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Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
STREAMING MARATHON EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Sunday May 19, 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
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
Video still: "Someone Else's Project" by Shirin Mozaffari
MEANS FROM AN END TRT. 78:09 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Sunday May 19, 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.
PROGRAM 11: MEANS FROM AN END TRT. 78:09 min.
"All Restrictions End" Reza Haeri 30:00 min.
"State-theatre #2 Tehran" Constanze Fischbeck & Daniel Kötter 24:00 min.
"Someone Else's Project" Shirin Mozaffari 04:39 min
"Excursions in the Dark" Kaya Behkalam 19:30 min.
For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-means-from-an-end.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.htm
Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
JAMAICA BAY LIVES MoMA PS1 VW DOME 2 Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org
Documentary producer Dan Hendrick discusses his film in progress, Jamaica Bay Lives, which was started in August 2011. Filmed before, during and after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, it shows the history of the bay and the role that it plays in the lives of the dozens of neighborhoods surrounding it.
Rest Of Queens Beach 94th Street and Shore Frong Parkway, Rockaway NY, 11693718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Part 3) MoMA Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 1:00 PM www.moma.org
Followed by a discussion with Sukhdev Sandhu, author, film critic, Associate Professor of English, and Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Part 3)
2003. China. Directed by Wang Bing. The most monumental achievement in the Chinese new documentary movement to date, Wang Bing’s three-part, nine-hour portrait of an industrial wasteland made the top 100 in the 2012 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll. Once the heart of state-run heavy industry, Tiexi district, in the northeastern city of Shenyang, is now a scene of decay, as economic reforms, bankruptcies, relocation, and demolition have left many factories empty and entire communities jobless. Filmed over two years, the film is a testament to Chinese documentarians’ commitment to a deceptively simple film technique, one that patiently peels away everyday surfaces to reveal rich layers of history and culture. Courtesy of Documentary Educational Resources. In Mandarin; English subtitles. 186 min.
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Reading Sunday May 19, 2013
Sasha and Emma book cover; Karen Avrich. Photo by Kyle Froman
Reading and Book Signing: Karen Avrich Brooklyn Museum Reading Sunday May 19, 2013, 2:00 PM www.brooklynmuseum.org
Join Karen Avrich as she reads from her new biography, Sasha and Emma, about the intertwined lives of anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. After meeting in a Lower East Side coffee shop in 1889, Goldman and Berkman forged a fifty-year relationship as friends, lovers, and comrades. This dual biography looks not only at their lives, but at the importance of the anarchist movement they shaped. Book signing to follow. Free with Museum admission.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Rest Of Brooklyn 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY, 11238718-638-5000
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
COURTESY JOHN GIANVITO
JOHN GIANVITO: VAPOR TRAIL (CLARK) EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 2:00 PM www.momaps1.org
Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010) by John Gianvito, video, 264 min, Philippines/United States
“A devastating and insightful condemnation of the dangerous U.S. military practices that have recklessly exposed an entire community in the Philippines to a host of fatal toxins. Centered around an abandoned U.S. military base, Gianvito’s gripping exploration of the military’s lack of regulation and responsibility uses the horrific environmental contamination as a starting point for a meditation on the crippling effects of colonialism and unchecked militarism. A skillful melding of cinema-vérité, interviews, historical texts and landscape photography, Vapor Trail is a unique and urgent political intervention.” – Harvard Film Archive
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013
Artists in Conversation: David Brooks and Mark Dion Storm King Art Center Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013, 2:00 PM www.stormking.org
Join artists David Brooks and Mark Dion for an engaging conversation about their work, followed by a walking tour to Brooks’s site-specific project, A Proverbial Machine in the Garden.
David Brooks has created a site specific installation, A Proverbial Machine in the Garden, for the 2013 season at Storm King. His artistic practice is inseparable from his deep interest in the cultural issues and practices of environmental preservation. Brooks has spent a great amount of time in both South Florida and the Amazon rainforest—two sites of environmental richness that have become perilously threatened by accelerated human impact. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at Miami Art Museum; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Dallas Contemporary; Bold Tendencies, London; James Cohan Gallery Shanghai; Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK; and, in New York, at SculptureCenter, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, and Marlborough Chelsea. He was featured in the 2010 Greater New York at MoMA PS1 and in the 2012 Changwon Sculpture Biennale in South Korea. In 2011, he showed his critically acclaimed Desert Rooftops in the Last Lot in Times Square, sponsored by Art Production Fund. Forthcoming shows include solo exhibitions at American Contemporary, New York and the Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg. Brooks received his BFA from the Cooper Union in New York, and his MFA from Columbia University. He lives and works in New York City.
Mark Dion examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, he says, is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention. Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between objective (rational) scientific methods and subjective (irrational) influences. The artist’s spectacular and often fantastical curiosity cabinets, modeled on Wunderkabinetts of the 16th Century, exalt atypical orderings of objects and specimens. By locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge about nature, Mark Dion questions the authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society. He has received numerous awards, including the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001). He has had major exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum (2006); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004); Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2003); and Tate Gallery, London (1999). Neukom Vivarium (2006), a permanent outdoor installation and learning lab for the Olympic Sculpture Park, was commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum. Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut. Dion lives and works in Pennsylvania.
The Tri-State Area Old Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville NY, 10953845-534-3115 info@stormkingartcenter.org
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
Assunta Sera, Globular Clusters, 2012, Oil stick and vine charcoal on prepared paper, 42 x 102 inches, Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Shannon Leslie.
Assunta Sera: Strong Attraction Hunterdon Art Museum Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 30, 2013 www.hunterdonartmuseum.org
Assunta Sera's ascent to painting stars and supernovae started not in open fields or an observatory, but in one of the world's busiest transportation hubs: New York City's Grand Central Station.
Sera, whose solo exhibition "Strong Attraction" opens at the Hunterdon Art Museum May 19, recalls first stepping into the main concourse of Grand Central Station when she was nine years old. Her family had just emigrated from Italy en route to Michigan. Years later, the budding artist returned to the terminal on her way to earning a Masters' in Fine Art from New York University, and was entranced. She later worked on a series of paintings about Grand Central, which must have pleased the eyes of someone in the Mass Transit authority because Sera was selected to create a painting of the recently renovated station to be used as a poster.
"The painting is representational," Sera said. "It has an inclusion of the celestial star ceiling and a young girl staring at its magnificence in the foreground." The original painting hangs in the MTA director's office.
About a dozen years ago, Sera's art literally left the station, and she began seeking new frontiers. She devoured books on art and science, including The Tao of Physics, in a search for universal meaning and imagination.
"It was exciting and mysterious," Sera said. Along her journey, she saw Passport to the Universe at the Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, and the voyage from Earth to the edge of the observable universe piqued her interest. "I knew I had found what I had been looking for," Sera said.
The results of her artistic journey can be viewed, for instance, in "Globular Clusters," which will be part of the "Strong Attraction" exhibition. The piece is a large paper drawing, inspired by matter that gathers into a cluster. Supernovae explode, pushing matter everywhere, and once it settles, attraction begins. "Matter agglomerates in space," Sera said, discussing the work. "Movement through space and time in a cosmic void set the framework for attracting, creating and destroying."
Through swirling forms, Sera asks viewers to see the universe as an abstract, ever-moving pattern that continues beyond visible borders.
Sera creates her work using oil sticks, preferring to draw with them and to mix different sized portions of oil stick and galkyd lite (a fast-drying, low-viscosity fluid). She'll mix multiple colors until arriving at a desired hue. "I always work with paper or canvas hanging on a studio wall, unless I'm working at home on a small drawing," Sera said. "Paint is applied with a brush or directly with the oil stick. I love the luminosity and translucency of color mixed with wax."
The opening reception for "Strong Attraction," which is free to all, will be Sunday, May 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. The exhibition closes June 30.
"Making marks on paper or canvas through an intuitive approach guides me to follow my interests and discover the known and the unknown," Sera said. "Drawing and painting is my joy."
The Tri-State Area 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton NJ, 08809 Tuesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
908-735-8415
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
In Motion: Videos by Noah Klersfeld Hunterdon Art Museum Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - September 08, 2013 www.hunterdonartmuseum.org
Visitors to downtown Clinton and the Hunterdon Art Museum are familiar with the nearby truss bridge which has spanned the south branch of the Raritan River for the past 143 years.
But now they'll be able to see the Lowthorp Truss Bridge inside the Museum and from the unique perspective of video artist Noah Klersfeld. Klersfeld has a talent for shooting images of familiar sites and, by compressing time and space, altering the familiar into something quite different. His work will be displayed in a solo exhibition titled "In Motion: Videos by Noah Klersfeld" at the Hunterdon Art Museum beginning Sunday, May 19.
To film the bridge, Klersfeld angled his camera down and shot the corrugated steel at deck level in a way that enabled cars to flow between the camera and the deck.
"You're seeing cars between me and the bridge," Klersfeld said. "My technique is to utilize every single shape as its own video layer so I draw out and separate every single shape."
Klersfeld painstakingly cut apart and played with the timing of the footage he shot at the bridge. "I'm shooting one static image - the bridge - and subdividing all the pieces and shattering it temporally," Klersfeld said. "I don't fabricate anything. If the image doesn't move, it looks the same, and if it does move it reorganizes itself. On the bridge you end up seeing random swatches of colors which are the doors of the cars passing by."
Klersfeld's interest in video art began as an offshoot of his career as an architect. The artist attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where students are encouraged to combine architecture with media classes. After graduating, Klersfeld found what he describes as a "standard corporate architecture job that I didn't like very much." He left that position and later became an associate partner at Manhattan-based Guy Nordenson and Associates Structural Engineers, but continued taking side art projects to stretch his imagination.
"I picked up video as a way to continue to think about architecture," he said. "I started shooting some videos that dealt with space a bit, and thinking about multiple cameras and synchronization. I started writing multiple screen pieces that would synchronize with one another, and that started to feel like I was getting back into planning again, which is architectural. An architectural building also tells its own story: It has a narrative, but it's also material and spatial and temporal."
The flurry of inspiration to squeeze time into space in a video image began for Klersfeld one snowy afternoon. He was staring out his studio window at a brick wall - what he terms the "classic New York City view" - during a torrential snowstorm, watching how the snowflakes' motion affected the view of the pattern of the bricks on the building.
"It was the first time I really saw motion and geometry on top of one another," Klersfeld said. He filmed the image and subdivided it brick by brick and then shifted the timing. The end result is a brick wall that doesn't appear different, but the snow is moving in different directions on every brick.
The process altered how Klersfeld measured and saw motion. While shooting this video, he began seeing the bricks as a quarter of a second or how much time it would take for a person or image to pass by those bricks. "It's as though I'm trying to turn space into time."
Viewers can also see how patterns will affect a video in another piece in the exhibition titled "LSC." For this video, Klersfeld filmed pedestrians and cars from the opposite side of a chain-link fence near the World Trade Center memorial site. By compressing time and space, the viewer sees a colorful rhythm of images through the fence links.
The Museum exhibition, "In Motion: Videos by Noah Klersfeld," will also feature two videos from his "Passive-Aggressive Series." Klersfeld shot random footage of activity on a busy Manhattan street or a subway car and afterwards added voice-over directions to the people in the videos. His entertaining commands make it appear as though he's directing a double-decker tour bus, pedestrians waving at his camera and whatever else passes by either of the three cameras he has focused on the intersection.
With this exhibition, three video projectors will be placed on low pedestals to encourage Museum visitors to pass in front of the screen and become a part of the action.
Special Video Class
Noah Klersfeld, along with producer Jim Pruznick, will be teaching an "Intro to Film and Video" class at our children's Summer Camp from July 8-12. Children, ages 12 to 15, can learn the basic elements of film and video. To enroll, call the Museum at 908-735-8415.
The Tri-State Area 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton NJ, 08809 Tuesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
908-735-8415
Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013
SAMUEL DELANY & KELLY LINK EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013, 3:00 PM www.momaps1.org
Samuel Delany is the author of science-fiction novels including Dhalgren and Babel-17. Kelly Link coedits Small Beer Press and has written three collections of fantastic short stories, most recently Pretty Monsters. They will discuss how we use and abuse the future.
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013
Nene Humphrey, Mapping: The Drift of the World (detail), 2011-13, mixed media, 18" x 18" x 4"
Nene Humphrey Artist Talk Lesley Heller Workspace Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013, 3:00 PM www.lesleyheller.com
The East Village / Lower East Side 54 Orchard Street, New York NY, 10002212-410-6120 lesley@lesleyheller.com
Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013
A Series of Alternating Uniform Spaces and Parts: Robert Otto Epstein and Amos Satterlee Closing and Talk AIRPLANE Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013, 3:00 PM www.airplaneunderbushwick.com
Join us on Sunday, May 19 for the closing of A Series of Alternating Uniform Spaces and Parts: Robert Otto Epstein and Amos Satterlee, with an informal talk/presentation on the inspirations and processes of these two fascinating artists.
light refreshments and snacks will be served.
Bushwick / Ridgewood 70 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn NY, 11206646-345-9394 airplanegallery@gmail.com
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
Video still: "The Shape of Our Best Intentions" by Megan and Murray McMillan
CAMERA OBSCURA TRT. 59:49 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Sunday May 19, 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.
PROGRAM 12: CAMERA OBSCURA TRT. 59:49 min.
"Inertia" Carlos Irijalba 04:20 min.
"The Shape of Our Best Intentions" Megan and Murray McMillan 06:09 min.
"Beirut" Mark Lewis 08:11 min.
"Smoker at Spitalfields" Mark Lewis 08:58 min.
"Zimmerreise" Giulio Squillacciotti 02:30 min.
For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-camera-obscura.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html
Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
Shanee Epstein at 440 Gallery
Off the Wall recent photographs and collages by Shanee Epstein Shanee Epstein 440 Gallery Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM On View May 16, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.440gallery.com
Shanee Epstein's solo show, Off the Wall, is a stark departure from her four earlier shows at 440 Gallery. This installation consists of large architectural photographs hung above small, collaged cigar boxes. One's initial impression might be that the work was made by two different artists. In a way, this is true. Almost every working artist struggles or experiments with conflicting impulses. Most leave that conflict in the studio and choose to show work that "hangs together". Epstein instead embraced this conflict. The abstract formal aesthetic of her photographs appear to be the antithesis of the colorful collaged boxes, but together they create a balanced whole. Off the Wall will be open to the public May 16 - June 23, 2013, with an opening reception on Sunday, May 19, 4:00-7:00 PM.
This new work came from a visit Epstein made to the Tel Aviv Art Museum's new building designed by the architect Preston Scott Cohen. Epstein was inspired by "the amazing experience of being in a space that at any moment I could stop and be within beautiful angles or views of gorgeous abstractions of line, shapes and tone. The light is poetic and dramatic. I found the beauty breathtaking in a formal aesthetic sense, but also moving in an emotional artistic sense."
Epstein's photographs capture the elegance of the architecture, but it is in the boxes that she incorporates and personalizes the experience. Epstein is a collage artist with an ongoing interest in the painted boxes of Richard Diebenkorn. With an affinity for the physicality of the materials, Epstein juxtaposed paper, fabric, photos and found material to create a unique three-dimensional space in each box. Incorporating images from Tel Aviv Museum with other collage elements, she creates depth, a sense of looking through exposed and concealed areas. In this spatial give and take, there is also the tension between the simple and the complex, the narrative and the abstract, and the geometry of architecture with the sensuality of color and texture.
Park Slope 440 6th Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11215 Thursday - Friday from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
718-499-3844 440gallery@gmail.com
Reading Sunday May 19, 2013
jack. a new publication by Mika Gellman from NM Norte Maar Reading Sunday May 19, 2013, 4:00 PM www.nortemaar.org
Bushwick / Ridgewood 83 Wyckoff Avenue, #1B, Brooklyn NY, 11237646-361-8512
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
Language Objects: Letters in Space, 1970 - 2013 Robert Grenier SOUTHFIRST Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.southfirst.org
SOUTHFIRST is proud to present "Language Objects: Letters in Space, 1970 - 2013," a retrospective exhibition tracking (via notebooks, holographic & published texts, archival materials and works on paper) the evolution from early typewriter-generated forms to more recent four-color drawing poems in the work of American poet Robert Grenier between 1970 - 2013. The show will be on view from May 18 – June 30, 2013.
On Sunday, May 19, 4 - 6 PM, Robert Grenier will introduce the 'idea' for the show, and speak to/read from & provisionally 'interpret' certain of the materials set forth in the room.
Over the past 40 years, poet/artist Robert Grenier (b. 1941) has constantly pushed poetry into new frontiers of practice and utterance. His handwritten poems, produced in the last two decades, cross the upper limit of inscription to be both writing and drawing. His works include Series (This Press, 1978), SENTENCES (Whale Cloth Press, 1978), Oakland (Tuumba Press, 1980), A Day at the Beach (Roof Books, 1984), Phantom Anthems (O Books, 1986), and OWL/ON/BOU/GH (Post-Apollo Press, 1997), as well as more recent online color drawing poem sequences like POND 1 and PENN SCANS. A graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Grenier has received two NEA fellowships for poetry writing and a 2013 grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. An archive of his work is housed in the Stanford Libraries' Department of Special Collections. He lives in northern Vermont.
SOUTHFIRST, founded in 2000, is located at 60 N6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn between Wythe and Kent Avenues. Gallery hours are Fri., Sat. and Sun. from 1 - 6 PM and by appointment. Subway: L train to Bedford Avenue. For more information, please contact Maika Pollack at 718 599 4884 or info (@) southfirst.org.
Williamsburg 60 N6th Street, Brooklyn NY, 11211 Friday - Sunday from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
718-599-4884 info@southfirst.org
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
Video still: "The Anunciation" by Eija-Liisa Ahtila
BELIEVERS TRT. 118:46 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 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: BELIEVERS TRT. 118:46 min.
"2+0+1+2+1+2+2+1" Elisabeth Smolarz 02:21 min.
"Belief" Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead 13:15 min.
"The Anunciation" Eija-Liisa Ahtila 36:00 min.
"Afterlife" Bjørn Melhus 07:10 min.
"Casting Jesus" Christian Jankowski 60:00 min.
For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-believers.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html
Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
"Decisiveness" Group Exhibition. Assigned Titles. Limited Time-Frame. Installation as Content Creation . helper Curated by ruSalon Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 15, 2013 www.helperprojects.com
ruSalon and helper are excited to present
"Decisiveness,"
a group exhibition hosted by helper.
May 19th 2013 - June 15th 2013
An Opening Reception will be held on Sunday May 19th from 5pm to 8pm.
The titles of the artworks in the show were provided by ruSalon to the artists by way of an invitation:
“Subjectivity is an Irreducible Element of Objectivity”
“The Maintenance of Unaware Preconceptions”
“That Which We Can Only Call Something Else”
“Include the Knower in the Known”
“Analogy Making as Perception”
“We Don't Control the Controls”
“No Amount of Just Looking”
“The Syllogism Worked Out”
“The Adjectivelessly Banal”
“The Truth of Accountants”
“Capitalized Prepositions”
“Reflexivity is Only a Foil”
“As Serious as Your Life”
“Uni Asymmetric III-IV”
“In the Fog 1, 11, 111.”
“Faithful Re-creation”
“Space is Only Noise”
“So it Comes to This”
“Leave of Presence”
“Oblique Strategy”
“A Real Possibility”
“Element of Style”
“Applied Poetics”
“Autodisabusal”
“Press Release”
“(a/b)/B”
“Outro”
“Fey”
The titles are meant to be suggestive to the artists -- and the collection of
phrases is meant to be suggestive to everybody. They are intended to conjure a meaningful mental-space; implying themes pertaining to the operation of language in describing art, intelligibility as a property of artworks, reflexivity, and, perhaps, the status of intention and meaning.
We do not know what work will be included, nor what kind of work it will be: nor are we certain how many invited artists will choose to participate. We do not now how full or empty the space will seem nor how colorful the show will be. We do not know how prevalent the human figure will be or processes of
photography, the variety of gestural lines or the nature of any allusions to unicorns.
Please contact us at info@rusalon.org or contact@helperprojects.com
ruSalon was formerly an exhibition space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Currently, ruSalon functions occasionally as art. rusalon.org
helper is an exhibition space located at 495 Rogers Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225. helperprojects.com
Crown Heights 495 Rogers Avenue, Ground Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11225 858-220-3628 contact@helperprojects.com
Performance Sunday May 19, 2013
Shipper In Jail / Ads For New Album / Six Sets Brendan Fowler UNTITLED Performance Sunday May 19, 2013, 5:30 PM Additional Performances: Friday May 10, 2013 from 5:30 PM
Sunday May 12, 2013 from 11:00 AM
Sunday May 12, 2013 from 5:30 PM
Friday May 17, 2013 from 2:30 PM
www.nyuntitled.com
Brendan Fowler
Shipper In Jail / Ads For New Album / Six Sets
May 5, 2013 – June 16, 2013
1. “I have worked for other artists and in galleries but have never been employed as anyone who writes condition reports. As such, I am often surprised to see very detailed reports for my sculptures when they are transported that read like 'frame is piercing other frame / plexi is cracked in 5 places / work is broken' etc. All of these moments that I'm sort of laboriously faking with these things art transporters will often very meticulously catalog, which I know that they must do to protect their ends, lest it should appear that they picked up 4 photographs from the gallery which somehow made it into this sculptural collision on the ride over to whomever they are delivering the work to. Joel and I started to joke about taking them literally — work is broken here, here and here — and then wondering what if these condition reports were really cover ups to cover the shippers accidents with the work? Who are these fucked up shippers breaking these perfectly fine framed photographs? We always joke that we have shipper problems.
A few years ago I made monochrome versions of my usual sort of pieces by silkscreening solid purple over the inkjet prints before they were framed and as well over the fronts of the frames themselves. How my work functions typically, or engages within histories of painting or sculpture, or considerations of how this body of work functions differently within those histories aside, we were joking about what kind of crazy fucked up shipper would pick up these four photographs and on the way to delivering them not only get them jammed into this sculpture, but would some how get the whole thing purple? That shipper would have to be fired, right? No, man, they’re going to jail!
Part of making the purple ones initially was to recycle the test prints and ‘bad’ prints and ‘mis-stained’ frames that occurred as byproduct from my regular working (these were the elements I printed over with solid purple), but more so I was curious to find out how these kind of image dependent sculptures would function if all the imagery was exhausted out of them, or literally blocked in, buried under, painted over. I chose purple the first time because it is my favorite color, and tried to match the shade to the color of smoothie I had been making every morning before going to work (...literally a choice based on taste...sorry... ). All told, I liked how the purple monochromes functioned and I wanted to make another set of monochromes, but another color this time. Black seemed a logical choice given how much I have been making work around/involving/dependent on the mirroring effects generated by framing dark images behind regular, glossy, UV plexiglass, turning the image into a mirror. Black'ed out ones could bring up a whole other set of questions. Is blacking out more something than purpling out? Less? Are these ‘murdered out’? (Technically, yes). Does the content in fact glare back at you with its eyes closed like an angry cartoon child in the very bright sun? Arms crossed, ‘hmmph’ing out? And what about this other color, the third set of monochromes, it is kind of like a different purple, different berry. Full disclosure, I’m not very good at seeing color.”
2. Ads for new album.
3. Several performances, And Martin (Brendan Fowler), all performances 20-30 minutes.
Friday 05/10/13 5:30 pm
Sunday 05/12/13 11:00 am
Sunday 05/12/13 5:30 pm
Friday 05/17/13 2:30 pm
Saturday 05/18/13 5:30 pm
Sunday 05/19/13 5:30 pm
The East Village / Lower East Side 30 Orchard Street, New York NY, 10002212-608-6002 info@nyuntitled.com
Editor's Pick
Alex Kwartler & Elke Solomon Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.klausgallery.com
The East Village / Lower East Side 54 Ludlow Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-777-7756 klaus@klausgallery.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
Alex Kwartler & Elke Solomon Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.klausgallery.com
The East Village / Lower East Side 54 Ludlow Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-777-7756 klaus@klausgallery.com
Editor's Pick
Start as Close to the End as Possible Alyssa Piro, Chris Jehly, Corey Riddell, Dana Sherwood, Forsyth Harmon, Jennifer Nuss, Jesse Weiss, Kiki Smith, Mark Dion and Melis Bürsin Torrance Shipman Gallery Curated by Nathan Catlin Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.torranceshipmangallery.com
Start as Close to the End as Possible
A show of narrative works on paper
Curated by Nathan Catlin
With works by:
Alyssa Piro
Chris Jehly
Corey Riddell
Dada Sherwood
Forsyth Harmon
Jennifer Nuss
Jesse Weiss
Kiki Smith
Mark Dion
Melis Bürsin
Opening on Sunday May 19th from 6-9
Torrance Shipman Gallery
219 36th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11232
The show will be up from:
May 18th - June 16th
Saturday and Sunday 12-6
and weekdays by appointment.
Sunset Park 219 36th Street, Brooklyn NY, 11232 Saturday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
torranceshipmangallery@gmail.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
Jesse Weiss
Start as Close to the End as Possible Alyssa Piro, Chris Jehly, Corey Riddell, Dana Sherwood, Forsyth Harmon, Jennifer Nuss, Jesse Weiss, Kiki Smith, Mark Dion and Melis Bürsin Torrance Shipman Gallery Curated by Nathan Catlin Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.torranceshipmangallery.com
Start as Close to the End as Possible
A show of narrative works on paper
Curated by Nathan Catlin
With works by:
Alyssa Piro
Chris Jehly
Corey Riddell
Dada Sherwood
Forsyth Harmon
Jennifer Nuss
Jesse Weiss
Kiki Smith
Mark Dion
Melis Bürsin
Opening on Sunday May 19th from 6-9
Torrance Shipman Gallery
219 36th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11232
The show will be up from:
May 18th - June 16th
Saturday and Sunday 12-6
and weekdays by appointment.
Sunset Park 219 36th Street, Brooklyn NY, 11232 Saturday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
torranceshipmangallery@gmail.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
Image Credit: Jomar Statkun
Rock Shop Nadja Frank Denny Gallery Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.dennygallery.com
Denny Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in the United States of Nadja Frank, titled Rock Shop and running from May 18 to June 16, 2013.
Nadja Frank works in the space between painting, sculpture and the architectural environment. The work in her new exhibition, Rock Shop, originated during the artist’s travels across the United States, and focuses on unpopulated areas of the High Desert. Traveling is an important part of her process, as her works maintain a dialogue with the outside world. The relationship between indoor and outdoor, free and enclosed, natural and studio space, is central to Frank’s practice. This produces a tension in the works between their natural and imaginative features, requiring viewers to ask a question about their true source. Her work explores how we experience landscape: visually by moving in time and space, in our interior imaginations, and through ubiquitous images.
