New York Armory Show week

It was a gloomy day when I arrived to pick up my press passes. Its not the best time of year for New York weather but maybe that better for looking at art indoors?

Yesterday marks day one of New York art fair week. I am taking pictures of the art I find compelling as I stroll through the crowds. I'll start posting later today. Blow are some key listings if you have something to add to this list please email me.

ART FAIRS:

The Armory Show
Piers 92 & 94, Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street
Wednesday, March 3, 5pm Vernissage
Thursday, March 4 - Saturday, March 6, noon-8pm; Sunday, March 7, noon-7pm

VOLTANY
7 West 34th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
Thursday, March 4, noon-2pm VIP Preview
Thursday, March 4, 2-8pm; Friday, March 5 - Sunday, March 7, 11am-7pm

Scope New York
Pavilion at Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, 62nd Street andamsterdam Avenue
Wednesday, March 3, 3-9pm VIP FirstView ($100)
Thursday, March 4 - Saturday, March 6, noon-8pm; Sunday, March 7, noon-7pm

Pulse
330 West Street (corner of West Side Highway @ West Houston)
Thurdsay, March 4, 9am-noon VIP Preview
Thursday, March 4 - Saturday, March 6, noon-8pm; Sunday, March 7, noon-5pm

ADAA Art Show at Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street
Tuesday, March 2, 5:30-9:30pm Gala Preview ($150)
Wednesday, March 3-Saturday, March 6, noon-8pm; Sunday, March 7, noon-6pm

Dutch Art Now
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South
Wednesday, March 3 - Sunday, March 7, 11am-5pm

Fountain New York
Pier 66 at 26th Street and West Side Highway in Hudson River Park
March 4-7, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 11am-7pm VIP Preview benefiting the Museum of Arts & Design ($20)
Friday, March 5 – Sunday, March 7, 11am-7pm
Friday, March 5, 7pm–midnight Public Reception
Saturday, March 6, 7pm-midnight Artlog Live

Independent
548 West 22nd Street
Thursday, March 4, 4-9pm Opening Reception
Friday, March 5 - Saturday, March 6, 11am-8pm; Sunday, March 7, noon-4pm

Korean Art Show at la.venue
608 West 28th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues
Tuesday, March 2, 3pm Preview, 6pm Reception
Wednesday, March 3 - Sunday, March 7, 11am-7pm; Thursday, March 4, 11am-8pm

PooL
Gershwin Hotel, 27th Street and 5th Avenue
Friday, March 5, 6-10pm Vernissage ($20)
Friday, March 5 - Sunday, March 7, 3-10pm

Verge New York 2010

The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41st Street (Between Madison and Park Avenues)
Thursday, March 4, noon-6pm Professional Preview, 6pm-10pm Opening Reception
Friday, March 5 - Saturday, March 6, noon-8pm; Sunday, March 7, noon-6pm

OPENINGS and EVENTS

Thursday, March 4

Rosson Crow "Bowery Boys"
Deitch Projects
Soho: 18 Wooster street, 6-9pm

Friday, March 5

Gavin Kenyon, Jen Viola, Joe Brittain, Lauren Lavitt, Nicholas Brooks, Nolan Hendrickson
"Accrochage: collision, fender-bender; skirmish, clash; coupling, hitching; (picture) hanging; (boxing) clinch"
Ramiken Crucible
Chinatown/LES: 221 East Broadway, at Clinton street, 6-8pm

Allen Ruppersberg
Greene Naftali Gallery
26 street: 508 W 26 street, floor 8, 7-9pm

Christopher Chiappa "High Fructose Corn Syrup"
Kate Werble Gallery
Soho: 83 Vandam street, at hudson street, 6-8pm

Aubrey Mayer, Billy Childish, Dan Miller, Horst Ademeit, Marcus Werner Hed, Michael Bauer
White Columns
13 street: 320 W 13 street, (entrance on Horatio), 7-10pm

Joseph Beuys "Make the Secrets Productive"
PaceWildenstein
25 street: 534 W 25 street, 10am-6pm

"Vernissage" at PooL Art Fair New York (Gershwin Hotel)
27 street: 7 E 27 street, 6-10pm

Martin Mull "The Four Seasons and Other New Works" inaugural exhibition for new location
Stellan Holm Gallery
79 street: 1018 Madison avenue, 6-8pm

Saturday, March 6

Photography: "31 Women in Art Photography"
curated by Charlotte Cotton, Jon Feinstein
Affirmation Arts
37 street: 523 W 37 street, 6-9pm

X INITIATIVE: BRING YOUR OWN ART (BYOA)

Yesterday the one year experiment called the X INITIATIVE ended with a marathon 24 hour art show. BRING YOUR OWN ART (BYOA) began at 11 am on February 3rd and continued, doors open until February 4th officially closing at 11 am with all work left in the building would become trash if not picked up. This process reminded me of the closing event for the Miami space The House. They lost their lease to a group of condo developers and for their closing event everyone was asked to put a piece of art up that would be destroyed with the building.

