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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9C6B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/9C6B">
  <Name>Georges Moquay &quot;Toxic Remedy&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3A2F1B7">
    <Name>De Buck Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., Suite 502, NEW YORK, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-5735</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[ In his first New York solo exhibition, Moquay creates large dynamic canvases that transform the gallery into a splashy, colorful swirl of energy and empowerment.
Toxic Remedy is built upon Moquay’s graphic vocabulary, which consists of an amalgam of icons and symbols. Bodiless thick-outlined heads, Moquay’s “warriors”, encircle the long-necked white buddhas in a scene of cultural fusion made up of postmodern hieroglyphics. Moquay’s “warriors” draw on Aztec pictographs, Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos’ skeleton Catrinas, and even the head of Pez candy dispenser. Using colorful x’s, o’s and arrows to fill the background along with interjections of text, Moquay’s grand scale paintings resemble larger-than-life hip-hop cartoons.
Georges Moquay was born in France to Rotraut Uecker, the widow of Yves Klein and sister to Gunther Uecker, and grew up surrounded by artists such as Pierre Restany, Arman, Cesar, and Niki de Saint-Phalle. Beginning painting at 24, Moquay has explored the process of creating work, sometimes incorporating video or music in a rave-like art experience. Moquay has been featured in exhibitions at Guy Pieters Gallery (Belgium), Galerie Be-Air Fine Art (Geneve), and Galerie de Lices (Saint-Tropez).
Georges Moquay lives and works in Paris and Arizona.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-04-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/A2DA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/A2DA">
  <Name>Bill Jensen Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F716704">
    <Name>Cheim &amp; Read</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-7727</Phone>
    <Fax>212-242-7737</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1945, Bill Jensen has lived and worked in New York since the early 1970s, and was one of the first artists to establish a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He came into prominence with “the return to painting” of the late 70’s and early 80’s. Intuitive and visceral, Jensen’s abstractions have long been admired for their unconventional compositions and profound sense of color. Saturated, densely worked surfaces, seemingly primordial in origin, transcend any sense of the struggle that Jensen attributes to his painting process. For Jensen, a painting is successful only when the artist’s initial impulse and his material’s properties harmoniously converge; this can sometimes take several years to achieve. Defined by an amorphous, ever-changing search for resolution, Jensen’s results are ultimately determined by the act of painting itself.

While characterized by the same unpretentious, process-driven investigations found in his previous work, Jensen’s new paintings are connected to distinctly identifiable sources; specific forms or compositional elements repeat in several works. This foresight and repetition is a departure for Jensen, as is his format: the majority of the new paintings and drawings are diptychs or triptychs. In discussion, he cites influences as varied as José Clemente Orozco, Clyfford Still, Francisco Goya’s black paintings, Chinese poetry, and the Dogon tribe of Africa. More specifically, in regard to the triptych configuration, he references the Rothko Chapel, a lesser-known Willem de Kooning altarpiece, and Ronald Bladen’s three-paneled painting Untitled, 1960-61 and his sculpture, Three Elements, 1965. Further, the Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev (c. 1360s–1430) has provided specific inspiration for Jensen’s “imagery.” For several canvases, as seen in The Trinity, Mandate of Heaven and Substance, Spirit and Shadow, all 2010-11, Jensen outlined the main element (three angels, seated at Abraham’s table) of Rublev’s icon painting, The Holy Trinity (1410), and repositioned it as a single, abstract shape floating on a multi-layered background of subtly colored ground. Recurring in this triptych and others, the form becomes a self-contained, almost reliquary-like symbol for Jensen’s working process.

The triptych format (which also reinforces the idea of the trinity) allows for multiple interactions between three painted surfaces. Jensen finds the possibilities of different arrangements liberating – each canvas can be re-positioned, rotated, or turned upside-down. More importantly, the format displaces any sense of the temporal or sequential, fracturing narrative constructs of “past,” “present,” and “future.” It also complicates the spatial continuity by interrupting the picture plane with distinct, physical edges; the painting’s three parts do not predictably “line up,” nor do they provide a sense of dimensional unity. Large in scale but not necessarily the same size, Jensen’s canvases create notches when hung together, further enforcing the time/space distortion. (The notches also reference altarpieces in Italy, and the Rothko panels.) Though rooted in Jensen’s profound appreciation for art history, his triptychs, like his other paintings, distill and transcend his many influences, infinitely extending on multiple paths beyond any one classification.

Other paintings in the exhibition are directly related to one of Jensen’s heavily worked etchings, Eclipse, 2011 in which a sandblasted plate was scraped and re-worked to remove blacks and add highlights. The resulting composition proved fruitful for Jensen, who copied and re-worked the abstraction in an etching called Sorrow, 2011 (which then led to the diptych series of paintings called Book of Songs). A graphic palette of grays and blacks dominate, and reference a series of line paintings that Jensen did in the 1990s. The line paintings have been a sustained influence over the last decade, providing a thread of continuity between Jensen’s various bodies of work. A series of black and white drawings (also diptychs and triptychs), made while Jensen was in Italy, emerge from the same palette. Washy, vaguely anthropomorphic forms permeate the paper; the organic abstractions allude to the less deliberate, searching quality of Jensen’s past work but also anticipate his move towards the larger triptych paintings.

All of Jensen’s works are characterized by his concern with the craft of painting. He makes his own paints (using a self-developed oil-based medium and pigment), allowing for a broad spectrum of colors (the wealth and variety of blacks provides an ample example) and controlling texture, saturation, and viscosity. Tools are created to fit his needs – butcher knives become scrapers, masonry-grade trowels become palette knives. Even in the more “planned” iconography of the triptychs, process is paramount, providing impetus for the works’ execution. For Jensen, process and result are inseparably linked: one is inconceivable without the other. This is the “struggle” that he strives to resolve, searching for the moment that material and content coalesce in unexpected, almost psychic unity.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/CC7F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/CC7F">
  <Name>Gordon Moore &quot;Paintings &amp; Photo-Emulsion Drawings&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/18EB3383">
    <Name>Betty Cuningham Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>541 W 25th St., New York. NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-2772</Phone>
    <Fax>212-242-5959</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The current group of large scale paintings further develops the abstracted format and reduced palette of the works exhibited in Moore’s previous shows. Notably, these new paintings reflect the artist’s interest in photography, positing dimensional space next to drawn space. Moore combines three or more distinct spaces within a single canvas with drawn lines that vary from deliberate to random. Moore describes himself as an empiricist and the paintings reveal an abstract but very tangible world. 

The works on paper in this exhibition are, as the title implies, ink and acrylic on photo-emulsion paper.  Here the tangible meets the abstract as the incidental photograph of a broken umbrella or a bent coat hanger converse with the drawn lines and the painted areas.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-12-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0210" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/0210">
  <Name>&quot;happenings&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/510B609E">
    <Name>The Pace Gallery (534 W 25th St)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>534 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-929-7000</Phone>
    <Fax>212-929-7001</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The first exhibition to document the origins and historical development of the transient, yet pivotal “Happenings” movement from its inception in 1958 through 1963. The experimental performances forever changed the definition of art and the possibilities for what it could be. The show captures more than thirty of the original Happenings and the contributions of the main participants—Jim Dine, Simone Forti, Red Grooms, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, Carolee Schneemann, and Robert Whitman. It brings together for the first time more than 300 photographs by five photographers who witnessed and documented the performances, as well as artworks, rare film footage, and original ephemera. The exhibition is accompanied by a book published by The Monacelli Press and authored by Milly Glimcher.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0312" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/0312">
  <Name>&quot;In Living Color&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E13CCD41">
    <Name>The FLAG Art Foundation</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>545 W 25th St, 9 and 10 Fls., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Open every Friday from 11am to 3pm and occasional Saturdays.  Otherwise open by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition presents a chromatic study from a wide range of artists including: Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Kristin Baker, Olaf Bruening, Dan Colen, Mark Grotjahn, Anselm Reyle, Gerhard Richter, Fred Tomaselli, Cy Twombly, and Rachel Whiteread. The majority of the works being shown have been completed in the past 2 years and many are on view for the first time in America. Several have never been shown at all prior to this exhibition.
 
