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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0553" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0553">
  <Name> Anders Ruhwald &quot;Temperence&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/9BF2AE29">
    <Name>MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-268-7132</Phone>
    <Fax>212-268-7132</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th St. 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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    <ScheduleNote>By appointment only in August. </ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[For the last 10 years Danish-born artist Anders Ruhwald has been creating ceramic objects shaped in forms long associated with household objects (i.e. lamp, vase, mirror) but not intended to be used as such. Ruhwald attempts to liberate these forms from their subordinating role as utilitarian objects and allow them to quietly but mischievously interact with the viewer. His investigations shed a new light on the nominative role certain objects play in the navigation of our daily lives. To this end, Ruhwald sets up individual sculptures-- typically glazed earthenware in a single color--as stage props or even characters waiting for an audience.

In his new show entitled Temperance!, Ruhwald's objects are suggestive, restrained and yet playful. The central piece in the show, &quot;The shades about to fall (division),&quot; consists of 23 rectangular ceramic forms hung from the ceiling in a straight line spanning the length of the gallery. The work becomes a space divider that is constantly changing as the individual pieces move around themselves. The work limits the audience's movement in the gallery while leading them through the space as the individual pieces gradually change hue from one piece to the next. As a counterpoint, two human-scale yellow vases are placed at end of a large low podium intersecting the gallery. Cone-shaped with a flattened top, the vases have protruding handles that are too small to hold, lending an air of incongruity to this oddly proportioned yet ostensibly everyday scenery. At the other end of the gallery, a hollow object on tripod legs seems to mimic a TV. On the wall hung from orange knobs, two chairs play with Shaker dogmatism. Since they are only outline forms, they serve no practical purpose except to flatly echo the ideology of a vanished era.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-13</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0AB3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0AB3">
  <Name>Lydia Panas &quot;The Mark of Abel&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C48D0049">
    <Name>Foley Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., 5 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-244-9081</Phone>
    <Fax>212-244-9082</Fax>
    <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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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Foley Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of photographer Lydia Panas. Lydia Panas is an observer of the family dynamic.  In her photographs, she manages to capture subtle hints of those complex relationships that tend to exist within the extended family or circles of friends.  Her photographs examine the way in which these relationships are simultaneously a product of and an influence upon the identity of each member of the family group.  The subjects are arranged similarly in each image; in some verdant setting, they openly face the camera through a narrowly selective depth of field.  Through this simple arrangement, the subjects confront the viewer with quieted expression and gesture.  Both tension and attraction within the group can be detected in the details: in posture, dress, closeness or distance.  The photographs capture and prolong a moment of pause whereby a slight and perhaps distracted gesture carries the mood and exposes some piece of an interpersonal identity.  Panas manages to disarm her subjects in such a way as to induce the unconscious display of this sort of familiar connectedness in various outdoor spaces made intimate.

Lydia Panas graduated from Boston College with a BA in Psychology.  She went on to study at the Art Institute of Boston and received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts.  She has also participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the New York University/ International Center for Photography MA in photography program. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-20</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1735" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1735">
  <Name>Kathlene Tracy &quot;You Are Here&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3DFCE83B">
    <Name>Ceres Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite 201, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-947-6100</Phone>
    <Fax>212-947-6100</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>August 9-August 31, 2009   Gallery Closed for the summer break, to reopen September 1, 2009.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Tracy uses charcoal on paper to capture the permanency of trees' existence in the ever changing world around them. Her large scale drawings challenge the limits of line, shape, and perspective depicting each tree figuratively. Trees remain in one place over time exhibiting strength and beauty. From shadow to light, forms emerge that teach by example the lesson of appreciation for where one is at any given moment in life.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1A48" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1A48">
  <Name>Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida  &quot;#class&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/90D87E54">
    <Name>Winkleman Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>621 W 27th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-643-3152</Phone>
    <Fax>212-643-2040</Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Winkleman Gallery is slightly nervous pleased to present #class, a month-long series of events organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida. In the artists' own words:

&quot;#class will turn Winkleman Gallery into a 'think tank', where we will work with guest artists, critics, academics, dealers, collectors and anyone else who would like to participate to examine the way art is made and seen in our culture and to identify and propose alternatives and/or reforms to the current market system. By 'current market system' we mean the commercial model and attendant commodification of art, but also the unquantifiable, intangible, unpaid aspects of participating in the art world. We will work to physically transform Winkleman Gallery from a showroom into a think tank, where discussions and events will take place from approximately Feb 20 - March 20, 2010.

