Mike Estabrook

Page 1 | Biography

Lives: Brooklyn, NY

Education
2005 MFA Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY
1993 BFA University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Il

Solo Exhibitions
Standing Army. HQ Gallery Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 05 Standing Army. 2007. Installation. Acrylic on 40 life size cardboard figures.
This was installed at HQ Gallery in September. It is an army made of post consumer cardboard boxes. The figures are based on poses featured in army recruiting propaganda. The arrangement of figures is based on the regimentation of the Chinese terracotta army.


Group Exhibitions
2007 Standing Army, Solo Show, HQ Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Quote Unquote, Nuture Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Show Your ID Show, HQ Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Emergency Room, PS1, Long Island City, NY
Mash Up, Tastes Like Chicken, Brooklyn, NY

2006 Tactics, Future Prospects Gallery, Manila, The Philippines
New York, Cubao, Bare Wall Gallery, Manila, The Philippines
AIM 26: Artists in The Market Place exhibition, The Bronx Museum, The Bronx, NY
Headlines, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
The Ides of March, ABC No Rio, NYC

2005 Three Cities Against the Wall, Beit Ha�omanim, Tel Aviv, Israel; ABC No Rio, NYC; Al-Hallaj, Ramallah, Palestine
Anti*Star, ABC No Rio, NYC, NY
(An)Aesthetic Politics for the Weekend Imperialist, Queens College, Queens, NY
The Pavilion of the American Resistance, Buzzer Thirty, Astoria, NY
IAM5, Parker�s Box, Brooklyn, NY
Island Art Film and Video Festival, Prenelle Gallery, London U.K.
Fresh Perspectives 1, Concepto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Primary/ Secondary, Contemporary Drawings, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ

2004 Art of the Neighborhood, Tastes Like Chicken, Brooklyn, NY
Democracy Was Fun, White Box, NYC
Queens International, The Queens Museum, Queens, NY
D.u.m.b.o. Art Under the Bridge, D.u.m.b.o. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
DoLLhOuSes in the DoLLhAuS, The Dollhaus Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Founding Fathers, ABC No Rio, NYC
CUNY Arts, The Center for Humanities, The Graduate Center, NYC
Mayday Text/Noise, Asterisk Art, Brooklyn, NY
Ides of March, ABC No Rio, NYC

2003 ELS, LESX, NYC
Cops, ABC No Rio, NYC
Art of Resistance, Peace Williamsburg, Office Ops, Brooklyn, NY
Disaster, ABC No Rio, NYC

2002 Fear, Paranoia, and Malevolence, ABC No Rio, NYC
Ides Of March, ABC No Rio, NYC
Recent Multiples Projects X 5, Gallery 402, Organization of Independent Artists, NYC
Art-o-Mat, (ongoing), Traveling exhibition

Bibliography
Web/Slide Registeries
http://registry.whitecolumns.org/
www.re-tiltle.com
www.artcodex.org/mike_estabrook
www.neoimages.net
Pierogi Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY
Nurture Art Slide registry, Brooklyn, NY


Projects
2006 The War Show: Tactics, Quezon City, The Philippines.
The War Show: Invasion, Minneapolis, MN

Publications
2006 Genocchio, Benjamin. "The Medium Is The Message (And Vice Versa)", New York Times, Sunday May 28.
Catalogue, AIM 26
Catalogue, Headlines
2005 Tape, Nurah. �Artists Push Against Israeli Wall�, AlJazeera.net, Monday Dec. 5
Chan, Tim. �Using Gallery Walls to Tear One Down in the Middle East�, The Villager, Volume 75, Number 25, Nov. 9-15.
Catalogue, Three Cities Against the Wall
Amaral, Dinika. �ABC No Rio�, Trigger Magazine, Wednesday, Oct. 19
2004 Catalogue, Queens International 2004
Catalogue, D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge. Short Film Festival
2002 Cotter, Holland. �Where Witty Meets Gritty,� New York Times, Friday, Nov. 15, p. E31