Rock Shop displays a series of new paintings alongside of a large-scale sculptural intervention in the gallery space. Each painting is made of a specific sample of earth, found and collected by the artist during her recent travels. By making paintings, the artist is revisiting her earlier practice, paralleling the space’s regression to nature as it is subsumed by prehistoric materials and forms. The second part of the exhibition is a large scale installation, the Rock. Although the sculpture reaches toward a single peak, it is divided into four parts. The viewer is encouraged to walk into the interior world of the Rock and to experience the many images it presents. Set on casters, the pieces of the Rock move, encouraging a spirit of playfulness while engendering a sense of the shifts in geological time.
Nadja Frank was born in 1980 in Lohr am Main, Germany, and lives in New York City. Frank received her Diploma in Fine Arts with Honors from Hochschule fur bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany in 2008, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. She has exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at 401contemporary Berlin/London (Berlin), Margini Arte Contemporanea (Massa, Italy), Galerie Conradi (Hamburg), and in group exhibitions at Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bonn), Kunstverein Hamburg, Kolbe Museum (Berlin), Chelsea Art Museum (New York), and Socrates Sculpture Park (New York).
The East Village / Lower East Side 261 Broome Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-226-6537 email@dennygallery.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
David X. Levine, "John Williams Stoner", 2013. Colored pencil, collage gouache on paper, 19in x23in
Eat and Die Ross Simonini and David X. Levine Denny Gallery Curated by Molly Rand Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.dennygallery.com
By Ross Simonini
After Molly asked me to show some drawings in a two-person show with David, I took a trip over to his studio. He works in a clean, compact, windowless box of a room in TriBeCa, where he’s been for a little over a decade, and his artwork is, in some ways, a reflection of this environment. It’s tight, economical, without clutter, and it’s created mostly with a single medium: colored pencil, which he applies for up to ten hours a day, until he’s built up a vibrating texture of color. David showed me hundreds of drawings at his studio and the work is all like this - bold, and fastidious with a singularity of vision.
I’ve always dreamt of having this kind of monastic, consistent focus, but I am, it looks like, a different kind of artist. I work across mediums and tend to find inspiration in distraction, which might be a signifier of my younger, internet-sodden generation. (David and I are about 20 years apart in age.) I’ll spend my day sliding between writing, painting, drawing, and making music, and I like it when the artwork looks like the product of this kind of activity, like it’s an object that comes out of a multifarious life. This is part of the reason why I end up using food in my work, because it’s a pigment I already have around and inside of me.
All of these interests are, in some abstracted way, in the process of my drawings, but David arranges his cultural addiction on the surface of his work. He’ll use iconic images of Amy Winehouse and Brian Wilson in a collage, maybe as a sort of dedication, it’s not clear. This show includes a work with an obituary of the rock writer, Paul Williams, and David mixes it among clippings of Artforum and the New York Times, which he’s made unrecognizable by his careful selection of solid-color chunks. For him, all of these elements are connected, and the act of choosing them, and placing them, is a path toward transforming them into precious, radiant objects.
Choice is something I’m usually trying to avoid. I don’t particularly enjoy decision-making, so I find any kind of stimulus around me to make the decisions for me. Because of this, the drawings end up as documentations of searching, failing, accidents. I also try to draw non-visual, physical feelings, such as a nagging pain in my knee or the naturally erratic movements of a bus ride, or proprioception, which is the sensation of what it feels like to be inside your own body - a tricky kind of perception I learned about through Alexander Technique. Rather than try to ignore or overcome or work through these feelings I try to point the art right at the sensations and squeeze them for images.
It’s not always easy to find images, and as an artist, it’s important to meet other artists and look at your own work through their eyes. It lets that image-making part of your mind forget all its nervous habits. I experienced that with David, when I went to his studio and forgot about my own work for a second when I saw, in his drawings, a single, almost imperceptible imperfection, the way one of his lines appeared initially straight, but was revealed, over a nice long look, to have the wavering, breathing quality of being cut by hand.
David X. Levine was born in 1962 in Boston, MA, and lives in New York City. Levine is a self-taught artist. He has had 10 solos exhibitions in the past 10 years all over the U.S., from NYC to Las Vegas. He is currently preparing for a retrospective show at Boston University in 2014.
Ross Simonini was born in 1982 and is an artist, writer, and musician living in Brooklyn. He is a founder of the music and art project, NewVillager, and has shown his work and performed at Jack Hanley Gallery, Fredericks & Freiser, Human Resources Los Angeles and New York, Brooklyn Museum, Andy Warhol museum and elsewhere. He is the interviews editor of The Believer magazine, the executive producer of KCRW’s The Organist, and the creator of Blood Pillow, an audio project at Clocktower Gallery. He regularly contributes to the New York Times, Frieze, Interview, Art in America, and a book of his interviews with artists will be released by Picturebox.
The East Village / Lower East Side 261 Broome Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-226-6537 email@dennygallery.com
Editor's Pick
To The Friends Who Saved My Life Moyra Davey, Hervé Guibert, Heinz Peter-Knes, Jason Simon, Danh Vo̅, Francesca Woodman and Rona Yefman Callicoon Fine Arts Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 21, 2013 www.callicoonfinearts.com
“…I’m beginning a new book to have a companion, someone with whom I can talk, eat, sleep, at whose side I can dream and have nightmares, the only friend whose company I can bear at the moment.”
—Herve Guibert
To The Friends Who Saved My Life,
…an exhibition prompted by the introduction of Francesca Woodman’s work to Heinz Peter-Knes and Danh Vō. They in turn suggested a parallel to Hervé Guibert, unknown to us at the time. About a year later, we learned that Nightboat Books, the companion enterprise to Callicoon Fine Arts, was newly engaged with Guibert translations, a publication plan that in turn prompted the gallery to introduce Guibert’s photographs to an American audience. Shared images and writings closed a circle that we hadn’t known of before, including our own works, those of Rona Yefman, an Israeli photographer living in New York, Heinz, Danh, and a single Francesca Woodman, as our starting point.
Guibert’s best known book, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, is a memoir of crisis and roller-coaster years of rushing between doctors and lovers. With extraordinary recall and dispassion, that is, with a photographic voice, even towards his own diagnosis and decline, Guibert maps the early years of the AIDS crisis. In those times when human friends became “friend[s] whose company I can bear at the moment,” perhaps it was photography that eased them through the door.
Among the many formal similarities between Woodman and Guibert, it should be noted that both spent time living and photographing in Rome, where Heinz and Danh were recently in residence, and that the images Woodman and Guibert made there are steeped in its light and shadows. Rona Yefman did not know of Guibert, but she was known to us through her extended photo essay on her brother, and through a pair of striking one-minute films. Moyra’s bottles, Jason’s Polaroids and Rona’s sibling study, all keep the images close to home. Danh and Guibert absorb the Villa Medici residence through its physical effects upon its residents, past and present: the erotics of place carry by association, the knowledge of who was there before. So too does Heinz’s discovery of his own face plastered on the red-lit bathroom wall of a bar, and in his portfolio of black and white prints. Seemingly following an order that appeared in the unedited rolls of 35mm film, flared end frames included, Heinz’s box of prints return us back to the place of the photographer sorting the moments of seeing.
—Jason and Moyra
The East Village / Lower East Side 124 Forsyth Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
212-219-0326 info@callicoonfinearts.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
image: Hervé Guibert, Destruction des negatifs de jeunesse, 1986, gelatin silver print, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
To The Friends Who Saved My Life Moyra Davey, Hervé Guibert, Heinz Peter-Knes, Jason Simon, Danh Vo̅, Francesca Woodman and Rona Yefman Callicoon Fine Arts Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 21, 2013 www.callicoonfinearts.com
“…I’m beginning a new book to have a companion, someone with whom I can talk, eat, sleep, at whose side I can dream and have nightmares, the only friend whose company I can bear at the moment.”
—Herve Guibert
To The Friends Who Saved My Life,
…an exhibition prompted by the introduction of Francesca Woodman’s work to Heinz Peter-Knes and Danh Vō. They in turn suggested a parallel to Hervé Guibert, unknown to us at the time. About a year later, we learned that Nightboat Books, the companion enterprise to Callicoon Fine Arts, was newly engaged with Guibert translations, a publication plan that in turn prompted the gallery to introduce Guibert’s photographs to an American audience. Shared images and writings closed a circle that we hadn’t known of before, including our own works, those of Rona Yefman, an Israeli photographer living in New York, Heinz, Danh, and a single Francesca Woodman, as our starting point.
Guibert’s best known book, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, is a memoir of crisis and roller-coaster years of rushing between doctors and lovers. With extraordinary recall and dispassion, that is, with a photographic voice, even towards his own diagnosis and decline, Guibert maps the early years of the AIDS crisis. In those times when human friends became “friend[s] whose company I can bear at the moment,” perhaps it was photography that eased them through the door.
Among the many formal similarities between Woodman and Guibert, it should be noted that both spent time living and photographing in Rome, where Heinz and Danh were recently in residence, and that the images Woodman and Guibert made there are steeped in its light and shadows. Rona Yefman did not know of Guibert, but she was known to us through her extended photo essay on her brother, and through a pair of striking one-minute films. Moyra’s bottles, Jason’s Polaroids and Rona’s sibling study, all keep the images close to home. Danh and Guibert absorb the Villa Medici residence through its physical effects upon its residents, past and present: the erotics of place carry by association, the knowledge of who was there before. So too does Heinz’s discovery of his own face plastered on the red-lit bathroom wall of a bar, and in his portfolio of black and white prints. Seemingly following an order that appeared in the unedited rolls of 35mm film, flared end frames included, Heinz’s box of prints return us back to the place of the photographer sorting the moments of seeing.
—Jason and Moyra
The East Village / Lower East Side 124 Forsyth Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
212-219-0326 info@callicoonfinearts.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
6TH ANNUAL ARTS IN BUSHWICK BENEFIT GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 19, 2013
ARTS IN BUSHWICK ANNUAL BENEFIT
and BOS preview art sale
GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE
840 Broadway, 2nd floor
SUNDAY, MAY 19
6-9
FREE ADMISSION
Emceed by acclaimed performance artist Lisa Levy
Over 50 BOS participating artists will be showing in this years Benefit preview and art sale. This is a great opportunity to mingle with artists, curators, collectors, and BOS organizers, and to preview work prior to the BOS festival. All artwork will be sold by raffle. Tickets are $60 and the person with the first ticket drawn gets first choice, second gets second choice, and so on.
Raffle begins at 8:00
Loren Munk signed limited edition "Bushwick Map 2013" prints will be available for sale for $150 ($200 after the benefit)
BOS t-shirts by Kult Label for sale
An additional raffle will be held to win a $250 gift certificate to 3rd Ward.
French bistro style catering by Mominette and refreshments provided by Brooklyn Brewery and Big Tree Bottles.
Sponsored by Supreme Digital
Bushwick / Ridgewood 840 Broadway, 2nd floor, Brooklyn NY, 11206
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
THOMAS SPOERNDLE NOVELLA Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, 7:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.novellagallery.com
a kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange in a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading.
-Gertrude Stein
NOVELLA is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent works by Thomas Spoerndle. Continuing his exploration of abstraction through the use of simple systems to create complex visual experiences, this exhibition will feature a selection of new paintings as well as a site-specific wall drawing that will encompass the entirety of the exhibition space. The opening of this exhibition will also serve as a release for a new collaborative artist book with artist Justin Martin.
The East Village / Lower East Side 164 Orchard Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
646-361-4208 novellagallery@gmail.com
Performance Sunday May 19, 2013
SpeakChamber Constance DeJong Bureau Performance Sunday May 19, 2013, 7:00 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
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
Video still: "Familiars" by Torsten Zenas Burns
LE DERNIER CRI TRT. 55:09 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 7:00 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: LE DERNIER CRI TRT. 55:09 min.
"Transoxiana Dreams" Almagul Menlibayeva 23:00 min.
"Familiars" Torsten Zenas Burns 09:00 min.
"Chrystelle" Bubi Canal 02:01 min.
"Magma" Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir 05:19 min.
"Alice.M" Philpp Lachenmann 09:30 min.
For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-le-dernier-cri.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html
Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Performance Sunday May 19, 2013
Keigwin + Company Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Performance Sunday May 19, 2013, 7:30 PM Additional Performances: Monday May 20, 2013 from 7:30 PM
www.guggenheim.org
$35, $30 members
Box Office: 212 423 3587
Company dancers, plus special ballet guests, will preview excerpts from choreographer Larry Keigwin’s new work Canvas prior to its August premiere at the Vail International Dance Festival (VIDF). The company will also perform Rock Steady (2010) and Contact Sport (2012) in their entirety, and Keigwin will discuss his work with VIDF Artistic Director Damian Woetzel.
Canvas is commissioned by the Vail International Dance Festival with additional support from Works & Process at the Guggenheim.
The Upper East Side 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York NY, 10128212-423-3500
Performance Sunday May 19, 2013
Ice Cream Time Nick Didkovsky, Thomas Dimuzio, and Prism Quartet ROULETTE Performance Sunday May 19, 2013, 8:00 PM www.harvestworks.org
One of America’s foremost chamber ensembles, the PRISM Quartet is spearheading the US premiere of Ice Cream Time. Ice Cream Time is an evening-length work composed by Nick Didkovsky that uses electric guitar, an onslaught of saxophones, and real-time computer processing to explore the boundaries between human- and software-generated music. Ice Cream Time explores, bends, and shatters musical boundaries.
Ice Cream Time features electronics virtuoso/maverick Thomas Dimuzio, who processes the sound of the ensemble in real-time using unorthodox techniques he developed on the Kurzweil KS2600 sampler. Also in the mix, custom software programmed by Didkovsky using his own computer music language JMSL, which radically transforms the sound of his live electric guitar. The virtuosity of the PRISM Quartet is given plenty of space with a complex, high energy, and deep listening compositions that extend the possibilities of the ensemble.
Commissioned by the world-renowned ARTE Saxophone Quartet, Ice Cream Time was composed by Nick Didkovsky, best known for his work with Doctor Nerve, Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Meridian Arts Ensemble, and Bang On A Can. It has been performed in Europe and Quebec, but never in the USA.
http://www.punosmusic.com/pages/icecreamtime/
Ice Cream Time is available on CD from New World Records (NWR 80667), http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=81499
Rest Of Brooklyn 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11217
Opening Monday May 20, 2013
INTERNET WEEK NEW YORK IWNY HQ at the Metropolitan Pavilion Opening Monday May 20, 2013, 8:00 AM On View May 20, 2013 - May 23, 2013 www.internetweekny.com
We believe that New York City is where technology and business and culture meet. This year will begin to explore how technology has disrupted and revolutionized every section of business from food to fashion to healthcare to education.
IWNY, taking place this year from May 20-27 2013, was launched in 2008 in cooperation with the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. It is a week-long festival celebrating Internet business and culture and will attract more than 45,000 Internet professionals, working across all sectors, attending 250+ events produced by IWNY and 150+ citywide event partners. (This year citywide is extending a little further—out to the Hamptons for events there over Memorial Day weekend.) The central hub of the festival is the IWNY HQ at the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W 18th Street - map). The HQ will bring together 10,000 attendees for four days of celebrity keynotes and lively panel discussions on two live-streamed stages, workshops and tutorials in the official IWNY classroom, dozens of interactive displays, a screening room (new for this year!), media center, a café and a lounge.
Planned content tracks in the HQ will be dedicated to fashion & beauty in tech, music tech, sports & fitness in tech, food tech, and women in tech. We will also continue our mainstay focus on advertising, media, and marketing. There will be deeper dive, co-located conferences on areas such as healthcare & technology. We will also be incubating new topic areas such as how digital is impacting law, real estate, and finance. Beyond that, the overarching themes of IWNY 2013 will be digital education, bridging the digital divide, and empowering small businesses to get online.
SCHEDULE: www.internetweekny.com/schedule
Chelsea 125 West 18th Street, New York NY, 10011 212-210-0793 caroline@internetweekny.com
Screening Monday May 20, 2013
STREAMING MARATHON EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Monday May 20, 2013, from 12:00 PM to 4:00 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
Lecture / Artist Talk Monday May 20, 2013
Jack Goldstein, Still from Some Butterflies, 1975, 16 mm color silent film, 30 sec. Courtesy of Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne, and the Estate of Jack Goldstein. © Estate of Jack Goldstein.
A Closer Look Gallery Talks JACK GOLDSTEIN × 10,000 The Jewish Museum Lecture / Artist Talk Monday May 20, 2013, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM www.thejewishmuseum.org
Educators and curators engage visitors in discussions about select works of art in the exhibition JACK GOLDSTEIN × 10,000.
Free with museum admission.
The Upper East Side 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York NY, 10128info@thejm.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Monday May 20, 2013
MAUREEN MCHUGH EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Lecture / Artist Talk Monday May 20, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org
Maureen McHugh’s latest story collection, After the Apocalypse, was one of Publishers Weekly’s Ten Best Books of 2011. She will be speculating on the consequences of depopulation and de-extinction, and the possibility of terraforming Earth itself to ensure our survival.
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Screening Monday May 20, 2013
HUBERT SAUPER: DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Monday May 20, 2013, 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org
Darwin’s Nightmare (2004) by Hubert Sauper, video, 107 min, Austria/Belgium/France
“Feeling more like sci-fi/horror than documentary, Darwin’s Nightmare is the stranger-than-fiction tale of two relentless killing machines: the Nile Perch which, over the course of a few decades, ate through everything that used to live in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria; and the foreign capitalists who introduced that non-native fish in order to sell it to European consumers. Losing out to both of these were the local Tanzanians who once lived off the lake’s bounty, and now, literally, are left with bones and rotting carcasses. When things take an even stranger turn, thanks to an astounding third-act revelation, the relentlessness becomes a cautionary tale it may not be too late to heed.” – International Film Circuit
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Performance Monday May 20, 2013
Benefit Party | Fire Island Performance Series 2013 Elizabeth Street Garden Performance Monday May 20, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
FIRE ISLAND PINES PERFORMANCE SERIES 2013
BENEFIT PARTY
Monday, May 20, 2013, 6 - 10 PM
Elizabeth Street Garden at
209 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY
VIP RECEPTION & PERFORMANCES 6-8 PM
Featuring performances by:
TYLER ASHLEY
MEGHA BARNABAS
RYAN MCNAMARA
AFTER PARTY 8-10 PM
Hosted by:
JOHN EARLY
LADY FAG
Presented by:
DOCUMENT JOURNAL
ARTBOOK | D.A.P
GAYLETTER
Music by:
THINNER (LISSY TRULLIE) LIVE
LAUREN DILLARD (CREEP)
JD SAMSON
Sponsors:
RUINART
PERRIER
HOLLAND & SHERRY BESPOKE
BROOKLYN LAGER
SOUL RUM
Benefit Chairs:
Paul Bernstein, Justin Conner, Adriana Farietta, Pati Hertling, Johnny Misheff
Benefit Committee:
Abi Benitez, Travis Boyer, Justin Conner, Alex DeLooz, Yossi Milo,
Johnny Misheff, Daniel Moss, Herbie Parets, Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas,
Brent Sikkema, Carl Swanson, Seth Weissman, Hal Witt
Co-Founders:
Alex Galan, Fabian Bernal, Charles Renfro,
Johannes Vogt, and Luke P. Brown
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT iHEARTFIREISLAND.ORG
Patron Tickets $100
VIP RECEPTION 6 - 8 PM
General Tickets $25
AFTER PARTY 8 - 10 PM
The East Village / Lower East Side 209 Elizabeth Street, New York NY, 10012
Lecture / Artist Talk Monday May 20, 2013
Where They Once Stood: The Story of the 9/11 Memorial Standard Talks The Standard, High Line Lecture / Artist Talk Monday May 20, 2013, 6:30 PM www.sculpture-center.org
Standard Talks: Where They Once Stood, The Story of the 9/11 Memorial
Monday, May 20, 6:30pm
The Standard, High Line
High Line Room + Terrace
848 Washington Street
SculptureCenter & Standard Talks invite you to join us for Where They Once Stood: The Story of the 9/11 Memorial, cocktails and an intimate conversation with Michael Arad, Architect, 9/11 Memorial, Chris Ward, Former Director, Port Authority of NY/NJ, and Philip Nobel, Author, Sixteen Acres.
Space is limited, please rsvp to talks@standardhotel.com
Greenwich Village / The West Village 848 Washington Street, New York NY, 10014talks@standardhotel.com
Screening Monday May 20, 2013
An Evening with J. P. Sniadecki MoMA Screening Monday May 20, 2013, 7:00 PM www.moma.org
North American premiere
Includes the following film:
Yumen
2013. China/USA. Directed by Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao, J. P. Sniadecki. This highly experimental twist on the ethnographic documentary visits the town of Yumen, in China’s northwest Gansu province, a once-thriving, oil-rich community in the 1980s that has been left depleted and derelict. Strikingly shot on film, Yumen tells the story of this ghost town through a series of wandering characters and inventive vignettes in which even the spirit of Bruce Springsteen is summoned to comment on a world in ruins. A collaboration between Chinese and American filmmakers, Yumen pushes the boundaries of the documentary aesthetic in depicting China’s past and present. Courtesy of the filmmakers. 65 min.
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Lecture / Artist Talk Monday May 20, 2013
Hyperallergic ArtTalk Klaus Biesenbach on Expo 1: New York The Bedford Lecture / Artist Talk Monday May 20, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM www.hyperallergic.com
Complimentary cocktails will be provided by Pernod Absinthe, and tickets are available through Eventbrite: http://hyperallergic15.eventbrite.com
No tickets will be sold at the door.
Williamsburg 110 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11211
Screening Monday May 20, 2013
An Evening with J. P. Sniadecki MoMA Screening Monday May 20, 2013, 7:00 PM www.moma.org
Includes the following film:
Yumen
2013. China/USA. Directed by Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao, J. P. Sniadecki. This highly experimental twist on the ethnographic documentary visits the town of Yumen, in China’s northwest Gansu province, a once-thriving, oil-rich community in the 1980s that has been left depleted and derelict. Strikingly shot on film, Yumen tells the story of this ghost town through a series of wandering characters and inventive vignettes in which even the spirit of Bruce Springsteen is summoned to comment on a world in ruins. A collaboration between Chinese and American filmmakers, Yumen pushes the boundaries of the documentary aesthetic in depicting China’s past and present. Courtesy of the filmmakers. 65 min.
North American premiere
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Performance Monday May 20, 2013
SENSATIONS Doron Sadja Roulette Performance Monday May 20, 2013, 8:00 PM www.roulette.org
Doron Sadja’s body of work spans everything from immersive multichannel sound pieces to pelvis thrusting performances, feces filled speaker installations, and stroboscopic smoke, mirror, laser, and projection shows. Equal parts disgust and empathy, organic and synthetic, D. Sadja’s work excites the psyche with extremes to create hyper-emotive sonic architecture. Tonight, Sadja presents the world premiere of SENSATIONS, a multichannel work developed specifically to engage the unique architectural space and lighting system of Roulette's Art Deco concert hall: combining lush romantic synthesizers, dense noise, binaural frequencies, and high-intensity lights in an onslaught of highly-controlled chaos.
WARNING: SENSATIONS contains stroboscopic lights.
"Doron Sadja gives life to music which is difficult, powerful, intense and delicate – all at the same time." Touching Extremes
D. Sadja has published music on 12k, ATAK, and Shinkoyo records, and has performed/shown video and installation work at PS1 MoMA, Fragmental Museum, Miami MOCA, D’amelio Terras Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Issue Project Room, and Roulette amongst others. Sadja co-founded Shinkoyo Records and the West Nile experimental performance space in Brooklyn (RIP), and has curated various new music/sound festivals around NYC.
Check out our interview with the artist on our blog.
www.doron.sadja.com
www.doronsadja.tumblr.com
www.doronsadja.bandcamp.com
General Admission: $15
Members/Students/Seniors: $10
Rest Of Brooklyn 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn NY, 11217917-267-0363 roulette@roulette.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013
Art in the Afternoon: Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity Alison Hokanson 92YTribeca Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013, 3:00 PM www.92y.org
Join the Met’s Alison Hokanson for a revealing look at the role of fashion in the works of the Impressionists and their contemporaries.
Artists from Monet to Tissot gravitated toward the latest trends as the key to capturing the pulse of modern life. Enjoy an insider's perspective on the exhibition Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity at the Met, highlighting artists’ rich and multifaceted engagement with the stuff of fashion, from up-to-the minute outfits and accessories to photographs and illustrated magazines.
Ticket and Reception from $32.
Brief Bio
Alison Hokanson, a research associate in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, assisted with the organization of the exhibition Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, on view through May 27. She is completing her dissertation on nineteenth-century Belgian Realism at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Price: from $32.00
Tribeca / Downtown 200 Hudson Street, 92YTribeca Mainstage, New York NY, 10013212-415-5500
Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013
Documenting War DJ Spooky, Susan Meiselas, Jeff L. Rosenheim The Metropolitan Museum of Art Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013, 6:00 PM www.metmuseum.org
DJ Spooky, Artist in Residence
Susan Meiselas, Photographer
Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs
Jeff Rosenheim leads a conversation with DJ Spooky and acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Susan Meiselas, who gained international acclaim through her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Reflecting on the exhibition Photography and the American Civil War, on view April 2–September 2, 2013, the panel will explore issues of documentation, creation of history, narrative and the role of the artist at the intersection between art and war.
This event is part of the Met Salon Series.
Engage with Met curators, artists, and guests in an informal setting, over coffee and light refreshments.
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education
The Upper East Side 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York NY, 10028212-535-7710
Opening Tuesday May 21, 2013
MULTIPLE SINGULARITIES Trong G. Nguyen and Coolife Studio Hotel Particulier Opening Tuesday May 21, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 07, 2013 - June 08, 2013 www.hotelparticulier.com
MULTIPLE SINGULARITIES.
May 7 - June 8th 2013.
Reception on Tuesday May 21, 2013.
Trong G. Nguyen
Throne, 2012 - 2013
Edition of 64.
Published by Hotel Particulier.
Opening reception: Tuesday, May 21, 6 - 9pm
Hotel Particulier invited Trong Gia Nguyen to encompass the idea of chairs, of early adopters and advocates of new venture. Nguyen’s project Throne created a matrix with the 64 standard metal folding chairs of Hotel Particulier, by adorning each with a distinctly located patch of 24K gold leaf. Conceptually and literally, the 64 puzzled segments of gold form a single, entire golden chair, which can only be fully realized in the mind’s eye of the beholder. The chairs are furnishing Hotel Particulier's café with the golden matrix until acquired, and then gold leafed in 24k.
Trong Gia Nguyen is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work is invested in examining and shaking structures of power as they relate to the dynamics of culture, politics, and economy. He has produced everything from iPhone applications (Metaphysical GPS - in collaboration with Christopher K. Ho) to installation, film, painting, sculpture, performances, and web-based actions. Nguyen has exhibited extensively with works in public and private collections.
Coolife Studio
Eclosion
Edition of 100.
Published by Hotel Particulier.
