Performance Saturday May 18, 2013

Portrait Shoot and Beach Party with Martin Parr Aperture Gallery and Bookstore Performance Saturday May 18, 2013, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM www.aperture.org


TICKETED

Aperture presents an all-day portrait shoot and beach party with the one and only Martin Parr, in conjunction with the release of the beach-bag-size edition of his monograph Life’s a Beach and the related exhibition at Aperture Gallery. This is a rare opportunity to have your portrait taken by Mr. Parr; join us to have your picture snapped or to pose with friends, family, or even your cherished pets.

Parr will shoot beach-themed portraits throughout the day in a temporary studio space at Aperture Gallery. Feel free to bring your own props or favorite objects, or have fun with the beach toys on hand.

While you’re waiting for your close-up, sip Dark n’ Stormy® cocktails, provided by Gosling’s Rum, while you view the Life’s a Beach exhibition.

Click here to purchase your portrait session: http://www.aperture.org/shop/martin-parr-event

The Life’s a Beach exhibition and beach party are free and open to the public.

This event is made possible with support from Canon U.S.A., Inc., Gosling’s Rum, and Mondrian Soho.


Chelsea 547 West 27th Street, New York NY, 10001
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013

Vermeer’s Daughter? NYU Cantor Film Center Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM www.nyihumanities.org


The New York Institute for the Humanities &
The Humanities Initiative at NYU wonder about

VERMEER'S DAUGHTER?

SATURDAY MAY 18, 2013
11:00 am till 6:00 pm
NYU’s Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

Free & Open to the Public

In his book Vermeer’s Family Secrets, originally published by Routledge in 2009, Cooper Union art history professor Benjamin Binstock proposed that several “problem paintings” in the Vermeer canon as currently understood, including four of them here in New York and two others at the National Gallery in Washington, might actually have been painted by his daughter, Maria, who he further identified as the model for the famous Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Thus far, however, Binstock’s thesis has been met with thunderous silence in the art historical press—itself a fascinating response. But what if we were to take Binstock’s claims seriously, or at least allow them a fair hearing? (How might we go about doing so?) Beyond that, what if we in turn were to think about how such theories make their way through the art historical vetting process? How generally does scholarship evaluate such claims, and in turn how ought we evaluate how it does so? And how would our response to certain specific works (such as the National Gallery’s Girl with a Red Hat, which Binstock recasts as a self-portrait) change if Binstock were proven right?

By way of addressing such questions, the NYIH and its partner, the Humanities Initiative at NYU, will be convening an all-day symposium (a sort of book-end to the similar sort of conference convened twelve years ago to evaluate David Hockney’s controversial claim that Old Masters had been deploying optical devices in ways far more widespread than previously believed). Following a presentation of his theory by Professor Binstock himself, its contentions and implications will in turn be evaluated, sequentially, by panels of art historians and theorists; artists; and more generalized scholars; culminating in a concluding overview by the eminent Princeton cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Grafton.

Other participants will include art historians and theorists Linda Nochlin of the Institute for Fine Arts, Claudia Swan of Northwestern University, Ivan Gaskell of the Bard Graduate Center, and James Elkins of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago; artists Chuck Close, Vincent Desiderio, Gerri Davis and April Gornik; and generalists Rachel Cohen (author of A Chance Meeting and a forthcoming biography of Bernard Berenson), NYU Rilke scholar Ulrich Baer, philosopher of aesthetics Jonathan Gilmore (currently visiting at Columbia), and NYU neural scientist David Poeppel.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

11 am - 1:00 pm Presentation of a theory
Benjamin Binstock in conversation with Lawrence Weschler

1:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch Break

1:30 - 2:45 pm Art historians & theorists respond
Linda Nochlin, Claudia Swan, Ivan Gaskell, James Elkins

3:00 - 4:15 pm Artists respond
Chuck Close, Vincent Desiderio, Gerri Davis, April Gornik

4:30 - 5:30 pm Generalists respond
Rachel Cohen, Uli Baer, Jonathan Gilmore, David Poeppel

5:30 - 6:00 pm Concluding remarks
Anthony Grafton


Vermeer, His Daughter, and their Paintings
Benjamin Binstock

Johannes Vermeer’s paintings are now famous for their purity of light, color harmonies, balanced compositions, subtle details, stillness, and timelessness, in Lawrence Gowing’s felicitous phrase, “a thin and perfect plume thrown up by the wave of Dutch painting at its crest,” and by extension, the crest of Western art. Yet what are we to make of Girl with a Red Hat, traditionally assigned to Vermeer, which violates all these visual principles through drastic light contrasts, jarring juxtapositions of colors and forms, animated and momentary tension, spontaneous virtuosity? In contrast to the perfectly rounded shapes and dissolved lines of Vermeer’s unsurpassed naturalism, here the emphasis is on the surface play of patches of paint, in the astounding red hat of indeterminate material, and the abstract pseudo-tapestry background. The composition also betrays surprising errors in the high white collar scraped away on the left, and skewed chair finials facing the wrong direction.

Similar infelicities, technical difficulties, and uncharacteristic approaches are evident in the related Girl with a Flute, the peculiarly distorted Portrait of a Woman, and less obviously in the complex compositions, Mistress and Maid, Girl Interrupted, and Woman with a Lute. A painting long excluded from Vermeer’s oeuvre, Girl at a Virginal, was only recently and lucratively rehabilitated as a Vermeer, despite sensible objections of several commentators. Authors have seen problems with each of these paintings, and sought to explain them in different ways, as forgeries, over-painted by another artist, unfinished, or poorly preserved. A more plausible explanation, briefly evoked but never pursued, to which we will return, was that one of Vermeer’s children might have become his apprentice. Yet these misfit paintings have never been addressed as a group, which together comprise a full fifth of Vermeer’s present oeuvre.

Vermeer’s oeuvre was never simply a given. Théophile Thoré only first “discovered” or recognized Vermeer’s exceptional genius in the mid nineteenth-century at the dawn of modern art history. He assembled the earliest oeuvre catalogue of Vermeer’s paintings, roughly half of which were not by him. In the century and a half since then scholars have mostly narrowed down and in a few cases added examples to constitute Vermeer’s current more or less accepted oeuvre of thirty-eight odd paintings. Yet despite countless monographs on the artist, his paintings have never been arranged in a coherent work-by-work chronological development. Why not?

Firstly, the task has not yet been performed for other artists. Art history is a conservative field, still evolving in this regard. Second, there are economic, cultural, institutional investments that discourage questioning the conventional consensus. Third, the questions are difficult to answer. The paintings currently assigned to Vermeer cannot be arranged in a coherent chronology. One can only do so after removing the misfit paintings, which likewise reveal their own consistent development, in a dialogue with Vermeer, increasingly borrowing and combining elements of his compositions, employing the same models, costumes, objects, and interiors, and influencing him in turn.

