.NO Gallery Art Event New York

Premiere Event
Friday October 7, 2011, 6-8 pm
Video will play at 6:30 and 7:30 pm

.NO Gallery
251 East Houston Street
New York, NY 10002
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Artwork on Video creates professional videos of artists talking about their artwork. The videos are designed to give collectors, gallerists, curators, press people, grant givers, and anyone else interested in contemporary art, a better understanding of the artist's body of work. Terence Donnellan created Artwork on Video out of his desires to see and learn more about great artists. After working at Christie's Auction House for five years where he was involved with all of their art auctions and exhibitions, he left with an eagerness to contribute something more to the art world and Artwork on Video became reality. TD is an artist, filmmaker, playwright, and novelist.

For more information visit: www.terencedonnellan.com. Contact

 

Anki King grew up in a small village in Norway. After completing her arts education in Oslo, Norway, she moved to New York City in 1994 where she studied at The Art Students League until 1998. In New York, King has built a strong career as a painter and exhibits frequently both in Europe and in the USA. Her work is included in many private and public collections including the Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala FL. Additionally, King has exhibited at the Katonah Museum of Art, NY, Las Cruces Museum of Art, NM, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo and the National Gallery of the Dominican Republic. Last year she was the winner of the 2010 London International Creative Competition Award.

For more information visit: www.ankiking.com. Contact

Aline Benamou's Art Exhibit New York

 

 

Aline Benamou's Exhibit

• Host:
  Aline


• Phone:
  646-506-7677

• When:
  Sunday, December 18 at 4:00 PM


• Where:
  Asya Geisberg537 West 23rd street New York, NY 10010
   
  Since the start of her artistic career, Aline Benamou has been fusing her Jewish Moroccan heritage with the paint palate. In this installation, her travels are paired with her studies of religion and art as she paints stories of wedding scenes, musicians and historical events entwined with Kabalistic themes. Analyze her work and you will find reflections from the ancient study of the Talmud and Perkei Avot.
  Please Join Us on December 18th, 2011 between 4:00pm to 10:00pm.

Artist Eddie Rehm “Reveals” Latest Works NEW YORK, NY, USA

NEW YORK, NY, USA

AUGUST 6, 2011

Eddie Rehm:  Abandonment to Revelation

"The 21st century will not consist of perfect execution but of a concept analogous to the moral of the times. That time is now"          -Rehm 2011-

Orchard Windows Gallery

37 Orchard Street
Lower East Side, NY 10002

Between Hester and Canal Sts.

F train two blocks away 

Exhibition Dates October 17, 2011 - October 30, 2011

Monday to Sunday: 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Artist Opening ReceptionOctober 21, 2011 – 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm 

Closing Reception 

October 28, 2011 – 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

This event is free and open to the public

The Orchard Windows Gallery has invited celebrated New York artist, Eddie Rehm, back for his third solo exhibition.  "Instant Gratification Abstract is a term I use to describe my art and the style in which I present each piece,” says Rehm, when asked to describe his work.  Rehm’s art has been displayed throughout New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Pennsylvania, as well as many local Art Leagues and Associations.  His work will also be displayed in the upcoming 2011 Art Basel Miami, along side internationally renowned contemporary artists. 

Rehm’s last show Belligerence which consisted of a full gallery conceptual installation, created an aggressive buzz, aptly fitting the show’s title. “With an overwhelming positive response from collectors, patrons, and press publications, I am excited about continuing our artistic collaboration, representing Rehm’s work and giving him another exhibition,” says Dino Eli, owner of Orchard Windows Gallery. 

On the theme of his new show, Abandonment to Revelation, Rehm reveals his impetus:  “My work is my interpretation of today’s society, since I have lived a life that many Americans are also currently enduring.  I have been abandoned, slandered, divorced, bankrupt, homeless, and jobless.  I have recently lost not just friends, but family.  I have suffered through so many conflicting emotions simultaneously:  belligerence, anger, depravity, sorrow, indifference, and pain.  I have lost it all!  So art to me is therapeutic; it’s my way of working through all of these recent personal, but somehow collective, tragedies.  At the same time, each person’s experience is unique, and while I feel everyone can relate to these experiences in some way, my art transcends that experience, representing my journey toward enlightened ideas and raw emotion through progressive thought.  Through these gut-retching experiences or perhaps in spite of them, I am meeting myself again as if for the first time.  In doing so, through my art, I am asking the very questions that most people won’t, can’t, or bury down deep so they don’t have to deal with them.  I am not ashamed of these questions or where they lead us, but intrigued!  Through these tribulations, I have learned that we are, at the same time, our own best friend and worst enemy, and despite this, we can find our own answer.  So I have come full circle and this work is the beginning of this enlightenment.”

