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David Brody, Karen Gover, and Ara Merjian join David Cohen to discuss Nan Goldin at Matthew Marks, Jim Lambie at Anton Kern, Suzanne McClelland at Sue Scott, an
January 19, 2012
David Brody, Karen Gover, and Ara Merjian join David Cohen to discuss Nan Goldin at Matthew Marks, Jim Lambie at Anton Kern, Suzanne McClelland at Sue Scott, and Katia Santibañez at Morgan Lehman.
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Andrew Schoultz's New Mural in Miami's Wynwood District | Presented by The Fountainhead Residency and Primary Flight
December 1, 2011
Primary Flight is Miami's original open air museum and street level mural installation that takes place annually throughout the Wynwood Arts District and the Miami Design District. Primary Flight is arguably the world’s largest event of its kind, having featured over 250 world class artists from around the globe since its inception, the majority of whom travel to Miami during Art Basel. Artists from all walks of contemporary art headline our annual event, collaborating on high profile walls throughout Miami’s urban landscape. Maps outlining the installation are circulated, providing patrons with an opportunity to view the works in progress.
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artcritical.com Previews Art Basel Miami Week
With Mention MLG Artist SHARON LOUDEN
November 28, 2011
Checkbooks on the Ready: Art Basel Miami 2011 by THE EDITORS
Art has found its place in the sun. This week sees the tenth edition of Art Basel Miami, previewing Wednesday, with a host of other fairs and art events also taking over the Art Deco Miami Beach neighborhood, the Design District, Wynwood and Downtown Miami. artcritical will be covering the fairs day by day with highlights and personal reports from our regular correspondents and guests.
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Paul Villinski 'Passage' fits scale of Blanton's Atrium
Austin 360
November 26, 2011
The Blanton Museum of Art's soaring two-story Rapoport Atrium has vexed since the University of Texas museum opened its new building in 2006.
With 50-foot ceilings crowned by saw-toothed skylights, the atrium makes for a dramatic locale for parties and special fundraising events. And, of course, that's the reasoning behind the inclusion of such over-scaled spaces in modern museums.
But what's prime space for parties isn't necessarily prime space for the display of art. The atrium's unfiltered natural light limits what can be on view. Ditto with the enormous scale; its massiveness dwarfs even the larger artworks the Blanton has tried out in temporary installations.
Working with Blanton Museum curators, Austin philanthropists and art collectors Jeanne and Micheal Klein in 2009 commissioned noted New York-based artist Teresita Fernandez to create "Stacked Waters," a shimmering site-specific installation that wraps the atrium's first-floor walls in watery blue tiles that graduate in color from deep azure to white as they rise up.
Fernandez's piece proved the first step in solving the atrium conundrum. Now, Paul Villinski's "Passage" takes flight above "Stacked Waters," offering another transformative aesthetic reprieve.
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Alix Smith: Being American
SVA: Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor November 22 - December 21, 2011 Reception: Thursday, December 1, 6-8pm
November 22, 2011
The latest U.S. Census shows a nation that not only eludes any singular definition but is defined by its pluralities. “Being American” is an exhibition that explores the poles of experience in American society today and the many inherent tensions and contradictions contained within. Spanning mainstream media headlines and personal stories, “Being American” includes a heterogeneous mix of photography, illustration, animation, painting and video works which actively comment upon the social environment from which they arise. Participating artists include: Steve Brodner, Edward Burtynsky, Jessica Craig-Martin, Alfredo Jaar and Martha Rosler, among many others.
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Katia Santibañez: The Review Panel
November 18, 2011
Katia Santibañez: Journey of a Solitary Painter has been selected for this month's Review Panel presented by the National Academy Museum in partnership with artcritical.com.
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Weisman Art Museum
Sympathies: Sharon Louden and Eun-Kyung Suh
October 2, 2011
October 2, 2011 - May 20, 2012
Opening reception: Sunday, October 2, 2011, 1-6pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 6-8pm
This solo exhibition for the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis opens to the public on October 2nd, 2011, the same day as the Museum reopening, with new additions by Frank Gehry.
Sharon's new installation, "Merge", includes over 225,000 pieces of aluminum strips and takes over an approximately 5,000 square foot space with 21 foot ceilings. In celebrating the reopening of the museum and the new additions, Sharon's installation is designed to be in dialogue with Frank Gehry and his work for the Museum.
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WNYC The Gallerina Guide to the Fall Chelsea Openings
Selects Vernacular Snapshots by Unknown Photographers as a FALL MUST SEE
September 13, 2011
There are 300+ galleries holding openings in Chelsea this season. WNYC has mapped out which ones we think have the most potential to offer something intriguing — be it art or people-watching.
