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  <Name>&quot;Reading Room: 2000 books on contemporary art&quot; Library</Name>
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    <Name>e-flux</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 Essex St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-3356</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Hester and Grand Sts.  Subway: B/D to Grand Street, F to East Broadway, J/M/Z to Essex</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The reading room is a rapidly growing collection of several thousand books on contemporary art exhibitions open to the public at 41 Essex Street. The books have been donated by numerous art institutions and individuals from all parts of the world and reflect some of the more interesting developments in art of the past decade. e-flux reading room is open for research and study.

Contributing institutions include:
A Prior, Aeroplastics contemporary, Agentur fur Fotografie und Fotoprojekte, alphadelta gallery, aMAZElab, Americas Society, Annika Larsson, Apex Art Curatorial Program, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV), Arch+ Foundation / Volume, Archis, Art &amp; Industry Biennial Trust, Art en Marge, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Art Goes Heiligendamm, Art in General, Art Lies - A Contemporary Art Quarterly, Art Press (Art Resources Transfer INC), Artangel, ArtBOX, artconnexion, Artes Mundi, Artfairs inc, artforum (Bookforum), Art-ist 5, artspace witzenhausen gallery, Artspeak, Asperger Autorenwerkstatt e.V., Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Athens Biennial, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, B&amp;M Verlag, BAK - basis voor actuele kunst, BAM/PFA, b-books, Bettinna Pousttchi, BIDA - Bienial Internacional del Deporte en el Arte, Bidoun: Arts and Culture from the Middle East, Black Dog publishing, Blanton Museum of Art, Boijmans Museum, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonniers Konsthall, Bookworks, Bristol School of Art Media and Design, bruno dorn verlag, Buchmann Galerie Berlin, Bury Art Gallery, CAB, Caja de Burgos Art Centre, Cabinet, CCA Wattis, Center for Contemporary Non-objective Art, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, Centre d'Art Nicolas de Stael, Centre d'Art Santa Monica Generalitat de Catalunya, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Centro de Arte Y Naturaleza (CDAN), Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Christian Brandstatter Verlag, Wien, Conner Contemporary Art, Contact (Toronto Photography Festival), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Crawford Gallery, Crosswords, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Deutsche Guggenheim, Dia Center for the Arts, Didier Devillez Editeur, Dienst voor Cultuur, E31 Gallery, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, e-flux, EIE (Primer Encuentro Internacional De Espacios De Arte Independiente 2005), Ellen Blumenstein, Fabbrica del Vapore, Festival der Regionen, Fillip, Fine Arts Unternehmen, Flatform, Fleunt-Collaborative, Flintridge Foundation, Florence Lynch Gallery, Fondacio &quot;Sa Nostra&quot;, Caixa de Balears, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, FormContent, FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Framis International Office, Francesca Minimi, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frieze, GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Galerie im Taxispalais - Galerie des Landes Tirol, Galerija &quot;Meno Parkas&quot;, Kaunas, Lithuania, Galerija Skuc, Galleri Image, Galleria Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo (GAMeC), Galleria Civica di Modena, Gallery at REDCAT, Gasworks Gallery, Goteborgs Konsthall, Gowett-Brewster Art Gallery, Green Cardamom, Gronlands Kulturhus, Hadley &amp; Maxwell, Halle für Kunst e.V., Harriet Godwin, Hellenic Culture Organisation, Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, High Desert Test Sites, Hogeschool Gent, HomeShop, I Sotterranei delle Agostiniane, Monte Carasso, IM Projects, Independent Curators International (iCI), Index A / Stockholm, InSite/Installation Gallery, Institute National d'Histoire de l'Art , Paris, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Irwin, j &amp; k world, Jan Van Eyck Academie, jrg|ringier, Julie Joyce &amp; Sandra Firmin, k3 project space, Kasseler Kunstverein, Katuaq / Kirsten Justesen, Krannert Art Museum, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kunsthaus Dresden, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Kunstverein Gottingen, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Kvindemuseet i Danmark, KW, Berlin, La Maison Rouge, Laura Palmer Foundation, Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan, Lehman College Art Gallery, Lightworks Magazine, Lismore Castle Arts, Livraison - Revue d'Art Contemporain / Contemporary Arts Journal, Locus Athens, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A., Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Matt's Gallery, London, MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Miami Design District, Middelheim Museum, Mobile Academy, MoBY, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, mono.kultur, Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo / NMAC, Moskow Biennale 02, MOUSSE, Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest, MUSAC Museu de Arte Contemporeáneo de Castilla y Léon, MUSEION, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Museum in Progress, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd, Nada, nassauischer kunstverein e.V., National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), National Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest (Mucsarnok), National Sculpture Factory, Ireland, Netwerk/centrum for heedendaagse kunst, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nuno Cera, Nuno Ferreira de Carvahlo, O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Objectif Projects, Obra Social Caja Madrid, Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, Old Mill Books, OneStar Press, Or gallery, Vancouver, Parasol Unit, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Parker's Box, Parkett, PEAR, Picnic Magazine, Polonca Lovsin, Portikus, Printed Project, Project Art Center, Essex/ Project Press, Project Gentili, PS1, Public Art Lab /Mobile Studios, Public Art Lower Austria, Raphael Grisey, Regine Basha, Rekalde, Renee Ridgway, RSA Arts &amp; Ecology, Salzburger Kunstverein, SCI-Arc Gallery, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Sculpture Center, NY, Secession, Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession, Serpentine Gallery, Sharjah International Biennial, Site Gallery &amp; Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, SITE Santa Fe, Spike - Art Quarterly, Sportmagzin Verlag GmbH, Star Ship, Statens Museum for Kunst, Sternberg Press, Stroom Den Haag, Studies of Anedafology, Studio 1, Summit, Susanne Kriemann, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei Biennial and Taiwan Pavilion), Teachers College of Technology, Rachel &amp; Israel Pollak Gallery, Textem Verlag, The Armory Show, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, The Drawing Center, The Free Academy, The Moore Space, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania, The Power Plant - Contemporary Art Gallery Harbourfront centre, The press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Queens Museum of Art, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics - The New School, , The Women's Art Library - Make, Goldsmiths University London, Thelma Mathias, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), Topographis Press, TORCH Gallery, tranzit, initiative for contemporary art, Tyler Coburn, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor (Maribor Art Gallery), UP, Veenman Publishers, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Via Farini, Villa Arson, Nice, Villa Manin: Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Vydal KANT, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Witte de With, Wyspa Progress Foundation.
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/8C5F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/8C5F">
  <Name>&quot;The Ungovernables, Second New Museum Triennial&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B16209D5">
    <Name>The New Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-1222</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner  of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The 2012 New Museum Triennial will feature thirty-four artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives—totaling over fifty participants—born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never before exhibited in the US.

The exhibition title, “The Ungovernables,” takes its inspiration from the concept of “ungovernability” and its transformation from a pejorative term used to describe unruly “natives” to a strategy of civil disobedience and self-determination. “The Ungovernables” is meant to suggest both anarchic and organized resistance and a dark humor about the limitations and potentials of this generation.

“The Ungovernables” is an exhibition about the urgencies of a generation who came of age after the independence and revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Through both materials and form, works included in “The Ungovernables” explore impermanence and an engagement with the present and future. Many of the works are provisional, site-specific, and performative reflecting an attitude of possibility and resourcefulness. In the sculpture of Adrián Villar Rojas, monumentality is juxtaposed with transience. Rendered in clay, the works depend on cracks on their surfaces—the inevitable failure of the object, of meaning, and the guaranteed transformation of all ideas and objects back to dust. But it is dust that is then repurposed, reimagined, and re-formed. When Danh Võ learned that the Statue of Liberty is simply a steel armature covered by a copper skin the thickness of two pennies, he researched the hammering process that gave her shape, then employed craftsmen to replicate the statue’s skin for his work WE THE PEOPLE. Julia Dault manipulates materials of modernity such as Formica and Plexiglas in temporal arrangements that can never be repeated. In her works, the artist’s labor is dependent on the conditions of a certain space, her strength to execute a work at a particular time, and the uncontrollable accidents her materials determine. House of Natural Fiber, a new media collective and alternative space, has recently combined microbiology and art to teach locals about safe ways to brew homemade fruit wine while amplifying and sampling the sounds of the distillation process to make electronic music. Jonathas de Andrade’s Ressaca Tropical (Tropical Hangover) is an installation of over one hundred photographs linked to pages of a romantic diary found in the trash. In isolation, the components of Ressaca are historical documents. However, pieced together, they comprise a larger fiction of what a city is and can be—how the past can remain alive, not through conservation, but instead through the invisible energy of living.

The New Museum has initiated a series of residencies and public programs to support the production of new works for the Triennial to foster artistic investigation, experimentation, and exchange. Residencies began in February 2011, with Public Movement and Adrián Villar Rojas focusing on research for Triennial projects. In June and July, the New Museum embarked on a concentrated period of activities with Wu Tsang as well as Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran of CAMP. On November 4 and 6, Public Movement presented Positions, a choreographed protest in which political and philosophical positions manifest into physical positions. Wu Tsang continued to develop his work Full Body Quotation with a performance on November 19, which will be the foundation of his installation in “The Ungovernables” exhibition.

The Triennial is curated by Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">General Admission $12, Seniors $10, Students $8, 18 and under Free, Members Free, Thursday Evenings (from 7pm) Free.</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-22</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9BFF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/9BFF">
  <Name>Enrico David &quot;Head Gas&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B16209D5">
    <Name>The New Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-1222</Phone>
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    <Access>On the corner  of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[“Head Gas” is the first New York exhibition by Italian-born, Berlin-based artist Enrico David. Over the past twenty years, David has produced a body of work encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage that draws upon a rich variety of sources and expresses a range of complex emotional states. Although his work is highly celebrated throughout Europe—the artist was among the nominees for the 2009 Turner Prize, for example—David’s work has rarely been exhibited in the United States.

The figures populating David's work convey the struggle of adaptation, both physical and psychological, of the self and of the image. In his art, we see haunting, incomplete, and sometimes grotesque characters fighting against and merging into backgrounds comprising a personal lexicon of forms. These patterns are derived from craft, folk art, and twentieth-century design, as well as advertising, techniques of display, fashion, and art historical moments. Previously, David choreographed his figurative works to imply dramatic narratives, at times using the exhibition space as a stage. His exhibitions function as performances of self-analysis constructed and theatricalized specifically for public display. Through David’s highly personalized iconography, the works act as mirrors, reflecting viewers’ desires, fears, and vulnerabilities. In David’s more recent work, the implications and strands of psychological tension are enacted within a more formalized, image-based corporeality.

For his ‘Studio 231’ exhibition, David has created an entirely new body of work. The paintings and works on paper are part of a series of portraits rendered delicately in pencil and luminescent fields of acrylic paint applied with a sponge or caressing brush. David’s imagery suggests bodies at the point of apparition or dissolution—beings that cannot be contained or consumed, perhaps only passed through, and reluctantly present.

“I imagine these images as the product of a conscious, physiological act of will. To exist despite the alienating and antagonizing nature of their surrounding environment—as if a precarious and utterly temporary agreement was struck between them and the molecular components of paint and canvas, lines and colors, even the space itself, threaten to engulf them,” says David. “These conditions, as ridiculous and unlikely as they may sound, represent for me an experience that feels real, necessary to embrace, even optimistic.”

“Head Gas” also features a new series of hand-painted paravents. These folding screens, originally conceived by the artist for his own apartment, create an architectural intervention within the exhibition space, simultaneously connecting to the images occupying the gallery.

Enrico David is the second artist featured in the New Museum’s new ‘Studio 231’ series. The Museum inaugurated the series in October 2011, with a new installation and performances by London-based artist Spartacus Chetwynd. ‘Studio 231’ is a series of commissioned projects in the museum’s adjacent, ground-floor space at 231 Bowery. This new initiative will give international, emerging artists the opportunity to realize ambitious new works conceived especially for the space. These projects at 231 Bowery also seek to foster a new relationship between the artists and the public by allowing artists to create work outside the confines of the main museum building and in closer proximity to the energy of the street and to the creative space of the artist's studio.

Enrico David was born in Ancona, Italy, in 1966. He studied fine art at Central Saint Martin’s in London.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-18</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/EED5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/EED5">
  <Name>Brian Bress &quot;Status Report&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B16209D5">
    <Name>The New Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-1222</Phone>
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    <Access>On the corner  of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.</Access>
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  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition, the latest presentation in the New Museum's ‘Stowaways’ series, will be the New York premier of Brian Bress’s Status Report (2009). In Bress’s low-tech video, humorous characters, all played by the artist, struggle with interpersonal relationships, the pursuit of intended goals, and the desire to communicate. Manipulating pictorial and sculptural conventions through fantastically hand-crafted sets and costumes that combine drawing, painting, and collage, Bress creates a disjunctive world where spaces of imagination and representation compete for equal footing. Brian Bress (b. 1975) lives and works in Los Angeles. His videos have been shown at ICA, Philadelphia; LAX Art, Los Angeles; Diverse Works, Houston; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa; and Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton. His work was included in the comprehensive survey exhibition “California Video: Artists and Histories” presented at the Getty Museum in 2008. This is Bress’s first New York museum presentation.

