Living and Dreaming

THE BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS

1040 GRAND CONCOURSE
AT 165TH STREET
BRONX, NEW YORK 10456
T: (718) 681-6000
F: (718) 681-6181

JUNE 21 – SEPTEMBER 13 2009

The Bronx Museum of the Arts proudly presents Living and Dreaming, an exhibition culminating the 29th annual Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program; one of the most celebrated and competitive programs for emerging artists in the country.

The exhibition, which features the works of 36 artists from throughout the New York metropolitan area, presents a broad view of contemporary processes and themes that together reveal an accurate depiction of this era – from cultural collisions to political changes to the unstable economy. The show’s title references both the similarities and disparities within the artists’ diverse practice. Through media including photography, video, installation, sculpture, painting, collage, and multi-media, the participants utilize personal narratives as a tool to address issues of identity, gender, culture and race; while also immersing the viewer in realms that conjure the fantastical, the ethereal, and the mythological.

Includes Registry Artists: Rahul Alexander, Jonathan Brand, Adam Brent, Heejung Cho, Clare Grill, Joshua Abram Howard, Ken Madore, and Travis LeRoy Southworth

SPARKPLUG: NEW WORK

Arlington Arts Center
3550 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington VA 22201
Phone 703.248.6800

June 19th – August 22
Artist’s talk: Wednesday, July 22, from 7:00 to 9:00

Including Registry Artist: Mark Planisek

A show by the DCAC arts collective; curated by Lea-Ann Bigelow and Blair Murphy. From the curators’ statement:
“Sparkplug is, at present, a spirited gathering of ten artists and curators who meet twice a month to discuss their work, explore the arts in the nation’s capital, grow their community, and dream up creative engagements in DC and around the globe. In the context of this closely-focused show, Sparkplug’s mission will be to testify to its own mutable now: the now of its production, the now of its collective exchanges, the now of individual stances outside of the collective, the now that will inevitably be then soon. For a collective whose very existence is based on a charter of becoming, of sharing, of transitions, of emergence, of change…the privileging of a specific Sparkplug moment presents a persistent (albeit purposeful) challenge.

Art works Attached (clockwise): Peter Gordon (collage), Mark Planisek (photo Box collage), Karen Joan-Topping (video), Deborah Carroll-Azinger (Painting collage)

Intersections

Includes Registry Artist: Sarah Trigg

MAY 4 – JULY 31

cWOW exhibition:

Intersections, curated by Tania Duvergne, explores the convergence of natural and man-made events, from cataclysmic collisions to serene cohabitations. The exhibition features 18 large paintings by artists Patty Cateura, Noah Landfield, Christopher Saunders, Sarah Trigg, Frank Webster. At Seton Hall University School of Law, One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102. Free and open to the public, daily 10am – 5pm. Directions.

Trigg, Lake Vostok with Two Olympias, acrylic on panel, 60 x 40 in

Phase Transition

Includes Registry Artist: Caleb Nussear

June 9 – July 6, 2009

G5 Chashama Gallery
2016 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd
New York, NY 10027
T: 718.564.9636 / 646.209.5429

Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 11, 6-9 pm

Degrees in Density

Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles
Curated by Marilyn Semmes, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers

June 5-July 13, 2009

Hours: Thu-Sun, 12-5 pm
Includes Registry Artists: Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Ellen Kahn, Janell O’Rourke, Gelah Penn

Kentler International Drawing Space
353 Van Brunt St.
(Red Hook) Brooklyn, NY

Inside Abstraction

Including Registry Artist Gelah Penn

Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
205 Norman Ave
Brooklyn NY 11222
718.383.9380

June 5 – July 12

All of the artists in this show are united in certain visual concerns that they express primarily through abstract means. Each of the artists uses Nature as a point of departure.

The art critic, Joseph Masheck suggests in his essay, “The Carpet Paradigm” that all abstract painting might be viewed as either a portrait or a landscape.  Viewed with this in mind, one could debate the issue whether Kim Uchiyama’s or Scooter Flaherty’s painting of broad bands of color describe a landscape, or if David Cummings work derives particular meaning as a series of portraits, while Srule Brachman actually entitles his rough hewn geometric compositions,  “Dancing with Ronnie”. However, the intention of the curator was to present a variety of ways of approach to making painting.

