Public program at BRIC Rotunda Gallery

BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn Presents
An Evening with Stephen Rosenberg
at BRIC Rotunda Gallery

Art dealer and NYU professor Stephen Rosenberg leads a discussion for young visual artists on today’s art market

 

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Brooklyn, NY – BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn is pleased to present An Evening with Stephen Rosenberg, a discussion for young visual artists with art dealer and NYU professor Stephen Rosenberg at BRIC Rotunda Gallery. How does an artist approach a gallery with their work, and what are galleries looking for? How should you price your art? What is the best way to approach dealers? How have art fairs changed the global art market? Bring your questions and get answers from a leading art professional at this special program on Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 7- 9pm at BRIC Rotunda Gallery. 

This talk on professional development in the arts is held in conjunction with the Lori Ledis Emerging Curator exhibition, A Strange Alchemy, curated by winter 2011 Curatorial Fellowship recipient Persis Singh. BRIC programs aim to present free events to enrich the cultural landscape of Brooklyn and enhance the public’s access to and understanding of contemporary art. 

33 Clinton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-683-5604

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Upcoming Exhibitions February 2 – 27, 2011

HI everyone !

Three amazing exhibitions are opening 

next Thursday 

at A.I.R, from 6 - 8:30 pm

111 Front Street . #228 Brooklyn . NY 11201

Gallery I
Elisabeth Munro Smith, Going from Here to There: New Work about Landscape

Smith’s recent work continues her exploration of the patterns of landscape seen from above.  The pieces stem, in part, from her own aerial-view photographs, five of which are included in the exhibition. The photographs, in stark black and white, reveal both the linear markings of surface elements (roads, rivers, houses, plow-lines) and puzzling subterranean features that suggest overlays of archeological digs. Drawing from these images and ideas, Smith exhibits a series of three-dimensional constructions of wood –- both milled and found, painted and raw –- that focus primarily on the play of line against plane.

This is Elisabeth Munro Smith’s third solo show at A.I.R. Gallery.   She has exhibited outdoor sculpture at Queens College, Ward’s Island and Chesterwood, and her work has been included in many solo and group shows throughout the United States.  Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, New York Magazine, Art News and the Village Voice.

Gallery II

Megan Biddle, Emily Harris, and Beatrice Wolert, Impermanent Fixtures

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Impermanent Fixtures, an exhibition conceived and created by Megan Biddle, Emily Harris and Beatrice Wolert. Impermanent Fixtures is the 2010 Open A.I.R. call for curatorial proposals selection.

Impermanent Fixtures  highlights work by three artists who work fluently through sculpture, drawing, installation and video to create objects and images, which find potential in everyday materials and inspiration in naturally occurring phenomena. The works in Impermanent Fixtures hint at different levels of unseen performance suggesting that the forms will continue evolving, eroding, and multiplying. A small artist’s book documents and accompanies the exhibition.

Megan Biddle received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. She has exhibited nationally at venues including The (OA) Can Factory, Side Show, and The Islip Art Museum in New York; Space 1026 Philadelphia, PA, Urban Arts Space Columbus OH, Reynolds Gallery Richmond, VA; and internationally at 700IS, Iceland, and Galerie VSUP, Czech Republic.

Emily Harris is a Brooklyn-based artist and a current MFA Candidate at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She has exhibited her work in venues in New York; Ai Gallery and Bridge Art Fair, Chicago, IL; and internationally at 2B Gallery in Budapest, Hungary; Galeria Z in Bratislava, Slovakia, The Museum of Arts & Crafts Itami, Itami-shi, Japan and Galeria Ajolote Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico.

Beatrice Wolert works between drawing, sculpture and video exploring process, fleeting moments, impermanence, fragments, serendipity, synchronicity, found objects and transformation of materials. She received a BA in Design from Adelphi University, Garden City, NY and an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. She grew up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn where she continues to live and maintain her studio practice.

Fellowship Gallery 

Meghan McInnis, Spiritus: our collected breath

Meghan McInnis’ photographs are part of an ongoing project exploring the inter-connection of social and physical transition through the “Hardcore” subculture. As a woman in this hyper-masculine subculture, McInnis’ physical and emotional position is largely what informs her perspective. Photographing from the side or above the stage, rather than within the chaos, she is a spectator, able to observe the blurred line between the performance of the crowd and the performers.   

