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How does a 3 year old Art Event get featured in the New York Times? and in little ol' Reno Nevdada !?!
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It's true. This do-it-yourself anarchic art event with the motto "Get a Room, Make a Show" featured 100 artists from all over the west in an unlikely a place and you might guess, Reno Nevada and the…Continue

Tags: dada, nada, nadadada, reno

Last reply by Sorg Oct 2, 2009.

Is blogging an art form?
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I had a guy tell me "stop drawing, blogging is your art". For the record, he wasn't being mean, I think being complimentary–and I would never stop drawing anyway–but it got me thinking a little; Is…Continue

Tags: blogging

Last reply by Marcus Bunyan Apr 23, 2009.

So ya' wanna' read what 'they' have to say about me?
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click here to see many links to articles about me and…Continue

Last reply by Pamela Miller Sep 3, 2008.

10 Things I Learned In The Box:
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10 Things I Learned In The Box:1. Neon light was a very good thing for attracting people at night to my window.2. Display windows offer no true alone time.3. I posses no mood when I'm alone.4. Being…Continue

Last reply by Sorg Jul 28, 2008.

do you do RAINBOWS?
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Rainbows pop up in my work sometimes, i fight the urge to let them, I've come to despise them, it's a desire that needs to be curbed. We must fight these demons of light–rainbows–hmmph. next it'll be…Continue

Tags: foxtrot, stripes, light, rays, motel

Last reply by ArtyAntics Aug 6, 2010.

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Website
http://www.sorgsorg.org
Relationship status
single
College / University
Collins College
Program / Degree
Graphic Design
Graduation
June 22, 1997
Member type
Artist, Critic, Curator
If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
Digital, Drawing, Event, Painting, Performance, Photography
I am...
stoked, just totally stoked to be here, hey is that my jacket you're wearin'?
About my artwork
On a quest to locate my taste. Resigning myself to this search. An impulsive sense (scribbled lines), texture rough/slick, accidents lovin', breakin' stuff, glazing over layers, marbles shiny or plastic. Sparkle & stickers, sometimes pinstriped. Also a bit of the high & artsy. But I like leftovers.

Sometimes it's a representational oil painting or a drawing amongst the scramble. A funny thing about representation is that it could represent one of many things for a witness, regardless of the presenter's vision.

I'm not a literalist, there's no agenda here, well–maybe once in a while. Rather than building a stock notion of meaning or medium and then working that product to its exhaustion, my interests are vague. In viewing my work, I would hope that a transfer of energy might happen: one encounters a piece of artwork and feels a coolness wash over or maybe a fresh gust of openness. whoooooosh

To have one particular taste within myself nailed down to canvas repeatedly would be torture. I say "Here's some of me, all of this. These are what I'm saying now and now and now." It's being dialed in or loosened up, I never know where it's going. So now I've become an installationist, living in display windows, drawing. Nothing means anything without enough perspective. I'll keep going.


Chad Sorg
3-21-04
Artists I like
Rev. Howard Finster, Basquiat, Tal R, Neo Rauch, Richard Estes, Twombly, Rauchenberg, DuChamp, Leonardo, Rubens, Tomato/Underworld, Vincent-of course, Picasso-of course, Schnabel(some), P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, Vincent Gallo, Glenn Brown, Gary Hume, Matthew Barney, Whistler, Holbein, David Carson, Rob't Will'ms, Puvis de Chavannes, Jacek Malczewski, Antoni Tapies
Interests
I want to turn Reno into one big artists' residency. slot machines, call girls and artsy fartsy asses. And why not?
What exhibitions are good at the moment?
•Greetings From Nada Motel, UNLV's Barrick Museum– Jan. 23rd–Apr. 20th, '09

•Selections From Dada Motel, showed at UNLV's Barrick Museum, it came down in March '08.

•Nada Motel was June 26th thru 29th, 2008, 50 artists rented rooms to show this year! And we're doing it all again next year... NadaDada Motel June 18th–21st, '09

Go to http://www.NadaDadaDingDong.com
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New York, London, LA, Berlin, Beijing, online

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On NadaDadaism

Power corrupts, community collapses.

Equality is cooperation. Opportunity is earned.



Let's embrace powerlessness, let's engage community. Let's earn opportunity, with equality. Let's build a powerless commune of opportunistic equals.



There's been an organic development of the event/possee/movement that we're calling NadaDada Motel. In 2007, the first year, it was named Dada Motel by El Jefe. He brought a group of six artists together to put the wheels in motion and… Continue

Posted on February 23, 2009 at 1:30

my streaming video from the 'fishbowl'

my streaming video from the 'fishbowl'



Live Broadcast by… Continue

Posted on December 9, 2008 at 6:00 — 2 Comments

Life in a Glass Box

Artist in LaBussaBox



My daily life was carried out in the display window of LaBussola Art Boutique downtown on 1st St. for 120 hours last month during Artown–that's 5 days straight–just to draw. I got out Saturday the 19th of July, so I wrote this about the experience:



10 Things I Learned Living Behind Glass:

1. Display windows offer no true alone time; it was a wordless stay but very social.

2. I posses no mood when I'm alone.

3. From the comments in my… Continue

Posted on August 3, 2008 at 20:00 — 1 Comment

Inside-Outsider

What makes an artist an "outsider"? Is it the self-taught status? Is it the mental instability? Is it a cranky attitude or living in an obscure place? What if an artist has knowledge of current issues & stuff? what if an artist went to college? What if an artist has friends and connections and lacks schizophrenic tendencies?



