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May 27, 2010
ZieherSmith presents Tucker Nichols June 3 - July 23, 2010 in NYC
Tucker Nichols
June 3 - July 23, 2010
Reception for the Artist: Thursday, June 3, 6-8 pm
In his third solo exhibition at ZieherSmith, San Francisco based-artist Tucker Nichols presents sculpture, panels and works on paper created during a recent residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. Recent projects include Temporary Storage Overflow Plan #3 in collaboration with Baer Ridgway in 2010 and interventions at the de Young Museum when he was artist in residence in 2008. His work will be included in the forthcoming California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. ARTNews selected Nichols as an “artist to watch” in February 2010. Below is an excerpt from an interview with curator Dakin Hart; the entire text is reproduced in an artist’s book available in a limited edition at the gallery.
The work in your new show seems to suggest a kind of bricolage metropolis. You’ve lived in New York and other cities, but now you keep chickens, frequently abandon your studio to a flooding creek and spend lots of time walking in the hills. Is the grass always greener for artists, too?
I love New York, but as soon as I got to California I felt like I could breathe again. Breathing and making things go well together for me. That said I think about NYC often, and for this show I made a lot of the work from the perspective of someone who had heard a lot about New York, maybe from his uncle or from a pamphlet from the World’s Fair, but had never been. He assumed that people in New York would relate better to things that looked like where they live, so he kept trying to capture the city from what he had heard. You can try, but you’re a fool if you think you can really capture something so big and dynamic. Art is so much smaller than New York City.
You’ve been assembling objects—many poignant like the things we collected and kept as kids—for a long time, but you’ve only fairly recently started showing them. Is it hard to let those go, even when you feel like you’ve made a good piece?
The successful sculptures are hard to let go—it’s partly how I know they’re ready. I really didn’t want to be a sculptor. It seemed like such a pain to deal with all the things you end up making, adding more stuff to the world. Drawings pack away so neatly. But I can’t help myself; if I’m interested in our relationship to things, I have to work with things. A lot of the work in this show I made from things I’d like to keep but am secretly hoping I won’t have to ever see again. I’m conflicted about loving things and wishing they’d all go away, and making sculpture is somehow a good way for me to think about all that. Without that it’s just getting rid of stuff and as you know that’s just a relief.
At ZieherSmith you are showing works you made in a sun-dappled studio with window sills, bumbling bees, peeling paint, absolute silence and green stuff outside. In New York, are they going to be fish out of water; frogs crossing a road between culverts; or happy as clams?
Well as of this interview I’m not there yet to see it. But this work was made and chosen to be shown in New York, so it’s where it’s all supposed to go. I’m as curious as anyone how it will translate, but if it looks wrong that might be even better. You can’t make things in one place and have them look just right someplace else. It doesn’t make any sense. I like my things to feel a bit out of place, a bit lost in the shuffle. This show is like a giant postcard to the city. It looked good from this end.
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May 26, 2010
Urban Pop World Premiere video: Rihanna-Rockstar 101
May 25, 2010
Terence Trent D'Arby aka Sananda Matraiya
You'd never know it listening to radio or watching videos now, but there was a time when men ruled the airwaves as vocalists. Not crouch grabbing rappers with guns and video hoes, but male singers. Michael Jackson, Prince, Jeffrey Osborne, James Ingram, Peabo Bryson, Luther Vandross, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, George Michael, and Terence Trent D'Arby ruled the airwaves.
Terence is simply one of my favorite male singers of all time. he wasn't a great video artist, but his songs and the vocals he recorded stand up to any vocal recorded by any man EVER! His downfall happened way to fast, but the music is here forever. Terence had a Kanye mouth long before Kanye appeared on the scene and back in the 80's the media wasn't having it. After a few braggadocio remarks like his debut was bigger than the Beatles and something to the effect of his being the best ever the media started to turn on Terence with a vengeance and pretty darn quickly too. On top of that he was the type of artist who wanted to grow and not repeat himself and that made it difficult for audiences to keep up and strained relations with his label.
No matter what the media had to say about him or the difficulties with the record company, Terence's music is still here and so is he. He lives and records in Milan, Italy and tours with his band. Hopefully, he'll drop through and see us again in the states. until then, enjoy this walk down memory lane and go find more of his music for yourself. Terence is a true artist and very definitely an URBAN POP icon
Bio
Sananda Francesco Maitreya (born Terence Trent Howard on March 15, 1962), better known by his former stage name Terence Trent D'Arby, is an American singer-songwriter. He also plays many instruments on and produces his own albums.
D'Arby was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, in 1962. He grew up with his stepfather, Reverend James Benjamin Darby, a minister of the Pentecostal church; and Frances Darby, a gospel singer,[1] teacher and counselor. D'Arby was known to childhood friends as Terry Darby. His family moved from New York to New Jersey to Chicago and then settled in DeLand, Florida, north of Orlando. A graduate of DeLand High School, he sang with the Modernaires, a show choir of high school.[citation needed]
D'Arby trained as a boxer in Orlando and won the Golden Gloves lightweight championship. He received an offer to attend boxing school in the United States Army, but his father insisted he go to college instead. Maitreya enrolled at the University of Central Florida but quit a year later, enlisting in the U.S. Army. He was posted at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and then served in the 3rd Armored Division, near Frankfurt, Germany. He was formally discharged by the army in April 1983 after going absent without leave. While in Germany, he also worked with the band The Touch, releasing an album of material called Love On Time (1984). It was later re-issued in 1989 as Early Works after his worldwide success as a solo artist. In 1986 he left Germany for London, where he briefly played with the band, The Bojangels, after which he signed a solo recording deal.