Meghan McInnis grew up in Florida, and lives and works in New York.  She received her MFA from Parsons School of Design.  Her photography has been exhibited at PhotoNOLA, featured in Photographers Forum Best of Photography 2010, Street or Studio at the Tate Modern, and in publications such as Nomenus Quarterly. For more information, visit her website at www.meghanmcinnis.com. This is her first solo show.  

 

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N.PARADOXA

n.paradoxa

International feminist art journal 

Volume 27 2011

Please check out this article !

Meredith A. Brown published an article about A.I.R Gallery,  The Balance Sheet: A.I.R. Gallery and Government Funding 

  

A.I.R. Gallery, the earliest not-for-profit cooperative gallery for women artists in the United States, opened in downtown New York City in 1972. Meredith A. Brown explores the political, programmatic and spatial aspects of the gallery and considers the impact of its aesthetic programs, artists' practices and critical reception on the histories of avant-garde and feminist art movements in the United States in the 1970s. Through comparative studies to other cooperative and commercial galleries in New York City and to other feminist art spaces across the United States, her research examines the ways, particular to A.I.R., in which feminist and other activist strategies were incorporated into the gallery's mission and programming to create an institutional space for women artists to demonstrate leadership skills in the art world, to exhibit professional and often radical work in a public setting, to discuss questions of aesthetics and politics, and to engage with issues central to the feminist movement and to avant-garde art practices.

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PANEL: Sonic Art and Activism

Exploring the ties between 

feminist art and popular music
 

At SOHO20 Chelsea, on Sunday February 13th from 1pm to 3pm
 

547 West 27th Street, Suite 301, NY, NY

The Feminist Art Project is pleased to announce the panel discussion, Sonic Art and Activism, Exploring the ties between feminist art and popular music organized by Maria Elena Buszek and Kat Griefen. This event has been organized in conjunction with the College Art Association Annual Conference and is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.

How many members of the feminist art community know about the music criticism of artists like Lorraine O'Grady and Mary Harron? Or journalist and Redstockings co-founder Ellen Willis? Or the art criticism of musician Kim Gordon? All of whom were writing in the era of Lydia Lunch, Cosey Fanni Tutti, DISBAND, and Linder-just to name a few renowned women directly tapped into the alternative music and art scenes of feminism's second wave. And many of today's most compelling contemporary feminist figures-from Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna to the LTTR collective to the electro-shock-rocker Peaches-have deep, seamless ties to both the art and music worlds. This panel proposes to speak to the histories and connections between contemporary feminist art and popular music, and the utility of the joyful, critical, and insistently embodied approach to culture found in the resulting discourse.

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WCA AWARD

The Women’s Caucus for Art

The Women’s Caucus for Art is delighted to announce the 2011 recipients for the Lifetime Achievement Awards: Beverly Buchanan, Diane Burko, Ofelia Garcia, Joan Marter, Carolee Schneemann, and Sylvia Sleigh. The recipient for the 2011 President’s Art & Activism Award is Maria Torres.The Lifetime Achievements Awards celebration will be take place on Saturday, February 12, 2011 in New York City. The celebration will be held during the annual Women’s Caucus for Art and College Art Association conferences. The awards ceremony, open free of charge to the public, will take place from 6-7:30pm in the Beekman/Sutton rooms at the Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, followed by a ticketed gala from 8-10pm at the American Folk Art, Museum, 45 West 53rd Street.

The WCA ticketed gala event, LIVE SPACE, will include a walk-around gourmet dinner with three food stations, open bar, the opportunity to meet the awardees, networking and tours of the museum.