Among the newly completed works are Kristin Baker's Once in a Mooning, a night sky streaked with hues of luminescent blue injected with electrifying pink. Dan Colen created Zero for Conduct, a flower painting of deep reds, purples and blues specifically for the exhibition.
 
The following works will be on view in the United States for the first time: Gerhard Richter's digital print Strip is comprised of a system of parallel lines generated by dividing an earlier abstract painting by the artist vertically into a pattern of 8190 strips. Shown in Athens at the last gallery exhibition of his work prior to his passing, Cy Twombly's Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves (IV) employs rich tones of turquoise with vermillion and yellow to portray the Mediterranean landscape and reference ancient literature and mythology. Rachel Whiteread's sculpture A.M. from her last show at her Rome gallery, inhabits the negative space within a windowpane, utilizing a jewel-like pink resin.
 
The exhibition explores color in a variety of contexts and ranges: within a framework of order and chaos, as a signifier of time and place, in relation to the medium of the work, and in monochromatic forms.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-19</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/03B8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/03B8">
  <Name>Michelle Doll Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Blank Space</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., Suite 204, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-924-2025</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/060D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/060D">
  <Name>James Busby &quot;Wingspan&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BB53F343">
    <Name>Stux Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-352-1600</Phone>
    <Fax>212-352-0302</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[One of the enigmatic centerpieces of James Busby’s fourth exhibition at Stux Gallery is attempting an escape. A meticulously polished black painting rests on a cart that appears as if it emerged from an ancient shipwreck. Gnarly fiberglass growth threatens to consume the pristine surface from all sides as the rusty cart wheels the piece away to a determined but indecipherable destination.

Poets have been comparing artworks to wings that transport the artist and viewer to the realm of aesthetic imagination since the Romantic Era. Works in “Wingspan”, on the other hand, remind us that in addition to the ability to sponsor intellectual flight, various properties of the figurative “wings” themselves are fascinating in their own right. Influenced by Russian Constructivism, Suprematism and the works of Robert Ryman, Donald Judd and Richard Tuttle, amongst others, Busby’s new paintings are also inspired by the physical, temporal, and interactive process of art creation. They raise important questions about the way visual art initiates dialogue with its viewers and influences—or becomes influenced by—its surrounding environment.

The effects of Busby’s obsessive attention to surface texture and geometric relations are magnified in his new works of unprecedentedly large scale, for the artist. Created by sanding thick layers of gesso, his already low reliefs become vanishingly subtle amidst the enlarged overall dimensions. However, up close the viewer will discover forms that hover above or sink below one another in their new spacious habitat, creating frictions and spatial tensions that echo beyond the visual field. Oddly, the compounded complexity renders his works even more intimate as Busby’s trademark techniques dazzle in in their expanded venue.

The three-dimensionality and variations in surface quality allow Busby to paint with the light cast upon them to create ephemeral colors and textures unachievable by applying paint alone. Viewing his larger works requires viewers to completely immerse themselves in Busby’s meticulous world of visual and spiritual poetry, and engage thoroughly with the newly acquired wingspan before taking off.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/09B0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/09B0">
  <Name>&quot;Viridian Affiliate Artists&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7852D8D9">
    <Name>Viridian Artists, Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., #407, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-414-4040</Phone>
    <Fax>212-414-4040</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Viridian Artists Affiliate program is a special gallery program that is an important aspect of Viridian's mission to expand exhibition and sales opportunities for outstanding contemporary artists. 

Sheila Smith has been creating a series of photos she has been taking of wall surfaces in the streets of New York City for ages. After photographing her image digitally, she then reconstructs it in Photoshop to create an abstract painterly look. To complete the work, she then prints them on canvas and glues it to a gesso board so that the photographic image &quot;becomes&quot; a painting. 

Sarah Riley is the Head of Printmaking at Southeast Missouri State University. Her book on mixed-media printmaking techniques was published in December 2011 by A &amp; C Black, London. Her artwork, too, is an exploration and mixture of media and techniques that combine drawing, collage, printmaking and paint. Many of her works contain feminist overtones and are drawn from myth, literature and personal history; the juxtaposition of images suggests both memories and re-imaginings.

Rosemary Lyons is enthralled by the multitude of Latin phrases still in use centuries after the language was declared dead. Her illuminated manuscripts are inspired by that 'dead' language but she uses Latin with contemporary imagery to create Illuminated Manuscripts of 'Renaissance choir books with an ironic twist. These images are part of a larger Manu Scriptus Series.

Lauren Purje's current paintings are part of what she calls &quot;the disaster series&quot;, a series of paintings of children thrown into disastrous-looking landscapes.  She sees the content of the paintings as allegories and metaphors for her own anxieties and fears: fear we all share like the fear of death and anxiety over circumstances out of our control.  The characters in the works are hopeless and accompanied by universal symbols of death and/or impending doom in backgrounds loosely inspired by 19th century romantic paintings.

Nancy Macina paints the great cities of the world and their environs, focusing on their beauty and how the light of nature falls upon them. Her hope is to capture the ethos of a place and how its history has evolved into the present through our perception and memory. As she travels and paints, she is recreating these places with imagination and in some situations, a sense of surreality. 

Katherine Ellinger Smith's new series of paintings and drawings is an exploration of her favorite films with female characters like Rebecca or Bette Davis in 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane' who have double-edged personalities. To begin the development of a painting or drawing, she first photographs film “moments” with a digital camera while viewing the movie on television and then edits the shots until she finds an image that she feels directly connected to. Her intent is to draw the viewer directly and powerfully into the content of the piece. She is a tenured art professor at South East Missouri State University.

Vernita N'Cognita is a visual/ performance artist/ curator who has exhibited her art throughout the world. Her artwork ranges across a variety of disciplines, from creating installations, m/m collages and tangible art objects such as the “Endless Junkmail Scroll to the creation of performance art that conceptually investigates theatre and its edges – using language, space, and time, silence and stillness as well as movement and voice as instruments of self-expression. In 1995, she assumed the name VERNITA N’COGNITA in homage to under-recognized artists.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1288" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1288">
  <Name>D.W. Mellor &quot;Garvey 30 Years, A Photographic Portrait&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2C586556">
    <Name>Rick Wester Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., Suite 205, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-5560</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-2504</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</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" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The series focuses on a prolonged project of photographing a man who, at first, was a stranger but eventually evolved into a muse and friend. Garvey — 30 Years embodies the tradition of the extended portrait in photography, as practiced by Alfred Stieglitz; Harry Callahan; Emmet Gowin and Robert Mapplethorpe. All have served as highly respected influences on Mellor's approach to photographing Garvey.

Mellor first encountered Tom Garvey in 1976 while on a commercial assignment in Valley Forge, PA. Mellor was immediately struck with the urge to photograph this unique character when Garvey passed by on an old Harley motorcycle. Thus began their relationship and the resulting ritual of annual portrait sessions in and near Garvey's home in South Philadelphia. Garvey had been a technical inspector at Boeing Aircraft and could afford a much more lavish lifestyle than the one he chose but it was his unexpected graceful and modest personality, in contrast to his gruff appearance, that made him an attractive subject for Mellor's lens. As a subject, Garvey displayed remarkable range emotionally and physically. Whether clad in costumes of his own design, nude, posed indoors or out Tom Garvey personifies the American iconoclast rebel living beyond but acutely aware of the mainstream. He is a Tom Waits ballad, wrapped in a parachute, seemingly ageless with his shock of white hair and grizzled beard.

D.W. Mellor, originally from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, has been working as a photographer since the early 1970s. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. In addition to his work as a fine artist, he has held positions as a professor of photography at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and as the Director of the Photography Gallery in Philadelphia.