D'Arby's debut solo album, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, released in 1987, is his best-known and, in commercial terms, most successful work. The album, which produced hits like "If You Let Me Stay", "Wishing Well", "Dance Little Sister", and "Sign Your Name", sold over a million copies in the first three days of its release, and its sales currently total over 12 million. The album also earned him a Grammy Award in March 1988 in the category Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male. In that same year, he earned a Soul Train Award nomination for Best New Artist.
His follow-up was the album Neither Fish Nor Flesh: A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope & Destruction (1989). It sold over 2 million copies.
Also in 1989 he released the single "The Birth Of Maudie/An Chuileann" under the pseudonym The Incredible E.G. O’Reilly.
It took four more years and a move to Los Angeles until his next project, Symphony or Damn: Exploring the Tension Inside the Sweetness (1993) was released. The record explored some of the themes of Neither Fish Nor Flesh, and contains the singles "Delicate" and "She Kissed Me". It gathered favorable reviews and was played widely on radio. It peaked at #4 on the UK Album Charts.
In 1995, D'Arby released Vibrator, which largely followed Symphony or Damn in its musical direction. It was well received, and also followed by a very successful world tour.
During the 1990s, the relations between him and his record label Columbia Records became strained, eventually leading to his departure in 1996. He moved to Java Records for one year, during which he recorded Terence Trent D'Arby's Solar Return, which was not released. In 2000, he bought back the rights to his unreleased album and left the record company as well as his management team, Lippman Entertainment.
In 1999, D'Arby collaborated with INXS to replace his friend, late vocalist Michael Hutchence, so the band could play at the opening of facilities for the Sydney Olympics.
D'Arby adopted the name Sananda Maitreya, following a series of dreams and he legally changed his name to Sananda Maitreya on October 4, 2001. He proclaimed in an interview that "Terence Trent D'Arby was dead...he watched his suffering as he died a noble death", in what was perceived as an attempt to reinvent himself artistically and free himself from what he believed to be the oppressive nature of the record business.
In 2001, Maitreya moved back to Europe and Germany, resettling in Munich and starting his own independent record label, Treehouse Pub. The year also marked his first album release in six years, as the unreleased Terence Trent D'Arby's Solar Return was revamped into Wildcard. The album, which received a warm critical welcome, was at first available for free through his website, and later gained a commercial release through a one-album distribution deal with Universal Music and then an with an independent release with the artist's own record label.
In 2002, the now 40-year-old Maitreya moved to Milan, Italy, and began working on his next project, Angels & Vampires - Volume I. The songs were initially released through Weedshare by chapters, allowing the fans to get a glimpse of the work as it evolved. On July 29, 2005, the fully mastered album was finally released through his website utilizing the mp3 format.
In July 2005, Maitreya started working on Angels & Vampires - Volume II. He released each chapter online as he finished recording the songs. On April 29, 2006, he released the finished mastered album in his online shop. That was followed by the release of the 2CD limited edition of 'Angels & Vampires' at the end of 2007. In 2009, the album Nigor Mortis: A Critical Mass was released on his official website both as a CD and as Mp3. In 2010 he started the recording of his next project called The Sphinx, its first chapter, made of 3 instrumental classical songs, is available on the ecommerce of the artist official website.
Maitreya currently[update] lives in Milan, Italy where he continues to create music. Since the early stages of his music career he has always written, composed, arranged and produced all his tracks. In his later albums such as Angels & Vampires and Nigor Mortis he also played all instruments. He is also currently touring with his band 'The Nudge Nudge' around Europe to present his new music called 'Post Millennium Rock'.
courtesy wikipedia
May 21, 2010
Piet van den Boog I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest May 13 – June 19, 2010 at Mike Weiss Gallery in Chelsea, NYC
(Piet van den Boog / I keep all ... one day I will build my castle / 2009 / Acrylic, clay and oil on black steel / 59 x 39.5 inches)
Piet van den Boog
I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest
May 13 – June 19, 2010
Mike Weiss Gallery is pleased to present new large-scale works by Dutch artist Piet van den Boog. Influenced by Dutch painters Frans Hals and Vermeer, van den Boog evokes an array of emotion in the spectator by allowing him/her to be present in a profoundly intimate setting.
In this new series of paintings, the artist illustrates the dichotomy that the human ability to make choices both affords us and denies us control over our lives. Heavily influenced by the writings of Sylvia Plath, the artist based these works on a passage from Plath’s 1963 novel in which a fig tree metaphorically describes the situation that we often find ourselves in when faced with difficult choices:
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
- Sylvia Plath (“The Bell Jar”, 1963)
Van den Boog’s method of using etching fluids to oxidize the surface of the unfinished black steel creates a deep and weighty aesthetic. Van den Boog reveals his thematic intention through controlling the corrosion of the steel, therefore manifesting the metaphor of the figs’ demise through his materials. He lays an under-painting in acrylic for quick-drying and a sketchy finish, and then applies a top layer of oil paint. This technique creates nuances and details in the portraits and intensifies the color. In addition, referencing the French tale of the sculptor Rodin and his mistress Camille Claudel, van den Boog uses clay on the surface as a medium and a metaphor. With their complex medium of two-toned steel, two types of paint, and a top layer of clay, these paintings take on an innovative textural and dynamic quality.
This is Piet van den Boog's second solo show at Mike Weiss Gallery. He is represented in many prominent collections in the United States and abroad, including the Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, New York, and the ING Bank, Amsterdam among others.
