Schiavo Mazzonis Gallery

My work encompasses site-specific installations, sculpture and video to works on paper.  In these works, issues of urbanization, transformation, regeneration, escape, collapse and nomadic existence have been predominant. While the work in the drawing studio serves as a means for a more intimate exploration of these issues, the foundation of my larger scale work lies in the alteration of found and recycled materials and environmental debris, often on site (including such source materials as books and printed matter, empty tins, old tires, bicycles, boat parts and building construction fragments) that are often altered to create sculptural objects and architectural spaces. These works take the visual form of functional objects while stripping them of their productivity to address notions of labor and utility, forcing an examination of our understanding of culturally specific forms while simultaneously exploiting and adapting their particular codes and associations.

Ishmael Randall Weeks (b. 1976, Cusco, Peru) graduated from Bard College in 2000 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. His work has been shown in several museums in Peru and internationally, including the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern of Art, UK; MoMA P.S.1, New York; the Contemporary Art Museum, Lima; CCEBA, Buenos Aires; the Lima Art Museum(MALI); MACRO Museum, Rome; The National Museum, Lima; The museum of Arts and Design, New York; The Museo del Banco de La Republica, Colombia; and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy. His work has also been included in the 10^th Havana Biennial, the 9^th Cuenca Biennial, the 6th S-files Biennial at the Museo del Barrio and recently as part of Dublin Contemporary at the National Gallery of Ireland. He has received numerous fellowships, residencies, and awards from a range of institutions, including most recently the MACRO-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy where he produced a solo show in 2012; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York; NYFA, New York; Art Matters, New York; Kiosko Art Residency, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; and La Curtiduria art center in Oaxaca, Mexico. Randall Weeks is represented by Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Arroniz Contemporaneo Mexico and Revolver Galeria, Lima, Peru.