I arrived at after dinner to put up a handful of my Black Sun Project images with a mini project called "10 Suns for 2010." The space was a busy workshop with a mix of artists friends and viewers all roaming around and enjoying the spectacle. The first floor had a rotating open stage where bands and musicians could sign up for time slots. The second and third floors of the space were reserved for artwork.

I had learned of this event via Jerry Saltz and his popular Facebook page. During the evening the New York Magazine art critic roamed the floors of the gallery offering free on the spot critiques. After I walked through the two floors and installed my images I was able to talk with him. We discussed my work and the event itself. He was very approachable in person and you could tell he was enjoying the interaction and the event.

The diversity of work was amazing. It would have been very hard to curate a show like this but this event was more then sum of the work on its walls. It was a show for the ages. This crowd-sourced art / performance / Relational Aesthetic was an experiential tour-de-force.

I placed my Black Sun pictures in spaces next to work that I thought they worked well with. Take a look at the installation pictures below. Also, if your work is in any of the pictures please let me know and I will make a caption and link to your website.



























































Here is the aftermath of the event when I picked up my work:

Tonight, Opening: Johanna Heldebro: To Come Within Reach of You

Johanna Heldebro, "Night Watch chapter 4 excerpt," 2009

2009 Fall Solo Show Artist
Johanna Heldebro Presents
To Come Within Reach of You
December 18, 7 to 10 p, Free Admission & Drinks

Johanna Heldebro presents images and video documenting the daily life of her father, who disappeared from her life two years prior. After searching his name on the internet, Heldebro travels to Stockholm, Sweden to obsessively follow him, creating a series that refigures comfortable notions of adult identity. Join us for this compelling body of work that is at time as coldly detached as it is uncomfortably personal.

Complimentary Bear Flag Wine & Colt 45. Music from DJ Tanner.

RSVP events@3rdward.com

On display through December 27.

More images from Johanna Heldebro's series:


Johanna Heldebro, "Finding My Way Inside chapter 2 excerpt," 2009


Johanna Heldebro, "Finding My Way Inside chapter 2 excerpt," 2009


Johanna Heldebro, "Autonomy chapter 5 excerpt," 2009

Openings the week of Wednesday, October 28, 2009

I looking forward to this weeks openings. This week is a bit heavy on the political. but they should be thought provoking and hopefully the art doesn't go too far and make the viewers roll their eyes.

Wednesday, October 28



Emily Jacir "dispatch" at Alexander and Bonin
18 street: 132 10 avenue, at 18 street, 6-8pm

Thursday, October 29


Phillip Toledano, Abu Ghraib Coffee table
Moulded resin, 6', 2008

Phillip Toledano "America: The Gift Shop" which has its own website- www.americathegiftshop.com is showing at Hous Projects
Downtown: 31 Howard street, floor 2, 6-8pm


Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Untitled (Sleeping Puppets), 2008-9,Two rag puppets and two breathing machines
Dimensions variable, Courtesy the artists, Matthew Marks Gallery, Galerie Eva Presenhuber and Spruth Magers

David Weiss, Peter Fischli "Sun, Moon and Stars" at Matthew Marks Gallery
22 street: 522 W 22 street, 6-8pm

David Weiss, Peter Fischli "Sleeping Puppets" at Matthew Marks Gallery
22 street: 526 W 22 street, 6-8pm

David Weiss, Peter Fischli "Clay and Rubber" at Matthew Marks Gallery
24 street: 523 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Paul Virilio: The Itinerary of Catastrophe" Sylvere Lotringer at SVA, Visual Arts Theater
23 street: 333 W 23 street, 7pm

Olaf Breuning "Small Brain Big Stomach" at Metro Pictures
24 street: 519 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Photography: Doug DuBois "All the Days and Nights" at Higher Pictures
66 street: 764 Madison avenue, b/w 65th & 66th street, 6-8pm

Tonight, Artist's Talk with James Welling at Aperture Foundation

Also, tonight James Welling will be giving a talk at Aperture Gallery. I saw a brief talk he did as part of the Whitney Biennial in 2008 that was nice so if you haven't see him speak I would go for sure.