“Brian Bress: Status Report” is organized by Jenny Moore, Assistant Curator.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-18</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/04ED" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/04ED">
  <Name>Sangram Majumdar &quot;New Work&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>steven harvey fine art projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>208 Forsyth St., New York, NY 10002 </Address>
    <Phone>917-861-7312</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects presents the second solo exhibition of paintings by Sangram Majumdar. Born in 1976 in Calcutta, Majumdar is an image-based painter who received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from Indiana University and is currently on the faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art.
 
This new body of work ranges thematically from a portrait (Portrait Projected), to a painting that plays with geometric abstraction (Fall Into). Yet underlying all of the paintings is a complex compositional process of perceptually-based image overlays - paintings atop paintings. Majumdar’s work of ten years ago explored figure groups and crowds as subjects. In his recent work, the figures are often erased, with just traces or remnants of their presence remaining. Detailed, precisely drawn forms become pieces of a dense, but ultimately unified surface. Open spaces and voids are explored as much as accumulations of objects.
 
The layering of fragmentary information relates to Majumdar’s reflections on Bengali culture – the multi-day, multi-sensory religious festivals (pujas) that were part of his childhood in Calcutta. These paintings contain references to the myth of Durga – a Hindu Goddess who slayed the buffalo demon with her lion. The image layering is also an exploration of our relationship to social media, where partial knowledge becomes embedded in us – but only as fragments. The paintings in the exhibition are inter-related: we find small segments of imagery repeated and re-mixed in different ways, for example, in Smoke and Mirror and Fall Into.  They become half-truths, a questioning of image and narrative, and Majumdar invites the viewer to discover what is actually there.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/11B7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/11B7">
  <Name>&quot;Subliminal Sunlight&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Number 35</Name>
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    <Address>141 Attorney St., New York, NY 10002 </Address>
    <Phone>212-388-9311</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[numberthirtyfive gallery presents &quot;Subliminal Sunlight&quot; curated by Howard Hurst as its first exhibition for 2012.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-07</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/14B5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/14B5">
  <Name>Nicholas Buffon &quot;Applied Flesh&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E58021B2">
    <Name>Callicoon Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>124 Forsyth St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-0326</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Broome and Delancey Sts., Subway: B/D to Grand Street or F/M/J/Z to Delancey Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Callicoon Fine Arts presents Applied Flesh, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Nicholas Buffon on view from January 27th to February 26th, 2012. A performance by the artist will take place in the gallery during the exhibition, date to be announced.   

Nicholas Buffon’s works, completed over the last 6 months in Washington State, are shown here together with a small painting by the artist’s father, Dave Buffon, who started covering areas of his images of faces with white paint. The exhibition’s title, Applied Flesh, is taken from the artist’s thesis on performance, a detailed study that defines his performance practice, its methods and meanings.

While the drawings illustrate actions specific to the artist’s performances, the paintings are a parallel practice utilizing abstraction and articulate relationships between the two genres. With each painting the metaphoric “flesh” is applied on canvases that have been stretched, un-stretched and re-stretched over the course of working on them. Often the abstract images are formed around and within the textures that the canvases pick up during this process. For the artist, the materials and processes of painting are analogous to the body in performance: flesh as material, movement as method.

Nicholas Buffon, born 1987 in Seattle, Washington, lives in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston MA (BFA 2008) and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY (MFA 2011). His work was included in Art on Paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC. He has performed many times since 2007 including at Mount Tremper Arts, NY and at the 10th OPEN International Performance Festival in Beijing.    

Gallery hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 12 to 6pm. Callicoon Fine Arts is located at 124 Forsyth Street, between Delancey and Broome Streets. The nearest subway stops are the B and D trains at Grand Street, the J and Z trains at Bowery and the F, J, M and Z trains at Delancey-Essex Street.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/17D5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/17D5">
  <Name>&quot;one and the other are another&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8AE19062">
    <Name>Ludlow 38 / The Goethe-Institut New York</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>38 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-228-6848</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester Sts. Subway: F to East Broadway or B/D to Grand</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Goethe-Institut New York presents the first exhibition by Clara Meister, the 2012 Curatorial Resident at the contemporary art space Ludlow 38.

one and the other are another  includes new and recent works by five mostly Berlin-based artists. It deals with language and translation  in a reflection about the emergence of new meaning in communication – in text and speech as well as in well-known images and shared concepts.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1A2E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1A2E">
  <Name>Alexandra P. Spaulding Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/00038288">
    <Name>Stephan Stoyanov Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>29 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-582-4425</Phone>
    <Fax>212-582-2366</Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester &amp; Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway, B/D to Grand Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery presents two site-specific light and sound environments by Alexandra P. Spaulding. With a background in photography and video work, Spaulding’s practice combines a profound interest in minimalist visual aesthetics and its legacies with a keen interest in sound. As visual points of reference, she has cited work by Robert Irwin and James Turrell. Although the inspirations for her sound pieces are varied, the nature of her compositions is as stark and stripped back as her visual work.

Using a limited color scheme, her works often come across as distinctly sensuous through the use of light and reflective surfaces, which are offset by the slightly unnerving layered aural compositions that resonate within them.

[Image: Alexandra P. Spaulding &quot;into the light&quot; (2012) work in progress. Image courtesy of the artist]
Expanding on the combined use of visual and aural elements, the artist has stated that she is not interested in concepts of beauty and seduction on their own, but in the tension created between visual parts that are distinctly aesthetic, and sound elements that potentially create a feeling of unease, threat and maybe even discomfort. The artist strives to identify an ideal tension point located between seduction and repulsion.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1DBB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1DBB">
  <Name>Joseph Montgomery Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D7B3A48B">
    <Name>Laurel Gitlen</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>261 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-274-0761</Phone>
    <Fax>212-274-0756</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Orchard St. Subway: D/B to Grand Street, J/M/Z to Essex Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Joseph Montgomery's approach to generating paintings is both streamlined and complicated by a number of repeated forms, radical scale shifts, and combinatory structures. Montgomery's paintings, often built up over time, substitute objects and images for the act of painting. Fragments pretend to be wholes and images collapse into their constituent parts from different angles. Employing found and fabricated shims, his recent works play with the idea of an abstract form as a readymade, creating an increasingly closed and circuitous loop of image making. With a more refined palette and an increasing number of painting subsets, Montgomery's exhibition focuses and expands his interrogation of painting as “image.”]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.36752</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/224A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/224A">
  <Name>Brad Nelson &quot;Even Mountains Cast Shadows&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/61A8B8AA">
    <Name>frosch &amp; portmann</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>53 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-266-5994</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge Sts., Subway: F to 1st Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[frosch&amp;portmann presents “Even Mountains Cast Shadows”, Brad Nelson’s first solo exhibition in New York.

The invisibility and intangibility of faith and the reliance on language to convince someone to believe, instead of direct phenomenological observations, is a prevalent theme in Brad Nelson’s work. Having grown up in Kentucky, Nelson was surrounded by vocal religious convictions and absolute faith-based belief. His artwork creates a vivid visual language in the form of artificial landscapes and paintings of handwritten notes that hover close to nature and attempt to destruct or obscure the sense of what came before. As mountains and rock formations are very influential on the surrounding landscape, ideas and beliefs similarly loom over our contemporary environment.

Nelson moved to northern Arizona in 2008 and his experience in the southwest inspired him to use mountains as the conceptual platform for this show. While the mountains in Brad Nelson’s oils don’t exist in nature, they do exist as a physical manifestation before he paints them. He creates the model first in his studio as sculptures made from raw pigments using a variety of sculpting tools, such as rulers, razor blades, straws, and paper. The artist is using elements of the earth to create artificial constructions of natural landscapes.

During the opening reception of the exhibition, the artist will create a new work through a performance. Nelson will work publicly in the gallery in the same manner that he normally works in the privacy of his studio. He will sculpt a mountain still life, which will function as the origin of the image presented in the new painting. Nelson will then paint on a stage consisting of an unfinished stretched canvas representing an aerial view of the neighborhood where frosch&amp;portmann is located.

Viewers will have the opportunity to observe the original and the reproduction. Once the painting is finished the sculpture will be positioned behind the wall on which the finished painting will hang, so the original event will now be invisible. The reproduction will be the new authority in which faith will be placed and transmitted to the viewer.

Brad Nelson lives and works in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY and his M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ Tufts University.

[Image: Brad Nelson &quot;EMCS #7&quot; oil on canvas 11 x 14 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/24C0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/24C0">
  <Name>Trevor Shimizu &quot;Late Work&quot; </Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/17F2732A">
    <Name>47 Canal Street</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>47 Canal St., 2nd Fl., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-415–7712</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Orchard and Ludlow Sts., Subway: F to East Broadway.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Trevor Shirnizu was born March 30. of Japanese born Americanized parents. Like President Obama, he is from humble Hawaiian beginnings. Hawaii. a tourist destination in the mid-‘50s. was popularized by the TV personality Arthur Godfrey. Godfrey also introduced to the American public the ukulele. American pop culture was fixated on Hawaii in the '50s. “Hawaii became an American cliche.‘ Pop culture is very important to Shimizu. He is an aficionado of film and considered becoming a filmmaker. Francis Ford Coppola. the Aries filmmaker had a big influence on San Francisco. where many films were made. and where Shimizu was introduced to media and performance art. Here. he was introduced Io the work of William Wegman, Ernie Koval-ts. and Andy Kaulman. He found a very idealistic situation in New York. The great women artists Carole Schneemann. Shigeko Kubota. Dara Birnbaum and Joan Jonas have been important in his development. He also does technical work for Dan Graham. His studio work is ditterent from his day fob. Trevor Shimizu's work has a conceptual. laconic humor. This element 0| humor is especially important. Shimizu's Japanese background informs his practice, relating to Japanese Manga and Anime. When he discovered he shared a birthday with Vincent Van Gogh and Francisco Goya. he wanted to paint. His self-portraits locate him in commonplace situations. and tor this show he projects himself into the future as a to 80-year-old man. Trevor Shimizu's goal is to have fun and live a good life.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/285C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/285C">
  <Name>Doug Ischar &quot;Sleepless&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/67886F6B">
    <Name>Golden Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>120 Elizabeth, New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>773-209-8889</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Broome Sts. Subway:  J/M/Z to Bowery</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This is Ischar’s third exhibition at Golden Gallery. The first, Marginal Waters, featured a body of photographs from 1985 never before seen in its entirety. Taken on Chicago’s now defunct Belmont Rocks – then one of the most visible urban gay beaches in North America – and during the height of the AIDS crisis – the photographs were presented alongside a new single-channel video work, forget him, serving as counterpoint to the twenty-five year old documents.

Ischar’s second exhibition with the gallery, Honor Among, featured multiple photographs taken during 1987 at a San Francisco leather bar, The Eagle, alongside a 2007 single-channel video, back the way he came, together addressing key themes from Ischar's practice during the past twenty years: pleasure in looking, the position of the spectator, public sexuality, and representations of masculinity.  Both photographic series, Marginal Waters and Honor Among, were presented for the first time in their 2009 and 2011 exhibitions.

Sleepless is an exhibition drawn from Ischar’s institutional exhibition history from 1993 - 1995. Two large bodies of work, Orderly and Wake - presented at The List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; Mercer Union, Toronto; and SITE Santa Fe, among others – emerged at a moment when the exploration of media, and cross-disciplinary practices, were critical actions further complicating the then-peculiar state of semiotics.

The current exhibition presents the opportunity for the artist, and the public, to re-approach selected components from those early 90s installations, nearly two decades from their original conception and exhibition. 

Ischar’s editing of moving image and static objects continues to address the practical and visual boundaries for definitions of masculinity, sexuality, violence and secrecy. Sentry, consisting of two surveillance monitors on a wall-mounted shelf, depicts appropriated Hollywood periscope footage alongside a panning fluoroscope scanning a lock box concealing sexual paraphernalia that, per his dying friend’s request, Ischar retrieved.  