Opening reception: Tuesday, May 21, 6 - 9pm
Hotel Particulier invited creative duo Pauline Rochas and Carole Beaupré of Coolife studio to create a visual, reflecting beginnings for the first series of an edition of notepads - entitled Eclosion. Inspired by the ones found in Hotels, collected and cherished by creatives and writers, the notepad series at Hotel Particulier are published in collaboration with particular individuals highlighting their traits and works."
Carole Beaupré and Pauline Rochas are the still life photography duo behind Coolife. Both FIT alumni, they have worked exclusively with digital cameras and technology since the beginning of their collaboration in 2000. Every image they produce displays precision and purity. Recent clients have included Shiseido, Smirnoff Vodka, Elizabeth Arden, Maestro Dobel Tequila, Koral Jeans Los Angeles, Grey Goose Vodka, Ralph Lauren Fragrances, Estée Lauder, Lancôme, Moët & Chandon, David Yurman, Origins, Casa Dragones, by Kilian, T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
Beth Campbell
Not at Home
Curated by Sarah Murkett
On view until June 8th.
Soho 4 - 6 Grand Street, Between Varick and 6th Avenue, New York NY, 10013 646-329-6341
Editor's Pick
"Rust Belt," a series of compelling images, with Sean Hemmerle, a leading American photographer New York Public Library Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM www.nypl.org
Once the fourth-largest city in the United States, Detroit's spectacular economic and social decline is writ large in the disintegration of its architectural fabric, with its former manufacturing industries decimated and parts of downtown Detroit becoming a depopulated wasteland. This illustrated lecture features his photographs – at times poetic, at others unnerving – of the city's former urban glory, both industrial and residential. His striking work serves as both architectural record and effective social commentary.
Midtown Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Avenue, New York NY, 10016
Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013
"Rust Belt," a series of compelling images, with Sean Hemmerle, a leading American photographer New York Public Library Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM www.nypl.org
Once the fourth-largest city in the United States, Detroit's spectacular economic and social decline is writ large in the disintegration of its architectural fabric, with its former manufacturing industries decimated and parts of downtown Detroit becoming a depopulated wasteland. This illustrated lecture features his photographs – at times poetic, at others unnerving – of the city's former urban glory, both industrial and residential. His striking work serves as both architectural record and effective social commentary.
Midtown Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Avenue, New York NY, 10016
Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013
Plot Point, 2007, videoprojection with sound, 15 min., courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwert
Salon: Nicolas Provost International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013, 6:30 PM www.iscp-nyc.org
Nicolas Provost will present some of his recent video works that deal with the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. He will discuss his ideas and creative process of his Plot Point Trilogy which he filmed in New York, Las Vegas and Tokyo and his experience with the film industry through the making of his first feature film The Invader.
Williamsburg 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY, 11211718-387-2900 info@iscp-nyc.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013
The ICP Lecture Series: Gideon Mendel HBO Auditorium Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013, 7:00 PM www.icp.org
The ICP Lecture Series
A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial
Presented by the International Center of Photography and HBO
Gideon Mendel is a photojournalist who was considered one of the young generation of "struggle photographers" documenting change and conflict in South Africa in the lead-up to Nelson Mandela's release from prison.
Admission is free. Reserve tickets online.
Watch this lecture live online at lectures.icp.edu.
A Different Kind of Order is on view May 17–September 8, 2013.
Midtown 1100 Avenue of the Americas, New York NY, 10036
Performance Tuesday May 21, 2013
White Box 2013 Spring Benefit Honoring Martha Wilson White Box Performance Tuesday May 21, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM www.whiteboxny.org
The East Village / Lower East Side 329 Broome Street, Ground Floor, New York NY, 10002212-714-2347 press@whiteboxny.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013
Matthew Barney in Conversation with Paul Holdengräber New York Public Library Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013, 7:00 PM www.nypl.org
From his earliest work, Matthew Barney has explored the transcendence of physical limitations within an interdisciplinary art practice. His epic Cremaster Cycle, a five-part film project he began in 1994 and completed in 2002, incorporated accompanying sculptures, photographs, and drawings. Barney's latest and arguably most ambitious project is River of Fundament, loosely based on Norman Mailer's 1983 novel Ancient Evenings, and blending narrative cinema with opera, sculpture and live performance. Barney joins Paul Holdengraber to explore his boundless imagination and wide-ranging career.
Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967 and raised in Boise, Idaho. He attended Yale University, receiving his BA in 1989, then moved to New York City, where he resides today. Barney has received numerous awards for his work including the Aperto prize at the 1993 Venice Biennale; the Hugo Boss Award in 1996; the 2007 Kaiser Ring Award in Goslar, Germany and the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Persistence of Vision Award in 2011.
FRIENDS of the NYPL receive discounted tickets and special pre-sales to LIVE events
LIVE from the NYPL is made possible with generous support from Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund.
There is an admission charge for this event: $25 General Admission, $15 FRIENDS, Seniors and Students with valid ID - Become a FRIEND for a $10 discount on every ticket for LIVE
Midtown Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York NY, 10018
Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013
Image: Keith Edmier, Adonaïs, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York.
SC Conversations: Craig Willse SculptureCenter Lecture / Artist Talk Tuesday May 21, 2013, 7:00 PM www.sculpture-center.org
Willse is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at George Mason University and lives in Washington DC. He has recently edited the publication Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death (2011) and contributed to Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage (2010).
Long Island City 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City NY, 11101718-361-1750
Opening Tuesday May 21, 2013
WAGMAG, BROOKLYN ART GUIDE BENEFIT 2013 English Kills Opening Tuesday May 21, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 21, 2013 www.wagmag.org
Where: English Kills, 114 Forrest Street, in Bushwick Brooklyn
When: Tuesday, May 21st from 7-9pm
Advanced raffle tickets — $200
Tickets purchased after May 18th — $250
VIP Ticket: Advanced viewing (5:30- 7:00) (w/ raffle ticket) - $350
BENEFIT EVENING: Tuesday May 21st, from 7-9pm at English Kills (114 Forrest Street)
Bushwick, Brooklyn, with Reception and Raffle of work
SEE THE ARTWORKS HERE
Featuring Artworks by:
Amanda Alic, Miya Ando, Liz Artanian, Julia Whitney Barnes, Tom Broadbent, Debbie Brown, Tom Burtonwood, Ken Butler, Ana Busto, Eric Timothy Carlson, Jenny Carpender, Charlotte, Ethan Crenson, Peggy Cyphers, Coco Dolle, Alasdair Duncan, Robert Egert, Debra Drexler, Matthew Deleget, Jennifer Delilah, Hubert Dobler, Lital Dotan and Eyal Perry, DVR (David Victor Rose), Patricia Fabricant, Peter Feigenbaum, Peter Fox, Nyssa Frank, Mayuko Fujino, Linda Ganjian, Katya Grokhovsky, Randall Harris, William Hartland, Eric Heist, Daniel Patrick Helmstetter, Amy Hill, Jen Hitchings, Sean Hemmerle, Ed Herman, Cody Healey-Conelly, Marysia Gacek, John Holt, Kim Holleman, Richard Humann, Mary Judge, Nick Kline, Katherine Koos, David Kramer, Jesse Lambert, Scott Lawrence, Brian Leo, James Leonard, Lisa Levy, Stephen Maine, Stephen Mallon, Eliot Markell, Karen Marston, Tara McPherson, Loren Munk, Ivivia Olenick, Rob de Oude, Melodie Provenzano, Ross Racine, Ron Richter, Philip Riley, Emily Roz, Carol Salmanson, Henry G. Sanchez, Ann Scoville, David Shapiro, Sophia Sobers, George Spencer, Savannah Spirit, Philp Stearns, Rodger Stephens, Miho Suzuki, Noriko Tatsumi, Lourene Taurerewa, Rich Timperio, Patrick Todd, Julie Torres, Mario Trejo , Jeanne Tremel, Joanne Ungar, Rosa Valado, Kathleen Vance, Cibele Viere, Don Voisine, Robert Walden, Larry Walczak, Nancy Wechter, Emily Weiskopf, Alun Williams, Daniel Zeller, and more...
WAGMAG Celebrates 12 Years!!
Please help support our mission to promote the arts in Brooklyn. WAGMAG, Brooklyn Art Guide is a 501c (3) nonprofit, and the only Brooklyn art guide that chronicles the art activities of art venues in Brooklyn, on a monthly basis, in print and online.
This is a great event for art lovers in the area, with approximately 100 pieces of artwork generously donated by local galleries and artists for the raffle during the event evening, Tuesday, May 21th, 2012 from 7-9pm. The resulting exhibition will not only generate much needed funding for WAGMAG but also reflect the spirit and personality of the Brooklyn art community. It will be held at English Kills, 114 Forrest Streetin Bushwick, Brooklyn. There will be a festive atmosphere with food, drinks, and a wonderful selection of artworks from prominent artists in Brooklyn.
Each raffle ticket guarantees an artwork. Artwork will be selected on the benefit evening by a raffle-style drawing, which determines the order in which ticketholders make their selection.
Tickets for the artwork raffle are available for $200 up until May 18th, after which tickets will be available for $250 each. Any remaining tickets for the artwork raffle will be $250 on the event evening, as availability permits. Each ticket guarantees a work of art. There will be an entrance fee for admission to the benefit event of $20 for non-ticket holders.
VIP preview tickets are availble for $350, these limited tickets grant early access from 5:30-7:00pm and include a ticket for the artwork raffle (7-9pm). Specialty cocktails will be served during this portion of the evening, proxies are available to be assigned to help make artwork selections and will act as stand ins during the raffle in the case that VIP guests are unable to attend the artwork drawing. VIP ticket holders will also receive a special WAGMAG SWAG BAG, limited edition, screenprinted cloth tote filled with goodies, including: speciality Pernod Absinthe chocolates created by nunu, framing certificates from Shadowbox Frames, samples of skinnyskinny's products, Fiberink Studio services, Fuego 718 certificates, and much more!
All proceeds will go towards the operation and production of WAGMAG, Brooklyn Art Guide.
Many Thanks to English Kills for hosting this year's event.
Benefit Committee:
Amanda Alic, Daniel Aycock, Don Carroll, Chris Harding, Ethan Crenson, Hillary Daniel, Coco Dolle, Alicia Ehni, Enrico Gomez, Nasa Hadizedeh, Stephen Harrington, Randall Harris, Mandy Kalajian, David Kesting, Lisa Kim, Lisa Levy, Karen Marston, Jill McDermid, Ethan Petit, Ellen Rand, Henry Sanchez, Ginger Shulick Porcella, Kathleen Vance, Susie Watkins, Monika Wuhrer
Special Thanks to:
AG Gallery, Art 101, The Art Pop Up Shop, Associated Projects, Big Deal Arts Advisory, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, The Boiler, Bunnycutlet, C.C.C.P. North Light , Cotton Candy Machine, David Kesting Presents, Devotion Gallery, Fountain Art Fair, Figureworks, Five Myles, Front Room Gallery, Glasshouse, Harbor, The Living Gallery, Minus Space, Momenta Art, NURTUREarts, Open Source, Parallel Arts, Recession Art, Robert Henry Contempory, Schema Projects, Sideshow, Skink Ink Editions, Storefront Bushwick, Theodore: Art, Ventana244
Bushwick / Ridgewood 114 Forrest Street, #1, Brooklyn NY, 11206 queries@wagmag.org
Screening Tuesday May 21, 2013
Dash Shaw + Bobby's Girl Light Industry Screening Tuesday May 21, 2013, 7:30 PM www.lightindustry.org
“A former student of the genius artist-seer-cartoonist Gary Panter, Dash, it's fair to say, is something of a genius as well.” - Chris Ware
“I have seen the future of comics and its name is Dash Shaw.” - David Mazzucchelli
With books like Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, and his latest, New School, the young cartoonist Dash Shaw is responsible for some of the most adventurous and idiosyncratic comics being made today. His dynamic serial forms feature elaborately layered panels and off-kilter figuration, betraying a remarkable confluence of styles and strategies, at times recalling everything from Sigmar Polke to manga. Recently, in anticipation of a feature-length project, he has also begun to produce a similarly variegated body of animation, which includes music video, the melancholy droid-drama The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century, A.D., and a biography that covers a chapter in the life of Dada doyenne Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. He’s also crafted cinematic permutations of his own comics, as well as adaptations of game shows and reality tv that marry their source materials' original audio tracks with a series of static illustrations to uncanny effect—Wheel of Fortune never seemed so heartbreaking, or so strange. Tonight, he’ll present a selection of his experiments with moving images at Light Industry. Rounding out the lineup is a film chosen by Shaw that he finds resonant with the concerns of his particular hand-drawn animation techniques: Bobby’s Girl, an 80s anime rarity about a teenage biker, his pen pal, and his death drive.
Followed by a conversation with Shaw.
Tickets - $7, available at door.
Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
Greenpoint 55 Freeman Street, Brooklyn NY, 11222information@lightindustry.org
Screening Tuesday May 21, 2013
Brindalyn Webster Chen, Believing in God for 3 seconds (still), 2009, digital video
“Liars, Actors, and Believers,” curated by the Skowhegan Alliance Cabinet Screening Tuesday May 21, 2013, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM www.cabinetmagazine.org
FREE. No RSVP necessary
Organized by the Skowhegan Alliance
Please join us as we host an evening of video programs curated by the Skowhegan Alliance. Drawing on videos made by Skowhegan alumni, the event features works by Amanda Alfieri, Crystal Z. Campbell, Brindalyn Webster Chen, Monica Cook, Esteban del Valle, Benjamin Dowell, Jennifer Levonian, Jennifer Macdonald, Dafna Maimon, Nadev Nadler, John Peña, Slinko, Mary Vettise, and Michael Zheng.
ABOUT SKOWHEGAN
Skowhegan, an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists established in 1946, seeks each year to bring together a gifted and diverse group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to art making and inquiry to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction, and growth. The Skowhegan Alliance, a committee of Skowhegan alumni, supports Skowhegan's mission and the notion of community it fosters by organizing programs and events for alumni and the broader Skowhegan community.
Beer for this event has been lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery.
Gowanus 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn NY, 11217718-222-8434
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Center for Historical Reenactments, “Na Ku Randza,” 2011. Public intervention in Center for Historical Reenactments’ neighborhood, Doornfontein, Johannesburg. Courtesy Center for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg. Photo: Sanele Manqele
Center for Historical Reenactments: After-after Tears New Museum Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - July 07, 2013 www.newmuseum.org
Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR) is an independent contemporary art platform based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Founded in 2010, CHR responds to the institution of art and its global histories, reflecting on a period of rapid and unequal urban and cultural development in South Africa. CHR’s past activities mobilized around historic events and sites from the apartheid era to explore how established systems of thought (or ideologies) still condition contemporary life.
With the support of a Museum as Hub Residency, CHR presents “After-after Tears,” an evolving, multifaceted exhibition that explores the lifespan of the organization and its operational strategies. The exhibition follows CHR’s decision to commit an institutional “death” in December 2012, ending its current project in order to foreclose the inevitable evolution of its experimental platform to more formal organization and to negotiate their growing international currency to different ends. CHR’s two years of activity (2010–12) can also be understood as a critical response to the infrastructure of a biennial, specifically the now defunct Johannesburg Biennale (1995, 1997)—activating sporadic but related events over two years instead of using the same period to organize a single exhibition open to the public for a few months. The platform asks what institutions are meant to look like, what they are supposed to do, who they should serve, for how long, and for how much money. The project utilizes the resources of the New Museum in New York to organize a gallery presentation that elucidates CHR’s working philosophy, while performances and public programs propose future directions for their activity. “After-after Tears” is organized by CHR members, Donna Kukama, Gabi Ngcobo, and Kemang Wa Lehulere, as well as associated members and invited guest contributors.
The East Village / Lower East Side 235 Bowery, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Thursday from 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Friday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-219-1222
Reading Wednesday May 22, 2013
A Guerilla Reading by Stephen Burt MoMA Reading Wednesday May 22, 2013, 12:30 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.
Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries
As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's "Poet Laureate" program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery.
Stephen Burt reads in front of Meret Oppenheim's Red Head, Blue Body (gallery 12, floor 5). Burt reads new poems, including "Fundamental Attribution Error (Meret Oppenheim + Stephanie)," "1978 Stephanie," "Day and Night Stephanie," and poems from Belmont and Parallel Play.
Painting and Sculpture I, Gallery 12, fifth floor
Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Darren Waterston, Bestiary no. 27, 2012, gouache on paper. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.
A Swarm, a Flock, a Host - Mark Doty, Darren Waterston - An Art and Literature Series Event with an Accompanying Exhibtion Darren Waterston and Mark Doty New York Public Library Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM www.nypl.org
In this event National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty and acclaimed artist Darren Waterston have an in-depth discussion about their stunning new book, A Swarm, a Flock, a Host: A Compendium of Creatures.
Originating in the Middle Ages, bestiaries were illustrated volumes that described various animals—some real, some mystical. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed painter Darren Waterston and distinguished poet Mark Doty come together to breathe new life into the medieval genre. Waterston’s precise and haunting silhouettes depict species from insect to bird to mammal, captured in motion as they hunt their prey, build their nests, or protect their young. Accompanying these illustrations are Doty’s poetic observations on the wonders of the animal world—its panoply of sounds and shapes, its dignity and its cruelty. Lovers of art, animals, and poetry will delight in this elegant volume that captures nature’s exquisite and terrible beauty.
Twelve original prints, created by Darren Waterston for the book, will be on exhibit during the event.
Copies of the book are available for purchase and signing at the event after the audience Q&A.
Darren Waterston, Bestiary no. 27, 2012, gouache on paper. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.Darren Waterston, Bestiary no. 27, 2012, gouache on paper. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.
Mark Doty is the author of Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, for which he won the National Book Award in 2008, and Dog Years, a New York Times bestseller. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other magazines.
Darren Waterston has been exhibiting in the U.S. and abroad since the early 1990s. He received his BFA at the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA and continued his training in Germany at the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin and the Fachhochschule für Kunst in Münster. Recent exhibition highlights include Forest Eater (2011), which Waterston conceived specifically for The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Splendid Grief: The Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr. (2009), an installation at The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California; and The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense) (2007), at the Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Waterston's paintings are included in numerous permanent collections including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He currently lives and works in New York City and is represented by DC Moore Gallery.
Darren Waterston, Leo, 2011, oil on wood panel. Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA.Darren Waterston, Leo, 2011, oil on wood panel. Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Conceived and organized by Arezoo Moseni, and in its fourth year, Art and Literature Series events bring forth pollinations across the literary and visual arts with readings and discussions by acclaimed artists and authors.
Doors open 5:30 pm
Free Event
Midtown Fifth Avenue at 42nd St, Stephen A. Schwarzman Bldg, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, New York NY, 10018
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Clint Jukkala, Soaker, 2013, acrylic and oil on canvas, 42 x 36 inches © Courtesy of the artist & BravinLee Programs
FLOATER Clint Jukkala, Alexander Kroll, Evan Nesbit, Erik Olson, Eric Sall and Amanda Valdez BravinLee programs Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 28, 2013 www.bravinlee.com
Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, and consistency that exist within the eye’s vitreous humor. They may appear as spots, webs, fragments, or threads that float slowly before the observer’s eyes. In this exhibition, BravinLee programs presents the work of six painters, whose abstracted imagery is located between the familiar and peculiar, revealing spatial ambiguities and vague references. Most of the work emerges out of abstraction and plays with its conventions and classifications, much like the floater that moves about your field of vision. The show includes work by Clint Jukkala, Alexander Kroll, Evan Nesbit, Erik Olson, Eric Sall, and Amanda Valdez.
Clint Jukkala received a B.F.A. in painting from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1995 and an M.F.A. in painting from Yale University in 1998. He is represented by Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, and his work has been included in recent exhibitions at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and ZieherSmith Gallery in New York. He has also shown at Envoy Enterprises and Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York.
Alexander Kroll has shown his paintings and drawings extensively across the U.S. at galleries and institutions including: CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles; James Harris Gallery, Seattle; ACME, Los Angeles; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; and the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, among others, and he has an upcoming exhibition at Fredric Snitzer in Miami. Kroll has taught painting widely at universities including: Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art and Design, Cal State Long Beach, and Yale University.
Evan Nesbit lives and works in Nevada City, California. A recent graduate of the Yale M.F.A. program, Nesbit has had solo exhibitions at Ever Gold Gallery in San Francisco and Motus Fort in Tokyo. He was in a two-person exhibition this fall at Storefront, Bushwick.
Erik Olson is a Canadian artist who has exhibited with Michael Gibson in Ontario, Doug Udell in Vancouver, and Skew Gallery in Calgary, as well as several other galleries in Canada. He has been the recipient of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts project grant several times.
Eric Sall graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1999 and earned an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006. Awards include a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. His work belongs to permanent collections including: the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; The Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico; and the Saatchi Collection, London.
Amanda Valdez received her M.F.A. from Hunter College in New York City and B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her most recent solo exhibition was “Taste of Us” at Denny Gallery. She has exhibited in several group shows in New York and throughout the United States. She has been the recipient of a Yaddo Artist-in-Residency, MacDowell Colony Artist-in-Residency, and the 2011 College Art Association M.F.A. Professional-Development Fellowship, and she is a contributing arts editor at Dossier Journal and Bomb Magazine.
For more information, please contact BravinLee programs at 212.462.4404 or info@bravinlee.com.
Chelsea 526 West 26th Street #211, New York NY, 10001 212-462-4404 info@bravinlee.com
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Skeletons on a Bender Amy Yao 47 Canal Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.47canalstreet.com
The East Village / Lower East Side 47 Canal Street, 2nd Floor, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
646-415-7712 info@47canalstreet.com
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Marcella Hackbardt, Reflection, 2010, Digital C-print
In The Zone Curated by David Gibson Jenny Carpenter, Carrie Elston Tunick, Marcella Hackbardt, Sandy Litchfield, Karen Marston, Rachelle Mozman, Julie Schenkelberg and Mary Ann Strandell Station Independent Projects Curated by David Gibson Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.stationindependent.com
In The Zone explores the various emotional territories that have become a popular way of expressing who we are, and how we live, at any given moment. Zones, which began to be used in the mainstream press, became popular after WWII ("Occupation Zones") and the Korean War (Demilitarized Zone") when it became necessary to demarcate areas along a boundary that were either shared by many groups or were summarily off-limits to any one group. It existed previously in areas of study such as Geography and Sports. This particular version refers to an athlete who is so immersed in the moment, that like an actor he ceases to be a person and becomes a cog in system of ultimate purpose.
Being "in the moment" is a quality of experience common to artists; beyond mere dedication to craft or idiosyncratic vision, it becomes necessary to project our immersion in subject matter, background context, and formal intentions so that the spectator can share in our degree of portent equally. The artwork will infect them, creating a state of contingency between its own qualities and aspects of their own experience. They may walk away bemused or challenged, but in the end they will have had their own moment; they will have been transported to a new zone as the strongest art does this well.
The East Village / Lower East Side 164 Suffolk St, New York NY , 10002 Thursday - Sunday from 12:00 AM to 6:00 PM
512-773-2478 melissa@stationindependent.com
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Glittering Images: An Evening with Camille Paglia in Conversation with Carrie Rebora Barratt The Metropolitan Museum of Art Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, 6:00 PM www.metmuseum.org
Camille Paglia, author and Professor, University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Introduced by Carrie Rebora Barratt, Associate Director for Collections and Administration.
Camille Paglia, the renowned cultural critic whose audacious and groundbreaking Sexual Personae is one of the most highly praised and controversial works of recent art history, comes to the Met to discuss her newest book, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars, and to examine the role museums, essential guardians of the centrality of art to contemporary life, must play in an America where awareness of the fine arts may be receding, as she puts it, "drastically and tragically in ways that people who live in cities with great museums don’t realize."
Camille Paglia is the author of Break, Blow, Burn; Sexual Personae; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps & Tramps. She has also written The Birds, a study of Alfred Hitchcock.
This lecture is supported by the Mrs. Joseph H. King Fund.
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
The Upper East Side 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York NY, 10028212-535-7710
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Procession in Colonized Territory, 2013, Archival pigment prints, fabric, felt, thread, 36 x 54 inches
There Are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World... Elektra KB BravinLee Programs Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 28, 2013 www.bravinlee.com
ravinLee programs is pleased to present an exhibition in the gallery's project room by Elektra KB of new works on paper, photography, and a selection of cloth pages of her 20 page, hand-sewn artist’s book.
The pages of the book, each a sewn and embroidered felt collage, depict guerilla warfare in a mythological, semi-autobiographical world parallel to ours: a female rebel army revolting against the forces of a tyrannical police state. The women are primitivist and often uniformed and weaponized--most wear only short petticoats and veils or ominous balaklava. They pose brazenly with machine guns and chainsaws in photo ops, but Elektra KB has rendered these weapons more like toys, and according to her rule-set for this alternative world, they shoot rays of light not ammo.
As in Anthony Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange,” Elektra KB’s world subsists on a complex play of invented language and iconography; however, her protagonists are righteous. “The Cathara Insurgent Women”—dancing warriors, rebels, heretics—fight against the shadowy forces of “The Theocratic Republic of Gaia”. The Insurgents call to mind simultaneously today’s feminists and activists like Susana Chavez, Medieval heretics, and the Aztecs in the era of Spanish conquest.
Throughout the pages of the book, shadows leak and flow together representing the forces of Neo-colonization: mass scale and conspiratorial violence and murder, repression of free speech, and the oppression and alienation of women. Threads hang loosely from these shadows and war iconography, representing catharsis, repression, Barbarism, and physical emancipation à la Freud’s Death Drive.
The title of the show is a modification of text, “There are men at the gates seeking a new world,” extracted from an essay in the first issue of a magazine produced by the late 1960s art group Black Mask (later Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers). The group, formed by painter Ben Morea and poet Dan Georgakas, declared that revolutionary art should be an integral part of life, as in primitive society, and not an appendage to wealth.
Elektra KB is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts (2012). In 2013, her work has been exhibited in the group exhibitions “All The Best People” at 1 to 1 Gallery, New York, reviewed in Artforum (March 2013) by Carolyn Busta, and “Changing the World Through Art” at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. She will also have a solo exhibition in New York at Allegra LaViola Gallery, “The Cathara Insurgent Women vs. The Theocratic Republic of Gaia Beings,” opening May 29th, 2013, and a monograph of her work published by Tangled Wilderness/Combustion Books is due later this spring.
For more information, please contact BravinLee programs at 212.462.4404 or info@bravinlee.com.
Chelsea 526 West 26th Street, #211, New York NY, 10001 212-462-4404 info@bravinlee.com
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Momenta Spring Benefit 2013
MOMENTA ART SPRING BENEFIT 2013 Momenta Art Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, 6:00 PM On View May 10, 2013 - May 22, 2013 www.momentaart.org
*Please purchase your tickets through our website. http://www.momentaart.org/momenta-art-spring-benefit-2013.html
Momenta Art is pleased to invite you to our eighteenth annual spring benefit: an evening including a raffle drawing and a silent auction. As in previous years, it will be an exciting evening to acquire artwork by highly talented emerging and established artists, as well as to celebrate our ongoing mission to support socially engaged and aesthetically sophisticated art.