Mike Weiss Gallery
520 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
Nearest Subway: C/E 23rd Street & 8th Avenue
Tel: 212- 691-6899 Fax: 212-691-6877
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 10 to 6
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BEYOND THE VIEW — HELEN SEAR at KLOMPCHING GALLERY in Brooklyn, NYC EXHIBITION DATES: APRIL 28—JUNE 11, 2010
(Image: ©Helen Sear, Beyond The View No. 3, 2009, Pigment Print
39.3” x 39.3” image on 43.3" x 43.3" sheet, Edition of 5 (2 AP's)
BEYOND THE VIEW — HELEN SEAR at KLOMPCHING GALLERY in Brooklyn, NYC
EXHIBITION DATES: APRIL 28—JUNE 11, 2010
The artwork of Helen Sear (b. 1955) has been published in Arts Review, Creative Camera, HotShoe, Art Newspaper and Art Monthly amongst others. Her photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s with her photographs becoming widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. Collections holding her work include Ernst & Young, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Council (Rome) and the Paul Wilson Collection. She lives and works in Wales (UK).
KLOMPCHING GALLERY
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111 Front Street, Suite 206 | Brooklyn NY 11201
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat, 11am-6pm and by appointment.
Extended Hours: 1st Thursdays DUMBO Gallery Walk, 11am—8:30pm
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May 20, 2010
MOMA Film Screenings at MOMA in NYC
(Burn. 2002. USA. Directed by Reynold Reynolds, Patrick Jolley)
MOMA Film Screenings
Creative Capital
April 30–June 6, 2010
Political, subversive, wickedly funny, wildly imaginative—this doesn’t even begin to describe the films and videos that Creative Capital has supported and nurtured over the past eleven years. Since 1999, the New York–based national nonprofit has committed more than $20 million in financial and advisory support to more than four hundred artists in a variety of disciplines. Recognizing the extraordinary contribution that Creative Capital has made to sustaining art of the highest quality in the United States, and in keeping with its spirit of risk-taking experimentation, MoMA presents a selection of some of the most original, impassioned, and rebellious films and videos that Creative Capital has funded until now, along with premieres of new works including Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation’s whiteonwhite:randomthriller [alphaversion] (2010), Peter Sillen’s I Am Secretly an Important Man (2010), Erin Cosgrove’s Happy Am I (2010), and Glenda Wharton’s The Zo (2010). The exhibition features fictional narratives and documentaries, animated and experimental shorts, and live moving-image performances. It opens on April 30 with an exclusive, one-night-only presentation of Braden King’s HERE [ THE STORY SLEEPS ] (2010), a hybrid film-concert starring Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal, with a live score by Michael Krassner and the Boxhead Ensemble.
Other artists represented include Natalia Almada, Craig Baldwin, Roddy Bogawa, Bill Brown, Jem Cohen, Sandi DuBowski, James Duesing, Kevin Jerome Everson, Jeanne C. Finley, Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre, Jackie Goss, Joe Gibbons, Brent Green, Sam Green and Bill Siegel, Lewis Klahr, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Kalup Linzy, Sharon Lockhart, Bill Morrison, Christopher Munch, Spencer Nakasako, Suzan Pitt, Laura Poitras, Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley, Alex Rivera, Jeff Scher, Phil Solomon, Ela Troyano, Naomi Uman, David Wilson, The Yes Men, and Caveh Zahedi.
Organized by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, with Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator, Department of Film. Special thanks to Ruby Lerner, Sean Elwood, Kemi Ilesanmi, Edith Bolton, Paul Sepuya, and Esther Robinson.
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May 18, 2010
Urban Pop Life Video Premiere: Janell Monet-Tightrope
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A New E. Lynn Harris book is coming in June
In My Father's House
For his final new series, New York Times mega-bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduces Bentley L. Dean, owner of the hottest modeling agency in Miami’s sexy South Beach.
Only the world’s most beautiful models make the roster of Picture Perfect Modeling agency and they only do shoots for the most elite photographers and magazines. They are fashionista royalty—and the owners, Bentley L. Dean and his beautiful partner Alexandra, know it. But even Picture Perfect isn’t immune from hard times, so when Sterling Sneed, a rich, celebrity party planner promises to pay a ludicrously high fee for some models, Bentley finds he can’t refuse. Even though the job is not exactly a photo shoot, Bentley agrees to supply fifteen gorgeous models as eye candy for an “A” list party—to look good, be charming and, well, entertain the guests. They don’t have to do anything they don’t want to, but...
His models are pros and he figures they can handle the pressure, until one drops out and Bentley asks his protégé Jah, a beautiful kid who Bentley treats as if he were his own son, to substitute. Suddenly, the stakes are much higher, particularly when Jah falls in love with the hottest African American movie star in America. Seth Sinclair is very handsome, very famous, and very married—and his closeted gay life makes him very dangerous as well. Can Bentley’s fatherly guidance save Jah from making a fatal mistake?
Check out this beautiful tribute to a wonderful person. I had an opportunity to meet him a couple of times at private events and he was kind, gracious, and a lot of fun to be around (not to mention he signed all 5 of the books I brought when we were limited to one each...lol). He said I was "special." Thanks to Mr. Harris for wonderful storytelling and helping to nudge the door open so that black men could start to come out of the closet. He also hastened the long slow descent of homophobia and religious based discrimination to the landfill of history.
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Mary Spring Launch Party Sunday May 23 from 4-7pm The Duplex (Upstairs) 61 Christopher Street (at 7th Ave.) at
Mary Spring Launch Party
NickBurdmary
Photo: Heather Greg
Model: Nick Burd, author
Did you know that spring provides the perfect weather to read literature with high homosexual content?
Come out and celebrate the spring issue of Mary Literary Quarterly!
Sunday May 23 from 4-7pm
The Duplex (Upstairs)
61 Christopher Street
(at 7th Ave.)
NYC, NY 10014
Soul Music provided by: Black Female Executive
Mary is a literary magazine published quarterly. Our mission is to showcase Queer/Gay writings of artistic merit.