Ticket prices for LIVE SPACE are $75 for WCA members and $135 for non-members (Prices will increase after Jan 12). Prices include reserved seating at the awards presentation at the Hilton and the gala celebration at the American Folk Art Museum. For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.nationalwca.org

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Joan Snyder's show

Joan Snyder / Intimate Works
January 17 - June 5, 2011

Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series
Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University
8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Gallery Hours: M-F 9am - 4:30pm; weekends by appointment
Information: 732/ 932-3726 or http://iwa.rutgers.edu/home/

Snyder, (born in Highland Park, NJ), founded the award-winning Women Artists Series in 1971. It is the oldest continuous running exhibition space in the United States dedicated to making visible the work of emerging and established contemporary women artists. Snyder is an internationally acclaimed artist and pioneering feminist artist, who graduated from Douglass College (BA, 1962) and Rutgers in 1966 with a MFA. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award (2007) and will be inducted into Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni in May 2011.

Throughout her career Snyder has combined oil, watercolor, acrylic, pencil, glitter, fabric, bark, straw, herbs, beads, paper mache and other materials in her paintings to create uniquely fluid surfaces. Her paint is applied as thick and heavy, light and washy, or propelled onto and dripped down the canvas to create vibrant expressionistic works. Though small in size, these works are monumental in content, and represent the artist's development during the past four decades.

  

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New Prints 2011/Winter

January 13 – March 5, 2011

A.I.R. Founder Barbara Zucker is in the exhibit New Prints 2011/Winter at The International Print Center New York. International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2011/Winter, on view January 13 -March 5, 2011 in its gallery at 508 West 26th Street, Room 5A. The show consists of fifty pieces by forty-eight emerging to established artists, selected from a pool of over 1,500 submissions. A reception with the artists will be held at IPCNY on Wednesday, January 12, from 6-8 pm.

New Prints 2011/Winter is the thirty-eighth presentation of IPCNY's New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized quarterly by IPCNY, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. The Exhibition represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today while continuing IPCNY's commitment to provide an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary prints and a major source of information about artists working in the medium.

 

  

 

When an artist makes a print, he or she takes part in a time-honored legacy, the communal spirit of printmaking. New Prints 2011/ Winter Illustrates this spirit with a snapshot of anomalous and compelling print projects. It presents a medley of work combining the darkly humorous, the socially aware, the technically masterful, the bizarre, and the inventively crafted. It emphasizes the individuality and multifarious forms that naturally sprout up out the print medium.

Michelle Levy

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Deborah Wasserman

A.I.R. artist, Deborah Wasserman's work 

at The Roger Smith Hotel

Lobby Series #9: FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE 

January 31-APRIL 30 2011

Roger Smith Arts is thrilled to present Lobby Series #19: Far Away, So Close, by Deborah Wasserman, an exploration into how travel forces us to look at our relationships with time, process, narrative, language and linearity.

The show will consist of 500 hundred paintings arranged in a loose linear flow, creating a progressive swell of abstraction across the walls of the circular lobby at The Roger Smith Hotel.  When considered collectively the pieces shape a narrative, but when looked at individually that narrative breaks down into a series of pixel like units.

Wasserman merges distinct aesthetic languages into a cohesive visual proposition. These juxtapositions create a mystifying story that almost exists in the space between these paintings. She touches upon her multifaceted cultural experience as well as the binary opposition inherent in the language of travel – here and there, coming and going, arrivals and departures.

 

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Athena Film Festival

A Celebration of Women and Leadership

Film is a medium known to nearly all people in nearly every part of the world. And films have power. They create conversation. They reveal truths. They inspire.

Through feature films, documentaries, and shorts, the Festival will explore what makes a leader. Is it the ability to inspire people to fight injustice or stand up for the rights of those who are powerless? Is it about defining and preserving one’s own dignity or protecting one’s family or community? Is it about motivating others to change when necessary, to learn from failure?

The festival will examine the values women leaders share—vision, courage, resilience—and explore leadership across race, class, and culture.

The Festival will highlight the wide diversity of women’s leadership in both real life and the fictional world, illuminating the stories of women from across the globe who have made a difference in their countries and communities.  Our goal is to open a robust dialogue about women and leadership:  what it takes to excel, collaborate, lead, and inspire.