Momenta Art's 2013 Benefit will present approximately 175 raffle artworks by both emerging and established artists. A raffle ticket guarantees you a work of art and entrance for two to the raffle drawing and silent auction on Wednesday, May 22nd. Tickets are limited to the number of artworks available. So please make sure that you purchase your tickets in advance.
In addition, Momenta Art will offer a number of higher-valued works for silent auction through Paddle 8. Bidding on these works will begin on May 10th and end on May 22nd at 7pm before the raffle begins. Silent auction artists will include Sarah Braman, David Diao, Mark Dion, William Powhida, Hunter Reynolds, Federico Solmi, and Mickalene Thomas.
As a not for profit exhibition organization, Momenta Art depends on the contributions of individuals like you, who value the importance of the emerging art scene where vital artistic and intellectual experiments are possible. We sincerely thank you for your generous support.
Bushwick / Ridgewood 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn NY , 11206 Friday - Monday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
718-218-8050 info@momentaart.org
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Joell Baxter, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I (two), 2013, Screenprint 8.25" x 16.5" image, 18.5" x 26.5" sheet edition of 6
EDITIONS '13 Joell Baxter, Sebastiaan Bremer, Jonggeon Lee, Steven Millar and Alison Elizabeth Taylo Lower East Side Print Shop Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 17, 2013 - July 14, 2013 www.printshop.org
Opening reception and catalogue launch:
Wednesday, May 22, 6 - 8 pm
On view May 17 - July 14
M - F, 10am - 6pm; S & S, 12 - 6pm
Free and open to the public
Catalogue essay by Deborah Cullen, Director and Chief Curator, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University.
Featuring Printshop-published projects by:
Joell Baxter
Sebastiaan Bremer
Jonggeon Lee
Steven Millar
Alison Elizabeth Taylo
Hell's Kitchen 306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor, New York NY, 10018 Monday - Friday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
212-673-5390 info@printshop.org
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Above image: collaborative tile mural-in-progress by Danissa, Gelsomine, and Odette, with mentor Natalia Nakazawa
Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship program Smack Mellon Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.smackmellon.org
Student Artists: Suma Akter, Odette Blaisdell, Damarcus Bruno, Isabel Burns, Ashley Clarke, Kayla Daniels, Zori Davidson, Azure Garrett, Raihannah Jefferson, Taliana Katz, Jennifer Leon, Dennis Metoyer, Jahsiah Mussig, Malik Perry, Caitlyn Radcliffe, Gelsomine Reme, Danissa Santos, Maat Silin, Tania Velazquez
Artist Mentors: Michael Paul Britto, Susan Hamburger, Natalia Nakazawa, Sage & Coombe Architects (Andrew Kao, Christo Logan, Mark Long, Sara Murado), Emilie Shapiro/Liloveve Jewelry, Phillip Shung
Smack Mellon is pleased to announce the opening of Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program. The exhibition presents the work of students who participated in the 2012-2013 session of Art Ready, Smack Mellon’s arts mentorship program for high school students interested in pursuing a career in the visual arts. Working with professional painters, architects, installation artists, jewelry designers, graphic designers, video artists, and photographers, the student artists created an impressive range of work in a variety of media. This includes: collaborative video animations; paintings and drawings of portraits and scenes from both life and the imagination; clothing and shoes embellished with students’ designs; fantastical sculpted clay figurines; and a group mosaic mural incorporating found objects. One group of students worked with a jewelry designer to mold and carve their own rings; another collaborated with professional architects on a three-dimensional installation; and another group worked with graphic designers on their own magazine and documentary about the communities of Brooklyn.
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 mentorships, and visit museums and galleries. This year, the Art Ready group took field trips to such cultural venues as the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and No Longer Empty’s How Much Do I Owe You? exhibition at the Clock Tower in Queens. Individual mentor groups’ excursions included the International Center of Photography, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Open Studios, Manhattan’s Jewelry District, and behind-the-scenes tours of HBO’s studios and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Students also participated in a special group workshop on college portfolio prep, led by teaching artist Sonya Blesofsky. For a preview of the exhibition work-in-progress, and to read about students’ and mentors’ experiences, visit the Art Ready blog: smartready.wordpress.com.
Art Ready is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and New York City Council Member Stephen Levin, and with generous support from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the David and Minnie Berk Foundation, and Smack Mellon’s Members.
Space for Smack Mellon’s programs is generously provided by the Walentas Family and Two Trees Management.
DUMBO 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn NY, 11201 718-834-8761 info@smackmellon.org
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62 Years Later: Gender Politics in the Arts Robert Miller Gallery Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM www.robertmillergallery.com
Robert Miller Gallery is pleased to present 62 Years Later: Gender Politics in the Arts a special panel discussion investigating gender politics within the art world 62 years after Lee Krasner’s first solo exhibition. Moderated by economist and founding President of Center for Talent Innovation Sylvia Ann Hewlett the panel features Lauren Flanigan, RoseLee Goldberg, Anne Pasternak, Laurie Simmons, and Heather Watts.
62 Years Later is organized on the occasion of the gallery’s current exhibition (Untitled) Hybrid, a reflection on the legacy of Lee Krasner’s contributions to contemporary artistic practices featuring work by Polly Apfelbaum, Alisa Baremboym, Sarah Cain, Leidy Churchman, Joanne Greenbaum, Julia Hechtman, and Dona Nelson curated by Boston University Art Gallery Director Kate McNamara.
In contemplation of Krasner’s struggles in becoming fully recognized as an important figure in the male-dominated Abstract Expressionist movement, this panel discussion will explore the ebb and flow of the art community’s dynamic relationship with gender.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is president and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation, a nonprofit think tank where she chairs a Task Force focused on fully realizing the new streams of talent in the global marketplace. She is the author of 10 Harvard Business Review articles, 12 critically acclaimed nonfiction books including Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets and Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor (Harvard Business Review Press, Sept. 2013), and is ranked #11 of the world’s top business thinkers. Her writings have been widely published and she’s a featured blogger on HBR.org. A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, she earned her PhD in economics at London University.
Lauren Flanigan is an American operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the 1980s. Named by TIME Magazine as "the thinking man's diva" and awarded by ACSAP and the Center for Contemporary Opera for her commitment to performing the works of living composers, Flanigan has firmly established herself as a unique musical presence in the world today. She has been featured on the Live from the Met telecast of I Lombardi (opposite Luciano Pavarotti) and the Live from Lincoln Center telecasts of The Richard Tucker Gala, Lizzie Borden, and Central Park, which was written for her. She has performed at many of the world’s leading opera houses including La Scala, Teatro San Carlo, Bayerische Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. Last year Flanigan was given a prestigious yearlong creative residency at The Park Avenue Armory, during which she founded the group Not Your Mothers Kurt Weill Ensemble and was given 25 Weill songs cut from movies and shows to arrange and perform. Two of those programs called Unknown/Unsung: The Music of Kurt Weill are regularly performed to sold out houses at The Neue Galerie. Flanigan is also the founder and the director of Music and Mentoring House, a not-for-profit organization providing upscale affordable housing and hands on mentoring to students studying in the arts in NYC. Most recently, Flanigan was selected to be part of a world premiere performance of Beauty Intolerable, a collection of love songs composed by Sheila Silver based on the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, co-presented by American Opera Projects, The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society, ClaverackLanding, and Symphony Space.
RoseLee Goldberg is Founding Director and Curator of Performa, the leading organization for the research, production and presentation of visual art performance, which launched the Performa biennial to great international acclaim in New York in 2005. Former director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at the Kitchen in New York, she pioneered the study of performance art with her book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979 and available in 12 languages. Other books include Laurie Anderson, and Performance Since the 1960s. She is the recipient of the Agnes Gund ICI Curatorial Award, and is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters presented by the French government. She is Clinical Professor in Art History at New York University where she has taught since 1987.
Anne Pasternak, the President and Artistic Director of Creative Time, joined the organization in the fall of 1994, with the goal of presenting some of the most adventurous art in the public realm. Creative Time began commissioning innovative art in New York City in 1972, introducing millions of people every year to contemporary art while making sure it plays an active role in public life. Just a few years ago, Creative Time began working nationally making it the only national public arts organization with programs that have reached from New York to New Orleans, from Denver to Dallas, and from PA to LA. Renowned projects under her direction range from exhibitions and performances in the historic Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, sculptural installations in Grand Central Station’s Vanderbilt Hall, sign paintings in Coney Island and skywriting over Manhattan to the Tribute in Light, the twin beacons of light that illuminated the former World Trade Center site six months after 9/11. She has worked closely with such artists as Doug Aitken, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Steve Powers, Cai Guo Qiang, and many more. In addition to her work at Creative Time, Pasternak curates independent exhibitions, consults on urban planning initiatives, and contributes essays to cultural publications. She lectures extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and she served as a guest critic at Yale University.
Laurie Simmons is an internationally recognized artist. Since the mid-70’s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, mannequins and occasionally people, to create images with intensely psychological subtexts. Her photographic based works are collected by many museums including in New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim as well as The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center and the Hara Museum, Tokyo. In 2006 she produced and directed her first film titled "The Music of Regret", starring Meryl Streep, Adam Guettel and the Alvin Ailey 2 Dancers with cinematography by Ed Lachman. The film premiered at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has been screened at many international museums and film festivals including the Whitney Museum. Simmons was featured in Season 4 of the PBS series "Art 21: Art in the Twenty- First Century". Her most recent exhibitions were at Salon 94 Bowery, NYC, Wilkinson Gallery, London Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, The Gothenburg Museum in Sweden and Koyama Gallery in Tokyo. Her book titled “The Love Doll” was published last January. Simmons lives and works in New York City and Cornwall, Connecticut with her husband, the painter Carroll Dunham.
Heather Watts was born in Los Angeles, and was brought to New York to study at the School of American Ballet on a Ford Foundation scholarship. She was invited to join New York City Ballet by George Balanchine in 1970, and he promoted her to Principal Dancer in 1978. During her career at NYCB, Watts worked closely with Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, dancing leading roles in virtually all of the company's ballets, and both Balanchine and Robbins created roles especially for her. In addition to her career at NYCB she traveled extensively as a guest artist, and was an acclaimed international star. Since her retirement from the stage in a gala performance in 1995, Watts has been a contributing cultural editor at Vanity Fair magazine, has served as a panelist for the NEA, and serves on the Artists Committee for the Kennedy Center Honors. She taught academic courses in 2006 and 2007 on Balanchine’s life and work at Harvard University, and she received two Derek Bok awards for distinguished teaching. She was the Class of 1932 Visiting Lecturer in Dance at Princeton University for 2011-12, and also recently co-created a new seminar for the Dance Education Laboratory at the 92nd St Y. Among the many awards that Watts has received are the Jerome Robbins Award, the Dance Magazine Award, the Lions of the Performing Arts Award from the New York Public Library. In 2012, she received a Doctorate in Fine Arts honoris causa from Hunter College.
Chelsea 524 West 26th Street, New York NY, 10001212-366-4774 rmg@robertmillergallery.com
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Lee Krasner, UNTITLED, 1984, Oil charcoal and paper collage on canvas, 46 x 58 inches, 116.8 x 147.3 cm © Courtesy of Robert Miller Gallery- New York
62 Years Later: Gender Politics in the Arts Robert Miller Gallery Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM www.robertmillergallery.com
Robert Miller Gallery is pleased to present 62 Years Later: Gender Politics in the Arts a special panel discussion investigating gender politics within the art world 62 years after Lee Krasner’s first solo exhibition. Moderated by economist and founding President of Center for Talent Innovation Sylvia Ann Hewlett the panel features Lauren Flanigan, RoseLee Goldberg, Anne Pasternak, Laurie Simmons, and Heather Watts.
62 Years Later is organized on the occasion of the gallery’s current exhibition (Untitled) Hybrid, a reflection on the legacy of Lee Krasner’s contributions to contemporary artistic practices featuring work by Polly Apfelbaum, Alisa Baremboym, Sarah Cain, Leidy Churchman, Joanne Greenbaum, Julia Hechtman, and Dona Nelson curated by Boston University Art Gallery Director Kate McNamara.
In contemplation of Krasner’s struggles in becoming fully recognized as an important figure in the male-dominated Abstract Expressionist movement, this panel discussion will explore the ebb and flow of the art community’s dynamic relationship with gender.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is president and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation, a nonprofit think tank where she chairs a Task Force focused on fully realizing the new streams of talent in the global marketplace. She is the author of 10 Harvard Business Review articles, 12 critically acclaimed nonfiction books including Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets and Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor (Harvard Business Review Press, Sept. 2013), and is ranked #11 of the world’s top business thinkers. Her writings have been widely published and she’s a featured blogger on HBR.org. A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, she earned her PhD in economics at London University.
Lauren Flanigan is an American operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the 1980s. Named by TIME Magazine as "the thinking man's diva" and awarded by ACSAP and the Center for Contemporary Opera for her commitment to performing the works of living composers, Flanigan has firmly established herself as a unique musical presence in the world today. She has been featured on the Live from the Met telecast of I Lombardi (opposite Luciano Pavarotti) and the Live from Lincoln Center telecasts of The Richard Tucker Gala, Lizzie Borden, and Central Park, which was written for her. She has performed at many of the world’s leading opera houses including La Scala, Teatro San Carlo, Bayerische Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. Last year Flanigan was given a prestigious yearlong creative residency at The Park Avenue Armory, during which she founded the group Not Your Mothers Kurt Weill Ensemble and was given 25 Weill songs cut from movies and shows to arrange and perform. Two of those programs called Unknown/Unsung: The Music of Kurt Weill are regularly performed to sold out houses at The Neue Galerie. Flanigan is also the founder and the director of Music and Mentoring House, a not-for-profit organization providing upscale affordable housing and hands on mentoring to students studying in the arts in NYC. Most recently, Flanigan was selected to be part of a world premiere performance of Beauty Intolerable, a collection of love songs composed by Sheila Silver based on the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, co-presented by American Opera Projects, The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society, ClaverackLanding, and Symphony Space.
RoseLee Goldberg is Founding Director and Curator of Performa, the leading organization for the research, production and presentation of visual art performance, which launched the Performa biennial to great international acclaim in New York in 2005. Former director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at the Kitchen in New York, she pioneered the study of performance art with her book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979 and available in 12 languages. Other books include Laurie Anderson, and Performance Since the 1960s. She is the recipient of the Agnes Gund ICI Curatorial Award, and is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters presented by the French government. She is Clinical Professor in Art History at New York University where she has taught since 1987.
Anne Pasternak, the President and Artistic Director of Creative Time, joined the organization in the fall of 1994, with the goal of presenting some of the most adventurous art in the public realm. Creative Time began commissioning innovative art in New York City in 1972, introducing millions of people every year to contemporary art while making sure it plays an active role in public life. Just a few years ago, Creative Time began working nationally making it the only national public arts organization with programs that have reached from New York to New Orleans, from Denver to Dallas, and from PA to LA. Renowned projects under her direction range from exhibitions and performances in the historic Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, sculptural installations in Grand Central Station’s Vanderbilt Hall, sign paintings in Coney Island and skywriting over Manhattan to the Tribute in Light, the twin beacons of light that illuminated the former World Trade Center site six months after 9/11. She has worked closely with such artists as Doug Aitken, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Steve Powers, Cai Guo Qiang, and many more. In addition to her work at Creative Time, Pasternak curates independent exhibitions, consults on urban planning initiatives, and contributes essays to cultural publications. She lectures extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and she served as a guest critic at Yale University.
Laurie Simmons is an internationally recognized artist. Since the mid-70’s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, mannequins and occasionally people, to create images with intensely psychological subtexts. Her photographic based works are collected by many museums including in New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim as well as The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center and the Hara Museum, Tokyo. In 2006 she produced and directed her first film titled "The Music of Regret", starring Meryl Streep, Adam Guettel and the Alvin Ailey 2 Dancers with cinematography by Ed Lachman. The film premiered at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has been screened at many international museums and film festivals including the Whitney Museum. Simmons was featured in Season 4 of the PBS series "Art 21: Art in the Twenty- First Century". Her most recent exhibitions were at Salon 94 Bowery, NYC, Wilkinson Gallery, London Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, The Gothenburg Museum in Sweden and Koyama Gallery in Tokyo. Her book titled “The Love Doll” was published last January. Simmons lives and works in New York City and Cornwall, Connecticut with her husband, the painter Carroll Dunham.
Heather Watts was born in Los Angeles, and was brought to New York to study at the School of American Ballet on a Ford Foundation scholarship. She was invited to join New York City Ballet by George Balanchine in 1970, and he promoted her to Principal Dancer in 1978. During her career at NYCB, Watts worked closely with Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, dancing leading roles in virtually all of the company's ballets, and both Balanchine and Robbins created roles especially for her. In addition to her career at NYCB she traveled extensively as a guest artist, and was an acclaimed international star. Since her retirement from the stage in a gala performance in 1995, Watts has been a contributing cultural editor at Vanity Fair magazine, has served as a panelist for the NEA, and serves on the Artists Committee for the Kennedy Center Honors. She taught academic courses in 2006 and 2007 on Balanchine’s life and work at Harvard University, and she received two Derek Bok awards for distinguished teaching. She was the Class of 1932 Visiting Lecturer in Dance at Princeton University for 2011-12, and also recently co-created a new seminar for the Dance Education Laboratory at the 92nd St Y. Among the many awards that Watts has received are the Jerome Robbins Award, the Dance Magazine Award, the Lions of the Performing Arts Award from the New York Public Library. In 2012, she received a Doctorate in Fine Arts honoris causa from Hunter College.
Chelsea 524 West 26th Street, New York NY, 10001212-366-4774 rmg@robertmillergallery.com
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Christian Boltanski, la vie c'est gaie, la vie c'est triste, 1974 (still)
Naturist Workshop:
Artist Stuart Ringholt hosts a naked workshop at apexart
Sat, May 25: 11am Free with RSVP
more info
Kafka's Last Laugh:
Scholar Anca Parvulescu presents a letter from Kafka on laughter
Wed, Jun 5: 6:30 pm
more info
Featuring work by:
Christian Boltanski, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Yoshua Okón, Stuart Ringholt, and Althea Thauberger
An Unsolicited Proposal Program winning exhibition.
Tribeca / Downtown 291 Church Street, New York NY, 10013 Tuesday - Saturday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-431-5270 info@apexart.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
A History of Contemporary Art in the Philippines by Tally Beck Tally Beck Contemporary Galler Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, 6:30 PM www.tallybeckcontemporary.com
Reception begins 6pm;
talk begins about 7:30 pm
The East Village / Lower East Side 42 Rivington Street, New York NY, 10002646-678-3433
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Carrie Moyer
POUR: Panel Discussion With Angelina Gualdoni, Carrie Moyer, Carrie Yamaoka, Carolanna Parlato, Elisabeth Condon, Carol Prusa, and Tyler Emerson-Dorsch Asya Geisberg Gallery Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, 6:30 PM www.asyageisberggallery.com
please RSVP to info@asyageisberggallery.com
Chelsea 537B West 23rd Street, New York NY, 10011212-675-7525 info@asyageisberggallery.com
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Storytellers and Mystics Cortney Andrews, Juka Araikawa, Daniel Arango, Jaqueline Cedar, Ted Gahl, Rubens Ghenov, Julie Leidner, Jennifer Sim, Jasmine Little and Lumin Wakoa Art Connects New York (ACNY) Curated by Jen Sim Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 26, 2013 www.artconnectsnewyork.org
Sunset Park 220 36th Street, Suite B-515, Brooklyn NY, 11232 Monday - Friday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
646-546-5334 info@artconnectsnewyork.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Image: Air Pressure (Face) 1971, 14:03 min, b&w, sound; Compression: Fern #1 1970, 5:46 min, color, silent (c) Dennis Oppenheim Courtesy Dennis Oppenheim ~studio
DENNIS OPPENHEIM: Form-Energy-Subject Screening + Conversation Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, 6:30 PM www.eai.org
“Take the phenomenon of grabbing: instead of grabbing clay, you grab your stomach. For the first time, instead of imposing form manually, you are feeling what it is like to be made. You might have felt your hands picking up a piece of wood and staking it, but you have never felt what the wood felt.”
- Dennis Oppenheim, Studio International (November, 1971)
EAI is proud to present a screening and discussion on the films and videos of Dennis Oppenheim, focusing on the Aspen Projects, produced between 1970 and 1974. These rarely seen works mark the evolution of Oppenheim’s practice from public earthworks in the late 1960s to more intimate material investigations of his own body. In the early 1970s, Oppenheim was in the vanguard of artists using film and video as a means to examine themes relating to Body Art, Conceptual Art, and performance. In his works from this time, Oppenheim used his own body as a site to challenge the self: he explored the boundaries of personal risk, transformation, and communication through ritualistic performance actions and interactions.
The short pieces from Aspen Projects record performative actions that evolve as exchanges or interactions between Oppenheim's body and natural and man-made elements—leaves, wood, hair, compressed air, glass. In some pieces, these gestures involve a kind of self-negation; others work in reverse, as Oppenheim leaves imprints or traces of himself. As his actions unfold, the distinction between his living body and the inanimate and non-living materials he uses are leveled, erasing the differences and categories that stand between his face or fingernail and a fern or piece of wood. Continuing this line of inquiry, in the equally mesmerizing and disquieting work Disappear, Oppenheim attempts to will his hand to dematerialize. Intoning a hypnotic and mantra-like wish for disappearance and dissolution, he moves his hand faster than the camera’s mechanism can process images, turning it into an indeterminate blur. In 2 Stage Transfer Drawing (Returning to a Past State) and 2 Stage Transfer Drawing (Advancing to a Future State), both from 1971, Oppenheim investigates transference and communication through the body. Collaborating with his son Erik, in the Transfer Drawing pieces Oppenheim makes a drawing on his son's back; his son tries to copy this drawing through tactile sensation onto the wall. They then reverse roles. Writes Oppenheim, "I am drawing through him."
Curator Jenny Jaskey will introduce the screening, focusing on the artist’s concern with the interpenetration of human and non-human life, and the collapse of assumed hierarchies between subjects and objects in his work. Oppenheim once likened his performances during this period to “plugging into the solar system, communicating with an element,” and his immersive investigations presciently anticipate contemporary questions around ecology, matter and human agency.
To discuss these concerns and the relevance of Oppenheim’s work for a current generation of artists, Jaskey will be joined by artists A.K. Burns, Ajay Kurian and Yve Laris-Cohen for an informal discussion in the second half of the evening. Burns’ practice explores the intersection of desire, power and language, taking the form of sculpture, video, collage or social actions. In recent works, Burns has focused on object tactility and the cultural implication of fetish. Cohen's performances layer bodies and objects, using strategies of repetition and endurance to map genealogies of material exchange. In his art, Kurian pursues new material languages and strategies that disregard divisions between nature, culture and human beings, creating conditions for exploring non-human agency within art.
Special thanks to Amy Oppenheim and the Oppenheim Studio for their assistance in organizing this program.
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Dennis Oppenheim was born in 1938 in Electric City, Washington. From 1966 until his death in 2011, he lived and worked in New York City. He received his B.F.A. from the School of Arts and Crafts, and an M.F.A. from Stanford University. He received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Oppenheim exhibited his works internationally in galleries and museums including solo shows at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Galerie Pro Arte, Freiburg, Germany; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Gallery, London, and the Joseph Helman Gallery, New York. He exhibited extensively in group shows at venues such as the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, Canada; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do, Korea; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain; Tate Liverpool, UK; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Tate Modern, London; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and the Venice and Sao Paolo Biennales. Oppenheim was commissioned by many venues, including Ballerup Kommune, Copenhagen; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Olympic Park, South Korea and the Busan Biennale, South Korea.
Jenny Jaskey is a curator and writer based in New York. Recent exhibitions include The End(s) of the Library, Goethe-Institut New York (2012-2013) with Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, R. Lyon, David Horvitz, Christian Philipp Müller, and The Serving Library; Haim Steinbach, The Artist’s Institute, New York (2012) and Jutta Koether: Mad Garland, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2012). She is co-editor with Christoph Cox and Suhail Malik of Realism Materialism Art, an upcoming publication on the ‘speculative turn’ in philosophy and aesthetics published by Sternberg Press.
A.K. Burns is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Burns is a founding member of the artists activist group W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy), and co-editor of RANDY, an annual trans-feminist arts magazine. Burns’ solo and collaborative work has been exhibited and screened internationally. Her work is currently on view at the ICP Triennial through September 8th.
Yve Laris Cohen’s work has been performed and exhibited at locations including The Kitchen, SculptureCenter, Recess, Dance Theater Workshop, Abrons Arts Center, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Danspace Project, and Thomas Erben Gallery, in New York; as well as at The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson; and Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Laris Cohen was a 2010-2012 Movement Research Artist in Residence, and received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Visual Art Grant Award in 2011. He graduated with a BA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2011.
Ajay Kurian is an artist and curator. Kurian has exhibited at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Harris Lieberman, Jack Hanley Gallery, Room East, and the Artist’s Institute in New York, as well as CAMRaleigh and White Flag Projects, St. Louis. In 2011, Kurian had a solo exhibition at Audio Visual Arts, New York. Kurian’s recent curatorial projects include the exhibitions Gran Prix, co-curated with Nudashank, Baltimore and Prolegomena at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, a collaboration with Shifter magazine. Kurian’s work will be included in EXPO 1: New York, at MoMA PS1. He is preparing for solo exhibitions at 47 Canal in New York and Jhaveri Contemporary in India, both in 2013.
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Chelsea 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York NY, 10011212-337-0680 info@eai.org
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Pat Steir: Blue River National Academy Museum Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM On View May 23, 2013 - September 08, 2013 www.nationalacademy.org
The Upper East Side 1083 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York NY, 10128 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-369-4880
Screening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Federico Fellini: 8 1/2 New York Public Library Screening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM www.nypl.org
Please join us on Wednesday, May 22 at 7 p.m. for a screening of Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963, 138 min) in the first floor corner room of Mid-Manhattan Library.
This film is part of the series Three Auteurs of World Cinema. All screenings are FREE and each program includes an introduction to the film as well as a guided discussion afterwards. Seating is first-come, first-served and doors open at 6:30 p.m.
8 1/2 (1963, 138 min) is a semi-autobiographical comedy-drama directed by Fellini and co-written with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi. It stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director struggling with writer’s block. The title refers to the fact that Fellini considered it his eighth-and-a-half film. 8 1/2 won two Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Costume Design. In Italian with English subtitles.
Please contact Karen Ginman at karenginman@nypl.org or Thomas Knowlton at thomasknowlton@nypl.org if you have any questions.
Midtown Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Avenue, New York NY, 10016
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Pictured: Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter in Conversation with Vince Aletti SVA Theatre Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, 7:00 PM www.sva.edu
Saul Leiter will discuss his photographic work with Vince Aletti, accomplished photography critic and reviewer for the New Yorker.
