Paul Chisholm Artist

Clarity through mixed messages Published:  Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:01 PM CDT BY LILY BOUVIER  Print E-mail Comment  ( 1 comment(s) ) Rate    Text Size     How do you put more than 30 years of pandemic struggle, horror and death into words? In “Mixed Messages,” over 40 artists try their hands at expressing the HIV/AIDS crisis through whatever means possible — from words scrawled on bathroom walls and ceiling ducts, to statements proclaimed in paintings, prints and sculptures, to messages stamped on door handles and floor mats. All of these methods, and more, are employed to communicate messages meant to end the silence (and death) that still persists. The brilliance of those concise messages resides in their endless possibilities: “You do what you do/And they do what they do” (James Joyce), “So what if I did” (Lou Laurita), “Lifestyles/Ultra Sensitive” (Sam McKinniss), “Touch Me” (Yoko Ono). Each can mean one thing to the artist, another to the vi...

mailto: A gallery, an email address, and a printer June 3-24, 2011   //   Opening reception: Friday, June 3   //   7-11pm  Drift Station Gallery is pleased to announce our next exhibition  mailto: , an exhibition built around the open portal of an email address. Beginning in early May, works or messages of any kind sent in the body of an email or as an attachment to anything@driftstation.org were printed and hung, up through the end of the opening reception. 652 emails, totaling over 2,500 pages were printed and installed. mailto:  argues for a curatorial practice akin to chaos theory or aleatoric musical composition – that the initiation of a specific but open structure creates unexpected and diverse results. As the digital files (up until this point infinitely malleable and scalable) reach the printer, they are made manifest as fixed, physical objects; when hung on the gallery wall they each represent a small document in a cur...

The Final Show at metafora was a great evening ! A chance to celebrate a hard working residency, and a dream come true ! Now its time to move onwards and upwards ! With a show in New York opening tonight ! A move to Palma, Mallorca, where i will open my own studio, and viewing Gallery, More info on this in the coming months ! 

For the first time my work will be shown amongst such Art stars as Felix- Gonzalez Torres, + Yoko Ono ! Very exciting ! Go check out the show if you are in New York this June !

Nos complace invitarte a la inaguración de"¿para aqui o para llevar?", la exposición del final de año del Taller Internacional, Metàfora, Tallers d'Art Contemporani. Inaguración Viernes 27 de Mayo, 19'30 Metàfora, Calle Papin 29, Sants (metro: Plaza De Sants). La exposición estará abierta entre el 30 de mayo y el 1 de junio, 9'15-18'00

Paul Chisholm “ I love Alella “ Three t-shirts, Man, Woman, Child., Printed Logo 2011 Paul Chisholm work for the Alella project takes the iconic image “ I LOVE NY “ created by Milton Glaser and he re-appropriates the image to give a gift to the small Catalan village of Alella. The Logo has been copied millions of times not just for NY but also for Cities and Towns across the World. This time however the work has been subverted for the Alella community. Not only using the Catalan flag but also the image of the “ little wing “ The Icon for Alella. This work explores issues of identity both collectivley as a village and the singularity of each individuals identity within the community of Alella. Who will wear these t- shirts ? Normally it would be a tourist who has visited the place and Loved it ! However this work asks the people of Alella to try on a T-shirt which identifies them to the home they live ; Alella. Pablo Chisholm "M'encanta Alella...

Catala - Espanol "Projecte Alella / Alella Project" Group exhibition of artistic interventions in Alella We look forward to see you at the opening on May 6th at 19:30 The first weeks of May Alella will be busy with working artists from Metàfora, Tallers d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona. Each of them will work to make artistic interventions or art projects based on reflections on the culture, history and contemporary reality of Alella. The result of this artistic research be viewed from 6 May at the exhibition place Can Manyé in Alella. The exhibition will present a series of installations, paintings, photographs and video projects based on this process of discovering and knowing the village. With the works produced by the artists and their outsider’s view, the exhibitions offers a reflection on the identity of Alella. "Project Alella / Alella Project" will suggest a new perspective on the dichotomy between internal and external spaces, between the...