Contributors:
Colin Fitzpatrick
Rick Castro
Nicholas Boggs
Curt Weber
Daniel W. K. Lee
Geer Austin
Rod Barry
Heather Gregg
Nodeth Vang
James Magruder
Gregg Shapiro
Douglas A. Martin
Saeed Jones
Frank Lorenz
Gee Henry
Robert Siek
Matthew LeBaron
Aaron Tilford
Black Female Executive
Walter Holland
Elliott D. Breeden
Robert Smith
Khary Simon
Jeffrey Escoffier
Dan Halm
Belasco
Interviews with:
Nick Burd
Vince Aletti
Michael Denneny
Jeffrey Escoffier
The spring issue will be available to purchase online May, 24, 2010!
Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program May 19-27 at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY
Art Ready: Selected Work from the
Artist Mentorship Program
May 19-27
Opening reception: Wednesday, May 19 at 6pm
Above image: Smack Mellon's 2009-2010 Art Ready students on a field trip to Storm King Art Center in front of the earth work sculpture by Maya Lin, Storm King Wavefield, 2007-2008
Participating Youth Artists:
Yarhissa Balbuena, Elijah Barrott, Denisia Codrington, Abigail Copantitla, Dennis Cyrus, Joseph Foster, Ashley Georges, Leslie Gonzaga, Kevin Granderson, Ralphí Marte, Elijah McMillan, Kabrina McRae, Andrea Montesdeoca, Jahrus Simmons, Ashley Sims, Mariah Texidor
This exhibition presents the work of students who participated in the 2009-2010 session of Art Ready, Smack Mellon's arts mentorship program for motivated high school students interested in possibly pursuing a career in the visual arts. Working with professional painters, architects, installation artists, jewelry makers, video artists, and photographers, the student artists in this show created an impressive range of work in a variety of media. The art on view includes digital videos and animations, digital photographs, drawings in various media, and collages using cardboard and other unconventional materials. One student worked with a jewelry designer to create an original necklace, and two students collaborated with professional architects to design their ideal school through scale models and diagrams. The work will address such topics as body image, urban planning, and personal iconography.
Art Ready is a mentorship program designed to give students the opportunity to experience firsthand what it is like to be a professional working in a visual arts discipline. Students are exposed to a wide variety of artists and arts professionals, participate in internships, and visit museums and galleries.
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Art Ready is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Council, and with support from the Helena Rubinstein Foundation and Smack Mellon's Members.
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iona rozeal brown book signing Saturday May 22, 5pm-7pm at G FINE ART in Washington D.C.
G FINE ART is pleased to host
iona rozeal brown
book signing
Saturday May 22, 5pm-7pm
Published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the hard cover catalogue features 43 color images of brown's work, and details her residency at the Museum. Featuring an essay by MOCA Associate Curator and Director of Education Megan Lykins Reich and an interview by Isolde Brielmaier.
Gallery opened Wednesday through Saturday 12pm - 6pm
G FINE ART
1350 FLORIDA AVENUE N.E.
WASHINGTON DC 20002
T 202 462 1601
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Rachel Hovnanian Too Good To Be True May 26 - July 30, 2010 Opening Reception May 26th 6-8 at Collette Blanchard Gallery
The Collector, 2010
edition of 5
photograph in archival ink on rag paper
image 24 x 18 inches, paper 26 x 22 inches
Rachel Hovnanian
Too Good To Be True
26 May - 30 June, 2010
Opening Reception May 26th 6-8
Collette Blanchard Gallery is pleased to present Too Good to be True, which will include an installation, performances, and a selection of archival prints by multimedia artist Rachel Hovnanian. This exhibition will be on view at 26 Clinton Street from May 26 - June 30, 2010.
Hovnanian's work engages the politics of beauty with minimal forms that expose intricate relationships that humans have to one another and inanimate objects. Her minimalist palette is nearly completely devoid of color; gray shadows reveal the soft dimensionality of her sculpted installations. The seemingly pure, neutral palette used in her work contrasts, and thus emphasizes the disturbing, and complex nature of perceived beauty and its delimiting consequences. To quote the artist, her palette "imparts...the precursor to reflection." As such, it becomes impossible to avoid the tensions of dependence, decorum and control that pervade her work. In Hovnanian's print, The Collector, a seated male, his back to the viewer, gazes at the items in his collection-one of which is a poised, life-size female trophy. Objectified to the extreme-literally a female sculpted as object-the figure is dressed as a beauty queen. Her colorless eyes and timid grin face the audience, lacking any particular direction of their own.
Ms. Hovnanian lives and works in New York City and received her education at Parsons School of Design, the National Academy of Design, The Art Students League, and the University of Texas. Her work is exhibited internationally and includes shows at the Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, Jason McCoy Gallery, Meredith Long & Company, David Beitzel Gallery, and Ann Kendall Richards Gallery. Hovnanian's work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal Europe, and Elle Décor; she was recently interviewed on NPR.
A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
For more information, please contact the gallery at 646.249.7720 or gallery@colletteblanchard.com.
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May 14, 2010
Black Eyed Peas: Imma Be
Though their musical styles are different I think the Peas are the closest any artist comes to the vision and execution of Michael Jackson. This video is funky, fun, futuristic, well done and worthy of the KING. The Peas are that band you wanna hate, but can't because they bring it! Congrats for another hit. Check this out and you can definitely say you "Popped" today.
The Kitchen presents Derrick Adams' Go Stand Next To The Mountain and Narcissister's This Masquerade TONIGHT AND TOMORROW
NOTE: Bernard Lumpkin and Collette Blanchard invite you to join us for cocktails at Collette Blanchard Gallery immediately following the performances at the Kitchen TONIGHT.