The hypnagogic image is that which stays with us, often repeating, both dwelling in and constituting the state between wakefulness and sleep. Sleepless is both a state and a mood: here, the exhibition emphasizes the elegance of retrospection and the reminiscence of darkness.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/29F3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/29F3">
  <Name>Ian Tweedy Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7D8F0C2D">
    <Name>UNTITLED</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>30 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-608-6002</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway or B/D to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[We are not concerned,” he said, “with long-winded creations, with long-term beings. Our creatures will not be heroes of romances in many volumes. Their roles will be short, concise; their characters – without a background. Sometimes, for one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort to bring them to life. We openly admit: we shall not insist on durability or solidity of workmanship; our creations will be temporary, to serve for a single occasion. If they be human beings, we shall give them, for example, only one profile, one hand, one leg, the one limb needed for their role. It would be pedantic to bother about the other, unnecessary, leg. Their backs can be made of canvas or simply whitewashed. We shall have this proud slogan as our aim: a different actor for every gesture. For each action, each word, we shall call to life a different human being. Such is our whim, and the world will be run according to our pleasure. The Demiurge was in love with consummate, superb, and complicated materials; we shall give priority to trash. We are simply entranced and enchanted by the cheapness, shabbiness, and inferiority of material.”
Bruno Schulz

UNTITLED is running to present Ian Tweedy's first solo exhibition in the United States.

Ian Tweedy was born in 1982 at Flugplatz, Hahn Air Base in Germany. He spent his childhood and adolescence in military bases around Europe before settling in Italy where he attended art school at NABA in Milan.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/38FD" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/38FD">
  <Name>&quot;Facetime&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B06885C2">
    <Name>On Stellar Rays</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>133 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-598-3012</Phone>
    <Fax>718-534 -4667</Fax>
    <Access>Between Rivington and Delancey Sts.  Subway: J/M/Z/F to Essex Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[“I only need 2 hours of people a day,” writes Abe in Douglas Coupland’s novel Microserfs. In Coupland’s 1990s account of the digital age, where the screen is the horizon, intimate human contact is considered rare and precious. The characters colloquially use the composite term &quot;face time&quot; to signify time spent face-to-face, looking directly at one another in physical proximity.

Since the ‘90s, digitization has advanced into the territory of the face-to-face encounter. Now, the term face time is appropriated for its digital equivalent: Apple’s FaceTime app allows computers and handheld electronic devices to bring facial expression into online interaction. The transition to Web 2.0 paradoxically posits that time habitually spent off-screen in the presence of others can be mediated through a screen.

Predigital 20th century philosopher Emmanuel Levinas believed the foundation of ethics and thus the moral principles governing social life was rooted in the face-to-face encounter. It is in the face of the Other, he posited, that we first become aware of others, whom we are compelled to respect and through whom we also constitute our selves. Though the face-to-face encounter may be fundamental, the form of the encounter and the face itself may change.

FaceTime deals with the state of the face today – a face, which we avidly manipulate, perform, display, distort, detect, scan, enhance, blur, veil and avoid. A face that behaves both as object and subject. Most works incorporate the face as a visual paradigm, a platform for broader explorations and new subjectivities. Questions of identity in such a malleable state of the face, and in the presence of online structures, are at the core of many works.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/44C2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/44C2">
  <Name>Nolan Hendrickson &quot;NEW NEW FACE&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E3A5819A">
    <Name>Ramiken Crucible</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>389 Grand St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917-434-4245</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Norfolk and Suffolk Sts.  Subway: F to Delancey Street or J/M/Z to Essex Street. </Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-09</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4572" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/4572">
  <Name>&quot;Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to Last Week&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7D8487D4">
    <Name>Sperone Westwater</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>257 Bowery  New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-999-7337</Phone>
    <Fax>212-999-7338</Fax>
    <Access>Between Houston and Stanton St. Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Sperone Westwater is pleased to present an exhibition of white marble sculptures dating from 350 B.C. to the present day. This survey includes Greek and Roman antiquities, Neoclassical sculptures, and works by modern and contemporary European and American artists.
 
Marble is one of the oldest and most fundamental materials of sculpture with wide-ranging use in the fine arts, decorative arts, and architecture. Among the works from Greek and Roman antiquity in Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to Last Week is an Ionian Greek grave relief from the second half of the fourth century B.C. that depicts three figures presenting a narrative on a farewell to the deceased. A Vestal statue from the second century A.D. represents the virgin goddess of hearth, home, and family in Roman religion. Notable Roman sculptures from the first and second century A.D. are also presented including a vase and a bust of young man. Significant sculptures from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries include Icarus, the mythological figure of a man with wings, by Tommaso Bonazza (Venice 1696 – Padua 1775), as well as Hercules by Giacomo Cassetti Marinali (Venice 1682 – Vicenza 1757), carved out of pietra di Vicenza, to name a couple.
 
The modern and contemporary works in Marble Sculpture provide a different context for the ancient material. Pioneer of the Dada movement, Jean Arp created Mediterranean Sculpture I (Orphic Dream), 1941, a biomorphic sculpture that has rounded and angular edges, encompassing the artist’s desire to conflate nature’s different forms. Richard Long’s Heaven (Portrait of Carl Andre), 2011, consists of six rows of large marble blocks. Infinite, 2011, by Fabio Viale, depicts two interlocked tires carved out of marble. Not Vital’s ½ Man ½ Animal, 1996, is an eleven-foot tall anthropomorphic sculpture that resembles a mythical creature. An installation of five slabs, Ai Weiwei’s Marble Door(s), 2007, depicts a barricade of white and grey doors. Bertozzi &amp; Casoni’s Gorilbattista, 2011, is a vanitas sculpture of a gorilla head on a plate. Tom Sachs’s Brute, 2009/2010, transforms an ordinary lightweight object to the extraordinary through the medium of marble. In Purity, 2008-2011, Barry X Ball reinvigorates the age-old tradition of figurative marble sculpture through the use of unconventional stones and methods.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>3.65</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/46D2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/46D2">
  <Name>&quot;25 years anniversary show Part 1&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/10F7725D">
    <Name>Gallery Onetwentyeight</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>128 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-674-0244</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Essex and Norfolk St. Subway: F/J/M/Z to Essex Street-Delancy Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kazuko Miyamoto presents Gallery Onetwentyeight's 25th Anniversary at 128 Rivington in New York's Lower East Side. 
During the 25 years anniversary show Part 1 we will exhibit the work of Gallery Onetwentyeight artists/friends. 
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4F6D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/4F6D">
  <Name>ANTONIO PIO SARACINO &quot;Second Nature&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/05427C82">
    <Name>BosiDamjanovic Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>48 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-966-5686</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester Sts. Subway: F, J/M/Z to Delancey St. or F to East Broadway</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Second Nature derives its inspiration from as far back as Greek philosopher Aristotle and makes reference to objects that do not belong in nature but, through habitual use, these ‘foreign’ items become natural within the created human environment. The unadulterated, natural world can fill us with awe and wonder and throughout history has inspired many leading thinkers to investigate and explore the parallel between nature and human design – the root of Antonio’s recent work. In the spirit of this complex relationship, Second Nature intends to create an environment that unites the natural world with spirit and imagination and manifests itself through influential seating and furniture for a brave new world. The exhibition will showcase 10 of Saracino’s unique creations. Antonio Pio Saracino is an Italian-born architect and designer, living and working in New York and Italy.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-05</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4FAC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/4FAC">
  <Name>Miha Strukelj &quot;Memories of a City&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8AAE996A">
    <Name>LMAKprojects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>139 Eldridge St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-9707</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Broome St. Subway: B/D to Grand Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[LMAKprojects presents Slovene artist Miha Strukelj's Memories of a City, a first solo exhibit with the gallery. For this exhibit Strukelj will create an installation of murals and small drawings on panels throughout the gallery to address the limitations and confines of the gallery space. In his work Strukelj's methodology is a reduction of everything back to a grid, contour and line. His eye reacting to architectural settings combined with angular patterns that are contradicting and complex. Bringing formal order into the newly created chaos and disparate elements the grid evokes both the sense of painting and drawing tradition as well as Cartesian coordinates and maps.
 
Strukelj's scenes are usually urban spaces defined by architecture, landmarks and points, which create a tension and shape our view. In between there are empty and forgotten spaces that he captures. These anonymous moments are combined to emphasize and construct a new reality of disparate contemporaneity, a visual study of digital existential dilemma of the human experiences. The panels, found within the installation, are either layers of mylar stripping away the trails of the subjects surrounding or wood panels jutting the subjects into the viewers space. They are components of the installation but embody their own sense of space.  Through these elements, Strukelj is able to play with depth and layering while also enhancing his point of focus be it a line, structure or individual.  The acts of the subjects are not heroic yet through isolation the viewer is absorbed into their act in life.  Strukelj is an observer, yet his drawn observations force the viewer the illustrated realm and become part of these isolated instances in time. He exposes the grey area that we dismiss in our everyday life.
 
Miha Strukelj was born in 1973 in Ljubljana, Slovenia where he still lives and works. He has an MFA from Academy of Fine Arts and one such awards as the Henkel drawing award, the Pollock-Krasner Grant to name a few. His work has been shown at the 53rd Venice Biennial at the Slovenian Pavilion and can be found in the public collections such as the Uni Credit Bank, Siemens Collection, Adrian Riklin Foundation in Vienna, Societe Generale in Paris, ECB - European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, NLB - Nova Ljubljanska Banka, and Government of the Republic of Slovenia.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5762" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5762">
  <Name>Alison Owen &quot;Shelf Life&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/861ABFD2">
    <Name>Cuchifritos</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>120 Essex St., New York, NY 10002.</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Rivington St.  Subway: J/M/Z/F to Delancy/ Essex Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="1" />
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Alison Owen’s installation Shelf Life came out of close observation of the Lower East Side neighborhood and its continual transformation, as well as respective functions, appearances and usual daily operations of both the Essex Street Market and Cuchifritos gallery. The work is inspired by the distinctions, similarities, overlaps and interactions of these two environments. Similar to Owen’s other works, this site-specific installation responds to the particular architectural properties—formal qualities as well as spatial patterns—of the Market and the gallery space, and is constructed out of modest and/or ephemeral materials, which seemingly grow from and within the architecture. It combines previously used art display furniture with the objects given to the artist by the Market vendors, along with the various materials found in situ. The installation seems like a half-finished store, simultaneously emerging from the context of the market and melting back into it.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5B55" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5B55">
  <Name>Thomas Ovlisen &quot;Tomato&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A8D1DABA">
    <Name>Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>54 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-777-7756</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester Sts. Subway: F, J/M/Z to Delancey St. or F to East Broadway</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents Tomato, an exhibition of new work by Thomas Ovlisen.  The show will feature paintings and sculptures by Ovlisen, who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 
The title Tomato invokes a personal memory for Ovlisen.  His mother would reminisce to him as a child of her initial disdain for tomatoes which was tempered by her attraction to the brightly colored skin of the fruit.  Her love of the pretty outside fueled her determination to like tomatoes, and she persisted in trying to enjoy the taste until one day she finally did.  In this show, Ovlisen continues his investigation into surface and form, using polystyrene foam treated with a veneer of auto-lacquer. which is layered and sanded by Ovlisen to achieve a smooth, glaze-like finish. 

Two large freestanding and monolithic sculptures ask the viewer to reckon with scale and presence.  Other works are actually interactive, allowing the viewer to be an active participant in the show.  These works leaning against the wall bring to mind surfboards, in a nod to sculptors like John McCracken and American pop culture, through their shape, the lightness of the foam and the glossy finish of the paint.  Each work is lined on the top and bottom with coconut fiber floor mat, and the viewer is encouraged to handle the work , which can be flipped upside down or turned around to reveal an entirely different painting.  The result of this interactivity will be a shifting installation of the show, each iteration recast by the last active participant. 
 
The interactivity, playfulness, and approachability of the show is unique for abstract work, it breaks the separation implicit in the hanging of formal works on a white wall, and includes the viewer as a catalyst for actualization.  The leaning and spinning pieces are indeed perpetual works in progress, as arrangements and rearrangements allow for a determined fluctuation of physical and visual possibility.
 
Thomas Ovlisen was born in Denmark (1975) and has a received a BFA in 2001 from Rhode Island School of Design. He lives and works in Copenhagen, where he is represented by V1 Gallery.  In May, he will be participating in a show at the
Gammel Holtegård Museum in Denmark.  TOMATO is his third solo show with Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5BB8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5BB8">
  <Name>Daniel Phillips &quot;River Street&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E01C2AA1">
    <Name>DODGEgallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>15 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-228-5122</Phone>
    <Fax>212-228-5211</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Chrystie St. Subway:  J/M to Bowery, 6 to Spring Street, B/D to Grand Street,  F/V to 2nd Avenue. </Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Dodge gallery presents &quot;River Street&quot;, an exhibition of new video work by Daniel Phillips. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and his New York debut.