These issues will be approached from three intersecting spheres of artistic practice: 'Think Space', 'Work Space', and 'Market Space'. While thinking is also work, we make the distinction here to separate the labor the organizing artists, Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida, will perform individually from the collaborative and communal dialog that we will facilitate.

Among other things, we hope to reduce the amount of certainty that the audience feels when entering a gallery and encountering an art work. The outcome of this project is totally uncertain, and involves risk. We will process this uncertainty and risk artistically and respond as individual artists by making work at tables in the 'Work Space' and and displaying it in a small, marginalized 'Market Space' within the gallery. This will make explicit the conflict artists often feel between their belief in socialist or communal values and their isolated, individualistic artistic work and career.

For a complete list and schedule of the events and discussion in #class, visit the exhibition's website: http://hashtagclass.blogspot.com
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  <DateStart>2010-02-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/279B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/279B">
  <Name>Jonathon Keats &quot;Strange Skies&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C7870115">
    <Name>Art Currents</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite 519, 529 &amp; North Alcove, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Directed and Produced by Jonathon Keats Plants have roots. As a consequence of this simple fact, they do not travel naturally, lacking the chance to experience the world's vast diversity, and even missing out on the many subcultures and microclimates of New York City. In order to let flora encounter distant realms vicariously, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats presents a series of travel documentaries specifically targeted to the plant kingdom.

Given their ability to perform photosynthesis, plants are a fit audience for cinema. These travel documentaries exploit that affinity, screening onto plants' leaves a selection of skies – the ultimate botanical tourist attraction – filmed in the United States and Europe. Since plants do not have human eyesight, and perceive light only in aggregate, footage is projected onto a scrim which diffuses the picture, streaming subtly changing tints of blue onto the foliage below.

People are also invited to visit. But of course, human experience will be second-hand: Strange Skies is presented for the entertainment of plants.



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  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-13</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4782" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4782">
  <Name>Ardan Özmenoğlu &quot;1Bird2Birds3Birds&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Art Currents</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite 519, 529 &amp; North Alcove, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Since her first solo exhibition in Istanbul and the second in Berlin in 2008, Ardan Özmenoğlu tirelessly continues to carve a unique place for herself in the art world, somewhere in between the disciplines of sculpture and printmaking.

Her recent projects are site-specific screen print installations, which incorporate architecture and sculpture, using materials such as glass and post-it notes. The transparent sculptures by Özmenoğlu show an extraordinary glimpse inside the body. At the interface between printmaking and sculpture, three-dimensional, portraits come into being.

Ardan Özmenoğlu, born in Turkey,in 1979, lives and works in Istanbul and New York. She obtained her BFA in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design as well as her MFA in Graphic Design from Bilkent University, Turkey. She was an Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, Ateliergemeinschaft Milchhof e.V. Berlin and Frans Maserell Centrum in Belgium. She contributed to several exhibitions since 2002.


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  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-13</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/54BC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/54BC">
  <Name>&quot;No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography &quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FAC661FC">
    <Name>Aperture Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St, 4 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-505-5555</Phone>
    <Fax>212-598-4015</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Aperture Foundation, a non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, and Instituto Cervantes, a non-profit organization that contributes to the cultural advancement of Spanish-speaking countries, have partnered to celebrate and interpret the art of flamenco through photography in two concurrent exhibitions.