Please RSVP at gallery@colletteblanchard.com
The Kitchen presents
Derrick Adams: Go Stand Next To The Mountain
Narcissister: This Masquerade
Friday and Saturday, May 14 and 15 New York, NY at 8-10PM
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 255-5793
http://www.thekitchen.org/
The Kitchen presents Derrick Adams' Go Stand Next To The Mountain and Narcissister's This Masquerade
Double bill will be performed Friday and Saturday, May 14 and 15
New York, NY, May 10, 2010-On Friday and Saturday, May 14 and 15, The Kitchen presents a double bill in which Derrick Adams and Narcissister will premiere new works. Adams' Go Stand Next To The Mountain is a suite of live performances exploring the complex relationships between man and monuments. Known for wildly original performance vignettes dealing with race, gender and sexuality, Narcissister debuts her new piece, This Masquerade. Curated by Rashida Bumbray, performances will begin at 8:00 P.M. at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street). Tickets are $10.
Visual and performance artist Derrick Adams' Go Stand Next To The Mountain will evolve through masquerade, dance, sound, video projection and sculptural installation. The piece incorporates divergent pop culture references, ranging from 1970s educational television to the original version of the film Clash of the Titans to Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child lyrics. Go Stand Next To The Mountain features an original music score and a live DJ set as the soundtrack.
Narcissister creates absurd and playful vignettes of neo-burlesque, utilizing an array of masks, props, choreography and costumes. For This Masquerade, she debuts a new series of performances alongside her cast of masked cohorts to offer up a complex and riotous critique of popular culture's spurious ideas about black femininity. The piece also features original music by Evan Collier.
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May 10, 2010
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010)
Icon and legend are two terms that are thrown around far too often and much too carelessly these days. However, if there was ever an entertainer, activist, Mother, wife and African-American that deserves the titles it is Lena Mary Calhoun Horne. Miss Horne is truly a legend and an icon.
Lena Horne was never one to let her aspirations for personal success stand in the way of her commitment to the civil rights struggle. In an age where she could certainly have gone even further in her career had she tried to denounce or hide her blackness and "pass" for white she stood shoulder to should with civil rights heroes and Presidents for what she believed in. Lena Horne is one of my heroes who I look to for examples of how to build a fulfilling artistic career while balancing my responsibility to make the world a little better for those who will come behind us.
Thank you Lena Horne for doing all you could to entertain us and leave the world a little better off than it was before you arrived. I love you and I appreciate you.
Ricky Day
May 10, 2010
Bio from wikipedia
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress and dancer.
Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather . Due to the red scare and her progressive political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.
Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs as well as television, and releasing well received albums. In the early 1970s, her husband, son and father died within a period of twelve months. Horne announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway, and earned her numerous awards and accolades. Horne recorded sporadically following the show, but no longer made public appearances.
Horne was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Reported to be a descendant of the John C. Calhoun family, both sides of her family are a mixture of European, African, and Native American descent. Each were part of what W. E. B. Du Bois called "The Talented Tenth," the upper stratum of middle-class, well-educated African Americans. She grew up in an upper-middle-class black community. She was raised in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, Edwin "Teddy" Horne, a numbers kingpin in the gambling trade, left the family when she was three. Her mother, Edna Scottron, daughter of inventor Samuel R. Scottron, was an actress with an African-American theater troupe and traveled extensively.
Horne was mainly raised by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne. Her uncle, Frank S. Horne, was an adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the dean of students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute in Fort Valley GA. She attended Washington High School in Atlanta, where her Grandmother convinced her to join the NAACP. Horne also attended Girls High School, an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn, which has since become Boys & Girls High School, on Fulton Street; she dropped out without earning a diploma.
In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City. In the spring of 1934, she had a featured role in the Cotton Club Parade. A few years later she joined Noble Sissle's Orchestra and toured with this orchestra. After she separated from her first husband, Horne toured with bandleader Charlie Barnet in 1940–41, but disliked the travel and left the band to work at the Cafe Society in New York. She replaced Dinah Shore as the featured vocalist on NBC's popular jazz series The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. The show's resident maestros, Henry Levine and Paul Laval, recorded with Horne in June 1941 for RCA Victor. Horne left the show after only six months to headline a nightclub revue on the west coast; she was replaced by Linda Keene.
Lena Horne photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941
Horne already had two low-budget movies to her credit: a 1938 musical feature called The Duke is Tops (later reissued with Horne's name above the title as The Bronze Venus); and a 1941 two-reel short subject, Boogie Woogie Dream, featuring pianists Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons. Horne's songs from Boogie Woogie Dream were later released individually as Soundies. Horne was primarily a nightclub performer during this period, and it was during a 1943 club engagement in Hollywood that talent scouts approached Horne to work in pictures. She chose Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the most prestigious studio in the world, and became the first African American performer to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio.
She made her debut with MGM in 1942's Panama Hattie and became famous in 1943 for her rendition of the title song in Stormy Weather (1943 film) (which she made at 20th Century Fox, on loan from MGM). She appeared in a number of MGM musicals, most notably Cabin in the Sky (also 1943), but was never featured in a leading role becaus of her race and the fact that films featuring her had to be re-edited for showing in states where theaters could not show films with African American performers. As a result, most of Horne's film appearances were stand-alone sequences that had no bearing on the rest of the film, so editing caused no disruption to the storyline; a notable exception was the all-black musical Cabin in the Sky, though even then one of her numbers had to be cut because it was considered too suggestive by the censors. "Ain't it the Truth" was the song (and scene) cut before the release of the film Cabin in the Sky. It featured Horne singing "Ain't it the Truth," while taking a bubble bath (considered too "risqué" by the film's executives). This scene and song are featured in the film "That's Entertainment III", which also features commentary from Horne on why the scene was deleted prior to the film's release.
In Ziegfeld Follies (1946) she performs "Love" by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane.