Another crucial piece of the puzzle involves Vermeer’s models, who have been seen as family members, but have never been addressed in a systematic way. His family models can help order his development, as well as his unknown follower’s. Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (Fig. 1) can be identified as his eldest child Maria, also recognizable in the Girl with a Red Hat (Fig. 2), reversed in a mirror, that is, a self-portrait. Since Vermeer had no documented followers, this could only have been his child, and plausibly only his eldest Maria. If this reading is correct, Vermeer himself might have considered using his apprentice’s paintings to help defray his mounting debts, as the family ultimately did, with or without his approval, after his death in 1675 at age 42 of an apparent stroke brought on by a financial crisis. That would help explain the necessity of keeping his apprentice a family secret. We are still discovering Vermeer(s).


Greenwich Village / The West Village 36 East 8th Street, New York NY, 10003
Screening Saturday May 18, 2013

STREAMING MARATHON EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM www.momaps1.org


In addition to the cinema program, a marathon screening will be presented in collaboration with Are.na, a web application enabling users to collect and share media through topical channels. Continuously streaming material can be accessed online at any time focused on EXPO 1: New York’s themes and submitted by EXPO participants, organizers, and audiences.


Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013
Ernesto Caivanom, Topography 11, Topography 10, 2013, Graphite on antique paper, 9 x 6 in. each

Settlements Ernesto Caivano Pioneer Works Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - July 30, 2013 www.pioneerworks.org


MAY 18 — JULY 30, 2013

PREVIEW: Saturday, MAY 18, 2013 12-7PM RSVP
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, JUNE 1, 2013 12-7PM RSVP

Pioneer Works is pleased to present Settlements, a solo exhibition by Ernesto Caivano. Settlements is a comprehensive survey of selected works from 2002–2013. The exhibition is on view from May 18, through July 30th, 2013. A preview of the exhibition will be held on May 18, and a reception for the artist will be held on June 1, 2013.

The reception will be accompanied by a publication with newly commissioned texts on the artist's work.

Ernesto Caivano's work has been the subject of solo shows at White Cube in London, Richard Heller in Los Angeles and at MoMA PS1, where his site-specific mural In the Woods (2004) is permanently installed. Ernesto Caivano has also been included in notable group exhibitions such as No New Thing Under the Sun (2010) at the Royal Academy in London, The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now at the Museum of Modern Art (2006), Greater New York 2005 at MoMA PS1, and the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

For additional information please contact: info@pioneerworks.org


Redhook 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn NY, 11231 718-596-3000 info@pioneerworks.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013

Archive as Impetus: Portable Politics/Print as Protest Screenprinting Workshop MoMA Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, from 12:30 PM to 3:00 PM www.moma.org


Artists Experiment is a new initiative in the Department of Education that brings together contemporary artists in dialogue with MoMA educators to conceptualize ideas for developing innovative and experimental public interactions. Learn more

Artist Xaviera Simmons collaborates with screenprint maker Sara Gates of Kingsland Printing to present an afternoon of dialogue and action. Drawing from the MoMA Library and Archive collections, Simmons presents a selection of images surrounding various methods of political action or protest documented, presented, or in response to MoMA throughout its history. Using these images as source material, the workshop explores the ephemeral and performative nature of political action, and the ways in which artists have used various techniques to get their messages across. Following a group discussion, Gates and Simmons lead a screenprinting workshop, allowing each participant to create their own portable political messages via t-shirts and tote bags. This workshop is part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative, and is part of Simmons' ongoing Archive as Impetus project.

Xaviera Simmons produces installations, sculptures, photographs, and video and performative works. She received a BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the trans-Atlantic slave trade with Buddhist Monks. She completed the Whitney Museum’s ISP in Studio Art (2005) while simultaneously completing a two-year actor-training conservatory with the Maggie Flanigan Studio. Simmons has exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Museum of Modern, MoMA PS1, Nouveau Museum National de Monaco, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Public Art Fund, and SculptureCenter. Simmons is a recipient of numerous awards, including the David C. Driskell Prize, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, an Art Matters fellowship, and a smARTpower fellowship. Simmons was a 2012 artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Kingsland Printing is a Brooklyn-based screenprinting and design studio founded by Sara Gates. In 2006, while studying for an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute, she began making t-shirts for Troubleman Records and local bands, but her business quickly grew into something much more. Currently it is a full-scale studio occupying a 1,000-square-foot space and employing an in-house graphic designer, a master printer, and an ever-growing group of eager interns.

Tickets are available online.




Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Screening Saturday May 18, 2013
Video still: "Suddenly, Last Summer" by Juha Mäki-Jussila

NEW FINNISH VIDEO ART TRT. 87:33 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Saturday May 18, 2013, 1:00 PM www.videodumbo.org


This screening is part of the 8th edition of video_dumbo. On view at Eyebeam, from May 16 - 25, 2013.

SCREENING PROGRAM: NEW FINNISH VIDEO ART TRT. 87:33 min.

"Scene Shifts, in six movements" Jani Ruscica 15:57 min.
"Home and Country" Carl Sebastian Lindberg 18:41 min.
"Archipelago Science Fiction" Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen 24:55 min.
"Hate" Sami Van Ingen 12:00 min.
"Rhymä-School Party" Natalia Comandari 08:30 min.
"The Bath House" Henna-Riikka Halonen 12:52 min.
"The Comfort Zone" Mikko Gaestel & Jaako Pallasvuo 3:51 min.
"Suddenly, Last Summer" Juha Mäki-Jussila 04:17 min.

For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-new-finnish-videoart.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html


Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013
Lynn Koble, Natural Order (detail), 2013., Courtesy of the Artist

Lynn Koble: Natural Order Lynn Koble Wave Hill Curated by Gabriel de Guzman Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, 1:30 PM On View May 11, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.wavehill.org


Lynn Koble’s work reflects an interest in the various forms of constructed and simulated environments—physical, social, psychological, natural—that exist in a technology-saturated world. She looks at the ways in which people order and disrupt these environments according to systems that can be both scientific and personal, as well as tangible and virtual. Devised to make sense of the world, these systems are often specific to a place, a language or a culture and are subject to modification as people’s understanding of their surroundings changes over time.

For her Sunroom Project, Natural Order, Koble creates a sculptural environment with an apparent simplicity that belies her meticulous, handmade process and thorough methodology; the work points toward a realm of fabrication, artifice and surface. Natural Order features two, symmetrical, room-sized shelving units with ordered rows of more than 150 propagation pots. The pots resemble glass beakers, evoking a complex lab experiment. Each beaker contains a single, handmade, cut-paper sprout and is labeled with the plant’s botanical and common names, identifying its place within an invented taxonomy that is partly scientific, partly whimsical. Taking inspiration from 18th-century botanist Carl Linnaeus’s plant classification system, the shapes of Koble’s sprouts are derived from the reproductive organs of plants. While half of these plants can be found in Wave Hill’s gardens, the others are completely fictitious—artificial interlopers in a quasi-natural system. The sculptural installation includes a printed directory of all of the plants’ names, real or fantastical.
Koble received an MFA from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and a BFA from Alfred University, Alfred, NY. She also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Koble has had solo exhibitions at Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA; Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, New York, NY; PS122 Gallery, New York, NY; and Braunstein Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; and Exit Art, New York, NY. The artist has participated in residency programs at The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; Sculpture Space, Utica, NY; and Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA. She has received artist grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Puffin Foundation and Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance.

