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February 28, 2010
February 26, 2010
Urban Pop Life Listening Room featuring new music from Janet, Estelle and Kelis
The beautiful ladies and three takes on potential dancefloor hits. Do you like any of these joints? Do any of these tunes 'POP?' You decide.
Janet Jackson - HeartBeat Love Feat. Pitbull, Machel Montano & Rock City
Music by Singersroom.com | More on Janet Jackson
Estelle - Freak Feat. Kardiinal Offishall
Music by Singersroom.com | More on Estelle
Kelis - Scream and Shout
Dean Monogenis Above the Railing, Above the World 5 March - 18 April, 2010 at Collette Blanchard Gallery
Dean Monogenis
Above the Railing, Above the World
5 March - 18 April, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, March 5, 6-9
Collette Blanchard Gallery is pleased to present its first gallery exhibition with Dean Monogenis entitled "Above the Railing, Above the World", on view from March 5th - April 18th.
Monogenis continues his presentation of inventive landscapes that explore the natural progressions of entropy. The subjects of his works depict architecture in different phases of construction including buildings, tents, antennas, electrical posts, windmills and scaffoldings. The focus however is not on the placement of each structure within the landscape but rather on the notion of each monument as a means to articulate transition and purpose. Monogenis re-positions real structures from his encounters in his ever-changing neighborhood in eastern Williamsburg to communities and places he visits around the world. The process of conceptually removing a building from its natural environment and rendering it in an imaginative space with lush landscape and dramatic skies challenges the visual, historical and resourceful components of traditional city planning.
Done in acrylic on wood panels with a high gloss finish, the paintings reveal a distinction between the bold flat areas used to create the architecture with the tightly rendered areas of rock formations and highly textured depictions of greenery. A building can serve two purposes--it can be built as a functioning space or it can be non-space simply existing as a structure with physical matter supporting its construction. Aside from his experience of living among the architecture that is represented in the work, Monogenis's interest in architectural forms is inherent from his many childhood experiences touring ancient ruins while visiting family in Greece. His works often includes depictions of older monuments shown in comparison with contemporary architecture.
Mr. Monogenis received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Monogenis is included in the group exhibition Skeptical Landscape at the Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His work has been exhibited in group shows at Robert Miller Gallery, Annina Nosei Gallery and Priska C. Juschka Fine Art and iis currently on view at Walter maciel Gallery. He was recently featured in New American Paintings. A series of ten images was reproduced in the September 2009 edition of the Georgia Review. A 66 page catalogue with a an essay by curator Elizabeth Grady will accompany the exhibition.
For more information, please contact the gallery at 646.249.7720 or gallery@colletteblanchard.com.
The Karate Kid is coming this summer, check out the trailer here and now
February 25, 2010
The Whitney Biennial opens today in NYC
It's that magical time again. Opening today is the 75th Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC.
This year marks the seventy-fifth edition of the Whitney’s signature exhibition. While Biennials are always affected by the cultural, political, and social moment, this exhibition “simply titled 2010” embodies a cross section of contemporary art production rather than a specific theme. To underscore the idea of time as an element of the Biennial and to demonstrate the influence of the past on 2010, familiar and less well-known artists from previous exhibitions are brought together in Collecting Biennials, an accompanying installation drawn from the Museum’s collection on view on the fifth floor. Balancing different media ranging from painting and sculpture to video, photography, performance, and installation, 2010 also serves as a two-way telescope through which the Whitney’s past and future can be observed.
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021
General Information: (212) 570-3600
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How to get there:
Subway: 6 Train to 77th Street
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 to 74th Street
Car: Two parking garages offer
discounts with Whitney ticket
validation.
General admission: $18
Ages 19–25: $12
Ages 62 and over: $12
Full-time students: $12
Ages 18 and under: FREE
Members: FREE
Admission is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 6–9 pm
Tickets include admission to all current exhibitions.
Check out these videos from a couple of Biennial artists
Video Flashback: TLC
I miss my girls dearly. TLC is one of the biggest selling musical groups of all time. Check out these two classic videos from TLC. R.I.P. Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes.
JOSH AZZARELLA at DCKT Contemporary in NYC
Untitled #86 (Lopez), 2009, Cibachrome, edition of 3 + 1 AP, 10 x 10" image
DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present new photographs by JOSH AZZARELLA. AZZARELLA manipulates images from cinema, journalism and amateur photography. His photographs muddy the waters between the artificial beauty of a cinematic set and the inherent beauty of the natural landscape. Absent their most significant events, AZZARELLA’s images raise questions about how our society constructs a narrative of our collective history.
The emptying of the photographs presents each scene in its formal beauty but leaves a ghost of its narrative past. The viewer is tempted to draw relational lines between individual photographs and to decipher patterns and groupings, taking cues from color and film grain. Movie stills, homemade images and documentary footage mix together, as in our collective memory. How individual and collective memories form, the possibilities of confusing memories with realities or creating memories where none previously existed are all key to his oeuvre.
In one photograph vines drape across branches, hearkening documentary photographs of the Vietnam War although its true source is the B movie classic Creature from the Black Lagoon. Emptied seascapes recall the stillness of Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs. The backs of two men on an Elvis Presley film set evoke 1960s family photographs, perhaps of a picnic.
AZZARELLA lives and works in New York City. Solo and group exhibitions include Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica, CA); Vancouver Art Gallery (British Columbia); Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago); Akademie der Künste (Berlin). He was the recipient of the 2006 Emerging Artist Award and a solo exhibition from The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT). His work is included in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This is his third solo exhibition with DCKT Contemporary.
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LeBasse Projects presents: 'Deva Loka: Los Angeles ' A Solo Exhibition by Yoshitaka Amano Los Angeles, CA
LeBasse Projects presents:
'Deva Loka: Los Angeles '
A Solo Exhibition by Yoshitaka Amano
Los Angeles, CA - LeBasse Projects is excited to present, 'Deva Loka' an exhibition of work from influential Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano.
Legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano will make a rare U.S. appearance with his newest exhibit, DEVA LOKA, created especially for a U.S exhibition and named for the ancient Indian land of God. As an ode to his childhood love for American comics, culture and automobiles, Amano's latest breathtaking and vibrant pieces are boldly coated with auto paint and metallic glitter.
Amano is widely acclaimed for his work in animation and video games. He is renowned for designing the characters for the hit video game, Final Fantasy, as well as for anime films including Vampire Hunter D, Guin Saga, Final Fantasy, and Front Mission.
"Between the late 60's and the 70's, and during my early years in the art world, I was greatly influenced by American comic books and pop culture. I'd like to show my gratitude for the inspiration America gave me with this exhibit. With the theme of DEVA LOKA, all of my concepts and influences are able to come together, centered in one place. I hope everyone enjoys my show."
Deva Loka will be Amano's first major exhibition in Los Angeles in nearly a decade.
February 20th through March 13th
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20th, 7 to 10pm
For additional inquiries or preview please contact:
Beau Basse, Gallery Director
at beau@lebasseprojects.com or 310.558.0200
www.lebasseprojects.com
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New work at Sloan Fine Art in NYC
Sloan Fine Art is pleased to present Just Off, a group exhibition curated by Peter Drake and Alix Sloan in the front gallery and Always Moving, a solo exhibition by Ryan Scully in the project room.
