{"id":6450,"date":"2017-05-04T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2017-05-03T06:26:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T10:26:43","slug":"siebren-versteeg-at-bitforms-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/siebren-versteeg-at-bitforms-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Siebren Versteeg at Bitforms Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A figure with a body made of rebar hunches over an iPad in Siebren Versteeg\u2019s solo show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitforms.com\/exhibitions\/versteeg-2017\">Bitforms Gallery<\/a>, scrolling through social media, distributing \u2018likes\u2019 willy nilly. Just as a real body is not necessary to consume content, existing media is sufficient for making more art \u2013 on the walls, paintings made with software that mines Internet images mimic the form of Jay DeFeo\u2019s famously massive \u2018Rose\u2019 painting, built up from years of accumulated paint. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitforms.com\/exhibitions\/versteeg-2017\">Bitforms Gallery<\/a> on the Lower East Side through May 28<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6451\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6451\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6451\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6451\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/siebren_versteeg-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siebren Versteeg, Danny Liker, from the series Dummies, custom software (color, silent), steel, cast concrete, tablet, 42 x 42 x 26 inches, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A figure with a body made of rebar hunches over an iPad in Siebren Versteeg\u2019s solo show at Bitforms Gallery, scrolling through social media, distributing \u2018likes\u2019 willy nilly. Just as a real body is not necessary to consume content, existing media is sufficient for making more art \u2013 on the walls, paintings made with software &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/siebren-versteeg-at-bitforms-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Siebren Versteeg at Bitforms Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,4695,7074,7075,13,7076,431,33,10,7073,7077,16],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-bitforms","tag-danny-liker","tag-dummies","tag-gallery","tag-jay-defeo","tag-lower-east-side","tag-painting","tag-sculpture","tag-siebren-versteeg","tag-the-rose","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1G2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6452,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions\/6452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}