Additional support has been provided to Lynn Koble by the Puffin Foundation and chashama.

Meet the Artist: Saturday, May 18. 1:30PM in Glyndor Gallery


The Bronx West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, Bronx New York, 10471 Tuesday - Sunday from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM
718-549-3200 pressroom@wavehill.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013
Lynn Koble, Natural Order (detail), 2013, Courtesy of the Artist

Meet the Artist: Lynn Koble Wave Hill Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, 1:30 PM www.wavehill.org


At this artist talk, Manhattan-based artist Lynn Koble discusses her multimedia sculptural installation, Natural Order, in the Sunroom Project Space. The project explores the idea of classification systems as a point of intersection between people and nature. The installation is a visualization of partly scientific, partly whimsical classification. Two, symmetrical, room-sized shelving units contain ordered rows of propagation pots that resemble glass beakers and evoke a complex lab experiment. Each beaker contains a single, handmade sprout, and is labeled with the plant's botanical and common names, identifying its place within an invented taxonomy. While half of these plants can be found in Wave Hill's gardens, the others are completely fictitious–artificial interlopers in a quasi-natural system. The installation includes a printed directory of all the plant names, real or fantastical. Free with admission to the grounds.


The Bronx West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, Bronx New York, 10471718-549-3200 pressroom@wavehill.org
Screening Saturday May 18, 2013
COURTESY CAO FEI AND LOMBARD FREID PROJECTS

CAO FEI: I.MIRROR BY CHINA TRACY (AKA: CAO FEI) SECOND LIFE DOCUMENTARY FILM EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Saturday May 18, 2013, 2:00 PM www.momaps1.org


i.Mirror by China Tracy (aka: Cao Fei) Second Life Documentary Film by Cao Fei (2007), 28 min, video, Second Life/China

“When we travel through Second Life, or when we watch i.Mirror, we inevitably project our first life into it. In fact, we bring many of the dilemmas and quandaries that we face in real life to the fore in Second Life, hoping to resolve them. Or we hope and attempt to use Second Life to decode and interpret real life.” – Cao Fei


Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013
Jack Goldstein, Some Butterflies, 1975, 16mm film; color; silent; 30 sec. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne and the Estate of Jack Goldstein.

Exhibition Walk-Through: What is Jack Goldstein? The Jewish Museum Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, 2:00 PM www.thejewishmuseum.org


Jens Hoffmann, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Public Programs, will conduct a gallery talk on JACK GOLDSTEIN x 10,000. He will discuss how Goldstein, an artist who explored a range of media and materials, emerged as one of the most significant artists of the Pictures generation.

Free admission


The Upper East Side 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York NY, 10128212-423-3200 info@thejm.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013

School of Death Suicide Note and Epitaph Workshop Family Business Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM www.cabinetmagazine.org


Cabinet is pleased to present, in collaboration with philosopher Simon Critchley, the first incarnation of the School of Death, an educational institution dedicated to exploring the relationship between death and the examined life. As the institution's motto declares, "If the examined life is not worth living, then is death not worth examining?"

A new lesson—taking the form of a drawing, a chart, a story, a parable, an anecdote—will be written each day on a chalkboard installed at Family Business. In addition, there will be a number of evening talks and programs at the exhibition space.


PROGRAMS
7 May 2013, 6–9 pm: Opening, Performance, and Talk
For the opening of the school, the organizers are pleased to present a reading of Giacomo Leopardi’s 1824 “Dialogue between Fashion and Death” by Nikki Columbus and a surprise guest, as well as a short talk by D. Graham Burnett on “The Metachrotic Swan Song.”

16 May 2013, 6:30–9 pm: Lecture
Simon Critchley will give a lecture entitled “Learn How to Die.”

18 May 2013, 2–5 pm: Suicide Note and Epitaph Workshop
A hands-on workshop on suicide notes (2–3:30 pm) run by Simon Critchley, will be followed immediately by a workshop on epitaphs (3:30–5) run by Jeff Dolven. Please bring your works-in-progress for classroom discussion.

List of events and participants is in formation—please check this page or familybusiness.us for further information and updates on opening hours and programming.


ABOUT SIMON CRITCHLEY
Simon Critchley, who is not dead yet, teaches philosophy for a living at the New School for Social Research. He writes for the New York Times and his new book Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine, co-written with Jamieson Webster, will be published by Pantheon in June.

ABOUT FAMILY BUSINESS
Family Business is an exhibition space initiated by Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni. It is a free time-share: a space made available to people who have something interesting to say; a way to get to know new families and friends. Family Business is powered by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. A guest + a host = a ghost. Nadja Argyropoulou is the Family Business guest (or ghost) curator for 2013.


Chelsea 520 West 21st Street, New York NY, 10011
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013

Book Launch: Erin Shirreff Lisa Cooley Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM www.lisa-cooley.com


Join us for the launch of Erin Shirreff's monograph published on the occasion of her solo exhibitions, Available Light at the Carleton University Art Gallery and Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and Pictures at the Contemporary Art Gallery.


The East Village / Lower East Side 107 Norfolk Street, New York NY, 10002212-680-0564 frontdesk@lisa-cooley.com
Screening Saturday May 18, 2013
COURTESY-ETEAM

ETEAM: PRIM LIMIT EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Saturday May 18, 2013, 2:30 PM www.momaps1.org


Prim Limit by eteam (2009), 32 min, video, Second Life/United States

“If second lives have grown into the landscape of social network space and avatars engage a full range of human emotions and experience, it follows that they would eventually encounter existential questions. Prim Limit traces this fascinating unexpected trajectory. A plot of land is purchased in the online 3D Second Life network and a simple question is asked: Where do discarded 3D objects go and can we build a dumpster to accommodate them?” – eteam


Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Screening Saturday May 18, 2013
Video still: "Hyperborea" by Anton Ginzburg

THE IDEA OF NORTH TRT. 83:23 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Saturday May 18, 2013, 3:00 PM www.videodumbo.org


This screening is part of the 8th edition of video_dumbo. On view at Eyebeam, from May 16 - 25, 2013.

SCREENING PROGRAM: THE IDEA OF NORTH TRT. 83:23 min.

"Hyperborea" Anton Ginzburg 45:00 min.
"Leap after the Great Ecstasy" Melanie Manchot 20:03 min.
"Late on Earth" John Skoog 12:00 min.
"Vargtimmen - After a Scene by Ingmar Bergman" Georg Tiller 06:20 min.

For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-the-idea-of-north.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html


Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Performance Saturday May 18, 2013

Four Hour Continuous Performance by Sandrine Schaefer Grace Exhibition Space Performance Saturday May 18, 2013, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM www.grace-exhibition-space.com


Sandrine's piece is a part of CONTINUOUS ACTION a series of four hour continuous performances every Saturday at Grace Exhibition Space.