This exhibition will feature 30 photographs selected from the large body of work including &quot;No Stealing,&quot; Mellor's first
8 x 10 negative shot in 1976.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/150D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/150D">
  <Name>&quot;The Art Of....&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/46FE916E">
    <Name>Fischbach Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave, #801, New York, NY, 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-759-2345</Phone>
    <Fax>212-366-1783</Fax>
    <Access>Between 24th and 25th Street Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[the ART of features recent paintings and works on paper examining the current stylistic trends and diverse interests of the Fischbach Gallery Artists’.  the Art of considers what creative challenges these Artists strive to accomplish in continuing perfecting their artistic abilities.  Whether an intricate still life, a vivid seascape, an ancient structure, a lush landscape, or a magnificent city building, each of these Fischbach Artists’ paintings portray the ultimate in excellence, resplendent in their unique styles and enchanting subject matter.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/162C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/162C">
  <Name>Richard Kalina Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>514 W 25th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-941-0012</Phone>
    <Fax>212-929-3265</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The New Yorker said of him, “A painter’s painter, Kalina has affinities with other New York artists who came of age in the sixties and seventies, from Jennifer Bartlett to Philip Taaffe.” The magazine referred to Luquillo, a resincoated crumpled striped canvas from 1970 as “post-painterly abstraction,” and said of A Cartesian Diver, 2009, “the buoyant hexagons traverse a grid, the intersections of which are cut into squares of raw canvas, giving the delicate composition a satisfyingly rough contrast.” It called the recent paintings “elegantly tessellated collages, his strongest work yet.” Along with A Cartesian Diver, the current exhibition includes seven
additional paintings and a group of new watercolors, all inspired by the representation of scientific phenomena — astronomy, chemistry, physics, and cybernetics. In the last decade Kalina has refined a unique method of making these paintings. He begins with a small sketch, and then draws the composition to scale on vellum placed over the surface of a panel. This “cartoon” becomes the guide for the next steps: masking the edges and areas intended to remain exposed, laying down a white ground layer, and adhering hundreds of cut and torn pieces of painted paper onto the linen. Painting sheets of rice paper using only transparent pigments, Kalina rips and cuts small pieces of paper and overlaps or abuts them to form an array of ovals, rings, circles, bands and hexagons. The shapes are distributed across fields of irregular, interleaved polygons in variegated tones of close colors that establish a shallow planar space.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Frank Yamrus &quot;I Feel Lucky&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>ClampArt</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521-531 W 25th St., Ground Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-230-0020</Phone>
    <Fax>646-230-8008</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
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  <DaysBeforeEnd>44</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2DAB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2DAB">
  <Name>&quot;A Survey&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F992D72">
    <Name>Edward Thorp Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., 6 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-691-6565</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 24th and 25th St. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This survey will encompass a wide variety of mediums from ink on illustration board to mixed media multi-panel works, large-scale oil on canvas paintings to mechanical sculpture in steel and tin.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2F4C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2F4C">
  <Name>Lori Ellison Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>McKenzie Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-5467</Phone>
    <Fax>212-989-5642</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenue. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</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" />
    <ScheduleDetails>Open 11:00-18:00 on Saturday</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Lori Ellison will exhibit ink on notebook paper drawings and gouache on panel paintings. Also in the show will be paintings executed on shaped panels in various materials ranging from enamel and glitter to egg tempera. These paintings have never been exhibited previously. Although the exhibition is mostly recent work, it will include pieces spanning the past two decades. What unifies the paintings and drawings is the artist’s interest in obsessive patterning and intimate scale. Whether executed in monochromatic grid patterns or playful, organically meandering compositions, Ellison repeats single motifs throughout her compositions: wedges, circles, rectangles, and forms within forms, as well as tendril-like shapes, ropes and linked chains, among many others. Her abstract motifs, referencing nature, textile patterns, and architectural decoration, fill the pictorial space in all-over densities. The works reveal an intensity of focus and an embrace of the manifold pleasures of the slow read. As the artist has noted, her interest is in &quot;Proportion based on the lyric, not the epic - that is where the juice lives….Art that is the size and resonance of a haiku, quiet and solid as the ground beneath one's feet…A discreet art, valiantly purified of the whole hodgepodge of artist's tricks and tics.&quot; ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3098" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3098">
  <Name>Winn Rea “TOPO 3: Displacement/Flow”</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8402CDDA">
    <Name>Phoenix Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., Suite 902, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-8711</Phone>
    <Fax>212-343-7303</Fax>
    <Access>Between W 24th and W 25th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.　</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[1 hr. 15 min. projected video loop compressing observation of stream over 24 hours, overhead projection of topo map, prism, sound of stream. 
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/348F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/348F">
  <Name>Hyemi Cho &quot;High Line and Personal Stories&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Nancy Margolis Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>523 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-3013</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hyemi Cho paints dramatic stories, personal and real, and this exhibition will show two separate narratives and bodies of work, one experienced during childhood, painted from 2009-2012, the other an on going saga impacting her daily life by the opening of the High Line.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/34E8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/34E8">
  <Name>Charles Garabedian &quot;Mythologies&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/18EB3383">
    <Name>Betty Cuningham Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>541 W 25th St., New York. NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-2772</Phone>
    <Fax>212-242-5959</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</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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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Drawn from his appreciation for the Classics, Garabedian’s most recent work focuses on characters and settings from Greek mythology. The largest work in the show, The Wine Dark Sea, which depicts a roughly constructed ship struggling to overcome the vast darkness perilously laid out before it, intentionally calls to mind the numerous sea voyages endured by the heroes in Homer’s epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Many works included in the exhibition feature other Greek mythological characters such as a blonde haired Venus and  Prometheus, writhing in pain, dreading the daily arrival of the bird that will devour his liver. Even though many of these new works call to mind specific narratives, these legends never overshadow the painting. When viewing the 12 paintings, all of which are on paper, one remains conscious of the vivid colors and fine lines- simultaneously melodious and deliberate- that Garabedian employs to compose his dreamlike figures and settings.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3A16" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3A16">
  <Name>Jan ten Broeke &quot;Ten&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7B29094D">
    <Name>Noho Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-367-7063</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</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>Sunday by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The artist's intent is &quot;to transcend the superficial, socially established eroticism of sexuality”....” All flowers are sex organs and that their function to be fertilized, to produce seed and to propagate, gives a deeper meaning to the beauty we so admire and enjoy.”]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Bryan Drury &quot;Portraits&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CFDA45D0">
    <Name>Dean Project</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., Fl.2, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-229-2017</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Stemming from a desire to challenge the conventions of traditional portraiture, Drury has recently created this body of six oil paintings. He carefully selected affluent members of society to sit for him, and rather than acquiescing to expectations of flattery, he exploits the power of oil paint to describe their corporeal flaws as precisely as possible. Finding liberation in this reversal of patronage roles, Drury focuses on the organic quality of the flesh and shows the animalistic side of humans that we so commonly attempt to conceal.

The six works feature a single subject, executed with a painstaking degree of realism. The small-scale portraits capture the condescending and supercilious attitudes of the sitters, who gaze at the viewer with an air of disdain. Set against solid backgrounds, the sitters seem separated from the outside world, and their lifeless artificiality imbues the works with a sense of isolation.

In an attempt to expose their vanity and the disconnect that exists between the corporeality of the body and the abstraction of identity, Drury meticulously renders facial details, paying special attention to imperfections and blemishes. His skillful use of light and shadow in portraits highlights the contours of the sitters' faces, while the subtle glossy backgrounds further accentuate the tactile nature of the skin and hair. Jan (2011) capitalizes on the oil paint medium to convey the fleshiness of her wrinkles with a photographic precision, and Tracey (2012) depicts strands of hair and follicles with a similar exactitude. Overtly descriptive, the portraits unmask the suppressed animal qualities of humans and challenge the noble and aggrandizing aspects associated with traditional portraiture. 

Bryan Drury was born in 1980 in Salt Lake City, Utah and relocated to New York in 2001. He received his MFA Cum Laude from the New York Academy of Art in 2007 and BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2005. He has exhibited and received awards throughout the US and Europe. Select recent highlights include: The American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Drury for their highly prestigious annual Invitational Exhibition 2011; the artist was profiled and reviewed in the April 2011 issue of The Art Economist magazine as part of their &quot;Artist To Watch&quot; section. Drury's painting &quot;Ali&quot; was included in the exhibition &quot;Now WHAT?&quot; at the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach FL, the curators from the Norton Museum selected &quot;Ali&quot; as one of the twenty most engaging works exhibited during Art Basel Miami in December 2010.
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
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  <Name>Gregory Halpern &quot;A&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>ClampArt</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521-531 W 25th St., Ground Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-230-0020</Phone>
    <Fax>646-230-8008</Fax>
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    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4BB5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/4BB5">
  <Name>Greg Wilken Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B5BC9B89">
    <Name>CUE Art Foundation</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-3583</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-0321</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[I first came across &quot;The Road of a Thousand Wonders&quot; researching something else entirely.  While looking through newspaper clippings in a local archive, a postcard fell out.  The image was of a striking Neo-Baroque building with a tall central clock tower, pointed terracotta arches, abundant windows, and circular turrets.  It seemed to call out to you from the 19th century.  The dark rusticated blocks of red sandstone were imposing; it looked built to last.  It didn't.  The first large courthouse in Los Angeles, it was erected in 1888 and razed in 1936.  The upper right hand corner of the image read &quot;On the Road of a Thousand Wonders&quot;.      

