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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C9E5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C9E5">
  <Name>Louis Cameron &quot;The African-American Flag Project&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/723E9E5C">
    <Name>I-20 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>557 W 23rd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-645-1100</Phone>
    <Fax>212-645-0198</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_23">Chelsea 23rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[I-20 presents the fourth exhibition of Louis Cameron. For this show, Cameron will exhibit a suite of thirteen acrylic paintings entitled The African-American Flag Project. These paintings depict flags that were created to symbolically represent the African-American experience. Works from this series will also be presented by the artist as a solo project at the Armory Show, with three different flags shown on each day of the fair.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>47</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.74805</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/D5A1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/D5A1">
  <Name>Annie Kevans &quot;Manumission&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/26DB0455">
    <Name>Perry Rubenstein Gallery (527 West 23rd Street)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>527 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-8000</Phone>
    <Fax>212-627-6336</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_23">Chelsea 23rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The title of the exhibition is Manumission, a term with a complex history. Manumission refers specifically to a slave owner's ability or discretion to free a slave. That power, in the hands of the men that wielded it, is the same power exercised by the philanderer in the choosing and the dismissal of his mistress.

The paintings in this exhibition are all portraits; most depict the illegitimate children of various Presidents of the United States, others their mistresses. Many of these figures, such as Sally Hemings and Grace Kelly, are well known. Others are considerably less so, and even less so are their children. Through this series of portraits, Kevans explores the representation of power, the lack thereof, and its manipulation in the hands of those who posses it. Having an affinity for the marginalized, Kevans paints figures overlooked, exploited, or objectified within the context of history or contemporary culture, imbuing her subjects with a tangible humanity and sensuality.

Kevans' wide-eyed rendition of William Beverly Hemings conveys an innocence that arrests its viewer, yet exposes dark themes that belie its surface. William, the son of Sally Hemings, is believed to have been fathered by Thomas Jefferson. With William's startled and seemingly innocuous gaze, Kevans alludes to the injustice and hypocrisy perpetrated by one of the most revered figures in American History.

Kevans looks to historical texts, illustrations, or photographs for source material, when possible. Yet as is often the case with figures that have been all but forgotten or perhaps deliberately omitted from history, she visualizes characters by borrowing features from life models. In effect, lending a face to the faceless and casting light on issues that are uncomfortable and thus ignored.

Implementing loose brushwork and layers of translucent oil paint, Kevans paints her subjects in a manner so elegant and subtle that she allows the character of both the medium and the subject to speak for themselves. Given their rich individual histories, the manifestations of these characters are as incredible as the feat of their rendering. 

[Image: Annie Kevans &quot;William Beverly Hemings in Brown (All the Presidents' Girls)&quot; (2010), Oil on canvas paper, 20 x 14 15/16 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-16</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/DF91" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/DF91">
  <Name>Valerie Jaudon &quot;Sight Reading&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FC46FCEF">
    <Name>Von Lintel Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>520 W 23rd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-0599</Phone>
    <Fax>212-242-0803</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_23">Chelsea 23rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Valerie Jaudon’s new paintings feature bars and bands of white paint, either placed against a raw linen ground or seemingly incised into a solid white field. Short and concise figures blend with long, complex compound shapes. The asymmetric construction of the paintings sets up a reading that is programmed but non-logical – one that leads the eye in unexpected ways across and through the canvas. Disjunction and dissonance meet with resolution and completion. To regard these paintings is to participate in an act of translation – to move from a map, a diagram, archaeology of overlapping circuits, into an experience. Jaudon is concerned with setting up the conditions of observation, showing the viewer how to look, not what to see.
These are some of Jaudon's most romantic paintings, musical and full of feeling, but as always, crafted with great care and precision. They are intensely material. The paint is thickly brushed and refractive, scattering light and adding chromatic complexity to her whites. The painted linear elements contrast with the rich, absorbent brown of the linen, just as her systematic geometry pushes up against the intuitive and contingent. Jaudon has developed her pictorial language over many years, and these paintings consolidate her previous work while opening up fresh vistas for future investigation.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/E33F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/E33F">
  <Name>Andy Warhol &quot;Unexposed Exposures&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DEBF7504">
    <Name>Steven Kasher Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 23rd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-966-3978</Phone>
    <Fax>212-226-1485</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_23">Chelsea 23rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Steven Kasher Gallery presents the first exhibition of previously unpublished and unexhibited photographs that Warhol selected for his 1979 book Andy Warhol’s Exposures. The exhibition will feature over 70 unique vintage black and white photographic prints. It will be accompanied by a new book, Andy Warhol: Unexposed Exposures (Steidl/Kasher, 2010), edited and with an introduction by Bob Colacello (who was executive editor of the original book as well). Starting in 1976, Warhol shot several rolls of film every week and selected images for the 1979 book. He had intended to title it Social Diseases, but his concept was heavily watered down by his publishers at the time and many of the selected images were removed.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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