by Helen Homan Wu
on March 10th, 2011
Robert Knoke is in town. The German artist has a show opening tonight at NP Contemporary Art Center in the Lower East Side. We met previously at Scope New York, following with a brief interview. If you follow Robert’s trail, you’re in for exciting times. From the art scene to fashion and even art-house films. You can see his work in person or meet the artist tonight during the opening of Robert Knoke: This Is Not, showing from March 10-May 1st, 2011.
NP Contemporary Art Center
131 Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
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by Cielo Lutino
on March 10th, 2011
"El Triunfo De La Muerte" (courtesy Besharat Gallery)
In the early days of my nerdom, I used to stay up late before the book fairs my elementary school held, marking and then erasing, and then marking again which books I wanted to buy when the fair opened. Our teachers provided us beforehand with a catalogue of the books that would be at the fair, but my mother capped how much I could spend. It meant budgeting. I hated not being able to buy whatever I wanted, but the limitations made me appreciate all the more what my restricted dollars bought and what they could not. I would wander the stacks of books, learning titles I hadn’t known existed, and I would be grateful for my exposure to them; later I would look in the library for those I hadn’t been able to buy. Continue Reading More »
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by Carissa Pelleteri
on March 8th, 2011
Reclining Plate Face, 2009 ©Andrew Guenther
Paper Plate people, hotdogs and drug paraphernalia. These are some of Andrew Guenther’s subject matter. Referenced from his own life and pop culture, his work is highly personal even though it may seem even the slightest bit anonymous. Guenther’s unique aesthetic sensibility combined with vibrant colored drawings and paintings, immediately grab the viewer. His silver gelatin photographs look like they could have been taken decades ago. His latest sculptures of fish and naked ladies accompanied by a photograph of the full moon seem pure and earthly.
Andrew Guenther is based in Brooklyn and was born and raised in Wheaton, Illinois. Andrew has exhibited widely both in the US and abroad, and curated an artist’s storefront space in Brooklyn for a few years called Arts Tropical. He is represented by Freight and Volume Gallery in New York. Continue Reading More »
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by Cielo Lutino
on March 6th, 2011
"Misty Discovery," courtesy Angell Gallery
With the musical successes of Arcade Fire, Feist, and Do Make Say Think, Canada has been steadily shedding its second-country status and gaining better cultural traction globally. (Don’t know the last example I cited? Focus instead on the almost equal valuation of the Canadian and American dollars, and you’ll realize just how much our neighbor to the north has accomplished in recent years. In fact, the Canadian dollar is projected to surpass its American counterpart in value over 2011. Ouch). Canada pops up in insidious ways, too, with record labels sporting names like Secretly Canadian and, closer to home, the Ontario bar in Williamsburg.
Still, all that hoopla doesn’t mean Cannucks actually want to be in their own country. At least that’s the impression artists Catherine Bolduc and Alex McCleod leave. Both are showing at this year’s PULSE or, more specifically, IMPULSE, the second-floor exhibition that features work made in the last two years. Represented by Gallery SAS and Angell Gallery respectively, the two offer works about imaginary worlds and in the process invite viewers to consider the points at which reality and fiction meet to create the environments we inhabit internally and externally. Continue Reading More »
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by Helen Homan Wu
on March 5th, 2011
"Steven-Circle-Green" 2010, Thomas Dozol (courtesy of NP Contemporary Art Center)
Join us on a gallery walk in the Lower East Side this Sunday, March 6th, as a wrap up and recap to this week’s art events. Led by Artcards editors, who are also independent curators, Helen Homan Wu and Howard Hurst. The tour offers an exclusive opportunity to engage in conversations with gallerists, curators, and the art. We will also be attending the closing party of Thomas Dozol’s All Together Now (Studies for a Missing Utopia)! exhibition at NP Contemporary Art Center. Being a native LES New Yorker, I wanted to start the tour with a slightly exotic touch, going for dim sum brunch on the brim of Chinatown. Sign up here, or if you have questions, contact me at Review@artcards.cc.
Tour Details:
March 6th, 2011
Sunday, 1PM
Brunch in Wing Shoon Restaurant
165 East Broadway
10 1/2 Galleries
Starting at Reena Spaulings Gallery and ending with Jen Bekman Gallery.
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by Carissa Pelleteri
on March 3rd, 2011
© Therese+Joel, "Adrian & Lyoka"
The first exhibition to be presented at the gallery’s new space in Chelsea. On view from March 4 through Spring 2011, the exhibition explores sexual attraction and physical beauty as it relates to modern everyday existence across the globe through the work of twelve acclaimed photographers, collectives and duos.
CASS BIRD / BRIAN FINKE / CAMILLE VIVIER / CAROLL TAVERAS / CHRISTIAN WEBER / ELLEN JONG / JOSEPH SZABO/LØBER NØGEN / SANDY KIM / STEPHEN IRWIN / THERESE + JOEL / YISOOK SOHN / ZED NELSON
F.L.O.A.T Gallery, 300 west 22nd street, NYC
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by Howard Hurst
on March 2nd, 2011
Biographical Dance of Combined Stories
Last week, I headed to Bryce Wolkowitz in Chelsea to chat with artist Jose Parla about his upcoming solo show. When I arrived Jose was busy attacking the front hallway of the gallery. The artist likened the space to an alleyway, one he had already begun to cover with a series of tags. Each signature had a story, a small remembrance of friends and writers from the past. Discussing the wall at hand, the artist smiled from ear to ear as he explained his homage with borrowed strokes of a paint marker.
A product of 80s Miami, Parla is possessed by the power of the paint encrusted street corner. There is an element of photorealism in his canvasses; each a re-exploration of a space once visited. The vivid and unruly paintings on display document and celebrate the beautiful underbelly of urban space. An avid traveler and long time resident of New York City, the artist pulls reference from a staggering mental and photographic data bank of urban facades. Brown tarnish mingles with the wriggling marks of phantom graffiti writers, conjured up from the depths of the artist’s mind. Each painting is a wall, each wall a port key to experience, a touch stone for memory. It is through this type of reflection that perception is given its layers. The artist speaks of painting as if it were theater; each work unfolding through a long process of remembrance. To ignore this is to ignore the high drama at play. Continue Reading More »
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