During the early 20th century, &quot;The Road of a Thousand Wonders&quot; was the promotional name given to the Southern Pacific railroad line running from Los Angeles, California to Portland, Oregon.  This particular line, like many others still in use today, was surveyed and first laid out in the 19th century, before the advent of the automobile.  These early surveyors relied heavily on old walking trails, following the traces of previous travelers.  They found their way through the landscape by following a path of least resistance; drawing a line that utilized natural grades that were not too steep, curves mild enough for the trains of the time, and maximizing level ground.  The routes of that time were laid upon, rather than through, the landscape. 

Automobile roads would later follow the first rail lines.  Over time, new roads realigned the old routes.  The highways grew wider and straighter, bypassing small communities.  We know the old roads today as &quot;business loops&quot; and &quot;scenic byways&quot;.  &quot;The Road of a Thousand Wonders&quot; follows roughly the original Camino Real upon which Spanish missionaries built a system of religious outposts up the Southern California coast.  Portions of highway 101 would later be built to follow this course.  Farther north, Interstate 5 pursues the old line.  These roads are literal palimpsests, offering traces of man's movement through the land.

The history of these early railroad lines contributed to the public's perception of the West.  Early 20th century boosterism enticed western migration, which increased railroad ticket sales. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company invested heavily in printing postcards that depicted views along their routes.  &quot;The Road of a Thousand Wonders&quot; series is a visual record of a particular kind of looking at a particular time.  The traditional landscapes and city views traffic in, while simultaneously helping to establish, the clichés of western imagery.  What might traveling that road look like today?  Where might it take us?     
]]></Description>
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  <Name>Sunghee Jang Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Gallery Henoch</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>555 W 25th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>917-305-0003</Phone>
    <Fax>917-305-0018</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-23</DateStart>
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  <Name>Ayad Alkadhi &quot;Umbilical&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Leila Heller Gallery (Chelsea)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>568 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-249-7695</Phone>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The new series of recent paintings and works on paper explores Alkadhi’s experiences under the rule of Saddam Hussein, the casualties of war, the Arab Spring, and ultimately confronts immigration and assimilation.  
 
Within these broad parameters, the artist weaves personal reflections using sarcasm, humor, anger, sex, and “an honest dose of reality,” Alkadhi notes.

Alkadhi’s paintings, and the process to create them, embody human struggle: each mark on the canvas is an indication of the artist’s presence, his body and his hand, wrestling with his histories, his ghosts, and his materials.
 
The layering of such personal and historical content is reflected in the artist’s approach and mark-making, where strata upon strata of content gets buried beneath successive layers. The works typically start with Alkadhi’s signature base of yellowed newspapers pasted onto a canvas upon which he sketches in black and sanguine: bodies, embryos, and faces, thoughts and scribbled notes. A second layer obscures this phase with a heavy-handed brushwork.  A third phase overlays controlled and contained bright colored outlines. Sometimes the layers repeat, intersect, and intertwine.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;The Substance of Abstraction&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/32BEF472">
    <Name>Agora Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-4151</Phone>
    <Fax>212-966-4380</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The artists of The Substance of Abstraction use their considerable abilities to enhance and express their quest for inspiration and discovery, sharing the results with their audience through their work. Imaginative, emotional and communicative, these creations show what happens when artists allow every aspect of their lives to influence and in turn be affected by their creative impulses. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Winter Thoughts&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Prince Street Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>530 W 25th St., 4 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-230-0246</Phone>
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  <Name>&quot;wallflowers&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Fischbach Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave, #801, New York, NY, 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-759-2345</Phone>
    <Fax>212-366-1783</Fax>
    <Access>Between 24th and 25th Street Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Wall Flowers highlights the finest selection of Fischbach Gallery Artists’ renditions of the flower.  Whether symbolic and metaphorical or photographical and representative, each painting portrays the Artists unique interpretation of the flower and expresses what a wallflower means to the Artist.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
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  <Name>Marc Cavello Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Pleiades Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., 4 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-230-0056</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-24</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Darker Stars-The Roots of Steampunk Art&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Cavin-Morris Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-3768</Phone>
    <Fax>212-226-0155</Fax>
    <Access>Between 24th and 25th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The whole idea of Steampunk is revisionist..... its process is to look back on certain threads of history and reweave them into the present and future.  There are no rules.  A literary precedent has been set with Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne up through H.P. Lovecraft, Bruce Sterling, and William Giibson, but as that literary history has darkened and brought in more decadent elements it is common now to include J.K. Huysmans and his ilk for their embrace of the phantasmal and of artifice as weapons against mundane life.  Though there is a Steampunk or Steamgoth literary lineage the same isn't true of its Art.  There have indeed been Contemporary Steampunk art exhibitions but none working back through history.  As I mentioned, there are no rules and so, with this exhibition and several to follow, Cavin-Morris Gallery is going to explore alternative revisionism and establish some Old Masters in the historical lineage of what has become known as Steampunk art.

Despite the twin sisters of poverty or depression, it was a hand-me-down from Victorian times to feel that, with the right machine, the right invention, the right harnessing of one of Nature’s energies (usually having to do with electromagnetism or electricity or steam), one could be rich and a world savior to boot. The Inventor was a god.  The role models were people like Thomas Edison and Nicholas Tesla.  Inventing could push the outer limits of individual opportunity.  One could be rich, famous, and in control of one’s destiny.   It is this feeling of do it yourself unlimited opportunity that the Steampunk and Steamgoth communities draw upon.
 
But the mind does not automatically draw within the lines.   The fantasy world Jules Verne imagined was shared by others.  Charles Dellschau’s Flying Machines were not a literary device.  They represented the hopes and dreams of someone who completely believed in their existence.  Dellschau becomes the center of this exhibition because of his fixation on airships and flying, he is the epitome of what Steampunk design is all about.  But he wasn’t looking backward.  He was looking into his present and forward. 
 
Melvin Edward Nelson was another for whom the magazine, Popular Mechanics, was a Bible.  For him the machine had a different spin and fed a visionary hunger. He was physically in tune with astral geology and the ability of the human mind to receive cosmic information--the very voices of planets being born, of the healing energy of interplanetary light emanations.  He took Dellschau out further from the skyways of earth into the planetary airways.  He designed and built machines that would harness universal energy; the mind and body would fuse and see first hand the awesome births and deaths of planets and stars and use this experience for healing, and he would be the inventor who made it possible.
 
Emery Blagdon grew up with the same belief of the inventor as God.  If properly tuned and psychically aimed, a machine could prevent disease or heal the ill.  He knew he was intuitive.  He could invent and build the machines but he couldn’t necessarily explain how they worked.  That was the work for scientists.  Meanwhile he could channel energy through the Healing Machines and put them to work on an earth that was suffering.  Although his goal was a positive one, it was still infused with poignancy in his recognition of the dark side of Nature and Her legacy of Disease and Death.  Electromagnetism could be recycled through the machines to counter these curses.
 
The Victorian times were also an era of exploration of the occult; of mediums and visionary voyages, of the embrace of mental depression as a route of survival and a sign of creative intensity.  In A Rebours, by Joris-Karl Huysmans, the main character, Jean Des Esseintes, builds a mechanical fish to float in a false sea to replace Nature’s more risky version.  Some in the Victorian world, in opposition to bourgeois complacency, held a need for individual freedom of expression close to anarchy.  Religion was also potentially a path to darker visionary worlds.  In Henry Darger’s struggle with the blood, and complete immersion demanded by Catholicism, he used Prussian soldiers and huge explosions as forces that both protected and threatened the world.  War became the ultimate world of adulthood, both attractive and terrifying.  Darger’s vision is a bridge to the Goth viewpoint in its dance on the edge of cruelty.
 
