by Helen Homan Wu on September 30th, 2010
If you’re around the Lower East Side tomorrow, join the opening ceremony for Mall-terations, a community urban art project launched by Hester Street Collaborative. Try out the brand new roller benches made from found and saved materials installed on hand-painted maps. Read more about it on our previous post here.
Friday, October 1st, 2010 at noon
Allen Street Pedestrian Malls (between Houston & Delancey)
by Helen Homan Wu on September 30th, 2010
Four weeks ago I received an anonymous postcard in the mail with a mysterious little poem in the back that goes:
And I would share something,
Something beautiful with you.
I gaze at you distantly.
And should I?
Should I approach?
For I would share something,
Something beautiful and true.
by Helen Homan Wu on September 29th, 2010
Electrochroma courtesy of FIAF
For sonic arts fans, mark your calendars this month. Opening tonight and for every Wednesday of October is a series of live experimental audiovisuals curated by the artist Richard Garet. Garet’s own audiovisual blackbox installation entitled Electrochroma is currently on view at the Invisible Dog gallery. Electrochroma “was created in a digital environment utilizing various analog and digital techniques and a variety of software processes to maneuver audio and moving image. The work’s imagery ranges from dark to light monochromatic spheres, shifting tonality and intensity from mild to high saturation, including flickering and pulsating patterns, RGB phenomena, afterimage, retinal impact, and sensory overloads. The sound composition was arranged for 5.1-surround audio and is comprised of a molded experimentation resulting in tones, overtones, profound bass echoing, modulated frequencies, textures, static noises, and electronic sounds moving through space.” The line-up looks good with a premier by one of my favorite avante-garde turntablist Maria Chavez. Complete schedule here.
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
by Helen Homan Wu on September 28th, 2010
Bus Fire (2010)
I had the feeling that Michael Stickrod is somewhat of a 21st century neo-Romanticist when I saw his assemblages. A dusty postcard, a half-torn hotel letterhead scribbled with messages, a used pencil from his mother, handmade knives from his father, Michael saves everything that has personal value. These personal mementos quietly meld into his palette for producing work that’s full of vivid narratives. Before I got to know Michael personally, I was curiously drawn to his assemblages showing at the group show Untitled at NP Gallery. His story is particularly strong because each object – though casually pinned on the cork board – had gone through many places and cycles of time. The way the artist chose to light these artifacts using a single warm lamp almost feels as if we’re looking through his eyes. Yet these clues are not enough, many pieces of the puzzle are still missing.
by Helen Homan Wu on September 28th, 2010
Following Kathrin Rhomberg, who was the curator for the 6th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art just announced the news that Artur Żmijewski will be curator for the upcoming 7th Biennale. Looking forward to 2012. Previous curators include: Klaus Biesenbach with Nancy Spector and Hans Ulrich Obrist (1st Berlin Biennale), Saskia Bos (2nd Berlin Biennale), Ute Meta Bauer (3rd Berlin Biennale), Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick (4th Berlin Biennale), Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic (5th Berlin Biennale), and Kathrin Rhomberg (6th Berlin Biennale).
by Howard Hurst on September 27th, 2010
Chuck Close
Pace is an art gallery synonymous with New York City. Having moved here in the 1960s from Boston, owner Arne Glimcher has built it into something of a dynasty. This September marks the gallery’s 50th year in existence. To celebrate, Glimcher has organized a massive exhibition sprawling across all four of his Manhattan gallery spaces. The show features influential and important paintings from across Pace’s five decade history. The uptown space has been organized into a mini retrospective of notable Pace exhibitions. The other three spaces in Chelsea are ordered based on a rough chronology, featuring contemporary art, abstract expressionism and pop art, and “minimalism and post modern art” respectively.
Dan Flavin
by Megan Seelie on September 25th, 2010
'No', 2010. oil on canvas
Have you ever been to a solo show where you are convinced there were multiple artists on display? That’s how I felt while visiting Fraenkel Gallery’s Mel Bochner: Photographs and Not Photographs 1966 – 2010, spanning Bochner’s work from 1966 to 2010, a potent time for conceptual and Post-Minimalist art in America. Each work tempted me to the next like a carrot on a stick with a continuation of the concepts that he wove throughout the gallery using photography and painting. Furthermore, quotes from Sartre, Proust, Duchamp and the Miriam-Webster Dictionary about photography, blocks, monuments, painting and a multitude of other topics illuminated his photos and paintings. Bochner’s show presents many ideas, but lacks a specific point which is successful in that it allows the viewer a great deal of room to ponder, explore and enjoy without feeling that an answer must be found.
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