If this does not spark your curiosity, then you should check out the exhibition simply to get a forward

looking glimpse of what 21^st century art will be.  According to Dino, “His style is unique, raw, and refreshing.  I believe it's only a matter of time before the whole world knows who he is.”

Please feel free to call or e-mail anyone listed below if you need any further information or have questions.  Please contact by e-mail if this release is used for print, online, or any other form of press publication. Thank You.

ARTIST:

Eddie Rehm 
rehmplumbing@aol.comhttp://eddierehmart.com/ 

631-579-3530 

EVENT ORGANIZER / CURATORHeather Powers

631-569-6981

GALLERY OWNER / DIRECTOR

Dino Eli

orchrdwndws@aol.com

http://www.orchardwindowsgallery.com/

917-995-1001

Artists Choose Artists" exhibit at the Parrish Art Museum Southampton, NY

You are cordially invited to the ‘Artists Choose Artists’ opening reception and exhibit at the Parrish Art Museum.

Opening Reception—Saturday August 20th, 6:00 pm
Location: The Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Ln, Southampton, NY 11968
Contact: 631-283-2118

This is an honor for me as I unveil my new work and exhibit alongside acclaimed artists such as Ross Bleckner, Alice Aycock and Gary Simmons.  All work will be available for viewing until October 9th, 2011. For additional information about this show contact: www.parrishart.org

I will also be updating the information via Twitter and Facebook as well.
http://www.twitter.com/perryburns 

Visions Of Circe: Orchard Windows Gallery New York Art Exhibit

Visions of Circe: Mixed Media Artwork by Anil CS Rao

August 22 to 26, 2011

Orchard Windows Gallery

37 Orchard St

New York, New York

Circe is referred to in Dante’s Divine Comedy: “Virtue is like an enemy avoided by all, as is a serpent, through misfortune of place, or through bad habit that impels them, on which account they have so transformed their nature, the dwellers in the miserable valley, that it seems that Circe had them in her pasture.”

It is the artist's intent to convey the impact of an enchantress on his pysche - the obstacle to obtaining liberation from this cycle of pain & pleasure: life & death : samsara.  The images of females are photo based, printed on canvas via gilcee process and retouched with oil and acyrlic paints.  The goal of this process is to combine photorealism with abstract elements found in paintings.

In addition - images printed on metallic photo paper and encased in acrylic frames will be on display.  These will be images from a upcoming publication of poetry and visuals titled "Breakfast with Tiffany" (Cyberwit Publishers, 2011).  An imaginary character - a satirical series inspired by the master artist Andrew Wyeth's Helga paintings.

The artist would like the audience to experience the overindulgence in sensual pleasure that often need to be catharsised in order to proceed on a spiritual path whether that path is Eastern (Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist), Judeo-Christain or (especially) in Islam.  A special exception is the Sufi mystical path where sensuality is the means to liberation - outlawed by many conservative Islamic doctrines.

Inspiration for the artwork include: Sufi poems and "ghazals", Taoist texts, the Kama Sutra, and an eclectic assortment of Western religion and philosophy.

Show: Insignificance Orchard Windows Gallery Art Opening New York

Kenneth Ian

2011

Orchard Windows Gallery

37 Orchard St.
New York, NY 10002

 

Artist Reception:

August 13 2011 4pm - 8pm

free Refreshments

       

Kenneth has been invited back to the orchard windows gallery after a very good show last Febuerey. On display will be his latest series of paintings intitled "Insignificance".

Insignificance is a new series of paintings I made to display the emotions of being a small part in the world. How sometimes we all feel small and insignificant. How our emotions can get the better of us and lead us to jealousy, anger, insincerity and other negative emotions. I am also trying to show how much difference a small explosion of paint on a canvas can change the whole painting and the correlation between that and a person. The lack of paint on a single colored background is my minimalistic approach to explain how much open space surrounds us and to pose the question, is any splash of paint or any person insignificant to the surrounding environment?

