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CLAIRE ASHLEY Claire Ashley 2012 from The Present Tense on Vimeo. TPT:  Did your piece for Rough Trade II have a title? CA: The sculpture is called “Ruddy Udder” for the performance piece “Ruddy Udder Dance.” TPT:  How did you decide on the form of the inflatable?  What about color? CA: I made it originally [...]

Last weekend, 6 artists from Boston traveled to Chicago to make work at Defibrillator Gallery as part of ROUGH TRADE II; a Boston Chicago artist exchange.  Here is video documentation of the pieces that they created.  In the coming months, The Present Tense will be posting extended interviews with each artist, giving them the opportunity [...]

Sitting With Cloud Gate October 21st, 2009, 7am- 5pm Chicago, Millennium Park On October 21st, 2009, Boston-based artist, Daniel S. DeLuca sat in front of Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park in Chicago from the hours of 7 am-5pm.    This was part of a series of actions in response to public art that DeLuca was [...]

In early March, Art Fair season hit New York City, causing a frenzy of artists and galleries getting their work ready for prospective buyers.  Grace Exhibition Space, a gallery devoted to showing performance art in New York decided to wrangle their resources and participate at Fountain Art Fair.  In Grace’s “Go Big or Go Home” [...]

While many Americans were digesting their Thanksgiving experience and braving the malls on Black Friday, Daniel S. DeLuca and I set out to begin the Adventures in Being (small) tour across the United States. We have now been traveling for 15 days. The majority of our time has been spent experiencing the southern area of [...]