RETROFUTUROLOGY

Adrian Agredo
Steam Piano, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2011 – not for sale

Emi Brady
Electric Bird Tower, relief with hand coloring, 2011 – $600

Emi Brady
Electric Bird Tower, relief with hand coloring, 2011 – $600

Brett Beyer
Jenica Hoverboarding over Solar Panels, digital print, 2011 – $250
Ever since 1989, when the world last caught a glimpse of hoverboards in the film Back to the Future II, hoverboards have gone underground. Immediatley after the release date of the movie, the group MAHB (Mothers Agains HoverBoarding) successfully lobbied congress to ban the potentially dangerous children's toys. A short film about this was aired at the time on MTV and would ideally be aired next to these photos in the gallery space. This forced the burgeoning hoverboard scene to go underground. Through my contacts in the action sport community, I have gained the trust and access to the hoverboarders. This image is among the world's first evidence that hoverboards are real and can totally shred.

bunny M
Apple Butter, Mango, Whipped Cream, ink on paper – $400

Jon Burgerman
The Complete Story of Life on Earth, digital print – $50

Jon Burgerman
The Complete Story of Life on Earth, digital print – $50

Chiezo
Casinoman, mixed media, 2010 – $5500

Chiezo
Casinoman, mixed media, 2010 – $5500

Chiezo
Musicman, ink and pencil on paper, 2008 – $4000

Devon Clapp
More Trick, Less Treat, oil paint, relief printing ink on panel, 2010 – $4000

Devon Clapp
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen – Pizza Party ach Golgotha Reduxxxrelief print, 2010 – $250

Jesse Corinella & Jan Dickey
TORSO Broadcast 6 in "broadcast capacitor", video installation (video, television unit: television, wood, copper, woven material, plastic), 2010 – $4500
The "Broadcast Capacitor" is a custom television unit that transmits a series of video broadcasts from an alternate present in which a global disaster has eliminated all human life aside from generations born 1985 and on. The broadcasts, collectively titled Broadcast 6, use a collection of stock footage from the 1930s to 1970s along with digital and Super-8 film taken by Torso Corporation from 2006–2010. Broadcast 6 tells a story, through the veil of science fiction, that questions the American values established in the 20th century and, through point/counterpoint competing broadcasters, opens a discussion on how those values are relevant today.

Jesse Corinella & Jan Dickey
TORSO Broadcast 6 in "broadcast capacitor", video installation (video, television unit: television, wood, copper, woven material, plastic), 2010 – $4500
The "Broadcast Capacitor" is a custom television unit that transmits a series of video broadcasts from an alternate present in which a global disaster has eliminated all human life aside from generations born 1985 and on. The broadcasts, collectively titled Broadcast 6, use a collection of stock footage from the 1930s to 1970s along with digital and Super-8 film taken by Torso Corporation from 2006–2010. Broadcast 6 tells a story, through the veil of science fiction, that questions the American values established in the 20th century and, through point/counterpoint competing broadcasters, opens a discussion on how those values are relevant today.

Jesse Corinella & Jan Dickey
TORSO Broadcast 6 in "broadcast capacitor", video installation (video, television unit: television, wood, copper, woven material, plastic), 2010 – $4500
The "Broadcast Capacitor" is a custom television unit that transmits a series of video broadcasts from an alternate present in which a global disaster has eliminated all human life aside from generations born 1985 and on. The broadcasts, collectively titled Broadcast 6, use a collection of stock footage from the 1930s to 1970s along with digital and Super-8 film taken by Torso Corporation from 2006–2010. Broadcast 6 tells a story, through the veil of science fiction, that questions the American values established in the 20th century and, through point/counterpoint competing broadcasters, opens a discussion on how those values are relevant today.

Jesse Corinella & Jan Dickey
TORSO Broadcast 6 in "broadcast capacitor", video installation (video, television unit: television, wood, copper, woven material, plastic), 2010 – $4500
The "Broadcast Capacitor" is a custom television unit that transmits a series of video broadcasts from an alternate present in which a global disaster has eliminated all human life aside from generations born 1985 and on. The broadcasts, collectively titled Broadcast 6, use a collection of stock footage from the 1930s to 1970s along with digital and Super-8 film taken by Torso Corporation from 2006–2010. Broadcast 6 tells a story, through the veil of science fiction, that questions the American values established in the 20th century and, through point/counterpoint competing broadcasters, opens a discussion on how those values are relevant today.