 

Statement:

 

Kenneth Ian Husbands works have been displayed throughout the USA. Kenneth's artwork has appeared in various online/print publications. Kennethbelongs to national art groups such as The Sheboygan Visual Artists and the Plymouth arts center as well as New York groups Such as the South bay arts association the Brookhaven Arts and humanities council and The new millennium modern art group. Kenneth had studied art in NY at a local college before his financial situation made him drop out and become a long shore commercial fisherman. After not painting for 6 years he found the art calling him back. Putting all of his energy back into art he found the concept of letting go of controlling his art  to be appealing, and started experimenting in a aesthetic way to make that happen. The paintings on display are all examples of his "letting go of control" as well as different emotions he puts onto the canvas

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES New York, NY

Deadline: July 15, 2011
	Exhibit Dates:	July 21-30, 2011
	Title:	Summer Juried Exhibition
	Sponsor:	Brenda Taylor
	Venue:	Brenda Taylor Gallery, 505 W. 28th Street, New York, NY 10001 ground floor
	Juror:	Brenda Taylor
	Eligibility:	Please send no more than 4 JPEG images of recent or available work to be considered. All medias and styles are reviewed. Packages should include your bio, artist statement and contact information and a SASE. Ten finalists will be included in the exhibition. You will receive a phone call with more details, upon acceptance.
	Fees:	$25.00 payable to Brenda Taylor Gallery
	E-mail:	Brenda Taylor
	Phone:	212-463-7166
	Website:	http://www.brendataylorgallery.com/

Spook™: INVOCATION KENSETH ARMSTEAD

June 23 - August 1, 2011
Opening; Thursday, June 23 from 6-9 pm

Critically acclaimed artist Kenseth Armstead will present his first solo exhibition, Spook™: INVOCATION at the gallery LMAKprojects on June 23rd, 2011. He invites the viewer to join him in ambitiously inserting a Founding Father into the pantheon of heroes traditionally celebrated over the July 4th holiday.

Spook™: INVOCATION shares and celebrates the life of historical figure James Armistead Lafayette, a slave, turned spy, who provided intelligence to help end the American Revolution. Armstead specifically focuses on the year of 1781, when James was successfully working as a double agent for America's first Director of Central Intelligence, George Washington.

After extensive historical research, Armstead re-tells the story of James Armistead Lafayette through the contemporary portal of the Graphic Novel Format. The exhibition Spook™: INVOCATION will be comprised of thirty works, hand drawn images, taken from three months in the spying life of James, from his first mission for George Washington, under the command of the Marquis Lafayette, to his dangerous compact with the most feared British General, Lord Charles Cornwallis. This re-mixed take on the story, forces the viewer to examine whether all of our history has been told. James, a lost hero, is drawn in context, for the first time, as a fully realized character.

A true multimedia artist, Armstead traded in his digital video-editing suite in favor of graphite pencils and paper for this project. Utilizing traditional drawing techniques, the works in Spook™: INVOCATION range from detailed close ups, based on historical 18th century portraiture of the main characters, to the use of the likeness of Jamie Foxx as the spy James, or large scale, rough hewn battle scenes that viscerally channel the brutality of war.

"James Armistead Lafayette is an exciting character in the American Revolution. He's falls somewhere between James bond, an often conflicted spy, and Maximus the Gladiator, a slave who fights to preserve the lofty goals of a growing empire." Kenseth Armstead

Spook™: INVOCATION will be on view through August 1st, 2011. There will also be a limited edition book available at the gallery or through the website.

LMAKprojects
139 Eldridge Street
New York NY 10002

212 255 9707
info@lmakprojects.com
www.lmakprojects.com

MonoVisioN Architectural Photography by Scott Frances Design & Decoration Building Annex New York

 

 

Charles S. Cohen and Decoration & Design Building (D&D Building) are pleased to present MonoVisioN, a selection of photographs from the distinguished photographer Scott Frances. The exhibition comprises of 68 large-scale works, will be on view in Suite 110 on the ground floor of the Annex Building at the D&D Building in Midtown Manhattan. In conjunction with the exhibition visitors may enter a special raffle for the chance to win a signed limited-edition print by Frances.

Frances is renowned for his architecture and lifestyle photography. His images reflect the synthesis of his interests in carefully balanced composition, using atmospheric and naturally motivated light. With a journalist’s need to tell a story simply, along with his passion for the decorative arts, his imagery bridges recurring themes throughout art history.

