Muistardeaux Collective

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Muistardeaux Collective (Thomas Borden, born January 3, 1968, in West Hartford, CT, and Eric Gibbons, born October 17, 1974, on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH) are contemporary artists who live and work in Half Moon Bay, CA and Portland, OR.

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Tom Borden and Eric Gibbons are primarily a performance art duo. They met in 2007 at San Francisco Art Institute. Upon combining their artistic efforts, they created Muistardeaux Collective. The Collective takes their name from Khyssup Muistardeaux, an imaginary artist that the duo invented to be included in the three-person exhibition If The Smoke Don’t Get You, The Meatloaf Will . In this exhibition, they created a 90 lb meatloaf. [1] Despite threats of expulsion and some faculty resistance, Muistardeaux Collective received Masters of Fine Arts degrees and gave the commencement address in the form of North Sea Jazz .

San Francisco Art Institute university

San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is a private, non-profit college of contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in Fort Mason on Pier 2 in the Golden Gate National Recreation Center which originally was an army post. Approximately 400 undergraduates and 200 graduate students are enrolled. The institution is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).

Immediately upon being graduated, Muistardeaux Collective executed Sculpture LA at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [2] Muistardeaux Collective also recently moderated the round-table discussion Design as an Extension of Art Practice curated by Helen Varola, at Art Los Angeles in 2010. [3]

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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art. The museum's current collection includes over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. They are displayed in 170,000 square feet (16,000 m2) of exhibition space, making the museum one of the largest in the United States overall, and one of the largest in the world for modern and contemporary art.

Design as an Extension of Art Practice was a round-table discussion organized by independent curator Helen Varola and moderated by Muistardeaux Collective during Art Los Angeles in 2010. Panelists were Peter Zellner, Christopher Mount, and Justin Beal.

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Khyssup Muistardeaux, (born June 21, 1962, in Apatou, French Guiana) is the namesake of the artist collective, Muistardeaux Collective. She is an imaginary artist invented by Thomas Borden and Eric Gibbons to be included in the three-person exhibition If The Smoke Don’t Get You, The Meatloaf Will . Actress Christy Crowley appeared live as Khyssup Muistardeaux at the opening for this exhibition. Her biography states that she is French Guianese and still lists that country as her home, although she spends time in Berlin. The artist Elizabeth Pedinotti has also appeared as Khyssup Muistardeaux.

French Guiana Overseas region and department of France in South America

French Guiana is an overseas department and region of France, on the north Atlantic coast of South America in the Guyanas. It borders Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. Since 1981, when Belize became independent, French Guiana has been the only territory of the mainland Americas that is still part of a European country.

In 2017, Tom moved with his family to Portland, Oregon a few miles from Eric and the Collective intensified their production. They paint and produce and perform music.

Music

Muistardeaux Collective often incorporates live and recorded music in their projects. They have written recorded and released 12 albums to date on Northern California record label Mark Williams Van Proyen Records. Muistardeaux Collective’s music is professionally managed by Ken Stallings of Stallings Group LTD.

Discography

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References

  1. ↑ Kahn, Janine. "New Gallery: "If the Smoke Don't Get You, the Meatloaf Will" at the SF Art Institute - San Francisco Music - All Shook Down." The SF Weekly Blogs. 3 July 2008. Web.
  2. ↑ "SFMOMA PRESENTS SCULPTURE L.A." San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Web. 01 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Zellner, Peter. "Design as an Extension of Art Practice." Klat Magazine. 6 Mar. 2011. Web. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2011-06-10.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link).
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