Artist's Talk with James Welling

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
7:00 pm

FREE

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Aperture and the Parsons Department of Photography at The New School present an artist's talk with James Welling as part of the ongoing Parsons lecture series. Welling's career constitutes a comprehensive conceptual examination of the many forms of photography: from documentary and staged to nonrepresentational. He was recently featured in the Aperture publication The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography.

JAMES WELLING (b. 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) studied drawing at Carnegie-Mellon University before transferring to the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied video. His work has appeared in over sixty solo and group exhibitions, and is included in many public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York, among others. Welling was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bard College. Since 1995, Welling has lived in Los Angeles, where he is head of the photography department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work was featured in issue number 190 of Aperture magazine.

Opening Tonight: Naomi Fisher, The Brave Keep Undefiled A Wisdom Of Their Own

Miami to New York! Tonight Miami native and friend is coming up for her opening at Leo Koenig. I'll be there and many others. Also, as mentioned in a previous post, Leo Koenig is having some sort of art pot luck next door.

Leo Koenig, Inc.
545 West 23rd Street, 212-334-9255
Chelsea
Leo Koening website

September 18 - October 24, 2009
Opening: Friday, September 18, 6 - 8 PM

Leo Koenig Inc. is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Naomi Fisher entitled "The Brave Keep Undefiled Wisdom of Their Own." With this exhibition, Fisher strives to explore the reciprocal relationship between the force of nature and its tendency towards chaos as it stands in opposition to the order and structure of civilization and culture. It is an investigation through movement, landscape costume and adornment.

Figuring most significantly in this new series of photographs, videos and drawings, are the women depicted in the images. Some of these women have been photographed by the artist for over a decade, and are all trained dancers and performers whose personal visions parallel those of Ms. Fisher's. Other intrinsic elements of inspiration for the exhibition came from the location (Oleta State Park), and a chance happening of what can only be described as the "Garage Sale of a Lifetime" where the artist stumbled upon the sale of the contents of an unpaid storage unit in Miami. There, Fisher amassed 3 garbage bags full of clothes that ended up containing vintage Versace.

"Camp Primitivo" was the name which was given to Fisher's "bubble world," and leopard print was their uniform. Oleta State Park, is on an island in Biscayne Bay between North Miami Beach and the City of Miami. Truly hidden in plain site, the park has miles of mangroves, forests and beaches nestled between metropolis and ocean. Life there was basic, food, beach, insect repellent, sleep, cook dinner over a campfire, drink, dance, thunderstorm, scream, repeat. The resulting images convey an atmosphere of spontaneous expression tinged with just a bit of mystery. The women, clad in their leopard-print and sequined outfits, exude an impulsive and unguarded playfulness, while at the same time leaving the viewer with the feeling that they might never really know the whole story.

Growing up in Miami and traveling abroad while her botanist father collected and studied tropical plants has given Ms. Fisher a unique perspective to recontextualize the modernist fascination with the tropics and the "wild" women for whom the jungle is their natural habitat. The images in this exhibition are a culmination of a project where the artist invited four women to camp with her and shoot for 9 days straight. The intimacy is apparent in the images. For the duration of the project each performer was able to tap into a reservoir of darkness and emotion which was effortlessly communicated with humor and abandon. Likewise, the artist's direction became an intuitive, and organic process. This seamless reciprocal gesture could only be the result of years of familiarity and collaboration.

Naomi Fisher is an artist born and raised in Miami. Fisher has exhibited internationally in such venues as the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev; Halle fur Kunst, Luneburg; Kemper Museum, Kansas City; Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna; Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Deste Foundation, Athens; and the New Museum, NY. Fisher graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998, and is a recipient of a 2008 Knight Arts Challenge Grant from the John and James L. Knight Foundation. She also co-founded and jointly runs the Bas Fisher Invitational, an artist run alternative art space in Miami.

The artist would like to thank Jacqueline Fritz, Nancy Garcia, Jessie Gold, Elizabeth Hart, and Nikki Rollason for their inspiring performances.

Opening Tonight: "Don't Perish" Curated by Joseph Montgomery and Jesse Willenbring

"Don't Perish"
Curated by Joseph Montgomery and Jesse Willenbring
September 18 - October 17, 2009

Opens September 18 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte
Chelsea
541 West 23rd Street, 212 334 9255

EAT WELL BRING FOOD
Potluck Dinners every Tuesday & Saturday Eve

The metaphors linking food and art are abundant. They persist: the ideas of sustenance versus subsistence, to satiate concomitant with nourishment, to simply serve, or to present. Don't Perish posits the independent creativity of the artist within the anomaly of an inventive community. Don't Perish is an exchange suggested as an exhibition:

"We want to live with work we like, work we are curious about, work we have the chance to eat dinner with if we put it into a group show that incorporates tables, chairs, and food. In order to understand the work, get to know it, we invite our friends and strangers to look at the work with us over a meal."

