The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Brian Andrew Whiteley with a one day installation of Human Petting Zoo.
One Night Only: Immerse yourself in a unique atmosphere where you can pet, play, and connect with live humans in furry outfits. The immersive art installation features performers in cosplay suits, video and projection art, paintings, a functional furry fountain, hay bails, live music and electronic sets by Brian Wenner with select instrumentalists.
*After Party Dance Party & Kegger on-site 21+
Human Petting Zoo is a performative and interactive installation experience by renown artist Brian Andrew Whiteley. Dirty Secret Vol IV will go further down the spiral into an even more intense labyrinth and playland. This is not for the faint of heart. Featuring an original score by Brian Wenner.
Brian Andrew Whiteley is a New York City based artist creating works that incorporate painting, sculpture, video, new media and performance. His large-scale projects manifest themselves as interactive installations, incorporating several forms of media at once. He is known for having had Justin Bieber sue him for impersonating him. His political work the "Trump Tombstone" brought upon a Secret Service investigation. He was thrown out of Trump’s DC hotel for hanging a Vladimir Putin painting in the Presidential Suite (it hung for a month). He was outed for being the performer behind several urban Bigfoot sightings. He has snuck his work into the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA NYC). Most notoriously, he started the “creepy clown pandemic” by haunting cemeteries across the United States.
His work has been shown at experimental venues and larger institutions, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; The Invisible Dog, NYC; The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Spring / Break Art Show, NY; Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston; SXSW, Austin, TX; David Owsley Museum of Art, Indiana; Joshua Liner Gallery, NYC; Bushwick Open Studios, NYC; Art on Paper Fair, New York; and Bakehouse Art Center, Miami. Residencies include: Mudhouse, Crete; Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Freight and Volume Residency, Provincetown, MA; Sancto Sanctorum, New York, NY.
His projects have garnered press from The New York Times, The NY Daily News, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, Village Voice, Daily Mail UK, Gothamist, Brooklyn Magazine, Art Net, BBC, Time, Esquire, GQ, Fox, ABC, NBC and NY Magazine,among many, many others.
He received his masters from the School of Visual Arts and his bachelors at Ball State University.
Admission:
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Location:
51 Bergen St