 If there ever is a revisionist timeline of Steampunk and Steamgoth Art then the names Charles Dellschau, Melvin Edward Nelson, Emery Blagdon, and Henry Darger, certainly should be recorded as some of the natural self-taught progenitors. 
 
This first exhibition examines artists who are self-taught and for whom there is little differentiation between their lives and their artwork. The art itself was really life process. The second show in this series will present works by both trained and untrained artists dealing with the same subject matter.
 
Also shown will be Zbynek Semerak, Leos Wertheimer, and Sandra Sheehy.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Mind the Gap&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Kent Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., Fl.2, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-365-9500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 24th and 25th Sts. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Each of the works in &quot;Mind the Gap&quot; operates between and within signs in order to discover, tease out, and make manifest meaning that is neither obvious nor orthodox. The artists presented here respond to our world with particular intelligence and sensitivity to these gaps. It is in their natures to be radical, and each questions and provokes in their own way.

The title and spirit of the exhibition take their cue from Lise Patt's description of W.G. Sebald:

If there is a Sebaldian method, in Austerlitz we are given its opening line: &quot;mind the gap&quot; between words, between and in images and text, but most significantly, mind the gaps in (not only between) signs. Look at the spaces between seeing and not seeing (where you'll catch a glimpse of &quot;the phantom traces created by the sluggish eye&quot;). Notice the gaps between cards being dealt of pages of a book flipping by. Don't turn away from the visual magma, after-images that &quot;leak&quot; out from their moving sides. Pay attention to the momentary arrest of language required by a period, a comma, an &quot;aside.&quot; Don't ignore the &quot;whispered&quot; secrets of the last spoken syllable hanging in the air, or the last written word of a paragraph stranded on its own line. Study those photographs created in slips of the shutter or captured in concert with bodily sighs. These are the gaps that open the way to the production of thought itself, to awaking, not anesthetizing, the creative mind.

[Image: Lise Patt &quot;What I Know for Sure,&quot; in Searching for Sebald: Photography after W.G. Sebald (Los Angeles: Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2007), pp. 81-82.] ]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Blind Cut&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/246CDAF6">
    <Name>Marlborough Chelsea</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>545 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-463-8634</Phone>
    <Fax>212-463-9658</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Marlborough Chelsea is pleased to present Blind Cut, a group exhibition curated by Jonah Freeman and Vera Neykov. The works included address diverse notions surrounding the themes of fiction or deception. This collection, spanning several generations from Dada to the present, poses questions regarding identity, authorship, originality and reality. The practices and methodologies range from: depictions of fictional places, imagined personas, inaccurate histories, invented language, urban utopias and complex, unrevealed material gestures.

The tradition of art as trickery or deception is rich and varied. Whether it is the fantastical architecture imagined by Piranesi, the Surrealist’s use of trompe l’oeil, or the Cottingley Fairies photographic series by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, much of the significant art over the last century has approached questions of authenticity through methods of appropriation, re-contextualization, and critique. Examples in expanded culture are equally numerous, ranging from Luis Buñuel’s faux ethnographic film Land Without Bread (exhibited), and Orson Welles’ 1938 fake radio news presentation of H.G. Welles’ War of the Worlds, as well as in recent years: Clifford Irving’s fake biography of Howard Hughes, the false journalism of former New York Times writers Judith Miller and Jayson Blair and the late capitalist trends of credit default swaps and phantom wealth.

Anchoring the exhibition is the work of Marcel Broodthaers, whose short yet diverse artistic career employed fiction as its principle medium. In projects such as Musée d’Art Moderne, Department of Aigles (1968-74), and Décor (1974-75), Broodthaers presented a situation in which objects and environments framed as ‘fictions’ revealed the layered and often dubious conditions of our so-called ‘real’ institutions.

Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated catalogue that along with documentation of the work exhibited will also include interviews, writings, and ephemera surrounding the themes of fiction and deception. A viewing schedule for the films will be released on the gallery website in conjunction with the show.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;From Iceland&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8C69B816">
    <Name>Luise Ross Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., #307, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-343-2161</Phone>
    <Fax>212-343-2468</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Some years ago, Icelandic artists would have been a category unfamiliar to the American art public. It would have seemed a category without discernible unity or order, thus devoid of the kind of meaning that would allow itself to be turned into myth.  By connecting all the dots we have the beginnings of a myth centering  on a society precariously poised between the civilized and savage, urban and rural, self-deprecation (How do you like Iceland?) and dreams of world domination.
 
Typically, the Icelandic artists included in this survey both conform to this myth and render it meaningless. All of them have close ties to the countryside; they use it as a refuge or incorporate its features and legends into their art, both of which is true of Gudbjorg Lind, Gudrun Kristjansdottir and Niels Hafstein. At the same time they are ready to fly to New York, Paris or Beijing at a moments notice. Their approach to their work may be firmly centered on the physicality of the body, as is the case with Gudny Kristmanns, or it may be predicated on the dissolution of materiality, which is the kind of thing we find in the work of Gustav Geir Bollason. Or they may take up a position midway between sense and big time sensuality, as happens in the highly literate and knowing work of Jon Laxdal and Thordis Alda. ]]></Description>
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  <Name>Yong Sun Suh &quot;Territory&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Kips Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-4215</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[As an artist, I have always been interested in our history, our story. I have prepared this exhibition in the intention to create a base in expressing my thoughts on the Korean War. We store what we see in the society and in nature within our body as our memory and we communicated it with others. There is a moment this phenomena became a part of my identity.The Korean language I speak has been developed in a specific Asian region. Throughout the long years, as the boundary of the region where the language is used changes, the identity of the folks who speak the language changes. These memories turn into deep experience carved onto me and serve me as a guide to live in this world.  They even create ideology or faith.Like pictures or photographs, the stored images in our unconscious become imprinted in our memory and part of our social communication, Even sound or it's memories like other sensory perceptions, are sometime brought back on viewing these specific images.
 
People, particularly in the west define this event in the history of our Country, as the &quot;Korean War&quot;. The Korean War bears a special meaning for me. The Korean War refers to a regional conflict between South Korea and North Korea.  However, it also refers to a war directly involving other countries such as the United States, the Soviet Union, and China.  The point is that it is so unnatural for the twoKoreas to exist as two separate nations, because their natures are so identical.The memories of those including my parents who remember the War have become a part of mine and my personal experience. It was hard to recreate them in pictures. However, because of my experience and cultural background these past associations are dissociable from my way of living and expressing myself, as an artist.
 
These paintings represent my latest attempt in trying to give it a tangible life.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9914" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9914">
  <Name>Alakananda Mukerji Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CCE3481F">
    <Name>Blue Mountain Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-486-4730</Phone>
    <Fax>646-486-4345</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Alakananda Mukerji grew up in India on the River Ganges. She says memories, media, materials – bits of canvas, pieces of the past -- anything she can get hold of -- become her art. She works in watercolor, finding its free-flowing quality ideal for experimentation.
Artist Statement

I am Alakananda Mukerji, and I grew up on the River Ganges. I have long since left the narrow streets of Benaras where life is awash in a flood of color and a constant stream of souls. Yet however so far I may find myself from those ancient riverbanks, my memory, my art, and indeed my very being -- these are forever caught up in the notion of endless, sacred flow.

People and faces, the surge of sounds, the unfathomably old commingling with the untarnishedly new -- all the rhythms and rhymes of India: this is the wellspring of who I am. I flow from this source, but I have become the river -- changing, evolving, flowing. And what flows from me, my painting, it is often a conversation between the me that was and the me that is becoming. Memories, media, materials -- bits of canvas, pieces of the past -- anything I can get hold of: this is my art. I am the medium. I am the flow.

The subtle tones of Europe, and the soaring spirit of America: these flow in me too, for in these places I was also educated, alongside rivers with strange-sounding names like the Aliákmonas, the Thames, and the Mississippi. These are part of me now and I am part of them. And I am changed, though my wellspring stays the same. For I am a river, and a river is process. Art is process. Life is process.

