NYAB Events - Jack the Pelican Presents

Jack the Pelican Presents - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Jack the Pelican Presents. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Eric Yahnker "Piano Man (for Guitar)"
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- Media: Drawing - Performance Art
- 2008-10-10 - 2008-11-09
Eric finds 'little cracks,' as he says, "in the status quo." Each of his pieces is a fully realized joke. But one liners they are not. Instead, they resonate with a powerfully good vibe. He's titled (...)

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David Sandlin "Sin-a-rama: An Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2008-09-05 - 2008-10-05
David Sandlin "Sin-a-rama: An Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality" is a 70'-long, refined epic of poetic rabble-rousing in watercolor and a co-extensive, cut-out wooden frieze of medieval grotesquery—from (...)

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Arthur Cohen "Now What?"
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-09-05 - 2008-10-05
Arthur Cohen "Now What?" is 8 large, full-scale figurative paintings featuring an imaginary (visual) conversation set on ropes between the artist—a middle-aged "big Jew" New Yorker—and his friend, a very (...)

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Tyler Coburn and Sebastian Craig "Ghostwriters"
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- Media: Drawing - Architecture
- 2008-07-10 - 2008-08-10
The first collaboration between New Yorker Tyler Coburn and Londoner Sebastian Craig, "Ghostwriters" is an imaginary account of Brooklyn narrated in drawing, architecture and prose. Building upon the (...)

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Dan Arps "Affirmation Dungeon"
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- Media: Photography - Other
- 2008-07-10 - 2008-08-10
At first, it was going to be merely a selection of his works on paper (easy to ship)—and don't get me wrong, these scrawly-feely paintings and photo-collages are really fresh... (they're well described (...)

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Heather Morgan & Ben E. Ward "Whore"
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-05-30 - 2008-06-29
WORE! is frightening and beautiful. The paintings of both Heather Morgan and Ben E. Ward are powerful enough on their own. The combination is jolting! To some it may seem problematic to juxtapose (...)

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David Ford "White Like Me"
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- Media: Installation
- 2008-04-25 - 2008-05-25
"White Like Me" will feature 10 of Fords works, which were manifested from his time at the Art Omi International residency. These works reflect the elaboration of concepts and soft performance developed (...)

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Susan MacWilliam "Double Vision"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2008-03-21 - 2008-04-20
On the face of it, Belfast artist Susan MacWilliam breathes life into the obscure history of research into paranormal perception. Straddling the roles of scientific investigator, documentarian and artist, (...)

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Irvin Morazan "The Return of Xipe Totec"
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- Media: Sculpture - Performance Art
- 2008-03-21 - 2008-04-20
On his opening night, Irvin Morazan, wearing a giant Mayan-inspired headdress that is blood red and fleshy in the image of a horse, enters the main door of the gallery, down the long processional corridor (...)

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