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Images in Dialogue PAUL KLEE AND ANDREW SCHOULTZ
August 13, 2011 - January 08, 2012
August 13, 2011
Creating a visual dialogue across a century, drawings by contemporary Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz respond to the inventive works of Swiss-born Modernist Paul Klee, which are featured on an ongoing basis in SFMOMA's Djerassi Gallery.
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Grand Arts Presents: John Salvest NEW CORNUCOPIA AND THE BIG IOU
September 2 – October 16, 2011
August 12, 2011
Grand Arts is pleased to announce the upcoming installation of sculptor John Salvest’s IOU/USA, a major public artwork to be sited in Memorial Hill/Penn Valley Park.
IOU/USA will transform the ubiquitous material of cargo shipping containers into a giant, temporary public sculpture. One hundred and five containers will be stacked seven high to create a massive wall with embedded text on both sides. The containers will spell out “I O U” on one side and “U S A” on the other.
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Screening of Sharon Louden's animation 'The Bridge' at The James New York
Dates TBA
August 8, 2011
The Moving Image Art Fair has partnered with The James New York to offer artistic summer programming that will feature a screening of the animation The Bridge by artist Sharon Louden. The program features a selection of short contemporary video work, from the best of up-and-coming international artists.
Andrea Inselmann, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, NY, wrote about Louden’s animation The Bridge, “Stemming from her training in landscape and figurative painting, Louden’s shapes and lines in mostly primary colors or hues of gray seem to act out some kind of narrative in The Bridge. Geometric forms resembling sheets of paper flutter in virtual landscape tinged in shades of blue and orange, simulating a beautiful desert sunrise. While in her digital works Louden misses the tangibility and tactility that are such critical elements in the artist’s sculptural environments, her animations invite a different kind of interaction between image and viewer....”
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The James New York is located in Soho on the southwest corner of Thompson and Grand Street at 27 Grand Street, New York, NY.
Andrew Schoultz
Featured Artist on GLASSCHORD Arts & Culture Magazine
July 20, 2011
Sourcing inspiration from 15th Century German map making and Indian miniature paintings, Andrew Schoultz’s frenetic imagery depicts an ephemeral history bound to repeat itself. In his mixed-media works, notions of war, spirituality and sociopolitical imperialism are reoccurring themes, which shrewdly parallel an equally repetitive contemporary pursuit of accumulation and power. Intricate line work, painting, metal leaf and collage twist and undulate under Schoultz’s meticulous hand, ranging from intimately sized wall works to staggering murals and installations. While his illustrated world seems one of chaos and frenzy, Schoultz also implies a sense of alluring fantasy and whimsy – a crossroads vaguely familiar to the modern world. The artist is also featured in the two-person exhibition, “Images in Dialogue: Paul Klee and Andrew Schoultz” opening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on August 13, 2011.
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Kysa Johnson
The Dublin Contemporary 2011
June 28, 2011
Exhibition
Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance
The title and theme of Dublin Contemporary 2011 is Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance. Taken from William Butler Yeats’ famous poem “Easter, 1916”, the exhibition’s title borrows from the Irish writer’s seminal response to turn-of-the-century political events to site art’s underused potential for commenting symbolically on the world’s societal, cultural and economic triumphs and ills. The second part of the exhibition’s title underscores Dublin Contemporary 2011’s emphasis on art that captures the spirit of the present time, while introducing the exhibition’s chief organizational engine: The Office of Non-Compliance. Headed up by Dublin Contemporary 2011 lead curators Jota Castro (artist/curator) and Christian Viveros-Fauné (critic/curator), The Office of Non-Compliance will function as a collaborative agency within Dublin Contemporary 2011, establishing creative solutions for real or symbolic problems that stretch the bounds of conventional art experience.
Physically sited within the grounds of the larger exhibition, The Office of Non-Compliance will function as a promoter of ideas around a laundry list of non-conformist art proposals and, when inhabited by given artistic projects, as a work of art itself. The Office of Non-Compliance posits the obvious fact that not only has the world changed in the last few decades, the idea of change itself has changed utterly. An exhibition that looks to highlight less conventional, largely artist-led models of art discourse, production and presentation, Dublin Contemporary 2011 will find in The Office of Non-Compliance an active thresher for novel, underrepresented and even untested ideas around contemporary art and its myriad possibilities.
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John Salvest, Andrew Schoultz and Ryan Wallace at the Islip Art Museum.
Flag Day: Curated by Janet Goleas June 15 - September 4
June 17, 2011
Flag Day examines the way in which information, belief systems, politics and identity are communicated through pennants, banners and flags as well as things that wave, fly or hang like a flag, that relate to nationalism, pride of place/gender/race/ideology or that celebrate events, mark a place or time, celebrate a triumph or mourn the loss of a loved one.