Whether as social phenomenon or musical expression, flamenco has been of enduring interest and inspiration to photographers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. While some photographers from outside of Spain went in search of it or encountered it by chance, to others flamenco and its practitioners are an essential, if not innate, aspect of their cultural heritage and their photographic work. This artistic form—also considered a way of life or being—has generated fascination in cultured urban circles, remaining one of the most secret, mysterious, and seductive manifestations of twentieth-century European popular art. Marginalized and ostracized, the world of flamenco took root in an economically backward region of southern Europe, culturally peripheral and marked by a history of authoritarianism and local despotisms. This exhibition of more than one hundred and fifty years of images, frequently taken by foreigners rather than Spaniards, is an extensive survey of how photographers of different eras have approached the universe of flamenco, whether documenting the dance itself, gestures that recall it, or the culture that is developed around it.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-06</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/580B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/580B">
  <Name>Jessica Jackson Hutchins &quot;Kitchen Table Allegory&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F9BCE37">
    <Name>Derek Eller Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>615 W 27th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-6411</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-6977</Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or A/C/E to 34th Street</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Derek Eller Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Jessica Jackson Hutchins entitled Kitchen Table Allegory. Using materials such as papier-mâché, glitter, paper pulp, hand-made ceramics, photographs both found and taken, fragments of her family’s clothing, and furniture from her home, Hutchins imparts a mythic yet highly personal story. It is a story that touches on universal themes of frailty and compassion, unicorns and angels, the majesty of mountains and the beauty of nature’s minutiae.  At the same time, Hutchins’ story is concerned with existence on a more personal scale: marriage and motherhood, the rituals of daily life, and making art.

These abstract narratives within Hutchins’ work are perhaps best exemplified in the show’s title piece, a large wooden dining table, the surface of which shows the residue of colored inks and the gouged-out tracks of a router.  The table has been pulled apart, and in the center, where a leaf might be placed, is a large ceramic pot.  Before arriving in her studio, this table was a fixture in her home, a focal point for gathering with family.  And before it was disassembled and fitted with the ceramic, it functioned as a surface for making colorful, collaged monoprints, several of which are displayed throughout the gallery.  From well-used domestic furniture to art-making vehicle and finally to work of art itself, the table slips seamlessly from one iteration to the next and back again.
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  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/5BA3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/5BA3">
  <Name>Micaela de Vivero &quot;Nodes&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3DFCE83B">
    <Name>Ceres Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite 201, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-947-6100</Phone>
    <Fax>212-947-6100</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>August 9-August 31, 2009   Gallery Closed for the summer break, to reopen September 1, 2009.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Micaela de Vivero appropriates low technology practices such as crochet, embroidery and papier maché to challenge our understanding of art production. The use of these techniques addresses issues of feminism and power relations and at the same time creates a strong visual impact through the reflection of light on the resulting surfaces.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-02</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6938" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6938">
  <Name>Laura Riboli &quot;Proclivities&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F36F8707">
    <Name>Wallspace</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>619 W 27th St., New York, NY 10001 </Address>
    <Phone>212-594-9478</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition marks a new direction for Riboli. While earlier works used a combination of puppetry and animation to present minimalist objects as quasi-sentient beings moving of their own volition, Riboli's new works consider the uncanny physicality of the human form. Her three videos and related photographs explore the relationship between the body and geometry, enlisting actors to engage with the kinds of minimal shapes (a hoop, a ball, a triangle) that earlier works examined in isolation.  Here, the body is presented as a site of abstraction. 
 
In Rolls, Tosses, Rotations (ball), 2009 and Rolls, Passages, Rotations, Walkovers (hoop), 2009, Riboli places her once-animated objects into real-time relationships with the bodies that manipulate them. Using a pearlescent ball and hoop respectively, a lone figure, dressed in a simple grey leotard, interacts with these objects in a series of gymnastic movements that dialectically demarcate the figure’s form, and the contours of the object itself. 
 
A third video focuses expressly on the site of interaction between the body and the object it manipulates. Shot with a camera at 120 frames per second and played back in slow motion, the object and hand perform quotidian movements to form a kind of minimalist choreography. 
 
