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	Matt Siegle: Loop | 7·30·11 - 7·31·11 | press release
current news + blog artists exhibitions publications contact	Dunham Place Salon is pleased to present Loop, a two-day performative installation by Los Angeles based artist, Matt Siegle, at NADA Hudson, July 30 and 31, 2011. Loop consists of a single performative interaction: the artist will give one drawing to any viewer who wishes to approach him and talk. These drawings are done on t-shirts – specifically, white-colored philanthropic and charity shirts thrifted from second-hand stores, promoting causes such as “Memory Walk for an Alzheimer’s Cure” and “BIG SUNDAY – Pitch In! Help Out! Give Back!”. Siegle turns the shirts inside-out and draws the same DIY-style graphic on each: the Africa-shaped, rainbow guitar logo for the 1985 Live Aid concert. For this iteration of Loop, Siegle has created a leisurely outdoor installation inspired by “Shakedown Street” vendor tents as seen at summer music festivals or Grateful Dead concerts. Viewers will be encouraged to wear the drawing and if they are inclined may exchange something - anything - with the artist for the shirt. Through these gestures the installation isolates the performance of giving while agitating the viewer/participant relationship to the intentions of the shirt. What is their relation to something that might be a call-to-action or fashionable nostalgia? How does cultural value change from charity to historical fetish? Matt Siegle received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His drawings, performances, and installation work have been included in exhibitions at Honor Fraser Gallery (Los Angeles), Cottage Home (Los Angeles), Dan Graham Gallery (Los Angeles), Artists Space (New York), CENTQUATRE (Paris, France) and PACT-Zollverein (Essen, Germany). Recent published writings include an essay on the Fallen Fruit Collective published in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory (Routledge) and a forthcoming essay on gesture in Los Angeles based Prism of Reality. His curatorial work includes The First Thing, Redling Fine Art (Los Angeles). NADA Husdon is a large scale exhibition featuring 51 projects presented by New Art Dealer Alliance members and affiliates. The exhibition will take place at the historic Basilica Hudson in Hudson, New York, July 30 and 31, 2011, 11 am – 7 pm both days. NADA Hudson is not an art fair, but rather a site-specific project showcasing contemporary sculpture, installation and performance.