 

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The DUMBO Art Center's reopening in the new space at 111 Front Street

Join us this Saturday from 6-9PM at 111 Front Street 

for a performance by 

Ecstatic Energy Consultants, Inc. 

and the opening of ; 

 "INFORMATION ECONOMY"

Information Economy is an exhibition of the variety of ways that artists
manage information in their lives. Managing, encoding, and decoding the
staggering amount of stimuli, tasks and demands in our lives takes
immense time and resources. How do we economize these efforts? How is
energy channeled and communication achieved in the most efficient
means? The artists in Information Economy present different ways of
approaching these questions in their artwork. Some attempt to develop
strategies for simply dealing with the sheer volume of information in
our lives, such as Gary Cannone' and Charles Irvin's carefully
considered ultimate set-list for the band Foreigner; Barb Choit's
broadcasting of extremely localized time and temperature; Aeron Bergman
and Alejandra Salinas tower of all the archival media of the artwork,
and Chuck Jones' hypnotic, frenzied video of all of the images he has
downloaded over the past decade.

Others look at how to be efficient with their time and attention,
including Jill Newman's dual purpose curtain that is also a painting;
Todd Bourret and Brian O'Connell's list of materials needed for their
upcoming show at DAC; and Julie Lequin's video True Stories, in which
she re-enacts the advice she has been given on how to manage her life.

Bill Roundy and Annie Shaw use their art almost as journalism: Shaw
through re-purposing work-for-hire street flyers, Roundy in his
comic-strip column "Bar Scrawl," in which he patronizes and then reviews
Brooklyn-area watering-holes. Similarly, Jen Schwarting's
cubicle-divider referencing sculpture looks into the boundaries of
opportunity between politics and gender. Enid Baxter Blader also has an
investigative bent, as she explores the residual energies left over from
an abandoned Army base in her video "The Ord."

An alternative to our existing economic system is proposed by Mary Jeys
through her project to create a local currency, the Brooklyn Torch. Josh
Blackwell is likewise looking to alter our experiences with everyday
items, though rather than cash, he is re-purposing the common plastic
bag. Blackwell will use the DAC gallery as a collection center for the
bags, which will then be transformed into his artwork.

 

Information Economy is the inaugural exhibition in DAC's new home at 111 Front Street, suite 212. Throughout 2011 the theme of Economy will be explored at DAC in exhibitions, performances, workshops and talks.

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Arc Magazine !!!

 Holly Bynoe just created a new magazine 

ARC MAGAZINE

The new magazine was just created by former A.I.R. staff person, Holly Bynoe. She is a visual artist from St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Holly Bynoe is currently living and working in New York City. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Arc Magazine, set to launch in Jan 2011.

 

 

 

About ARC Magazine

ARC Magazine is a quarterly Caribbean Art and Culture print and e-magazine published out of St. Vincent and the Grenadines by artists Nadia Huggins and Holly Bynoe. We are endeavouring to form a creative platform to offer insight into current practices across the burgeoning creative industries, while bridging the gap between established and emerging artists. Within the recent motions of integration there is a critical space developing where, for the first time, we can envision a converging nexus of artists who want to share their creative experience.

ARC Magazine presents a formula, an experiment and an imaginative body of curated work that exhibits the trajectory and the motion of artists who practice within the region. Within our collective networks, we are finding it necessary to make the common man and the aficionado aware of possibility of art, its evolution, trends and ‘personalities’. We also feel the need to provide a forum that celebrates creativity, its determination, dialogue and pleasure. It is our ambition to inspire and give voice to a new generation of independent, DIY and emerging artists who remain fearless while battling the parts, fractions and whole of their varied cultures. At ARC we want artists to negotiate their own space by offering a neutral ground that will license discourse and varied creative insights into the mind of an artist.

ARC is a projected motion that goes up, outwards and beyond into a space of curiosity.

 

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SONIC ART AND ACTIVISM

SONIC ART AND ACTIVISM : 

EXPLORING THE TIES BETWEEN FEMINIST ART AND POPULAR MUSIC

SOHO20 Gallery, 547 West 27th St, NY, NY, 10001

 

How many members of the feminist art community know about the music criticism of artists like Lorraine O'Grady and Mary Harron? Or journalist and Redstockings co-founder Ellen Willis? Or the art criticism of musician Kim Gordon?  All of whom were writing in the era of Lydia Lunch, Cosey Fanni Tutti, DISBAND, and Linder-just to name a few renowned women directly tapped into the alternative music and art scenes of feminism's second wave. And many of today's most compelling contemporary feminist figures-from Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna to the LTTR collective to the electro-shock-rocker Peaches-have deep, seamless ties to both the art and music worlds.  This panel proposes to speak to the histories and connections between contemporary feminist art and popular music, and the utility of the joyful, critical, and insistently embodied approach to culture found in the resulting discourse.  

