Exhibition Maker & Producer of artist projects
Previously, consultant on patron development, communications and social media marketing.
Launched Avail Art, L.L.C. after several years as a derivatives and commodities lawyer.
Left Goldman Sachs in 2005 for an entrepreneurial path that would allow me to more directly benefit arts organization and artists.
The visual art of living artists is my area of special interest.
I believe social media technology is the single most important tool for maintaining and increasing the connections between people and art. These digital connections drive the awareness and relevance required to compel people toward an experience of art in physical space.
In 2011, after several months meeting with artists in their studios and recording videos of our conversations, I began exhibiting and selling the work of emerging and international artists through Kianga Ellis Projects, an exhibition program that hosts conversations about the studio practice and work of invited contemporary artists. Launched in Santa Fe, New Mexico from July – September, 2011, Kianga Ellis Projects is now located in an artist loft building in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
The art experience is essential to life and critical for a healthy society. So, I have embraced spreading the good news about art as a personal mission. This blog is a chronicle of what I’m doing, who I meet and the art that inspires me.
I’m writing to invite you to a screening on Thursday May 20th of John Powers Star Wars and Modernism: An Artist Commentary
Composer R Luke DuBois and the writer Colby Chamberlain will join John Powers to discuss and screen three episodes (about 45 minutes of video) of an artist commentary for the original 1977 Star Wars movie that Powers began working on this past fall. It’s a free event open to the public:
May 20, 2010, 7:00 PM
Philoctetes Center, 247 East 82nd Street, New York, NY
Star Wars and Modernism: An Artist Commentary
Film Screening and Discussion
Participants: Colby Chamberlain, R. Luke DuBois, John Powers
Here is a brief clip of the introduction to the commentary that explains the project and features original music composed by Luke DuBois:
The commentary is a work-in-progress that will round out to be 14 or so episodes, each focusing on ten or so minutes of the original 1977 Star Wars film (A New Hope). Powers recently began collaborating with DuBois, who is providing an original score for the commentary.
Colby Chamberlain is a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in the art history department at Columbia University. He is a senior editor for the online magazine Triple Canopy, and a regular contributor to Artforum and Cabinet.
R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and was the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season.
John Powers is a sculptor whose work has been shown at PS1, Exit Art, the Kohler Arts Center, Caren Golden, Art Omi, the Swiss Institute, CUE Arts Foundation, Grand Arts, the Black & White Gallery, and the Brooklyn Museum.
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R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and was the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season.
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