Sullied the Family Name by former Shandaken: Storm King artists-in-residence SHABOOM, offers a carnivalesque sendup of typical roadside attorney ads. This work is co-presented by Shandaken Projects in collaboration with Art Omi, on the occasion of SHABOOM's exhibition Presumed Ignorant, on view at Art Omi from October 5 through January 26.
Featuring characters who are also centered in the exhibition, Sullied the Family Name invites Columbia County drivers to call an actual, dedicated hotline to hear how Popper, Jape, and Huh? could help make their legal troubles worse. But be careful what you say: any message they receive is likely to be broadcast in Art Omi's public bathrooms during the run of the show.
SHABOOM further complicates the boundary between art and advertising by inviting viewers to visit Popper, Jape, and Huh?'s practice inside their immersive installation at Art Omi, and calling attention to Shandaken Projects, in the billboard itself.
Sullied the Family Name appears in two locations from October 2 through October 27: outside of Hudson on the westbound side of Route 23B, 7/10ths of a mile past Mt. Merino Road, and in Ghent at the corner of Route 9H and Route 20, facing south. Billboard design by Brick Shoemaker.
SHABOOM will open Presumed Ignorant with a live performance on October 5, 6–7:30PM. Seating is limited: please RSVP here. Shandaken Projects and Storm King Art Center welcomed SHABOOM for their Shandaken: Storm King residency in 2023.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Silky Shoemaker is an artist from central Pennsylvania. She makes work that explores what it is like to be gay, gross, and lonely. Shoemaker’s work has been shown at ArtHouse, Austin; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Sculpture Center, New York; and many a punk house. Recent activity includes shows at Art Yard in Frenchtown, NJ and LAST Projects in LA, and dancing backup with possum punk CHRISTEENE.
Paul Soileau is a performer and artist manipulating and perverting the realms of gender, identity, and good taste. He is best known for his personas CHRISTEENE and Rebecca Havemeyer. Soileau’s work has been presented in spaces ranging from The Barbican Centre in London to The Parkside Lounge in NYC. He has collaborated and performed with numerous acclaimed artists including Marc Almond, Justin Vivian Bond, Faith No More, David Hoyle, John Grant, Peaches, Kembra Pfahler, Fever Ray, and Suicide. He resides with his cat, Tickles Pickles, in Brooklyn, NY. He resides with his cat, Tickles Pickles, in Brooklyn, NY.
Lex Vaughn is a multi-disciplinarian artist living in Los Angeles. Her work revolves around queer absurdity and butch visibility through performance, installation, video, and novelty items. Vaughn is one half of the multimedia gross-out duo, FFTWINZ, with Beth Schindler, whose focus is creating spaces and content for like minded gaywads. Vaughn has also been a drummer for several bands including Lesbians on Ecstasy, co-directed and starred in Peaches’ music video Rub, and has a terrible ventriloquist act: Graham and Diane.
ABOUT ART OMI
Art Omi supports international artists across disciplines, serving as a lab space that nurtures and commissions forward-thinking projects in nascent stages of development and catalyzes expanded contexts for significant works due for critical reappraisal. A non-profit arts center in New York’s Hudson Valley, Art Omi welcomes visitors to experience the intersections of art and nature in our 120-acre Sculpture & Architecture Park. With more than sixty works in a bucolic setting of rolling farmlands, wetlands, and woodlands, and rotating exhibitions in our Newmark Gallery, Art Omi creates a sanctuary for the public and the artistic community alike to celebrate the transformative quality of art.
Art Omi offers residency programs for international architects, artists, dancers, musicians, writers, and translators, hosting more than 2,000 artists from over 100 countries since our founding in 1992.
Art Omi engages with our local community through a thriving arts education program, beloved by families and children and praised by educators for its pedagogical innovation.
Free to all, Art Omi is open year-round.
SUPPORT
Art Omi’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by the Mellon Foundation. Major support for Presumed Ignorant is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Shandaken Projects' programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.