\nCertain Uncertainties<\/span><\/strong>
\nChristy Shigekawa \/ Mike Newton<\/span><\/strong>
\npart of YES<\/em><\/span>
\nadmission $6 – artists in person<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/h1>\n
Microscope continues its YES<\/em> program of emerging artists with new and recent moving image works by Christy Shigekawa and by Mike Newton. <\/span><\/p>\n Shigekawa’s short films and videos begin with images recorded in life which she then manipulates until what is observed and what is imagined become indistinguishable. Newton incorporates video, 35mm photographic slides and prose poetry into his projected works to find beauty and peril at the intersections of potentially incompatible systems, such as using right-wing conspiracy theories to discuss the body. The Bushwick-based artists and long-time friends see their works as overlapping in the themes of “polysemy and uncertainty” reflecting on the “strangeness, the unknowability” manifest in their visual world(s). <\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n _<\/span> Mike Newton is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer. He is an editor of Secret Behavior \u2014 a magazine about art and the human condition \u2014 and contributes regularly to The Indypendent (a progressive print newspaper based in NYC); his writing has also appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Truthout, Harp and Altar, and Coagula, among others. Newton has had solo exhibits at Fort Gondo (St. Louis) and MoNA (Museum of New Art, Detroit). He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong> Monday August 3, 7:30pm Certain Uncertainties Christy Shigekawa \/ Mike Newton part of YES admission $6 – artists in person Still from \u201cUntitled” (Christy Shigekawa, 2013) \u2013 image courtesy of the artist Microscope continues its YES program of emerging artists with new and recent moving image works by Christy Shigekawa and by Mike Newton. Shigekawa’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16389","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16394,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16389\/revisions\/16394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ChristyShigekawa-still2\"](\"http:\/\/microscope.webfactional.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ChristyShigekawa-still2.jpg\")
\nStill from \u201cUntitled” (Christy Shigekawa, 2013) \u2013 image courtesy of the artist
\n<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nChristy Shigekawa was born in Los Angeles and earned an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is currently working on a documentary about her family\u2019s restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles which, during the late 70\u2019s through early 80\u2019s, also happened to be the home of seminal punk club, Hong Kong Cafe. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nProgram includes (among others):<\/strong> <\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nterrestrial wanderings<\/span><\/strong>
\nChristy Shigekawa, video, 2015, 9 minutes, 17 seconds<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nmetamorphose<\/span><\/strong>
\nChristy Shigekawa, video, 2012, 1 minute, 10 seconds<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nUntitled (Video Selections from 2013)<\/span><\/strong>
\nChristy Shigekawa, HD video, 2013<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nUntitled (2 8mm films from 2013)<\/span><\/strong>
\nChristy Shigekawa, 8mm film, 2013, 3 minutes, 25 seconds<\/span>
\nCollaboration with David Beard<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nUntitled (Video Selections from 2014)<\/span><\/strong>
\nChristy Shigekawa, HD video, 2014, 5 minutes, 18 seconds<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nJury<\/span><\/strong>
\nMike Newton, 2014, HD video with 35mm slides<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nReading the Mind in the Eyes<\/span><\/strong>
\nMike Newton, 2015, HD video with 35mm slides<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nDeWinter (sections)<\/span><\/strong>
\nMike Newton, 2014\/2015, HD video with 35mm slides<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\n1000 (sections)<\/span><\/strong>
\nMike Newton, 2015, HD video with 35mm slides<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nConspiracies (sections)<\/span><\/strong>
\nMike Newton, 2014\/2015. HD video with 35mm slides<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nCharismatic Predator (excerpt)<\/span><\/strong>
\nMike Newton, 2014\/2015, HD video with 35mm slides<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nApproximate running time: 60 minutes<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>
\n![\"MN-StillForMicro\"](\"http:\/\/microscope.webfactional.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MN-StillForMicro.jpg\")
\nStill from \u201cCharismatic Predator” (Mike Newton, 2015) \u2013 image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"