sideshow — Deborah Ayerst artists' agent

sideshow is a personal project of mine that started out in the bricks & mortar space & has now morphed here in to the digital space. The concept behind sideshow is that I have met & continue to meet many amazing individuals at their day jobs in our business of advertising & design, only to discover in getting to know them, that they have amazing creative interests they pursue on the side that are well worth bringing to light. At first, whether it was the receptionist at a clothing company or an Executive CD at an ad agency, I wanted to give these individuals a space to show their personal photography work. Now, the mandate of sideshow is to give that receptionist or that ECD a place to showcase their art, no matter what the form it takes.

Long ago, I started out on the fine art side of art, well before I became an agent for advertising, working at a gallery in Los Angeles that brilliantly ran shows of contemporary painting, art films, video art, poetry readings (how I got to meet Bukowski!), conceptual & performance work & beyond. It was a stimulating and freely open format and the curator I worked under was a true Beat spirit from New York. Andy Warhol will always be one of my heroes & I believe that my own interest in curating the important, the funny, the pop, the beautiful or the disruptive is going to be well served by sideshow.

featured artist:
Jason Warne, Art Director, Designer / Freelance
Noah Dasho, Art Producer / Goodby Silverstein & Partners
sideshow: Visual Artists / Mixed Media

artist statement: ART NIGHT
April 11, 2013:
I know we are both ridiculously busy and you decided to buy a house as far away from mine as possible but seriously, we need to do an art project to keep our sanity (or is it integrity?). Wouldn’t it be weird to see our styles combine? We should pass some drawings back & forth. Make each other laugh, draw some random shit, see where it goes. Might suck. Might be rad. I NEED TO ACTUALLY MAKE SOMETHING! What say you?
FUCK YEAH!

April 12, 2013:
It’s on! I grabbed some boards that will be easy to pass back & forth. I CAN’T WAIT TO DRAW, PAINT & COLLAGE THE CRAP OUT OF THESE!
GAME ON.
Rules?
No rules. Free reign. Anything goes. Start one, start another one, keep ‘em flowing.
Irish Bank? A beer & we’ll make it our weekly exchange place?
Can’t, I’m slammed. …Fuck it. Let’s go!

August 8, 2013:
I hooked up a venue to show our boards, something called Sideshow! I am thinking we try to go all legit with the statement. Something like “Art Night’s contrasting styles, humorous subject matter & at times seemingly random imagery invite audiences to initiate a dialogue between reality and imagination. The collision of Dasho’s naturalistic birds with Warne’s nostalgic & iconic illustrations creates a shared communication with both natural & pop-cultural references”.
NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT.

purchase: All original pieces in the sideshow gallery are exclusively found here & are available for purchase.
Price list available upon request to deb@debayerst.com.