I work in watercolor. I always found the free-flowing quality of watercolor interesting and ideal for experimentation. At first I thought this was some personal reaction to my source, to my life in Benaras, where everyone and everything is close, where there does not always seem room enough to grow, and where family and friends, and India itself influence one’s decisions. I was foolish. Sometimes we do not see what we have already understood. And sometimes we do not understand what we have already perceived. Watercolor was not an escape. Experimentation does not undo who I was. Watercolor is my Ganges. It is my endless, sacred flow. It is who I was but also who I am and who I am becoming. It is my medium. It is me. I am a river. I am the flow.

And I am flowing. My work that you see here today is where I have arrived after years of work. But a river never simply arrives. I am changing, I am still becoming. And we shall all see where the flow takes me next, or where I take myself, or where I allow myself to be taken, for it is all the same.

My name is Alakananda Mukerji, and I live in Manhattan, between the Hudson and the Harlem. My name is Alakananda Mukerji and I grew up on the Ganges. I am an artist. I am a teacher. I work in watercolor. I am a river.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Younger&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4AE5C862">
    <Name>Daniel Cooney Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., Suite 506, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-8158</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-8163</Fax>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9F53" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9F53">
  <Name>&quot;Moon Lee and Steve Hickok&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Able Fine Art NY Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 West 25th St., Suite 507, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-675-3057</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Lee and Hickok’s paintings engage nature and landscapes that evolve within their different approaches.  

Moon Lee’s paintings embody her subconscious mind thereby naturally exposing her emotional and spiritual experiences. The natural objects, whether it is plants, trees, or flower pots, that inspire her paintings are the basis of what is a textural juxtaposition of rich colors.  Her work is not a mere still-life or landscape, but rather becomes unique through compositions concentrating on interplay of colors and various objects. She sees her paintings as an ideal method for her to communicate with the outside world, especially when there are simply not enough words to express her thoughts and emotions. Not only does she want to interact in harmony with the world, but she constantly strives to enlighten herself. By letting herself delve into a world in which she can freely “paint my favorite objects with various materials and techniques,” she also explores the depth and limits of her own life. 

This exhibition also features Steve Hickok's newest work, &quot;The Earth&quot; which fully identifies with nature through a unique process in which he leaves his paintings outside and lets the natural elements add their touch to his work. After he creates paintings with vibrant colors, Hickok then leaves them outside to be “surrendered to the elements”: to weather in the sun, scratched or sanded by the street, or left in the storm to be washed by rain. This new series has a strong biomorphic feel with its artistic designs and naturally occurring patterns reminiscent of nature. Hickok takes it one step further as the elements themselves help create the art. Sculptural geometric squares with natural paint drips and spontaneously overlapping colors show an energetic and buoyant spirit as he contemplates the raw scenery of his environment.

Their distinctive vision is unveiled in this exhibition as they explore the boundaries of the natural environment. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-22</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A144" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/A144">
  <Name>Deborah Rosenthal &quot;Journeys and Topologies&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Bowery Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., 4 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-230-6655</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Several kinds of invented compositions are featured in the exhibition. In the small paintings of the Journeys series, Rosenthal inscribes human figures within linear armatures on opaquely painted grounds. The short and rhythmical lines and intervals in these compositions reflect their origins in the rhythms and scale of art songs, particularly Schubert's &quot;Die Winterreise&quot; (Winter Journey). The Topologies are invented landscapes with forms evoking mountainous terrain. Large reciprocal curves or stark oppositions of dark and light frame the tensions that carry us through the imagined space. 

Rosenthal has shown at the Bowery Gallery since 1984. Her paintings and prints have also been shown widely in venues including the Painting Center, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, and the Francis Naumann Gallery in New York; at the University of Richmond Museums in Virginia; at the Huntington Museum in West Virginia; and in university galleries nationally. Her 1998 solo exhibition, &quot;Eve's Vocabulary,&quot; traveled from Hebrew Union College in New York to Yale University and to the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art. 

Rosenthal's work has been discussed and reproduced in the pages of many publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Modern Painters, the New York Sun, and on artcritical.com. A suite of her prints appeared, with texts by Jed Perl, in the Yale Review. Her work, including her stained-glass windows, was the subject of a segment on PBS-TV. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Elemental Realms&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/32BEF472">
    <Name>Agora Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-4151</Phone>
    <Fax>212-966-4380</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The work in Elemental Realms touches on the essence of the subjects chosen by the artists, revealing the hidden elements that help to define what we know. Passionate, varied and closely tied to the reality that we all share, these astonishing creations bring new vision to enliven and inform our own perspectives. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-01</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A8A7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/A8A7">
  <Name>Holly Andres &quot;The Fall of Spring Hill&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5C8E0872">
    <Name>Robert Mann Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave, 10th Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-7600</Phone>
    <Fax>212-989-2947</Fax>
    <Access>Between W 24th and W 25th Street. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Following the outstanding success of her 2008 debut at Robert Mann Gallery, Holly Andres returns with a new series: The Fall of Spring Hill. With her trademark chromatic brilliance, Andres's large-scale photographs delve into dramatic narratives. Melodrama is her métier. Looking back to another time, that of the artist's childhood, in recent images Andres has worked through a double process of identification: on the one hand with the children of her scenarios — themselves informed by her personal memories — and on the other with the young mothers and women who now represent her own peer group.

Through the use of symbolically charged spaces and by playing on the potential multiple meanings of everyday words, Andres's latest series plies a singular incident. Adopting the formal language of cinema, The Fall of Spring Hill unfolds in parallel narratives that quickly converge. The setting is a summer church camp, where a group of children play on an old wooden structure, while a group of young mothers prepare a spread of food. An accident interrupts the idyll, leading the women to take up arms and seek retribution.

Here again Andres is concerned with the formal strategies of advancing a narrative via still images and the various levels of signification that can be called upon indirectly to lend the story its interest, as well as the status of female subjectivity both in the past and the present. Andres's eye for detail and the perfect outfitting of a scene lend locations, props and costume an apparent hyper-significance. A shattered coffee cup and a luminous bowl of red punch are more than they initially seem. Childhood innocence has been lost. A group of women are galvanized. It remains, apparently, a world without adult male figures. Alternating between humor and drama, The Fall of Spring Hill has the ring of the familiar becoming extraordinary. Drawing upon both personal and collective mythologies, Andres has developed a distinctive photographic language for her spectacular narratives.

The Fall of Spring Hill is Holly Andres's second solo exhibition at Robert Mann Gallery. The series featured in her previous exhibition, Sparrow Lane, was reviewed in Art in America, artforum.com, ARTnews, Exit Magazine, and Time Out New York, among others. Beyond New York, she has had solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon and Istanbul, Turkey. Andres received her MFA from Portland State University. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/AB44" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/AB44">
  <Name>James Croak &quot;Chandelier Mistaken for God&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Stux Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-352-1600</Phone>
    <Fax>212-352-0302</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In Chandelier Mistaken for God, a store-bought chandelier is discovered by a boy who appears to have just finished swimming on a warm summer day. The boy is startled, empowered, and utterly absorbed by the light from the interlacing flock of bulbs and crystals, as if he is experiencing the same exhilarating, inexplicable excitement of someone encountering an angel's halo, a golden religious icon, or the glory of Aurora Borealis. It is a spontaneous, subliminal and physical experience of absolute truth that cannot be controlled or explained. However, the universal tendency to associate light with the divine is purified and replicated here with, jarringly, an almost Duchampian chandelier: an overtly ornate, artificial living room staple, designed to tame and edit the light which is deem to be holy. 

