SUZANNE SONG exhibition
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 17, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: November 17 through December 17, 2011
DOOSAN Gallery
533 West 25th Street - between 10th and 11th ave.
New York, NY 10001
Heejung Cho (EFA Studios)
Fri, Oct 29, 2010 to Sat, Dec 11, 2010
The New Intimists is an excitingly soft-spoken exhibition curated by Samantha Friedman, proving that two-dimensional work remains powerful. This exhibition considers a trend within contemporary practice to embrace the decorative through the use of pattern and the subject of the interior. Inheriting the tradition of the late 19th century Nabis, these artists embrace flatness in their form and look inside for their content.
By documenting domestic spaces – whether personal, historical, or constructed – we see a vision of life unavailable on any website. From damask wallpaper to plaid bedspreads, these artists bring the viewers back down to earth, inviting us to engage their personal space. They reject illusionistic representation in a celebration of geometric flatness, pointing to the demure quietness of a domestic space that is commonly overlooked at a time where our attentions are so intensely fought for by issues far from the domestic sphere.
Venue: NURTUREart Gallery
910 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 29, 7pm, press preview at 6pm.
Curated by Samantha Friedman
Saya Woolfalk at the Institute of Empathy
Saya Woolfalk
Institute of Empathy
October 21, 2010 - march 20, 2011
Drawing material from various realms of the visual—pop-culture, ritual, street-spectacle—I use art as a laboratory to catalogue and critique our socio-visual landscape. Combining performance, sculpture, painting, and video, my installations investigate and playfully re-imagine the representational systems that hierarchically shape our lives. My art is an experimental ground where I create alternative bodies, environments, and consciousnesses.
A black, white, and Japanese woman, my work is inspired by ethnographic, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory. I spent two years going back and forth between Brazil and the United States and traveled to Japan in the fall of 2008. All three countries have had an enormous influence on my practice.
Opening reception:
Saturday, October 23 | 6 - 8 pm | FREE
artist talk:
February 10, 2011 | 5 PM | free
The Big Screen Project
October 2010
Public Art Project
A large scale projection in a new at the 10,000 sq. ft. public plaza for public art through the Big Screen Project. The plaza is located behind a new 54-story multi-use building on Sixth Avenue between 29th and 30th Street in New York City. Please see the web site for upcoming schedules, more details to follow.
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Acrylic Innovation: Styles and Techniques Featuring 64 Visionary Artists
October 2010.
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LMCC / Governor’s Island
2011
Soon Tegeder will be taking a ferry to the studio. She will have a residency through LMCC’s Governor’s Island Studio program starting this winter and through the summer.
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Art in Odd Places
October 1-10, 2010
Tegeder is placing 500 small square yellow hand made books filled with conceptual poetry (directions from taxi drivers to random locations) in the back of yellow cabs for people to find during the Art in Odd Places Exhibition over the next seven days. You can also pick up a free book at C&B Convenience Store 248 E. 14th Street through Oct. 10.
Kim Piotrowski at The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago
October 17 - January 30, 2011, Gallery 4
Beds and guns are highly charged cultural symbols the artist Kim Piotrowski dissects in her most recent mixed media paintings featured in Gallery 4. The solo exhibition debuts the largest acrylic paintings on paper by the artist to date. As analogies for life, the two separate series of new paintings - one series of beds and one series of guns - exhibited together transform the simple three-letter words into a image that represents having and losing control.
For the past several years, Kim Piotrowski has been manipulating photojournalistic imagery of impactful current world events found online into her painted and drawn abstractions. In her expressive style, she prompts us to consider the compromising and unplanned roles we face in life. She employs bold and flowing lines that capture the feeling of chaos of such events as a hotel bombing in Mumbai. Yet, her paintings can equally capture the desire for calm and comfort found in a roadside memorial made visible through her use of sepia-toned interludes painted among patches of intense color and abstract pattern. The new work presented by Piotrowski at the Art Center collapses global scale and private experience into one moment by addressing the significant personal episodes that mark every human life: birth, love, sickness, and death.
According to Piotrowski, “The bed can be seen as a place of record where one loves, dreams, and dies. Death, and the line that exists between having power and having it taken away, also fuels my art. In the process of making this work, I keep unfolding parallels that I find very exciting to explore. Painting demands time to savor and analyze. Working with these images affords me to live through the ideas and to find deeper meaning within.”
New Work by Ruth Pastine
PRESENT FUGITIVE opening Saturday, November 6, 2010, 5 – 7pm
New Work by Ruth Pastine
Houston, TX – The Gallery Sonja Roesch is pleased to announce the exhibition Present Fugitive, featuring new work by California-based artist Ruth Pastine. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will open November 6, 2010 and close on December 31, 2010.
Ruth Pastine’s nearly monochrome color field paintings invest in the perceptual experience of color, light, and temperature. Suspending preconceived notions about visual experience, she investigates the mercurial shift of warm and cool color identities. The complementary oil colors are worked together on the canvas inch-by-inch, wet into wet, layer upon layer, with a 2-inch brush- an essential part of the rigorous process and seamless resolve of the meticulous surfaces. Inspired by distinct and contrasting light conditions Pastine creates an inner luminosity, which expands beyond the canvas.
The work is clearly focused on the process of painting - taking the material aspect and transforming it through a disciplined work ethic into something spiritual – “optically immaterial”. The result is a visually arresting surface, vibrantly present and ephemeral, that appears to expand outwards as the edges contract inwards.
Donald Kuspit writes, “The light suddenly changed and the field changed with it, losing its uniformity and blossoming, as it were, into a variety of spontaneously color events. Undifferentiated shallow surface had become differentiated expressive depth, one narrow color note had expanded into a chamber music of colors, each distinct yet merging, playing off of each other yet oddly harmonious.” “Pastine creates an infinitely nuanced range of color experiences, each with it’s own “spiritual sound” or resonance, to use Kandinsky’s term. While Pastine is obsessed with “the convergence and reconciliation of opposition,” the changing light brings out the opposing colors, conveying the tension between them.”
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 6, 5 -7pm
Exhibition closes December 31, 2010.