good candidate or cause
Joanne Ungar, “Simple Math”
Artist: Sean Hemmerle
Title: Fuck Trump, W 27th St., NYC, 03 June 2020
Date: 2020
Size: 36x30
Medium: Pigment Print
Edition of 3, 1AP
Price: $7500
Artist: Christopher Johnson
Title:White Bread Matters
Date: 2020
Size: 50x25
Materials: Mixed Media on Vinyl.
NFS
Artist: Pamela Longobardi
Title: Earth Votes
Date: Oct 2020
Size: 30” x 30” or variable
Medium: digital
Edition: open
Price: $25.00 for hi-rez download to print
Artist: Ross Racine
Title: Republican for Biden (anonymous political operative)
Date: 2020
Size: 7 7/8 x 6 1/4" (image), 10 1/4 x 8 5/8" (sheet)
Medium: digital drawing (inkjet print)
Edition: 5/5
Price: $300
Artist: Mark Stilwell
Title: Gerrymandering II, The Apocalypsing
Date: 2020
Size: 6'x3'
Materials: cardboard, tape, duct tape, pen and ink
Artist: Monika Wuhrer
Title: Nature's Calling (You'd better pick up)
Date: 2020
Size: ~ 4.5' x 3.5' x 6' (dimensions variable)
Medium: reclaimed wood, reclaimed toilet seats
Edition: endless
Read about the public dry toilet artist project
MAP OF DRY TOILET LOCATIONS
Artist: Karen Marston
Title: Conflagration
Date: 2020
Materials: Oil on Paper
Size: 20” x 26”
Price: $2,000
Artist: Beth Dary
Tittle: Crue, 5
Crue, literally means to flood, and is Dary’s response for this year’s Ballot Show in hopes for an undeniable wave of blue this election year as well as the desire to call attention to the environment and political landscape.
Date: 2016
Size: 5" x 7"
Medium: Egg tempera, raw pigment and encaustic on panel
Price: $400.00 USD