NO. 256 | ICE SCREAM HELLO SHELL SONG WITH JOEY FAUERSO
We have been talking about doing a PSO collaboration for sometime, but after seeing her amazing show, Bedroom Paintings, on view at Ruby City in San Antonio, I was super inspired to make this happen. The show combines mural-size paintings, prints, and even a couch Joey designed, all centered around a 4-channel video.
The installation deals with Joey's struggles with insomnia and she films herself along with others in bedroom sets created from her paintings and sculptures.
For years, Joey has created a deep universe of figurative works that coalesce into inventive meditations on the body, family, and deep stories. I had never heard any of her sound work before, but I knew she played flute and her dad is an accomplished musician and composer. In fact, the soundtrack to the video was a deeply researched and family affair. While the bulk of the sounds were created by Joey, elements feature music by her father, lyrics by her brother, and text from F. Scott Fitzgerald's essay The Crack-Up.
Joey contributed the spine of the audio work presented here. She sent over a bunch of audio files in which she rhythmically layered her voice, creating a hypnotic beat pattern. I added sub-bass synth, guitar, a clap track, various effects, and a snippet of a field recording of an ice-cream truck. In one of the tracks Joey made, there is a hooting dove keeping perfect time.
The image came from the combination of three of Joey's visual works. Joey's paintings are often made through a process of subtraction, scraping away the paint she initially lays down. In the same spirit, but kinda in reverse, I mixed the code up and combined a couple of the images she sent over to create the final composition. I am grateful for the latitude Joey gave me to add and remix her work.
The installation deals with Joey's struggles with insomnia and she films herself along with others in bedroom sets created from her paintings and sculptures.
For years, Joey has created a deep universe of figurative works that coalesce into inventive meditations on the body, family, and deep stories. I had never heard any of her sound work before, but I knew she played flute and her dad is an accomplished musician and composer. In fact, the soundtrack to the video was a deeply researched and family affair. While the bulk of the sounds were created by Joey, elements feature music by her father, lyrics by her brother, and text from F. Scott Fitzgerald's essay The Crack-Up.
Joey contributed the spine of the audio work presented here. She sent over a bunch of audio files in which she rhythmically layered her voice, creating a hypnotic beat pattern. I added sub-bass synth, guitar, a clap track, various effects, and a snippet of a field recording of an ice-cream truck. In one of the tracks Joey made, there is a hooting dove keeping perfect time.
The image came from the combination of three of Joey's visual works. Joey's paintings are often made through a process of subtraction, scraping away the paint she initially lays down. In the same spirit, but kinda in reverse, I mixed the code up and combined a couple of the images she sent over to create the final composition. I am grateful for the latitude Joey gave me to add and remix her work.
ABOUT JOEY FAUERSO
Joey Fauerso is an artist and 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts. Her work consists mostly of painting, video, installation and performance addressing issues of family, humor, gender, representation and figuration. Recently her work has been exhibited at Ruby City, The Blanton Museum of Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Drawing Center in New York, and New Mexico State University Art Museum. Fauerso has been the recipient of multiple grants and residencies, including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, a 2021 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, the Open Sessions residency at The Drawing Center in New York, the Golden Foundation Grant, Dallas Museum of Art Kimberough Grant, the RAIR artist in residence grant, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Fauerso is a Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University, and lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas.
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