The exhibition coincides with the release of Frances’ first monograph of the same title with an introduction by Richard Meier, published by Pond Press. In the preface to MonoVisioN, Meier states: “A Scott Frances photograph captures all these ephemeral elements that I have always explored in my architectural work. The images in this book portray the qualities that give every space and building a sense of place, and the constant dialogue between the man-made and the natural. MonoVisioN becomes an exploration of solid and void, transparency and opaqueness, the rational and the intuitive, and an essay on composition.”

Frances’ exhibition begins a main feature of this year’s summer programming at the D&D Building. MonoVisioN was recently shown at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California and will tour to the other Cohen Design Centers in South Florida and Houston following the show in New York.

Scott Frances was born and raised in New York City, where he is currently based. He studied fine arts and journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Early in his career he shot for ESTO photographics, under the auspices of the architectural photography great, Ezra Stoller. Following ESTO he began to document the work of architect Richard Meier, with whom he continues to work with today. Frances has worked with several of the world’s top architects and designers and is a regular contributor to magazines like Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, and Departures. He has photographed the homes of such celebrities as Jennifer Aniston, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Jim Belushi, Claire Danes, Clive Davis and Steve Jobs.

About Decoration & Design Building
Home to over 130 of the design industry’s premier showrooms for fabrics, furniture, antiques and art, the Decoration & Design Building (D&D Building) is an invaluable resource to the trade with over 20, 000 designers that pass through the building each month. The D&D Building is an institution, offering designers and architects all the necessary resources with which to design and decorate homes and commercial installations of distinctive quality. In addition, the D&D Building offers a number of other services including their exclusive monthly design lectures, designer referral service, and famed chef and restaurateur Charlie Palmer’s ASTRA Café. The D&D Building is located at 979 Third Avenue in New York City. For more information on events, please visit the D&D Building on line at www.ddbuilding.com.


WHERE
Decoration & Design Building Annex
222 East 59th Street, Suite 110
New York, NY 10022
www.ddbuilding.com

WHEN
Exhibition on view: Tuesday, June 21st–Friday, July 29th, 2011
Opening reception: Tuesday, June 21st, 6:00-8:00 p.m.; RSVP to rsvp@ddbuilding.com
Book signing and gallery talk with the artist: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Directions
4/5/6 or N/R/W to 59th Street

Gallery contact: D. Ashlee Harrison, Director of Marketing, Decoration & Design Building, 212.759.5408; Aharrison@ddbuilding.com

THE NY ART BOOK FAIR, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2011

Printed Matter, Inc. presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 30 to October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 29. Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by more than 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from over twenty countries. The NY Art Book Fair will also include special projects, screenings, book signings, and performances throughout the weekend. The Classroom—a curated series of artist-led workshops, readings, and discussions—and the fifth annual Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference—a dynamic, two-day symposium on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture—will engage visitors in lively conversation all weekend long. Over 16,000 artists, book buyers, collectors, dealers, curators, independent publishers, and other enthusiasts attended the NY Art Book Fair in 2010. “For those of us who reside mostly in a world of pixels and antialiased Web fonts, Printed Matter’s fifth annual New York Art Book Fair was a breath of fresh, ink-and-glue-infused air.” —The New Yorker Visit www.nyartbookfair.com for further information and to join our mailing list. For exhibitors inquiries, write to nyartbookfair@printedmatter.org. For media inquiries, write to peter@printedmatter.org.

KENSETH ARMSTEAD WILL PRESENT HIS FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION SPOOK™: INVOCATION AT LMAK PROJECTS June 23rd – August 1st, 2011

Graphic novel inspired drawings celebrate and depict the life of the revolution era spy James Armistead Lafayette

NEW YORK, NY, April 13, 2011 — Critically acclaimed artist Kenseth Armstead will present his first solo exhibition, Spook™: INVOCATION at the gallery LMAKprojects on June 23rd, 2011. He invites the viewer to join him in ambitiously inserting a Founding Father into the pantheon of heroes traditionally celebrated over the July 4th holiday.

Spook™: INVOCATION shares and celebrates the life of historical figure James Armistead Lafayette, a slave, turned spy, who provided intelligence to help end the American Revolution. Armstead specifically focuses on the year of 1781, when James was successfully working as a double agent for America’s first Director of Central Intelligence, George Washington.