Leiter began his photographic work recording moments of urban life, becoming a pioneer in the art of color photography, in the 1950's. It is the color work which coordinates lyrical abstraction with the flux of New York City, and has been widely appreciated since the publication in 2006 of the monograph Early Color.
Saul Leiter's work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Victoria and Albert Museum; the National Gallery of Australia; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Yale University Art Gallery; and other prestigious public and private collections. He is represented by the Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Presented by Dear Dave, magazine as part of its series of conversations on contemporary photography.
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
RSVP: info@deardavemagazine.com
Chelsea 333 West 23rd Street, New York NY, 10011212-592-2980 SVATheatre@sva.edu
Performance Wednesday May 22, 2013
SpeakChamber Constance DeJong Bureau Performance Wednesday May 22, 2013, 7:00 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 Wednesday May 22, 2013
WHITE ROAD DANCE MEDIA: EVERGREEN Abrons Arts Center Performance Wednesday May 22, 2013, 8:00 PM Additional Performances: Thursday May 23, 2013 from 8:00 PM
Friday May 24, 2013 from 8:00 PM
Saturday May 25, 2013 from 8:00 PM
www.abronsartscenter.org
Presented through the Abrons Access Program
TICKETS: $15
Evergreen is a new full-length live dance work from Marisa Gruneberg and white road Dance Media, marking wrDM's 10th year creating and performing in New York City.
Evergreen is a world pulled taut by symmetrical forms and fueled by overwhelming movements, quickfire decisions, and interpersonal momentums. Additionally inspired by simulated environments, cycles of renewal and the concept of extreme dramatics in very small spaces, the performers challenge one another to fully inhabit a purlieu that is both calculated and undone, fragile yet enduring.
Performed by Sammy Donahue, Sydnie Liggett, Miranda Lyon, Emily Maurer, Hanna Olvera, Liz Riga, Jenny Stulberg, and Sarah Zitnay. Original score by Justin Sherburn, with costumes by Joseph Blaha.
The East Village / Lower East Side 466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street), New York NY, 10002212-598-0400 info@henrystreet.org
Editor's Pick
Hopper Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art Curated by Carter E. Foster Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - October 06, 2013 www.whitney.org
Hopper Drawing is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of Edward Hopper (1882—1967). More than anything else, Hopper’s drawings reveal the continually evolving relationship between observation and invention in the artist’s work, and his abiding interest in the spaces and motifs—the street, the movie theatre, the office, the bedroom, the road—that he would return to throughout his career as an artist. This exhibition showcases the Whitney’s unparalleled collection of Hopper’s work, which includes over 2,500 drawings bequeathed to the museum by his widow Josephine Hopper, many of which have never before been exhibited or researched. The exhibition will survey Hopper’s significant and underappreciated achievements as a draftsman, and will pair many of his greatest oil paintings, including Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), Office at Night (1940) and Nighthawks (1942), with their preparatory drawings and related works. This exhibition also features groundbreaking archival research into the buildings, spaces and urban environments that inspired his work.
Hopper Drawing is organized by Carter E. Foster, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing.
The Upper East Side 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York NY, 10021 Friday from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-570-3600 info@whitney.org
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Hopper Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art Curated by Carter E. Foster Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - October 06, 2013 www.whitney.org
Hopper Drawing is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of Edward Hopper (1882—1967). More than anything else, Hopper’s drawings reveal the continually evolving relationship between observation and invention in the artist’s work, and his abiding interest in the spaces and motifs—the street, the movie theatre, the office, the bedroom, the road—that he would return to throughout his career as an artist. This exhibition showcases the Whitney’s unparalleled collection of Hopper’s work, which includes over 2,500 drawings bequeathed to the museum by his widow Josephine Hopper, many of which have never before been exhibited or researched. The exhibition will survey Hopper’s significant and underappreciated achievements as a draftsman, and will pair many of his greatest oil paintings, including Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), Office at Night (1940) and Nighthawks (1942), with their preparatory drawings and related works. This exhibition also features groundbreaking archival research into the buildings, spaces and urban environments that inspired his work.
Hopper Drawing is organized by Carter E. Foster, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing.
The Upper East Side 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York NY, 10021 Friday from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-570-3600 info@whitney.org
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Windows on Fifth: Jennifer Steinkamp National Academy Museum Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - September 08, 2013 www.nationalacademy.org
Jennifer Steinkamp’s video installation, The Vanquished, is a stunning homage to Auguste Rodin.
The Upper East Side 1083 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York NY, 10128 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-369-4880
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
William Trost Richards: Visions of Land and Sea National Academy Museum Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - September 08, 2013 www.nationalacademy.org
This exhibition reveals the Academy’s rich collection of work by the major landscape and marine specialist William Trost Richards. The majority of these oils, watercolors and graphite drawings have never before been on public view.
The Upper East Side 1083 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York NY, 10128 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-369-4880
Editor's Pick
DAVID HOCKNEY: THE JUGGLERS Whitney Museum of American Art Curated by Chrissie Iles Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - September 01, 2013 www.whitney.org
This exhibition marks the U.S. premiere of David Hockney’s first video installation: The Jugglers, June 24th 2012 (2012). Filmed using eighteen fixed cameras, this multiscreen tableau shows a group of jugglers as they move in a procession across a grid of eighteen screens. The figures, dressed in black and juggling brightly colored objects, perform in front of a pink wall and on a blue floor, creating a vibrant, colorful composition whose energy is echoed by a lively musical soundtrack. Hockney’s creation of a composite image from multiple perspectives places the choice of where to look with the viewer, demonstrating his ongoing interest in how technologies can open up new ways of looking at, and making, images.
David Hockney: The Jugglers is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator.
The Upper East Side 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, Brooklyn NY, 10021 Wednesday - Thursday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Friday from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-570-3600 info@whitney.org
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
DAVID HOCKNEY: THE JUGGLERS Whitney Museum of American Art Curated by Chrissie Iles Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - September 01, 2013 www.whitney.org
This exhibition marks the U.S. premiere of David Hockney’s first video installation: The Jugglers, June 24th 2012 (2012). Filmed using eighteen fixed cameras, this multiscreen tableau shows a group of jugglers as they move in a procession across a grid of eighteen screens. The figures, dressed in black and juggling brightly colored objects, perform in front of a pink wall and on a blue floor, creating a vibrant, colorful composition whose energy is echoed by a lively musical soundtrack. Hockney’s creation of a composite image from multiple perspectives places the choice of where to look with the viewer, demonstrating his ongoing interest in how technologies can open up new ways of looking at, and making, images.
David Hockney: The Jugglers is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator.
The Upper East Side 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, Brooklyn NY, 10021 Wednesday - Thursday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Friday from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-570-3600 info@whitney.org
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirre National Academy Museum Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - September 08, 2013 www.nationalacademy.org
Gibson's work has established him as a leading artist of his generation. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, he explores notions of identity and modernism within a contemporary context.
The Upper East Side 1083 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York NY, 10128 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-369-4880
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Visualizing Time: Narrative Prints from the National Academy Museum Selected by Andrew Raftery, NA National Academy Museum Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - September 08, 2013 www.nationalacademy.org
Showcasing a selection of narrative prints from the Academy's collection, National Academician Andrew Raftery's examination focuses on how printmakers structured the representation of time as they created narratives that were comprehensible to their original audiences and compelling today.
The Upper East Side 1083 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York NY, 10128 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-369-4880
Screening Thursday May 23, 2013
STREAMING MARATHON EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org
In addition to the cinema program, a marathon screening will be presented in collaboration with Are.na, an internet software 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
Screening Thursday May 23, 2013
Film Series: The Cinema of Immigration I REMEMBER MAMA Queens Museum of Art Screening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM www.queensmuseum.org
I REMEMBER MAMA (1948), directed by George Stevens, 134 min. Irene Dunne stars in this adaptation of Kathryn Forbes’ memoir about growing up in a Norwegian immigrant family in San Francisco. With Barbara Bel Geddes.
This 10-week series explores the immigrant experience in the U.S. through films that reflect its ethnic and cultural diversity. Mark Ethan introduces each screening and leads discussion afterwards.
Mark Ethan, a member of the Actors Studio, has appeared in films including “The Secret Lives of Dentists,” “The Confession” and “Lesser Prophets.” He has been presenting the Film Series at the Queens Museum of Art since 1998, and a variety of cinema classes for 92Y since 2003.
Rest Of Queens New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens NY, 11368718-592-9700
Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013
JOHN MILLER EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org
John Miller, whose installation A Refusal to Accept Limits is on view at EXPO 1: New York, is an artist and writer based in New York and Berlin, and a professor of professional practice at Barnard. He will discuss Vilem Flusser’s Toward a Philosophy of Photography and describe the impact of cybernetic information technologies on future social structure.
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013
Public Sewing / Hangout Days Amanda Browder: PRISM/LIVIN/ROOM Allegra LaViola Gallery Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013, from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM www.allegralaviola.com
Come sew, learn to sew, trim, hand sew, chat, alter, draw, chill out..... Amanda Browder will be in the Project Space transforming her installation PRISM/LIVIN/ROOM into a new configuration. Join us and hang out!
DONATE! (do you have fabric you would like to get rid of?)
Bring it to the space, and we can add it to the show...or a future building piece!
All levels, all ages, No experience necessary!
The East Village / Lower East Side 179 East Broadway, New York NY, 10002allegra@allegralaviola.com
Screening Thursday May 23, 2013
COURTESY NAOMI UMAN
NAOMI UMAN: UKRAINIAN TIME MACHINE: VIDEO DIARY 2-1-2006 TO THE PRESENT EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Thursday May 23, 2013, 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org
Ukrainian Time Machine: Video Diary 2-1-2006 to the Present (2011) by Naomi Uman, video, 83 min, Ukraine/United States
“In 2006, experimental filmmaker Uman returned to the Ukraine, where her great-grandparents had lived a hundred years earlier. While there, she used a 16mm camera to capture rural life and a video camera to record her personal experiences, which she assembled into Video Diary 2-1-2006 to the Present. The elder babushky welcomed her warmly, but she struggled to adapt to local customs. Uman’s “reverse immigration” develops into a revealing personal narrative exploring gender disparity, the history of Judaism, and global immigration.” – MoMA Documentary Fortnight
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Shio Kusaka, 2013
SHIO KUSAKA Anton Kern Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - June 22, 2013 www.antonkerngallery.com
Chelsea 532 West 20th Street, New York NY, 10011 Tuesday - Saturday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-367-9663
Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013
At The Same Time / Launch and Reception Printed Matter Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM www.printedmatter.org
At the Same Time is a self-published photography book by six artists: Steven Beckly, Dylan MacNeil, Ted Kerr, Zachary Ayotte, Colin Quinn and Oisín Share. Drawing and expanding on a variety of photographic traditions, the collaboration explores the nature and development of their romantic relationships from three different parts of the world over the past three years. Features essays by AA Bronson, Paul Mgapi Sepuya, and Sholem Krishtalka. Some of the artists will be present to sign copies.
Chelsea 195 Tenth Avenue, New York NY, 10011212-925-0325
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Terry Evans, Intersecting the Flint Hills, April, 1994 , Archival Pigment Print, 30 x 30 inches
The Inhabited Prairie Terry Evans YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - July 03, 2013 www.yanceyrichardson.com
Chelsea 535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor, New York NY, 10011 Tuesday - Saturday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
646-230-9610 info@yanceyrichardson.com
Performance Thursday May 23, 2013
EDGARDO ARAGÓN "LA ENCOMIENDA" Tiffany & Co. Performance Thursday May 23, 2013, 6:00 PM www.laurelgitlen.com
A lone singer will perform "La Encomienda" outside of the Tiffany & Co. Fifth Avenue flagship store on Thursday, May 23 at 6pm, and Sunday, June 23 at 4pm. The performances will last approximately five minutes and start prompty on the hour.
Edgardo Aragón, Treasure, has been extended through June 23.
Midtown Fifth Avenue & 57th Street, New York NY, 10022212-274-0761 gallery@laurelgitlen.com
Editor's Pick
Daniel Lefcourt: Modeler Mitchell-Innes & Nash Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - June 29, 2013 www.miandn.com
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to present our first solo exhibition of Daniel Lefcourt. Daniel Lefcourt: Modeler will include new paintings and graphite panels within a modified exhibition framework.
The exhibition title Modeler evokes someone – or something – making a scale model construction. It is this emphasis on making that captures Lefcourt’s interest: a fixation on material process in relation to simulation.
This dynamic between making and simulating is played out at every level of the exhibition. Unpainted false walls, of a type used in theatre production, imply that the exhibition itself is a type of model. Fiberboard panels entitled Drawing Boards have been machined using a computer controlled wood-router, and delicately finished by hand with graphite.
This layering of simulated and physical procedures is performed most elaborately in the paintings. Even the very act of painting is modeled – enacted at a micro scale on a platform in the artist’s studio. Fleeting material transformations – often on a scale invisible even to the artist – are captured using a macro lens on a digital camera. Later, these transitory moments are recreated in large pictorial-relief using a combination of digital 3D modeling, computer controlled machining, sculptural casting, and finally adhering a cast film of paint onto the surface of a canvas. While the production of the work is technologically mediated, the artist is keenly attentive to the vagaries of materials – allowing for chance occurrences in each stage of the process to function as generative elements of each individual work. The final result is a body of work that is simultaneously luminous and concrete, immediate and distant, uncannily simulated and corporeally present.
Daniel Lefcourt was born in New York and lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his MFA from Columbia University and is a member of the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design. Lefcourt has exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including solo exhibitions at Taxter & Spengemann in New York, Campoli Presti in Paris, Sutton Lane in London, and at White Flag Projects in St. Louis. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including First Among Equals at ICA Philadelphia; Knight’s Move at Sculpture Center in Long Island City, New York; Reel to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection at the de Young Museum in San Francisco; and Greater New York at MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY. His upcoming web project hosted by the Dia Center will launch in the Fall of 2013 and will be available as a working preview at diacenter.org/lefcourt beginning June 1.
Chelsea 534 West 26th Street, New York NY, 10001 Tuesday - Saturday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-744-7400 josie@miandn.com
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Daniel Lefcourt: Modeler Mitchell-Innes & Nash Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - June 29, 2013 www.miandn.com
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to present our first solo exhibition of Daniel Lefcourt. Daniel Lefcourt: Modeler will include new paintings and graphite panels within a modified exhibition framework.
The exhibition title Modeler evokes someone – or something – making a scale model construction. It is this emphasis on making that captures Lefcourt’s interest: a fixation on material process in relation to simulation.
This dynamic between making and simulating is played out at every level of the exhibition. Unpainted false walls, of a type used in theatre production, imply that the exhibition itself is a type of model. Fiberboard panels entitled Drawing Boards have been machined using a computer controlled wood-router, and delicately finished by hand with graphite.
This layering of simulated and physical procedures is performed most elaborately in the paintings. Even the very act of painting is modeled – enacted at a micro scale on a platform in the artist’s studio. Fleeting material transformations – often on a scale invisible even to the artist – are captured using a macro lens on a digital camera. Later, these transitory moments are recreated in large pictorial-relief using a combination of digital 3D modeling, computer controlled machining, sculptural casting, and finally adhering a cast film of paint onto the surface of a canvas. While the production of the work is technologically mediated, the artist is keenly attentive to the vagaries of materials – allowing for chance occurrences in each stage of the process to function as generative elements of each individual work. The final result is a body of work that is simultaneously luminous and concrete, immediate and distant, uncannily simulated and corporeally present.
Daniel Lefcourt was born in New York and lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his MFA from Columbia University and is a member of the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design. Lefcourt has exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including solo exhibitions at Taxter & Spengemann in New York, Campoli Presti in Paris, Sutton Lane in London, and at White Flag Projects in St. Louis. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including First Among Equals at ICA Philadelphia; Knight’s Move at Sculpture Center in Long Island City, New York; Reel to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection at the de Young Museum in San Francisco; and Greater New York at MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY. His upcoming web project hosted by the Dia Center will launch in the Fall of 2013 and will be available as a working preview at diacenter.org/lefcourt beginning June 1.
Chelsea 534 West 26th Street, New York NY, 10001 Tuesday - Saturday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-744-7400 josie@miandn.com
Performance Thursday May 23, 2013
Volumes for Sound Closing Reception Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson Recess Performance Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM www.recessart.org
March 26 – May 25, 2013
Middling reception: April 17, 6-8pm
Performance by Richard Sides: May 1, 2013, 7-9pm (ongoing, stop in anytime)
Closing Reception: May 23, 6-8pm
On March 26, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson will begin work on Volumes for Sound as part of Recess’ signature program, Session. Session invites artists to use Recess’ public space as studio, exhibition venue, and grounds for experimentation.
Over the course of their Session, Dubbin and Davidson will create new works influenced by the geometries of sound. Funneling, folding and porting sound requires physical structures. Electric guitar amplifiers and cabinets make use of an imperfect architecture for energy, while acting as totems delineating an ancestry of sound amplification. These forms address archaeoacoustics and the pre-electrical harnessing of sound within architecture, while employing the staggered geometries of loudspeaker time-alignment and the slurred voicing of phase cancellation.
The artists will use photography as a method of recording various conditions. Sound waves reach our ears after traveling along different paths that describe overlapping triangles; a folded, warped and sonified camera-obscura. Cameras render an optical compression of tones akin to a constrained dynamic range in the audible realm. An image’s lack of sound becomes a way of defining the aural.
This Session will continue themes developed in earlier iterations of Volumes for Sound. Earlier works used untreated fiberboard sculptures as objects with potential for sound. These forms descend from familiar objects drawn together in domestic and architectural situations – such as the triangulation that occurs when a listener sits in a chair in front of a pair of speakers. This triangulation is collapsed into objects containing several variations for configuration. Artists were invited to create performances using the volumes. Between events they were left silent and photographs provided evidence of the previous configurations.
The artists will punctuate their Session with informal performances and presentations.
About the artists:
Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson have an ongoing collaborative practice that combines various media. Recent solo shows include exhibitions at Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York City (2013), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2012), and The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (2012). They have exhibited internationally at museums, galleries, and art centers including SculptureCenter, New York; Exit Art, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; 2004 Gwangju Biennale, S. Korea; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Dubbin and Davidson live in Brooklyn, New York.
Soho 41 Grand Street, New York NY, 10013646-863-3765 info@recessactivities.org
Editor's Pick
GENIUS OF LOVE EJ Hauser, Jaqueline Cedar, Andrea Belag, Shara Hughes, Rick Briggs, Farrell Brickhouse and Emily Noelle Lambert Brian Morris Gallery Curated by Jason Stopa Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.brianmorrisgallery.com
The East Village / Lower East Side 163 Chrystie Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
347-261-8228 info@brianmorrisgallery.com
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
GENIUS OF LOVE EJ Hauser, Jaqueline Cedar, Andrea Belag, Shara Hughes, Rick Briggs, Farrell Brickhouse and Emily Noelle Lambert Brian Morris Gallery Curated by Jason Stopa Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.brianmorrisgallery.com
The East Village / Lower East Side 163 Chrystie Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
347-261-8228 info@brianmorrisgallery.com
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Monkey Face: Pictures for Looking At, Drawing for Photography Jason Evans Aperture Gallery and Bookstore Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - July 03, 2013 www.aperture.org
Jason Evans’s photographs circulate in many worlds, from fashion magazines and websites to record covers and museums, and he’s often interested in subverting the conventions of the genres and venues in which he works. Such is the case with this portfolio of seventeen images, which is the first such series Evans has created for photography collectors.
Evans, whose work was featured in Aperture 210, takes advantage of the nebulous understanding we have of the term photographer, its applicability to artists and amateurs alike. The academic language of the art world is not for him; with Evans’s photographs, visual pleasure reigns over conceptual armature. These works, all titled Monkey Face, are part of his ongoing series Pictures for Looking At, Drawing for Photography. They consist of Evans’s own photographs, to which he has applied brightly colored stickers, mainly from Japan and Germany. The stickers’ patterns are randomly and intuitively generated, and create an oscillation between foreground and background, image and abstraction, pattern and randomness. The resultant works are a workout for the eyes and the mind, a visual exercise that can be understood by everyone who encounters them. As Evans says, “I’d rather see something than look at it, but you can only see by looking. When you really see something you get the feeling.” Over time, the stickers will lose their grip on the photographic prints; they will fall off the surface, collect at the bottom of the frame, and reveal more of Evans’s original images.
For information regarding print sales and additional jpgs, contact prints@aperture.org.
Jason Evans (born in Holyhead, Wales, 1968) first fell in love with photography at the age of 12 when he was lucky enough to capture a bolt of lightning over the desert where he grew up. It was with his first camera which had 3 aperture settings; sunny, partly cloudy and cloudy. That rush stayed in him and years later he strives to capture that electric moment whether it is at the peak of athletic performance or in the clarifying pauses of preparation and reflection. His work has been recognized by Photo District News, American Photographic Artists, and with a solo exhibit at the Newport Art Museum. Clients include Hewlett Packard, The International Olympic Committee, Nike, TaylorMade, and Toyota.
Chelsea 547 West 27th Street, New York NY, 10001
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
From Tree to Sea, 2011-2013, Oil, watercolor, charcoal, graphite on paper and linen, 68 X 64 inches
On Country Ground Darius Yektai Tripoli Gallery Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - June 20, 2013 www.tripoligallery.com
Southampton, NY – The Tripoli Gallery is pleased to open its summer season with an exhibition of new paintings by Darius Yektai, entitled, On Country Ground. The show will open with a reception for the artist on Thursday, May 23rd, from 6 to 8 pm.
Born in Southampton, NY, and having lived out here for the last 12 years Darius Yektai is, as the title implies, simply on country ground. His studio and love for nature is cradled in our small community but his vision extends beyond our shores. “It is only here where the beaches run for miles and the sky is unrestricted that I can breathe at ease and focus on the complexities in the painted surface of my work." he has said. We know from looking at his newest work on view at the gallery that this surface he labors on is of the utmost concern to the artist.
The subjects of his recent work are not necessarily from or of the east end; they vary from the young at swimming holes in the Adirondacks to cliffscapes in Mallorca and St. Barths. But what they do all share is a sense of landscape as armature for the physical act of his painting. The figure/ground relationship of his brushstrokes and the figure/ground relationship of his subjects seem to create an interesting plane for contemplation -a metaphysical surface for his didactic painting.
In the painting “From Tree to Sea”, 2012-2013, a bathing suit clad man casually with arms up hangs from a tree branch overlooking a mountainous cove. The man and tree branch are rendered in watercolor and charcoal on paper. They have been folded, cut, and pasted in oil paint to the painted image of the cove. Mr. Yektai is using paint in two distinct and separate ways. It is being used both as to the service of illusory depth as in the verisimilitude of the distant landscape that falls behind the figure receding into space, and paint as to the service of adhesion, a quality that speaks about the nature of the material and that floats on the surface of the canvas. It is in this way that Mr. Yektai’s work is activated. He is constantly shifting his approach to the painting, and the paint is constantly negotiating itself as truth in material and to the illusion of representation.
Darius Yektai studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and the American University in Paris where he completed his BA in art history. Over the years, his work has been recognized with various awards including, Best Representational Work (2010), Best Sculpture (2008), and Best In Show (2002), from Guild Hall’s annual members show. This will be his second solo exhibition at the Tripoli Gallery.
For press inquiries or further information, please contact info@tripoligallery.com or call 631.377.3715
Long Island / The Hamptons 30a Jobs Lane, Southampton NY, 11968 Monday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
631-377-3715 info@tripoligallery.com
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
(Installation shot)
The Battle of Carnival and Lent Judith Schaechter Claire Oliver Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - June 29, 2013 www.claireoliver.com
Please join us for the opening reception with the Artist:
Thursday, May 23rd from 6 to 8 p.m.
Schaechter draws on mythology, the Bible, and even famous works of art from ages past for her archetypes struggling with an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. "When I saw Judith's new works, my thoughts went to Guernica, Bruegel and Diego River's murals on industry or Otto Dix's paintings looking at war. She's (Schaechter) looking at this moment and the issues of humanity and those artists were too."
Elisabeth Argo, Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Chelsea 513 West 26th Street, New York New York, 10001 Tuesday - Saturday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-929-5949 info@claireoliver.com
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Heide Hatry
Heide Hatry NOT A ROSE STUX GALLERY Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - June 22, 2013 www.stuxgallery.com
Chelsea 530 West 25th Street, New York NY, 10001 Tuesday - Saturday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-352-1600 stux@stuxgallery.com
Performance Thursday May 23, 2013
Photo of Karen Finley by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
“Sext Me if You Can” by Karen Finley Performance and Installation New Museum Performance Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM www.newmuseum.org
Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence.
“Sext Me if You Can” is an interactive performance installation taking place in the New Museum Lobby in full view of Museum visitors. For this performance, Karen Finley creates a limited edition of paintings inspired by “sexts” that she receives from participating patrons. Participation takes the form of a commission and requires a ten-minute private and anonymous sitting on-site during announced performance times (bring your own cell phone!). Through this process, the erotic exchange with the artist—bound by rules of commerce—transforms into a lasting and collectible work of art. For more information on how to participate, please see below.
KAREN FINLEY’S LIMITED EDITION “SEXT ME IF YOU CAN” PAINTINGS ON COMMISSION AT THE NEW MUSEUM STORE
Thursday May 23–Sunday May 26
New Museum Store patrons are invited to commission a participatory work of art by Karen Finley for their personal collection. Here’s how it works: Patrons who wish to participate process their commissioning fee online or in person at the New Museum Store and are subsequently provided with a time to be present for a ten-minute on-site sitting during announced performance times. Sittings are completely private, discrete, and anonymous. During your sitting, you will receive access to a private phone number for the purpose of sending Finley a “sext.” This sext will, in turn, serve as the inspiration for a painting, or series of paintings, created by the artist in a temporary studio set up in the New Museum Lobby. The paintings will be displayed for the duration of the installation, from May 23–26. At the end of the installation, participating patrons (now collectors) will take home one of the paintings inspired by their sext.
Participants must be at least eighteen years old. No exceptions.
PRICING
Large Oval Canvas – $500 (Edition of 8)
Small Oval Canvas – $300 (Edition of 12)
Works on Paper – $200 (Edition of 25)
Commissions are not yet available for purchase. To secure your commission in advance, please email NEA4@newmuseum.org, subject: “Karen Finley Commission.”