For nearly two years Phillips made an historic, abandoned elevator tower in a former paper mill his outdoor studio space. His practice, characterized by consistent documentation of site via still images captured from varying vantage points, produces video installations of these edited images projected onto the site's terrain. Phillips projects onto irregular surfaces, the flowing Neponset river behind the tower, hanging fabric in the windowless voids of buildings, and dripping sheets of winter ice, documenting his attempts to recreate a sense of life in the abandoned space. While the tower was his studio, it was also a dangerous structure he attempted to rehabilitate and bring back to life amidst the construction of a new shopping center. Phillips writes,

There is so much labor and industry soiling everything here. Anything I do seems laughably insignificant, but maybe to reflect on what has happened here is most important now. I see myself in opposition to the development going on, the Price Rite and its corn-syrup filled aisles, the parking lots, the mind numbingly generic retail chains that march toward my tower. Yet the industry of the paper mill erased some other thing, a house, a tree, a pond, a store, a family history, made the river poisonous, and many of its infinite bricks laid by slave hands, all this driven by the same mad force that erases our memory and curiosity with the parking lot malls of our time. I think as much as I try, the most interesting thing I can do here is observe and observe and observe. All my attempts at building fail, it is not to be done here. The tower is perfect how it is.

Phillips' exhibition, River Street, is a reflection on his time at the tower through a series of video projections onto objects and detritus excavated from the site. Once unearthed, Phillips stacks and arranges the debris onto topographical “screens” which host moving projections of the tower and its surroundings. Contrasting the staid materials of rock, concrete, steel, and brick with dynamic and active images, Phillips creates tension between the object and video as a painting. Vertical and horizontal piles lean against the wall, featuring colorful, painterly imagery that highlights specific spaces, buildings, and views of the landscape. Throughout, Phillips tries to encapsulate the awe and marvel of encountering an historic space once a major center of human activity and now in ruins.

Phillips' repurposing of the abandoned tower and use of the found landscape as canvas recalls the work of earlier artists Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. Yet while Matta-Clark and Smithson physically reshaped architecture and lanscape, Phillips' practice emphasizes observation and reflection, using the tower as an intermediary between past and present. The glowing apertures of the abandoned building display images which portray River Street's multiple identities, awakening a distant spatial memory of previous histories. A struggle to physically connect his practice with the rituals of daily labor and human activity that for centuries defined River Street pervades Phillips' work. While the projections offer a sense of activity and renewal, they pass ghost-like over fossilized, unmoving ground.

Daniel Phillips received his BA from Williams College and studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His MFA thesis exhibition was held at Tufts University in 2009. ]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5FAA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5FAA">
  <Name>Eddie Rehm “The Belligerent Plasticity of Duality in He, Himself.”</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EBC16FB7">
    <Name>Dino Eli Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>81 Hester St., New York, NY  10002</Address>
    <Phone>917-600-0807</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Orchard and Allen Sts., Subway: F/M/J/Z to Delancey Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The Dino Eli Gallery presents its first exhibition of cutting-edge, “Instant Gratification Abstract”, contemporary art, hosting works by celebrated New York artist, Eddie Rehm. &quot;The Belligerent Plasticity of Duality in He , Himself, refers to the concept that also defines the idea that you can start out well, get to something, and for some reason, maybe it’s me just saying #%#* it, unconsciously sabotaging it and watching it all go to %*%&amp;. We can be our own worst enemy without even realizing why. But you come to the point where you say, “I’ve got to stop doing this.” You can take that negative side, and turn it around on its head and make it something that can be productive, using its strength towards a positive outcome. Effectively in hindsight it becomes a Blessing in Disguise.” Rehm says. A theme or script in our lives that seems entirely relevant in our current societies state &amp; a strong powerful recurring  theme in the Lastest Works Revealed by Eddie Rehm.

“The art work is belligerently striking, with art-medium experimentation, a style all in It’s own and since I‘m  committed to bringing my clients &amp; patrons high quality, investment grade art, I just had to work with my represented artist Eddie Rehm to exhibit an eclectic array of art that sets a forward standard with the addition of my newest gallery” says Dino Eli  owner of both Orchard Windows Gallery &amp; the Dino Eli Gallery.

“If art history has taught us anything, it’s that pre- and post-war economic ups and downs, and society in its progression as a whole,
have given art a nuance. The artistic styles, movements and artists in these time periods signify just that. We are on the precipice of a
major change much needed right now in our society. I feel that 21st century art will reflect that change and bring back art for art’s sake. I think of the simplistic quote, “Out with the old and in with the new”— artists need to create,  and the ones that do will be the
ones known to me and you,” Rehm says.

Eddie Rehm is one of the hottest new artists to emerge in a long time. His work has been described by art critics and analysts as “a fusion of raw emotion, deliberately instinctual design, and art-medium experimentation.”  He has participated in numerous solo exhibitions, displaying in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Milwaukee, Boston, Miami, East Hampton and Pennsylvania, as well as many local Art Leagues and Associations.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Johannes Girardoni &quot;Lost-and-Found&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B9AE77CF">
    <Name>Tomlinson Kong Contemporary</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>270 Bowery, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-966-3566</Phone>
    <Fax>212-463-7491</Fax>
    <Access>Between Houston and Prince Sts., Subway: F to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Tomlinson Kong Contemporary announces Lost-and-Found, an exhibition by the Austrian-born, American sculptor and installation artist Johannes Girardoni. Fresh off the critical success of his light and sound installation at the 54th Venice Biennale in the exhibition, Personal Structures, Girardoni is presenting new work composed of over-painted photographs, sculptures and site-specific installations.

The core vocabulary of Girardoni’s work is the convergence of light and material re-articulated into different physical forms. The situations he creates with his work are ones in which the viewer has to discern what is virtual and what is real. This minimalist concept of requiring the interaction of the viewer makes sense as Girardoni’s work is part of the ongoing dialogue that investigates the way art affects our physical reality and the space it occupies.

His over-painted photographs, referred to as “Exposed Icons,” are the result of a trip to Mali in 2008 that inspired him to see Western culture through a new lens. He began to see our physical environment as a result of the convergence of virtual and physical information, and billboards as iconic artifacts of the fundamental role advertising plays in forming the way we see ourselves. In Mali he saw a raw, pure and non-aestheticized culture that contrasted sharply with Western reality where our infrastructure is built on the convergence of digital and material systems. Girardoni began photographing the backsides or empty faces of billboards and digitally superimposing exposures to create new, visual structures. The digital images are then mounted onto aluminum where he further interacts with them by painting over portions of the image. The virtual algorithm of light required to create digital images converges in “Exposed Icons” with the physical paint and aluminum support to create a third form that contributes a new physical artifact to our surroundings.

Girardoni’s light and sound sculptures, referred to as “Refrequencers” or “Peak Light Extractions,” are a further expression of these same interests. Made of cast-resin pieces back-lit with LED panels, these works shift in appearance and color depending on the current light situation and the position and movement of the viewer. &quot;Refrequencers&quot; capture and digitally slow the waveforms emanating from the resin using sensors that reprocess the light information. In “Peak Light Extractions,&quot; Girardoni measures and isolates the highest intensity light frequencies coming through the resin, which provide the analogous color information of the loosely articulated paint of the constructed plywood panels. Perception and truth converge in these works by exploring the way information systems alter our behavior thereby creating constantly shifting realities.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Lothar Osterburg Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Lesley Heller Workspace </Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>54 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-410-6120</Phone>
    <Fax>212-410-5340</Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester. Subway: B/D to Grand Street or F/J/M/Z to Essex Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Lothar Osterburg makes photogravures of small, sculpted models of windmills, lighthouses, sailboats among others, staged in evocative settings. Built from memory of readily available materials, the models have a dreamlike quality which is enhanced by the placement of the camera within their world; the perspective is that of a person within the set, obscuring the actual size of the objects. The viewer, drawn into the scene, fills the gap created by the absence of people. The smallest models are photographed through a magnifying glass or with a macro lens. With this extremely short focal range, the scenes become ambiguous, mysterious, or even ominous while somehow retaining the playful quality typical of Osterburg 's hand.
Whether in his studio, or against the rocky coast of Maine 's Mount Desert Island, or in a microcosm of frozen tire tracks at the MacDowell Colony, the staged settings enhance the textures of the artist 's eccentrically diverse materials, creating a tension between the representational and the realistic.
A downed mulberry tree from his Brooklyn backyard spawned an entire rough-hewn coastal village. Tall ships made of firewood, twigs and toilet paper, a translucent glycerin lighthouse on a potato island, recycled plumbing supplies, glass doorknobs, soap and a stormy sea made of peanut butter all appear in this delightful, buoyant world.
Photogravure produces rich, velvety blacks as well as soft, infinite gray values, and has attracted artists and photographers for more than a hundred years. Osterburg works strongly in the tradition of the master photographers from the turn of the last century who admired the soft values of photogravure and considered their photogravures original prints. Osterburg, like Emerson, Coburn or Stieglitz is not only the photographer but has also mastered the difficult technique of photogravure plate making and printing, thus controlling all the steps in his artistic process.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Building as Everydayness&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/051DE6C6">
    <Name>Scaramouche</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>52 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-228-2229</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester Sts.  Subway: F to Delancey Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Scaramouche presents the exhibition, &quot;Building as Everydayness&quot;, uniting a group of artists living and working in Paris. Each of these artists utilizes architecture and the built environment as a starting point for exploring the forgotten histories, individual memories, and political events embedded in the inanimate and quotidian world. Working with a variety of media including sculpture, collage, video, and installation, the artists have adopted Henri Lefebrve's aim in the Critique of Everyday Life (1947) - that the &quot;object of our study is everyday life, with the idea, or rather the project (the programme) of transforming it.&quot; However utopian this Modernist goal was in the 1940s, its triumphs and failures can be seen in the distinctive motifs running through the artists' work, in their examination of the physical ruins of Modernist architecture in the present-day, as well as the adoption of Modernist abstraction in the fields of commercial design and popular culture.
 
Raphaël Grisey's video Minhocão [The Big Worm] is a multi-layered portrait of a Rio de Janeiro housing complex built in the 1940s. A car with loudspeakers attached to its hood drives around the complex, broadcasting a text by Eduardo Affonso Reidy, the site's architect.  Weaving scenes of the complex's current state of ill-repute, interviews, and extracts from a 1970s film shot there, the film raises issues about patrimony and memory in social housing. Like Grisey, Antonia Carrara's work focuses on present-day ruins of Modernist architecture. In Carrara's video Secret Portrait with W.B., a young man by the name of Walter Benjamin (the same as the Frankfurt School critical theorist) gives a guided tour of an island on Lake Como, Italy, winding you through the remains of artists' residences built on Mussolini's orders in the 1930s; Having never been inhabited, the buildings are now overrun by nature. Chloé Dugit-Gros' work is often an articulation of language, operating on the level of the image and the visual signal. Referring to urban cultural codes, and inspired by architectural motifs and their utopian potential, her installations bring together formal elements to compose a narrative sketch. Thomas Klimowski's Patterns series consists of collages that bring to light similarities between disparate landscapes, built environments and time-periods. He reveals iconographic semblances in observations of hard-edged geometric motifs and images of the natural and denaturalized world. Julia Rometti &amp; Victor Costales' series of printed images is inspired by the previous work Without Rain, and is comprised of postcards depicting North and South American environments. Punctuated by 20th century interventions into the landscape, including skyscrapers and twisting highways, these settings lack the idyllic qualities usually associated with nostalgic souvenirs.  ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Portraits/Self-Portraits&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Sperone Westwater</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>257 Bowery  New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-999-7337</Phone>
    <Fax>212-999-7338</Fax>
    <Access>Between Houston and Stanton St. Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of portrait and self-portrait paintings by notable European and American artists from the sixteenth century to the present. This survey includes Old Master paintings from Italy, France, England, and The Netherlands, as well as works by modern and contemporary artists.

The breadth of the works in &quot;Portraits/Self-Portraits&quot; demonstrates that portraiture has been an on-going and reoccurring theme in art history, especially in Western culture, for centuries. The earliest portraits were created to illustrate physical or material attributes of the sitter, which historically included nobility, family, friends, lovers, and the self. According to Angus Trumble, Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art – who has written the essay for the Portraits/Self-Portraits catalogue – in the seventeenth century, the focus of portraiture shifted to capturing the character or essence of the person. Since the Renaissance, there has been a dichotomy between what portraits – many of which were commissioned – represent or elucidate versus the “likeness” of the sitter. Portraits can depict a person’s wealth, power, piety, occupation, time period, cultural and personal interests, as well as emotional states.