The most profoundly uncanny moments in life aren’t recognizable as such. They are like a ringing in the ears or a frame permanently askew, the missing object on a mantelpiece that lets you know that the scene has been disturbed. For Just Off, curators Peter Drake and Alix Sloan have brought together eleven uncannily like-minded emerging artists. With disconnected gestures, anatomical drawings of non-existent creatures, detritus still lives that remind one of ceramic figurines and everyday environments disrupted by unsettling forces, their imagery is similarly, subtly, disquietingly unhinged. The collected works are at their core familiar and beautiful but together they are undeniably and intriguingly Just Off.
Peter Drake is an artist and curator living in New York City. Curated exhibitions include Normal at Linda Warren Gallery and The Burbs at DFN Gallery.
Ryan Scully grew up in the shadow of the DOE Hanford Nuclear Site in Richland, WA. The unique influence of dependence on a controversial industry, a striking desert landscape and the ominous importance of resources deeply impacted the young artist’s development. In Always Moving, his canvases are populated with rough landscapes and amorphous characters in a state of anxious flux. Rocky overhangs struggle to break free. Threatening clouds sweep in and out of frame. Multiple inhabitants scurry towards perceived safety or to join in a group offense. These elements share an unsettling yet cooperative relationship. They are in a state of push and pull, an ever twisting but also evolving relationship in which life and it’s environment struggle against each other yet ultimately become equal and find space to co-exist.
Ryan Scully earned his BFA from Central Washington University and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. His work has been exhibited nationwide and will be included in “New American Paintings, No. 86” on newsstands Spring of 2010. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Sloan Fine Art is located at 128 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. Hours are Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 6, and by appointment
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Sofi Zezmer: Remote Control February 27 - April 3, 2010 at Mike Weiss Gallery
Brazil LS1 / 2010 / Plastic, metal / 63 x 49 1/4 x 35 3/8 inches (160 x 125 x 90 cm)
Sofi Zezmer: Remote Control
February 27 - April 3, 2010
Opening Saturday February 27, 6 - 8pm
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Remote Control, a multimedia installation including sculpture, photography and drawing by artist Sofi Zezmer. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery. Her use of the fragments of manmade, mostly synthetic materials shift the common definition of the objects we use to inform our everyday lives and confront the viewer with his or her own relationship to consumption, mass production and overflow.
With an engineer’s precision, Zezmer constructs her works by a gradual additive process dependent on intuitive responses to the materials and objects she uses forming color-saturated assemblages. Evolving out of a large selection of manmade curiosities, each piece takes on an identity and physical body of its own; some remain self-contained in their form while other spread out along the walls like micro organisms.
Among the abundant elements she incorporates are objects which in their original context were distinctly purposeful such as drinking straws, IV drip tubing, construction netting, film, foil, packing materials, bicycle helmets, cable ties and funnels. In fusing the elements and breaking them down, Zezmer disrupts the common meaning assigned to the items and calls into question our own familiarity with them. Zezmer’s sculptures suggest irrational Duchampian hybrids of mechanical and biological systems. They are embodiments of the complexity of life in the modern age, ruminations on the omnipresence of mass-production, space travel and biotechnology.
Sofi Zezmer structures some of her recent works as interactive sites, inviting simultaneously accessible multiple viewpoints, which provoke conflicting chains of associations. REM LS1, for instance, consists of a mobile, translucent panel attached to the wall with two hinges. The sculpture literally occurs on both sides of the panel as well as in between the two sides. Similarly, the large hanging work Brazil LS1 hovers at the viewer’s eye-level above ground and rotates slowly, disclosing simultaneously numerous vantage points.
Sofi Zezmer lives and works in Germany. Her work has been exhibited in numerous international galleries and museums. Most notable were her solo exhibition at Museum Wiesbaden, at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan and her forty two foot long hanging sculpture, Es Darf Kein Mangel Herrschen, commissioned by the NASPA Bank, Wiesbaden, Germany.
For more information please contact Helene Necroto, Director: 212.691.6899 or helene@mikeweissgallery.com
mike weiss gallery
520 west 24th street
new york, new york 10011
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February 22, 2010
Jason Horowitz's provocative large-scale and extreme close-up photographs of expressive drag queens conjure a multitude of reactions at the Curators Office in Washington D.C.
Horowitz continues his ongoing interest in exploring the intersection of landscape and portraiture and how hyper-realism morphs into abstraction. Shot with the same "glamour" lighting set-up used for fashion images, these photographs subvert that process to look at what is real rather than ideal.
In the new body of work entitled DRAG, a new psychological element enters the artist's earlier explorations of faces and bodies. The theatrical artifice of the make-up, similar to a mask, is at once concealing and revealing. We find ourselves shocked, drawn in, immersed, fascinated, yet a bit squeamish. Horowitz masterfully plays with the tension between attraction and repulsion. The over-the-top vamping and exhibitionist joy of drag queens is tempered by a simultaneous sadness and introspection. By exploding scale, Horowitz reveals not only the fascinating visual terrain of the face but also challenges our own hidden biases about femininity and masculinity, beauty and ugliness, gay culture, race, sexuality, and aging.
Horowitz initiated this series by shooting Washington DC's acclaimed drag queen, Shi-Queeta Lee. Word spread quickly among her friends, so Horowitz was able to photograph many of the city's finest performers over the past two years.
Curators Office
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Washington, DC
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12 - 6pm and by appointment
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Kehinde Wiley Pumas...R U READY?
Elene Usdin Femmes d'Interieur Photographs and Illustrations at
(Infante on sofa d'après Velasquez)
Elene Usdin
Femmes d'Interieur
Photographs and Illustrations
Opening Reception with the Artist, Thursday, February 18, 2010 (6-8PM)
Exhibition: February 18 - March 27, 2010
The exhibition will feature unique hand-painted selections from Usdin's newest series as well as digital based collage editions and un ensemble petite of original c-prints selected and editioned by the artist. The exhibition will be on view from February 18 - March 27, 2010. Elene Usdin will be at the opening reception.
For more information please visit www.farmanigallery.com or email us at info@farmanigallery.com. We can also be reached via phone at 718-578-4478.
(Penelope d'après Ghirlandaio)
The Farmani Gallery is located at 111 Front St., Ste. 212, Brooklyn, NY in the DUMBO neighborhood between Washington and Adams St. By subway take A or C to High St., F to York St. or 2 and 3 to Clark St. Station. Gallery hours: Wed. – Sat.: 1 – 6PM. Information: www.farmanigallery.com or info@farmanigallery.com or ph# 718-578-4478.
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'Deva Loka: Los Angeles ' A Solo Exhibition by Yoshitaka Amano at LeBasse Projects in Culver City, California
'Deva Loka: Los Angeles '
A Solo Exhibition by Yoshitaka Amano
LeBasse Projects is excited to present, 'Deva Loka' an exhibition of work from influential Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano.
Legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano will make a rare U.S. appearance with his newest exhibit, DEVA LOKA, created especially for a U.S exhibition and named for the ancient Indian land of God. As an ode to his childhood love for American comics, culture and automobiles, Amano¹s latest breathtaking and vibrant pieces are boldly coated with auto paint and metallic glitter.
Amano is widely acclaimed for his work in animation and video games. He is renowned for designing the characters for the hit video game, Final Fantasy, as well as for anime films including Vampire Hunter D, Guin Saga, Final Fantasy, and Front Mission.
"Between the late 60's and the 70's, and during my early years in the art world, I was greatly influenced by American comic books and pop culture. I'd like to show my gratitude for the inspiration America gave me with this exhibit. With the theme of DEVA LOKA, all of my concepts and influences are able to come together, centered in one place. I hope everyone enjoys my show."