An object that is designated as a flag -- whether national, personal or ornamental -- is purposeful and symbolic. Like painting, flags are rooted in the distinct conveyance of an idea. Since Betsy Ross stitched those first 13 stars into a circle, there have been over 27 iterations of the American flag, each one signifying a precise adjustment in meaning.
From the patriotism of Childe Hassam to appropriation as in Jasper Johns' Flag and David Hammons' African American Flag to the fierce protests against Dread Scott for his 1989 installation at the Chicago Institute of Art; the flag -- graphic, plastic and ripe with content - continues to be a provocative artist's muse.
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Summer Group Shows
June 16, 2011
Andrew Schoultz, Paul Wackers and Eric Beltz in Domestic Goods: Curated by Ryan Wallace at Eric Fire Stone Gallery
May 28 - June 26
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Ryan Wallace is included in 2 group exhibitions.
Zieher Smith's group exhibition organized by Patrick Brennan
June 16 - July 22
Rachel Uffner's group show 'Summer Whites'
June 24 - 29
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Katia Santibañez
OSEZ! (DARE!) An exhibition of erotic photography
With; C'est Elle, Frantisek Drtikol, Ariane Lopez-Huici, Mackenzie Parker, Sebastien Ricciardi, Katia Santibañez, James Siena, Roy Stuart, Kunie Sugiura
Featured Artist: Ryan Wallace
by Howard Hurst on June 5, 2011
June 5, 2011
Ryan Wallace is a painter and mixed media artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. His body of work spans a range of influences, re-purposing a variety of art historical and popular references into a fluid vocabulary of rough, playful abstraction. His paintings vary in size and medium but are united by their alternating notions of fragmentation and unity and by a moody, often diffuse tone. His compositions reflect the payload of modernism viewed through the dust covered lens of a gritty, sun bleached kaleidoscope. His interest in the way information is presented, transmitted and stored results in a sensibility that is equal parts science, mysticism and high fives. I had a chance to stop by the artists Greenpoint studio recently to talk with the artist.
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Kysa Johnson
The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Wall Works Jun 11, 2011 - Apr 29, 2012
June 1, 2011
In Wall Works, six artists were invited to create site-specific wall installations in response to the Museum’s collection of modern and contemporary American art. In preparation for the exhibition, artists Kysa Johnson, Natalie Lanese, Caleb Neelon, Alison Owen, Justin Richel, and Mary Temple trolled the Museum’s database of 3,500 objects and selected an artwork to serve as a source of inspiration for their proposed “wall work.” The artists identified artworks that resonated with their varied interests and aesthetics and have consequently assembled an eclectic assortment of objects from deCordova’s collection. Sited both in the gallery and the Museum’s Café, these new installations reflect each artist’s own practice while creatively engaging the Permanent Collection as an educational, historical, and inspirational entity.
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Unrest: Andrew Schoultz at Morgan Lehman
by Howard Hurst on May 31, 2011
May 31, 2011
To be honest, I haven’t found myself spending very much time in Chelsea as of late. For one reason or another I find myself chasing the promise of art in the Lower East Side along Orchard Street, or running through the galleries scattered across Williamsburg. This said, I was happily surprised when I walked into Andrew Schoultz’s opening last week at Morgan Lehman gallery. The gallery features primarily young, emerging artists and the exhibition felt all the more vibrant considering its 23rd street environs.
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Paul Villinski
Flora and Fauna, MAD about Nature May 24 - November 6, 2011
May 24, 2011
Flora Fauna Art Design is a stroll through the natural world, as seen through the eyes of artists working in glass, ceramics, metal, fiber, and wood. From insects and birds to trees and flowers, this exhibition is a lively and engaging look at Mother Nature at her best. In addition to works from the permanent collection, promised gifts and loans will be included. Artists presented in the exhibition include: Lino Tagliapietra, Paul Stankard, Ted Muehling, Eddie Dominguez, Carol Eckert, and Pedro Friedeberg.
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LET US MAKE CAKE
A program of full scale projections on the façade of the New Museum
May 7, 2011
On May 7th, from 8pm - midnight, a short time-lapse video of me (5 storeys tall!) creating a new site specific cut paper installation "inside" the New Museum building will be projected on its entire 174' façade. Hopefully frightened citizens will not run down the Bowery with torches, calling for my destruction...
Filmed inside of an 11' high scale model of the museum over 8 hours, the final 30 second video will show a dramatic weather system that gradually fills the museum, swirling inside of its walls, dematerializing the interior of the building.