Horne wanted to be considered for the role of Julie LaVerne in MGM's 1951 version of Show Boat (having already played the role when a segment of Show Boat was performed in Till the Clouds Roll By) but lost the part to Ava Gardner due to the Production Code's ban on interracial relationships in films. In the documentary That's Entertainment! III Horne stated that MGM executives required Gardner to practice her singing using Horne's recordings, which offended both actresses. Ultimately, Gardner's voice was overdubbed by actress (Annette Warren (Smith)) for the theatrical release, though her voice was heard on the soundtrack album).
Changes of direction
By the mid-1950s, Horne was disenchanted with Hollywood and increasingly focused on her nightclub career. She only made two major appearances in MGM films during the decade, 1950's Duchess of Idaho (which was also Eleanor Powell's film swan song), and the 1956 musical Meet Me in Las Vegas. She was blacklisted during the 1950s for her political views. She returned to the screen three more times, playing chanteuse Claire Quintana in the 1969 film Death of a Gunfighter, Glinda in The Wiz (1978), and co-hosting the 1994 MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III, in which she was candid about her treatment by the studio.
After leaving Hollywood, Horne established herself as one of the premiere nightclub performers of the post-war era. She headlined at clubs and hotels throughout the US, Canada and Europe, including the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. In 1957, a live album entitled, "Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria," became the largest selling record by a female artist in the history of the RCA-Victor label.
From the late 1950s through the 1960s, Horne was a staple of TV variety shows, appearing multiple times on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show and The Bell Telephone Hour. Other programs included The Judy Garland Show, The Hollywood Palace and The Andy Williams Show. Besides two television specials for the BBC (later syndicated in the US), Horne starred in her own US television special in 1969, Monsanto Night Presents Lena Horne. During this decade, the artist Pete Hawley painted her portrait for RCA Victor, capturing the mood of her performance style.
In 1970, she co-starred with Harry Belafonte in the hour long "Harry & Lena" for ABC; in 1973, she co-starred with Tony Bennett in "Tony and Lena." Horne and Bennett subsequently toured the US and UK in a show together. A very memorable appearance was in the 1976 program "America Salutes Richard Rodgers," where she sang a lengthy medley of Rodgers songs with Peggy Lee and Vic Damone. Horne also made several appearances on The Flip Wilson Show.
Additionally, Horne played herself on television programs as The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and Sanford and Son in the 1970s, as well as a 1985 performance on The Cosby Show and a 1993 appearance on A Different World.
In the summer of 1980, Horne, 63 years old and intent on retiring from show business, embarked on a two month series of benefit concerts sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta. These concerts were represented as Horne's farewell tour, yet her retirement lasted less than a year.
In May 1981, The Nederlander Organization, Michael Frazier and Fred Walker booked Horne for a four week engagement at the newly named Nederlander Theatre (formerly the Trafalgar, the Billy Rose and the National) on West 41st Street in New York City. The show was an instant success and was extended to a full year run, garnering Horne a special Tony award, and two Grammy Awards for the cast recording of her show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. The 333 performance Broadway run closed on Horne's 65 birthday, June 30, 1982. Later that same week, the entire show was performed again and video taped for television broadcast and home video release. The tour began a few days later at Tanglewood (MA) during the 1982 July 4 weekend. The Lady and Her Music toured 41 cities in the U.S and Canada through June 17, 1984. It played in London for a month in August and ended its run in Stockholm, Sweden, September 14, 1984.
In 1958, Horne was nominated for a Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Musical" (for her part in the "Calypso" musical Jamaica) In 1981 she received a Special Tony Award for her one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. Despite the show's considerable success (Horne still holds the record for the longest-running solo performance in Broadway history), she did not capitalize on the renewed interest in her career by undertaking many new musical projects. A proposed 1983 joint recording project between Horne and Frank Sinatra (to be produced by Quincy Jones) was ultimately abandoned, and her sole studio recording of the decade was 1988's The Men In My Life, featuring duets with Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joe Williams. In 1989, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
The 1990s found Horne considerably more active in the recording studio - all the more remarkable considering she was approaching her 80th year. Following her 1993 performance at a tribute to the musical legacy of her good friend Billy Strayhorn (Duke Ellington's longtime pianist and arranger), she decided to record an album composed largely of Strayhorn's and Ellington's songs the following year, We'll Be Together Again. To coincide with the release of the album, Horne made what would be her final concert performances at New York's Supper Club and Carnegie Hall. That same year, Horne also lent her vocals to a recording of "Embraceable You" on Sinatra's "Duets II" album. Though the album was largely derided by critics, the Sinatra-Horne pairing was generally regarded as its highlight. In 1995, a "live" album capturing her Supper Club performance was released (subsequently winning a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album). In 1998, at the age of 81, Horne released another studio album, entitled Being Myself. Thereafter, Horne essentially retired from performing and largely retreated from public view, though she did return to the recording studio in 2000 to contribute vocal tracks on Simon Rattle's Classic Ellington album.
Civil rights activism
Horne also is noteworthy for her contributions to the Civil Rights movement. In 1941, she sang at Cafe Society and worked with Paul Robeson, a singer who also combated American racial discrimination. During World War II, when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to perform "for segregated audiences or to groups in which German POWs were seated in front of African American servicemen" [6], according to her Kennedy Center biography. She was at an NAACP rally with Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi the weekend before Evers was assassinated. She also met President John F. Kennedy at the White House two days before he was assassinated. She was at the March on Washington and spoke and performed on behalf of the NAACP, SNCC and the National Council of Negro Women. She also worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws. She was a member of the prominent organization, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.
Tributes and rereleases
In 2003, ABC announced that Janet Jackson would star as Horne in a television biopic. In the weeks following Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" debacle during the 2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne demanded Jackson be dropped from the project. "ABC executives resisted Horne's demand," according to the Associated Press report, "but Jackson representatives told the trade newspaper that she left willingly after Horne and her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley, asked that she not take part." Oprah Winfrey stated to Alicia Keys during a 2005 interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show that she might possibly consider producing the biopic herself, casting Keys as Horne.