Montgomery and Willenbring have done this before. Rose Colored Glasses was mounted at Passerby in 2008. That exhibition shared the same impetus as Don't Perish, which was and is, a desire to experience works of art in a setting that provides an alternative to the passive viewing parameters usually encountered when visiting a gallery. There was and is the intention that the participant will find sustained albeit earned nourishment in the work as well as the meals. In addition to the individual works providing stimulus, the context provided by the visual storage and organization of non-perishable food throughout the gallery inspires another level of sightlines, interruptions, jumps in conversation and information that keeps perspective un-fixed.

Abstract and conceptual works lend themselves particularly well to durational viewing. When considering pieces for the exhibition, Montgomery and Willenbring specifically chose works by artists that combine rigor and formalist underpinnings, with an understated yet sublime beauty. They have grouped an unexpected bevy of artists into a space activated by dinner-time conversations puzzling the connections and discovering the complements.

At the core of this exhibition is the emphasis on responsibility. Montgomery and Willenbring are creating a pantry within the gallery for food the visitor donates to the Food Bank of New York*. They ask the diners to bring food to share to the table when they come to dinner. Montgomery and Willenbring are bringing food to the neighborhood by hosting a farm stand on Saturdays.

Each artwork will also initiate queries on responsibility through its language of abstraction, investigate the necessity or uselessness of interpretation, and weigh the burden or enlightenment of context.

Joseph Montgomery and Jesse Willenbring are artists that live and work in New York City.
Joseph Montgomery holds a BA from Yale University and both he and Jesse Willenbring hold MFA's from Hunter College.

With many thanks to the generous loans from Paula Copper, Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Steve Henry, The Hall Collection and Jack Tilton.

Fall gallery hours will be Thursday through Saturdays 10-6, (Tuesdays and Wednesdays by appointment). Please contact Elizabeth Balogh or Nicole Russo for further information and/or visuals.

*Non-perishable food items may be donated during gallery hours.

Dinners will be held on;
September 19th, September 22nd, September 26th, September 29th, October 3rd, October 6th, October 10th, October 13th, October 17th.

Dueling Lectures, September 17, 2009

There are at least 3 competing Lectures tonight. They are all battling for me to attend who will win...

In this corner, the Chairman of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media at School of Visual Arts...


Burlington, VT, 1990, Pigment print. Copyright Charles H. Traub, Courtesy Gitterman Gallery

Charles Traub
The Camera Club of New York Lecture series.

Thursday, September 17th 7pm
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheatre
209 E. 23rd Street (2nd and 3rd avenues), 3rd Floor
(please bring photo ID)

Book signing and sale to follow the lecture.

Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
General admission $10, $5 for other students with valid student ID

Charles Traub will be speaking about two of his projects: In the Still Life, his most recent book; and his forthcoming one, Still Life in America: Looking at US. He describes his work as such, ”Real world witness is my concern and for one such as me, the road and the street are the muse. Whether standing on the street corner or on the road trip, it is the great irony and humor inherent in the human condition. To record such is the great delight of my life.“

Mr. Traub is Chair of MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts in New York City, the largest independent college of art in the United States. He holds an MS from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology and a BA degree from the University of Illinois. He was formerly the director of the prestigious Light Gallery of New York. He is President of the Aaron Siskind Foundation for support of creative photography. He is one of the co founders of Here is New York, a Democracy of Photographs, which received the Brendan Gill Award of the Municipal Arts Society, Cornell Capa Infinity Award, and a Distinguished Service Award from the Children‘s Aid Society of New York. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions including Marcus Pfeifer Gallery, Van Straaten Gallery, Art Directors Guild of New York, Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Light Gallery and the Hudson River Museum. His work is currently represented by the Tom Gitterman Gallery in New York. Mr. Traub has authored and edited many books including Beach, Italy Observed, and Angler‘s Album, and has had his work published in Connoisseur, Fortune, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, American Photographer, Popular Photography, Aperture, and Afterimage. He has received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, Hendrecks Foundation, Illinois Art Council, Manda Foundation, Olympics Arts Organization Committee, and the Mary McDowell Center for Learning. His textbook In the Realm of Circuit was published by Prentice Hall in the spring of 2003. In the Still Life, a monograph of his recent color photography, was published in September 2004. He recently co-edited the book Education of a Photographer.


And in this corner...