A knowledgeable art consultant friend once told me, "You're not an outsider but you want us to think that." He's absolutely correct and I recognized that… Continue

Posted on July 13, 2008 at 17:30 — 4 Comments

I'm constantly being underestimated–you too?

I talk to friends/colleges, family sometimes, I see that maybe they don't think so highly of my potential. That doesn't bother me, I don't see theirs either. No matter how much someone tells you they have this going for them because they're gonna do that... well, let's see it–if they can make things happen, that's great, they're doin' it, otherwise let's see some proof of your potential, and I guess that's when the investors come around, the patrons, the art lovers, when you make it happen and… Continue

Posted on June 12, 2008 at 0:00 — 27 Comments

I ask me, what do I think about my paintings?

Self, what do I think about my paintings? Where have they come from, where are they going?

So I'll just ramble in my answer, not like anyone's reading this, are they? anyone?

So there's a thing in my work with the scribble. I think I've seen some incredible perfection in scribbles so I've done them in various ways for years, about 10 years. I do realistic forms, heads. Faces I think are one of the hardest things to do in art because we recognize so precisely faces we see. So this… Continue

Posted on June 11, 2008 at 18:00

ALL TOGETHER NOW....

All together now! –––"Are we not men? We are Nada!"



My number one desire is to make a comfy living from the sale of my art. I made these paintings, but I don't wanna keep them. It'd be nice to make a living from doing the thing I'm best at.

I found out years ago that in order to do this, I must involve others in what I'm doing; inevitably, I concluded, they will involve me in what they're doing too. This is what happened in January of '07 as Jeff Johnson, Tova Ramos, Dianna… Continue

Posted on June 10, 2008 at 17:50

Devine Love

a book Called The Mission of Art by artist Alex Grey. He talks about spiritual manifestations in one's art and divine love is what's behind it all apparently.



Funny I've been looking at an Alchemical symbols book lately and I see the illustrations from half a millennium ago and it's really interesting the way Divine Love plays the very pivotal role.



Light has universal pictorial appeal to illustrate divine love or spiritual awakening 'enlightenment' in religion and… Continue

Posted on April 22, 2008 at 22:30 — 1 Comment

Beauty and Perception

There can be found experiences in nature and in the daily happenings of routine that we're privy to for just a moment as we ride the train of hours. We might glimpse something as rare and romanticized a thing as beauty, but even if it's a beauty that's only declared by me, it's my beauty.



Style and taste develop, redevelop and in fact can coexist with other, sometimes clashing ideas of taste. If there were truly only one or a tightly limited number of beauty types revealing… Continue

Posted on April 22, 2008 at 22:30

DaMSL (dada motel show list) from '07

DaMSL (dada motel show list)



"Freedom: DADA DADA DADA, the howl of clashing colors, the intertwining of all contradictions, grotesqueries, trivialities: LIFE." [Tristan Tzara, "Dada Manifesto," 1918]



An open invitation–to witness art and hardy happenings downtown Reno, this month of June 28, 29 and 30 of two-thousand and seven years, at the Hotel El Cortez and other fine dadalocations.

Numbers before names correspond with the DaMM –Dada Motel Map–or look in the… Continue

Posted on April 22, 2008 at 22:18

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At 18:45 on September 9, 2009, Marta Graciela Bressi said…
Dear Sorg,

Check out :www.freewebs.com/mindsofglass/newworldpremire.htm

Regards

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At 7:35 on November 12, 2008, mike hinc said…
You always make me laugh so you're always welcome to visit. What do you make of this Bluebird Art House Competition?
At 5:44 on November 3, 2008, ART & ARTISTS LA said…
BLUEBIRD ART HOUSE AND ART&ARTISTS LA are pleased to announce the 1st INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION 2009.

Open to all artists in all fine arts media we seek to recognize outstanding quality and diversity in the arts.

The 2009 IJC is open to all artists worldwide, age 18 and older. All works must be original. Entries in the following medias will be accepted: Painting, Drawing, Mixed media, Printmaking, Watercolor, Ceramics, Sculpture, and Photography.

Entry Deadline February 15th 2009.

AWARD

A solo show next winter 2009 at Bluebird Art House and $1500 to the winner. 1 work in the show for each one of the 3 runner up.

To receive the Submission Form and bases

E-MAIL: BBIRDINTCOMP@YAHOO.COM
At 10:05 on September 8, 2008, mike hinc said…
Hey Sorg
Shameless but not blameless - hope not anyway. Always a enjoy a good debate. Just fanning the flames. Thanks for your catalytic input.

MIKE
At 21:36 on August 29, 2008, Jessica L. Porter, Raandesk Gallery said…
I took your advice...more info to come!
At 7:20 on August 29, 2008, Sorg said…
I'm trying to be a better self-promoter but other people have written about so....click
At 3:57 on August 24, 2008, Pamela Miller said…
I saw a review you did and thought hmmm that was brutally honest..I happen to like people giving both negative and positive feedback as long as when they bash they leave tips or say exactly what they dont like...so I'd like to invite you to look at my art and share your opinion/tips. For you, I loved the pure abstracts. Strong, very appealling use of colors and good comp. I didnt care for your figurative abstracts ie illustrators/soldiers dream...wouldnt say they are bad just not my taste. Look forward to meeting interested/challenging folks here:)

Regards,
Pam
www.millermodernart.com
At 23:20 on August 19, 2008, Kalup said…
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At 15:04 on August 12, 2008, John Yoyogi Fortes said…
Not really. Not alot of time with Painting and Coco.
hope all is well.
John
At 21:06 on July 29, 2008, Vanderlei Zalochi said…
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