If you are in the area these should definitely be a good times..
Roebling Hall presents: ALL CUT UP(via Roebling Hall email)
ALL CUT UP signals an inventive curatorial approach, whereby the artists have been chosen not by a core theme or unified ideal, but in a process that mirrors collage itself. It is a mental collage of color, texture, scale, and wildly differing themes, which creates a raw and “unsupervised” look. The curator has cast a wide net, traveling all over the United States and Europe to draw upon a group of incredibly talented and varied artists. Each builds on the next, coming together by using the space in the gallery as a conduit.Participating artists: ERIK BENSON, AMELIA BIEWALD, MONICA CANILAO, BJORN COPELAND, DAVID ELLIS, PILITA GARCIA, ADLER GUERRIER, HALSEY HATHAWAY, SHARA HUGHES, ANDREW HURST, MARCI MACGUFFIE, MIA PEARLMAN, EMILY PRINCE, AMY ROSS, ADAM THOMAS, NICO VASCELLARI, CHARLIE WOOLLEY.
Opening ceremony:
September 4, 2008 (running until October 4th) 6-8PM
Roebling Hall
606 West 26th Street (corner of 11th avenue)
New York, NY 10001
apexart presents: SCRAWL(via press release)
This collection began on a cloudy afternoon in 1985, when I strolled up Broadway and a cryptic note flickered in the corner of my eye. A few minutes later, regretting that I had not read it completely, I circled back to the bizarre message. Barely clinging to its Times Square lamppost, the weathered page, related to JFK conspiracy theory, was easy to remove. It has proven infinitely more difficult to decipher.The statements contained in SCRAWL are often political, biblical, sexual, and/or psychological. They can be impeccably drafted in unique calligraphy or scribbled in unintelligible palimpsests. Ordinarily, the notes are all I have to parse, but once in a while I've bumped into “street authors.” In 1995 I saw my first, a lady dressed in black, the hellish noir of years of unwashed clothing. She was vigorously wiping an entire glue stick on a patch of brick. I continued watching from a distance as she posted her proclamation above busy Church Street. I'd seen the same ornamental writing before, but had only been able to snag a torn fragment. After she finished pasting, the lady wandered off, looking back over her shoulder from time to time. I waited long minutes before crossing the street. The glue was still wet. This time I got the entire text, along with a serious case of the heebie-jeebies.Opening Ceremony
September 4, 2008 (running until October 11th) 6-9PM
apexart
291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013
Nyehaus Gallery presents: Joe Zucker PLUNDER FROM 1977 to 2008(via press release email)
Joe Zucker's cotton ball paintings, drawings and scrolls visit themes on pirate history, adventure stories, and films—and ask us to step back and look again, at "Slaver Trinidads," skulls and cross bones, a "Confused Sea" and raft-bound Rogers who aren't always Jolly.Joe Zucker’s breaking up of pictorial information into modular units by using cotton balls and trimmings in bulk lent his enterprise a kind of perverse grid and process art dimension even as its Pop aspects violated those aesthetics on every other level. By the way, “information” was another favorite word of the 1970s and should echo in the ears of veterans and students of the period with a Spike Jones clangor, since it was usually applied to “dematerialized” Idea Art, whereas in the context of Zucker’s work the idea was deliberately, knowingly, “dumb” and its presentation deliberately, vulgarly material. As to the holy grid, like many of his Soho generation Zucker had been a true believer, so to the extent that his mature but rambunctious 1970s work talked back to it, he was talking back to himself.Opening Ceremony
Nyehaus Gallery
September 4, 2008 (running until October 4th) 6-8PM
15 Gramercy Park South
New York City, NY 10003
enjoy.. .
No comments:
Post a Comment