Words Without Pictures presents

Confounding Expectations VI: Photography in Context

Thursday, September 17, 2009 7 pm

FREE Admission

Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street, New York City

Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis

This first event celebrates the launch of the innovative Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) book project Words Without Pictures, which documents roughly one year of conversations about the most pressing issues shaping contemporary photography.

Moderator:

CHARLOTTE COTTON is the Curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Previously, she was the Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1992-2004). She is the author and editor of books, including Imperfect Beauty: the making of contemporary fashion photographs (2000), and The Photograph as Contemporary Art (2004). Charlotte will be returning to London later in the fall to take up a new position of creative director of the London space of the National Media Museum, which will open in 2012.

Panelists:

DENISE WOLFF is a photobook editor, known for her work with both contemporary and historic photography. She recently joined Aperture from Phaidon Press. Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to work on many beautiful books with the world’s top photographers, including Mary Ellen Mark, Martin Parr, Eugene Richards, and Stephen Shore to name a few.

MATT KEEGAN is an artist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles; D'Amelio Terras, New York; White Columns, New York; and Wallspace Gallery, New York in collaboration with Leslie Hewitt. He is co-founder and publisher of the annual publication North Drive Press.

ALEX KLEIN is an artist based in Los Angeles and the editor of Words Without Pictures. In Spring 2007, she co-organized with James Welling the conference Around Photography at the Hammer Museum. She is currently the Ralph M. Parsons Curatorial Fellow in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and an adjunct faculty member at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.

With special guests Fia Backstrom, Johanna Burton, Melissa Catanese, Sarah Charlesworth, Moyra Davey, Darius Himes, John Lehr, Miranda Lichtenstein, Arthur Ou, Ed Panar and Laurel Ptak.

The lecture series is presented with generous support from the Kettering Family Foundation and the Henry Nias Foundation. The program is made possible in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

More info at the New School website here


And lastly,

At the SVA Theatre

Dave Hickey: The God Ennui

Thursday, September 17, 7pm

Writer and educator Dave Hickey is the author of two highly regarded collections of critical essays, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (Art Issues Press, 1993); Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (Art Issues Press, 1998) and the forthcoming Pagan America (Simon and Schuster, 2010). He was the recipient of a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship, and is currently Schaeffer Professor of Modern Letters at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public


Who will win my attention? I don't even know yet!

Although afterwards I will surly be trying to attend this Blind Spot related event:



From SLRs to disposables to digital cameras to PDAs, the photographic image is more prolific than at any point since the medium'

Rizzoli International and Ken Miller invite you to join us in celebrating
the publication of

SHOOT
@
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Thursday September 17, 7-9pm

SHOOT is a collection of 'photography of the moment' by Stephen Shore, Nan
Goldin, Walter Pfeiffer, Boris Mikhailov, Wolfgang Tillmans, Juergen
Teller, Mark Borthwick, Ari Marcopoulos, Hiromix, Glynnis McDaris, Linus
Bill, Jason Nocito, Yurie Nagashima, Tim Barber, Peter Sutherland, JH
Engstrom, Dash Snow, Kenneth Cappello, Louise Enhorning, Michael
Schmelling, Nacho Alegre, Ola Rindal, Paul Schiek, Madi Ju, Jaimie Warren
and Thomas Jeppe.

"From SLRs to disposables to digital cameras to PDAs, the photographic
image is more prolific than at any point since the medium's inception.
Whether working in personal documentary, editorial, fine art or fashion,
the photographers in SHOOT share a democratic, emotionally intuitive
approach to picture-taking that reflects an era in which we increasingly
use ephemeral images to define our own lives."

SHOOT includes a foreword by legendary photographer Stephen Shore, in
addition to a critical essay by professor Penny Martin (of pioneering
fashion site SHOWstudio.com and the London College of Fashion) with a
historical overview by editor Ken Miller (Revisionaries; A Decade of Art in
Tokion).

Upcoming Fall 2009 New York Art openings... (updated x2)

These are the openings that I am excited to see coming soon. I will update this post for the remainder of the fall with new shows coming soon. I hope to go to as many of the opening as possible but if I post it here I will at least attend the show if a can't make opening night.