The exhibition also acknowledges new scholarship on works from the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Portrait of a Gentleman from the mid-sixteenth century was recently attributed to Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (Florence 1503-1577), the Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist style whose workshop was one of the most important artist’s shops in Florence during this time. In contrast, the painting Portrait of a Young Gentleman by Jacopo Negretti called Palma the Younger (Venice 1548-1628) has a warmer palette, reminiscent of Tintoretto or Titian’s works. A primary portraitist for the Florentine court in the sixteenth century, Jacopino del Conte’s Portrait of a man with gloves is a half-length frontal view of an austere looking man holding gloves, and it has a refined and elegant dark palette. A Young Solider (1624) by Theodor Rombouts (Antwerp 1597 – 1637) is one of the artist’s few dated paintings, and it captures the soldier’s emotional state. Other historical masterworks include those by Leandro da Ponte known as Leandro Bassano (Bassano 1557 – Venice 1622), Nicolas de Largillière (Paris 1656 – 1746), Richard Van Bleeck (The Hague 1670 – 1733 London), to name a few.

Juxtaposed with these paintings are contemporary works that reflect movements in portraiture painting over the last century. Francis Picabia’s Portrait de Suzanne (1942) depicts his lover in a view that was perhaps taken from a photograph. Her makeup and hair indicate the fashion of the time, while her face and posture indicate an emotional state of unease. Pablo Picasso’s Tête de Femme (1943) is painted with vibrant colors and bold brushstrokes in the artist’s signature flat, Cubist style. Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait (1986) illustrates the artist’s characteristic “fright wig” and his exploration of identity including artist as star, while Kim Dingle’s Group Portrait (2011) explores multiple depictions of the artist.  In Susan Rothenberg’s Memory of 1951 (Self-Portrait), 2011, the artist identifies herself with a toy blue monkey she was given by her parents when she was hospitalized as a child. Tom Sachs’ Krusty (2011) elevates the status of a cartoon character from Pop culture as it becomes the subject of not only a portrait, but a self-portrait painting.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6F35" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/6F35">
  <Name>Pia Myrvold  &quot;FLOW&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FF21D842">
    <Name>.No Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>251 East Houston St., NY, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-580-6535</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Norfolk and Suffolk Sts., Subway: F to 1st Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[.NO – a nonprofit gallery on the Lower East Side presents Pia MYrvoLD: FLOW,  the third incarnation of a multidisciplinary concept that debuted in Venice during last year’s Biennale and is currently on view at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art through February 24.  
Pia MYrvoLD: FLOW &quot;While engaging with Flow the immersive experience of emergent technologies is carefully guided by the artist. The ever-changing abstract images, rhythmic textures and chromatic structures of light are inspired by higherminded aspirations. Myrvold’s ongoing research in 3D virtual space engenders a unique mental and aesthetic awareness, as the artist plays with virtual space alongside actual physical space to illuminate what we have not been able to see in traditional media. We are not put in front of a console as is common in many interactive works; rather Flow builds parallel or tangent references between the realms of physical and imaginative presence. 

Stemming from her lifelong work as a painter, Norwegian artist Pia Myrvold creates new work that branches out into a formidable interdisciplinary undertaking using electronic media as a springboard for the intermingling of forms. The pulsing, looping animations and sound are unmistakable in their musical quality, the structure of the installation utilizes large scale sculptural form and there is an architectural aspect as the viewer engages the work by walking through it. The end result is an immersive and interactive environment where the viewer encounters a multi-dimensional interface that is a product of emergent technology.” Rex Bruce, Artweek.LA, Jan 9 2012

Professionally active as a visual artist since her teens, the Paris-based Pia Myrvold has shown extensively all over the world. Her work in a wide range of media has been exhibited at Sotheby London, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Center of Architecture, New York; The Henie/Onstad Art Center; Oslo; Sala 1, Rome, just to name a few. During the Venice Biennale 2011, Myrvold staged Flow as a parallel to the Biennale on the Zattere in Venice. Caroline Langill, Associate Dean of OCAD University, Toronto, said the following of the exhibit: &quot; (…) this body of work was a rare new media offering in what one expects to be a festival that highlights art at the vanguard of contemporary practice. At a time when institutions are grappling with the almost weekly emergence of new digital platforms, MYrvoLD points to the necessity of bridging the analogue/digital divide by producing highly technical work that is both rearward and forward looking. The potentially immersive installation evidences the breadth of her practice as well as her situatedness within contemporary art. Not a technologist, MYrvoLD adopts the digital in order to dispel preconceptions about what art is and can be.  Clearly, she is a pioneer and will continue to shape the future of art&quot;.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/78A2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/78A2">
  <Name>Christine Hou &amp; Lisa Iglesias &quot;ME, WE&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6EDA133D">
    <Name>Abrons Arts Center </Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>466 Grand St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-598-0400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Pitt St.  Subway: F to East Broadway or Delancey, D/B to Grand Street, J/M to Essex Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>22:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 18:00, saturdays openinghour 09:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Abrons Arts Center presents me, we, a multi-platform collaboration partnering with the Dia Art Foundation’s education program, Abrons Arts Center StudioLab program, and 11th-grade Studio Art majors at Lower Manhattan Arts Academy (LoMA). Grounded by a continuously evolving installation on view at the Abrons Arts Center from February 17-March 17, 2012, me, we is an exploration and articulation of collective authorship that blurs the lines between studio space, exhibition, and public forum.

The gallery will act as a response laboratory between Dia Art Foundation’s Education Associate and poet Christine Hou, Dia Teaching Artist Lisa Iglesias, and the LoMA students. Audience members will witness a visual- and text-based exchange that will include large format graphite drawings, text as image, signage, and miniature casted monuments. Supporting programming will include two public events in the exhibition space and 16 workshop sessions for LoMA students in the Abrons Arts Center StudioLab classroom.

Beginning with the direct quote from Muhammad Ali in 1967, and arguably the shortest poem in the English language, me, we considers the notion of a poetic politics, and how the voice of the individual is shaped within a collective experience. Ideas central to this program will be: text as image (and vice versa), collaboration as a form of growth, and art as a lateral community-building practice. Together, the students will consider thinkers and gestures, such as Joseph Beuys, Sol Lewitt, Gertrude Stein, Kara Walker, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the performance art of William Pope.L and writing in relationship to the body. Throughout the duration of the project, LoMA students will integrate critical thinking within an arts practice as well as develop public programs and exhibit works-in-process to their peers and the Lower East Side community. 

Additional participants included in this specialized partnership are me, we co-creator, Studio and Gallery Programming Manager at the Abrons Arts Center, and LoMA StudioLab Cultural Partner-in-Residence Carolyn Sickles; Queens Borough Poet Laureate Paolo Javier; and The Friendly Falcons, a collaborative arts duo featuring Jeffrey Kurosaki and Tara Pelletier.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Performance: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6-8 pm, Open Mic Night: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 6-8 pm</ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/7A5A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/7A5A">
  <Name>Shalom Neuman and Terrenceo &quot;Racks On Racks and Urban ARTifacts&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/05597C6F">
    <Name>Lambert Fine Arts</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>57 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-353-2787</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge Sts., Subway: F to 2nd Avenue, JMZ to Essex St or D to Grand</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Lambert Fine Arts presents &quot;Racks On Racks and Urban ARTifacts&quot; highlighting the works of Shalom Neuman and Terrenceo, two of the most prolific and original contemporary artists who expose the social issues that an egocentric society saturated with apathy has long deemed as acceptable. Both artists take a multi-sensory and multi-media approach to boldly challenge our assumptions about contemporary culture and life in the digital age.  
 
Shalom Neuman has been called a &quot;phenomenon&quot; by both Robert Morgan and Donald Kuspit, while his Fusion Art is described by critic Lester Strong as &quot;Combining color, motion, and sound into a multidisciplinary, multisensory extravaganza [that] reflects and comments on a contemporary world he sees as seriously out of joint and in need of repair.&quot;  At Lambert Fine Arts will be the Amerika series, multi-media and interactive portraits made from found objects, sound recordings, motion sensors and toys &quot;constructed from the detritus of our society, they reach beyond the individual to comment on a culture where rampant consumerism threatens to engulf us all.&quot;
 
Terrenceo refers to his bodies of work as Contemporary New Realism and Digital Primitive. Using a complex layering of collage, assorted materials, and distinctive brushwork, Terrenceo updates Nouveau Réalisme and takes a satirical approach in his juxtaposition of iconic images from popular culture to develop compelling and provocative social commentary. His use of found objects and digital manifestations from contemporary life express his response to being submerged in a highly materialistic and technologically advanced world, which we are forced to encounter with no regard for the implications, misinterpretations, and social constructions that form the foundation for entire belief systems.
 
&quot;The work of both artists reflect lives of perseverance and triumph despite conflict, forced displacement, injustice, and racism, and I think Shalom and Terrenceo have extremely significant and timeless things to say about popular culture and modern life,&quot; states Executive Director Marc Lambert.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/7E77" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/7E77">
  <Name>Danica Phelps &quot;The Cost of Love&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A5B863FB">
    <Name>Brennan &amp; Griffin</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>55 Delancey St., New York, NY 10002 </Address>
    <Phone>212-227-0115</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Allen and Eldridge Sts. Subway: F and J/M/Z to Delancey Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Brennan &amp; Griffin presents “The Cost of love”, an exhibition of new work by Danica Phelps.

For more than a decade, Phelps has been chronicling her own life through a series of charts and drawings that detail the passing of time and her daily actions. Working serially and using self imposed limits, Phelps has created a system of pointed stripes that correlate to her income, expenses, and debt. Similar to On Kawara and Hanne Darboven, Phelps developed a system to represent time and and her daily activities - tram the mundane to the highly emotional - in a mathematically predetermined and structured code.
For her show at the gallery, Phelps has produced a series of panels that represent a recent turn at events in the artist's life and tar the the First time, do not track the passing of time, but rather chronicles the phenomenon of loss. “The Cost of Love” details the split with her girlfriend through the text at court papers and the subsequent financial fallout. Works in the show combine Phelps' system of painted colored stripes to document her Finances that are interspersed with the legal narrative from the housing court judgement that unfolds word by word from one panel to the next. Again, using her personal lite as her source, Phelps explores highly charged and emotional territory in repetitive and systematic marks with subtle gradations at hue and tone. The Cast at love is remarkable for its elegant illustration of loss which when viewed as a whale, reflects a proiect that is greater than the sum of its parts.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8FD6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8FD6">
  <Name>Ned Colclough &quot;Winter Arrangement&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/95ACB24C">
    <Name>Nicelle Beauchene Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>21 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-375-8043</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Canal and Hester Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway or D/B to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Nicelle Beauchene Gallery presents &quot;Winter Arrangement&quot;, the first New York solo exhibition by Ned Colclough.

Using Bauhaus theater, Ikebana and Arte Povera as variant points of departure in his work, Colclough’s sculptural assemblages encompass a visual style where formalism, minimalism and neomodernism are repositioned into abstract mediations. Balancing and integrating his sculptural elements, a vocabulary that includes found wood, stone, rope, and plaster, into orchestrated compositions, Colclough lends a lyrical and poetic relationship to both material and object.

Colclough’s work pivots on the use of spontaneity within his practice as he engages chance and coincidence through a number of ostensibly slight tricks that appear to suspend laws both physical and theoretical. The contrast presented in his sculptures between the strength of the parts and the fragility of the whole, evokes a spatial tension and material appropriation first referenced in post-minimalism and conceptual art. His architectural metaphors and the rhythmic play between the formal qualities of texture, surface, scale and form enriches his expansive and vanguard compositions with a subtle and transcendent purity.