Deva Loka will be Amano's first major exhibition in Los Angeles in nearly a decade.
February 20th through March 13th
Opening Reception: Saturday, Ferbuary 20th, 7 to 10pm
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February 20, 2010
Busta and Janet: What a beautiful video, remember this?
February 19, 2010
Snickers genius new commercial
February 18, 2010
Paintings by Ted Milligan
NATHAN SKILES: Black Forest / White Lightning & HEATHER SHERMAN: Feral at SLOAN FINE ART
(Image left: Nathan Skiles, “The Vanitas of Vineta B," 2009, corrugated plastic & foam rubber, 36" x 32" x 10"
Image right: Heather Sherman, "Suck It, Suburbia," 2009, oil on paper, 38" x 50")
NATHAN SKILES: Black Forest / White Lightning
HEATHER SHERMAN: Feral
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 from 6 to 8 pm
EXHIBITION: January 27 through February 20, 2010
SLOAN FINE ART
128 Rivington Street
(corner of Norfolk)
New York, NY 10002
212.477.1140
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Sloan Fine Art, in conjunction with Greene Contemporary, is pleased to present Black Forest / White Lightning by Nathan Skiles in the front gallery and Feral by Heather Sherman in the project room.
In Black Forest / White Lightning, Nathan Skiles presents a collection of densely adorned cuckoo clocks, ranging from the intricately elegant to the over-the-top outrageous, as a means to invigorate his method of associative image making and feed his interest in the incongruous. While the clocks lend themselves easily to observations on the convenient clichés and “rules” of time and space, specific (and repeated) themes within the works expand beyond immediate associations and evolve into musings on the self-consciousness and limits popularly ascribed to these rules. Specifically, in “Two Headed Boy Part 1” and the pair “The Vanitas of Vineta (A & B),” Skiles uses iconography such as the ouroborus, a wishbone, the Cottingley Fairies, George Washington’s wooden teeth and the Inverted Jenny Stamp to investigate how time, space, legend and chance influence our perceptions of identity, continuity, value and truth. And with his innovative use of foam rubber as his primary material, Skiles tricks the eye and obliterates the baggage of immediate recognition, further challenging his audience to look beyond the immediate and investigate the core issues presented in his work.
Nathan Skiles earned his BFA from Ringling School of Design and his MFA from Montclair State University. This is his second solo exhibition in New York.
Three years ago, Heather Sherman purchased a mysterious bag of Kodak slides (meticulously organized and labeled “Puppies,” “Vacation,” “Christmas,” etc.) from a thrift store in Florida. While buzzing and clicking through them in her 70’s era slide projector, the artist found her voyeuristic exploration of these people’s lives exposed connections to, and elements of, her own past. In a photograph of lawn chairs, she saw the New Year’s Eve spent drunk and alone, watching neighbors cheerfully light fireworks while quietly hating them. In a slide of two German Shepherds eating from a woman’s hand, she remembered the day she witnessed her mother being attacked by the family dog. And in their fenced-off New Jersey backyard, she envisioned the golf course she grew up on, and regularly vandalized - a bored, rich, gay teenager acting out in the suburbs of Orlando, Florida. In Feral, Sherman projects her psychology onto these strangers and their memories, using them as a vehicle to confront her own personal history. Some of the stories are fictional, some autobiographical, but all reinforce the need for connectedness and feelings of alienation so rampant in, and integral to, suburbia.
Heather Sherman earned her BFA at Ringling School of Design in Florida before fleeing to New York where she will complete her MFA at NYU this year.
Through his gallery Greene Contemporary, and now as an independent curator and consultant, Jonathan Greene strives to discover, encourage and present emerging and mid-career artists with a commitment and dedication to creating innovative work in a wide range of mediums. Both Nathan Skiles and Heather Sherman exhibited previously at Greene Contemporary. This is the first collaboration between Greene Contemporary and Sloan Fine Art.
Sloan Fine Art is located at 128 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. Hours are Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 6, and by appointment.
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February 17, 2010
Superflat First Love by Takashi Murakami for Louis Vuitton
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Titouan Lamazou Women February 20 - March 27, 2010
Lola, Sydney, Australia, 2005 . Pigment print.
Titouan Lamazou
Women
February 20 - March 27, 2010
Opening Reception for the Artist:
Saturday, February 20th
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Adamson Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs by Titouan Lamazou. Lamazou is an artist but also a documentarian, ethnographer, and it might be argued, an activist and humanitarian. For six years, Lamazou has traveled the world photographing 230 women and recording their biographies. The resulting images are beautiful and sometimes haunting. They reveal an artist that has a unique eye into the experiences of the peoples he encounters.
Titouan Lamazou has been voyaging around the globe nearly his entire life. Born in 1955 in Morocco, at age seventeen he decided to be a navigator and spent the next several years sailing on the seas of the world. In 1990, he won the Vendée Globe, a race around the world. Long accustomed to documenting the people and sites he encountered on his travels via photography, drawing, painting and even film, Lamazou decided to embark on his current project in 2001 and was named a United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization "Artist for Peace," a title that reinforces the humanitarian aspect of his project. The result is a collection of photographs, sketches and video recordings, which have been exhibited worldwide and collected into several catalogues published by Gallimard, as well as shown on short segments on French television.
Katrine and Noris, Cali, Columbia, 2005. Pigment print.
At Adamson Gallery, Lamazou will be exhibiting some of the photographs from the project, beautifully rendered as large-scale digital prints. Each shot has hyper resolution and perspective, which Lamazou achieves by shooting as many as 200 images for each scene, which are then constructed into a mimetic image. This gives the resulting large format print a viewpoint that cannot be approximated by any camera lens and more closely mimics how we view scenes. Although each photograph tells a compelling story, their presence alongside one another is a powerful commentary on the commonalities and differences of experience around the globe.
Lamazou has the gift of rendering images that are remarkably full of narrative. Each woman poses in her own environment, surrounded by items that hint at the circumstances surrounding her life. In the photograph, "Lola, Sydney Australia, 2005," both the subject and her domestic surroundings are clad in leopard print. Behind her hangs a large portrait of the musician Jimi Hendrix, and above her head, a chandelier draped in foliage. Her head is titled slightly towards a barely visible window. We do not know anything about Lola, but we are compelled by what has been revealed. "Daniela, Bulgaria, 2006" is photographed with several children, looking over her shoulder as she walks to a dilapidated shack hung with sheets for insulation. Her story is all too familiar, but personalized in a unique way in the context of the other photographs. Together, the images begin to tell the story of the experience of women throughout the world.
To view more images from the exhibition, please visit our website. For more information, please contact Laurie Adamson or Erin Boland at (202) 232-0707 or email gallery@adamsongallery.com.
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washington dc 20005
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THE TILLER EFFECT, February 11 – March 13, 2010 at NYSG
Charlotte Becket, Inkblot V (detail), 2009, Insulation tape, plastic, motors, 16” x 36” x 19”
THE TILLER EFFECT
February 11 – March 13, 2010
Artists Reception: February 12, 2010 7-9pm
Charlotte Becket, Christian Maychack, Chad Mitchner, Kristine Moran, Benjamin Tiven
Curated by: Emmy Mikelson
NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present The Tiller Effect. The title derives from an expression describing certain steering mechanisms that entail turning in the opposite direction of where you want to go - turn left to go right, turn right to go left. It is a counterintuitive movement that involves a rhythmic balance of contradiction.