Spend an afternoon engaged with one performance, takig the rare opportunity to experience an artists' work as it unfold sowly before you,giving you an interaction with performance that envelope your senses, and transports you away while remaining in your speat:

Sandrine Schaefer [Boston]

Sandrine Schaefer is a Boston-based Artist, Writer, and Curator. She is a co-founder of The Present Tense, an art initiative that produces and archives live art events and exchanges in transient spaces. She has been actively showing her own work and the work of others internationally since 2003.

Sandrine's ephemeral artwork explores cycles of the invisible becoming visible. Sandrine is inspired by site sensitivity, the relationship between accumulative action and endurance, manipulating duration to challenge the parameters of real time, and the promise of collaborative imagination. Her work playfully addresses the shared human experience of fitting in, both corporally and conceptually.

sandrineschaefer.com





Bushwick / Ridgewood 840 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11206646-578-3402 info@grace-exhibition-space.com
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013

Stack and Rack: BroLab Panel and Book Signing Gallery Aferro Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, 3:00 PM www.aferro.org


April 27 – May 31, 2013
Opening Reception April 27, 7-10 PM
Panel and Book Signing May 18, 3PM
Liminal Space

BroLab Collective’s large scale public sculpture, Stack and Rack, consists of 16 brightly colored wooden cubes which can be assembled in numerous configurations. The interactive site-specific work inhabited downtown Newark’s Broad Street during the October 2012 Open Doors and Studio Tour. The exhibition at Gallery Aferro consists of all sixteen components from the outdoor work, now reconfigured and installed in Gallery Aferro's Liminal Space alongside a series of photographs taken from last fall’s viewing. BroLab Collective’s members will host an artist talk and book signing event on May 18 to celebrate the release of their catalog highlighting Stack and Rack as well as previous projects. Copies of the catalog will be available for purchase.

The collective BroLab was established in 2009 by five artists with like ideas all seeking something bigger than their individual practices. Rahul Alexander, Jonathan Brand, Adam Brent, Ryan Roa and Travis LeRoy Southworth have built a practice bridging art and design principles exploring minimalist objects where people can interact with both the artists and the work. BroLab’s broad vision includes public sculpture, place making and site-specific interventions. In the canon of collective art, BroLab presents an alternative model by working intuitively, connecting art to a live activity of both making and engagement. BroLab has received critical attention from Architect Magazine, New York Press, L Magazine, NY Daily News, The Times Ledger and artcritical.com. BroLab has exhibited at notable venues and institutions such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Bronx River Arts Center, the Festival for New Ideas and The Center for Book Arts. BroLab has completed successful commissions for the NYC DOT Urban Art Program, the NY Public Library and the Newark Arts Council. Ongoing projects include a commission for the Bronx Museum, a transformative installation for the lobby, as well as a catalog marking recent work as granted by the Elizabeth Firestone Foundation.


The Tri-State Area 73 Market Street, Newark NJ, 07102info@aferro.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013

ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS IN CONVERSATION WITH KLAUS BIESENBACH EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, 3:00 PM www.momaps1.org


Known for his monumental clay sculptures, Adrián Villar Rojas represented Argentina at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Klaus Biesenbach is director of MoMA PS1 and chief curator at large at the Museum of Modern Art. They will discuss “Dark Optimism” and Villar Rojas’s installation La inocencia de los animales, built for the EXPO 1 School.


Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013

Archive as Impetus: Portable Politics/Print as Protest Screenprinting Workshop MoMA Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM www.moma.org


Artists Experiment is a new initiative in the Department of Education that brings together contemporary artists in dialogue with MoMA educators to conceptualize ideas for developing innovative and experimental public interactions. Learn more

Artist Xaviera Simmons collaborates with screenprint maker Sara Gates of Kingsland Printing to present an afternoon of dialogue and action. Drawing from the MoMA Library and Archive collections, Simmons presents a selection of images surrounding various methods of political action or protest documented, presented, or in response to MoMA throughout its history. Using these images as source material, the workshop explores the ephemeral and performative nature of political action, and the ways in which artists have used various techniques to get their messages across. Following a group discussion, Gates and Simmons lead a screenprinting workshop, allowing each participant to create their own portable political messages via t-shirts and tote bags. This workshop is part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative, and is part of Simmons' ongoing Archive as Impetus project.

Xaviera Simmons produces installations, sculptures, photographs, and video and performative works. She received a BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the trans-Atlantic slave trade with Buddhist Monks. She completed the Whitney Museum’s ISP in Studio Art (2005) while simultaneously completing a two-year actor-training conservatory with the Maggie Flanigan Studio. Simmons has exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Museum of Modern, MoMA PS1, Nouveau Museum National de Monaco, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Public Art Fund, and SculptureCenter. Simmons is a recipient of numerous awards, including the David C. Driskell Prize, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, an Art Matters fellowship, and a smARTpower fellowship. Simmons was a 2012 artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Kingsland Printing is a Brooklyn-based screenprinting and design studio founded by Sara Gates. In 2006, while studying for an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute, she began making t-shirts for Troubleman Records and local bands, but her business quickly grew into something much more. Currently it is a full-scale studio occupying a 1,000-square-foot space and employing an in-house graphic designer, a master printer, and an ever-growing group of eager interns.

Tickets are available online.


Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Screening Saturday May 18, 2013
COURTESY TABOR ROBAK AND TEAM

TABOR ROBAK: EXPLOSIONS EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Saturday May 18, 2013, 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org


Explosions (2009) by Tabor Robak, HD, 90 min, United States

“Explosions is a 90-minute, full HD video of total mayhem, complete with fiery explosions, flying shrapnel, blood splatter and sound effects. A sweet dream of Hollywood blockbusters and action video games.” – Tabor Robak


Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Performance Saturday May 18, 2013

SpeakChamber Constance DeJong Bureau Performance Saturday May 18, 2013, 4:00 PM www.bureau-inc.com


May 5 - May 25 2013
Opening reception for the artist:
Sunday May 5, 6 - 8 p.m. (no public performance - see schedule below)

Bureau is honored to announce the new production by seminal text and performance artist Constance DeJong, SpeakChamber. During the month of May, Bureau will be transformed into an intimate theater to host DeJong's hour-long spoken performance derived from a work of prose and accompanied by recorded sound and moving image.

DeJong has worked for over three decades on narrative form within the context of avant-garde music and contemporary art. The fiction in SpeakChamber focuses on the world of inanimate objects through styles and histories. We follow DeJong's story from dusty homes to salvation armies and from war-torn mountain ranges to luxury consignment shops. DeJong writes her narrative work specifically for the medium in which it will be presented, for the physical page or for the mouth as spoken in the present moment. In performance, her audience follows the captivating auteur, live, telling the story of objects through a continuous present moment.