Finley is a New York–based artist whose performances have long provoked controversy and debate. Her performances have been presented at the Lincoln Center (NY), the Guthrie (Minneapolis), American Repertory Theater (Harvard), the ICA (London), the Steppenwolf (Chicago), and the Bobino (Paris). Her artworks are in numerous collections and museums including the Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Finley attended the San Francisco Art Institute receiving an MFA and an honorary PhD. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Obies, two Bessies, Ms. magazine Woman Of The Year Award, NARAL Person of the Year Award, and NYSCA and NEA Fellowships. She has appeared in many independent films, including Jonathan Demme’s 1993 Oscar-winning film Philadelphia. She has authored and/or edited eight books including Shock Treatment (City Lights, 1990), Enough is Enough (Poseidon, Simon and Schuster, 1993), Living It Up (Doubleday, 1996), Pooh Unplugged (Smart Art Books, 1999), A Different Kind Of Intimacy: The Collected Writings of Karen Finley (Thunders Mouth Press, 2000), and Reality Shows (2011). Current projects include “Unicorn in Red” (an ongoing series of performances in which Finley receives automatic messages from those departed and turns those messages into artworks), Broken Negative (a re-examination of her infamously defunded work We Keep Our Victims Ready), and Open Heart (a public memorial for children killed during the Holocaust created in collaboration with survivors, children, and locals). Finley is a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in the department of Art and Public Policy.
Presented in conjunction with “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” and IDEAS CITY.
TICKETS
General Public Free
Members Free
½ Gallery Admission with same day event ticket purchase.
The East Village / Lower East Side 235 Bowery, New York NY, 10002212-219-1222
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Rocio Rodriguez, Big Yellow, 2012, Oil on canvas, 66 x 90 in,
SPRING REVIVAL: a group exhibition Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - June 29, 2013 www.markelfinearts.com
New York, NY—May 1, 2013—Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present Spring Revival an exhibition of new works by Daniel Brice, Christian Haub, Rory MacArthur, Marilla Palmer, Stacey Piwinski, Rocío Rodriguez, Yolanda Sánchez, Debra Smith, and Josette Urso.
Daniel Brice practices his explorations of color and light within a minimalist framework. Brice’s paintings are subtle, their simplicity betrays the intense attention to detail that is paid to each brushstroke. The paintings appear monochromatic, however a small band of rich color often anchors the composition. Brice lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and has exhibited extensively throughout the United States.
Christian Haub began work on his “Floats,” which operate in the “intersection between painting and sculpture” in 1990. He was awarded the Rome Prize for painting in 1984. Haub lives and works in New York, NY, his work has been included in several important public and private collections.
Rory MacArthur creates elaborate, large-scale, sculpture-like constructs out of Styrofoam. The work is meticulously carved and assembled into fantastic trompe l’œil agglomerations of geometric forms and neon pigments. MacArthur was born in Perthshire, Scotland and in 2004 was awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Marilla Palmer works from life in media that are both traditional and nontraditional. Noticeably absent from her newest work Sweet Pea and the Blue Persimmon Tree is the tree’s fruit, which she has replaced with sequins, dried flowers and spore prints. Palmer explains that “[the] patterning on the tree riffs off the patterning of the bark in blue: the least natural color for a tree. If the Persimmon tree could choose what to wear it would be the colors of the sky and water.”
Stacey Piwinski is simultaneously a painter and textile artist. Fabric and paint conduct a dialogue with one another while sharing the same space. These works are a synthesis of the history of woven fabrics and abstract painting, which when paired result in these hybrid creations that she has termed “Objects of Labor”.
Rocío Rodriguez creates “fragmented realities” through her exploitations of light and dark pigments, and geometric and representational forms. The works are complicated and densely populated by stacks, pillars, pedestals, totems, stains, hard edges, loops, scribbles, and erasures in an attempt to engender color as palpable space.
Yolanda Sanchéz’s work is, first and foremost, an abstract exercise in color. Expressive brush strokes fill pure white fields with ribbons of highly saturated pigments. Forms are only loosely drawn from nature but may occasionally rise from their surroundings in the shape of a rose or a lily. Sánchez lives and works in Miami, FL.
Debra Smith uses vintage textiles as a medium to bring a history, a weight, and a poetry to her work from the moment of conception through to the work’s completion via cutting, sewing, and piecing together of disparate parts. Ultimately, by “[allowing] the work to intuitively flow thru (sic) [her, does she] feel the end result is similar to a drawing or poetry.”
Josette Urso’s practice is intuitive, nearly involuntary. She paints to capture movement and moments that may otherwise be lost to the passage of time. By painting thickly impastoed works on canvas or panel Urso creates profoundly expressive works that articulate the space between light and dark, winter and summer, rain and shine. She lives and maintains a studio in Brooklyn, NY.
Chelsea 29 West 20th Street, Suite 6W, New York NY, 10011 Tuesday - Friday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Saturday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-366-5368 debra@markelfinearts.com
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
THE SHO VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY RECENT MFA GRADUATES White Box Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, 6:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - June 15, 2013 www.whiteboxnyc.org
Recent MFA Graduates of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Painting and Printmaking
Participating Artists:
Amanda Baldwin
Rachel Leah Cohn
Mayme Donsker
George Gittins
Loie Hollowell
Raewyn Martyn
Andy Merrow
Ander Mikalson
Nikolai Noel
Veronika Pausova
Reid Ramirez
Matthew P Shelton
Vladislav Smolkin
R Scott Wipkey
Sam Winks
The East Village / Lower East Side 329 Broome Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Friday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Saturday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Sunday from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
212-714-2347 info@whiteboxny.org
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Circulation: Date, Place, Events Takuma Nakahira Yossi Milo Gallery Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - July 12, 2013 www.yossimilo.com
Circulation: Date, Place, Events
May 23–July 12, 2013
Opening Reception and Book Launch
Thursday, May 23, 6:00–8:00 pm
Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce Circulation: Date, Place, Events, the first solo show of Japanese photographer Takuma Nakahira in the United States. The exhibition will open on Thursday, May 23, and will be on view through Friday, July 12, 2013. An opening reception and book launch for, Circulation: Date, Place, Events, will be held on Thursday, May 23, from 6:00 – 8:00PM.
Takuma Nakahira (Japanese, b. 1938) is a writer, critic, political activist and photographer with a legendary past who radically changed Japanese visual culture. By shooting stark, black-and- white images that are purposely blurry and grainy, Nakahira broke with Japan’s photographic history of social realism and allowed elements of uncertainty and expression into his work. Nakahira bases his photographic practice in the act of seeing and attempting to capture “pieces of reality cut out by means of the camera,” a statement made by Nakahira and critic, Kōji Taki in the first issue of Provoke. They go on to say that, the artist strives to create a “new form of thought” by transforming conventional language with the use of images that “at times...explosively ignite the world of language and concepts,” proving that the relationship between language and photography is central to Nakahira’s artistic practice. Nakahira would declare that the exhibition Circulation: Date, Place, Events first materialized this photographic methodology.
Circulation: Date, Place, Events was first exhibited in 1971 as part of the Seventh Paris Biennale. Each day, for seven consecutive days Nakahira photographed, developed and exhibited approximately one hundred photographs. The photographs are random glimpses from Nakahira’s daily activities in Paris, including strangers’ faces, produce stands, subway platforms, street posters and even his breakfast setting. Developing the photographs each night, Nakahira exhibited them without omission the following day. Once the walls of the exhibition space were crowded with photographs, the artist spread them onto the floor. The resulting project presented a limited reality dictated by guidelines of “date,” “place” and “events.” Following an argument with event organizers, Nakahira cut his project two days short. A few years later, in a dramatic break with his past work, Nakahira burned most of his earlier negatives and prints. For unknown reasons, the negatives of Circulation: Date, Place, Events were preserved.
Yossi Milo Gallery presents Circulation: Date, Place, Events using the Seventh Paris Biennale as inspiration. A selection of approximately 75 gelatin silver prints produced from the original 35mm black-and-white negatives will be on view.
Takuma Nakahira was born in 1938 in Harajuku, Tokyo. He graduated from the University of Foreign Studies with a degree from the Spanish Department. Following graduation in 1963, Nakahira began his career as the editor of the new-left magazine, Contemporary Eye. That same year, he met photographer Shomei Tomatsu, who encouraged Nakahira to produce his own images. In 1968, Nakahira’s revolutionary ideas and essays about art and photography culminated in the ground-breaking journal, Provoke, subtitled “Provocative Materials for Thought,” which he co-founded with critic Kōji Taki, photographer Yutaka Takanashi, poet Takahiko Okada, and photographer Daido Moriyama, who joined during the second edition. Although Provoke lasted only two years, publishing three issues and one book, its impact on visual art in Japan was profound and introduced the public to the are, bure, boke style, which translates to: rough, blurred and out of focus. Nakahira and his colleagues questioned the process of photography and pushed the medium to reflect the rapid urban expansion and social upheaval sweeping across Japan.
In 1969, Nakahira participated in the Sixth Paris Biennale, and in the same year he received the Newcomer Award from the Japanese Photography Critics’ Association. In 1970, Nakahira published his first book of photography, For A Language to Come, which became a landmark publication of post-war Japanese photography. In 1973, the artist published Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary?, in which he rejected his previous body of work and presented objective color photographs devoid of any personal expression. In 1977, Nakahira lost much of his memory and command of language due to health issues. Undeterred, Nakahira published two photo books, A New Gaze in 1983, and Adieu à X in 1989, in conjunction with his solo show of the same name at Foto Daido gallery, run by Daido Moriyama. In 2002, he published a book of his color photographs entitled Hysteric Six, Nakahira Takuma. A retrospective was held in 2003 at the Yokohama Museum of Art, titled Nakahira Takuma: Degree Zero – Yokohama that displayed over 800 photographs and revitalized public interest in his work. Numerous solo exhibitions of Nakahira’s work have been held in Japan including ShugoArts in Tokyo; The Art Gallery of Chukyo University in Nagoya; and the Hachinohe City Museum of Art. In 2010, Osiris republished For A Language to Come and in 2012 released the first publication of Circulation: Date, Place, Events, which includes three essays from the early 1970s by the artist. Takuma Nakahira lives and works in Yokohama.
Chelsea 245 Tenth Avenue, New York NY, 10001 Tuesday - Saturday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-414-0370 info@yossimilo.com
Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013
Lecture by David Forgacs The Drawing Center Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013, 6:30 PM www.drawingcenter.org
In conjunction with the exhibition Giosetta Fioroni: L’Argento, David Forgacs, Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò Chair in Contemporary Italian Studies at New York University, will speak about the fertile renaissance in Italian film in the 1960s—which boasted such directorial greats as Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti and Pier Paolo Pasolini—and the cinematic influences on Fioroni’s work.
Soho 35 Wooster Street, New York NY, 10013212-219-2166 info@drawingcenter.org
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Left: Ornament Falcon (2012), Right: Tempest Drawing (2013)
Never Ending Story New Work by Jennifer Murray Jennifer Murray Porter Contemporary Curated by Porter Contemporary Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, 6:30 PM On View May 23, 2013 - June 22, 2013 www.portercontemporary.com
New York, NY. Porter Contemporary is pleased to announce Never Ending Story, a solo exhibition highlighting the new works of Jennifer Murray opening with an artist’s reception on May 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, an artist talk and music listening party on May 30 and continuing through June 22, 2013.
Charcoal, ink, acrylic, photography and animal skulls are simply the beginning of the story to Jennifer Murray’s second solo exhibition at Porter Contemporary. Murray imagines a totemic tribute to the power of mythology rooted in nature through a digital and technical lens. Murray will explore the ways in which we experience the power of the natural world using the color white in its varied patterns as the basis for inter-connectivity. In Ornament (Falcon) the white is the micro—the construction of space around living creatures that characterizes an era of surveillance and crowding. Tempest Drawing illustrates the macro of planetary movement, of weather patterns, of the increasingly interconnected ecosystem and world. Murray continues to explore this idea throughout Never Ending Story through various mediums and juxtapositions of work.
“The ‘story’ in these works is my contribution to the timeless practice of harnessing the primordial power of animals and nature to express the mythology of human imaginative existence. That this mythology must constantly be reimagined and retold for each new time is what makes it never ending,” says Jennifer Murray.
Listing Information
What: Never Ending Story – Solo exhibition of new works by Jennifer Murray
Exhibition Dates: May 23 – June 22, 2013
Opening Reception with the Artists: May 23, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Press Preview: May 23, 4:30 – 6:30 PM
Artist Talk & Music Listening Party: May 30, 6:30 – 8:30 PM (RSVP required)
Where: Porter / Contemporary, 548 W. 28th Street, 3rd Floor, NYC
Gallery Hours: Tues & Wed by appointment; Thurs 11 - 8 PM; Fri & Sat 11 - 6 PM
General Inquiries: info@portercontemporary.com
Press Inquires: media@portercontemporary.com
About Jennifer Murray
Jennifer Murray is originally from Livermore, California. She utilizes both her study of visual art at Carnegie Mellon University, and, more recently, her study of sociology, history, and gender politics at NYU, to construct a body of work that chronicles her personal observations of social unrest, power structures, and the fallibility of culture. In addition to multiple locations in New York City, Jennifer has shown her work in Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Miami, and Mermaid Beach, Australia. She has participated in International art fairs in both New York City and Miami, most recently the Aqua Art Fair during Art Basel Miami Beach. She lives and works in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
About Porter Contemporary
Launched in 2006, Porter Contemporary is dedicated to showcasing emerging and established artists from around the world whose work embodies both skill and risk taking. The mission of Porter Contemporary continues to be based on founder Jessica L. Porter's vision of opening contemporary art collecting to a broader audience. Over the past seven years, the gallery has earned a dedicated following of new and established collectors who value art that pushes boundaries.
In addition to presenting many distinctive exhibitions throughout the year, Porter Contemporary also provides art consultation services, collection management and artwork installation. Porter Contemporary is located in New York's Chelsea district at 548 West 28th Street, just steps away from the beautiful High Line Park -- like the gallery, a place to experience art and life from a new perspective.
Chelsea 548 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor, New York NY, 10001 Thursday from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Friday - Saturday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-696-7432 info@portercontemporary.com
Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013
Jack Goldstein, Still from Some Butterflies, 1975, 16 mm color silent film, 30 sec. Courtesy of Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne, and the Estate of Jack Goldstein. © Estate of Jack Goldstein.
Dialogue and Discourse: Where is Jack Goldstein? Douglas Crimp, Jens Hoffmann The Jewish Museum Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013, from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM www.thejewishmuseum.org
Douglas Crimp, Critic and Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester, and Jens Hoffmann, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Public Programs, discuss Jack Goldstein as a pioneer of conceptual art practices.
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission, but, RSVP required >
The Upper East Side 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York NY, 10128212-423-3200 info@thejm.org
Screening Thursday May 23, 2013
A still from Michael Ballou's film Drivers
Michael Ballou's Super 8s Brooklyn Museum Screening Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM www.brooklynmuseum.org
Raw/Cooked artist Michael Ballou screens a selection of his Super 8 films onto one of his pieces that resembles a semitruck, with live musical accompaniment by Brian Dewan. Based on the Four Walls Slide and Film Club, an informal monthly venue for collaborative and homespun time-based works that was hosted in Ballou’s Williamsburg garage studio. Tickets, which include Museum admission, are available at the Visitor Center or at www.museumtix.com.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Rest Of Brooklyn 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY, 11238718-638-5000
Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013
On Literary Film-Making: An evening with The Brooklyn Rail McNally Jackson Books Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM www.mcnallyjackson.com
Visual Verse celebrates artists who use film and video to create work based on short stories and documentaries about writers or films which revolve around poetry. After presenting work by four leading literary filmmakers a discussion will be moderated by Rachael Rakes, film editor for The Brooklyn Rail.
Rachael Rakes is the Assistant Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, and the Film co-editor for The Brooklyn Rail. As a programming advisor for UnionDocs, she mines her past lives in non-fiction publishing and non-fiction film for innovative cross-media presentations and conversations.
Ram Devineni has produced, edited and directed the feature documentary "The Human Tower, " which was shot in India, Chile, and Spain. The film is being distributed by Goldcrest, which has won 19 Academy Awards and 28 BAFTAs. Recently, he produced Amir Naderi's feature film, "Vegas: Based on a True Story," which premiered at the Venice & Tribeca Film Festivals and a three-part travel documentary TV series called "On the Road," about endangered languages shot in West Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and showing on LINK TV. Devineni is one of the founding partners of Academia Internacional de Cinema, the first independent film school in Brazil. He is recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council for the Arts. More information at www.rattapallax.com
John Scott has made three adaptations of Elizabeth Bishop poems with a fourth nearly finished. His latest, "First Death in Nova Scotia" (2012) was one of 30 chosen from 870 to screen at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin last year and has played numerous other festivals and events and was featured in Northwestern University's journal TriQuarterly. He has also made a feature length documentary on the poet, John Stiles called "Scouts Are Cancelled," broadcast nationally in Canada.
Cheryl Gross is a poetry/animator, illustrator, and Professor at Pratt Institute where she teaches motion graphics, illustration and promotes this particular art genre. She mainly collaborates with the poet Nicelle Davis.
Immy Humes is an experienced producer and director of non-fiction media of all kinds. She has made a wide variety of segments and documentary hours for television, and has worked as a producer for Dateline NBC, National
Geographic, A&E, CourtTV, USA, and Michael Moore's TV Nation. Her distinctive independent documentary films have received many honors, including an Academy Award nomination, and her work has won funding from the NEA, Jerome Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), Soros Fund (now Sundance), Robeson Fund, ITVS, NEH, and other funders.
Soho 52 Prince Stret, New York NY, 10012212-274-1160
Performance Thursday May 23, 2013
Reading Blue, a performance by Tove Storch Residency Unlimited Performance Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM www.residencyunlimited.org
Thursday May 23, 2013, 7pm sharp
Free and open to the public
Residency Unlimited
360 Court Street #4 (big green doors)
Brooklyn, NY 11231
A curatorial proposal by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn
You are cordially invited to attend the performance 'Reading Blue” by Danish artist Tove Storch that was presented at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark) in May 2012.
For this one-off twenty minute performance, Storch examines the materiality and tactility of the color blue through a silent and meditative reading of twenty hand-colored books containing no letters or words, but only the prints of twenty unique shades of blue. Twenty performers will sit on chairs holding each their book. Slowly and their individual pace, the performers will flip page by page, giving the impression of a fully concentrated, uninterrupted and focused reading.
Trained as a classical sculptor Tove Storch sees her performances as a natural extension of her sculptural practice and perceived her performances as equally sculptural. Storch also defines the reading of color books as a kind of magnifying glass to see the qualities of color as material more clearly. Storch’s performance radiates both a physical and a mental concentration as the prerequisite for obtaining a complete state of focused learning. Like this, Reading of Blue goes beyond the immediate decipherment of color and reaches deeper into the ontology of physical, materialized color.
Curated by RU's curator in residency Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, Reading of Blue suggests the experience of an inner non-linguistic reading that seeks to understand the perceptive complexity of color while inviting the viewer to adapt and absorb the staged atmosphere of personal immersion. As an open and public gesture the reading will transform the nature of the introverted and personal mono-experience of reading into a shared aesthetic experience.
This program is supported in part by Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond.
Carroll Gardens 360 Court Street #4, Brooklyn NY, 11231info@residencyunlimited.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013
No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood Strand Books Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM www.strandbooks.com
It’s May, and the evenings are mild and divine, so amble down to the Strand and take the elevator to the rare books room. You’ll find a group of hilarious ladies from Amy Stiller to Carol Siskind reading their essays from No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood. The pieces tackle the divisive topic of remaining childfree by giving a voice to an underrepresented but rapidly-increasing group of childless women. The number of women choosing to remain childfree is at an all-time high. This group of ladies has been repeatedly questioned, shamed, or silenced—until now. We’ll get to hear some of their touching, hilarious tales when fourteen contributors to No Kidding join us for the evening!
The number of women choosing to remain childfree is at an all-time high. This group of women has been repeatedly questioned, shamed, or silenced—until now. Now, we’ll hear some their touching, hilarious tales.
Buy a copy of No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood or $15 gift card in order to attend this event. All options admit one person. Please note that payment is required for all online event orders at the time of checkout. The event will be located in the Strand's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.
Soho 828 Broadway at 12th, Rare Books, 3rd floor, New York NY, 10003212-473-1452
Performance Thursday May 23, 2013
SpeakChamber Constance DeJong Bureau Performance Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:00 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
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Curating for a Cure The Bishop Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 www.bishoponbedford.com
(Pre-Sale)
Tier One: $20 - Hors d'oeuvres, 1 raffle ticket, open bar
Tier Three: $45 - Hors d'oeuvres, 3 raffle tickets, open bar, admission to one class of your choice, private ½ hour viewing before event.
At Door:
Tier One: $25 - Hors d'oeuvres, 1 raffle ticket, open bar
Tier Three: $50 - Hors d'oeuvres, 3 raffle tickets, open bar, admission to one class of your choice, private ½ hour viewing before event.
Raffle tickets at the door - $10.00/each
For Immediate Release
THE BISHOP AND CURATING FOR A CAUSE TO HOST CHARITY AUCTION FOR LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY
BROOKLYN, NY – The Bishop in partnership with Curating for a Cause will host a charity art auction to benefit the Leukemia Lymphoma Society on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 7:00PM.
The mission of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS is the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world and provides free information and support services.
Curating for a Cause has generously supported LLS in the past, and seeks to continue the relationship by hosting an art auction at The Bishop. The event will be curated by Jackie Cantwell and Molly Myer. Tickets are available for purchase by contacting info@bishoponbedford.com.
For more information about this event please call 703-888-7591.
Curating for a Cause creates and executes art auctions to benefit non-profit organizations. Not only does a Curating for a Cause event benefit organizations monetarily, it also increases awareness of the non-profit and their mission, and promotes artistic talent by providing professional exhibition and installation opportunities. Above all, Curating for a Cause strives to unite non-profit organizations, artists, and audiences through great causes and quality art.
The Bishop is a versatile exhibition and project space located in the heart of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Pulling from the diversity and rich culture in the surrounding community, we provide an exciting program mixing art exhibitions, philanthropic activities, and educational workshops.
Bedstuy 916 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn NY, 11205 703-888-7591 info@bishoponbedford.com
Editor's Pick
Videorover: Season 6 Bridget Batch + Kevin Cooley, Heather Delaney, Kerry Downey + Jen Rosenblit and Joanna Seitz, Michael H Hall, Constantin Hartenstein, Gabriel Hosovsky, Lindsay Packer, Daniel Seiple, Alina Tenser, Jacob Tonski and Roland Wegerer NURTUREart Curated by Rachel Steinberg and Giana Gambino Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - December 15, 2013 www.nurtureart.org
NURTUREart is pleased to present Videorover: Season 6 in partnership with RAPID PULSE, an International Performance Art Festival based in Chicago.
The sixth season of Videorover will showcase performance-inspired works made for the camera and to be presented on screen. The works in this exhibition are created using performance as a departure point and medium, privileging the body as the vehicle for production but also looking to the camera as a collaborator. In these works, performance acts allow the camera to complete them, mediating the gap between performer and audience.
Expanding the boundaries of what is or can be performance art is one of the many focuses of RAPID PULSE, as well as questioning ideas on presence, live-ness and mediation. Curated by Rachel Steinberg and Giana Gambino, Videorover: Season 6 will feature works by artists: Bridget Batch + Kevin Cooley, Heather Delaney, Kerry Downey in collaboration with Jen Rosenblit and Joanna Seitz, Michael H Hall, Constantin Hartenstein, Gabriel Hosovsky, Lindsay Packer, Daniel Seiple, Alina Tenser, Jacob Tonski, and Roland Wegerer.
NURTUREart’s video program, Videorover aims at becoming an ever-expanding forum for new and emerging video artists. The works included in this season will be shown in a screening event both at NURTUREart Gallery on May 23 and at DEFRIBILLATOR Gallery on June 5 in Chicago as part of RAPID PULSE’s ten day long international performance art festival.
Bushwick / Ridgewood 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn NY, 11206 Thursday - Monday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
719-782-7755 gallery@nurtureart.org
Opening Thursday May 23, 2013
Featured Image: Michael H. Hall, Lost Count, 2012, video still.
Videorover: Season 6 Bridget Batch + Kevin Cooley, Heather Delaney, Kerry Downey + Jen Rosenblit and Joanna Seitz, Michael H Hall, Constantin Hartenstein, Gabriel Hosovsky, Lindsay Packer, Daniel Seiple, Alina Tenser, Jacob Tonski and Roland Wegerer NURTUREart Curated by Rachel Steinberg and Giana Gambino Opening Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - December 15, 2013 www.nurtureart.org
NURTUREart is pleased to present Videorover: Season 6 in partnership with RAPID PULSE, an International Performance Art Festival based in Chicago.
The sixth season of Videorover will showcase performance-inspired works made for the camera and to be presented on screen. The works in this exhibition are created using performance as a departure point and medium, privileging the body as the vehicle for production but also looking to the camera as a collaborator. In these works, performance acts allow the camera to complete them, mediating the gap between performer and audience.
Expanding the boundaries of what is or can be performance art is one of the many focuses of RAPID PULSE, as well as questioning ideas on presence, live-ness and mediation. Curated by Rachel Steinberg and Giana Gambino, Videorover: Season 6 will feature works by artists: Bridget Batch + Kevin Cooley, Heather Delaney, Kerry Downey in collaboration with Jen Rosenblit and Joanna Seitz, Michael H Hall, Constantin Hartenstein, Gabriel Hosovsky, Lindsay Packer, Daniel Seiple, Alina Tenser, Jacob Tonski, and Roland Wegerer.
NURTUREart’s video program, Videorover aims at becoming an ever-expanding forum for new and emerging video artists. The works included in this season will be shown in a screening event both at NURTUREart Gallery on May 23 and at DEFRIBILLATOR Gallery on June 5 in Chicago as part of RAPID PULSE’s ten day long international performance art festival.
Bushwick / Ridgewood 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn NY, 11206 Thursday - Monday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
719-782-7755 gallery@nurtureart.org
Performance Thursday May 23, 2013
Ligia Teixeira & Ivan Franco: Strings Of Thought #2 Harvestworks Performance Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM www.harvestworks.org
An interactive sound installation/performance
Thursday, May 23, 7pm
Admission: FREE
Location:
Harvestworks – www.harvestworks.org
596 Broadway, #602 | New York, NY 10012 | Phone: 212-431-1130
Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker
Strings of Thought #2 is an hybrid art piece of music, performance and installation, that depicts the process of human mental activity and its decomposition into the simpler synaptic events of the brain.
The audience enters a room to find a woman sitting on a chair. From her hair several strings protrude, which in turn are attached to piezoelectric sensors. The plucking of the strings generates voltage spikes on the sensor array that sends these electrical pulses to the computer, while a program written in Supercollider reinterprets this data and shapes it into sonic structures. This process very clearly resembles its biological counterpart, which happens at the neural level.
The result is a peek into the soul of this lady character, as the audience is invited to play the instrument and create a soundscape composed of music and also the inner voices of this woman’s reasoning.
Through the digital aesthetic the artists Ivan Franco and Lígia Teixeira explore the electronic recreation of the process of neural transmission in the brain and how this biological process evolves into the complexity of consciousness.
