I'm Kathy Grayson, and I'm a well-known art curator, mostly of emerging art, discover of new talent, writer about art, and now a gallery owner.
The goal for the whole is to become a center of awesome art in New York.
Right now, the scene in New York is really vital and vibrant.
The sky's the limit. If somebody comes to me and says they want to do a punk rock laundromat in the basement, we can do that.
If somebody says they really want to work on pottery, we can put a kiln in the basement.
We have 7,000 square feet to make not just my creative dreams, but this whole community's creative dreams come true.
Instead of illustrating an intellectual idea and writing really long wall labels, I curate shows based on real human connections.
People know me as a curator who makes art for everyone.
The green box to me was this glowing, mysterious, futuristic kind of thing, and so I wanted to pick video artists because they have that glowing light from behind Aura.
It's really exciting to have a curator invited to be part of it.
I tried to pick artworks that have a graphic sensibility, they're very vibrant, they're intense, and so they can pack a punch in a really small package.
This fantastic artist, Ben Jones, made a video in 2007 called FaceMaker, and it was this wonderful, scrolling series of faces.
It was 8-bit, it was Mr. Potato Head, eyes, mouth, nose, hat, mustache, whatever.
In the years since that video came out, I've been encountering lots of really great artists who really focus on the evocative ways of making a face.
Takashi Marata made a face study of intact, encoded, dated, dripping, melting, decomposed face.
Matt Franklin made 48 ink drawings in order.
Very analog, but converted into a digital format, and I liked that transition.
Allison Schollnake made a claymation video of the face, it's called Forest.
Allison's video is made out of clay by hand.
What's great about this BEX project is that these artists experiment and push themselves, and so as a curator it's nice to have a new challenge.
Curators are used to going to a building and saying, this goes here, that goes there, whatever.
Instead of having to take a gallery and paint it black and fill it with these four videos and have people come visit it,
they can see these really awesome, never before seen videos, all in one place, anywhere.
This is like the first time I've ever curated a show without walls.
I've done lots of shows in spaces, I've never done a show in virtual space.