After extensive historical research, Armstead re-tells the story of James Armistead Lafayette through the contemporary portal of the Graphic Novel Format. The exhibition Spook™: INVOCATION will be comprised of thirty works, hand drawn images, taken from three months in the spying life of James, from his first mission for George Washington, under the command of the Marquis Lafayette, to his dangerous compact with the most feared British General, Lord Charles Cornwallis. This re-mixed take on the story, forces the viewer to examine whether all of our history has been told. James, a lost hero, is drawn in context, for the first time, as a fully realized character.

A true multimedia artist, Armstead traded in his digital video-editing suite in favor of graphite pencils and paper for this project. Utilizing traditional drawing techniques, the works in Spook™: INVOCATION range from detailed close ups, based on historical 18th century portraiture of the main characters, to the use of the likeness of Jamie Foxx as the spy James, or large scale, rough hewn battle scenes that viscerally channel the brutality of war.

“James Armistead Lafayette is an exciting character in the American Revolution. He’s falls somewhere between James bond, an often conflicted spy, and Maximus the Gladiator, a slave who fights to preserve the lofty goals of a growing empire.” Kenseth Armstead

Opening on June 23rd, 2011 Spook™: INVOCATION will be on view through August 1st, 2011. Located in the heart of the Lower East Side, LMAKprojects, 139 Eldridge Street, is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11am till 6 pm and Sunday by appointment.

High-resolution images, gallery previews and artist studio tours are available upon request.

ABOUT THE ARTISTKenseth Armstead’s multimedia and installation works have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; Bronx Museum; Studio Museum in Harlem and MIT. They are in numerous collections including the Centre Pompidou and African-American Museum in Dallas, Texas. Grants he has won include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NYFA individual artist award in video, NYSCA individual artist award in film/video, the Camille Hanks Cosby Fellowship and a Creative Capital Foundation Grant in film/video. He received a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and an MS from the Polytechnic institute of NYU.  He participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

ABOUT LMAKprojectsLMAKprojects was founded in 2005. The gallery's interest lies in the commitment to the artist's process and dedication to their thoughts and production, introducing collectors to new horizons through visuals, sound or concept. As a gallery they believe in open communication and developing relations between the viewer and the art. LMAKprojects is known for its exhibitions with international allure and focusing on inter-disciplinary practices. LMAKprojects presents works in all media, ranging from painting, photography, video/film and sculpture by artists from all over the world. Louky Keijsers Koning and Bart Keijsers Koning are co-owners of the gallery.

Kenseth Armstead Contact: Sarah Cunningham   O - 212-366-5801   E - sarah@thechambergroup.com--
Sarah Mary Cunningham
Director of Media Relations
The Chamber Group
Public Relations & Marketing
416 West 13th St. Suite 105  New York, NY 10014
O:212-366-5801 C:718.724.3410

Erica Schreiner at Bill Hodges Gallery New York

 

 

 

In celebration of this summer's art season, the Bill Hodges Gallery is pleased to announce Dessert & Disorders, artist Erica Schreiner's first solo exhibition. Consisting of a combination of stills and videos, Dessert & Disorders humorously explores the connection between the most desired and least healthy course of a meal, and human mental disorders. 

The show opens on June 2 with a reception from 6 to 8 PM, and will run till July 2, 2011. A preview is scheduled for May 31, 2011, from 12 to 5 PM.  

 

Art Show Jamie Zeccola New York New York

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www.jamiezeccolapaintings.com
www.artslant.com
www.saatchionline.com

Surface at Claire Oliver Gallery New York

Andy Denzler, Gino Rubert, Jesse McCloskey, Herb Jackson, Ben van Netten
Surface
 

May 18 – June 30, 2011

A medium with one of the richest and most extensive histories, paint on canvas proves time and again that it can reinvent itself.   The relationships artists have with this medium and its possibilities vary infinitely.  With Claire Oliver Gallery’s exhibition, Surface, five artists celebrate the unlimited diversity of treatment to the pictorial plane.  The exhibition features the works of Andy Denzler, Gino Rubert, Jesse McCloskey, Herb Jackson and Ben van Netten.