DeJong is considered one of the progenitors of video and media art, what can be referred to as 'time based media'. She shapes her art of narrative with an intricate attention to content and literary form. Each detail is scrutinized so that every moment is an eternity and an expanse. The work is presented as a continuous present flowing from the mouth of the artist, in real time. The work thus stands both in contrast and in recognition of the contemporary attention-deficient media genre, which she has helped define. The work is one of continuous language paired with continuous video imagery that unfolds conjuring new images of some combined fiction derived from the seen image and heard text.

Nothing says impermanency like the relentless sequence of one word giving way to the next, each one dropping out of sight. -CDJ
Constance DeJong has exhibited and performed both locally and internationally over the past three decades at venues such as, the Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis MN; The Wexner Center, Columbus OH; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and in New York at The Kitchen, Threadwaxing Space, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Dia Center for the Arts. She composed the libretto for the Philip Glass opera Satyagraha in 1983 which has been staged at opera houses worldwide including the Metropolitan Opera, NY; The Netherlands National Opera, Rotterdam, NL and The Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY. She has had several books of fiction published including Modern Love (Standard Editions, 1977) and I.T.I.L.O.E (Top Stories, 1983)

This exhibition will be accompanied by a limited edition publication, SpeakChamber.
Public Performance Dates *

Friday May 10, 4 p.m.
Saturday May 11, 4 p.m. (full)
Sunday May 12, 4 p.m.

Friday May 17, 7 p.m. (full)
Saturday May 18, 4 p.m.
Sunday May 19, 7 p.m.

Wednesday May 22, 7 p.m.
Thursday May 23, 7 p.m.
Saturday May 25, 4 p.m.

*all performances require RSVP to office@bureau-inc.com
space is LIMITED: you will be emailed a confirmation if there is space
children not admitted


The East Village / Lower East Side 127 Henry Street, New York NY, 10002office@bureau-inc.com
Performance Saturday May 18, 2013
Walters, Whitt, Lee, Schrock

he Dream-Life of Words Wendy S. Walters, Joseph Whitt and Joon Oluchi Lee + Roddy Schrock Eyebeam Performance Saturday May 18, 2013, from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM www.eyebeam.org


An Evening of Performance and Readings

What is the dream-life of digital words as they lay flat on a screen, quietly acquiescing? Can they be satisfied with the momentary puffs of arranged air or do they want something thicker, heavier? Do words dream about becoming sheafs of blank paper or a screen marked only by a blinking cursor? Or do they just want a body of their own? Do they want your body?

Join Wendy S. Walters, Joseph Whitt and Joon Oluchi Lee + Roddy Schrock for an evening of performance and readings exploring the dream-life of words and their electronic lives.

Wendy S. Walters is the author of two collections of poetry: Troy, Michigan (forthcoming from Futurepoem Books in 2013) and Longer I Wait, More You Love Me. She was a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Poetry and her recent work has been published in Bookforum, The Iowa Review, Coldfront, Seneca Review, Seattle Review, and Harper’s Magazine. She is Associate Professor of Poetry at Eugene Lang College and a co-founder of the First Person Plural Reading Series in Harlem.

Joseph Whitt is an artist, writer and independent curator living and working in New York City. His work has been presented at MOMA PS1, PPOW Gallery, Deitch Projects, CRG Gallery, Envoy Enterprises and elsewhere. His writings have appeared in Art Papers, ArtUS, Useless Magazine and K48.

Roddy Schrock creates sound objects rooted in embodiment and the visceral impulse to communicate. He has lived and worked in Tokyo, the Netherlands, Northern California. He now lives in Brooklyn with his partner, and muse, Joon. He studied at Mills College and the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. Joon Oluchi Lee is a text and body-maker. He is the author of “The Joy of the Castrated Boy,” lipstickeater.blogspot.com, and girlscallmurder.tumblr.com. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and is a professor at Rhode Island School of Design, where he teaches courses on prose-making, performance theory, and gender studies. Lee lives in Brooklyn with his partner Roddy and handbags.


Chelsea 540 W 21st Street, New York NY, 10011212-937-6580
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013
Soledad Arias. POESIS POSIES, 2013.

Panel Discussion with Soledad Arias, April Gornik, John O’Reilly and Rona Pondick RH Gallery Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM www.rhgallery.com


NEW YORK – April 24, 2013 – RH Gallery is pleased to announce a panel discussion with Soledad Arias, April Gornik, John O’Reilly and Rona Pondick in celebration of our exhibition A Discourse on Plants. On view at RH Gallery through May 31st, the exhibition showcases the regal, pervasive, and occasionally ominous plant life confronted in contemporary art. Presenting depictions ranging from the cultivated and domestic to what Werner Herzog memorably described as “the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder”, the exhibition demonstrates the ways in which plants function as markers, metaphors and subjects of an anthropocentric world.

Soledad Arias’ text-based work deals with the slippage of meanings in the aesthetic and literary reading of texts. Arias explores the materiality of text as well as its poetic, phonetic, and visual dimensions within the context of dialog and vernacular communication. Her work induces an element of interactivity and viewer participation by constructing open-ended narratives through text and linguistic elements. In Arias’ new neon sculpture created for the exhibition, POESIS POSIES, the juxtaposition of two words suggests parallels between the production of art and nature. The etymology of “poesis,” meaning poetry in Latin, comes from the Greek “poiesis” which began as a verb meaning to bring-forth, to create, and was interpreted by German idealist philosopher Schilling as “the primary creative nature that runs through all things”. Arias has exhibited her work in galleries and museums both nationally and abroad at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelpia), Socrates Sculpture Park (New York), El Museo del Barrio (New York) and MOMA PS1 (New York).

April Gornik’s depictions of land, sky and sea are rooted in observed reality and a world synthesized, abstracted, stored and remembered. Gornik examines nature in its purest state, capturing its solitude, enormity, and the intrinsic serenity associated with land untouched. It is in this space of intimate immensity, where dueling weather systems, terrain and sky, and the flooding light and growing shadows collide, that Gornik’s landscape opens out onto psychological experience broadly defined – the modern experience of loss without a lost object. The drawing entitled Bower included in A Discourse on Plants captures a moment of serenity within an intimate view of the Pamphili Gardens in Rome. Exhibiting extensively since 1987, Gornik’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.

John O’Reilly’s sculptures are born from his treatment of line as a circulatory system. Within his work, lines expand and contract to create the energy of breath and life. O’Reilly’s sculpture for A Discourse on Plants, entitled Yew and named after a tree species associated with rebirth, was conceptualized during long walks through Prospect Park with his dog. Post Hurricane Sandy, the park lost a large percentage of its trees but after time he began to observe the regeneration and attempted to capture this spirit in the work. Beginning with a figure armature in steel and aluminum, O’Reilly hand modeled the final form using sculptable epoxy. O’Reilly was awarded his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2010. His work has been exhibited in several venues through the USA as well as in Leipzig, Germany. His work is represented in Eric Fischl’s and April Gornik’s private collection and the New York Academy of Art’s Presidential Collection among others.

