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Brian Oakes⁠ ⁠ Brian Oakes (they/them, born 1995) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary sculptor known for pioneering a unique branch of “techno-craft.” A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA ’18), Oakes treats electronic hardware not just as a utilitarian tool, but as a vital artistic medium. Their complex, mechanical installations—often taking the shape of chandelier-like hanging light fixtures, kinetic dioramas, or non-functional display cases—frequently utilize custom printed circuit boards (PCBs), automated machinery, and raw industrial elements. Operating somewhere between an artist and a mad scientist, Oakes programs these physical devices to respond dynamically to their surroundings, generating ambient drone audio and light sequences without software. Through solo exhibitions like Seed (2024), Oakes explores the eerie intersections of big tech, predictive algorithms, global logistical networks, and human devotion, creating intricate artifacts that challenge how we define value in a hyper-mass-industrialized world.⁠ ⁠ Link in bio.⁠ ⁠ #BrianOakes #BrooklynArtist #ContemporarySculpture #ElectronicArt #KineticSculpture
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💔Missachtung💔 💔40x30cm 💔Oil & oil pastel on stitched canvas 💔2026 ….zu sehen im *SALON DER GEGENWART* @salondergegenwart Sammlung Holle im Kunstraum Potsdam Eröffnung: 30.05.2026, ab 16 Uhr Ausstellung: 31.05.–05.07.2026 Kunstraum Potsdam @kunstraumpotsdam Schiffbauergasse 4D 14467 Potsdam Die Ausstellung vereint Werke aus der Sammlung Holle mit Arbeiten aus 15 Jahren salondergegenwart. In der Gegenüberstellung früher und aktueller Arbeiten werden künstlerische Entwicklungen sichtbar und neue Perspektiven eröffnet. english version …on view at *SALON DER GEGENWART* @salondergegenwart Holle Collection at Kunstraum Potsdam Opening: May 30, 2026, starting at 4 p.m. Exhibition: May 31–July 5, 2026 Kunstraum Potsdam @kunstraumpotsdam Schiffbauergasse 4D 14467 Potsdam The exhibition brings together works from the Holle Collection with pieces spanning 15 years of *SALON DER GEGENWART*. By juxtaposing earlier and current works, artistic developments become apparent and new perspectives are opened up.
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🌷April 2026 Shows🌷
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It’s the last day at blade study and I don’t have the words for it so I’ll leave this pic here 🖤 come celebrate 6-8 tonight @blade_study
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Picture Day tomorrow 💚 only at @blade_study and the final weekend to see @ellsworthjelly 🫰🫰 SATURDAY APRIL 11 11-5PM 17 PIKE ST PICTURE DAY
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PICTURE DAY - Tomorrow, Sat. 4/11 at Blade Study 11am-5pm —> some faves of past Picture Days <33 Everyone needs a headshot. Eric Helgas’ photography explores desire, illusion and artifice. Helgas draws from popular culture’s constructed realities, staging his subjects with meticulous detail and deliberate artificial light. For the third annual Picture Day, come to Blade Study and get your picture taken and participate in the second iteration of a larger series by Helgas. $5/session, OBO.
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🪩 CLOSING PARTY 🪩 Come celebrate the last day of my show at blade study from 6-8pm this Sunday 4/12, thanks to all who made it possible. Open hours are 11-6 Thursday through Sunday @blade_study 🖤
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Distribution Spotlight: Maggie Lee, WINGS2 (2013). WINGS2 will play at EAI this Thursday as part of EAI and Blade Study (@blade_study )’s event Rendered Instant, which centers artists and artworks investigating the threshold of human and computational perception. RSVPs are full—attendance will be first-come, first-served. More info at the link in our bio! In Lee’s video, the artist drinks a Red Bull—the Austrian energy drink that claims in its advertising campaigns that it will “give you wings”—against the backdrop of a 2013 ad for the beverage by cartoonist Horst Sambo. Featuring music by NYC Vanity Fair.
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You had to be there (or on my close friends list)
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Screening my 2021 film “A New Nature” at @electronicartsintermix for ‘Rendered Instant’. Join us this Thursday for an evening of screenings, images, and sculpture curated by @blade_study. Honored to be in such amazing intergenerational company. Thursday, April 9 6–9PM Screenings at 7PM 264 Canal Street 3W, NYC RSVP via the link in @electronicartsintermix bio. Featuring work by Stewart Bird, Mark Dorf, Allen-Golder Carpenter, Will Freudenheim, Frank Heath, Gary Hill, Kunning Huang, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Maggie Lee, Kristin Lucas, Maya Man, Emmanuel Massillon, Takeshi Murata, Karyn Nakamura, Alix Pearlstein, Ben Shirken, Stan VanDerBeek and Nick Vyssotsky. — PRESS RELEASE GENERATOR 1770926352 | SEED 430021 | ONTOLOGICAL LEVEL 46% “At 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, a counter began. Unix time measures reality in non-leap seconds, accumulating without pause, a technical infrastructure that functions as our closest approximation of a universal now: a shared coordinate system where human perception and computational logic converge. Yet convergence does not constitute equivalence. The works assembled in this exhibition are computational, generative, or occupy both positions. Some execute continuously, producing output that exceeds any individual viewer’s capacity for reception. Others investigate the ontological gap between what machines can generate and what humans can meaningfully attend to. All operate within the productive tension between infinite generativity and finite attention.”
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SATURDAY APRIL 11 AT @blade_study 11-5PM 17 PIKE ST PICTURE DAY
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Playing Out the String, 2025 Aluminum Roofing Paint, Roofing Nails, Oak, Plywood, Pine 13 x 16 x 13” On view at Blade Study through April 12th 🩶 @blade_study Photos by @kunninng
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