“In the l950’s four highly different approaches to painting might be said to have surfaced represented by Jackson Pollock, Rothko, Kline and Clifford Still. As watershed painters their work naturally led others who came after them to take their basic approach and ideas and run with them.  Schools of painting emerged that stained and dripped on canvas, or folded and pleated them. Both Minimalism and Process Art, engendered profound experimentation with the material means of making sculpture and the spacial context it shares with painting. In all cases, whether gestured or minimal, the painting was acknowledged as a unified surface plane and the painting presented as a special object.” VL

Far from exhausting the subject matter of “Inside Abstraction”, the gallery and curator hope that this exhibition will lead to others in the near future.  The Brooklyn and Greater New York art communities abound in impressive talent, and this exhibition captures but a small “slice” of the explosive creative energy and intellectual ferment that is going on there.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO CONEY ISLAND

Contemporary works of art, paintings, sculpture, films, photographs and historical ephemera

Including Registry Artists: Ingrid Ludt,  James Reeder, and Molly Schwartz

A.M. RICHARD FINE ART
328 Berry Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY  11211

ON VIEW:
May 29-July 12, 2009

IN CONVERSATION:
Saturday, June 13, 4PM
Richard Eagan and Philomena Marano,
founders of The Coney Island Hysterical Society

Easy on the Eyes

Featuring Registry Artist: Jeanette May
May 27 – June 21, 2009

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Easy on the Eyes, a solo exhibition by photographer Jeanette May.

Easy on the Eyes considers the female gaze via the genre of directorial photography. These carefully staged photographs utilize a cinematic look, ambiguous symbolism, and implied narrative. Unlike most work in this vein, which focuses on young female subjects, here the camera surveys attractive, desirable men. This subject matter provides visual pleasure specifically designed for a heterosexual female viewer—though others may look over her shoulder. Each scene includes a male character depicted in mid-storyline and an “implied woman” somewhere just outside the frame. She is not visible, but we do see her cast-off shoes, dropped purse, or other clues. In fact, her role in the narrative may be more significant than his: where has she gone, what game is she playing, why does she need three passports? He is the photograph’s subject matter, but she is the narrative’s protagonist.

Where else do we find images of attractive men created for a female viewer? Rarely in the history of art, where sculptures and paintings of beautiful nude men were created for male patrons, nor in most narrative cinema, where (as film critic Laura Mulvey points out) the female gaze is simply missing. The novel offers the most historically rich and accessible source for detailed descriptions of the pleasure women find in beautiful men. Easy on the Eyes juxtaposes a visual narrative with a passage from a novel by a prominent female author describing a male character. Once text from women’s novels accompanies these photographs, the visual narrative is no longer entirely open. The text disrupts, misdirects, and complicates the implied narrative of the photographic image.

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, #228
DUMBO, Brooklyn

Gallery hours: Wed. – Sun., 11am to 6pm.
For more information contact Gallery
Director, Kat Griefen at 212-255-6651 or kgriefen@airgallery.org.

“Clare”, 2008, Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 40”

WORKS ON PAPER

Including Registry Artist: Ingrid Ludt
ALBANY CENTER GALLERY
39 Columbia Street
Albany, NY  12207

ON VIEW:
May 26-July 3, 2009

Albany Center Gallery presents Works on Paper: an exhibition featuring three emerging artists of the Capital Region: Gabe Brown, Ingrid Ludt, and Yvonne Welch.

Ludt Drawing from Understory 11" x 9" Ink, pencil, paper, thread 2009

spatial non-fictions

May 15, 2009 – June 26, 2009

ISE Cultural Foundation
555 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
T:212-925-1649

Including Registry Artists: Miranda Maher and Caitlin Masley

ISE Cultural Foundation is pleased to present “spatial non-fictions”, a group exhibition curated by Susan Thompson, featuring work by Clare Churchouse, Jessie Henson, Miranda Maher, and Caitlin Masley.

The works in this show inhabit the foggy landscape that spreads out between the real and the unreal. They explore the spatial component of memories, dreams, or experiences and the interaction between these spatial relationships and the psychological understanding of them. Out of these explorations and excavations come new structures that become situated somewhere between the real and the imaginary. They correspond to no actual site, but are the product of interactions with real spaces, processed and re-formed by the creative subconscious.

The arrangement of space can communicate a memory in a way that does not rely upon or necessitate verbal description, figural representation, or even a linear narrative. Spatial experiences or impressions can remain embedded within our memories untethered to specific events or dialogues. Incomplete recollections can be reconfigured and filled in by the imaginary or the borrowed. Component parts lifted from reality can be manipulated and repurposed to create new hybrids. Each work in this show forges a complex relationship between the fictive space that is constructed and the real experience of space that is its inspiration. The result is a gathering of “spatial non-fictions”.