Panelists: Damali Abrams, Kathleen Hanna, Lorraine O'Grady, Shizu Saldamando
 
Co-organizers/Moderaters: Kat Griefen, Director, A.I.R. Gallery and TFAP-NY Regional Coordinator and Maria Elena Buszek, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Colorado, Denver

 

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The Feminist Art Project

The Feminist Art Project

Saturday, February 12, 2011

9 am - 5.30 pm

Museum of Art and Design

2 Colombus Circle, NY, NY 10019 

Program of Events

9:00-9:05 Welcome Museum of Art and Design 

9:05-9:15 Introductions by TFAP@CAA 2011 Co-organizers Johanna Burton, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and Julia Bryan-Wilson, University of California, Irvine

 

9:15-10:15 The Problem of Feminist Form
A Talk by Aruna d'Souza, Clark Art Institute. Respondent: Connie Butler, Museum of Modern Art

10:15-11:00 A Conversation between artist Sharon Hayes, Cooper Union, and Miwon Kwon, University of California, Los Angeles

11:00-12:30 Institutions and their Feminist Discontents
Roundtable: Yes! Association, feminist art advocacy group, Leslie Hewett, artist, Lin + Lam, artist collaborative
Respondent/Moderator:  Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, El Museo del Barrio

12:30-1:00
Lunch Break

1:00-1:45 A Conversation between Zoe Leonard, artist, and Huey Copeland, Northwestern University

1:45-3:15 The Erotics of Feminism
Anita Steckel, artist, Joan Semmel, artist, Rachel Middleman, University of Southern California, Richard Meyer, University of Southern California

3:15-3:30
Break

3:30-4:15 A Conversation between Ayreen Anastas, artist, and Jaleh Mansoor, Ohio University

4:30-5:30 Feminism, Art, and War
A talk by Mignon Nixon, The Courtauld Institute of Art.   Respondent:  Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Harvard University

 

 

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Phone Number : 732.932.3726

Contact : Connie Tell

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A.I.R NEW YORK CITY ARTIST Kathleen Schneider

A.I.R New York city artist Kathleen Schneider at the Tria Gallery for an  

Upcoming Show !!!

Force Field 

Tria Gallery, 531 West 25th St

Opening Thursday, January 27, 6–8 pm
Continuing through February 19, 2011

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New York Artist Catherine Mosley will be part of the group show IT'S ALL GOOD apocalypse now showing at the Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburgh Brooklyn now through February 20th











for more information and list of all participating artists please visit their website http://www.sideshowgallery.com/now/index.html

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PILLOW PAGEANT, an online exhibit

PILLOW PAGEANT, curated by Natalie Fizer and Emily Stevenson, exhibits the pillow as a cultural artifact and as an engineered object. Despite an anthropological interest in the pillow of pre-industrial cultures, the modern pillow, encountered in every phase of life and universally engaged as a sleep aid, has escaped scrutiny as a designed object. Working in collaboration with artists and filmmakers this online exhibition reflects on the multiple expressions and uses of the pillow in art and invention.  

Emily Stevenson and and Natalie Fizer are curators and co-founders of Pillow Culture, a research and development project with an interest in creating new venues for visual art projects pertaining to the study and culture of pillows. Both are trained architects whose work as designers and curators of exhibitions examines a range of subjects such as new material technologies and the production of architectural and cultural artifacts.

 

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A.I.R. Fellowship Artist, Kira Greene

A.I.R fellow, Kira Greene's current work is in the still life survey exhibition at Sheldon Museum of Art at University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE! She is also showing another group show at Nathan Cummings Foundation. The exhibition is called Provisions, an exhibition exploring the social implications of food.

 Nathan Cummings Foundation is located at 475 Tenth Avenue, 14th Floor (between 36th and 37th Street).  They are open to public M - F, 9:00-5:00.  