Since her first solo exhibition in 1988, Rona Pondick has worked with fragments that invoke the body, including shoes, baby bottles, and teeth, making wholes that are psychologically provocative and highly suggestive. In the late 90’s Pondick made her first hybrid sculptures marrying her own bodily fragments with animals or trees. While all of the sculptures are cast in metal, the artist’s treatment of their materiality, form, surfaces, and painting evoke a wide range of sensuous and emotional responses. Pondick’s sculptural exploration is always in pursuit of the imagistic, the metaphoric and the psychologically suggestive. In Dwarfed Pine (2010) included in A Discourse on Plants, Pondick seamlessly fused miniature copper hands to the branches of a bonsai tree with a process that integrates hand modeling, computer technology, and ancient casting techniques. Pondick recently mounted her first solo exhibition since 2006 at Sonnabend Gallery, New York. This panel will be the first opportunity to hear Pondick speak about her work in many years.

For further information or images, please contact Anna Nearburg at anna@rhgallery.com or 646-490-6355.


Tribeca / Downtown 137 Duane Street, New York NY, 10013646-490-6355 anna@rhgallery.com
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013

The Stuff Things Are Made Of Mathieu Lefèvre Regina Rex Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.reginarex.org


Bushwick / Ridgewood 1717 Troutman, #329, Ridgewood NY, 11385 Saturday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
347-460-7739 info@reginarex.org
Editor's Pick
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013

Maria Calandra Pencil in the Studio Maria Calandra Sardine Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.sardinebk.com


Sardine is pleased to present Pencil in the Studio by Maria Calandra. This exhibition is a selection of the drawings that have been featured on her blog, also titled Pencil in the Studio. The show coincides with the two-year mark since the blogs’ conception and will be the first time they have been seen in an extensive survey. The exhibition opens Saturday, May 18th from 6 to 9 pm and will be up through June 16th.

With Pencil in the Studio, Maria Calandra discovers another way to look at the role of the studio in an artist’s development. Featuring the studios of some of the most dynamic emerging and established artists working today, her drawings are focused on being anthropological studies of her contemporaries. She usually spends an entire day with them drawing, observing, talking and writing. Not only does she render their works, supplies, and source materials, but she also hones in on what makes each of them naturally distinctive. Paintings in progress are stacked on paint cans, brushes are scattered about, pets hang out, and detritus piles up. It’s a humble exploration and exoneration of the present and a sweet vision of the studio as a location for the practice of success and failure.

The artists that she has featured in the series thus far: Andy Cross, Ariel Dill, Chris Martin, Christine Heindl, Chuck Webster, Daniel Heidkamp, EJ Hauser, Elisa Lendvay, Erik den Breejen, Inna Babaeva, Ivin Ballen, Jay Gaskill, Jess Fuller, JJ Manford, Joe Ballweg, Jon Lutz, Joshua Abelow, Jovi Schnell, Joy Curtis, Karla Wozniak, Katherine Bradford, Katherine Newbegin, Kees den Breejen, Kelly McRaven, Keltie Ferris, Lauren Luloff, Liz Ainslie, Matt Jones, Marnet Larson, Michael Berryhill, Michael Mahalchick, Mike Olin, Rob Nadeau, Ron Amstutz, Sarah Mattes, Tamara Gonzales, and Vince Contarino.

Maria Calandra lives and works in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of Cornell University MFA program and has exhibited with Norte Maar, Daily Operation, DNA Gallery, Shoot the Lobster and Storefront.

See Pencil in the Studio online at: pencilinthestudio.blogspot.com.

Sardine is located on the ground floor of 286 Stanhope Street between Wyckoff and Irving Avenues in Bushwick, Brooklyn, one block from the Dekalb L train and near the Knickerbocker M. For more information, please visit sardinebk.com. Contact: Lacey Fekishazy and Jon Lutz at sardinebk@gmail.com.



Bushwick / Ridgewood 286 Stanhope St., Ground Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11237 Saturday - Sunday from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
917-374-9431 sardinebk@gmail.com
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013

Book Launch: "Cosmic Apprentice," with Dorion Sagan Cabinet Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM www.cabinetmagazine.org


Please join us to celebrate the launch of Dorion Sagan’s new book Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science (University of Minnesota Press).

In the pursuit of knowledge, Dorion Sagan argues in this new collection of essays, scientific authoritarianism and philosophical obscurantism are equally formidable obstacles to discovery. As science has become more specialized and more costly, its questing spirit has been constrained by dogma. And philosophy, perhaps the discipline best placed to question orthodoxy, has retreated behind dense theoretical language and arcane topics of learning.

Guided by a capacious, democratic view of science inspired by the examples set by his late parents—Carl Sagan, who popularized the study of the cosmos, and Lynn Margulis, an evolutionary biologist who repeatedly clashed with the scientific establishment—Sagan draws on classical and contemporary philosophy to intervene in often-charged debates on thermodynamics, linear and nonlinear time, purpose, ethics, the links between language and psychedelic drugs, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the occupation of the human body by microbial others. Informed by a countercultural sensibility, a deep engagement with speculative thought, and a hardheaded scientific skepticism, Sagan advances controversial positions on such seemingly sacrosanct subjects as evolution and entropy. At the same time, he creatively considers a wide range of thinkers, from Socrates to Bataille and Descartes to von Uexküll, to reflect on sex, biopolitics, and the free will of Kermit the Frog.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dorion Sagan is an award-winning science writer, editor, and theorist. He has written or coauthored more than two dozen books on culture, evolution, and the history and philosophy of science, including What Is Life?, Into the Cool, and Death and Sex. His writing has been published in the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, Wired, Natural History, Times Higher Education, Smithsonian, and Cabinet.

Beer for this event has been lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery.


Gowanus 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn NY, 11217718-222-8434
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013
Lorna Williams, Untitled, 2013, mixed media, dimensions variable.

APPOSITIONS: STILL / BIRTH / SHIT Lorna Williams DODGEgallery Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 29, 2013 www.dodge-gallery.com


DODGEgallery is pleased to present appositions: still / birth / shit, Lorna Williams’ second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Williams’ anthropomorphic sculptures are meticulous amalgams of unlikely and often provocative material juxtapositions. In appositions: still / birth / shit, Williams continues to use the body as her primary subject while focusing on the specific and essential process of birthing and digesting. Plastic teeth, locked hair, root systems, pipes, stones, thorns and snakeskin, are some of the artist’s materials, assembled to form the material ecosystem of each piece and a collective narrative throughout the body of work.

In stool, fabricated from the carcass of a taxidermied reptile, Williams compresses metaphors of life, death and re-animation into the form of a digestive track. The piece bears an intimate acceptance of life cycles, as the snake was once the artist’s pet living, dying and then re-born. Revealing what is literally hidden beneath the surface, Williams’ unflinchingly embraces bodily function. The serpentine creature is known for its own unique digestive processes; an ideal material for the twisting, turning intestines. stool alludes to human movement through life—gathering, breaking apart, taking what is essential and discarding the waste.