The photographic works crystallize these relationships, highlighting the abstract possibilities of both figure and object.  Using a painted hand as a stand in for the human form, and nodding to Yvonne Rainer’s Hand Movie from 1966, Riboli records a series of minute gestures, creating a visual synecdoche of body and appendage. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/73A3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/73A3">
  <Name>Andrey Chezhin &quot;I Love This City&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DD74BD31">
    <Name>Sputnik Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., #518., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-695-5747</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The title of this project, I Love This City, is simple and seemingly self-explanatory.  Undoubtedly, hundreds of photographers have created projects with similar titles.  But to Andrey Chezhin this apparent simplicity, almost banality, is significant and anything but simple.  Moreover, it is ambiguous in that he is referring to St. Petersburg, the most ambiguous city in Russia, perhaps in all of Europe. 

At first glance, Chezhin is a typical son of the post-modern era: he is a virtuoso at using different visual languages, his favorite approach is montage, his project is serially produced, his reality is not so much the reality of the city itself (sometimes, it seems there is no “real” city for Chezhin), but the reality of his own photographs. Like an alchemist, he subjects his photographs to numerous magical operations, converts them into silkscreens, and then paints them.  The techniques used by Chezhin, however, are so conservative, they border on exotic . 




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  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/7624" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/7624">
  <Name>Jenna Gribbon &quot;re: The Mirroed Veil&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/AE4F570C">
    <Name>Priska C. Juschka Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-244-4320</Phone>
    <Fax>212-594-5452</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents re: The Mirrored Veil, Jenna Gribbon’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, a collection of meticulously and delicately constructed paintings–engaging the viewer in a revealing dichotomy between the Apollonian ideal and the Dionysian struggle, between the Imaginary and the Real. re: The Mirrored Veil illuminates the moment of the split between the reflected wholeness of the external body–as in Lacan’s Mirror Stage–and the real, internal, fragmented nature of the individual experience.

Jenna Gribbon was born in Knoxville, TN and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, including shows at the Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, GA; the National Academy Museum &amp; School of Fine Arts in New York, NY; Kunsthalle Emden in Emden, Germany; the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland; and most recently, at the National Arts Club in New York, NY. She was also commissioned to paint three works for Sofia Coppola’s film, Marie Antoinette, which premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2006.
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  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/7F10" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/7F10">
  <Name>Christine Gray Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A78107A2">
    <Name>Rare</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., No. 514, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-268-1520</Phone>
    <Fax>212-268-1523</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[RARE Gallery presents a series of new paintings and works on paper by Christine Gray, a Richmond, Virginia-based artist, in &quot;Closer and Closer,&quot; her solo debut in New York. Her works focus on the very human impulse to purse revelatory experiences via Nature. In order to conjure these extraordinary moments of communion, Gray crafts make-shift talismanic objects of almost prehistoric intensity and simplicity and then paints them into settings of gorgeous luminosity and otherworldliness. The objects and their settings concentrate humankind's desires and yearnings, transforming them into something transcendent.

The title of the exhibition, &quot;Closer and Closer,&quot; underlines the persistence of Man's search for personal, meaningful interludes with the natural world. However, the very nature of this determination is weighed down with the intent to control or harness occurrences rather than allow them to come about naturally.

