Motherboy

Motherboy is an artist ensemble constructing aural and visual dissonance. Each produced set is an entry into an environment that combines captured noise, ambient drones and abstract pictorial modes. These amalgamations of image and sound function as distinct response to one another resulting into temporal experiences, both familiar and yet, abstain from narrative cohesion.

Members: Kate Alexandrite, Nikolay Maslov, and Zaid Yousef

Website:http://www.motherboy.mom/

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FAR Bazaar Project

PIPER ARCHER N481F

Description: Motherboy is an artist ensemble that works with aural and visual resonance. Each set is an improvised environment created from captured noise, ambient drones and abstract pictorial projections. The image and sound function as distinct response to one another, together conjuring other temporalities and possible abstract narratives.

Location: FA41

Participating Artists: Jennifer Frias (project curator), Kate Alexandrite, Nikolay Maslov, and Zaid Yousef

Kate Alexandrite investigates the perceptual qualities of matter and memory and their role in constructing the past, present and imagined possible futures.
In seeking to understand the embodied experience of time and history, Alexandrite explores such themes as Christianity, Fascism and Moms.

Zaid Yousef's work challenges the engagement of form, material and process. His sculptures, installations and wall works are manifestations of materials extracted from nature, as well as fabricated industrial castings that possess strong emphasis on minimalism and abstraction. The composition of his work represent platforms for inquiry and problem solving that ultimately reciprocate in the transaction of temporal materials into case studies. He fuses concepts of archeology, geology and geography to examine existing systems of information and how it can be manipulated, translated and visually represented. Zaid Yousef received his BA in studio art at UC Riverside and is currently working as exhibition designer at UCR ARTSblock. He has been in selected exhibitions at venues such as Project Space 1785 (Vero Beach, FL), Cearte Art Center (Ensenada, Mexico), Irvine Fine Arts Center (Irvine, CA) Pomona Packing Plant (Pomona, CA), Sweeney Art Gallery (Riverside, CA), and the Phyllis Gill Art Gallery (Riverside, CA). He works and lives in Riverside, CA.

Nikolay Maslov is an occasional curator, photographer, and musician who’s studied at UC Riverside and USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. He’s interested in memory, political history, and suburbia. Nikolay lives in Corona, CA with a Siamese cat.