A raw dirt drawing, Repelling Foreign Invaders, complements the gleaming installation. Inspired by Francisco Goya's Disasters of War series, Croak creates an ominous, violent, eerie and oddly peaceful portrait of the war in Afghanistan. Unlike Goya's grotesque and nightmarish visions, Croak's representation of war is quiet and meditative. Soldiers sit calmly next to an unidentifiable broken machine, while undisturbed, unmistakably Afghan mountain ranges loom in the background. The composition is stable and balanced as the prolonged war has comfortably integrated into Afghanistan's identity. &quot;Repelling foreign invaders&quot;, or war in general, is now a permanent state instead of an emergency national security response. The same material used by God to create the Afghan landscape--dirt--is also used to create the drawing itself, erasing the boundary between reality and the aesthetic realm and allowing the subject to literally present itself in the drawing. This way, Croak's ideas of war are not only expressed as artistic, abstract concepts, but also a living, breathing manifestation, molded with dirt just like Adam and Eve.     ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Joseph Arthur &quot;New Drawings&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Able Fine Art NY Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 West 25th St., Suite 507, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-675-3057</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-13</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B3C1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/B3C1">
  <Name>Michael Minelli Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>CUE Art Foundation</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-3583</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-0321</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[When I started making work in the 1980's, Richard Gere was rumored to have been compromised by a gerbil (or vice versa), actor/President Ronald Reagan was in office and the internet was in its infancy. Twenty plus years later, the politics between fantasy and spectacular culture are still in play, but now the landscape of how one speaks and the audience(s) to whom one is speaking lend a whole new level of feedback to the mix.

Whether speaking directly to the camera, modeling raw plasticine or rolling paper into vacant microphone stands, my work is an investigation of what it means to understand something through the process of making it. I've always seen that activity as an open proposal; one where a direct engagement with materials is an opportunity to challenge notions of mastery, totality or spectacle by resisting their implications with respect to agency. Few of us as artists can fully anticipate the conditions under which a work may be seen or understood, but we can approach that making with an awareness that such a moment will come.

The works in this exhibition offer me an opportunity to explore how meaning is informed through labor, memory, narrative and material content; all constituent parts that make up America's matrix of pleasure and conspicuous consumption. My practice is an attempt at shaping the shit that passes through our homes and through our heads into a response.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B80B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/B80B">
  <Name>Geraldo Perez &quot;Sketch Book Paintings&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CCE3481F">
    <Name>Blue Mountain Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-486-4730</Phone>
    <Fax>646-486-4345</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition is entitled “Sketch Book Paintings.” The work draws from various sketch books, including his “on roll sketch book,” which is 110 yards long by 42 inches. Selections from the on roll sketch book will be displayed on a screen. Also included in the show will be his “phone book sketch books” and visitors will are invited to look through these intimate “sketch books.”

The essence of the work is conceived before the physical act of creating begins, but it develops and evolves, as we all must in our lives. The evolution never really ends for Perez. He describes his quest to “keep discovering and finding—because it’s all there/here.” He never ceases to discover for disparate pieces—to see them, and to make the connections. The discovery means letting the creative spirit guide his hand. “Letting go is always the tricky part, for me at least- it is always an experiment in faith.”

“Life is not all that we see and not all that we don’t see.”

“Sometimes when I am cleaning my brush and am painting,” he says, “I play around and these beautiful things appear.” It just comes out, as if his brush is a link to the universe. But Perez never really considers a piece &quot;finished.” “I stop… and sometimes go back.&quot; And stopped, the piece is a moment in time and space.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B954" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/B954">
  <Name>Hirosuke Kitamura &quot;Hidra&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1302EAE8">
    <Name>1500 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., #607, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>917-362-0770</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The title Hidra is in Brazilian portuguese and refers to the many-headed Lernaean Hydra of Greek mythology.  These works were for the most part made in bregas (inexpensive brothels) in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil), where Hirosuke, or &quot;Oske&quot; as he is known, has been making photographs regularly for over ten years.

In the words of Miguel Rio Branco: &quot;Something quietly emerges at every moment throughout these images: ghosts halfway between sex and death; fragments of seduction that wander in-between lost worlds.  Sexuality is something transparent, smoky and elusive under our fingertips.  But how does one define sexuality in a place where the body is everything - not only material but also consumable? And here sexuality becomes all but ghostly, the way it has always been in Japanese tales: from another world, but yet somwhere here near us. These images supercede the passage of time, reaching beyond notions specific to any particular time or era.

The interesting thing in the creative process - in the artistic process - resides in the reaffirmation of the artist's individuality. This is increasingly difficult in a world dominated by advertising, publicity and marketing.  It is progressively more rare to see true creativity in an artist's work. Everything is business; nothing is personal. In these [Kitamura's] images, on the contrary, it's all personal, lived and felt. Everything is personal. This constitutes an important departure from what we typically see today, where the photographic image is becoming technically more distant from what was photographed.

In art, what counts is the soul and not the theme. Here [in Kitamura's work] the themes are diluted and mixed. Here we do not get stuck anywhere, nor to a specific moment in time; we move on to another phase. A phase that brings us to another space, another world, a limbo.  Here, what appear as skin, fingers, breasts, sexes, and clothes are tranformed into masks, gifts, lights and Bahia sweat by this Japanese artist who one day came to Salvador.&quot;]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-28</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BD6B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BD6B">
  <Name>&quot;Transitions&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/ACBF0723">
    <Name>New Century Artists, Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., Suite 406, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-367-7072</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/BD6B-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/BD6B-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/BD6B-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-21" start="15:00:00" end="18:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>2</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.749336</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.004122</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C281" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C281">
  <Name>Annabelle Troster Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8E9E482D">
    <Name>Pleiades Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., 4 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-230-0056</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C281-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C281-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C281-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-26" start="17:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>9</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.749275</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.004308</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C44C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C44C">
  <Name>Dongwook Lee &quot;Love Me Tender&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/ACA0CBE2">
    <Name>Doosan Gallery </Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>531 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-6343‎</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</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" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C44C-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C44C-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C44C-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-19" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>9</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.749511</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.004136</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C65C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C65C">
  <Name>Joseph Adolphe &quot;Toro Bravo&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EDF7F316">
    <Name>Bertrand Delacroix Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 W 25th St. New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-4444</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Toro Bravo&quot; is an exhibition of recent works by Joseph Adolphe. Echoing the anxiety of an age marked by austerity and personal uncertainty, Adolphe’s subjects vary between the beaten down fighter, the agile and stoic beast, the exposed human and the vulnerable child – each of them leaving their life force in the ring. Strength and individuality are measured by their ability to endure the respective
hardships of their personal confrontations with the world. They are brave despite facing a constant barrage of disappointments, setbacks and unfulfilled dreams. Any remaining optimism seems to slip into darkness. While the trajectory of Adolphe’s paintings follows this same course there is nevertheless an illogical optimism reflected in the confident and powerful force of his marks and colors, as if to say that, ‘in spite of the downfall of the proud, we still stand, bloody and marked, broken, but beautiful’.

Joseph Adolphe was born in Calgary, Alberta Canada in 1968. He moved to NYC in 1992 to attend the School of Visual Arts, where he received an MFA in 1994. His work is mostly in private collections, as well as in several corporate collections. He currently teaches drawing and painting in the Department of Fine Arts at St. John’s University in New York, and lives in New Haven, CT with his wife and seven children.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.749398</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.004226</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C78E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C78E">
  <Name>Laura Westby &quot;Transcendental Spaces&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8402CDDA">
    <Name>Phoenix Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., Suite 902, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-8711</Phone>
    <Fax>212-343-7303</Fax>
    <Access>Between W 24th and W 25th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.　</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[My work deals with the function of landscape, not from a point of view, but as a field of change. The multiple canvases allow the overall field to be a conversation between its parts, thus allowing the viewer to be able to perceive the landscape as though one were walking through it. In this way the paintings are a concept of a landscape and not a single view.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-02" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>16</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.749922</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D3D6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D3D6">
  <Name>Julia Berkman &quot;Blip.&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A9CA140E">
    <Name>Soho20 Chelsea Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., #605, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-367-8994</Phone>
    <Fax>212-367-8994</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Berkman’s work can be seen as a playful exploration in color, form and texture. Her paintings often consist of only a few simple, yet bold colors, which contain awkward shapes, lines and markings. In Ladder, small light-colored rectangles ascend out of view amid a delicious melon-pink background. Another piece, Ribbon consists of a “dirty white” surface lined horizontally with multi-colored wavering stripes. Both paintings demonstrate Berkman’s great sensitivity to the materials and color.