Ned Colclough received his BFA from the NYSCC School of Art and Design in Alfred, NY.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/90F8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/90F8">
  <Name>Duro Olowu &quot;Material&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B8A7CACA">
    <Name>Salon 94 Freemans</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1 Freeman Alley, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-529-7400</Phone>
    <Fax>212-529-7401</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Christie St., off Rivington St. Subway: F/V to 2nd Ave. or J/M/Z to Bowery Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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" />
    <ScheduleDetails>tuesdays openinghour 13:00, </ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu will present a show and pop-up shop of fashion and art at Salon 94’s Freeman Alley Gallery. The show will present a group of limited edition fashion and accessory designs from Duro's Spring 2012 collection as well as a selection of vintage and contemporary photography, textiles, contemporary art, furniture, music, books and objets trouvés.
Duro has long curated, in his London store in Masons Yard Saint James, a diverse assemblage of &quot;things&quot; that have captivated and inspired him and his work. Clothing created by Duro for the exhibition will include intricately draped bias dresses with ruffle details, guipure lace jackets and paneled tail coats, collage bib sheaths and gilets, corseted and full skirted print dresses, billowing chiffon gowns and skirts, and hand made footwear and will be featured alongside commissioned pieces by Paris-based jeweler Taher Chemirik, New York-based artist Mathew Ronay and paintings by Katherine Bernhardt.
Installed in a mise-en-scène featuring works by Juergen Teller, including images from collaborations with Duro, vintage photography by Malian photographer Hamidou Maiga and designer Carlo Mollino, a large photograph by Laurie Simmons, illustrations by Bella Foster, woven canvases by New York artist Tony Cox, prints by Suzanne Wenger, drawings by Lorna Simpson, furniture and objects by Martino Gamper and Maria Pergay, sculptures by Ghanaian artist Paa Joe and London based Francis Upritchard, ceramics by Matthias Merkel Hess, vintage West African textiles and rare fabrics from couture fabric makers including Abraham of Switzerland, along with work by Kara Hamilton, Jackie Nickerson, Ludovica Gioscia, and Philip Kwame Apagya. Olowu adds &quot; My work, like my eye, is certainly international in its aesthetic, offbeat yet focused. As such, I am always open to the surprise of the new, the technique and skill of the past and the ability of fashion and art to challenge preconceived ideas of taste and culture.&quot;
After training in law, Duro Olowu turned to a career in fashion, launching his label in 2004. In 2005 the British Fashion Council honored him with the prestigious New Designer of the Year Award. Last year, he won the Best Designer Award at the African Fashion Awards and was a finalist for the Swiss Textiles Award. Alluring silhouettes, sharp tailoring, original prints and vintage textiles in combinations are Duro’s signature, inspired by his Jamaican-Nigerian heritage and London upbringing, making him a favorite among fashion insiders.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9557" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9557">
  <Name>Adam Curtis &quot;The Desperate Edge of Now&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/355E9211">
    <Name>e-flux</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 Essex St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-3356</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Grand Sts.  Subway: B/D to Grand Street, F to East Broadway, J/M/Z to Essex</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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" />
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  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Adam Curtis is not an artist, but a television journalist. Over the last decade, many artists have become interested in his work. Because of this, e-flux and Hans Ulrich Obrist have decided to create a solo show of Adam Curtis’ films that will include most of his work from 1989 to the present day.

In our current age of uncertainty, both art and journalism are struggling in their different ways to make sense of the present time. This exhibition of Adam Curtis’ works aims to try and break down the divide between art and modern political reportage, to open up a dialogue between the two.

Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC. They are linked through their interest in using the fragments of the past—recorded on film and video―and reassembling them to try and make sense of the chaotic events of the present.

The last twenty years has seen the collapse of many of the grand narratives that drove the world since the Second World War. TV journalism has changed as well, with reporting on events around the world now arriving to us as avalanches of recorded moments, yet carrying little comprehension of what the events mean. Reality slips in and out of focus, much as a fever grips the human mind.

In response to that, Adam Curtis’ films go back into the recent past to tell dramatic stories that lead the viewer to look again at the present day, to help make sense of it. The films are playful with images from the past, mixing journalism with a wide range of avant-garde filmmaking techniques. They also borrow from trash pop and are sometimes silly―but they are also deadly serious in their desire to break through some of the dangerous myths that today’s “avalanche journalism” has created in the modern sensibility. These are myths that those in power attempt to exploit in order to maintain their status at a time when their influence is in decline.

The old idea was that the heart of power was primarily located in the realm of politics. Adam Curtis’ films challenge that notion head-on by demonstrating how power really works in today’s complex society, how it also flows through all sorts of other areas: through science, public relations and advertising, psychology, computer networks, and finance and business.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-14</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9FFE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9FFE">
  <Name>Kurt Tong &quot;In Case It Rains in Heaven&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/34281FAF">
    <Name>Jen Bekman Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>6 Spring St., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-0166</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Elizabeth St. and Bowery.  Subway: 6 to Spring Street, N/R to Prince St., F/V to 2nd Avenue, B/D/F/Q to Broadway/Lafayette or J/M to Bowery</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Traditionally, many Chinese believe that when a person dies, he leaves with no earthly possessions and it's up to their descendants to provide for them in their afterlife until reincarnation.

Joss paper, made from coarse bamboo paper, is burnt as offerings for the dead.  Depending on the region, Joss paper is decorated with seals, stamps, silver or gold paint.  These are often folded into the shape of gold or silver ingots.

Plain Joss paper is offered to newly deceased spirits and spirits of the unknown.  Silver is given to ancestral spirits as well as spirits of local deities.  Gold spirit money is given to higher gods such as the Jade Emperor.  Some believe that the money will enable their ancestors to live lavishly in the afterlife.  Others believe that the money is used to bribe the guards and the Black Judge of the afterlife in order to escape early.  More contemporary varieties of Joss paper include Hell Bank Notes and paper credit cards.

In the last 50 years, more and more elaborate items have been made out of paper as offerings for the dead.  Cars, servants and houses were common sights at funerals.  As consumer culture takes over in China, Joss products have become more and more outrageous.  While this practice is officially banned in China, it has always been tolerated.

Some see the offerings as compensations for what a person never had during his lifetime.  Many consider the items as a reflection of the values of the living of our society.

In 2006, it was reported that paper prostitutes, viagra, condoms, ecstacy and gambling equipment were found outside of cemeteries.  This lead to a crack down of the more extreme products.  

The images in this series reflect some of the products currently available to burn for the dead.

All items were burnt as offerings to my ancestors.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A371" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/A371">
  <Name>Gerald Ferguson Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B108B06D">
    <Name>Canada</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>55 Chrystie St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-925-4631</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Canal St.. Subway: B/D to Grand Street or 6/N/Q/R/W/J/M/Z to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[CANADA presents this exhibition of paintings by Gerald Ferguson curated by Luke Murphy. It includes eleven major works and is accompanied by a catalog with essays and pieces by Lawrence Weiner, Donald Kuspit and Peggy Gale. 

Ropes, chains, clothesline, ash cans, drain covers, black enamel house paint rubbed across raw canvas, repeated, rearranged and repeated again -- the work of Gerald Ferguson appears in New York for the first time in forty years. This array of eleven paintings include works from his 1968 typographical &quot;period&quot; paintings and a key group of his later frottages. 

Ferguson was a first generation conceptual artist whose early conversations informed his approach to painting throughout his career. From his 'task oriented' paintings to his later rigorous methodology, painting was, in his words, one of the only things he really understood. His work, he said &quot;let beauty in through the back door.&quot; 

GERALD FERGUSON. WORK. is a glimpse of a career driven by an autotelic logic. It begins with his early stenciled grids and ends with his late works, created by passing black-enamel laden rollers over abject objects under raw canvas and forming expansive landscapes of black indexical marks or dense monumental architectonic compositions. 

Ferguson's work can be characterized as sets of sometimes beautiful, sometimes difficult tensions between the manifest logic and the absurd simplicity of the process, between roughshod production and the sensitivity of the chosen compositions, between blackness and the promise of light. ]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A3FE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/A3FE">
  <Name>Juergen Teller Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F5CAFAE2">
    <Name>Lehmann Maupin (201 Chrystie Street)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>201 Chrystie St., New York, NY  10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-254-0054</Phone>
    <Fax>212-254-0055</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Stanton St. Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Lehmann Maupin Gallery presents Juergen Teller at 201 Chrystie Street.

Presented in three parts, this exhibition highlights three recent series, demonstrating Teller’s dynamic and diverse oeuvre. Featuring the controversial photographs of Kristen McMenamy and seductive portraits of Vivienne Westwood, juxtaposed with intimate portraits of his family and close friends, this exhibition displays an amalgam of subjects and personalities. The exhibition starts with Teller’s controversial series of photographs featuring Kristen McMenamy, shot in the home of Carlos Mollino. Drawing inspiration from the eccentric architect, Teller recalls Mollino’s fascination with the erotic, capturing McMenamy in provocative poses. Although the series garnered controversy for its alleged “pornographic” nature, it demonstrates Teller’s skilled storytelling and fearless approach to his medium.

The exhibition continues with a selection of images from “Keys to the House.” Composed of recent photographs taken in and around his home in Suffolk, the series includes deserted landscape shots alongside intimate portraits of Teller’s family and closest friends. 

The third section of the exhibition features photographs from “Men and Women,” including portraits of Vivienne Westwood and photographer William Eggleston, as well as Teller’s son, Ed. As a whole, the series has been read as a representation of masculinity at two stages –coming of age and loss of virility – contrasted with a strong feminine power.
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
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  <Name>Sarah Kurz &quot;Made For Love&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Allegra LaViola Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>179 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917 463 3901</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Jefferson and Rutgers Sts. Subway: F to East Broadway or 4/5/6/N/R to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/AE08" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/AE08">
  <Name>Cassius Fouler &quot;Unpaid Dues&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2B321AF1">
    <Name>Orchard Windows Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>37 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917-600-0807</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Hester and Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway or B/D to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Ketamine, dust, and Evan Williams are the Father, Son, Holy Spirit in the world that Cassius Fouler paints. A failed attempt at self-deprecating humor and outdated hood-rat etymology, Fouler's work has been mostly swept under the rug due to his poor public relations and heroin addiction. Despite initial apprehension Orchard Windows Gallery presents &quot;Unpaid Dues&quot; a petite collection of artworks by CASSIUS FOULER.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
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  <Name>Garrett Pruter &quot;Mixed Signals&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Charles Bank Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>196 Bowery, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-4095</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Prince and Spring Sts.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue or 4 to Spring Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Charles Bank Gallery presents its first solo exhibition with Garrett Pruter. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Pruter presents a body of work that explores the frailty of memory in his exhibition, &quot;Mixed Signals.&quot;

Using discarded photos from junk stores, estate sales, and old magazines, Pruter enlarges found images and then slices and reassembles the fragments to create new imagery that blurs the line between what is real and what is imagined.

These altered images fuse together various people, places, and periods of time to engage viewers in a dialogue that connects past and present.  Through the physical alteration of found photographs, the passage of time is distilled and abstracted into geometric compositions of light, color, and void. With context stripped and reconfigured, an alternative universe emerges where multiple perspectives collide and fact becomes diluted in ambiguity.

For this new body of work, Pruter introduces his recent exploration of multimedia. Drawing on the walls with fractured reflections, the projector and mirror installation continues with the same visual language used in his works on paper.  The multimedia installation contains found 35mm slides that are projected onto curved mirror tiles, fragmenting the images into myriad pieces and creating complex compositions out of intimate travel photographs and family portraits.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-14</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Malcolm Morley &quot;Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Sue Scott Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212.358.8767</Phone>
    <Fax>212.358.8785</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Bowery.  Subway: F to 2nd Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Since 2006, Malcolm Morley has made over twenty-five monotypes and monoprints with One Eye Pug/Sue Scott Gallery. Despite being an accomplished printmaker who had made numerous other types of prints, this body of work was Morley’s first foray into the monotype medium. 

Morley uses the monotype medium not as a staid or simplistic process of transference, but rather as an investigation of how the pressure of a press affects imagery. In each monotype, Morley pushed experimentation, never using the exact same technique twice. In Rushing to Miami, 2006, printed with master printer Kathy Caraccio, he used Mylar as the plate on which to paint the exotic and colorful kites floating above a tropical setting. The Mylar caused the watercolor to pool in areas resulting in porcelain like quality that he could not have achieved on the more porous surface of paper. After going through the press, the full, colorful image was transferred to the paper while simultaneously staining the Mylar, resulting in a ghost image on the plate that did not appear on the paper. Not for the last time, the artist blurred the line between print and original.

Working with master printer Maurice Sanchez, Morley also experimented with a hydraulic press. In a progression entitled Abandon Ship, 2008, Sanchez took the plate through the press nine times, with each resulting image a lighter version of the previous one. As noted by Nancy Princenthal in her catalogue essay, Sanchez says, “if making a print is like making a movie – you do it in parts, and assemble it, and there is a great deal of editing – making a monoprint is like improvisational theatre:  you live and die on the spot.” However, with Abandon Ship, Morley made a drawing outlining the images in black and Sanchez ran a single lithograph over each monotype, again questioning definitions. Technically, a monoprint begins with a printed matrix off which the image is built – Morley reverses the process, by “drawing” on top of the image. 

Much of Morley’s work is autobiographical. For example, Red Shoes with Palette, 2007 came out of his time spent volunteering at a local Boys and Girls Club. Morley instructed his students to draw a favorite item, like their tennis shoes, and felt he should do the same. Here the artist juxtaposes a messy, well-used watercolor palette next to the shoes, a reminder of the artifice of the image.

Born in London in 1931, Malcolm Morley studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal College of Art. In 1958 he moved to the United States and in 1984 he was awarded the inaugural Turner Prize for British artists. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Painting Award in 1992. Morley first achieved widespread recognition in the 1960s for his super-realist paintings and again in the eighties for his masterful Neo-Expressionist works.

