GUIDEBOOK VOL II CONTENTS Dustin Yellin...06 Adam Kuban...18 Jacques Magazine...26 Michael Halsband...38 Vito Acconci...50 Eleonore Hendricks...62 Eddie Huang...74 Ray Tintori...82 Wes Eisold...92 Vena Cava...102 Founders & Editors Scott Newman [email protected] Marc Santo [email protected] Writer Revel In New York Marc Santo Guidebook Vol II is published by Copy Editor Revel In, LLC Emily Youssef Copyright 2011 Staff Photographers James Kendi Revel In, LLC Nick Belton 4 S. Portland Ave #1 Jordan Alport Brooklyn, NY 11212 Scott Newman To advertise please contact Designer [email protected] Tim Harrington Special thanks to Associate Editors Cappy McGarr, Stephanie Kenan Gunduz Sirabian, Jim Walrod, Mandana Mofidi Anthony Sperduti, Breda Kellner, Kevin Gillooly, revelinnewyork.com Brendan Dugan, Robert Wright, Jerry Portwood, Steven Schoenfarber and Tom Allon D E F G Dustin Yellin artist Walking into Dustin Yellin’s 15,000 square foot Red Hook studio is a bit like walking into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. There are no Oompa- Loompas or rivers of chocolate, but there are plenty of rooms loaded with peculiar objects and remnants of unusual experiments in various states of completion. As many as a dozen assistants can be found in each of the rooms, working on projects that incorporate traditional painting techniques with elements of applied science Dustin teaches himself through trial and error. Scattered throughout his studio-cum-laboratory are Dustin’s trademark works of biological and anatomical drawings that, when encased in multi- layers of clear resin, look like three-dimensional specimens preserved in ice. Around the studio, gigantic trees seem to float frozen in time within large glass cubes. Skeletal remains, human hearts and severed heads rest preserved in layer upon layer of resin that change in scope or simply disappear depend- ing on the angle they’re viewed from. An internationally-exhibiting artist represented by the Robert Miller Gallery in New York, Dustin’s Tarkovskian trajectory, intent as it is on pre- senting things that are never quite what they appear to be, continues to gain momentum as his enthusiasm for alchemy is increasingly supported by his knowledge of science and technology. He recently invented a pixel-based rapid prototyping machine, and is currently in the research phase of developing photography and printing devices that will reinvent the way we take pictures. There’s talk of creating rooms full of clouds and a handful of clever experi- ments that, when realized, will likely add even more ingenuity to the fun. 7 Photo by TK 9 THE INVISIBLE MAN, 2009 8 DUSTIN YELLIN DUSTIN YELLIN IM RINY: How did you get started as that magnified aspects of the work A is a cloud room that will allow people water and a charming community of G an artist? and gave it the feeling of floating in E to go inside rooms and feel as though artists, engineers and musicians who : B E space. A few years ago these boxes tt they’re inside a cloud. It’s a work in congregate at places like Sunny’s Bar DUSTIN: I grew up in Los Ange- ER got larger and all the chemicals in progress because I have to teach and Jalopy’s. We’re surrounded by R les and dropped out of high school to ED the resin began to freak me out, so I myself the technical and engineering water and I love going to sleep to the T hitchhike through New Zealand. I HAN figured out a way to get a similar effect knowledge in order to realize it. I’m sound of birds and boats. was doing a lot of hallucinogens and with glass. Glass brought a new opti- D also inventing a printer that will I ended up in Thailand on a bunch of EAD, 2008 OPP RINY: Your space is an enormous cal quality that opened up a new set reinvent ways to make photographs. mushrooms. I was sitting on the most compound full of workshops, gal- of doors, and now I’m working strictly perfect beach eating coconuts and I RINY: You were Manhattan-based leries, living quarters and science within that material. I’m challenging thought to myself, “Why would I ever for so long. What brought you to experiments. What was the idea myself to push the limits of that mate- go back to civilization?” That thought Red Hook? behind it? rial and working on what will be the O scared the shit out of me because I S heaviest glass objects in the world. it DUSTIN: The work I was mak- DUSTIN: This place is like a knew I was capable of staying, but if E PA ing in my loft in Manhattan got lab and I’m constantly working on I stayed I would burn out. So I went G E : to be too heavy and if I continued something. I love having other art- S back to the States and began studying ELF working there, it would have caved in ists around working on their own with a lunatic scientist who got me Po my floors. I needed ground space, so stuff. Ever since I came to New York R really into the ideas of Tesla and Bucky T RA I moved to Brooklyn and now I love I had this crazy idea to bring people Fuller. I was painting on the side and it it. I don’t want to come across like a together from multiple disciplines came to a crossroads in my life where patriot for Brooklyn, because patrio- under one roof. My friend Charlotte I thought, “Well, I have two options. I tism and religion are why the world is Kidd and I got this building together can go back to school for 10 years and so fucked up, but to me Red Hook is and started Kidd Yellin, which is a become a scientist, which is really just the closest place I could get to feeling space within this compound that an industry controlled by politics, or like I live in the country without shows our friends’ work who don’t I can take my painting seriously.” I’m having to live in the country. There’s a have the support of bigger galleries. essentially an autodidact so I knew I RINY: What else are you working on? single lane main drag that ends at the We set up residencies that give artists could learn what I needed, and even DUSTIN: I always have numer- studio space to make work, which we though my paintings were shit at the ous projects in different stages of show in our project room. We created time, I chose to work on them and development. I took a short break the Kings County Biennial, which never looked back. from painting to make a film in the shows 44 artists from Kings County. RINY: Describe your work. Amazon, and now I’m back to work- It’s a cool event with tons of talented ing with glass. I’m making a huge alle- artists and it’s a really great way for us DUSTIN: I’m focused on build- gorical landscape that can be viewed to give back. ing situations within clear spaces. I from both sides, and color field forests accidentally developed this language that are finally being realized on the by covering my paintings in resin, scale I want them to be. One of the which resulted in an optical quality more complex works I’m developing 10 11 12 13 DICTIONARY OF LOST POSITIVE DUSTIN’S NYC DUSTIN’S NYC Prime Meats Frankies 457 Spuntino Obscura Antiques “Prime Meats is next door to Frankies “Frankies 457 is a restaurant that my Jalopy Theatre “I collect bones and wood bullets and 457 and the same people run it. They friend started several years ago in and School of Music all sorts of crazy things, and this place have a crazy selection of aged meats Carroll Gardens. They’re known for “The Jalopy Theatre is a tiny little in the East Village has tons of the and super clean food. Their spaetzle, their meatballs, which have raisins hole in the wall on Columbia Street weirdest stuff. It’s a great place to which is sort of like a German mac inside. 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