The video is part of Let Us Make Cake, a collaborative projection directed by Nuit Blanche New York and Light Harvest Studios. Let Us Make Cake is part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City, which runs from May 4th - 8th.
Participants range from established artists such as Vito Acconci, Jon Kessler and Marilyn Minter, to emerging artists such as SOFTlab, Chris Jordan, Mia Pearlman, Dustin Yellin and Brooklyn-based street artists. The 20 minute program of projections will loop from 8pm - 12am.
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Paul Villinski at New Museum's 'Festival of Ideas for the New City'
May 4-8 2011
April 1, 2011
Save Saturday, May 7 for the “innovative, minimal-waste” outdoor StreetFest, which will take place along the Bowery. “This is not a street fair for tube socks and sandwiches,” said Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Potery Club. Expect local organizations presenting their wares, urban farmers offering cooking demos beneath innovative tented modules, exciting eats, and “outdoor living rooms.” Finally, the entire weekend will be a showcase for approximately 100 independent projects, exhibitions, and performances all over downtown. A few that caught our eye: the Art Production Fund, in partnership with Sotheby’s, will brighten up the dingy rolling gates of local businesses with murals by the likes of Glenn Ligon and Lawrence Weiner, artist Paul Villinski will welcome visitors to his Gulfstream trailer-turned-solar-powered mobile art studio, and Mott Street’s Church of the Transfiguration will host an all-night Pecha Kucha with a creative urban theme. Holman summed it up nicely: “It sounds like a party to me.”
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David Carrier, Eva Diaz and Marjorie Welish Join David Cohen To Discuss JAQ CHARTIER: SLOW COLOR
THE REVIEW PANEL An Evening Of Critical Conversation About Art
April 1, 2011
The critics will consider recent work by veteran Fluxus artist Alison Knowles at Lower East Side gallery James Fuentes, LLC; two Chelsea gallery shows, Jaq Chartier at Morgan Lehman and Iván Navarro at Paul Kasmin; and Rirkrit Tiravanija's Fear Eats The Soul, at Gavin Brown's enterprise, an exhibition that incorporates a soup kitchen in keeping with the Thai artist's "relational aesthetics"and his longstanding involvement with literally feeding his audience.
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Jaq Chartier: Slow Color
Best In Show In The Village Voice: By RC Baker
March 31, 2011
Like a scientist growing cultures in a lab, Jaq Chartier methodically arranges her inks, stains, and dyes to interact with layers of white paint and acrylic resin on immaculately prepared wood panels. The saturated pigments bleed and seep in unexpected ways, creating a matrix that at times resembles a DNA chart. In some pieces, the technical components of her startlingly lovely compositions are carefully noted in pencil, directly on the white ground.
Her precise patterns are infused with a fluorescence that is neither science nor nature: Patches of color may fade out as they approach the edge of a panel, or a more diffuse grouping might alternate with sharply contoured hues. These compelling juxtapositions result from truly obsessive artistry. (So obsessive, in fact, that if the surfaces are not perfectly smooth or if the colors become muddy, Chartier takes the rejected panels to a dump and watches while the bulldozer's treads crush them, an exercise just crying out for a performance video.)
Like most painters, Chartier was trained to use predictable, steadfast materials, but years of experimentation have allowed her capricious elements to evolve into gorgeous mutations. Morgan Lehman, 535 W 22nd St, 212-268-6699, morganlehmangallery.com. Through April 2
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The New York Observer
On Display: Maya Bloch at Thierry Goldberg Projects; Jaq Chartier at Morgan Lehman
March 9, 2011
To make Large Spectrum Chart, which is both the highlight of "Slow Color" at Morgan Lehman and an important reference for its other pieces, Jaq Chartier began with a 40-foot-by-50-foot gessoed white panel. Using an eyedropper, she laid out 19 long rows of small vertical lines in a variety of stains. She covered the stains with spray-painted, horizontal bars in several shades of white. And then she laid over this deceptive whiteness a varnish whose interaction with the paint caused the stains to come blooming through.
The final effect is similar to the gel electrophoresis images used to analyze DNA. The resemblance is intentional: Ms. Chartier's pictures, too, are full of information. She began using stains this way to test their archival stability, and the sides of Large Spectrum Chart are covered with handwritten notes about which colors are which and what they're doing. But unlike with images of DNA, the beauty here is also intentional, and the gathering of information, at least as far as we're concerned, is only a means to an end.