Jesse Corinella & Jan Dickey
TORSO Broadcast 6 in "broadcast capacitor", video installation (video, television unit: television, wood, copper, woven material, plastic), 2010 – $4500
The "Broadcast Capacitor" is a custom television unit that transmits a series of video broadcasts from an alternate present in which a global disaster has eliminated all human life aside from generations born 1985 and on. The broadcasts, collectively titled Broadcast 6, use a collection of stock footage from the 1930s to 1970s along with digital and Super-8 film taken by Torso Corporation from 2006–2010. Broadcast 6 tells a story, through the veil of science fiction, that questions the American values established in the 20th century and, through point/counterpoint competing broadcasters, opens a discussion on how those values are relevant today.

Rachel Debuque
Oxygen Cart, tubes, terrariums, jars, found objects, 2010 – $10,000
Oxygen Cart is a conclusion of a short story, written by Rachel Debuque. The story involves a boy that has a severe anxiety of asphyxiation. He builds the cart to ensure a supply of oxygen at all times.

Rachel Debuque
Oxygen Cart, tubes, terrariums, jars, found objects, 2010 – $10,000
Oxygen Cart is a conclusion of a short story, written by Rachel Debuque. The story involves a boy that has a severe anxiety of asphyxiation. He builds the cart to ensure a supply of oxygen at all times.

Rachel Debuque
Oxygen Cart, tubes, terrariums, jars, found objects, 2010 – $10,000
Oxygen Cart is a conclusion of a short story, written by Rachel Debuque. The story involves a boy that has a severe anxiety of asphyxiation. He builds the cart to ensure a supply of oxygen at all times.

Rachel Debuque
Oxygen Cart, tubes, terrariums, jars, found objects, 2010 – $10,000
Oxygen Cart is a conclusion of a short story, written by Rachel Debuque. The story involves a boy that has a severe anxiety of asphyxiation. He builds the cart to ensure a supply of oxygen at all times.

Rachel Debuque
Oxygen Cart, tubes, terrariums, jars, found objects, 2010 – $10,000
Oxygen Cart is a conclusion of a short story, written by Rachel Debuque. The story involves a boy that has a severe anxiety of asphyxiation. He builds the cart to ensure a supply of oxygen at all times.

Derrick Dent
Otomo's Bike, digital print, 2011 – $50

Matt Duffin
Together, Forever, painting on panel, 2009 – $3700

Ethan Gould
Ship O' Ye Neurotoxins, ink on paper, 2011 – $300

Andrea Hendrickson
untitled 1, 2011, oil on canvas – not for sale

Richard Herzog
Spring Sprouts, colored acrylic, vinyl, stainless steel, LED lights, wood, 2011 – $1000
My current work is exploring botanical forms, the lack of interaction between man and nature and our disconnection from this environment. These sculptures talk about the organization and chaotic nature of natural and man-made forms. I look at how things are composed of many parts and abstract their elements keeping true to its inherit qualities. Some sculptures are more organic in overall form as if growing or flowing from group to group, mimicking ivy or spring flowers sprouting here and there. All of these sculptures are combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.

Andy Hunter
Stephen Hawking, mp3, tea cup, and photo, 2011 – not for sale

Patti Jordan
Horn-mad, etching ink, pencil, graphite powder, 2010 – $850

Haydex Li
Experiment II, digital print, 2010 – $80

Marianne McCarthy
Natives View Skyship Triangulation; Martinique, 1911, pigment print, 2010 – $500
This is one in a series of images currently titled, Phenomenon which draw from reports and legends of mysterious circumstances within the natural, known world. Rooted the question of whether the psychological need for a hard definition of reality impedes a full exploration of the human experience, these images endeavor to explore the limits of credulity and the human experiences of wonder and belief.

Megan Murtha
Piping, paper collage, 2010 – $50
A man makes connections in the pipes that lie above and beyond.

Megan Murtha
Progress, mixed media (paper collage, shell, leaves, grass), 2009 – $375
A renovated old-timer's attempt to keep up with the advancing surroundings.

George Pfau
Zombie form of continuity in space (Anatomy), layered ink on canvas, 2011 – $1800
These images address how the notion of future can shape an image of the human body. These images are of layered line drawings which merge Umberto Boccioni's Futurist sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913–14), with a zombie from Lucio Fulci's film Zombi (1978), and with anatomical imagery. I'm interested in examining the degrees of fact and fiction at work in these various sources and seeing what happens when they are collaged together. My particular focus is on how all of these sources engage the line between a body and its environment. Bodily boundaries are blurred and shifted as clothing, skin, and recognizable features are peeled away.