Tomorrow, Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Group Show: OFF THE GRID: LUIS MALLO, ANDREW A. LUCAS, MICHEL CAMPEAU, AND TROY PAIVA
at KUMUKUMU Gallery
OPENING RECEPTION: SEPTEMBER 9, 6-8 PM
On View: September 9 - October 1, 2009
42 Rivington Street

Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 First Edition
Photographs by Michelle Arcila, Daniel Cheek, Mike Sinclair, Parsley Steinweiss and Kurt Tong.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9, 6-8 PM
On View: September 10th - September 19th, 2009
6 Spring Street

Carter, And Within Area Although, Salon 94 Freemans
Opening Reception: September 9, 6-8 PM
On View: September 9 - October 24, 2009
1 Freeman Ally

Zipora Fried, Trust Me. Be Careful, On Stellar Rays
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9, 6-8 PM
On View: September 9 - October 25, 2009
133 Orchard Street

Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE, 30 YEARS OF BEING CUT UP, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9, 6-8 PM
On View: September 9 - October 18, 2009
14A Orchard Street

Colin Dodgson, Just because it's in your head, doesn't mean its not real.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9, 6-9 PM
243 Broome Street (Corner of Ludlow)

Grace Kim, Under the Glass Bell, A Dream, Melanie Flood Projects
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9, 7-10 PM
On View: September 9th - October 7th, 2009
186 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, New York




Thursday, September 10, 2009

First off is my thesis advisor at SVA. I saw some of this while in progress at his studio and I'm looking forward to seeing it finished and installed in the gallery.

Simen Johan, Until the Kingdom Comes, Yossi Milo Gallery
Artist's Reception: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 6 - 8 pm
On View: September 10, 2009 -October 31, 2009
525 West 25th Street

Anthony Pearson, Marianne Boesky Gallery
Opening reception Thursday, September 10, 2009, 6 - 8 pm
On View: September 11 - October 10, 2009
509 West 24th Street

Juergen Teller: Paradis, Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, 10 September 6 - 8 PM
On View: 10 September - 17 October, 2009
540 West 26th Street, New York

Nicholas Nixon, Old Home, New Pictures, Pace/Macgill
Opening Reception: ???
On View: September 10 - October 24, 2009
32 East 57th Street

Chris Ofili, Afro Margin. David Zwirner
Opening reception September 10, 6 – 8pm
On View: September 10 – October 24, 2009
525 West 19th Street

Nicolai Howalt, Car Crash Studies, Bruce Silverstein
Todd Hido, A Road Divided, Bruce Silverstein
Opening reception: Thursday, September 10th, 6 - 8 pm
On View: September 09 - October 24, 2009
535 West 24th Street

Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art, Aperture Foundation Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 6 - 8 pm
On View: September 10 – October 15, 2009
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor

Amy Stein, Domesticated, Clamp Art
Opening reception September 10, 6 – 8 pm
On View: September 10 – October 31, 2009
521-531 West 25th Street

Jason Hanasik, He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore, Kris Graves Projects
Opening Reception: Thursday, 10 September 6 - 9 PM
On View: September 10 - October 10, 2009


The Open, Deitch Projects LIC
Opening Septermber 10th 6 - 10 PM
On View: September 10 - October 25, 2009
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City


Saturday, September 12, 2009

Tim Davis, The New Antiquity, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
Opening Reception Brunch: Saturday, September 12, 2009 11 am – 4 pm
On View: September 10 - October 24, 2009
730 Fifth Ave., at 57th Street

Hans-Peter Feldman, 303 Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday , September 12 2009 6-8 PM
On View: September 12 - October 17 2009
547 W 21 Street

WOOD, A sculpture show featuring: Carol Bove, David Lamelas, Corey McCorkle, Oscar Tuazon + Eli Hansen Kaari Upson
at Maccarone Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12th from 6-8 PM
On View: September 12 - October 24th, 2009
630 Greenwich Street

First Openings of the Fall Art Season 2009

I hope that last week's openings are a sign of the upcoming quality of future fall openings because that would make this a exciting art season (f' a recession!).

Last Thursday SoHo was a buzz with three big openings. Davis Rhodes at Team Gallery, Kehinde Wiley at Deitch Projects on Grand Street and Tauba Auerbach at Deitch Projects's Wooster Street space.

I walked into the Davis Rhodes first not really knowing what to expect. The gallery space was fairly crowded but you could still see the artwork. Rhodes minimalist paintings heavily referenced sign advertising production as well as sculpture and minimal painting traditions. Not really very exciting for me. He made solid pain fields on vinyl material with a large shape cut from the center. Each piece was then loosely hung creating a sculptural effect. I feel like I may be the wrong person to really give these painting their fair shake but I left that gallery board - flat color felt exactly that, flat boring. I crave some thread of detail or narrative to get excited with, this just didn't work for me.

The next stop was Kehinde Wiley's new show. Barely a half block down Grand Street at Dietch's smaller space; Wiley was showing a collection of expertly produced photographs and one large painting in the front room of the gallery. These photographs add nicely to Wiley's overture of highly realistic paintings.



Each image fits his aesthetic but exists in photographic space rather then the surface of a additive painted canvas. The poses still heavily borrow from painting but the clarity of the photographic production is striking and I thought the effect created from bringing slices of the background inform of the subject created a nice dimension to the work that reminded me of painting and less of photography.