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Dave Allee Feature in The New York Photo Review
February 15, 2011
In this new series Allee has emerged into the daylight, but again is pressing his camera to record images that are not readily seen by the naked eye. This time he is directly facing the bane of daytime landscape photographers, glare. But instead of adding on the polarizing filters in an attempt to blunt the bright spots, he has gone the other direction and exposed for the rays bouncing into his lens. The resulting photos have a few bright spots and lines, but most of the scene is in a murky, total eclipse of the sun, darkness.
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The Morning News: Gregg Murr drawing paired with a short fiction story
During a visit to Peter Gabriel’s recording studios, GILES TURNBULL and his borrowed companion Ella discuss the gap between prog and pop while learning about Br
February 2, 2011
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Palm Springs Art Museum Acquires Andrew Schoultz's, Monument to a Whirlwind
January 29, 2011
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David S. Allee: Village Voice Review
BLACK HOLE SUN The city unlike you’ve seen it before By Araceli Cruz
January 25, 2011
Photographer David S. Allee knows how to capture urban landscape at its finest probably because he has an eye for design—the photographer first began his career as an urban and environmental planner. For his latest exhibition, Dark Days, Allee reflects on New York and its scenery by photographing it in the daylight using tiny apertures and the highest shutter speeds possible, unlike his previous photographs in which he took pictures at night using intense artificial lighting. So at first glance, we might assume his images of the J train, the Trump International Hotel and Tower, and Goldman Sachs headquarters were taken at night, but in reality, Allee captures the texture of the sun’s brightest reflections, showing New York in a whole new light.
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DAVID S. ALLEE: Dark Day
New York Magazine's Top ART Pick for Chelsea galleries!
January 12, 2011
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Allee's start and hypnotic photographic series Dark Day enables us to explore a side of our city-including the J train, the Trump International Hotel, and the headquarters of Goldman Sachs - that we wouldn't normall be able to see.
Process, exposed: In much of Allee's earlier work, he photographed locations at night using strong artificial lighting and extremely long exposures, catching landscapes in a time suspended between night and day. He went with the opposite approach for Dark Day, shooting on sunny days using tiny apertures and the highest shutter speeds, with exposures reaching up to 1/10,000th of a second.
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Andrew Schoultz at SF MOMA
SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE Collection Rotation: BY Maria Naula
January 11, 2011
"The works chosen for this rotation are among my favorites in the museum’s collection. When Suzanne asked me to post my version of the Collection Rotation on Open Space, I was flattered and began by looking at image after image of a collection I have watched grow for 10 years. There were memories of favorites, reunions with works I had not seen in quite some time, and works I wonder if anyone has seen yet. I must share these, I thought. During this selection process, I also reflected on the way these works were brought into the museum’s collection — through the cultivation of the accessions committees, as bequests, as promised gifts, and as works co-owned by the museum and collectors in the community — and a history being built not only for the sake of the work and its content as art history but for the museum, its community, and its placement in the art world. However, the images were chosen not in reference to any external criteria such as date, artist, credit, but in relation and response to the image itself. They are, to me, immediate and striking in their beauty, speak a visual poetry through form and composition, share humor and delicate movement, vibrant color palettes … a telling tableau of sorts. What a thrill to reflect on our collection, and just as the museum’s 75th anniversary year comes to a close. — Maria"
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Ryan Wallace Cover Version LP
Organized by BAMart Curated by Timothy Hull Exhibition on view through Mar 20
January 10, 2011
BAM, Natman Room, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
BAMart is pleased to invite you to the opening of Cover Version (LP), an exhibition in which diverse artists reimagine the cover art of albums they find influential. These unique reinterpretations of the iconic LP bring new life to the art that covers vinyl, highlighting the intersections of art and music.
Featured Artists: Glen Baldridge, Kadar Brock, Colby Bird, Jessica Cannon, Mathew Cerletty, Devon Costello, Justin Craun, TM Davy, Langdon Graves, Joseph Hart, Elizabeth Huey, Scott Hug, Butt Johnson, Faten Kanaan, Denise Kupferschmidt, Josh Kline, Erica Magrey, Michael Mahalchick, Eddie Martinez, Dave McDermott, Keegan McHargue, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Nolan Simon, Colin Snapp, Jennifer Sullivan, Nick Van Woert, Ryan Wallace and Will Yackulic
Leadership Support for BAMart provided by Agnes Gund
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Poesis design team selected works by DAVID S. ALLEE and ALIX SMITH for their WEEDS Showtime penthouse in Midtown Manhattan.
December 14, 2010
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Kysa Johnson: The NY Times Review of Katonah Museum of Art's, "Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art.”
By SYLVIANE GOLD Published: December 3, 2010
December 7, 2010
"Kysa Johnson tracks the travel paths of subatomic particles in swirling colored lines — there’s no Lonely Planet accompanying her map, either."