The artists in the show are equally engaged with movements or gestures that disrupt an intuitive sense of balance. Form, material, and intention are explored as unstable states and presented at the threshold of disequilibrium. Balance is antithetically conceived of as a dynamic and fluctuating state. The work within the show is perpetually disrupting a rational Euclidean plane and advocating for a space in which the subject is constantly negotiating her/his environment.
Charlotte Becket’s kinetic sculptures move slowly – sometimes imperceptibly – as their looping, rhythmic motion transforms these motorized machines into figural abstractions or landscapes. Her recent work includes wall mounted geometric forms with black-mirrored surfaces. As the forms slowly shift and redirect light they become hallucinogenic and unstable.
Christian Maychack’s newest sculpture consists of a towering architecture of sorts, constructed from marbleized Magic-Sculpt, and grafted onto a living houseplant. The construction simultaneously constrains and redirects the growth of the plant, while becoming a necessary support. Maychack will add to and adjust the piece in response to the plant’s growth over the duration of the exhibition.
In Chad Mitchner’s to-scale installations of interior rooms there is the constant tension between familiar fictions and uncanny spaces. The work is an attempt at reconstructing memories while occluding their existence in the present tense. The resultant spaces are filled with a nostalgic amnesia where even the artist himself becomes a fictitious figure.
Kristine Moran’s hallucinogenic territories are fractured and distorted, yet balanced by the richness in palette, gesture and reference. With witty shifts that collapse time, space and sound, Moran plays up the inherent drama of painting, as passages of excess are contradicted by denial and withholding.
The two-panel print by Benjamin Tiven selects a passage from Theodore Adorno’s Minima Moralia and pairs it with the translation by a German immigrant living in the U.S. since 1943, roughly when the Adorno text was written. Both texts are designed according to the aesthetic principles of the German book designer Jan Tschichold, who turned to a humanist classicism after rejecting his pre-war commitments to radical, Bauhaus-inflected modernism.
MISC Video and Performance features a variety of emerging, mid-career and established artists working in diverse genres ranging from video, animation, live performance, audio or video installation. Video loops and installations will be acceessable during gallery hours, while performances are scheduled. click here for the application. ARTIST OPEN CALL DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15
About NY Studio Gallery
NY Studio Gallery combines exhibition and workspace to create an atmosphere of interaction, collaboration and integration of media, styles and artistic genres for US and international artists.
NY Studio Gallery
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Thursday – Saturday 12 - 6pm or by appointment
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February 16, 2010
HOUSE OF MAYHEM A reading of a screenplay by David Pumo
Full Circle Films presents
HOUSE OF MAYHEM
A reading of a screenplay by David Pumo
Starring:
Moe Bertran, Ivan Davila, Mark Finley,
Jason Luna Flores, Isaac Calpito & Andre Darnel Myers
With:
Randy Aaron, Jennifer Gelfer, Kate Hodge,
Patricia Janvier, Brian Patacca & Minerva Vier
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 6:30pm
at
the Leslie/Lohman Gallery
(address below)
HOUSE OF MAYHEM, written by David Pumo, based on his award-wining play. It's a sexy, street-smart comedy set in New York City about an alternative family with its own set of values. When fashion photographer Felony Mayhem comes face to face with Dennis, the sixteen-year-old hustler who mugged him a few days ago, he plots his revenge. But Felony soon discovers this tough street kid was thrown out by his God-fearing mother for being gay. When he decides to take the boy into their Brooklyn home, despite the objections of his blue-collar husband, Bobo, and child-hating best friend, drag diva Chile...it's mayhem! Soon two more kids join the makeshift family: Ivan, a street activist, dancer and rapper; and Epiphany, a fierce, barely-teenage tranny. Chile's already been thrown out of the TV room. Now the living room futon is occupied too. Can Dennis get a real job and escape from his past? Can Ivan get Chile to put him in his act? Can Epiphany keep from getting arrested...again? Can Chile find a place to sleep in peace? Are Felony and Bobo really ready to be...parents? HOUSE OF MAYHEM - It's a family affair!
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ALPHA & January 10 - February 21, 2010 at On Stellar Rays in NYC
Maria Petschnig
Born to Perform (performance still), 2009
ALPHA &
January 10 - February 21, 2010
Alpha & is an exploration of the body and the body in time. The exhibition proposes, or questions, transient acts and their permanence in the physical world.
In Alpha &, traces of the figure are evident in physical depictions of the human form (heads, hands, torsos), handcrafted efforts (stitching, burning, molding, welding, collage), and physically imposing sculptural works. Disembodiment and disintegration of the figure contradict a fixed physicality and singularity visible in each work. Here, the reimagination of the body, together with endlessly renewable narrative possibilities, signals a new means for permanence, survival, and perseverance.
With works by Ana Cardoso, Anya Gallaccio, Yasue Maetake, Maria Petschnig, Tia Pulitzer, Kirstine Roepstorff, Clare Stephenson and my play sister Stacy Lynn Waddell.
On Stellar Rays
133 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
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February 13, 2010
Video Flashback: Alanis Unplugged
Great songs, understated performances, legendary memories. This is where I resist the temptation to compare her to current artists and simply ask you to press play.
February 11, 2010
Rihanna's new video for Rude Boy
Fashion world superstar Alexander McQueen, Designer, Is Found Dead
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 11, 2010
LONDON (AP) -- British fashion designer Alexander McQueen was found dead at his London home on Thursday, his spokeswoman said. He was 40 years old.
Company spokeswoman Samantha Garrett said McQueen's body was found in the morning but that she had no information "in terms of circumstances."
Police did not directly comment when asked about how McQueen died, but said officers were called by the ambulance service at 10:20 a.m. (1020GMT) to an address on Green Street, in central London, and found a 40-year-old man dead. They did not name him but said next of kin had been informed.
The force said a post-mortem would be held but that the death was not being treated as suspicious.
McQueen's death came days before London Fashion Week, although he was not scheduled to show in the British capital.
Fashion guru Isabella Blow, who helped launch McQueen's career, committed suicide almost three years ago.
Bio courtesy of Wikipedia
Born in the East End of London, the son of a taxi driver, McQueen started making dresses for his three sisters at a young age and announced his intention of becoming a fashion designer. He said that one of his earliest memories was from around the age of 3 when he drew a picture of a dress on a piece of bare wall which had been exposed by peeling wallpaper in the council house where his family lived. McQueen jokingly called it his first design sketch.
Career
McQueen left Rokeby School at 16, landing himself an apprenticeship with Savile Row tailors Anderson & Sheppard, then working for Gieves & Hawkes and the famous theatrical costumiers Angels and Bermans. Whilst on Savile Row, McQueen's clients included Mikhail Gorbachev and Charles, Prince of Wales. At the age of 20, he spent a period of time working for Koji Tatsuno before travelling to Milan, Italy and working for Romeo Gigli.
McQueen returned to London in 1994 and applied to London's most prestigious fashion school, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design to work as a pattern cutter tutor. Due to the strength of his portfolio he was persuaded by the Head of the Masters course to enroll on the course as a student. He received his Masters degree in Fashion design and famously, his graduation collection was bought in its entirety by influential fashion stylist Isabella Blow, who was said to have persuaded McQueen to change his name from Lee to Alexander (his middle name) when he subsequently launched his fashion career.