IVAN FRANCO explores the intersections between art, technology and science. His multidisciplinary approach led him to work in different fields like Geographical Information Systems, Virtual Reality, Electronic Music, Digital Art and Human-Computer Interaction.
His work focuses on the development of new interfaces and devices for interactive music, installation and performance. Through the years he’s also collaborated with several artists such as Konic Thtr, Su-studio, Bert Bongers, Carlos Zíngaro, Rui Horta, Marko Brajovic or Pedro Carneiro.
LÍGIA TEIXEIRA holds a BA in Dance, specializing in Performance, from Escola Superior de Dança (PT) and is currently a 2013 MFA candidate in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at CUNY Brooklyn College (NY), with a full scholarship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and FLAD (Luso American Foundation). During the last 7 years she has been developing work in the intersection between dance and technology, with a particular focus on physical computing applied to dance. She is a founding member and co-artistic director of Milliways.
Soho 596 Broadway, #602, New York NY, 10012212-431-1130
Screening Thursday May 23, 2013
Two Films by Charles Dekeukeleire lightindustry Screening Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:30 PM www.lightindustry.org
Impatience, Charles Dekeukeleire, 16mm, 1928, 27 mins
Histoire de détective, Charles Dekeukeleire, 16mm, 1929, 37 mins
An unjustly overlooked figure of the European avant-garde, Belgian filmmaker Charles Dekeukeleire made only four experimental works in the 1920s. Two of them—Impatience and Histoire de détective—are nothing less than hidden masterpieces of the era, though they reportedly baffled audiences in their own day. In this pair of films, Dekeukeleire proposes an enigmatic disassembling of silent cinema’s constitutive logics, presaging the concerns of structural film by many decades and dramatically upending conventions of narrative form.
Impatience is built around what Dekeukeleire called the four “characters” of the film, introduced in a title card as The Mountain, The Motorcycle, The Woman, and Abstract Blocks. Each element appears in a succession of discrete, repeated shots, their relationship suggested exclusively via montage, yet never granting the viewer the climactic payoff of fiction they at first appear to promise. The evocation of speed and a vertiginous cinematography seem in tune with the loopier elements of the 20s avant-garde, but ultimately Impatience feels less allied to contemporaneous experiments such as Ballet mécanique and more like a forgotten ancestor to the internal-combustion erotics of Kustom Kar Kommandos.
If Impatience suggests a foray into pure cinema by stressing the primacy of phenomenological experience, Histoire de détective overturns this very project through its deployment of a film-within-a-film that constitutes a failure of optical investigation. The story concerns Mme. Jonathan, who hires T, a detective, to trail her neurasthenic husband around Belgium and Luxembourg. T uses a motion-picture camera to follow M. Jonathan, and most of Histoire is taken up with T’s shaky, idiosyncratic footage of street scenes and local architecture. Providing few clues of their own, T’s digressive shots are interrupted by elaborately designed intertitles that bear almost all of the narrative information of the film. This distended structure plays with the tropes of the crime serial, but almost sadistically denies the viewer any of the genre’s expected visual pleasures in favor of less obvious effects. “My greatest concern,” Dekeukeleire once noted, “is to make the camera’s lens live like the eye, like a glance...conditioned by the inner life.”
Impatience and Histoire de détective will be screened on unsubtitled 16mm prints courtesy of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium. For tonight’s event, the intertitles will be translated live by Luc Sante.
Tickets - $7, available at door.
Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
Flatiron / Gramercy 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn NY, 11222information@lightindustry.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013
ELASTIC CITY SPRING BENEFIT EFA Project Space Lecture / Artist Talk Thursday May 23, 2013, from 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM www.elastic-city.org
Elastic City is pleased to announce its first-ever in-person benefit on Thursday, May 23, 2013 from 7:30pm–10:30pm at EFA Project Space, a program of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor; Manhattan)
Purchase tickets here: http://elasticcity.brownpapertickets.com
In the spirit of participation and collective experimentation, the evening will feature a playful array of activities, including:
*Mini-walks through the venue by Elastic City walk artists luciana achugar, Andrés Andreani, Isabella Bruno, Nancy Nowacek, Anne Percoco, Niegel Smith and Ben Weber
*Live drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast
*A play on the traditional photobooth by Benjamin Fredrickson and Juan Betancurth with help from Andrija Petrovic, Julian Chams and Martin Camacho
*Sound artists Maria Chavez on the turntables and Daniel Neumann on the boards
*The creation of signature Elastic City cocktails, crowdsourced then mixed by well-known Brooklyn bartenders [Timothy Miner and Dave Nurmi (The JakeWalk) and Brad Farran (Clover Club and Death and Company)]
*Lighting designed by John Torres (lighting supervisor, "Einstein on the Beach")
*A special take-away from designer Riley Hooker (This is Our Work).
There will be an open bar, a raffle and a silent auction.
Raffle items include contributions from: Aerial Arts NYC, Beggars Group, Frankies 457 Spuntino, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Lynford Family Charitable Trust, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Shakespeare in the Park
The silent auction will feature works by: Rebekah Goldstein, Charlie Mylie, Dannielle Tegeder and A Guest Bartender Shift at The Jakewalk
Hors d'Oeuvres by: Butterfield Market, Stinky Bklyn and Trader Joe's
Desserts by: BabyCakes NYC
Beer sponsor: Genesee Brewing Company
Liquor sponsors: Tito's Handmade Vodka
Wine sponsor: Smith & Vine
Special gifts from: Kiehl's & Naked Wines and 'stache media
Tickets:
$40: This provides admission to the event with open bar.
$150: This provides admission to the event with open bar, a fantastic gift bag, a gift certificate for 2 spots on any Elastic City walk, and an 8x10 photo of your liking for our archives
Purchase tickets here: http://elasticcity.brownpapertickets.com
Benefit Committee: Juan Betancurth, John DeCicco, Jamie Freed, Nora Hennessy, Riley Hooker, Heather Janoff Johnson, Alison Malone, Timothy Miner, Caitlin Ruttle, Todd Shalom, Niegel Smith, Carla Sosenko, Ben Weber
Can't make it? You can also donate securely via PayPal or with a credit card. Thanks!
Hell's Kitchen 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor, New York NY, 10018212-563-5855 projectspace@efanyc.org
Performance Thursday May 23, 2013
NEW VOICES IN LIVE PERFORMANCE CPR Curated by Lindsay Clark Performance Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:30 PM Additional Performances: Friday May 24, 2013 from 7:30 PM
www.cprnyc.org
Tickets: $10 in advance or at the door (cash only)
New Voices in Live Performance is a curatorial program that invites artists to curate two-night shows at CPR–Center for Performance Research with a focus on experimental and innovative creative practices in dance, theater, and performance art.
Curated by Lindsay Clark, this show will present solo and duet work by performing artists Jack Ferver, Bessie Mcdonough-Thayer, Naomi Elena Ramirez, and Jacob Slominski. These new voices each speak with remarkable sensitivity and dedication to the craft of experimentation and performance. Post-show discussion on May 23.
New Voices in Live Performance is generously supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Williamsburg 361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn NY, 11211718-349-1210 studio@cprnyc.org
Performance Thursday May 23, 2013
Yarn/Wire + Peter Evans + Tyondai Braxton ISSUE Project Room Performance Thursday May 23, 2013, 8:00 PM www.issueprojectroom.org
Yarn/Wire plays new pieces for percussion and piano quartet by two of NYC's most exciting musicians, composer/multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton and trumpeter/composer Peter Evans. The evening will feature two world premieres for the quartet, a solo performance of Peter Evan's signature trumpet improvisations, and a duo set from Tyondai Braxton + LAAND.
Yarn/Wire is a chamber quartet specializing in the performance of 21st century music. A unique instrumental combination of two percussionists (Ian Antonio and Russell Greenberg) and two pianists (Laura Barger and Ning Yu) allows Yarn/Wire to interface with both traditional performance practice and emergent stylistic trends with ease. Founded in 2005 at Stony Brook University, the members of Yarn/Wire have extensive performance and pedagogic experience encompassing international and domestic music festivals, college and university residences, and substantive work in the avant-garde theater and DIY/punk worlds. Frequent collaborations with composers on new work form a significant portion of the ensemble’s activities. In addition to presenting multiple US premieres, Yarn/Wire has given the world premieres of over two dozen new works written specifically for the ensemble.
Peter Evans is an American trumpet player based in New York, who specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music. Evans has been a member of the New York City musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition. In addition, he performs regularly as part of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, which is held annually in New York City.
Tyondai Braxton is an American composer and electronic musician. He studied music composition at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut with Robert Carl, Ingram Marshall and Ken Steen. His music incorporates electronic and modern orchestral elements, creating pieces ranging from solo pieces to music for large orchestra and electronics. Tyondai is also the former frontman of the experimental rock band group Battles.
LAAND is a visual & sound manipulation project by Grace Villamil. Inspired by exploring and connecting both geographic and cultural landscapes, Grace's video footage and images of earth are manipulated in real time to create a hyperrealistic form of nature; dissolving perceived boundaries and enabling the viewer to cross into a new environment. Grace Villamil is a visual artist from California based in nyc. She studied Photography and Linguistics at California State University Fullerton with Eileen Cowin. Known for her dreamlike photographs where subject, object and background dissolve into each other, her photo book on the Philippines Pasalubong is released this Spring. Her iconic 3 dimensional serpent of flowers installation debuted last year at the Spring/Break Artshow during Armory Week.
Brooklyn Heights 22 Boerum Place, Ground Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11201718-330-0313 eve@issueprojectroom.org
Screening Friday May 24, 2013
STREAMING MARATHON EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Friday May 24, 2013, from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org
In addition to the cinema program, a marathon screening will be presented in collaboration with Are.na, an internet software 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
Lecture / Artist Talk Friday May 24, 2013
“Admission”: An Elastic City: NYC 1993 Walk New Museum Lecture / Artist Talk Friday May 24, 2013, 1:00 PM www.newmuseum.org
Capacity is limited to fourteen people. Running time: 60 mins
Dance artist Michelle Boulé and theater director Niegel Smith invite you to unravel the codes of museum engagement as we feel our way through the New Museum’s “NYC 1993” exhibition. Participants will respond by warming up their senses, stretching their tastes, and singing the chords in surrounding work as we move through the gallery space. We’ll pair up, go it alone, and even gang up a bit. You won’t get caught—smartphones haven’t been invented yet.
Presented in partnership with Elastic City and the New Museum’s Education Department.
GET TICKETS
General Public $15
Members $12
½ Gallery Admission with same day event ticket purchase.
The East Village / Lower East Side 235 Bowery, New York NY, 10002212-219-1222
Lecture / Artist Talk Friday May 24, 2013
ADAM COHEN EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Lecture / Artist Talk Friday May 24, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org
Adam Cohen is a professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Physics at Harvard. His research focuses on controlling light-matter interactions in warm, wet, squishy environments. He will be discussing the future of stem cells and the brain.
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Performance Friday May 24, 2013
Cover Image: Photo of Karen Finley by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
“Sext Me if You Can” by Karen Finley: Performance and Installation New Museum Performance Friday May 24, 2013, from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM www.ww.newmuseum.org
Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence.
“Sext Me if You Can” is an interactive performance installation taking place in the New Museum Lobby in full view of Museum visitors. For this performance, Karen Finley creates a limited edition of paintings inspired by “sexts” that she receives from participating patrons. Participation takes the form of a commission and requires a ten-minute private and anonymous sitting on-site during announced performance times (bring your own cell phone!). Through this process, the erotic exchange with the artist—bound by rules of commerce—transforms into a lasting and collectible work of art. For more information on how to participate, please see below.
KAREN FINLEY’S LIMITED EDITION “SEXT ME IF YOU CAN” PAINTINGS ON COMMISSION AT THE NEW MUSEUM STORE
Thursday May 23–Sunday May 26
New Museum Store patrons are invited to commission a participatory work of art by Karen Finley for their personal collection. Here’s how it works: Patrons who wish to participate process their commissioning fee online or in person at the New Museum Store and are subsequently provided with a time to be present for a ten-minute on-site sitting during announced performance times. Sittings are completely private, discrete, and anonymous. During your sitting, you will receive access to a private phone number for the purpose of sending Finley a “sext.” This sext will, in turn, serve as the inspiration for a painting, or series of paintings, created by the artist in a temporary studio set up in the New Museum Lobby. The paintings will be displayed for the duration of the installation, from May 23–26. At the end of the installation, participating patrons (now collectors) will take home one of the paintings inspired by their sext.
Participants must be at least eighteen years old. No exceptions.
PRICING
Large Oval Canvas – $500 (Edition of 8)
Small Oval Canvas – $300 (Edition of 12)
Works on Paper – $200 (Edition of 25)
Finley is a New York–based artist whose performances have long provoked controversy and debate. Her performances have been presented at the Lincoln Center (NY), the Guthrie (Minneapolis), American Repertory Theater (Harvard), the ICA (London), the Steppenwolf (Chicago), and the Bobino (Paris). Her artworks are in numerous collections and museums including the Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Finley attended the San Francisco Art Institute receiving an MFA and an honorary PhD. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Obies, two Bessies, Ms. magazine Woman Of The Year Award, NARAL Person of the Year Award, and NYSCA and NEA Fellowships. She has appeared in many independent films, including Jonathan Demme’s 1993 Oscar-winning film Philadelphia. She has authored and/or edited eight books including Shock Treatment (City Lights, 1990), Enough is Enough (Poseidon, Simon and Schuster, 1993), Living It Up (Doubleday, 1996), Pooh Unplugged (Smart Art Books, 1999), A Different Kind Of Intimacy: The Collected Writings of Karen Finley (Thunders Mouth Press, 2000), and Reality Shows (2011). Current projects include “Unicorn in Red” (an ongoing series of performances in which Finley receives automatic messages from those departed and turns those messages into artworks), Broken Negative (a re-examination of her infamously defunded work We Keep Our Victims Ready), and Open Heart (a public memorial for children killed during the Holocaust created in collaboration with survivors, children, and locals). Finley is a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in the department of Art and Public Policy.
Presented in conjunction with “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” and IDEAS CITY.
General Public Free
Members Free
½ Gallery Admission with same day event ticket purchase.
The East Village / Lower East Side 235 Bowery, New York NY, 10002212-219-1222
Screening Friday May 24, 2013
MICHAEL GLAWOGGER: WORKINGMAN'S DEATH EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Friday May 24, 2013, 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org
Workingman’s Death (2005) by Michael Glawogger, 122 min, video
“Workingman’s Death follows the trail of the heroes in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out ghosts among the sulfur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with lions at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with brothers as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious future. Meanwhile, the future is now in Germany, where a major smelting plant of bygone days has been converted into a bright and shiny leisure park.” – Michael Glawogger
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Opening Friday May 24, 2013
New Work Jon Bobby Benjamin, Ryan Crowley, Sacha Ingber, Jessica Kain, Carl Marin, Melanie McLain, Lior Modan, Jesse Potts, Leslie Rogers, Tom Simon, Rotem Tamir and Alina Tenser 299Meserole Opening Friday May 24, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 24, 2013 - June 04, 2013 www.arts.vcu.edu
New Work
Opening Friday May 24, 6 PM – 9 PM
299 Meserole St.
Bushwick, Brooklyn - (L train to Montrose Avenue stop)
Gallery hours: May 24 – June 4; Tuesday–Sunday noon–7pm, or by appointment
Extended hours during Bushwick Open Studios weekend (May 31–June 2)
Performances scheduled Friday evenings and Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Participating Artists:
Jon Bobby Benjamin
Ryan Crowley
Sacha Ingber
Jessica Kain
Carl Marin
Melanie McLain
Lior Modan
Jesse Potts
Leslie Rogers
Tom Simon
Rotem Tamir
Alina Tenser
Bushwick / Ridgewood 299 Meserole Street, Brooklyn NY, 11206 Tuesday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM
804-828-1511
Opening Friday May 24, 2013
Lena Henke and Andrei Koschmieder for Thomas Bayrle, again The Artist’s Institute Opening Friday May 24, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 24, 2013 - July 14, 2013 www.theartistsinstitute.org
Tourists are usually easy to spot, especially in New York. They tend to travel in large groups, with a tour guide.
A few months ago, Lena Henke and Andrei Koschmieder organized two field trips. One was about pattern (in Parkchester) and the other was about production (in Long Island City).
Now, they present a new collaborative installation based on the trips.
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 24th
6 to 8pm
The sixth season at The Artist’s Institute is dedicated to Thomas Bayrle.
Our address is 163 Eldridge Street in New York City.
The East Village / Lower East Side 163 Eldridge Street, New York NY, 10002 Friday - Saturday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
718-730-4349 info@theartistsinstitute.org
Opening Friday May 24, 2013
ENDE TYMES :: NOVO APOCALYPSO A FESTIVAL OF NOISE, VIDEO ART, AND EXPERIMENTAL LIBERATION The Silent Barn Opening Friday May 24, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 24, 2013 - May 26, 2013 www.silentbarn.org
May 24-26 2013 at Silent Barn
featured artists:
VOMIR (FR)
Macronympha (PA)
Aaron Dilloway (OH)
Thomas Dimuzio (CA)
Pod Blotz (CA)
Francisco Meirino (CH)
Pulse Emitter (OR)
Andy Ortmann (IL)
Oscillating Innards (OR)
Zaïmph (NY)
Pop Culture Rape Victim (MT)
Crank Sturgeon (ME)
Gerritt Wittmer (CA)
work/death (RI)
Rusalka (BC)
Maria Chavez (NY)
Clang Quartet (NC)
Mister Matthews (NY)
Bhob Rainey (PA) & Witchbeam (LA)
Skin Graft (OH)
Kakerlak (MD)
Id M Theft Able (ME)
Jeff Carey (MD)
KILT (NM/NY)
Dried Up Corpse (WA)
Jason Soliday (IL)
Jean-Sébastien Truchy (QC)
Penny Royale (MA)
flatgrey (QC)
Developer & Diaphragmatic (OH)
Long Distance Poison (NY)
Ghost Taco (QC)
Collapsed Arc (OH)
Peter J Woods (WI)
Nonhorse (NY)
Justin Marc Lloyd (IL)
Isa Christ (MA)
GRKZGL (QC)
TAHNZZ (NM)
Plague Mother (OH)
Breached Hull (OH)
TOMB (PA)
KHF (NY)
Schedule
Friday, May 24:
6-8:00 PM Video screenings and live performance by ESPTV
9:00 PM Long Distance Poison (NY)
9:30 PM Breached Hull (OH)
9:50 PM GRKZGL (QC)
10:10 PM TAHNZZ (NM)
10:30 PM Developer+Diaphragmatic (OH)
10:50 PM Bhob Rainey and Witchbeam (PA/LA)
11:10 PM KILT (NM/NY)
11:30 PM Rusalka (BC)
11:50 PM Kakerlak (MD)
12:20 AM Crank Sturgeon (ME)
12:50 AM Oscillating Innards (OR)
1:10 AM PCRV (MT)
1:30 AM Macronympha (PA)
Saturday, May 25:
4-5:00 PM Premiere NY Screening of GX Jupitter-Larsen's A Noisy Delivery
5-7:00 PM Video screenings and live performance by Jeff Donaldson
8:00 PM KHF (NY)
8:20 PM TOMB (PA)
8:40 PM ISA Christ (MA)
9:00 PM Maria Chavez (NY)
9:20 PM Plague Mother (OH)
9:40 PM Peter J Woods (WI)
10:00 PM Pod Blotz (CA)
10:30 PM Thomas Dimuzio (CA)
11:00 PM Gerritt Wittmer (CA)
11:20 PM Penny Royale (MA)
11:40 PM Clang Quartet (NC)
12:00 AM Dried Up Corpse (WA)
12:20 AM Aaron Dilloway (MI)
12:50 AM Francisco Meirino (CH)
1:10 AM Vomir (FR)
1:30 AM Vomir / Meirino / Wittmer (FR/CH/CA)
Sunday, May 26:
2-4:00 PM Panel Discussion with Aaron Dilloway, Suzy Poling, Daryl Groetsch, and Raven Chacon
5-7:00 PM Video screenings and live performances by Pat Spadine, and Melissa Clarke + Nat Roe
8:00 PM Nonhorse
8:20 PM Collapsed Arc (OH)
8:40 PM Gh0st Tac0 (QC)
9:00 PM Jeff Carey (MD)
9:20 PM Jean-Sébastien Truchy (QC)
9:40 PM Jason Soliday (IL)
10:00 PM IDM Theftable (ME)
10:20 PM Zaimph (NY)
10:50 PM Andy Ortmann (IL)
11:20 PM flatgrey (QC)
11:50 PM Pulse Emitter (OR)
12:10 AM Work/Death (RI)
12:40 AM Skin Graft (OH)
1:10 AM Mister Matthews
all weekend: sound installations
COME EARLY FOR THE BBQ AND STAY LATE FOR THE SAUCE
all events - $15/nite, $35/weekend.
video screenings only - $7 donation
panel discussion - free
Sunday night special - $10 tickets available at the panel discussion
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Funded in part through New Music USA's MetLife Creative Connections program. This project is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
Bushwick / Ridgewood 603 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn NY, 11206
Opening Friday May 24, 2013
'Soon' by Jogging The Still House Group Opening Friday May 24, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 24, 2013 http://enterstillhouse.com
Redhook 481 Van Brunt Street #9D, Brooklyn NY, 11231 contact@enterstillhouse.com
Opening Friday May 24, 2013
Gravity Rides Everything Lyman Richardson, Anthony Miler, Maria Capolongo, John Blank and Christian Berman Brooklyn Fire Proof East Curated by Lyman Richardson Opening Friday May 24, 2013, 7:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - May 26, 2013 www.brooklynfireproof.com
A group exhibition curated by Lyman Richardson
featuring
Lyman Richardson
Anthony Miler
Maria Capolongo
John Blank
Christian Berman
May 22-26
Opening reception is FRIDAY May 24, 7-10
weekday hours 9am -12 am , weekends 12pm -12am
At Brooklyn Fire Proof East 119 Ingraham st, Brooklyn NY 11237.
Bushwick / Ridgewood 119 Ingraham Street, Brooklyn NY, 11237 718-456-7570 hello@brooklynfireproof.com
Opening Friday May 24, 2013
Natural Selection Lee Arnold, Rick Caruso, Christina Kelly and Michael Krondl Trestle Gallery Opening Friday May 24, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 24, 2013 - June 17, 2013 www.trestlegallery.org
Natural Selection engages the idea of the 'natural' from multiple angles: from a purely retinal and aesthetic perspective, from social and cultural points of view and even from a somatic, experiential vantage.
Lee Arnold's Winter Light series seeks to represent natural light as pure abstraction. The images take the form of digital collages, which are derived from scanned photographs (shot on film) that were subsequently scanned, cropped, digitally manipulated and output as inkjet prints. These works date from the winter of 2012-2013.
Rick Caruso creates paintings by culling abstract forms from intersecting exterior and interior spaces-the industrial, the domestic, the landscape, the cartoon-and transforming these fragments into something analogous to a visual narrative.
Christina Kelly's installation work is part of her ongoing project: A Field Guide to Office Plants. Here she displays actual potted plants (Sansevieria, Pothos, and the Janet Craig Dracaena form part of the selection) and, through drawings, text and photographs, explores these popular office plant's source and how they landed in our cubicles.
Michael Krondl utilizes very large photographs derived from fragments of the natural world that locate the viewer in an uncomfortable and even dangerous space. He is exhibiting new work that engages ideas of falling and drowning.
Gowanus 168 7th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11215 Monday - Friday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
718-858-9069 trestle@brooklynartspace.org
Reading Friday May 24, 2013
Brooklyn Poets Reading Series Studio10 Reading Friday May 24, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM www.brooklynpoets.org
Join us at Studio10 for the next Brooklyn Poets reading featuring poets Lynn Melnick, Taije Silverman’s and Vijay Seshadri. Admission is free. Wine, beer, and light refreshments will be served.
Lynn Melnick is the author of If I Should Say I Have Hope (YesYes Books, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in The Awl, BOMB, Guernica, Paris Review, A Public Space, and most recently in Washington Square and Chicago Quarterly Review.Her fiction has appeared in Opium and Forklift, Ohio and she has written essays and book reviews for Boston Review, Coldfront, LA Review of Books, Poetry Daily, VIDAweb and other venues. She was born in Indianapolis, raised in Los Angeles, and currently lives in Brooklyn.
Taije Silverman’s first book, Houses Are Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2009. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni,The Harvard Review, Five Points and many other journals. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Italy and the 2005-07 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she teaches poetry and translation at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia.
Vijay Seshadri was born in Bangalore, India, in 1954, and came to America as a small child. He is the author of four collections of poems, Wild Kingdom, The Long Meadow, 3 Sections (all from Graywolf) and The Disappearances (Harper-Collins India), and many essays, reviews, and memoir fragments. His work has been recognized with a number of honors, among them fellowships from the NEA and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award. He is currently the Myers Professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
For more information, visit www.brooklynpoets.org/readings or contact Jason Koo at koo@brooklynpoets.org.
Bushwick / Ridgewood 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn NY, 11206koo@brooklynpoets.org
Performance Friday May 24, 2013
David Grubbs + 75 Dollar Bill ISSUE Project Room Performance Friday May 24, 2013, 8:00 PM www.issueprojectroom.org
ISSUE presents a performance of electric guitar and voice by David Grubbs to celebrate the release of The Plain Where the Palace Stood (Drag City), his first collection of songs since 2008’s An Optimist Notes the Dusk. He will be drawing from material from the new album as well as from a recently completed, forthcoming release from the trio Belfi / Grubbs / Pilia. 75 Dollar Bill, a duo of Rick Brown on percussion and horns and Che Chen on electric guitar, opens the evening.
Brooklyn Heights 22 Boerum Place, Ground Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11201718-330-0313 eve@issueprojectroom.org
Performance Friday May 24, 2013
William Leavitt: Habitat The Kitchen Performance Friday May 24, 2013, 8:00 PM Additional Performances: Saturday May 25, 2013 from 8:00 PM
www.thekitchen.org
Habitat takes place between two groups of neighbors in the adjoining backyards of a small mid-western town. While these people sometimes speak of what divides them, the real tragedy here arises in the ordinary business of life that distracts them from any possible concordance. As always, Leavitt registers the psychological impact of things that happen beyond one’s power of control.
This program is made possible with support from The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and with public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Tickets $15
Chelsea 512 West 19th Street, New York NY, 10011212-255-5793
Opening Saturday May 25, 2013
Ellsworth Kelly: Chatham Series MoMA Curated by Ann Temkin Opening Saturday May 25, 2013, from 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM On View May 25, 2013 - September 08, 2013 www.moma.org
In celebration of Ellsworth Kelly’s 90th birthday in May 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition of the first series of paintings the artist made after leaving New York City for Spencertown, in upstate New York, in 1970. The studio he rented in the nearby town of Chatham, in a building that had once been a theater, was more spacious than any he had previously occupied. After working there for a year, Kelly embarked on a series of 14 paintings that would become the Chatham Series. Each work takes the form of an inverted ell, and is made of two joined canvases, each canvas a monochrome of a different color. The works vary in proportion and palette from one to the next; careful attention was paid to the size of each panel and the color selected in order to achieve balance and contrast between the two. Kelly developed the concept of painting on joined panels while working in Paris in the early 1950s, and it is an approach he continues to explore in his current work. The series has not been exhibited in its entirety since it was presented at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, in 1972, just a year after the paintings were finished. Reuniting this critical series provides a welcome opportunity to investigate a key moment in Kelly’s artistic development.
Organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture.
The exhibition is supported by BNP Paribas.
Additional support for the accompanying publication is provided by Agnes Gund.
Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019 Saturday - Thursday from 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Friday from 10:30 AM to 8:00 PM
212-708-9400
Performance Saturday May 25, 2013
Performance still, MCA, Sydney, 2012
Naturist Day apexart Performance Saturday May 25, 2013, from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM www.apexart.org
In conjunction with the exhibition
organized by Kari Cwynar.
Saturday, May 25: 12-5 pm
12:00-1:00 Artist's Talk by Stuart Ringholt
1:30-2:30 Laughter Workshop #1, hosted by Stuart Ringholt
3:00-3:30 Curator's Talk by Kari Cwynar
4:00-5:00 Laughter Workshop #2, hosted by Stuart Ringholt
Everyone is welcome to join for all or part of the afternoon; nudity, however, is required. A changing area will be provided. Adults only.
Free with RSVP
Australian artist Stuart Ringholt hosts a Naturist Day at apexart, featuring an artist talk, a curator's talk, and two participatory Laughter Workshops throughout the afternoon. The workshops will be the first New York iteration in a series Ringholt initiated in Kassel, Germany in 2012. Interspersed with discussions of the artist's practice and a curatorial tour of the exhibition, participants in the workshops will develop ways of generating and experiencing laughter together. The afternoon offers an opportunity to consider how laughter (a corporal language), and an exhibition of laughter, are experienced differently in the nude. Working around notions of fear and embarrassment, Ringholt frequently hosts Naturist Tours and emotion-based workshops as part of his artistic practice, including naked tours of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and Anger Workshops at the Sydney Biennale, 2008, and dOCUMENTA(13), 2012.
apexart will be closed to the public on this day to create a space in which to relax and participate comfortably. Attendees are welcome to come and go as they please and take time to experience the exhibition in between workshops.
Stuart Ringholt was born in 1971 in Perth and lives in Melbourne. He works across a range of media including video, sculpture, and participatory workshops. Recent solo exhibitions include New Works, Milani Gallery (2012), Starring William Shatner As Curator, TCB Melbourne (2011) and Video Works, Club Laundromat, New York (2009). Ringholt has participated in group shows including dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel (2012), Singapore Bienniale (2011) and the Sydney Biennale (2008). He is the author of Hashish Psychosis: What it's Like to be Mentally Ill and Recover (2006).
Tribeca / Downtown 291 Church Street, New York NY, 10013212-431-5270 info@apexart.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 25, 2013
TARYN SIMON EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 25, 2013, 1:00 PM www.momaps1.org
Using photography, text, and graphic design the artist, Taryn Simon, explores the possibilities and limitations of photographic representation. Her first solo exhibition took place at MoMA PS1 in 2003; since then her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, Neue National Galerie, Berlin and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She will discuss her recent projects Picture Collection and Image Atlas and how she envisions the history and future of the image archive.
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Screening Saturday May 25, 2013
Petition (long version) Discussion with Sukhdev Sandhu MoMA Screening Saturday May 25, 2013, 1:00 PM www.moma.org
Followed by a discussion with Sukhdev Sandhu, author, film critic, Associate Professor of English, and Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
Petition (long version)
2009. China. Directed by Zhao Liang. Filmed over the course of 12 years, Zhao Liang’s landmark documentary explores the world of petitioners who travel to Beijing to seek justice back in their hometowns. Zhao uses secret cameras to capture a bureaucracy that leaves people waiting for years for their cases to be heard. The film takes a startling self-reflexive turn when Zhao becomes entangled in a heartbreaking tragedy that unfolds between a petitioner and her daughter. This is a stirring achievement in both journalistic dedication and documentary ethics. This 5-hour long version of Petition captures in greater detail and complexity the stories of the many petitioners who seek justice. Courtesy of Zhao Liang. 30 minute intermission. In Mandarin; English subtitles. 310 min.
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Screening Saturday May 25, 2013
COURTESY LUX DISTRIBUTION
THE OTOLITH GROUP: THE RADIANT EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Saturday May 25, 2013, 2:00 PM www.momaps1.org
The Radiant (2012) by The Otolith Group, 64 min, video, United Kingdom
“The Radiant explores the aftermath of March 11 2011, when the Great Tohoku Earthquake struck the North East Coast of Japan at 2.46pm, triggering a tsunami that killed tens of thousands and causing the partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the fissures opened by these catastrophes, The Radiant travels through time and space, invoking the historical promise of nuclear energy and summoning the future threat of radiation that converge upon the benighted present. Under these conditions, the illuminated cities and evacuated villages of Japan can be understood as a laboratory for the global nuclear regime that exposes its citizens to the necropolitics of radiation.” – LUX Distribution
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 25, 2013
Tea with Special Guests: Lika Volkova of SANS MoMA Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 25, 2013, 3:00 PM www.moma.org
Join us for informal conversations over tea with MoMA Studio: Exchange Café collaborators to learn about their work and practices.
In conjunction with the exhibition MoMA Studio: Exchange Café
Sign language–interpreted Gallery Conversations are held every fourth Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m. FM headsets for sound amplification are available for all talks. Gallery Conversations are free with Museum admission. No registration is required; however, we suggest arriving 10 minutes prior to the start of a talk, as groups are limited to 25.
All programs are free and open to all ages on a first-come, first-served basis during MoMA Studio opening hours, unless otherwise noted. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Performance Saturday May 25, 2013
Four Hour Performance by AnalogAnalogue Grace Exhibition Space Performance Saturday May 25, 2013, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM www.grace-exhibition-space.com
AnalogAnalogue'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:
AnalogAnalogue [Florida]
This art team was formed organically during the course of graduate studies at Florida State University organized around producing exhibitions at the Working Method Contemporary Gallery during the summer break in Tallahassee, Florida. This gallery is located in the middle of Railroad Square Art Park, where a bustling and vibrant crowd of thousands gather each and every First Friday to experience art works, food vendors, and live entertainment. This venue provided access to a wide range of viewers of all interests and backgrounds, and the energy of those exhibitions gathered a sort of momentum. This has lead to projects in various other places. We are currently residents of a neighboring gallery, 621 Gallery.
As projects grew in scale and intention, the creative drive and collective vision gave rise to a set of loose guidelines for making works that are contingent on viewer participation and activation, and these same guidelines are refined and re-considered with each new adventure.
We owe a debt of gratitute to Florida State University for providing us with the gallery space, and to all the people that come and activate our pieces. If no one comes, there is no art.
Current members include (but are not limited to):
Marnie Bettridge http://marniebettridge.com
Chalet Comellas http://chaletcomellas.com
Jay Corrales http://jaycoralles.net
Tyler Dearing http://tfdearing.com
Johnson Hunt
Echo Railton http://echorailton.com
With special appearances by the amazing:
Caledonia Curry
Heidi Haire
Dan Hall
Jeffrey Hemming
Ashley Ivey
Christina Poindexter
Russell Scaturro
Jordan Vinyard
analoganalogue.org
Bushwick / Ridgewood 840 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11206646-578-3402 info@grace-exhibition-space.com
Performance Saturday May 25, 2013
Cover Image: Photo of Karen Finley by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
“Sext Me if You Can” by Karen Finley: Performance and Installation New Museum Performance Saturday May 25, 2013, from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM www.newmuseum.org
Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence.
“Sext Me if You Can” is an interactive performance installation taking place in the New Museum Lobby in full view of Museum visitors. For this performance, Karen Finley creates a limited edition of paintings inspired by “sexts” that she receives from participating patrons. Participation takes the form of a commission and requires a ten-minute private and anonymous sitting on-site during announced performance times (bring your own cell phone!). Through this process, the erotic exchange with the artist—bound by rules of commerce—transforms into a lasting and collectible work of art. For more information on how to participate, please see below.
KAREN FINLEY’S LIMITED EDITION “SEXT ME IF YOU CAN” PAINTINGS ON COMMISSION AT THE NEW MUSEUM STORE
Thursday May 23–Sunday May 26
New Museum Store patrons are invited to commission a participatory work of art by Karen Finley for their personal collection. Here’s how it works: Patrons who wish to participate process their commissioning fee online or in person at the New Museum Store and are subsequently provided with a time to be present for a ten-minute on-site sitting during announced performance times. Sittings are completely private, discrete, and anonymous. During your sitting, you will receive access to a private phone number for the purpose of sending Finley a “sext.” This sext will, in turn, serve as the inspiration for a painting, or series of paintings, created by the artist in a temporary studio set up in the New Museum Lobby. The paintings will be displayed for the duration of the installation, from May 23–26. At the end of the installation, participating patrons (now collectors) will take home one of the paintings inspired by their sext.
Participants must be at least eighteen years old. No exceptions.
PRICING
Large Oval Canvas – $500 (Edition of 8)
Small Oval Canvas – $300 (Edition of 12)
Works on Paper – $200 (Edition of 25)
Finley is a New York–based artist whose performances have long provoked controversy and debate. Her performances have been presented at the Lincoln Center (NY), the Guthrie (Minneapolis), American Repertory Theater (Harvard), the ICA (London), the Steppenwolf (Chicago), and the Bobino (Paris). Her artworks are in numerous collections and museums including the Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Finley attended the San Francisco Art Institute receiving an MFA and an honorary PhD. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Obies, two Bessies, Ms. magazine Woman Of The Year Award, NARAL Person of the Year Award, and NYSCA and NEA Fellowships. She has appeared in many independent films, including Jonathan Demme’s 1993 Oscar-winning film Philadelphia. She has authored and/or edited eight books including Shock Treatment (City Lights, 1990), Enough is Enough (Poseidon, Simon and Schuster, 1993), Living It Up (Doubleday, 1996), Pooh Unplugged (Smart Art Books, 1999), A Different Kind Of Intimacy: The Collected Writings of Karen Finley (Thunders Mouth Press, 2000), and Reality Shows (2011). Current projects include “Unicorn in Red” (an ongoing series of performances in which Finley receives automatic messages from those departed and turns those messages into artworks), Broken Negative (a re-examination of her infamously defunded work We Keep Our Victims Ready), and Open Heart (a public memorial for children killed during the Holocaust created in collaboration with survivors, children, and locals). Finley is a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in the department of Art and Public Policy.
Presented in conjunction with “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” and IDEAS CITY.
TICKETS
General Public Free
Members Free
½ Gallery Admission with same day event ticket purchase.
The East Village / Lower East Side 235 Bowery, New York NY, 10002212-219-1222
Performance Saturday May 25, 2013
“Sext Me if You Can” by Karen Finley: Performance and Installation New Museum Performance Saturday May 25, 2013, from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM www.newmuseum.org
Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence.
“Sext Me if You Can” is an interactive performance installation taking place in the New Museum Lobby in full view of Museum visitors. For this performance, Karen Finley creates a limited edition of paintings inspired by “sexts” that she receives from participating patrons. Participation takes the form of a commission and requires a ten-minute private and anonymous sitting on-site during announced performance times (bring your own cell phone!). Through this process, the erotic exchange with the artist—bound by rules of commerce—transforms into a lasting and collectible work of art. For more information on how to participate, please see below.
KAREN FINLEY’S LIMITED EDITION “SEXT ME IF YOU CAN” PAINTINGS ON COMMISSION AT THE NEW MUSEUM STORE
Thursday May 23–Sunday May 26
New Museum Store patrons are invited to commission a participatory work of art by Karen Finley for their personal collection. Here’s how it works: Patrons who wish to participate process their commissioning fee online or in person at the New Museum Store and are subsequently provided with a time to be present for a ten-minute on-site sitting during announced performance times. Sittings are completely private, discrete, and anonymous. During your sitting, you will receive access to a private phone number for the purpose of sending Finley a “sext.” This sext will, in turn, serve as the inspiration for a painting, or series of paintings, created by the artist in a temporary studio set up in the New Museum Lobby. The paintings will be displayed for the duration of the installation, from May 23–26. At the end of the installation, participating patrons (now collectors) will take home one of the paintings inspired by their sext.
Participants must be at least eighteen years old. No exceptions.
PRICING
Large Oval Canvas – $500 (Edition of 8)
Small Oval Canvas – $300 (Edition of 12)
Works on Paper – $200 (Edition of 25)
Commissions are not yet available for purchase. To secure your commission in advance, please email NEA4@newmuseum.org, subject: “Karen Finley Commission.”
Finley is a New York–based artist whose performances have long provoked controversy and debate. Her performances have been presented at the Lincoln Center (NY), the Guthrie (Minneapolis), American Repertory Theater (Harvard), the ICA (London), the Steppenwolf (Chicago), and the Bobino (Paris). Her artworks are in numerous collections and museums including the Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Finley attended the San Francisco Art Institute receiving an MFA and an honorary PhD. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Obies, two Bessies, Ms. magazine Woman Of The Year Award, NARAL Person of the Year Award, and NYSCA and NEA Fellowships. She has appeared in many independent films, including Jonathan Demme’s 1993 Oscar-winning film Philadelphia. She has authored and/or edited eight books including Shock Treatment (City Lights, 1990), Enough is Enough (Poseidon, Simon and Schuster, 1993), Living It Up (Doubleday, 1996), Pooh Unplugged (Smart Art Books, 1999), A Different Kind Of Intimacy: The Collected Writings of Karen Finley (Thunders Mouth Press, 2000), and Reality Shows (2011). Current projects include “Unicorn in Red” (an ongoing series of performances in which Finley receives automatic messages from those departed and turns those messages into artworks), Broken Negative (a re-examination of her infamously defunded work We Keep Our Victims Ready), and Open Heart (a public memorial for children killed during the Holocaust created in collaboration with survivors, children, and locals). Finley is a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in the department of Art and Public Policy.
Presented in conjunction with “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” and IDEAS CITY.
TICKETS
General Public Free
Members Free
½ Gallery Admission with same day event ticket purchase.
The East Village / Lower East Side 235 Bowery, New York NY, 10002212-219-1222
Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 25, 2013
DAVID RIEFF EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Lecture / Artist Talk Saturday May 25, 2013, 3:30 PM www.momaps1.org
David Rieff is a journalist and policy analyst whose books have focused on immigration, international conflict, collective memory, and humanitarianism. He will be detailing the proposed solutions to the world food crisis, and the serious difficulties with each.
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Performance Saturday May 25, 2013
SpeakChamber Constance DeJong Bureau Performance Saturday May 25, 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
Screening Saturday May 25, 2013
COURTESY WARNER BROTHERS
STEVEN SODERBERGH: CONTAGION EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Saturday May 25, 2013, 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org
Contagion (2011) by Steven Soderbergh, 106 min, video, United States
“Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.” – Venice Film Festival
Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Editor's Pick
ORIENTATIONS R.E.H. Gordon, Eve Lateiner and Matthew Schrader Garden Party/Arts Curated by Garden Party/Arts Opening Saturday May 25, 2013, from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 25, 2013 www.gardenpartyarts.com
GARDEN PARTY/ARTS PRESENTS: ORIENTATIONS
May 25, 2013 4-8pm. 147 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, NY.
R.E.H. Gordon / Eve Lateiner / Matthew Schrader
“[The] queer object, the one out of line, on a slant, the odd and strange one, is hence encountered as slipping away, as threatening to become out of reach. The question is less what is a queer orientation than how we are oriented toward queer moments when objects slip. A queer phenomenology might involve an orientation toward what slips, which allows what slips to pass, in the unknowable length of its duration. In other words, a queer phenomenology would function as a disorientation device; it would not overcome the disalignment of the horizontal and vertical axis, allowing the oblique to open another angle on the world. If queer is also an orientation toward queer, a way to approach what is retreating, then what is queer might slide between sexual orientation and other kinds of orientation. Queer would become a matter of how one approaches the object that slips away, a way to inhabit the world at the point at which things fleet.”
GARDEN PARTY/ARTS is pleased to announce ORIENTATIONS, the first of our series of exhibitions slated for the Summer of 2013. A group show featuring the work of R.E.H. Gordon, Eve Lateiner, and Matthew Schrader, ORIENTATIONS borrows its title from Sara Ahmed’s 2006 essay “Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology”.
Phenomenology is the philosophy of the first-person experience of consciousness, where the point from which the world unfolds is always the body. To be “oriented” is to know where our bodies are in space and which direction we are facing. A body takes shape as it moves through space by tending towards familiar objects and away from others. The objects we find around us are not casual, but in fact “reveal the direction we have taken in life.” The repetition of “tending towards” familiar objects creates a line, like a path on the forest floor, that attracts other bodies along that same line. The subject reproduces the lines of the path it follows: this is the production of normativity. When a body encounters a queer object- one that is strange, slanted, out of line- orientation acts as a straightening device, shifting our perception so that the object appears in line.
Ahmed’s proposal for a queer phenomenology is, in part, to approach objects from behind. She writes, “we need to face an object’s background, redefined as not only the conditions for the emergence of the object (we might ask: how did it arrive?) but also the act of perceiving the object, which depends on the arrival of the body that perceives.” The works in this show “arrive” through the distinct backgrounds of each artist’s practice: performance, painting, and sculpture, respectively. Yet the objects only truly take shape through their encounter with the viewer or “the body that perceives” through the intimate co-habitation of space. Thus, the potential for a “queer” moment, a moment of disorientation, exists not in the object but the space of the encounter.
As Ahmed explains, the spaces where we gather are not neutral but directive. Spaces are where we find the lines we follow. It has always been one of the goals of Garden Party/Arts to build a space that is oriented towards feminism. This means we tend towards feminist and queer objects and tend to perceive feminism and queerness in objects. But Ahmed makes an important distinction when she explains that “it is important that we do not idealize queer worlds or simply locate them in an alternative space. After all, if the spaces we occupy are fleeting, if they follow us when we come and go, then this is as much a sign of how heterosexuality shapes the contours of inhabitable or livable space as it is about the promise of queer.” Instead, we need to ask what we will do in the moment we encounter an object that disorients us. These are the encounters that make it possible to change the direction we face, to follow new paths, and create space for difference.
-E.E. Ikeler
https://www.facebook.com/events/453989468015761/
Bedstuy 147 Halsey Street, Garden Level, Brooklyn NY, 11216 Saturday - Saturday from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
347-703-1572 gardenpartyarts@gmail.com
Opening Saturday May 25, 2013
ORIENTATIONS R.E.H. Gordon, Eve Lateiner and Matthew Schrader Garden Party/Arts Curated by Garden Party/Arts Opening Saturday May 25, 2013, from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 25, 2013 www.gardenpartyarts.com
GARDEN PARTY/ARTS PRESENTS: ORIENTATIONS
May 25, 2013 4-8pm. 147 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, NY.
R.E.H. Gordon / Eve Lateiner / Matthew Schrader
“[The] queer object, the one out of line, on a slant, the odd and strange one, is hence encountered as slipping away, as threatening to become out of reach. The question is less what is a queer orientation than how we are oriented toward queer moments when objects slip. A queer phenomenology might involve an orientation toward what slips, which allows what slips to pass, in the unknowable length of its duration. In other words, a queer phenomenology would function as a disorientation device; it would not overcome the disalignment of the horizontal and vertical axis, allowing the oblique to open another angle on the world. If queer is also an orientation toward queer, a way to approach what is retreating, then what is queer might slide between sexual orientation and other kinds of orientation. Queer would become a matter of how one approaches the object that slips away, a way to inhabit the world at the point at which things fleet.”
GARDEN PARTY/ARTS is pleased to announce ORIENTATIONS, the first of our series of exhibitions slated for the Summer of 2013. A group show featuring the work of R.E.H. Gordon, Eve Lateiner, and Matthew Schrader, ORIENTATIONS borrows its title from Sara Ahmed’s 2006 essay “Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology”.
Phenomenology is the philosophy of the first-person experience of consciousness, where the point from which the world unfolds is always the body. To be “oriented” is to know where our bodies are in space and which direction we are facing. A body takes shape as it moves through space by tending towards familiar objects and away from others. The objects we find around us are not casual, but in fact “reveal the direction we have taken in life.” The repetition of “tending towards” familiar objects creates a line, like a path on the forest floor, that attracts other bodies along that same line. The subject reproduces the lines of the path it follows: this is the production of normativity. When a body encounters a queer object- one that is strange, slanted, out of line- orientation acts as a straightening device, shifting our perception so that the object appears in line.
Ahmed’s proposal for a queer phenomenology is, in part, to approach objects from behind. She writes, “we need to face an object’s background, redefined as not only the conditions for the emergence of the object (we might ask: how did it arrive?) but also the act of perceiving the object, which depends on the arrival of the body that perceives.” The works in this show “arrive” through the distinct backgrounds of each artist’s practice: performance, painting, and sculpture, respectively. Yet the objects only truly take shape through their encounter with the viewer or “the body that perceives” through the intimate co-habitation of space. Thus, the potential for a “queer” moment, a moment of disorientation, exists not in the object but the space of the encounter.
As Ahmed explains, the spaces where we gather are not neutral but directive. Spaces are where we find the lines we follow. It has always been one of the goals of Garden Party/Arts to build a space that is oriented towards feminism. This means we tend towards feminist and queer objects and tend to perceive feminism and queerness in objects. But Ahmed makes an important distinction when she explains that “it is important that we do not idealize queer worlds or simply locate them in an alternative space. After all, if the spaces we occupy are fleeting, if they follow us when we come and go, then this is as much a sign of how heterosexuality shapes the contours of inhabitable or livable space as it is about the promise of queer.” Instead, we need to ask what we will do in the moment we encounter an object that disorients us. These are the encounters that make it possible to change the direction we face, to follow new paths, and create space for difference.
-E.E. Ikeler
https://www.facebook.com/events/453989468015761/
Bedstuy 147 Halsey Street, Garden Level, Brooklyn NY, 11216 Saturday - Saturday from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
347-703-1572 gardenpartyarts@gmail.com
Opening Saturday May 25, 2013
Clockwise from the top left: Eric Cahan, Neutral Density Filter, 2013, Cast Polyurethane Resin Fused to Marble Dust and Resin Base, 30hx 15w x 5d in / John Messinger, Colors Moving Counterclockwise, 2013, Instant Film, 85hx 81w in / Gregory Johnston, LeMans (Woods), 2013, Digital C-print, 72h x 110w x 1.25 in
A View With A Room Eric Cahan, Gregory Johnston and John Messinger Eric Firestone Gallery Curated by Robert Stilin Opening Saturday May 25, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 25, 2013 - June 10, 2013 www.ericfirestonegallery.com
East Hampton, NY: Eric Firestone Gallery is pleased to announce A View With A Room, an exhibition of new work by Eric Cahan, Gregory Johnston and John Messinger curated and designed by interior designer, Robert Stilin, opening with a reception on Saturday, May 25th from 6-9 pm.
A View With A Room thoughtfully examines the ongoing dialog between art and interior design, how the forms and spatial elements of furniture interact with the surface, light and emotion of art. This installation incorporates 20th and 21st century furniture and objects. Robert Stilin is a master at synthesizing a variety of elements, textures, and time periods with art to create harmonic environments that are deeply reflective of his clients’ lifestyles. Stilin explains, “I have always envisioned doing show like this, as an art collector myself, this is a natural extension of my vision on art as a key component in lifestyle design.”
Eric Cahan’s Sky Series photographs capture the subtle sky gradient just beyond the sea’s horizon at the moment before dawn or just after sunset. His images are then infused with body and light when layered with illuminating “liquid glass” resin, tinted to electrify the vibrant hues. The photos’ titles relay the exact time and location of each shot. His resin sculptures are a three dimensional extension of this photographic work.
Gregory Johnston’s paintings employ vintage racecar palettes on aluminum panels in reference to the heroism of Formula One racing passed through a lens of modernism. In this latest body of work, Johnston further investigates geometric abstraction and surface tension.
John Messinger explores the ever-changing nature of photography amidst the ubiquity and proliferation of the digital image. He creates large-scale, site-specific photographic tapestries composed of hundreds of individual 3.25 x 4.25” Fuji instant film photographs. Precise timing of the print process and focus render each photo a glimpse of time passing over a singular moment. His deeply personal work embodies both technology and nostalgia.
Robert Stilin has over 20 years of experience running his own design firm. Stilin has built a reputation for combining crisp, clean architecture with custom upholstery, antiques and vintage furniture. As an avid art collector himself, Stilin incorporates modern and contemporary art into the living context of all his projects, even advising his clients as new collectors or building their collections. His work has been featured in Elle Décor, House Beautiful, New York Spaces, Architectural Digest España, W, House & Garden, Food & Wine, Hamptons Cottages and Gardens, and Traditional Home. He serves on the board of CREATIVE TIME and the Director’s Council at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Eric Firestone Gallery, established in New York in 2010, focuses on bringing contemporary and historic art, new genres and popular culture to the public. Eric Firestone Gallery represents a number of artists and estates and such projects as The Boneyard Project and Return Trip have garnered worldwide recognition. The gallery has been featured in Art in America, Bomb, Artnews, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, GQ, New York Magazine, Hampton’s Magazine, Newsday and many other publications and websites.
Long Island / The Hamptons 4 Newtown Lane, East Hampton NY, 11937 631-604-2386 efg@ericfirestonegallery.com
Performance Saturday May 25, 2013
Cultural Affair @ The Cosmopolitan Hotel Chino Amobi, Isaac Richard Pool, Brad Troemel and Frances Bean Cobain Interstate Projects Performance Saturday May 25, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM www.interstateprojects.com
Cultural Affair @ The Cosmopolitan Hotel
Chino Amobi - Isaac Richard Pool - Brad Troemel - Frances Bean Cobain
One night reception - May 25th 7-10 pm
With a performance by Diamond Black Hearted Boy
hotelart.us
Bushwick / Ridgewood 66 Knickerbocker Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11237tom@interstateprojects.com
Performance Saturday May 25, 2013
ErstAEU Showcase Richard Kamerman, Anne Guthrie, Graham Stephenson, Aaron Zarzutzki, Joe Panzner and Greg Stuart ISSUE Project Room Performance Saturday May 25, 2013, 8:00 PM www.issueprojectroom.org
ErstAEU is a new CD imprint, launched by Erstwhile Records to help document the work of young American experimental musicians working in a post-electroacoustic vein. The first three CDs were released in March 2013 to great acclaim, and now all six musicians will travel to NYC for this special one-time showcase night.
Brooklyn Heights 22 Boerum Place, Ground Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11201718-330-0313 eve@issueprojectroom.org