[Image: Malcolm Morley &quot;Holiday Beach with Beach Ball&quot; (2008) Monotype 17-3/4 x 23-3/4 in.]]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B6EE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/B6EE">
  <Name>Marshall Weber &quot;Awedience&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Munch Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>245 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-228-1600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Broome and Grand Sts., Subway: F to East Broadway or F/M/J/Z to Delancey Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Munch Gallery presents ‘Awedience’, a solo show by Marshall Weber. 'Awedience' is a series of life-size photo-installations about being an audience member. Each piece in the show is titled with a song title from a pop rock song, so there is a predetermined soundtrack for the show. There will be guidebooks In the gallery that have source photographs of the installation pieces and the source and lyrics from each song lending their titles, so there is a pop culture back-story to each piece.

It’s a romantic restructuring of the gallery exhibit as an LP vinyl record concept album.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-16</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Rather Unique&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0C30A694">
    <Name>Woodward Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>133 Eldridge St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-966-3411</Phone>
    <Fax>212-966-3491</Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Broome St.. Subway: J/M/Z to Essex Street, S/D/Q to Grand Street or J/M to Bowery Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[New for 2012, Woodward Gallery invites Harlem-based street Artist Royce Bannon as their first-ever guest curator for an exhibition with rather unique art.

While how they each create differs, they are commonly driven to share art with their peers without-constraints. This public focus has afforded the group to experiment and redefine their creativity with instant feedback and inspiration from colleagues.
Bannon selected these few for their resolve and commitment. They have worked obsessively over the years to get their public art recognized.

Each one of them has a rather unique style that I really can’t compare to any one else’s. If I mention a   Darkcloud, a Matt Siren, or a Cope2 you know exactly what I’m talking about- even if you’re not into the   scene- you can see their (iconic) images in your head… Everyone does wheat paste, and stickers, or (tag)   throw ups, but this group of artists…make what they do really pop.
Woodward Gallery acknowledges these most contemporary of artists and their contribution to the 
new world of art.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B943" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/B943">
  <Name>Group show &quot;Simultaneity&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Blackston</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>29C Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-695-8201</Phone>
    <Fax>212-695-8202</Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway, B/D to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Blackston presents Simultaneity, a group show featuring works by Brooklyn-based artists Ryan DaWalt, Rachel Howe, Shawn Kuruneru, Jeffrey Scott Mathews and Meghan Petras.  A reception will be held for the artists on Sunday, January 8th from 6 to 8 p.m.
 
Simultaneity addresses a current zeitgeist of pattern, motif and process in the separate studio practices of five young New York artists.  The title of the exhibition references artists Robert and Sonia Delaunay's early Twentieth Century movement, which, in both paintings and textile works, heralded the interplay of divergent color, lines and abstract forms in a single frame of reference.
 
Ryan DaWalt's steel geometric shapes on linen develop a unique color system across the plane. Using handmade pigments containing iron and steel particulates that are applied to linen backed by a magnetic field, the artist creates forms that are repeated and altered across the body of his work, resulting in a distinct color play that references formal art-making in addition to textile patterns.   
 
Rachel Howe's paper works are made with woven, hand-dyed cut strips of paper.  Concerned with both process and psychological elements of visual expression, Howe frequently incorporates symbols and patterns from ancient, occult and craft traditions.
 
Shawn Kuruneru employs rigorous application of miniscule ink marks over canvas and panel surfaces to create highly detailed minimalist work.  The undulation and accumulation of these marks develop compelling visual connections and perspective shifts, as well as altering the texture and tone of each surface.  The artist's sculptural piece in the exhibition incorporates elements of his mark-making across three dimensional space.
                 
Using bold abstract gestures, Jeffrey Scott Mathews applies a liquid form of the heavy metal bismuth to linen canvases painted with symmetrical underpinnings.  The concurrence of these pronounced metallic applications (out of which crystals grow) with a modulated background evinces a paradoxical relationship.  Mathews also works with textiles in forming large canvas wall hangings replete with recurring angular components.
 
Meghan Petras applies fabric paint to canvas, then cuts, reassembles and sews the pieces into a whole canvas that is stretched across a painting frame.  The results are bold and vital abstract paintings.  The artist's repeated gestural symbols and unique visual vocabulary reference Modernist traditions and equally the role of traditional craft disciplines in art-making. 
 
Employing concurrent use of textile, formal and alchemic traditions and newly developed processes, the works in this exhibition all embody the dynamic potential of relational exploration via color (or lack thereof), mark, material and form.]]></Description>
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  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BBD4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BBD4">
  <Name>&quot;The Space In-Between&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/61F8CCD4">
    <Name>envoy enterprises</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>131 Chrystie St., New York, NY, 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-4555</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Broome St. Subway: J/M/Z to Bowery or B/D/F/Q to Grand Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In &quot;The Space In-Between&quot;, artist and musician Matt Sims collides concepts as diverse as Quantum Mechanics, temporal consciousness and Taxi Cab drivers. Illuminating both the many universes of existence and the many states of self awareness...This multimedia exhibition itself is comprised of a variety of different earthly perspectives, including that of runners, cab drivers, and lucid dreamers, amongst others. These perspectives generate an inclusive worldview that illuminate a variety of alternate states of being...The Space In-Between, as a whole, is Sim's attempt to illustrate the constant link between the internal and external states of the universe we try to make sense of on a daily basis. Sims renders the contours of our awareness with a sensibility that is equal parts mundane and esoteric, physical and metaphysical, scientific and otherworldly.

Matt Sims, also known as Mt. Sims, is a Berlin-based established electronic-musician with releases spanning as far back as 2002 with his first album &quot;Ultrasex&quot; on International DJ Gigolo, up to his most recent collaboration with The Knife and Planningtorock on the Darwinian opera &quot;Tomorrow, In A Year.&quot; Having recently retired his Mt. Sims moniker in late 2010, he is currently working on his latest musical project, CEL.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BC5C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BC5C">
  <Name>Gerri Davis &quot;Iteration&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EF870F67">
    <Name>Bridge Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>98 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-674-6320</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Broome Sts. Subway: J/M/Z/F to Delancey Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Who has the balls to tackle Picasso and Matisse head-on?
Wielding her fervid palette artist Gerri Davis sets the old guys on fire against a backdrop of other seminal, temporal works.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>35</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BED8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BED8">
  <Name>&quot;RETROspect&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F1BADDF">
    <Name>Charles Bank Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>196 Bowery, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-4095</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Prince and Spring Sts.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue or 4 to Spring Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Charles Bank Gallery presents RETROspect, a pairing of staff selected contemporary artworks with examples of exquisitely painted nineteenth-century woodworking from the collection of Elliott and Grace Snyder. The contemporary collection includes work by Allen Grubesic, Adam Henry, Barnaby Hosking, Eske Kath, Kim Keever, Ryan James MacFarland, Kasper Sonne, and Pär Strömberg. 
 
Elliott and Grace Snyder have been full-time antiques dealers since 1970, and currently exhibit in the most important antiques shows in this country, including the Winter Antiques Show in New York. They are also founding members of the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America, a trade organization dedicated to encouraging the maintenance of high ethical standards in the business of buying and selling antiques.
 
The Snyders specialize in 17th, 18th, and early 19th century American furniture and decorative arts with an emphasis on textiles, painted and/or decorated furniture in original condition, and folk art. Their interest has always been in 'country' interpretations of formal designs in which craftsmen were freer to improvise on prevailing structures. The Snyders always seek out pieces that successfully embody individual imagination.

The six antiques from the Snyder collection were specifically chosen for their hand-painted surfaces that resemble abstract paintings from a more recent period in Art History. As a result, the juxtaposition of these pieces with artworks from the Charles Bank Gallery program offers viewers a fresh perspective on both collections.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-09</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BF29" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BF29">
  <Name>&quot;New Moon : Interpretations of the Chinese Zodiac 2012&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D2CE67CE">
    <Name>myplasticheart</Name>
    <Type>Shop</Type>
    <Address>210 Forsyth St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-290-6866</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between E.Houston and Stanton Sts. Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[myplasticheart presents the 4th annual New Moon: Interpretations of the Chinese Zodiac exhibit. We are kicking the year off right with this stellar group show featuring 18 artists’ reinterpretations of the 12 animals of the Chinese lunar calendar. Curated by John Wong.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C167" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C167">
  <Name>&quot;Anonymous Tantra Paintings&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/844E0DE9">
    <Name>Feature Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>131 Allen St., New York, NY 10002  </Address>
    <Phone>212-675-7772</Phone>
    <Fax>212-675-7773</Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Rivington Sts. Subways: 6 to Spring Street, F/M/J/Z to Delancey Street or B/D to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 13:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[These small paintings on found paper are made anonymously in India (especially in Rajasthan) by practitioners of tantraism, some of whom are artists, to represent and embody fundamental aspects of Tantra, a vast and complex spiritual and philosophical practice. Viewing or meditating on these reductive and essential images stimulates specific mental and/or spiritual experiences that are part of its teachings. While the images are centuries old with highly codified forms and colors, the paintings are packed with such a high level of the artists’ intentionality that they continually appear fresh and alive. Despite their didactic function, they also have a history of being coveted as decorative objects and abstract art both in India and in the West. Feature Inc. began exhibiting these anonymous Tantra paintings 1998, as a result of the gallery's research into contemporary Indian artists and art.

[Image: Anonymous Tantra Painting &quot;Divine Love&quot;]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.26744</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-07" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C488" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C488">
  <Name>The Hilton Brothers &quot;Tyrants + Lederhosen&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/80BD8452">
    <Name>Christopher Henry Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>127 Elizabeth St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-244-6004</Phone>
    <Fax>646-416-6437</Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Broom St., Subway: J/M/Z to Bowery, 6 to Spring Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="1" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Tuesday by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Christopher Henry Gallery presents The Hilton Brothers: Tyrants + Lederhosen.  Photographers  Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg (a.k.a. the Hilton Brothers) break new ground with an exhibition mounted concurrent with the book publication Tyrants + Lederhosen.  The duo have authored a modern take on the photo travelogue, compiled in the first ever published Hilton Brothers anthology from 2004 to 2011. After 8 years traveling the globe as non-traditional  ‘photo-anthropologists’, the duo captures a raw candor with their pictures, void of restraint and self-consciousness.  The duo are storytellers through their photographs, seeming to unconsciously explore the contradictions and obsessions of Myth.
 
It is an artistic collaboration like no other. Two photographers in an intense collaboration over several years;  one with a legendary resume photographing many of the 20th Centuries biggest pop icons and the other a rising creative talent; fearless, borderless, with fresh eyes, known firstly for his seductive flower portraits.  The Hilton Brothers are an experiment of collaboration, as well as making art.
 
The Brothers use their cameras as their paintbrush as much as to document; details of shadows and light, suggesting the ordinary as extraordinary. They open a new window on both familiar and unfamiliar worlds.  From the Far East to the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, all worlds collide into dramatic dissonance in this seminal photographic document of our time.  The Hilton Brothers have been exhibited throughout the world, including Galerie Catherine Houard, Paris and a “one man” show at la Casa Encendida Museum, Madrid.
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C878" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C878">
  <Name>Roberto Burle Marx &quot;Tablecloth&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6F8F8A37">
    <Name>Rooster Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>190 Orchard St., New York, NY, 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-230-1370</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Houston and Stanton Sts.  Subway: F to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994, Brazil) is recognized as one of the most influential – if not the most influential – landscape architects of the 20th century. “Tablecloth/Toalha” will be comprised of several late works, mainly executed during his stay in Constância at José Ramoa’s, an art dealer and collector with whom Burle Marx developed an intense friendship.
 
The exhibition is titled after a 141”x59” painted tablecloth specifically designed to fit Ramoa’s dining table. Just like another tablecloth on display at Sítio Burle Marx in Guaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, this work clearly demonstrates Burle Marx’s originality as a multifaceted artist whose work cannot be exclusively categorized as landscape architecture. Lauro Cavalcanti – curator of the retrospective exhibition “Roberto Burle Marx 100 anos: A permanência do Instável” – stated that Burle Marx “…painted every day in the morning and in the afternoon he did his gardens” and did not enjoy the fact that his paintings were relegated to a secondary position.
 
Also on display will be 12 india-ink works on paper, dated from 1973 to 1990, which reveal Burle Marx’s loose proficiency. While dispensing color – something inherently his due to his activity as a landscape architect – Burle Marx still follows the same provocative abstract morphology that characterized South-American art during the second half of the 20th century, providing the viewer some hints on issues like urbanism and landscaping. Along with these works some never before seen letters and photography of Burle Marx and Ramoa will be available.
 
“Tablecloth/Toalha” is an exhibition that wants to show Burle Marx’s activity not only as a landscape architect, but also as a prolific and inventive artist. In the end, one might question whether it is the architectural grammar that is present on Burle Marx’s paintings or the pictorial language that is present in his landscape projects.
 