Icelandic singer Björk sought McQueen's work for the cover of her album Homogenic in 1997.
Design history
Alexander McQueen's early runway collections developed his reputation for controversy and shock tactics (earning the title "l'enfant terrible" and "the hooligan of English fashion"), with trousers aptly named "bumsters", and a collection entitled "Highland Rape". McQueen was known for his lavish, unconventional runway shows, such as a recreation of a shipwreck for his spring 2003 collection, spring 2005’s human chess game and his fall 2006 show, Widows of Culloden, which featured a life-sized hologram of supermodel Kate Moss, dressed in yards of rippling fabric.
Givenchy appointment
The president of LVMH, Bernard Arnault caused a stir when he instated McQueen as head designer at Givenchy in 1996, succeeding John Galliano. Upon arrival at Givenchy, McQueen insulted the founder by calling him ‘irrelevant’. Thus, his first couture collection with Givenchy was unsuccessful, with even McQueen telling Vogue in October 1997 that the collection was “crap”. McQueen toned down his act at Givenchy, but continued to indulge his rebellious streak, causing controversy in Autumn 1998 with a show which included car-robots spraying paint over white cotton dresses, and double amputee model Aimee Mullins striding down the catwalk on intricately carved wooden legs. McQueen stayed with Givenchy until March 2001, when the contract he said was "constraining his creativity" was ended.
Accomplishments
Some of Alexander McQueen's accomplishments included being one of the youngest designers to achieve the title "British Designer of the Year", which he won four times between 1996 and 2003. He was also awarded the CBE, as well as being named International Designer of the Year at the Council of Fashion Designer Awards. December 2000 saw a new partnership for McQueen with Gucci Group acquiring 51% of the company, and McQueen serving as Creative Director. Plans for expansion included the opening of stores in London, Milan, and New York, and the launch of his perfumes Kingdom, and more recently My Queen. In 2005, McQueen collaborated with Puma to create a special line of trainers for the shoe brand.
McQueen became the first designer to participate in MAC's newest promotion: cosmetic releases created by fashion designers. The collection, McQueen, was released on 11 October 2007 and reflects the looks used on the Autumn/Winter McQueen catwalk. The inspiration for the collection was the Elizabeth Taylor movie Cleopatra, and thus the models sported intense blue, green, and teal eyes with strong black liner extended Egyptian-style. McQueen handpicked the makeup.
Company
By the end of 2007, Alexander McQueen had boutiques in New York, London, Los Angeles, Milan, and Las Vegas. Grammy winning trend setter Rihanna is one of the many famous celebrities that frequently wears Alexander McQueen, often seen wearing the pieces of clothing to events. Another is Lady GaGa, whose unique style often incorporates Alexander McQueen pieces in her music videos. As of 14 July 2008, the Alexander McQueen internet store has launched on the company website, allowing shoppers to purchase ready-to-wear and accessories online.
Death
His death was announced on 11 February 2010. He is believed to have committed suicide. A source at McQueen’s office confirmed his death to the Daily Mail, saying: ‘It is a tragic loss. We are not making a comment at this time out of respect for the McQueen family." McQueen was found dead at his London home and Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
February 10, 2010
The Lucie Foundation presents MONTH of PHOTOGRAPHY Los Angeles (MOPLA)
The Lucie Foundation
presents
MONTH of PHOTOGRAPHY Los Angeles (MOPLA)
Opening Night Saturday, April 3, 2010, 7:00 p.m – 10:00 p.m.
Featuring Pro’jekt LA Part One. Official exhibitions presented by
Frank Pictures Gallery and Robert Berman Gallery.
Bergamot Station - 2525 Michigan Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90404
February 10, 2010 (Los Angeles, CA) - The Lucie Foundation will present the 2nd annual Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA) with an opening reception Saturday, April 3, 2010 from 7pm-10pm. Last year’s well attended and highly acclaimed inaugural showcase was an immediate success, creating a following for the entire month. MOPLA promises to deliver the most comprehensive celebration of the Los Angeles Photography Community. The city of Los Angeles was incorporated 160 years on April 4th, 1850 and with the support of the Photography Community, MOPLA will showcase the work of 160 Photographers through Exhibitions, Projections and Discussions. MOPLA will also endorse a variety of photographic exhibitions and events that take place during the month of April. As an inclusive event, MOPLA aims to inspire and engage the professional, enthusiast, emerging artist and collector, both young and seasoned. This effort will organize and galvanize the already thriving photography and art community in LA.
Partial programming highlights include:
Pro’jekt LA - Outdoor Projections
A five-part series dedicated to projecting photographs onto the walls and spaces in Los Angeles. MOPLA’s opening night will feature the first installment of Pro'jekt LA, MEXLA: Our Neighbor Mexico- Through the Eyes of Jeff Antebi, Livia Corona and Marc Smith, hosted by Frank Pictures Gallery. Every Tuesday, starting April 6th through April 27th, Space15 Twenty located in Hollywood, California, will host weekly, curated projections as soon as the sun sets.
Cost: Free with RSVP to projections@luciefoundation.org
Fresh Fairs V.I.P. Opening Party (April 23, Pier 59 Studios, 2415 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica 7:00 p.m – 10:00 p.m.) - Fresh Fairs is the newest addition to the world of photography. In concert with Foundation’s other programs, Fresh Fairs is committed to the presentation, promotion, and nurturing of the medium of photography and its makers. Via innovative and dynamic programming Fresh Fairs brings you Fresh Look: A unique portfolio review and Fresh Dialogues: Insightful conversations from a variety of industry players. We begin the three-day long Photography Fair with the Fresh Fairs V.I.P. Opening Party featuring a sneak-peak at Fresh exhibitors, music and drinks. A benefit event for The Lucie Foundation.
Cost: $25.00
Fresh Take (April 23rd-25th 2010, during FRESH FAIRS, Pier 59 Studios, 2 415 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica)
Fresh Take showcases the personal and meaningful work of photographers, most of whom are without gallery representation or for whom representation is of a mostly commercial context. Fresh Take offers the general public, galleries and collectors an innovative and engaging format in which to access, purchase, and engage with the work alongside its creator. The exhibiting photographers are handpicked by a professional jury of influential members of the photographic arts community and run the gamut from the highly visionary and adept to the dedicated and undeniably talented novice. Exhibitor submissions accepted through March 19th at www.freshfairs.com
Fresh Look (April 23-24, 2010)
Fresh Look is the Lucie Foundation’s very own juried portfolio review that brings together photographic talent with influential industry-insiders. Through one-on-one reviews Fresh Look gives photographers an opportunity to gain invaluable insight about their work and those reviewing a new avenue for gaining access to passionate and dedicated photographers. Portfolio submissions accepted through March 19th at www. freshfairs.com.
