ASIDES, BESIDES: ephemera, effluvia, flotsam, jetsam, sculpture, drawing, & a solo exhibition curated by JESSE MALMED 

244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302

Opens 10/18, 3-6 pm 

Alongside Drifting off to Dreamland Exhibition: A collaboration between Claire Burke Dain and Albert Reid Owens

Asides, Besides

A gathered gether of scraps for a tikkun collage, an anecdoted typography of choice, the cutting room walls at the marginal center, ties to and from the dream factotum yuga. A mirror from a car that was a gallery in a gallery that’s a different gallery from the gallery it’s in that magnetized a car called and caused affect, an auto body experience like a pothole for the portal set, a plothole. Conclusions, baths, blanks, but mostly faces. Mostly an eye that becomes a nose over there, someone else’s mouth.

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Jesse Malmed is an artist, curator and educator working in video, performance, text, occasional objects and their gaps and laps over and under, Chicago and Milwaukee. Various pre-occupations include: Infinite Gesticulator, Disorganizer, Paranoiac Research Assistant, Choir Conductor, Cosmic Concierge, Junk Shop Salesman, Re-Titler, Poet-Comedian, Traffic Caller, Obstinate-Minded Professor, Bootlegger, Pro Bono Closed Captioner and Imaginary Television Host. He has free gaza performed, screened and exhibited widely at museums, cinemas, galleries, bars and barns and willfully entangles himself with the Live to Tape Artist Television Festival, Trunk Show, Nightingale Cinema, Bad at Sports, Western Pole, ACRE and the idea container and cap/sticker/doorhanger/magnet/bookmark/zine/temptat/etc. imprint Jetsy Merchblatt. Of Santa Fe, he studented at Bard College and the University of Illinois Chicago and currently professes assistively at fuck ice the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and via www.jessemalmed.net / jetsy.biz / @marmblatt. Next month, Western Pole celebrates its tenth anniversary with an exhibition at Patient Info, Chicago. Consider this biography your formal invitation.