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Tammy Kane, CEO of Christopher Kane, selected a Kysa Johnson painting as one of her most desirable gifts for the Holiday Season on Style.com!
November 29, 2010
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Emily Fisher Landau Gives Major Gift to the Whitney Museum
November 23, 2010
Included in the many works pledged are two large scale paintings by James Meyer.
An exhibition with an accompanying catalogue is planned for early 2011.
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Portrait Play: Atelier with Frohawk Two Feathers
November 10, 2010
At our second Atelier of the season on October 21st, we were graced with the charismatic presence of LA-based artist Frohawk Two-Feathers, whose work is currently featured in the exhibition Stranger Than Fiction. Guests donned pseudo-historical costumes and posed with an array of fun props for photo portraits taken by the artist—inspired by the photographs he takes of his friends that serve as studies for his drawings.
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Featured Artist: Eric BeltzSanta Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
November 5, 2010
American, born 1975; Lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA.
Laced with sharp humor, Eric Beltz’s graphite drawings explore the origin of symbols and myths with hypnotic precision. Working only with a pencil and paper, Beltz finds color to be a distraction in his work—a preference mirrored in the white, gray, and black Miniature Schnauzers that keep him company in the studio and at home. He currently teaches drawing and painting at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In his series “American Visions,” Beltz recasts stories and characters from colonial American history, like George Washington and his fabled cherry tree, in a grayscale revelation. These drawings includes quotes from the Old Testament, Revolutionary-era texts, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Medieval herbals among other sources, with narrative imagery to render historical facts as founding myths.
Beltz’s meticulously composed drawings, Drunk Jesus Calendar (2010) and How to Identify Flowering Plant Families (2010) are currently on view in Stranger Than Fiction. Both works are part of the artist’s latest series, “Trance Farm,” which explores religion and spirituality through the natural world as well as altered states of consciousness.
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Boston Globe reviews Jeff Perrott
October 27, 2010
A favorable review for Jeff Perrott in the Boston Globe, with a great mention of Nothing Doing, the major work featured in the Morgan Lehman exhibition!
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MFA Boston acquires work by Jeff Perrott
October 24, 2010
We are thrilled to announce that the Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, has acquired two works by Jeff Perrott for their permanent collection. One work is from the current Random Walk series, and one if from the early '90's, showing their committment to Jeff's work over the course of his career.
Congratulations Jeff!
Paul Villinski:
Gossip Girl Butterfly Installation
September 27, 2010
Villinski recently created a large butterfly installation for the hit Warner Brothers TV show “Gossip Girl”, which will be featured throughout the upcoming Season 4. The piece, comprised of more than 200 smoke-black butterflies, is installed over the bed in lead character Serena’s (played by Blake Lively) room. The set will be “revealed” during the broadcast Monday, Sept 27, 2010.
Laura Ball's Watercolors at US Embassy-Stockholm
August 3, 2010
Stockholm: Transparency and Trans-formations in Contemporary American Art
Exhibition of Contemporary Works by American Artists to be Exhibited at Residence of U.S. Ambassador to Sweden
Transparency and Trans-formations in Contemporary American Art, an exhibition of 23 works by 20 American artists — including Kiki Smith, Spencer Finch, Claes Oldenburg, Mark Bradford, Laura Ball, and Jennifer Steinkamp — will be on view at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Sweden from April 16, 2010, through June 2012. Reflecting America’s increased emphasis on transparency and international engagement, the exhibition offers a view of the rapid shifts occurring today in culture, society, technology, and science.
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In the Studio: Paul Villinsk
Presented by the Museum of Art and Design
July 27, 2010
MAD artist Paul Villinski speaks about his background, and about his creative process.
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City Arts Review of Default State Network By Julia Morton
July 6, 2010
"What is consciousness? Religion, philosophy, even science can't give us an exact definition. Yet this is the questions posed by curator Ryan Wallace in his group show, Default State Network, now on view at theMorgan Lehman Gallery.
Wallace chose work from 12 artists (including himself) that offer a visual interpretation of consciousness. Drawing inspiration from science, spirituality and philosophy, the pieces range from coffin photos by Glen Baldridge to Alex Dodge's sculpted self-portrait as an android, from geometric symbols by Elise Ferguson to Hilary Pecis' status symbols.
.... In his search for consciousness, Wallace acts as that curator/director, and this show highlights what can be accomplished when one consciously uses collecting as a medium and a tool for self-discovery."