Highlight Exhibitions and Events
The J. Paul Getty Center
Art exhibits exclusive to the world of photography displayed at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Urban Panoramas featuring Opie, Liao and Kim, highlighting images by contemporary photographers, including live demonstrations. Photographer Luther Gerlach demonstrates how to make platinum prints using authentic cameras, lenses, and procedures from the 19th century. Tasteful Pictures, a selection of more than 20 works of art enticed by the subject of food since the earliest years of the medium. A live demonstration by photographer Luther Gerlach on how to make platinum prints using authentic cameras, lenses, and procedures from the 19th century. For more info, www.getty.edu
SnapShop! – An all day workshop for LA High School students (April 17, 10am-4pm, Santa Monica City College)
SnapShop! aims to cultivate the photographic minds of the future and for youth to acquire skills that might not be available to them at their home, schools and communities. High School students are paired with established photographers who are able teach technical and aesthetic skills needed for them to successfully express themselves through the art of photography. Students will learn important tools such as the art of selecting a captivating caption in photojournalism, the process of working with toy cameras, the art of low-light photography, and how to connect your emotions to your images and bring your vision to the next level. Instructors include David Healey, Susan Burnstine, Tom Paiva, Frank Jackson, Meg Madison and Natalie Franco. Admission: Open to pre-registered high school students only, at no cost. For more info, contact rclark@luciefoundation.org
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About the Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA)
MOPLA's two-fold mission is to advance dynamic programming designed to engage and stimulate the photography community, as well as to present a comprehensive resource of exhibitions and events in April 2010. www.mopla.org
About the Lucie Foundation
The Lucie Foundation’s three-fold mission is to honor master photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent and to celebrate the appreciation of photography worldwide. The photography communities from countries around the globe pay tribute to the year’s most outstanding photographic achievements at the annual Lucie Awards ceremony. The Lucies recognize men and women whose life’s work in photography merits the highest acclaim by their peers. The winners of IPA Photographer of the Year, the Discovery of the Year and Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year are announced at the Lucies and are awarded cash prizes and statues. The Lucie Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable foundation.
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Terri Thomas, Hedone and Melodie Provenzano, It's My Birthday! at Lyons Wier Gallery
Terri Thomas, Hedone
* Terri Thomas, Hedone
* Artist's Reception Friday, Feb 12th, 2010 - 6-9PM
* Exhibition dates: Friday, February 12th - March 8th, 2010.
* Gallery hours: Monday - Saturday 11-7, Sun. 12-6.
* Gallery located on the NE corner of 20th and 7th Ave.
* Subway: C, E exit 23rd @ 8th Ave., 1,9 exit 23rd @ 7th Ave.
Lyons Wier Gallery is pleased to present Hedone an exhibition of recent work by Austin, Texas artist Terri Thomas. An investigation of the taboo, Thomas' manipulated self-portraits and Swarovski crystal encrusted object-trophies explore the motivations and contradictions of physical and material desire. Playful, precisely rendered, laden with sexual implications and symbolism, the work in Hedone combines frivolity, fantasy, escapism and pleasure with paradox, self-analysis, media-influence and artifice.
Thomas uses the theme of hedone, the Greek word for "pleasure" or "delight," to question how we might, as a media driven culture, individually pursue pleasure. Today, hedone, the root word of "hedonism", usually implies a short sightedness and disregard for future consequences. The Ancient Greeks' notion of pleasure was divided. Some believed the highest pleasure was tranquility and could be reached through an ascetic, intellectual philosophy. Others believed that bodily gratifications were the supreme good and they lauded immediate gratification without regard to long-term gain. Through the narrative of Hedone, Thomas explores the origins of our desires through wildness, freedom, beauty and power. Her work is crafted with a glaring precision that often illuminates the irony of these ideas as much as it supports them in their role as things to be desired.
"Thomas' paintings and sculptures are simultaneously appealing and appalling, and mesmerize viewers who feel a little embarrassed for looking so closely at images similar to those more conventionally viewed in private. But Thomas is not embarrassed and frankly reveals herself and in doing so, unveils things about the society in which we live and the secret life of the individual in the context of the cognitive dissonance produced by normative expectations." – Joseph Bravo, art critic, San Antonio, TX.
Terri Thomas received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington D.C. Her work is currently included in the exhibition Reflected Gaze at the Torrance Art Museum, L.A. Hedone is Terri Thomas' first solo exhibition in New York.
Melodie Provenzano, It's My Birthday!
* Melodie Provenzano, It's My Birthday!
* Artist's Reception Friday, Feb 12th, 2010 - 6-9PM
* Exhibition dates: Friday, February 12th - March 8th, 2010.
* Gallery hours: Monday - Saturday 11-7, Sun. 12-6.
* Gallery located on the NE corner of 20th and 7th Ave.
* Subway: C, E exit 23rd @ 8th Ave., 1,9 exit 23rd @ 7th Ave.
Lyons Wier Gallery is pleased to present It's My Birthday! an exhibition of new work by New York based artist Melodie Provenzano.
Still-life drawings of toys and figurines are the subject matter included in Melodie Provenzano's artwork, but their arrangements and iconography are the crux of it. These meticulously rendered compositions allow a brief glimpse into the artist's personal world. They function as dreamscapes that offer many interpretations but are based upon root emotions like love, longing, and hope.
Set forth as mock dramas, the paintings tell a tale that oscillates between fantasy and reality, accomplishment and disappointment, understanding and bewilderment. They build narrative momentum as the audience begins to assign meaning to the objects, and unravel the specificity of the icons. Deciphering each painting and drawing, the viewer begins to see the ‘bigger picture' as they assess and assert how the set-ups that are drawn from life actually imitate it.
Melodie Provenzano graduated with a BFA from the Parsons School of Design in 1996. She was recently included in Playing Around at the Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT and Champagne & Baloney at Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York. This Melodie Provenzano's second solo exhibition at Lyons Wier Gallery.
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February 08, 2010
Femmes D’Interieur Elene Usdin Photographs and Illustrations at Farmani Gallery in Brooklyn, NY
Femmes D’Interieur
Elene Usdin
Photographs and Illustrations
February 18 – March 27, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 18, from 6-8PM
The Farmani Gallery presents the New York debut of Femmes D’Interieur, the latest series from Paris based artist Elene Usdin, with an opening reception on Thursday, February 18, 2010 from 6-8PM. In this series, Usdin combines both her talents of photography and illustration and creates stunning imagery that also provides social commentary regarding the place of women as the decorations within their own domesticated situations.
Usdin, a member of the creative collective Hartland Villa, which includes art directors Lionel Avignon and Stefan Vivies, was recently awarded with the London Photographic Associations Gold in Fashion for the “fair-etale” series. She has also been awarded the 2008 Px3 Prix De La Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards honorable mention for her earlier series “Self Portrait with Mattress.” Her editorial and fashion work can also be seen in Eyemazing, Twill, and The World Magazine.
This latest series “Femmes D’Interieur,” which has already exhibited at the Gallery of Graphic Arts in Paris, Usdin reflects upon the representation of women as a decorative element, morphing objects like common household items, furniture, and even the countryside with that of women painted in the style of portraits from the Classical Era. This offbeat reinterpretation of “woman-as-object” is at one time unsettling and yet Usdin has the ability to convey this strong subject matter with wit and charm in her stunning artworks. It is has been said of Usdin’s work, “it is always about women – the women of fairytales, of mythology, and of fantasy,” and she provides that same ideology in this series.
Each artwork is a unique original, hand painted C-print mounted on aluminum. For the exhibition the gallery will show a mix of originals and reproductions available in two sizes. For more information please visit www.farmanigallery.com or email us at info@farmanigallery.com. We can also be reached via phone at 718-578-4478.
The Farmani Gallery is located at 111 Front St., Ste. 212, Brooklyn, NY in the DUMBO neighborhood between Washington and Adams St. By subway take A or C to High St., F to York St. or 2 and 3 to Clark St. Station. Gallery hours: Wed. – Sat.: 1 – 6PM. Information: www.farmanigallery.com or info@farmanigallery.com or ph# 718-578-4478.