********************************Caption For Attached Image:
Artist: Andy Denzler
Title: " Platform”
Media: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 55.5 x 47.25 x 1.5 inches
Date: 2011
Credit Line: Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York
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Mariclare Hall

Claire Oliver Gallery

1.212.929.5949

513 West 26th Street New York | NY | 10001

mariclare@claireoliver.com
www.claireoliver.com

Art Exhibit New York THE WILLIAMSBURG MUSIC CENTER

THE   WILLIAMSBURG MUSIC CENTER (WMC)
367 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn NY   11211
718-384-1654
wmcjazz.org
Presents
“MUSIC IS LIFE”
opening on
May 20th, 2011 8pm-until closing

Helene Ruiz will   be bringing back her multi-media and international artists collective ‘THE   URBAN INDIVIDUALISTS’ and their artist affiliates to WMC with music themed   and music inspired artworks paying tribute and homage to musician and   composer, the great Mr. Gerry Eastman and “The Williamsburg Music Center”,   founded by Mr. Eastman in 1981. WMC exists to foster the creation,   performance and appreciation of American Classic Music. It is Brooklyn’s   only black-owned and operated non-profit jazz institution, and the only one  in New York City that offers classes and workshops in jazz performance and   history. This exhibit will formally open on Friday, May 20, 2011 at 8pm and will be accompanied with live music provided by Gerry Eastman’s band.  A minimal donation of $5  at the door and a 2 drink minimum at the bar will go to WMC in order to help continue its mission to further the evelopment of aspiring jazz composers and provide forum for new  jazz works to be polished and performed and to continue offering classes in Music, Music Theory and Vocal technique. Eight children’s scholarships are made available each season as well. We invite all to   come and support the mission and efforts in making education and culture a   voice through the arts and to share an exciting, culturally rich and   inspiring event. Exhibiting Visual Artists;
G May
Ina Mar
Gary   Dunn
Helene Ruiz
Chuck Smith
Keith Duncan
Dalton Brown
David   Marion
Jokulo Cooper
Ernest Hodnett
Pete Rodriguez
Gerry   Eastman
Alain Laforestrie
Lolita Standard
Damien Venditti
Juan   Carlo Suazo
Khalid Thompson
Ana Marie Paredes
Marthalicia   Matarrita
Booker T. Williams, Jr.
Mia Roman-Hernandez
Alice Mizrachi   (founder of YOUNITY, a collective of women artists)
a rough cut short film   of the late Earl Wilkie by his son david Raine

An Urban Individualists Event Curated by Helene Ruiz, co-curated by Jakulo Cooper in collaboration with WMC, Gerry Eastman

Invitation To Parsons Fine Arts MFA Thesis Show JD Siazon

Dear Friends and Supporters,

All apologies for the late invitation but Parsons MFA Fine Arts will be having our thesis show at The Kitchen in Chelsea from May 6-14 with the reception this Tuesday May 10 5-8 pm.  There will be a film screening from 5-6 pm but you're welcome to skip that and just come by sometime between 6 pm and 8 pm.

Please find attached two images of drawings of a total of five which I'll be exhibiting.

Hope to see everyone there and thank you all for the continued support and encouragement!

JD Siazon

Artist & Writer

www.brooklynartproject.com/profile/jdsiazon

www.linkedin.com/in/jdsiazon

www.behance.net/jdsiazon

Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to present Zap: Masters of Psychedelic Art, 1965-74, curated by Gary Panter and Chris Byrne New York

Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to present Zap: Masters of Psychedelic Art, 1965-74, curated by Gary Panter and Chris Byrne, running from May 12 - June 25, 2011. An accompanying catalogue is being published by the gallery.

Zap was a hippie comic book that blew everyone's mind.

On February 25th, 1968, Robert Crumb could be seen peddling a strange new kind of comic book out of a baby carriage on of the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco, the epicenter of the hippie phenomenon then circling the globe. Zap was the cartoon extension of all the other social experiments and art forms feeding off each other at the time, including rock concerts, light shows, psychedelic posters and acid tests.

Zap tested the legal boundaries of free expression by indulging in outrageous fantasy and imaginative violence in its dope-induced yarns. The hippie readers may have come to the magazine for validation of their anti-war, anti-pollution, pro-drug, back-to-nature values, but Zap dared to critique and satirize the messy cultural and social work-in-progress as well -from the underground's canned and militant "us versus them" to the more troubling and existential "are we them?"- the satirical finger was now simultaneously pointed outward and inward, making the audience and authors legitimate targets.

The exhibition will only include works by Crumb and those artists who joined him in the original Zap lineup: Robert Williams, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez and Gilbert Shelton.

Robert Williams is an accomplished painter as well as the founder of Juxtapoz Magazine. His work was included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. Rick Griffin (the only deceased artist in the group) is most widely recognized for his long association with the Grateful Dead, for whom he completed several album covers, posters and logos.