 

Poetical Fire: Three Centuries of Still Lifes

January 21, 2011 thru May 7, 2011 

Opening January 21, Poetical Fire: Three Centuries of Still Lifes features approximately 60 examples of the genre from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including ceramics, paintings, photography, prints, and sculpture. The exhibition contains examples by major 19th-century practitioners of the genre, John F. Francis and Severin Roesen, early modernist versions by Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley, and contemporary interpretations by Vera Mercer and Tom Wesselman.

Poetical Fire was inspired by the recent major gift of artworks by longtime museum supporters Carl (Ky) and Jane Rohman, whose collection and generosity is celebrated in an accompanying exhibition.

Poetical Fire takes its name from noted American art critic James Jackson Jarves, who used the phrase to describe the artistic transition from direct transcriptions of nature to capturing a subject's essence, its "poetical fire." The exhibition follows Jarves's line of inquiry, charting the subject's popularity during the mid-nineteenth century for its realist potential; to its abstraction by early 20th century artists; to the large format and nontraditional media employed by many contemporary artists. Rather than just a chronological survey of still lifes, however, Poetical Fire explores the genre thematically, reviewing its cultural context and meanings during various periods. While subject to changes in style, still life has retained its popularity as a subject over the decades, and artists have accepted Jarves's challenge to capture the subject's spirit rather than solely its tangible forms.

Poetical Fire is accompanied by a small catalogue featuring essays by both local and national scholars that explore the still-lifes genre's multifaceted ideas and themes.

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"Phase Shift", New Exhibit at La MaMA with Jen Williams

PHASE SHIFT

Jen Williams

“it’s an amalgamation of memory, images, and research which will become a site specific collage construction (or deconstruction) of the Bowery’s present state.

An exhibit of installation pieces that respond to the changes in both the Bowery's physical  surrounding and it's community. 

Jennifer Williams received her BFA from Cooper Union and her MFA from Goldsmiths College in London. She has lived and worked primarily in Manhattan for the last twenty years and has made the visual exploration of New York City a central theme in her collage and photography work. Shown in Europe and the US, exhibitions include: The Homefront in Long Island City, Queens, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; as well as Silvereye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh,PA. Her work has been included int he Dumbo Arts Festival and the Howl Festival. She is a 2011 Center for Emerging Visual Artists and was a 2008-2009 A.I.R. Fellow, as well as a 2009 resident a the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. Her work is included in “Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art”, The New Yorker Photo Blog, and “The Landmarks of New York” volume IV. She currently is a Visiting full time Professor in Visual Art at Brown University. For more information go to: www.jennifer-williams.com.

La MAMA

January 6 – January 30, 2011 

74A East 4th Street
(btw Bowery & 2nd Ave)
New York, NY 10003

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A.I.R fellow, Lauren Simkin Berke

Lauren Simkin Berke

1) New Show Up
REMNANTS, an exhibit of new small works
January 7 - March 7 

Modca cafe in Williamsburg 103 N. 3rd St, between Berry and Wythe

2) You can also find Lauren's work in the upcoming event NOW SHOWING !!!, which features emerging artists along with literary performances by Lili Taylor and Jesse Eisenberg; a dance party with DJ Gilles Wasserman, live music by Max Vernon; purchasable artwork; and a special performance by chamber-rock trio Rasputina. Now Showing is a benefit for the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011
Astor Center @ 399 Lafayette St., NYC 10003
VIP preview from 7 - 8:30pm, $125
General admission from 8:30 - 11pm, $30

 

LAUREN SIMKIN BERKE lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Lauren attented cornell university, receiving a B.A in anthropology and the school of visual arts, receiving an M.F.A. In illustration as visual assay. LAUREN is represented by RILEY ILLUSTRATION.

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tART's What's in a Collective?

What's in a collective ? Part 2

The Answer : Support Structures and  Collaborations

tART and Ladies of the Press 

Curated by tART member, Anna Lise Jensen

"What's in a Collective? Part 2" is a follow-up to a tART exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in the summer that posed the question, in a variety of ways, of what the collective is about. The answer was both performed and displayed at Brick, a real estate office that doubles as a gallery, on December 30th, 2010. 