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February 03, 2010
Louis Vuitton "Superflat Monogram" - Takashi Murakami
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Dinh Q. Lê Elegies at P•P•O•W Gallery in NYC February 4 – March 13, 2010
Dinh Q. Lê
Elegies
February 4 – March 13, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 4, 6-8pm
P•P•O•W is pleased to present Elegies, our sixth solo exhibition with Dinh Q Lê. Elegies is an installation of two videos, From Father to Son: A Rite of Passage (2007) and South China Sea Pishkun (2009) and related large scale photographic works. This will be the first New York screening for both videos. The videos focus on the specters that embody the psychological and physical inheritance of the Vietnam War. They also act as endings, one as an ending of the journey of a father and a son, and the other as an ending of America's misadventures in Vietnam. South China Sea Pishkun has been shown in Hong Kong and at the recent Fukuoka Triennale.
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Elegies is connected to the upcoming solo exhibition Dinh Q Lê will be having at MoMA in June 2010 entitled The Farmers and The Helicopters.
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A Queens Affair at The Farmani Gallery in Brooklyn, New York
A Queens Affair
Photography by Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian
Book pre-Launch and Exhibition
February 04-13, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 04, from 6-8PM
(January 15, 2010, Brooklyn, NY) The Farmani Gallery will host the book pre-launch for A Queens Affair, a collaborative photography endeavor by Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian, due out summer of 2010. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 4, 2010 from 6-8PM at which time book pre-orders will be made available. A Queens Affair is priced at $40 and for the first 100 individuals to pre-order will receive one 8x10” signed archival pigment print from each photographer. These artists prints are exclusive to the book pre-order and will not be reprinted in this style once they are sold out. Both artists will attend the reception and the exclusive artists prints will be made available to take home with a pre-order during the reception.
A Queens Affair is a culmination of eight years of photographing the development, fixed characteristics and spirited nature of Queens, New York. Both Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian were born and raised in and around Queens and through their photographic partnership share a visual history of their beloved borough.
A special selection of images from the book will be on exhibit and available for purchase for the duration of the show. After which these images will be available in small editions at the Farmani Gallery web site.
Kris Graves, photographer and creative force behind the +kris graves projects is a graduate of SUNY Purchase College and is currently exhibited in Versus, a group show at Haus Projects in New York. His Queens photography will have its debut with this exhibition at the Farmani Gallery.
Eric Hairabedian, photographer and graduate of both SUNY Purchase College with a B.F.A. and the School of Visual Arts with an M.F.A. has been exhibited in the group show, Ten Photographers, Ten Days and his solo show, Remembrance.
For more information please visit www.farmanigallery.com or email us at info@farmanigallery.com. We can also be reached via phone at 718-578-4478.
The Farmani Gallery is located at 111 Front St., Ste. 212, Brooklyn, NY in the DUMBO neighborhood between Washington and Adams St. By subway take A or C to High St., F to York St. or 2 and 3 to Clark St. Station. Gallery hours: Wed. – Sat.: 1 – 6PM.
Information: www.farmanigallery.com or info@farmanigallery.com or ph# 718-578-4478.
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EL ANATSUI February 11 - March 13, 2010 at Jack Shainman Gallery NYC
Photo by Jodi Bieber/INSTITUTE
EL ANATSUI / / OPENS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH, 2010
EL ANATSUI
February 11 March 13, 2010
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 10, 6 - 8 pm
Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of large-scale sculptures by internationally acclaimed artist El Anatsui. Several monumental wall sculptures made from thousands of discarded bottle tops, will be on view. Anatsui transforms simple materials into large shimmering forms by assembling elements into vibrant patterns with a unique visual impact. An astute observer, he composes his sculptures with meticulous orchestration, masterfully managing material and color. Here Anatsuis palette ranges from black and red to silver and gold.
Fluidity of form is a significant quality inherent to the sculptures. As Alexi Worth from the New York Times Magazine pointed out in a recent feature on Anatsui from Spring 2009, Their most peculiar feature is that they are physically unfixed: Anatsui insists that his hangings be draped rather than hung flat, but he doesnt insist on draping them himself, and in fact is perfectly happy to have galleries or museums do so. He has preferences horizontal ripples are better than vertical ones but he doesnt regard any particular arrangement as final. Naturally, professional curators are disconcerted by this freedom; Anatsui has little patience with their scruples. Museum people are trained not to be creative, Anatsui complains. I find that very frustrating. To Storr, the provisional, shifting shape of Anatsuis art is one of the keys to its originality. In the catalog to the coming Museum for African Art retrospective, Storr argues that Anatsuis work is f undamentally anti-monumental: it does not stand its ground. . . . Rather it takes the shape of circumstances and so epitomizes contingency. For Storr, that is no minor innovation: Anatsui opens a new chapter in the history of sculpture. Its possible that the appetite for contingency that Storr praises is particularly African. Lisa Binder, the curator in charge of the Anatsui exhibition, points out thattraditional African objects, unlike European paintings and sculpture, are often highly adaptable, designed to be reused. Anatsuis work brings this adaptable, unfixed quality into sculptural practice as jazz brought an African unfixedness into Western music.
El Anatsui was born in Anyako, Ghana in 1944, and holds degrees in sculpture and art education from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He is Professor of Sculpture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he has lectured since 1975. His work has been exhibited extensively in international solo and group exhibitions, including the 1990 and 2007 Venice Biennales, the 1995 Johannesburg Biennale, the 2004 Gwangju Biennale, Prospect.1 New Orleans in 2008, and the 2009 Sharjah Biennale. A solo show, Gawu, traveled throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. His work is in numerous public and private collections throughout the world including The British Museum, London; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City. Most recently, Anatsui created an installation on-site at Rice Gallery at Rice University, Houston, TX, on view through March 14.
A major retrospective of Anatsuis work, When I Last Wrote to You About Africa, curated by Lisa Binder from the Museum for African Art, New York, begins a North American tour at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, on October 2, 2010, followed by its presentation at the Museum for African Art, New York, as one of the inaugural exhibitions at the museums new building.
This is El Anatsuis second solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery. A hardcover catalogue is available.
Upcoming exhibitions at the gallery include Ross Rudel and Todd Hebert opening March 18, on view through April 17, 2010, and Lynette Yiadom Boakye and Carrie Mae Weems opening April 22 on view through May 22, 2010.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. For additional information and photographic material please contact the gallery at info@jackshainman.com.
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February 02, 2010
And the nominees are...
The Academy Awards nominations are in and this years crop of Oscar nominees are fan favorites, longshots and even a battle between ex's.
Lee Daniels and his groundbreaking drama Precious was nominated for several awards including Best Picture, Best Actress (Gabourey Sidibe), Best Supporting Actress (Mo’Nique) and Best Director (Lee Daniels). James Cameron's Avatar and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker were both nominated for 9 major awards each (and counting as the technical nominations are still being announced). It's gonna be fun watching people do that silly thing we do as people choose team Cameron vs. team Bigelow. Of course people of color and those who love the underdog will choose team Precious.