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John Salvest: Consumo Ergo Sum
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art June 12 - Sept 12, 2010
June 12, 2010
Consumo Ergo Sum, 2005, Miscellaneous Plastic Container Lids
Courtesy of the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery
Curated by Marina Pacini, Chief Curator
John Salvest has long made artworks out of used objects such as coffeefilters, cigarette butts, nail clippings, and chewed bubble gum. In his installation, he has amassed hundreds of plastic bottle caps to make acolorful map of the United States that is both a visual pleasure andalso a reminder of the downside of our consumer society.
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Judith Belzer reviewed in New City Art
Judith Belzer at Valerie Carberry Gallery New City Art, May 17, 2010
May 17, 2010
"... Judith Belzer also conducts her inquiry, using paint and other graphic materials, into the order of things—how natural processes create patterns that, once exposed, speak of the underlying and connective structures of life."
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Emilie Clark on panel at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Art and Scientific Correspondence: Methods, Metaphors, Missives
May 7, 2010
On Sunday May 16th at 3:30 p.m. Brooklyn Botanic Garden's inaugural artist-in-residence program presents a panel exploring the intersection of contemporary art and the history of natural science.
Panelists:
Sina Najafi as moderator, Editor-in-chief of Cabinet magazine and Editorial Director of Cabinet Books
Alexis Rockman, Artist
Barbara Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Delaware
Emilie Clark, Artist
Alix Smith "States of Union" on In the Life
May 4, 2010
IN THE LIFE talks to hate crime victims and perpetrators about The Nature of Hate. Followed by a visit with artist Alix Smith, who is traveling the country photographing hundreds of same-sex couples, challenging stereotypes and taking conventional portraiture to a new level.
Aired on PBS April 2010
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Emilie Clark on PBS
Emilie Clark at Brooklyn Botanic Garden featured on PBS Sunday Arts News
April 28, 2010
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Emilie Clark at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Emilie Clark: My Garden Pets Brooklyn Botanic Garden Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery March 6- May 31, 2010 Opening Reception: Sunday March 14, 1-3pm
April 19, 2010
Artist Emilie Clark’s exhibition at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was inspired by the 19th-century natural scientist Mary Treat, an expert on carnivorous plants and the relationships between insects and plants. Based on the artist’s research on Treat in BBG's Rare Book Room and her observations in the Garden, this conceptually based installation includes paintings, works on paper, archival letters, and plant samples, as well as a mapping of Treat’s correspondence with such luminaries as Charles Darwin and Asa Gray, who admired and cited her work.
Art and Scientific Correspondence: Methods, Metaphors, Missives: a panel discussion with artists Emilie Clark and Alexis Rockman and professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Delaware Barbara Gates, moderated by Sina Najifi, editor of Cabinet Magazine.
Sunday, May 16, at 3:30 p.m. | Free with admission
Emilie Clark is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery, in New York, where she exhibited Maxwell’s Lair in fall 2009.
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Ryan Wallace 'Glean' reviewed in the Village Voice
Ryan Wallace: 'Glean' By Robert Shuster February 23, 2010
February 24, 2010
"If the scientists at CERN want to ease the crackpot fears of their Large Hadron Collider destroying the universe, they should hire Ryan Wallace to design the group's promotional material. Inspired by the search for the Higgs Boson—the so-called God particle—Wallace based the show's works of paint and collaged material on graphs of high-energy collisions. But in Quest (Higgs Boson) 1, Glean 1, and the series A Brief History of Demise, the jittery progressions of vertically parallel lines—strips of paper and cellophane painted shades of blue and white—seem less representative of hard-core quantum mechanics than they do of simple bliss. Shredding the canvas here and there, Wallace even goes a little manic. The exquisite textures, sometimes sprinkled with opalescent powder or blurred with an overlaid sheet of Mylar, may remind some of Mark Tobey's mysticism. This is decidedly physics for poets—and painters."
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Katia Santibanez in the Village Voice
'The Visible Vagina' at Francis M. Naumann and David Nolan By Robert Shuster Feb 23, 2010
February 23, 2010
"The best of them tend toward abstraction, like Katia Santibanez's minimalist painting Universal Pleasure, a bifurcated, heart-shaped patch of dark brushstrokes..."
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Paul Villinski at Tower Records in Black Book
"Old Record Store, New Gallery" by John Capone
February 10, 2010
"...One of the most prominently featured works in the gallery, Paul Villinski's "Diaspora" (above) consists of birds made from vinyl records fluttering out from a turn table, and casting their shadows across a vast expanse of plain white wall. The elegiac tone of this piece is in keeping with the rest of the show. Along the walls, where record company promos once hung above racks of CDs, the artist Invader has created a series of reproductions of classic album covers, including "London Calling," "Iron Maiden" and "Nevermind," out of Rubik's Cubes (below). Like a Seurat fed through an I Love The '80s, each image falls apart upon close inspection, but comes together as you back away."