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  <DateStart>2010-02-27</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9859" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9859">
  <Name>Michael Gregory &quot;New Work&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Nancy Hoffman Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>520 W 27th St., New York, New York 10001 </Address>
    <Phone>212-966-6676</Phone>
    <Fax>212-334-5078</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: E/C to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Over the past five years Gregory has focused on the barn as American symbol and icon.  The barn, with its endless possibilities of shape and form, became a signature subject for the artist: round, peaked, with broken eaves, punctuated by many windows, clad with gables and siding.   A few years ago, the barns were “up front,” the main focus of each painting, with bits of landscape invented by the artist as a stage set for each structure.  Eager to push into new territory, to explore the line between land and sky, heaven and earth, Gregory amplified the scale of his works, doubling them in size, moving from panel to canvas. While the manifest content of each work is that line between heaven and earth, it is the underlying content, the metaphor that is most important in this new body of work, the balance between beauty, hope and despair; the loneliness of a starlit sky; the poetic and often pregnant sensation that is present where the horizon meets the sky in a way that does not address literal separation from earth.  The potency of a mountainscape invented by the artist as background and backdrop for a lone barn or a community of buildings bathed in blue afternoon light reminds one of the writings of John Steinbeck when the West was young and the symbol of hope for so many who moved there.  Gregory’s expansion of the landscape to include mountains at sunset, foothills at twilight, fields of golden grain and corn as the new moon rises in the sky seems more evocative and iconic than his earlier works. The poetry in the paintings is palpable, the sense of memory is undeniable, the depiction of a time and place, perhaps gone forever.  Each painting--most named for places the artist has been where he has been inspired--seems to be the beginning of a saga.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-25</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/B2C0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/B2C0">
  <Name>Tseng Kwong Chi &quot;Body Painting with Keith Haring and Bill T. Jones&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7723074C">
    <Name>Paul Kasmin Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>293 10th Ave., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-563-4474</Phone>
    <Fax>212-563-4494</Fax>
    <Access>Between 26th and 27th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs taken by the American artist Tseng Kwong Chi in 1983 in collaboration with the choreographer Bill T. Jones and the artist Keith Haring. Shown in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Tseng's and Haring's deaths, these striking large-format photographs celebrate the spirit of interconnected creativity that pulsed throughout the East Village in the 1980's.

Although the photographs appear to freeze Jones's spontaneous motion, they were actually carefully staged by Tseng. As in many of his other photographic series - East Meets West and The Expeditionary Self-Portrait Series for example - these works depict Tseng's thoughtfully composed and often playful investigations of truth, fiction and identity.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C330" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C330">
  <Name>Lars Laumann Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/10FFBAD5">
    <Name>Foxy Production</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>623 W 27th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-239-2758</Phone>
    <Fax>212-239-2759</Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Laumann’s videos and works on paper twist and tease fact and fiction into poetic narratives, ripe with coincidences and odd associations. Using both appropriated and original content, he portrays extraordinary characters as they negotiate the historical and social forces that bear upon them. In this exhibition, Laumann combines videos and lithographs in a layered and playfully philosophical exploration of authorship and originality. He analyses both the drive to create and the drive to censor. His works use voice and language to wryly probe the possibilities of individual and collective agency.

Author and activist Helen Keller and the plagiarism controversy that followed the publication of her childhood short story The Frost King (1891) are central to Laumann’s video Kari &amp; Knut. Named after a Norwegian children’s game, it tells the story of a rebellious Iranian student who struggles against the authority of her doctrinaire professor. She defends Keller’s work and decries the effects of the plagiarism dispute upon Keller’s creative output. Re-editing a post-Revolutionary Iranian drama based on Sallinger’s Franny and Zooey with documentary footage of the denazification of Germany and sound by Swedish musician Dan-Ola Persson (who also created the music for Laumann’s acclaimed Berlinmuren), Laumann spins a complex web of connections about the transmission and policing of ideas.

In the screen-based video Duett (styrken i vår tro i en sang, i en sang), Laumann grapples with truth, fiction and memory: Donald Rumsfeld discusses “known knowns” and “unknown unknowns” in relation to Afghanistan, while Margaret Thatcher boldly defends the British sinking of the Argentine navy cruiser the General Belgrano. The original footage is reworked with Persson’s music added, and then repeated within a section of a large plasma screen that has been positioned on its side.

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  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F500" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F500">
  <Name>Elise Rasmussen &quot;Salzburg Bough&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C7870115">
    <Name>Art Currents</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite 519, 529 &amp; North Alcove, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;At the salt mines of Hallein near Salzburg the miners throw a leafless wintry bough into one of the abandoned workings. Two or three months later, through the effect of waters saturated with salt which soak the bough and then let it dry as they recede, the miners find it covered with a shiny deposit of crystals.&quot;
—Stendhal, On Love, 1822