From the Press Release:

September 03, 2009 - September 26, 2009
76 Grand Street, New York

Deitch Projects is pleased to present Black Light, an exhibition of photographs by Kehinde Wiley that thrusts the black male image, captured by means of light manipulation and digital technology, into focus. This shuffle of Wiley's artistic process reveals an integral component of his studio practice rarely seen while remaining, uniquely, Kehinde Wiley portraiture.

Enlisting the technical tenor of Hype Williams' hip-hop videos from the 90's, Wiley saturates his consummately styled subjects of Fulton Street Mall pedigree- caps flipped backward, wearing gear of New York legend- in "super rapturous light". To transcendental and beatific effect, such illumination proffers a new measure of Wiley's technical abilities, so that the medium of photography propels each figure to the point before paint consumes canvas- the moment when flesh, at its three dimensional, truth-telling, reveals scars long ago enacted. Browned fingernails, questioning red-glazed eyes and voluptuously glossed, cigarette-charred lips heighten what, for some, is no longer visible: a vulnerable microcosm of our metropolis- a black light. Through the 17 photographs on display, Wiley produces an intimate study of embattled psychologies whose adherents are at once flawed and majestic, canonized and misunderstood.

The exhibition Black Light will be accompanied by, Black Light, a full-color book published by Powerhouse and will be available at Deitch Projects

Lastly I walked around the corner to the airy Wooster Street space where Tauba Auerbach was showing paintings, photography and a performance on a organ she helped create with her friend Cameron Mesirow of the band Glasser. When you enter the gallery you are greeted with several large abstract photographs. In the center of the space there is a large wood two person custom made organ called the Auerglass. Behind the organ were several lager paintings from different series she has been working on, nicely reflecting the photographic abstractions shown at the entrance of the gallery.

From the Press release:

September 03, 2009 - October 17, 2009
18 Wooster Street, New York

The collapsing of two conflicting states is the central theme of HERE AND NOW/AND NOWHERE, Tauba Auerbach's new exhibition at Deitch Projects. The artist deliberately composed the title as an anagram. The paintings, photographic works, sculpture and the musical instrument that comprise the show are all structured around the threshold between order and randomness. The philosophical conflicts explored in the work include:

The liminality, or intermediate state between two dimensionality and three dimensionality.

The past and the present.

A combination of the two: a past three-dimensional state and a present two-dimensional state.

Being HERE vs. Being THERE, and being both HERE and THERE at once.

Randomness vs. Determinism and the unpredictable order of chaos.

In the marrying of two conflicting states, the work is also about the number 2, a concept that is inherent in the remote interdependence central to the sculptural works in the exhibition.

There are five bodies of work represented in the exhibition:

Crumple Paintings

The next generation of the Crumple paintings previously shown in Deitch Projects' Constraction exhibition last summer and in the New Museum's Younger Than Jesus. These new works have been created for the large space of Deitch's 18 Wooster Street gallery and require that the viewer stand far back from the work to perceive the illusion of a crumpled surface constructed from large Ben Day dots.

Static Photographs

A new series of more representational, but still undecipherable Static photographs. They focus less on the emergence of pattern as in the previous series, also shown in Younger Than Jesus, and more on the emergence of form. They address the question of what makes something "something."

Fold Paintings

A series of incrementally sized fold paintings, painted on raw canvas with an industrial paint sprayer. They explore the merging of a past three-dimensional state with a present two-dimensional state.

A sculpture that is half inside the gallery and half outside of it.

There will be a form resembling a black orb hanging from the gallery facade. It will blow in the breeze. Inside the gallery, there will be a light source dangling from a thin rod, moving around exactly the same way as the form outside. The sculpture is based on the phenomenon of entangled particles, two particles that, when separated from one another, continue to behave identically, even at a great distance. If you stimulate one, the other reacts too. It is as though they are supernaturally connected.

The Auerglass

The Auerglass, which is the central work in the show, is a two-person wooden pump organ designed by the artist with her friend Cameron Mesirow of the band Glasser. The instrument cannot be played alone. It requires two people to play. One player has to pump in order for the other to play and vice versa. There is a four-octave scale that is divided so that each of the two players plays every other note. Auerbach and Mesirow will play a composition written specifically for the instrument. It combines music that Auerbach wrote as a child, songs from Glasser and new material. The Auerglass will be played at the opening on September 3rd, as a prelude to a Glasser performance at 8pm on September 11th, and daily at 5pm from Tuesday through Saturday during the exhibition. Ida Falck Oien, who creates the costumes for Glasser, has created special costumes with shifting states for the Auerglass players to wear.