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Katia Santibanez at David Nolan, New York
February 3, 2010
Katia Santibanez included in "The Visible Vagina", group show at David Nolan
527 West 29th St, New York, NY
Through March 20, 2010
Ryan Wallace in Anthem
"Catch Up - Ryan Wallace" February 1, 2010 By Julie Gerstein
February 1, 2010
"And it's the power of these themes—and Wallace's deft ability to communicate them, to turn them from concept to canvas – that make his work so compelling. Collaged canvases feature deftly arranged strips of colored paper in a deep and beautiful vortex—some nearly faded to nothingness. Paintings present otherworldly geometric scapes and textures.
Jay Lehman, owner and curator of Morgan Lehman Gallery says that it's not just the theoretical underpinnings of Wallace's work that are so striking, but also his technical savvy. 'The work has both artists and non-artists asking—how did he make that?—the surface is so matte yet luminous. Is it encaustic? Is it resin? Collage? Paint? All of the above? How does he achieve the depth of field?'"
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Emilie Clark reviewed in Antennae
"Emilie Clark, Beth Cavener Stichter, Kate Clark: Engaging the Wild" by Fran Bartkowski Autumn 2009
January 28, 2010
Antennae
The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture
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Ryan Wallace at the Torrance Art Museum
FAX Torrance Art Museum
January 19, 2010
Curated by Joao Ribas (The Drawing Center) and Independent Curators International, NYC
January 16 – February 20, 2010
FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, as well as architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers, to conceive of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing.
Faxes by over 100 artists sent to the initial showing of FAX at The Drawing Center will form the core of the exhibition, and will include seminal examples of early telecommunications art; and each institution will invite up to twenty additional artists to submit works, which will be presented at successive venues. These works may be transmitted to each participating institution’s working fax line throughout the duration of the exhibition. The active accumulation of information—received in real time, in the exhibition space—will include drawings and texts, and even the inevitable junk faxes from telemarketers and local businesses as well. All the transmitted pages will be archived or displayed together with the active fax machine, which may produce new faxes from invited artists at any moment. The result—an ongoing cumulative project—is a show concerned with ideas of reproduction, obsolescence, distribution, and mediation. Here, reproducible yet erratic production via the fax machine displaces traditional notions of the hand‚ still commonly associated with the medium of drawing, and foreground the role of drawing as a generative process.
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Alix Smith interviewed in the Advocate
Artist Spotlight: Alix Smith
January 16, 2010
With her new project States of Union, photographer Alix Smith gives a sense of legacy and context to her portraits of gay and lesbian families by referencing classical works.
By Advocate.com Editors
Posted on Advocate.com January 16, 2010
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Paul Villinski included in No Longer Empty exhibit
Never Can Say Goodbye at the former Tower Record Store 4th street and Broadway
January 15, 2010
Spotlighting more than twenty artists working with sound, light, image and installation, Never Can Say Goodbye recreates a fantasy version of the now defunct Tower Records with Never Records complete with record bins, album covers, cash registers, music posters and a performance stage.
Interactive installations by artists and musicians celebrate the stores historic role as the locus of the community-- the old way to meet people face to face and share music and information.
Curated by Manon Slome, NLE; Steven Evans, Dia Art Foundation; Asher Remy-Toledo, NLE
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Paul Villinski in The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal Running on Empty: Artists explore abandoned spaces by Candace Jackson
January 15, 2010
"In its heyday, Tower Records in Manhattan's East Village teemed with music-loving shoppers. But in 2006, with buyers rushing to online music stores and big box retailers, the store closed. Starting this weekend, the place will fill up again—this time with performances, panel discussions and conceptual art installations, some lamenting the demise of music stores.
The project, called "Never Can Say Goodbye," is from No Longer Empty, a New York nonprofit that places public art projects in vacant retail spaces. (The group's first such exhibit was at an empty fishing-tackle store.) ..."
"...Opening night of the New York exhibition will include an appearance by a Vanilla Ice impersonator. Also participating is Paul Villinski, who says he used to spend Saturday nights in the store picking out $7 New Wave albums. His work is made from his own record collection, sculpted to look like birds."
Andrew Schoultz in Dave Hickey Playboy article
Andrew Schoultz featured in Playboy January/February 2010
January 12, 2010
"The New Modern Art", by Dave Hickey
"There have been street artists as long as there have been streets. Traditionally they haven't had much choice. Playboy presents six artists, from Nara to Banksy, who take it outside"
Andrew Schoultz solo show in Milan, Italy
January 8, 2010
Solo Exhibition, curated by Glenn Helfand, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Italy
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