The Salzburg Bough takes its inspiration from the chapter in Stendhal’s book describing &quot;crystallization,&quot; the most important stage in the act of falling in love. This metaphorical term describes attraction as being the shimmering crystals encrusted on an otherwise ordinary leafless bough. The piece was originally installed in the former salt factory in Hallein that inspired Stendhal's writing and is re-created for this exhibition.
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  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F9C4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F9C4">
  <Name>&quot;Winter Kunstkammer: Part II&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FD6B1573">
    <Name>Walter Randel Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>287 10th Ave., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-239-3330</Phone>
    <Fax>212-239-3363</Fax>
    <Access>Between W 26th and W 27th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Walter Randel Gallery announces the opening of Part II of Winter Kunstkammer. The critic Edward Lucie-Smith has described the Kunstkammer as an assemblage of various art objects in a single room; despite their divergent character, these works of art, found in the studios of artists, studies of scholars and homes of collectors of discernment may be said to precede the practice of shows in formal galleries and museums of today. 

The seven contemporary artists in part II of the exhibition are as diverse as the works of art from the past with which they exhibit their oeuvres— along side works spanning a timeline of four millennia and from all over the world.  Art from European, Asian, African, Oceanic, and New World cultures are represented in this group show.  Variety and choices for the viewer and collector abound. 

Arlan Huang, painter and glass artist, was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1948 and grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown. He graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. The paintings he presents in this show are his latest works dating from 2009.  His awards include a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and recognition from the Department of Cultural Affairs of New York City. Huang’s current project is an ambitious commission at the Laguna Honda Hospital, in California, where thirty blown glass rondels laminated on ten frosted mirror glass panels with four large windows with blown glass forms inside glass blocks will be installed in early March.

Ernest Kafka, a New York photographer, is an enthusiastic collector of art from ancient and medieval times to the present.  His photographs of a recent voyage to Syria, Jordan and Egypt appropriately record how people live today surrounded by vestiges of the past, among the ruins of some of the oldest cradles of civilization.  The images both record the flow of time and put the viewer in the places and epochs in history when some of the works in the exhibition were created or derived their inspiration.

Bruna Stude is a photographer who first studied law in Split, Croatia. After years of working as a journalist and radio reporter, she left Croatia in 1987 to pursue a life as a crewmember at sea, where she became a photographer of the ocean and its forms; she has circumnavigated the globe several times. Since 2002, she has made her home on the island of Kauai, recording the sea’s changes and the things that live in it.  Stude’s work was recently included in two museum collections at which she exhibited: 20 Going On 21: Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Looking to the Future at The Contemporary Museum Honolulu and Artists of Hawaii 2009 at The Honolulu Academy of Arts juried by Laura Hoptman, the Kraus Family Senior Curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. 

Charles Birnbaum, an artist for over 25 years, studied clay sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute with Ken Ferguson, the noted teacher of ceramics. He then did his graduate work at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. His hand-sculpted porcelain art is subtle and precise, conflating intricate organic imagery. He received a prestigious Honorable Mention in the 2008 International Ceramics Festival in Mino, Japan.

Josef Levi, who currently lives and works in Italy, studied at the University of Connecticut and Columbia University. In 1965 he had his first show in New York City. His work can be found in the Museum of Modern Art, the Albright Knox Gallery, the Aldrich Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery. Corporate collectors of his art include the Bank of New York and Exxon. Originally a painter, Levi has since 2002 been altering his “still lives” of known faces from paintings of women by old and modern masters, as well as commissioned portraits, on the computer so that there is a greater bias toward abstraction.

Mark Sengbusch was born in Ravenna, Ohio, in 1979. He received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn. The imagery in his paintings, influenced by Sengbusch’s experiences with a loom and computer games, can be described as “future artifacts”—compositions in which a rich tapestry of weaving and functional computer data are merged.

Ted Kurahara was born in Seattle, Washington, and moved to New York after graduate work done in Peoria, Illinois. An abstract painter of unusual subtlety, Kurahara has worked for many years in downtown New York. He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; and has exhibited worldwide, in France, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland.  His second solo exhibition at Walter Randel Gallery this past fall of 2009 met with great critical acclaim and a review of the show by Jonathan Goodman is available on artcritical.com.

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