The highlight of the openings was the Auerglass performance. I highly recommend trying to catch the performance for yourself. It begins is a very amateurish tone. Sounding exactly as it was promised like a child's composition and really reminded me heavily of my own fumblings as a child trying to play piano. The piece then progresses into a crescendo of sound that washed over the audience a great ending. It was as if the artist's composition was also about them learning music and learning to play their invented instrument. The piece was about their very learning of music itself. starting off in the childhood composition of Auerbach and ending in the musical adultness of the new Glasser material.

I found some youtube footage of the concert check it out below. If you look carefully you can se me bopping my head.


Soho, Manhattan, New York City, Thursday, September 3, 2009.
Per New York Times:
"Wear your new statement accessories to Deitch Projects tonight for two big openings. Tara Auerbachs Crumple paintings mimic creased paper with patterns of Benday dots that can be dizzying when seen up close, writes Karen Rosenberg. But most of the focus will be on an The Auerglass, a wooden pump organ that the artist and the band Glasser will play at the reception."

On Saturday, I trekked out to see the Creative Time installations on Governor's Island called PLOT09: This World & Nearer Ones. I was only able to see a few of the shows but their quality was fantastic. Here are some of my highlights from Creative Times' TV:


Lawrence Weiner discuss his work in PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones entitled "AT THE SAME MOMENT"


Mark Walling discusses his work in PLOT/09 This World & Nearer Ones, entitled," Ferry".


Krzysztof Wodiczko discusses his work in PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones entitled "Veterans' Flame"


Anthony McCall discusses his work in PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones entitled "Between You and I"

And lastly, I caught the last showing of the night of The Bruce High Quality Foundation's "Isle of the Dead" Movie. This was the surprise of the afternoon. Really nicely made 18 minute site specific motion picture. With much of the final climax of the film taking place in the theater you are viewing the movie in. The theater is an old relic from when the Island was a Coast Guard base and Used to show first run movies when the base was operational. the haunting effect of watching a chorus of 200 zombies sing "Summer of '69" by Brian Adams was haunting and nostalgic at the same time. I'm still thinking about this movie and the fantastic sound production. If you want to listen to their song you can on The Bruce High Quality Foundation's webpage to the middle right.


The Bruce High Quality Foundation discuss their work in PLOT/09 This World & Nearer Ones entitled "Isle of the Dead"

Tomorrow Dan Graham talks at the Pig, Deitch LIC show

Artist Dan Graham will be speaking as part of the Pig at Deitch Projects LIC's
Sunday School Summer Workshop and Performance Program.



From the Press Release:

April 25, 2009 - August 09, 2009
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City

the PIG presents

JIM DRAIN
PAUL CHAN
JEFF KOONS
MARIO GRUBISIC
PAOLA PIVI
GELATIN
SIMON MARTIN
ROBERTO CUOGHI

after being the loveliest show during art basel miami beach 08 last december

MY FACE YOUR POPO
YOUR FACE MY POPO
RESTEFICK
EUROINK
PITTOSPORUM
THE FRECKLED SHOW
**OUR**WONDERFULL**SHOW**
I SAY GOODBUY YOU SAY HELLO
EVERLAND
*MORE IS LESS MORE OR LESS*
IN 80 TAGEN UM DIE WELT
DIM SUM
NEW CHINESE ART
RUBBER AMERICARD
YOUNGER BATS MUST BACK TO BED OLD FARTS CULATELLO MY ASS
CONCORDE IS HERE
NEVER FORGET A BILLION HAS 9 ZEROS
ASS TO MOUTH
AND BACK AGAIN

will now open in new york city.
a show made, curated and installed by all the artists involved, a colourful chaos of lovely details.
a confusing show that will make you smile, feel light as a feather, bees in your belly, end of the world.
a show that will make you come back an see it again, show it to your best friend and say yes.

The PIG: Sunday School Summer Workshop and Performance Program

Remaining Program is listed as follows:

July 26th: Dan Graham
5pm

August 2nd: A discussion with Takeshi Murata on tweeked animation from the '70s and '80's
5pm

August 9th: Trinie Dalton, Ben Jones, Dan Nadel.

House Rules: Ben Jones and Dan Nadel Explain the Rules. A lecture on recent ideas in paper and computer zines, emphasizing being emotional and finding your human voice. Accompanied by a digital slide show and workshop.

Trinie Dalton discussion of Bruno Munari's Original Xerographies and The Xerox Box, books seminal to the photocopy revolution in art as an addendum to 'zine making.
5pm