George Pfau
Zombie form of continuity in space (Underwater body: Lucio Fulci's Zombi), layered ink on canvas, 2011 – $1800
These works are part of a larger investigation into notions surrounding the body in an in-flux state, or existing on the verge of recognition. Much of the work is informed by intensive research into the concept of the zombie. The framework I set up for "zombie" places it within the liminal state between several countervailing pairs: alive and dead, person and thing, human and animal, individual and unrecognized mass, the pronouns "he/she" and "it." My work delves into the middle of these pairings by exploring how zombies are often identified, varying from walking corpses to a cartoonishly exaggerated forms of decomposing flesh. In most depictions, the skin of the zombie body is in an unstable state of peeling and decay, often revealing the body's interior. My interest in skin is as a permeable membrane rather than an impenetrable shell.

Matthew Robinson
Untitled, mixed media, 2010 – $4000

Tom Sarmo
In the Machine Room, watercolor, 2009 – $450
A tall, toothy man in a long orange coat offers a handkerchief to an angry bird. They are in some kind of a room with pipework, gauges, and a door knob. The painting is quite bluish.

Rachel Schragis
Ways To Think About Change, ink on salvaged papers, 2010 – $65
Flow chart outlining the categories I sort change into.

Rachel Schragis
The Internet is Freaking Me Out, ink on salvaged papers, 2011 – $50
Flow chart explicating my concerns, thoughts, and neurosis about the internet.

Joelle Shallon
Deeper: Bead Curtain, oil on panel, 2008 – $3,000
Light is coming through an opening, illuminating an interior space. Or is it really interior? Those might be blades along the bottom, or else a decorative frieze, the border on a carpet.

Joelle Shallon
Ray of Light, oil on panel, 2006 – $3,000
A light shines into a building, through a large window perhaps. Inside is a refuge, possibly a spiritual place, but there is menace outside, blade-like elements stand on either side.

Greg Shelnutt
American Manifest, seven wagons fabricated from sheet copper and phos-copper brazing rods, 2,450 pennies, patina, 2009 – $5250

Niko Silvester
Pterothopter, lithograph, 2007 – $120
"Pterothopter," printed using stone lithography and hand-drawn aluminum plate lithography, reproduces the original concept drawing for the famous Darwin Courier Company Pterothopter. The design was thought to be based on the pioneering work of Doctor Sophia Shallowgrave, though she never claimed the idea, and DCC patented it.

Niko Silvester
FS Da Vinci, intaglio, 2008 – $50
"FS Da Vinci" commemmorates the 3-way race between an airship, a sailing ship and a submarine that was held from the island of Rapa Nui (better known as Easter Island) to Frisland in 190-. The winner of the race, much to the surprise of all involved, was the Frisland Submersibles Da Vinci. The image was produced using etching and engraving techniques, with the ink both wiped and rolled on the plates. One of the plates used is an image from the notes of Doctor Sophia Shallowgrave.

Niko Silvester
Steam Ichthyosaur, intaglio, 2008 – $35
On a voyage of scientific exploration to the South Pacific, Doctor Sophia Shallowgrave recorded a number of newly-discovered sea life. Among her drawings, she included this intaglio print (which combines etching, engraving and hand-coloring) showing an obviously man-made steam-powered ichthyosaur. No one knows if it was intended as a joke or if she did indeed observe this machine.

Niko Silvester
Aeryn Daring Lives up to Her Name, lithograph hand-bound as a book, 2008 – $105
This book was first produced as a cheaply-printed pamphlet and used as propaganda to raise support for the Frisland military. It is uncertain which conflict this was supposed to arouse sympathy for, and the event depicted almost certainly never happened, though Aeryn Daring was a real person; her full proper name was Lady Aeryn Foxxe-Grace Tallhat. This souvenir limited edition was printed by aluminum plate lithography and hand-bound in cloth and a remnant of an old concept drawing for Darwin Courier Company's Pterothopter flying machine.

Sean Star Wars
After the Fall, print – $50
(Yes, that's Qbert in a wheelchair!)

Melissa Stern
Plenty, collage, graphite on prepared paper, 2008 – not for sale
Once upon a time there was a man with alot of stuff. Is he holding it up, or is it crushing him down. You make the call.

Lisa Temple-Cox
Postcard 3, phototransfer on watercolor card, 2010 – $45.

Robin Treadwell
So Hold Me Now in Your Long Arms, stabilo pencil on muslin, 2007 – $800