The rich texture and layered colors in the pieces strike out on their own, but the work can also be seen as a nod to abstract expressionists such as Phillip Guston, Barnett Newman and Agnes Martin. Based on geometric abstraction, Berkman’s painting uses a grid-like structure from which other forms derive. However, her work veers away from strict geometry and suggests the pliable nature of the grid. As seen in the monochromatic works, such as Breath to Breath, the grid emerges as a playful and energetic presence. Berkman’s work offers the viewer intimate meditations on painting’s basic elements.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.43236</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-02" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>16</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.749125</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.003533</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D4D3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D4D3">
  <Name>&quot;Luxe&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1C8CE198">
    <Name>Tria Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>531 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-695-0021</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>And by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On display will be two large canvases by Franco, along with one large, three mid-sized and two smaller canvases by Satterly.
 
Satterly and Franco are both drawn to painting realistic images of sumptuous luxury items. The word luxury comes from the Latin word luxus,which relates to excess. It includes the notion of pleasure and indulgence and the connotation of something that is not necessary. &quot;Luxe&quot; goods have captured the imagination and desire of people since the beginning of time, and one cannot help but have a visceral reaction of desire when viewing these exquisite images.
 
Both Satterly and Franco's paintings are meticulously created and highly realistic. Both are entertaining and thought-provoking, for while the subject matter necessarily raises questions of materialism and conspicuous consumption, the viewer can't help but smile when looking at these items of true and luxurious beauty.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/D4D3-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>1.34146</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-02" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.750694</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.003639</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D56D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D56D">
  <Name>Joergen Geerds &quot;The Other Side&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1A1F1D89">
    <Name>532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>532 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>917-701-3338</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>satudays openinghour 13:00, saturdays closinghour 17:00, tuesdays closinghour 16:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Through panoramic photographs, artist Joergen Geerds explores the interconnections of space and community, humans and habitats, inside and out, self and other.

Geerds highlights here not a dissociating modern city, but its underlying structures and spaces, which—temporarily freed of people by the power of the camera—allow for unity, for community. Geerds’s alchemy shows us that the city is not so much a succession of insides and outsides as it is a plastic network of other sides. If anything, he empties New York of its value as a site of exchange.

He flattens the New York of capital (snowy parks, busy restaurants, bright streets) with the New York of snow and streets. This attention to the elemental is what makes Geerds’s images so arresting: Are these photographs dark comments on a New York underneath, around, and above us all the time, hiding from us, shaping our lives?

Or are they agnostic, or even stoic works—intended to ask us questions about our city, yes, but also intended to question the spaces themselves, to bring them, in answering, into concert with one another, in the not-quite-dark of the long-exposure night?

In this critique of city spaces, Geerds’s photography recalls the maximal, place-focused interrogation of industry practiced by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch in TheForgotten Space. But—odd for a New York artist—Geerds does not bring a politics of exchange into his work.
Regardless of how we interpret or are questioned by Geerds’s many-sided New York, we can’t help but look at it, and look again.
Joergen Geerds was born in Oberstreu, Germany, in 1969. He studied photography and design under Ernst Weckert and Nicolai Sarafov at the University for Applied Science, Würzburg. Since 2000 he has resided in in Astoria, New York. Inspired by the grandeur and grime of New York City, Geerds branched into panoramic photography in 2006 after a successful career as an art director in the advertising world.
Over the years, Geerds has continually refined his love of wide-angle photography. Finding the uncropped cityscapes revealed by his flattened photographs to be unique in the market, Geerds was led to develop his own distinct style—large-scale, hyper-wide night panoramas of New York City.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/D56D-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/D56D-80" width="80" />
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-26" start="18:00:00" end="20:30:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>16</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.749294</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.004353</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/E9D1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/E9D1">
  <Name>Jean Dubuffet &quot;The Last Two Years&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/971F8948">
    <Name>The Pace Gallery (510 W 25th St)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>510 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</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" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[An exhibition featuring nearly twenty works from the final two bodies of work by Jean Dubuffet, who died in 1985. In 1983 Dubuffet unleashed an extended color palette across the canvas, removing the borders and a representational reference point. From February 1983 to February 1984, the artist painted the Mires, or “Test Patterns,” exclusively, meant to evoke in viewers a visceral reaction that might rid the mind of the teachings of culture and tradition so as to see with a naked eye. Dubuffet entitled his final series Non-Lieux, a legal term meaning neither guilty nor innocent—in effect, “no verdict.”]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.749086</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.00385</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/ED9D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/ED9D">
  <Name>&quot;Hair: Text &amp; Image&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3743889D">
    <Name>Chrystoph Marten </Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St.,# 608, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-414-1422</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 09:00, saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[CHRYSTOPH MARTEN’s gallery presents a site-specific reading, book-launch, and exhibit of artwork on the subject of hair in an exhibit space that also serves as a salon. “HAIR” is a hand-bound, limited-edition chapbook of texts and images (art, poetry, and prose) from Cover Story, an imprint of Q Avenue Press. A selection of poems will be exhibited as prints. Featured art includes photographs by Paola Ferrario**, Helen Verbanz, John Kramer, and reprints of woodcuts (of samurai hair) by Beatriz Inglessis.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/ED9D-80" width="80" />
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:30:00" end="20:30:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>23</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.749322</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.003678</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/F68A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/F68A">
  <Name>&quot;Sensorial Perspectives&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/32BEF472">
    <Name>Agora Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-4151</Phone>
    <Fax>212-966-4380</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In Sensorial Perspectives, we are introduced to sophisticated, eclectic and often joyful representations of life, the world and everything in it. Pulsing with authenticity, these works reflect the acutely honed observational skills of the artists who made them, combined with a sense of creativity and innovation that each one brings to their art. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Matchmaker&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Soho20 Chelsea Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., #605, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-367-8994</Phone>
    <Fax>212-367-8994</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Curated by gallery director Jenn Dierdorf, the selected works demonstrate each artist’s interest in joining disparate parts and seeking a new balance with the whole. To varying degrees their work can be viewed as reinterpretations of social paradigms in relation to sex, communication, meme and myth. As each artist scrambles these familiar motifs we eventually arrive at a new and poignant vantage from which to look at ourselves.

Amanda Buonocore’s piece, Someone for Everyone, examines the public nature of the newspaper versus the privacy of the bedroom. Through various interventions Buonocore pushes the original intention of the author’s post far beyond the pages of the newspaper and into the world itself. Her playful, yet mischievous insights riffle through the uncomfortable space of exposed privacy.

The interactive sculpture Whisper Down the Lane, by Ginny Huo invites guests to look at the origin and transference of cultural myth. Placing themselves inside large yellow ducts, participants read tales of cautionary myths from a card in a directed game of “telephone”. Huo’s playful approach gives us a fast-forward look at the distortion of these tales and perhaps their skewed origin.

Naoko Ito’s sculpture points to the poetics of the relationship between nature and technology. Her work seeks to rearrange conventional thoughts and question rational categorization. In Flora, Ito has compartmentalized and recomposed a tree branch using dozens of glass jars. Her careful dissection all but sterilizes the once living thing.

Printmaker Krista Peters’ work is a visceral collage of human and non-human parts. Initially lithograph prints from hand drawn images of bones, feathers and string, Peters’ recomposes and layers the prints into original works. The selected works from Bone Mobile series features collage on Japanese paper stitched back together in uncanny formations.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
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  <Name>Susan Dory &quot;Persistent Mutualism&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Winston Wachter Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-2718</Phone>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In Dory's newest body of work, she leaves behind the capsule form that has been traditionally seen in her brilliantly composed paintings for more than a decade. Her new works are hard edged yet fluid. Dory's palette evokes mood and memory, while gradually establishing its own sense of autonomy that evolves from a formal hybrid of personal associations and perceptual phenomena.
 
Susan Dory holds a BA from Iowa State University and has been the recipient of many awards including: The Neddy Award from the Behnk Foundation Artist Fellowship, the Seattle Arts Commission Artist Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and most recently the Espy Foundation Artist-in-Residence Fellowship in Oysterille, Washington. Dory currently lives and works in Seattle.
 
We hope that you find an interest in this new body of work by Susan Dory and will consider reviewing or featuring her latest paintings in your upcoming publication.  If you would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.  It would be a pleasure to work with you.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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