In January 2005, Blue Note Records, her label for more than a decade, announced that "the finishing touches have been put on a collection of rare and unreleased recordings by the legendary Horne made during her time on Blue Note. Remixed by her longtime producer Rodney Jones, the recordings featured Horne in remarkably secure voice for a woman of her years, and include versions of such signature songs as "Something to Live For", "Chelsea Bridge" and "Stormy Weather". The album, originally titled Soul but renamed Seasons of a Life, was released on January 24, 2006.
In 2007, Horne was portrayed by Leslie Uggams as the older Lena and Nikki Crawford as the younger Lena in the stage musical Stormy Weather staged at the Pasadena Playhouse in California (January through March 2009).
Personal life
Horne married Louis Jordan Jones in January 1937 and lived in Pittsburgh. In December 1937 they had a daughter, Gail, and in February 1940, a son, Edwin. Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and were divorced in 1944.
Horne's second marriage was to Lennie Hayton, a Jewish American and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM, in December 1947. They separated in the early 1960s but were legally married at the time of his death in 1971. In her as-told-to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an interracial married couple. She later admitted in a 1980 Ebony interview she had married Hayton to advance her career and cross the "color-line" in show business.
Horne was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.
Screenwriter Jenny Lumet, known for her award-winning screenplay Rachel Getting Married, is Horne's granddaughter, the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet and Horne's daughter Gail.
Horne died on May 9, 2010, at the age of 92, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
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May 09, 2010
Hell it was so good I decided to post the whole episode...check out Betty White and Jay-Z on SNL
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I love Betty White and she killed on SNL...check her out
First of all it must be nice to have perfect strangers love you the way the country loves Betty White. Then to have this resurgence of love for her at 88 and a half years old has to be sweet. What makes it really great is that it is not sympathy love, she is still every bit as funny today as she was 50 years ago (not tht i was around 50 years ago...lol). Betty I'm definitely a fan and I LOVE YOU TOO! keep on keepin on mama. Check her out yawl.
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May 08, 2010
Hear the new Katy Perry song featuring Snoop
Click on the image to hear the hot new joint. My pop princess is back!!! 
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May 06, 2010
OMG Miley Cyrus done grown all the way up...let's pray there's no iminent breakdowns in her future to go with her new image and video
Enjoy live music and silent film under the Manhattan Bridge TONIGHT!
Cinema 16 - Thursday, May 6 at 8pm
Enjoy live music and silent film under the Manhattan Bridge!
(Note: this event is not at the gallery)
Doors open at 7pm.
Film screening and live performance by MotMot begin at 8pm.
Presented in the Archway under the Manhattan Bridge, located at Pearl and Water Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The featured film is The Adventures of Prince Achmed, by Lotte Reiniger.
Ice cream available from the
Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream Truck
Cinema 16 is part of the gallery's Press Play First Thursdays concert series, a free concert series held in
conjunction with the Dumbo First Thursday Gallery Walk*.
MORE ABOUT CINEMA 16
In an era when film has been reduced to the tiny screens of our laptops and ipods, oftentimes viewed alone, Cinema 16 resurrects communal performance experience. Cinema 16 revives the silent film era in which live music would accompany black and white 16mm projections. Taking from the tradition of vaudeville, the performance is showcased at a variety of spaces. Cinema 16 has been hosted at the National Arts Club, 92Y Tribeca, Galapagos, Starr Space, Greenpoint's Coco66, the Bell House, among many other stellar locations.
Named after the New York-based avant-garde film society in 1947 and inspired by Maya Deren's Greenwich Village exhibition of experimental films, Cinema 16 pairs edgy contemporary musical artists with vintage films, curated by Molly Surno. The performances meld the worlds of art, film and music.
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MOTMOT is a sound art project comprised of multi-instrumentalists Sahba Sizdahkhani and Shamos Dan. Originally from Iran and Israel, they met in Brooklyn, New York while working in a larger ensemble. Influences are wide but center on native tribal cultures, the hypnotic nature of ritual practices, and the musics of various spiritual traditions throughout history. They currently utilize a conglomerate of electric and acoustic instruments, and the result is simultaneously subtle yet encompassing to the listener. They will score the epic feature length animation, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, by Lotte Reiniger.
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May 05, 2010
Tehom : A new work by Angelo Musco at The Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago
Tehom : A new work by Angelo Musco
The Carrie Secrist Gallery is pleased to announce our next exhibition, "Tehom", a solo show by Italian artist Angelo Musco. Two years in production, the show includes Musco's photo installation "Hadal", which was shown in the 53rd Venice Biennale last summer.
The title piece, "Tehom", an underwater world populated with tens of thousands of nude bodies, will cover the main wall of the gallery stretching 12 x 48 feet wide. The dialogue between classic art forms and contemporary expressions is one of the main themes of Musco's photographic work. Using mosaic type panels and photo pieces allows the artist to make the entire gallery a unique underwater world experience.
The etymology of tehom comes from Hebrew literally meaning "deep" or "abyss", and in the Bible refers to the great deep of the primordial waters of creation. Musco's Tehom incorporates deep heavenly waters bursting with life, and dark spirals of humanity propelled together with grace and tension, some floating and other bodies fight to make contact and engage the viewer, not unlike the sirens of Greek mythology.
The show is made up of six different pieces. "Hadal" is constructed by 158 panels creating a swirling vortex of two thousand bodies reminiscent of a floating nest or a school of fish, each recurring themes of his work. "Avernus" further explores human forms in an artificial environment constructing patterns found in nature. By contrast, this triptych depicts not the vast open sea but rather an inland lake, one supposed by the Romans to be the entrance to Hades. The smallest work, "Progeny", is an 8 x 8 bundle of limbs and torsos floating like a giant human egg. "Sibille" is a triptych of eleven beautiful woman breaking the surface of the water with an otherworldly attitude that is a direct reference to Greek mythology.
