"Bush" (detail) poplar, copper, rubber, concrete, ostrich feathers, 2022
John Masello
Parody of Real Things
January 21, 2021 - March 5, 2022
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Friday January 28th, 6-8pm.
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Parody of Real Things is an installation of new sculptures by John Masello. The works in this exhibition use camp as a framework to form a reinterpreted liminal space that breaks from our everyday material culture.
“According to different scholars, camp can be interpreted as a sensibility, a way of seeing the world, a way of being in the world, a mode of humor, a style of performance, an aesthetic, a sub-genre, political, or apolitical. In my work and practice, camp is all of those things, but to limit it by a singular definition would defile its formless potential.
I am exploring how camp is identified and elicited sculpturally, as opposed to performatively. By anchoring my research in queer theory that attempts to define it, I have been weaving together a nexus of camp thought that locates instead of defines. Using camp’s identifying principles as an artmaking logic and formal strategy, I am challenging how it can be recognized. Perhaps the most common consistency across these various perspectives is a sense of artificiality and the confident queering of a certain situation, gesture, or presentation.
An integral component of camp, as written about through the lens of performance studies, is parody. The pieces of this installation imitate existing structures found throughout Seattle such as construction scaffolding, stanchions, dock hardware, bushes, and bridges. Pulling inspiration from my everyday surroundings, I want to invite reflection on this object culture by defamiliarizing otherwise ubiquitous things.” – artist John Masello
Installation View of "Wall (BILLBOARD?)" & "Bush", 2022
ARTIST BIO
John Masello is an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently based in Seattle, WA. John earned an MFA from The Ohio State University in 2020 and BFA from Illinois State University in 2016. Over the past several years, John has had work included in exhibitions at The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Pottery Northwest, OZ. Seattle, Urban Arts Space (Columbus OH), Wild Goose Creative, ROY G BIV, Kirkland Arts Center, James May Gallery, Main Street Arts (Clifton Springs NY), Angela Meleca Gallery, Flower City Arts Center, and M.G. Nelson Gallery. John is currently a resident artist at Pottery Northwest and has been making sculptures and collage-based works using plastics, fabrics, paper, and ceramic.
For more information about the artist- Instagram @johnmasello or
https://www.johnmasello.com/
John Masello is an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently based in Seattle, WA. John earned an MFA from The Ohio State University in 2020 and BFA from Illinois State University in 2016. Over the past several years, John has had work included in exhibitions at The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Pottery Northwest, OZ. Seattle, Urban Arts Space (Columbus OH), Wild Goose Creative, ROY G BIV, Kirkland Arts Center, James May Gallery, Main Street Arts (Clifton Springs NY), Angela Meleca Gallery, Flower City Arts Center, and M.G. Nelson Gallery. John is currently a resident artist at Pottery Northwest and has been making sculptures and collage-based works using plastics, fabrics, paper, and ceramic.
For more information about the artist- Instagram @johnmasello or
https://www.johnmasello.com/
"Stanchions" (detail). - Concrete, spray foam, chicken wire, HDPE, acrylic, cotton thread. 2021
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"Stanchions" (detail). - Concrete, spray foam, chicken wire, HDPE, acrylic, cotton thread. 2021
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