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Nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards
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Actor in a Leading Role
* Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
* George Clooney in “Up in the Air”
* Colin Firth in “A Single Man”
* Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
* Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”
Actor in a Supporting Role
* Matt Damon in “Invictus”
* Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger”
* Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station”
* Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”
* Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”
Actress in a Leading Role
* Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
* Helen Mirren in “The Last Station”
* Carey Mulligan in “An Education”
* Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
* Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”
Actress in a Supporting Role
* Penélope Cruz in “Nine”
* Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air”
* Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”
* Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air”
* Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Animated Feature Film
* “Coraline” Henry Selick
* “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson
* “The Princess and the Frog” John Musker and Ron Clements
* “The Secret of Kells” Tomm Moore
* “Up” Pete Docter
Art Direction
* “Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
* “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
* “Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
* “Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
* “The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
Cinematography
* “Avatar” Mauro Fiore
* “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Bruno Delbonnel
* “The Hurt Locker” Barry Ackroyd
* “Inglourious Basterds” Robert Richardson
* “The White Ribbon” Christian Berger
Costume Design
* “Bright Star” Janet Patterson
* “Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier
* “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme
* “Nine” Colleen Atwood
* “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell
Directing
* “Avatar” James Cameron
* “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow
* “Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels
* “Up in the Air” Jason Reitman
Documentary (Feature)
* “Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
* “The Cove” Nominees to be determined
* “Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
* “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
* “Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa
Documentary (Short Subject)
* “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
* “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
* “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
* “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
* “Rabbit à la Berlin” Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
Film Editing
* “Avatar” Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
* “District 9” Julian Clarke
* “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
* “Inglourious Basterds” Sally Menke
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Joe Klotz
Foreign Language Film
* “Ajami” Israel
* “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” Argentina
* “The Milk of Sorrow” Peru
* “Un Prophète” France
* “The White Ribbon” Germany
Makeup
* “Il Divo” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
* “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
* “The Young Victoria” Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Music (Original Score)
* “Avatar” James Horner
* “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Alexandre Desplat
* “The Hurt Locker” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
* “Sherlock Holmes” Hans Zimmer
* “Up” Michael Giacchino
Music (Original Song)
* “Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
* “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
* “Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
* “Take It All” from “Nine” Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
* “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Best Picture
* “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
* “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined
* “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
* “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
* “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined
* “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
* “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
* “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer
* “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
Short Film (Animated)
* “French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert
* “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
* “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” Javier Recio Gracia
* “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin
* “A Matter of Loaf and Death” Nick Park
Short Film (Live Action)
* “The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
* “Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
* “Kavi” Gregg Helvey
* “Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
* “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Sound Editing
* “Avatar” Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
* “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson
* “Inglourious Basterds” Wylie Stateman
* “Star Trek” Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
* “Up” Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Sound Mixing
* “Avatar” Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
* “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
* “Inglourious Basterds” Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
* “Star Trek” Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
* “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Visual Effects
* “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
* “District 9” Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
* “Star Trek” Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
* “District 9” Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
* “An Education” Screenplay by Nick Hornby
* “In the Loop” Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
* “Up in the Air” Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Writing (Original Screenplay)
* “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal
* “Inglourious Basterds” Written by Quentin Tarantino
* “The Messenger” Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
* “A Serious Man” Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
* “Up” Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy
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February 01, 2010
GRAMMY WINNERS
2010 GRAMMY WINNERS
Song of the Year: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On it)," Beyonce Knowles
New Artist: Zac Brown Band
Pop Vocal Album: "The E.N.D.", The Black Eyed Peas
Female Pop Vocal Performance: "Halo," Beyonce Knowles
Male Pop Vocal Performance: "Make It Mine," Jason Mraz
Rock Album: "21st Century Breakdown," Green Day
Rock Song: "Use Somebody," Kings of Leon
R&B Album: "BLACKsummers'night, "Maxwell
R&B Song: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)," Beyonce Knowles
Rap Album: "Relapse," Eminem
Rap Song: "Run This Town," Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: "Run This Town," Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West
Country Album: "Fearless," Taylor Swift
Female Country Vocal Performance: "White Horse," Taylor Swift
Male Country Vocal Performance: "Sweet Thing," Keith Urban,
Latin Pop Album: "Sin Frenos," La Quinta Estacion
Contemporary Jazz Album: "75," Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate
Classical Album: "Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio from Symphony No. 10"
Traditional Gospel Album: "Oh Happy Day," various artists
Dance Recording: "Poker Face," Lady Gaga
Electronic Dance Album: "The Fame," Lady Gaga
Alternative Music Album: "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix," Phoenix
Best Rock Instrumental Performance: "A Day In The Life," Jeff Beck
Best Metal Performance: "Dissident Aggressor," Judas Priest
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: "Ellipse," Imogen Heap
Spoken Word Album: "Always Looking Up," Michael J. Fox
Comedy Album: "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!" Stephen Colbert
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: "Slumdog Millionaire," Various Artists, A.R. Rahman, producer.
Traditional World Music Album: "Douga Mansa," Mamadou Diabate.
Contemporary World Music Album: "Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 - Africa Sessions," Bela Fleck.
Reggae Album: "Mind Control - Acoustic," Stephen Marley.
Tropical Latin Album: "Ciclos," Luis Enrique.
Latin Pop Album: "Sin Frenos," La Quinta Estacion.
Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album: "Los De Atras Vienen Conmigo," Calle 13.
Regional Mexican Album: "Necesito De Ti," Vicente Fernandez.
Tejano Album: "Borders Y Bailes," Los Texmaniacs.
Norteno Album: "Tu Noche Con...Los Tigres Del Norte," Los Tigres Del Norte.
Banda Album: "Tu Esclavo Y Amo," Lupillo Rivera.
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Robert Zungu at Nicholas Robinson Gallery
Nicholas Robinson Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Robert Zungu. The exhibition, entitled Poor Theater, includes sculptures and photographs that examine environmental conservation and the formation of marginalized social communities.
The exhibition's title references Jerzy Grotowski's eponymous Polish theater company that rose to prominence during post-war Europe. In Grotowski's Poor Theater, the stage is reduced to its bare elements, props are made from impoverished materials and the actors rely on the rigorous physicality of their bodies.
Using Grotowski's theories as a point of departure, and through a collaboration with the US Holocaust Museum, Zungu creates a makeshift backdrop of the Podgorze Ghetto as the locus for his exhibition. The image of the gates explores how communities can be sequestered and endangered by social isolation.
The exhibition investigates the ethics of science in relation to cultural and medical advancement. The photograph Untitled (Five Gorillas) depicts five plaster death masks made from a family of Mountain Gorillas. These masks, made by Dr. Carl Ackley in the 1920s, and hunted under the auspices of science, became the foundation for the dioramas at the Museum of Natural History. In addition, Zungu's sculpture Untitled (Horseshoe Crabs: Dialytic Grouping) is composed of three horseshoe crabs cast in bronze, each with a white patina to appear as if they were bled dry. Horseshoe crab blood is essential to contemporary medical research and is widely harvested to test the purity of vaccines and intravenous medical equipment.
Each artwork in the exhibition incorporates natural materials; the sculpture Eridanus, for example, is composed of 30 white, North American tiger moths pinned to the gallery wall in the formation of The River constellation. Each moth, signifying the location of a corresponding star, composes an abstract wall drawing. Other works in the exhibition include materials such as cast paper, painted bags of flour, bronze, stalactites, plaster, ebonized wood, and rolled copper.
Poor Theater also addresses issues of environmental conservation. In the photograph Striped Land Snails (X), ten snails are documented on a vintage map of an elevator circuit board. The composition maintains a surreal tone by relating the circles and spirals found in nature with the hand drawn lines of an electrical blueprint. The photograph considers the formation of communities and the consequences of industrialization on the biological world; what was once a forest is now an urban grid.
Zungu (b. 1978) lives and works in New York.
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