Through an existing support structure, three collaborations were able to take place that evening: between tART and Ladies of the Press, between Ladies of the Press and visitors bringing objects and stories relating to stated theme of "collaboration." The third collaboration, between tART and artists who submitted to the collective's open call during the summer (to do their own versions of the dinner table and feminism) was installed during the evening. And, just as Ladies of the Press made portraits of visitors, tART made portraits of the Ladies.

About tART

The tART collective is comprised of female artists committed to exploring the intersections of visual art and public engagement as well as facilitating post-graduate studio visits for members. Since 2004, the collective’s exhibitions have provided a platform to fundraise for Doctors Without Borders and Creative Time, to launch Zines and present workshops, panel discussions and collaborations.

The exhibition will be up through this Sunday, Jan.15th. and there's a modest closing from 6PM - 8PM

 

Brick 

Brooklyn, 93 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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SPEAK-EASY ART Gallery

Photography3

New Dimensions, opening at Speak-Easy Art Gallery

Jan. 14 - Feb. 6 -

Opens: January 14 from 6-10pm 

Eight artists to be featured in the exhibit, "Photography3: New Dimensions" are out to consider the possibilities of going beyond what we know as traditional photography.

PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 04, 2011

A Photographer's tools are no longer confined to the camera bag, nor even to the camera itself;  The recent options in digital technologies can be liberating and set photographer's vision free to roam. These artists have produced works influenced by three centuries, yet this exhibit seems like it's only the beginning. 

The works are as diverse as the artists themselves. Kathleen Fonseca of Costa Rica and Ted Keenan of West Caldwell push the limits of film, in-camera technique and chemical processing, then they digitally print their landscapes, which range from the very personal and outlandishly colored to classic black and white scenes that seem familiar at first but at a closer look you'll discover there's something different about these places. Jim Somers of Denville, a digital purist, aims to chip away distracting or unnecessary elements in order to reveal the unknown.  Ryan Ganley of West Orange spins spherical earthly landscapes, Tiny Planets, that reside in inner and outer space.  Donna Compton of Denville explores light and optics in abstract graphic arrangements.  New York-based Daria Dorosh (A.I.R Gallery New York city artist) quite literally explores the third dimension in her sculptural works on paper housed in plexiglass boxes.  Hugo Juarez populates the exhibit with images of the human figure exposed on Polaroid film.  

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READYKEULOUS !!!

  READYKEULOUS

The Hurtful Healer: The Correspondance Issue

January 14 - February 13, 2011

Reception

Friday, January 14: 6-8pm

 

OPEN MIKE: Verbal Abuse Fest 2011

Live performance-response by Mike Albo & other furious peoples

Saturday, February 12: 4:30pm 

 

 

INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is pleased to present Readykeulous: The Hurtful Healer: The Correspondance Issue, an exhibition by Ridykeulous. Participating artists include, but are not limited to, Ali Liebegott, Allyson Mitchell, Bernadette Mayer, Carolee Schneeman, Catherine Lord, Chuck Nanney, Daniel Feinberg & Rhyne Piggot, David Wojnarowicz, Dr. Weeks, Eileen Myles, Gary Gissler, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Glen Fogel, Harmony Hammond, I.U.D. (Lizzi Bougatsos & Sadie Laska), Jack Smith, Jibz Cameron aka Dynasty Handbag, K8 Hardy, Kara Walker, Kathe Burkhart, Kathleen Hanna, Kathy Acker/Dennis Cooper, Laura Parnes, Leidy Churchman, Louise Fishman, Mike Albo, Nao Bustamente, Nicola Tyson, Simon Fujiwara, Tobi Vail, William Powhida, Zackary Drucker, Zoe Leonard ...and other special selection from the patriARCHIVES

 

 

Founded in 2005 by A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman, Ridykeulous has appeared at the Kitchen, New York; Leo Koenig Projekte, New York; Bronx Museum, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; and Participant Inc., New York, among others.   

 

 

INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is a gallery dedicated to superior conceptual work. IE is located in the Lower East Side, at 14A Orchard Street, just north of Canal. The hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11-6:30pm, and by appointment. For more information, call 212 226 5447 or email: info@invisible-exports.com 

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