A large assembled rooster, Ro-mer-ee’s Plumage, stands perched atop a pedestal in the gallery. Made from bike parts, violins, chains, rooster feet, pen tips and razor blades, Ro-mer-ee’s Plumage greets the viewer at eye level. Created in response to the work of Romare Bearden, an artist whose process inspires Williams, the piece is an assemblage of striking materials that call attention and shift focus from different vantage points. Williams writes,

Like Bearden, who allows his viewers to experience the creative process of transformation in his work through his shifting sense of scale, his layered images and his considered timing within his compositions, I want viewers to see my hand in the assemblage of these materials and to consider the anatomy and processes of play and experimentation involved in drawing with various objects.

Created for The Harlem Studio Museum’s Bearden Project, and here exhibited in the context of the artist’s work, Ro-mer-ee’s Plumage shows Williams’ interest in what lies beneath the surface, allowing the insides to play an equal role to the decorative “plumage”.

Raised in New Orleans, Williams has been deeply influenced by music and performance. In her first video work to-date, Williams collaborated with filmmaker/artist tiona m. for a silent film. Peeling back the layers between the finished object and maker, the video depicts Williams in the creative process. Here her body “digests” her own work, adding, fragmenting, re-forming and birthing.

Williams’ collaged sculptures serve as a means to express specific, and at times, personal narratives alongside those of the collective human condition. Focusing on the processes of digestion and birthing, she offers the matter-of-fact reality of each as a means to express their symbiotic relationship. While birthing creates and builds life, digestion consumes, breaks down and extracts; yet ultimately they find similarity in the simple event of expelling. Williams’ artistic process itself is grounded in both mechanisms as she accumulates, fuses, extracts, creates, and releases.

Lorna Williams was born in 1986 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010. She studied at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia. In 2009, she attended the Norfolk Program at Yale University. She has exhibited at institutions including Studio Museum Harlem, Montserrat College of Art and the Fine Arts Center, New Orleans. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, FLATT, Boston Magazine, Concierge Magazine, and The Boston Globe. Williams has received numerous awards and recognitions including Presidential Scholars Program Semifinalist, ARTS Recognition Finalist, National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Finalist, Daniel Price Memorial Scholarship, and Annual Black History Art Contest Winner. Her work is included in the collection of Wellington Management. Williams lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.


The East Village / Lower East Side 15 Rivington Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Saturday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
212-228-5122 info@dodge-gallery.com
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013

Old Dog Followed by a conversation with Chris Berry, La Frances Hui, and Pema Tseden MoMA Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 18, 2013, 7:00 PM www.moma.org


Old Dog
2011. China. Directed by Pema Tseden. With Yanbum Gyal, Droluma Kyab, Lochey. A young Tibetan decides to sell his family’s nomad mastiff, an exotic dog that fetches a fortune from wealthy Chinese. His aging father opposes him, leading to a series of tragicomic events that threaten to tear the family apart. Pema Tseden is the leading filmmaker of a newly emerging Tibetan cinema, and the first director in China to film his movies entirely in the Tibetan language. His third feature, Old Dog employs an observational documentary approach that soberly depicts the erosion of Tibetan culture under the pressures of contemporary society. Courtesy of dGenerate/Icarus. 88 min.

In the Film exhibition Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions

Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1


Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Screening Saturday May 18, 2013
Video still: "Pledged" by Celeste Fichter

TIPPING POINT TRT. 76:47 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Saturday May 18, 2013, 7:00 PM Additional Screenings: Saturday May 25, 2013 from 4:30 PM
www.videodumbo.org


This screening is part of the 8th edition of video_dumbo. On view at Eyebeam, from May 16 - 25, 2013.

SCREENING PROGRAM: TIPPING POINT TRT. 76:47 min.

"Video Apathy" Toby Huddlestone 07:24 min.
"Transmissions from Alphaville redux" Meena Nanji & Tommy Gear 21:00 min.
"Pledged" Celeste Fichter 02:46 min.
"Excavation No.2" Nicola Bergström Hansen 05:07 min.
"The DUD Effect" Deimantas Narkevicius 16:00 min.
"Un Archipel" Clément Cogitore 11:00 min.
"I'm Not The Enemy" Bjørn Melhus 13:30 min.

For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-tipping-point.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html


Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Editor's Pick
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013

Stage Marthe Elise Stramrud and Megan Hays Sadie Halie Projects Curated by Jennie Ekstrand and Patrick Gantert Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - May 20, 2013 www.sadiehalieprojects.com


Sunset Park 120 32nd Street, Garage, Brooklyn NY, 11232 608-738-9060 sadiehalie@gmail.com
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013

Sculpture After the Apocalypse Karen Azoulay Primetime Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM On View May 10, 2013 - June 06, 2013 www.p-r-i-m-e-t-i-m-e.com


Redhook 135 Hutington Street, Brooklyn NY, 11231 Saturday from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
203-610-5038 i-n-f-o@p-r-i-m-e-t-i-m-e.com
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013

2013 White Columns Benefit Exhibition + Auction Featuring a special project to benefit Meredith Monk. White Columns Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, 7:00 PM On View May 03, 2013 - May 18, 2013 www.whitecolumns.org


2013 White Columns Benefit Exhibition + Auction

Featuring a special project to benefit Meredith Monk.

Works on view at White Columns: Friday, May 3 – Saturday, May 18, 2013.

Auction: Saturday, May 18 at 7pm – tickets required.

Hours: Monday – Saturday, noon to 6pm or by appointment.


White Columns is please to announce its 2013 Benefit Exhibition and Auction. Featuring donated works by more than 90 contemporary artists the Benefit Exhibition will open on May 3 and conclude with a live auction on May 18. Proceeds from the Benefit will support White Columns’ programs and services to artists and the public.

The Meredith Monk Project:

As a part of the 2013 Benefit we have commissioned 20 artists - including. Tauba Auerbach, Martin Creed, Wade Guyton, Elizabeth Peyton, and Terry Winters - to create a new work in response to four recordings by the legendary composer, singer, and choreographer Meredith Monk. The resulting artworks will be on view in the Benefit Exhibition and will be sold at the May 18th Auction. 50% of the proceeds from the sale of these works will help directly support Meredith Monk, and 50% will help support White Columns. This fall White Columns will release Monk’s four recordings as a 12” vinyl E.P. on its record label ‘The Sound of White Columns.’

(Each year White Columns will raise funds to support the work of a significant individual artist through its Benefit Exhibition and Auction. In 2012 White Columns commissioned new works in support of the artist, musician and poet Malcolm Mooney.)

Images of all donated works can be viewed online from May 3.

The 2013 White Columns Benefit Exhibition and Auction has been generously sponsored by: MARLBOROUGH CHELSEA


Greenwich Village / The West Village 320 West 13th Street, Enter on Horatio Street, between Hudson and 8th Ave, New York NY, 10014 Monday - Saturday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
212-924-4212 info@whitecolumns.org
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013

EN PLEIN AIR Rick Silva TRANSFER Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 08, 2013 www.transfergallery.com


The En Plein Air series is an ongoing body of work that has been growing online since January of 2012. The images in this series are created at the locations they depict — an encounter between the tools of digital communication and the unbuilt environment.