Victor Moscoso studied at The Cooper Union and at Yale under Josef Albers, employing Albers' color theories in his optically vibrant counterculture posters. S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton and Spain Rodriguez all had previous association with underground comix such as East Village Other, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Captain Piss Gums and Perverted Pirates.

Zap Comix remains the best known anthology of its kind, and it continues today (number 15 at last count). Every few years a new issue is published when the artists have completed enough material. The focus of this exhibition is those early Summers of Love (and Haight), when the original seven begat their visionary deconstruction of the comic book with remarkable innovations in storytelling and drawing.

The Curators

Gary Panter is an illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. He made his mark in the '80s as head set designer for Pee Wee's Playhouse, a job which brought his jagged art and surreal cartoon ideas into the homes of America and earned him three Emmy Awards.

Chris Byrne is an independent curator. He is the former Chairman of the Board of the American Visionary Art Museum and, in 2008, co-founded the Dallas Art Fair. This past fall, he organized the exhibition Peter Saul: 50 Years of Painting at Haunch of Venison in New York.

Black and Exhibition at .NO gallery New York

New York, NY, April 26, 2011 –  Still on view at .NO on the Lower East Side through May 15, RED is the third show in the NORTH STARS Series —  a suite of exhibitions of works by contemporary Norwegian artists structured around the tricolor of their country’s flag. In response to popular demand, .NO is pleased to extend this series with a bonus round opening next month. Having now run the gamut of the official flag hues, this final installment is dedicated to the color that connotes the very foundation for contemporary Norwegian society: the rich, oily black of the North Sea petroleum industry.

On the surface level, the artists selected for this show have a shared preference for BLACK, as expressed in the minimal, achromatic palette of Ellen Bang's sculptures and of the drawings by Vanna Bowles and Anna Christina Lorenzen, as well as in the dark, offbeat humor conveyed in Jannicke Låker's videos. Spanning decades in age, the exhibitors have received significant acclaim in both the Norwegian and the international art scene. The youngest among them, Lorenzen will show large-scale drawings from the Evolutionary Line series presented in her solo exhibit at Haugesund Kunstforening earlier this year. Among other pieces, Bang will contribute To the Moon, a sculptural suite consisting of three wooden wolves that have already travelled across the world for shows in Germany, Holland, the UK, Czeckoslovakia, Austria and Norway. Låker's video Sunday Mornings won both the Terje Vigen Award and the Film Critics Award in her native Norway in 2008,  and was also nominated for the ARTE Award at the International Short Film Festival in Hamburg in 2009. Fresh from a solo show in Stockholm, Bowles currently holds a one-year residency at the Jacob Weidemann Foundation in Lillehammer and just won a prestigious 3-years artist grant awarded by the Norwegian government.

The second part of the show’s title is meant to convey the friction between seeming opposites: in traditional thinking, Bold is ascribed to the strong male principle, while Beautiful connotes the soft and feminine. For the accomplished artists featured in BLACK, such conflicting sets of characteristics are not mutually exclusive. Mining the rich field of copresent opposites, their works have the vital tension thus described by Jung: “Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life.”

The title also reflects these artists' stance in the contemporary artworld. Lorenzen, Låker, Bang and Bowles do not shy away from qualities often scoffed at in certain dominant circles: visual pleasure and solid craft. These women have the audacity to be vulnerable and authentic — opting out on ironic distance, where the laugh is always at somebody else's expense, they dare to lay themselves bare. The results are works that stand up for themselves and on their own two feet, not needing the crutch of an accompanying theoretical manual.

And that is where Badass comes in: according to the Urban Dictionary, "the badass carves his own path. He wears, drives, drinks, watches, and listens to what he chooses, when he chooses, where he chooses, uninfluenced by fads or advertising campaigns. He feels no obligation whatsoever to justify his beliefs, values, convictions, morals et cetera with anyone. He likes his music because it sounds cool to him. Badass style is understated, but instantly recognizable."  Silently appropriating an epithet unjustifiably associated with the male gender, Lorenzen, Låker, Bang and Bowles are true badasses, producing the kind of work that .NO wants to show: "awesome to an extreme level" (Urban Dictionary again)  — art that kicks ass!                 