Angelo Musco, lives and works in New York City. His work uses the human body and is inspired by natural architecture relating to birth and the earliest markers of life: the zygote, amniotic fluid, containers of life, nourishment, and the tensions of birth. The artist's own traumatic birth in the eleventh month has left both physical and psychological scares on the artist and it is this experience which inspires and informs his work.
Please contact Natalie Popovic Schuh at 312.491.0917 if you have further questions.
Angelo Musco, Tehom, 2010, 12 x 48 ft, c-print printed on metallic photo paper, and mounted between aluminum and Plexiglas.
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May 03, 2010
My Leo sister Madonna does it again...
Madonna
By Gus Van Sant
Photography Mert Alas, Marcus Piggott
Go to http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/madonna/ and check out the great interview and photoshoot of Madonna. Some people are victims, some people are survivors and then there's people who carve their own path through life, take what it gives them and turn into a rich tapestry of love, wisdom and success. You never know til their gone what the final bio will ready, but I'm willing to bet some serious cash that Madonna's story is going to be a triumphant one filled with great art and an enduring legacy.
Check her out in Interview Magazine, which by the way is one of my favorite publications.
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Urban Pop Life Video Premiere: LE JOUR D'APRES / SIKU YA BAADAYE (INDEPENDANCE CHA-CHA) by BALOJI
This is so effing HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have to check this out.
LE JOUR D'APRES / SIKU YA BAADAYE (INDEPENDANCE CHA-CHA) from BALOJI on Vimeo.
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LISA EISNER PSYCHONAUT May 1 - June 5, 2010 at M+B in Los Angeles, California
Psychonaut, 2010, photographic assemblage
LISA EISNER
PSYCHONAUT
May 1 - June 5, 2010
Artist's Opening Reception
Saturday, May 1, 6-8 PM
M+B is pleased to present Psychonaut, an exhibition and installation by artist Lisa Eisner. Eisner who is best known for her photographic explorations of the American West (publications include Shriners and Rodeo Girl) has turned her eye to nature with Psychonaut, an amalgam of the past four years of her work. In the artist’s words it is as if she “threw the photos in the air and cut them all up as they were falling down”. Psychonaut is a kaleidoscopic adventure into a vibrant world of seeming randomness, a collection of one-of-a-kind assemblages without editions and without using Photoshop that is her most personal work to date. The exhibition opens May 1, 2010 and will run through June 5, 2010, with an opening reception for the artist on Saturday, May 1 from 6 – 8 pm.
Taking the title from the Greek word meaning literally, “a sailor of the mind/soul,” Psychonaut explores the journey of a spiritual seeker who uses altered states of consciousness to address spiritual questions in a modern way, without the use of psilocybin.
Eisner draws inspiration from the kindred spirit of Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic domes, Native American culture, geometry, nature, birds, and a homegrown spirituality. Her method is to, “accidentally discover what isn’t an accident” by working hands-on with the images. She is informed by the colors and textures of the photos rather than the themes and composition, and allows the process to guide the series. What emerges is a handcrafted, three-dimensional psychedelic explosion that is alternately bright and soothing, meditative and disorienting. Psychonaut does not explain but self-propagates the creative source from where it came. Eisner collaborated with Matt Monroe on the dome structure for Psychonaut and with Haley Alexander van Oosten/L’Oeil du Vert on the scent sculptures.
Lisa Eisner, an avowed psychonaut of the California-by-way-of-Wyoming variety, is a photojournalist, fashion editor and co-founder of Greybull Press. She is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, W Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Paris Vogue, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband Eric and their two sons Charlie and Louie. This is her second solo exhibition with M+B.
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Urban Pop Life Video Premiere: Kelly Rowland-Commander
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BEYOND THE VIEW — HELEN SEAR at KLOMPCHING GALLERY in NYC
BEYOND THE VIEW — HELEN SEAR
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, May 13th, 6pm-8pm
KLOMPCHING GALLERY cordially invites you to the opening reception of Beyond The View, by Helen Sear.
In this new series of work, Beyond The View, Helen Sear continues her investigation into the sublime—and an engagement with the retinal and digital—through her innovative use of image superimposition and erasure. The dialogue between the artwork and viewer, as well as the labor of the artist’s hand, is enhanced by a shift in scale that emphasizes the artist’s concern with the viewer’s habits of looking.
Beyond The View is an ongoing exploration, with the photographs originating in and around the agricultural lands south of Milan. The images are a response to the 'hidden' presence of women in this rural environment on the edge of the city. Within this seires, Sear develops the notion of a visual subterfuge, both in the construction of the image itself, as well as positioning the presence of the female subjects within a precarious dichotomy of power/subordination, referencing the clichés of landscape and portraiture, particularly the Northern Romantic tradition of painting.
This exhibition follows Helen Sear’s highly successful first show with Klompching Gallery in January 2009. Later that same year, she was named as one of the UK’s 50 most significant artist photographers by Portfolio.
The artwork of Helen Sear (b. 1955) has been published in Arts Review, Creative Camera, HotShoe, Art Newspaper and Art Monthly amongst others. Her photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s with her photographs becoming widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. Collections holding her work include Ernst & Young, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Council (Rome) and the Paul Wilson Collection. She lives and works in Wales (UK).
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Eat, Pray, Love
The title of this book and movie seems completely compatible with who I am as a person and how I live. Though I didn't read the book I am very interested in the film. It looks like it will be entertaining, uplifting and soul freeing. All good things in my eyes. Check out the trailer for the new Julia Roberts film "Eat, Pray, Love.:
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