From Nicholas O'Brien, net-based artist, curator, and writer :::

Rick Silva’s work takes the historical precedent of Plein Air painting as a point of departure to explore the possibility of the sublime within digital contexts. Through replacing the canvas and easel with software and a computer, Silva delicately repositions digital technology out in the wilderness in a gesture that is once familiar and foreign. When amassed together, his ongoing series En Plein Air positions Silva’s work as a standout collection of meditative clearings from the ever-wild kudzu of media art.

RICK SILVA is an Assistant Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Oregon. His work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including Transmediale (Germany), Futuresonic (U.K.), and Sonar (Spain). His research has been supported through grants and commissions from places such as Rhizome and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

More information at ricksilva.net

A digital publication from Nicholas O’Brien will accompany this exhibition.


Bushwick / Ridgewood 1030 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11211 Saturday from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
transfer.gallery@gmail.com
Performance Saturday May 18, 2013
Image courtesy of Sarah Halpern

The Black Bird live moving image and sound performance by Sarah Halpern Sarah Halpern Microscope Gallery Performance Saturday May 18, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM www.microscopegallery.com


Microscope Gallery is pleased to present “The Black Bird” an evening of moving image and sound performances by Sarah Halpern. The program consists of three works utilizing 16mm film, film projector, or handmade 35mm film slides and relating to Halpern’s current exhibition at the gallery Paper Plexus. The performances deal heavily with iconic objects, sounds and words, through the use cut outs and collage. Musician Matt Wellins joins Halpern on the final piece of the night.
 
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SARAH HALPERN is an artist working with 16mm film, collage on paper, 35mm slides, music and performance. Her work is largely focused on cinematic time and the active role of the viewer. Halpern’s work been shown previously at venues including The Museum of Moving Image, The Kitchen, Participant Inc, Anthology Film Archives, and Microscope Gallery. Halpern holds a B.A. in Film and Electronic Arts from Bard College. 

More info and full program available at www.microscopegallery.com


Bushwick / Ridgewood 4 Charles Place, Brooklyn, NY New York, 11221347-925-1433 info@microscopegallery.com
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013

FOE 4 REAL Van Hanos, Alex Perweiler and Joe Joe Graham-Felsen Know More Games Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 www.KNOWMOREGAMES.com


Redhook 561 Clinton Street, Brooklyn NY, 11231 Saturday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
203-610-5038 knowmoregames@gmail.com
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013
Corydon Cowansage, Mark Dorf, Shawn Powell

Surface Intentions Corydon Cowansage, Mark Dorf and Shawn Powell Harbor Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.harborbk.com


Surface Intentions features three artists who re-examine the tradition of landscape painting to explore the urban, suburban and technological perspectives of our surroundings. Concepts of surface, facade, and perception materialize in the form of monumental paintings and altered photographs. Cowansage’s magnified suburban elements edge into the realm of the sublime while Dorf quantifies and reconsiders the natural environment through digital means. Powell’s surfaces speak to the urban experience, combining interior and exterior environments to create a synthesized world. Landscapes are constructed of elements from our daily lives and set slightly askew. Together the three present an ambiguous view of the world that questions the habitat we take for granted.

Cowansage transforms banal elements of suburban architecture, such as patio fencing, rooftop shingles, and astro turf into vast geometric landscapes. These motifs are extended beyond their normal function to imply a rhythmic emptiness that confounds ideas about home. Dorf studies the rift in understanding that occurs when nature is represented through scientific and mathematical concepts. Wilderness is interrupted with quantifying structural elements, creating a conversation between what is calculated and what is experienced. Powell invites the viewer to peer through windows and over walls into the domestic and urban worlds of his paintings. The surfaces he renders appear familiar, but are exacerbated to intensify their visual presence implying confinement and barriers.


Bushwick / Ridgewood 17-17 Troutman Street, #258, Queens NY, 11385 Saturday - Sunday from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
347-460-7360 info@harborbk.com
Opening Saturday May 18, 2013
Image: Matthew Matthew, On a Human Scale, interactive musical instrument, 2013

DATE AN ARTIST A Collaborative Romantic Event BHQFU Opening Saturday May 18, 2013, from 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM On View May 18, 2013 www.bhqfu.org


Please join us on May 18th for Date An Artist, a special exhibition and party celebrating the close of the spring BHQFU semester. Hosted by Chris Bogia & Gabrielle Mertz, the event will feature a Collaboration exhibition, photo booth, dancing, and refreshments.

The exhibition will feature works from the Collaboration course led by Gabrielle Mertz. The show includes new work representing a range of media and different cooperative approaches, from a collaborative video installation, an interactive percussive musical instrument, sculpture/object exchange series, a twitterconnected software game, and other projects. Artists participating in the exhibition include Sofia Pia Belenky, Michael Fleit, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos, Lauren Krukowski, Matthew Matthew, Regi Metcalf, Beth Miller, Anastasia Mouyis, Rachel O’Meara, Andrew Ritchie, Kate Ruck, Shira Schwarz, Nicholas VanVoorthuysen, and Kioka Williams.

The event will also include a photo booth for attendees to contribute romantic (or otherwise) portraits, as well as music and dancing organized by Chris Bogia and the Artists course.


The East Village / Lower East Side 34 Ave A., 3rd Floor, New York NY, 10009 bruceuniversity@gmail.com
Screening Saturday May 18, 2013

The New Turbo Film by Alterazioni Video SURFING WITH SATOSHI Ramiken Crucible Screening Saturday May 18, 2013, 9:00 PM www.ramikencrucible.com


The New Turbo Film by Alterazioni Video

SURFING WITH SATOSHI

Puerto Rico at his best
(drinks on the house)

SATURDAY MAY 18 2013
9pm

in the parking lot across the street from the gallery
at the north-east corner of Suffolk and Grand

Surfing with Satoshi the trailer

turbo party following the screening


Ramiken Crucible
389 Grand Street, New York NY
www.ramikencrucible.com


The East Village / Lower East Side 389 Grand Street, New York NY, 10002917-434-4245 ramiken@ramikencrucible.com
Screening Saturday May 18, 2013
Video still: "The Centrifugue Brain Project" by Till Nowak

SPACE SHIFTERS TRT. 42:06 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Saturday May 18, 2013, 9:00 PM Additional Screenings: Saturday May 25, 2013 from 6:30 PM
www.videodumbo.org


This screening is part of the 8th edition of video_dumbo. On view at Eyebeam, from May 16 - 25, 2013.

SCREENING PROGRAM: SPACE SHIFTERS TRT. 42:06 min.

"The Centrifugue Brain Project" Till Nowak 06:35 min.
"Bloom" Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller 06:12 min.
"Horizon" Joshua Thorson 13:00 min.
"Social Netwalks" Ralph Kistler 7:39 min
"Restless" David Politzer 06:40 min.
"A to A" Johann Lurf 05:00 min.
"Tell me a Story" James Prevett 0:44 min.

For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-space-shifters.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html


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