.NO gallery is located at 251 East Houston Street, between Norfolk and Suffolk St.
The closest subway stop Second Avenue – Lower East Side on the F-train.
Gallery hours are Tuesdays to Fridays 12 – 6pm; Saturday and Sundays  1 –6 pm.
Press viewings can be arranged prior to the exhibitions. For more information or to arrange
a viewing, please contact the gallery director at (646) 389-8229 or mail@no-in-nyc.org

¬ Against the Wall  by Ellen Bang

Dessert & Disorders Video Installations and Stills by Erica Schreiner

June 2 - July 2, 2011    

Press Preview: May 31, 2011 12-5PM

Opening Reception: June 2, 2011 6-8PM                                                                                                  

New York, New York, April 18, 2011 – The Bill Hodges Gallery is delighted to announce Dessert & Disorders, artist Erica Schreiner’s first solo exhibition. In a dark humor vein, Dessert & Disorders links together the ideas of the final course of a meal and human obsessive-compulsive disorders. Murky impulses and mental dysfunctions are presented or “served” as a treat, through a combination of video and stills. The show features Schreiner’s most recent work and will run from June 2 to July 2, 2011, with an opening reception on Thursday, June 2 from 6 to 8 PM, and a press preview May 31, from 12 to 5 PM.

Schreiner’s exploration of problematic states of mind is conveyed through self-representations consisting of obsessive repetition of the same actions. Self-representation and prominent use of the body have been key elements for feminist interpretations of works of art by female artists, such as Ana Mendieta and Cindy Sherman. Nonetheless, Schreiner’s work significantly differs from Mendieta’s and Sherman’s. Compared to Mendieta, Schreiner does not disguise the body in natural environments in order to signify a return to Mother Nature; instead, she emphasizes and dramatizes the presence of the body through the use of sensuality. And unlike Sherman, Schreiner’s use of self-representation does not involve playing stereotypical female roles in front of the camera; self-representation is, for Schreiner, instrumental to portraying mental states that affect behavior and the body, regardless of gender. Her video portrayals are often accompanied with flowers, glitter and food-smashing gestures in what seems to simultaneously be an attempt to establish an imaginary world filled with magic, and an effort to destroy it. Her preoccupation with the theme of an existence, spoiled by illness, reflects Schreiner’s concern with the idea of vulnerability, an interest that also appears in her previous work. In her portrayals of emotionally and psychologically wounded minds, food and flower crushing and/or glitter and flower embellishments are indicative of a pursued desire to gain control and break the confinement of the mind. Somewhat playfully embedded in the short videos’ narration, those actions reveal an aggressive and more confrontational predisposition in facing human fragility.

In performing acts such as smashing, smearing, eating and glittering, Schreiner brings emphasis on the body as medium. Bodily gestures become, in Schreiner’s videos, compulsive actions that paradoxically signify empowerment through their morbid and comical repetition, as if saying the same thing multiple times makes it more effective. Furthermore, the body assumes a preeminent role in demonstrating the link between the mind and the body itself, becoming the canvas through which the artist expresses herself.

Erica Schreiner has presented her work extensively throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to video, Schreiner works in the mediums of writing and performance. Her first collection of short stories, Hellos and Goodbyes was published in 2009. Recent exhibitions, screenings and installations include: premiere of Sauce, Thistle, Anne, and Dance (2010), Downtown Independent, Los Angeles (2011); screening of Sunbeam, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York (2010); video-installation of Paper Cup, Ohio and Lover, Bill Hodges Gallery (2010). To view excerpts from Schreiner’s videos, please visit http://www.youtube.com/analogcinema.

The Bill Hodges Gallery is located on the 6^th floor of 24 West 57^th Street between 5^th and 6^th Avenue. Our closest subways include the F train’s 57^th street station, the E/V train’s 53^rd street/5^th ave. station, and the N/R/Q/W train’s 57^th street/7^th ave. station. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday 10am – 6pm and Saturday 12:30pm – 5:30pm. Press viewings can be arranged prior to the exhibition. For more information, or to arrange a viewing, please call Bill Hodges at 212-333-2640.

John Payne photographer Exhibit New York

John Payne

A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LIFE AN INVITATION! Join us on Saturday, April 30th – 5:00 to 8:00pm INNOVATIVE ARTS is hosting a reception to honor John Payne’s productive career as a photographer, documentary filmmaker, theatrical producer and director, and observer of the human experience. We pay tribute to this photographer’s life and his unique body of work. INNOVATIVE ARTS 1 S. Division St., Gallery 1 Peekskill NY 10566 Stephen Spiegel, Development Director for more informaion: 914-930-1474 innovativearts@me.com www.Innovative-Arts.com