Roberto Burle Marx was born in São Paulo in 1909 and died in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro. Marx studied at the National School of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro where he became a close friend of Oscar Niemeyer with whom he would collaborate throughout his life, namely at the “Ibirapuera Park” (São Paulo, 1954) and at the “Monumental Axis” (Brasília, 1961). His most famous landscape projects are: “Flamengo Park” (Rio de Janeiro, 1965), the Copacabana promenade (Rio de Janeiro, 1970), “Inhotim Park” (Brumadinho, 1984), among others. Burle Marx’s works have been shown in the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (“Roberto Burle Marx,” 1973), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (“Roberto Burle Marx: The Unnatural Art of the Garden,” 1991), Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (“Roberto Burle Marx 100 anos: A permanência do Instável,” 2008), New York Botanical Garden (“The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern,” 2009) and his work is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand; among others.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-26" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CA49" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/CA49">
  <Name>Paul Heyer / Virginia Poundstone &quot;I know that I am awake&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CF2617B7">
    <Name>Rachel Uffner Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>47 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-274-0064</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours: July 1–August 8, 2009: Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–6pm, or by appointment (Closed Saturday, July 4th). August 12–August 29, 2009: Open by appointment only.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The trees die out in a rock garden of dwarf rhododendron, birch, and fire-colored ash, set about with strap ferns, edelweiss, and unknown alpine florets, fresh mineral blue. Then a woodpecker of vivid green appears, and though I know that I am awake, that I actually see such a bird, the blue flowers and green woodpecker have no more reality, or less, than the yellow-throated marten of my dream.

When she died, the rhododendron in her garden passed back into wildness; for to garden is to impose order upon the landscape and control upon the plants. The bush lives on, blooming a different kind of flower– one made not for her and with no help from her, but because of her.

The smell of the rose made our eyes roll back.

Twilight changed the shade of a different ordered arrangement. The tree was purple. The sky was the color of cantaloupe. And the electric light cast ultramarine shadows into an empty expanse of nurtured potential. She would go to a field, dig up a plant, and bring it home to cultivate a protected opportunity for it to grow.

I know that I am awake is an exhibition bringing together new work from Paul Heyer and Virginia Poundstone.

Paul Heyer lives and works in Los Angeles. He has been included in exhibitions throughout the United States including, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, Proof Gallery, Boston, MA, “Whitney’s Biennial”, c.r.e.a.m projects, Brooklyn, NY, and Daniel Reich Gallery, NY. He received his MFA from Columbia University in 2009.

Virginia Poundstone lives and works in New York City. She has been included in the following recent exhibitions: Louis B. James, NY, Thierry-Goldberg, NY, La Mama Gallery (solo) NY, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, Harris Lieberman (solo), NY, and Time – Life, Taxter &amp; Spengemann, NY, among others. She has recently been named Top 100 young artists to watch in Modern Painters. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2009.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-15" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CB42" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/CB42">
  <Name>&quot;The Displaced Person&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/946E5141">
    <Name>INVISIBLE-EXPORTS</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>14A Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-5447</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment. </ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Invisible-Exports presents &quot;The Displaced Person&quot;, a group exhibition featuring works by Ron Athey, Walt Cassidy, Jesse Aron Green, Geof Oppenheimer and Sue Williams. 

Public space is palimpsest, an accidental archive of imperious elements and refugee cultures, competing claims, misfits, dissidents, legacies and outcasts, all cast together and called, simultaneously, forward. But what goes by the name of renewal, in city life and politics, in arts and culture, is often just a flattening, a sorting, sometimes even an obliteration. The work gathered here, by five artists exploring the libidinous zone between public and intimate, sanctioned and condemned, suggests instead that displacement, exclusion, and alienation, as much as they are symptoms of social failure, can return as civic virtues. In fact, they must.

Ron Athey (b. 1961) is a London based performance artist whose iconoclastic work reconsiders preconceived notions of masculinity, sexuality, religion and the anxiety surrounding the AIDS crisis.  Athey’s work and performances have been staged and exhibited internationally including at MOCA Los Angeles, the Kampnagel Theater, Germany, and Western Projects, among others. His upcoming monograph, “Pleading in the Blood: The Art of Ron Athey”, will be published by the Live Art Development Agency and the MIT Press in 2012.

Walt Cassidy (b. 1972) is a New York based artist whose latest work examines the narratives of alternate belief systems, the interiority of personal history as well as social and civic dislocation and identity. His work has been exhibited at MASS MOCA, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 303 Gallery, The Torrance Museum of Art, and Deitch Projects, among others.

Jesse Aron Green (b. 1979) is a New York based artist whose investigative work merges multi-media installations with research-based conceptual foundations. His work has exhibited at the Williams College Museum of Art, the Tate Modern, London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.

Geof Oppenheimer (b. 1973) is a Chicago based artist working with diverse media, who takes the formal manifestation of civic value as his subject, interrogating the ways in which political and social structures are encoded in images and objects.  It is a practice situated at the intersection of art and politics, but in such a way that neither art nor politics is reducible to the other term. He has exhibited at The Project, New York, Aspen Art Museum, LAX ART, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, and SITE Santa Fe, among others.

Sue Williams (b. 1954) is an American painter, whose works echoed and argued with the dominant feminist aesthetic, with a frank and caustic eye toward gender politics and the sanctuary of the body. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions that include the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Vancouver Art Gallery, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, Vancouver Canada, P.S. 1 Contemporary At Center, Long Island City, NY, Kunst Werke Berlin Germany, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerlan, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has had solo exhibitions at the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; IVAM, Valencia, Spain; Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria; and Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; among others.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CF53" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/CF53">
  <Name>&quot;Sin City-Impressions of Shanghai: New Work by island6&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D5824028">
    <Name>Tally Beck Contemporary Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>42 Rivington St., New York, NY, 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-677-5160</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Eldridge Street and Forsyth Street. Subway: F to 2nd Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Tally Beck Contemporary presents an exhibition of the artist collective island6, from Shanghai, China. The eclectic group is well-known for their dynamic LED work and inventive digital multi-media pieces. The exhibition, entitled Sin City—Impressions of Shanghai: New Work by island6, opens at Tally Beck Contemporary, 42 Rivington St., on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, with an opening reception from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. and will run through March 11. The event will also be a celebration of the Chinese New Year with a special lion dance performance by Dance China New York and catering by Marja Samsom.

Sin City—Impressions of Shanghai will be comprised of over a dozen multi-media pieces produced in 2011 and 2012. In addition to the myriad of LED creations, highlights will include new neon work, telephone interactive video and other new media yet to be exhibited in the U.S.

island6 has begun to shine on the Asian contemporary art scene because of their innovative use of electronic media to characterize the city of Shanghai. This exhibition explores the realties and myths of 1930s Shanghai, focusing on female sexuality and issues of exoticism, eroticism and Orientalism. Combining videographic technology with LED lights and found objects such as furniture and décor elements, the collective produces animated, socio-historical vignettes of 1930s Shanghai and the collision of Chinese and colonial cultures. Their work has been shown extensively in Asia and Oceania as well as in art fairs and special exhibitions in the U.S., France, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and Morocco.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D2E1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D2E1">
  <Name>André Saraiva &quot;Love Letters”</Name>
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    <Name>Half Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>208 Forsyth St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Houston and Stanton St. Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Street artist André Saraiva is perhaps best known for the creation of his &quot;Mr. A&quot; character which was featured last year in the award winning documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. He made his own directorial debut in 2011 with his short film, &quot;The Shoe,&quot; co-starring Leo Fitzpatrick and Annabelle Dexter-Jones. Saraiva has exhibited all over the world including shows at Colette, Palais de Tokyo and Air de Paris where he showed his love graffiti for the first time. For MOCA's landmark &quot;Art in the Streets&quot; show, he tagged up the museum's bathrooms with his colorful graffiti. Andre's show Love Letters at half gallery -- his first solo exhibition in New York -- will include paintings on french letter boxes which he used to paint all over Paris and love notes on stationery, a somewhat anachronistic celebration of communication so closely tied to the romantic. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
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  <Name>Graham Durward Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DC14729E">
    <Name>Louis B. James Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>143 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-533-4670</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Rivington and Delancey Sts. Subway: F, J/M/Z to Delancey St. or F to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Durward’s paintings in oil on linen render formally the intangibility and ephemerality of desire. He works primarily in three veins: portraiture, still life, and art historical devotional imagery, and treats each subject to the same interplay of abstraction and representation, obscurity and clarity. The portraits are culled from the Internet and display anonymous men who have obscured their own faces with crude Photoshop technology. The painterly violence of erasure, with oil paint mimicking digital drawing, lends a darkness to the subjects’ advertisements of desire. Durward’s still lives bear a tenuous relationship to the tradition; based on photographs taken by the artist, they depict the smoke from incense and candles, fixing in time the fluidity of the incorporeal.  His sacred imagery, here the Shroud of Turin and the Sistine Chapel dissolved to abstraction, similarly engage the impossibility of the depiction of immateriality in paint. 
 
Graham Durward studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Whitney Independent Study program.

[Image: Graham Durward &quot;U&quot; (2011) oil on linen 20 x 22 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Come and Get It!&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Hendershot Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>195 Chrystie St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-239-1210</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Stanton and Rivington Sts.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hendershot Gallery presents the opening of Come and Get It!, a group show that features the work of Alben, Daniel Arango, Ghost of a Dream, Ted Noten, Rachel Bee Porter, Tom Sanford, Shelter Serra and Marie Vic.

Come and Get It! encompasses our inherent fascination with consumer goods. While the artist's reference to popular culture is certainly not a new endeavor, the boundary between art and commerce has become increasingly faint. Come and Get It! exhibits the work of eight contemporary artists, each of whom explores the intersection between popular culture, consumerism and art. Inspired by bold and overt advertisements scattered throughout Manhattan, the title of this show further exaggerates the sales tactics used to seduce us into making an impulsive purchase. For the duration of this five-week exhibition, Hendershot Gallery will redesign its gallery space – creating an ironic juxtaposition between the contemporary art world and the retail experience.
 
Highlighting this reciprocal dialogue between art and commerce, Hendershot Gallery has partnered up with local businesses and artists to contribute their products for this exhibition. Books and t-shirts from photographer Jesper Haynes’ St. Marks: 1986-2006 series will be available at the gallery, revealing twenty years of memories throughout his time living on the iconic New York City block. The opening reception for Come and Get It! will be sponsored by our friends at BOMB Beer Company and The Little Cupcake Bakeshop. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
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  <Name>The Herd Remorse</Name>
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    <Name>Lesley Heller Workspace </Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>54 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-410-6120</Phone>
    <Fax>212-410-5340</Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester. Subway: B/D to Grand Street or F/J/M/Z to Essex Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DB92" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/DB92">
  <Name>PS3* Pedro Sanchez3 &quot;On the Outer Edge&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Abrons Arts Center </Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>466 Grand St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-598-0400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Pitt St.  Subway: F to East Broadway or Delancey, D/B to Grand Street, J/M to Essex Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>22:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The Abrons Arts Center announces On the Outer Edge, an exhibition by Spanish-born New York based artist PS3* Pedro Sanchez3 in the Upper Main Gallery. The artist presents a new video work in his full-scale model home designed for a life of deliberate deprivation. Based on Brazilian favelas and built from materials found in and around the Lower East Side, this continually adaptable structure participates in an international language of habitation. Dwellings like the one presented in this exhibition are a global response to poverty — usually inhabited by immigrants or slave workers in the suburbs of large cities in Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Morocco, and many other African and Asian countries. 

This (anti-)utopian dwelling uses the leftovers of capitalist production to re-negotiate contemporary living spaces. Rather than looking to state-of-the-art materials and advanced construction technologies PS3* poses bricolage as a solution to the need for an affordable, easily transportable and environmentally efficient house. We are presented with a porous and ephemeral structure that challenges the notion of the self-enclosed, permanent home and puts in its place a model of community living sustained by creative reconstruction, mobility and change. 

Installed in the favela is a video of schizoid scenes from dance clubs, street bazaars, and arcades, cropped and blurred to the brink of abstraction. The video suggests a passage through temporary spaces filled with life, music, metallic surfaces, and darkened shadows. It conjures a dream experience of so many not-quite-recognizable cities floating by in disjointed stop light animation that barrels toward, but never reaches, total saturation and exhaustion. 

In this moment of worldwide occupations On the Outer Edge redirects the gaze of the revolutionary spirit away from central urban spaces and towards the incongruous fringes of the social. The dialogue between the video and dwelling structure embraces transience, for better or worse, as a mode of living. Eschewing the notion of a linear timeline that moves forward in the name of progress, PS3* deploys a circular temporality of reuse and revision. The ambiguous locations of the video and transient space of the favela appear not simply as the dysphoric remains of global capitalism but as permeable laboratories for rethinking the future.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;The First Rebellion is History, Next Week Rome Falls&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EC176588">
    <Name>Simon Preston Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>301 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-1105</Phone>
    <Fax>212-431-1106</Fax>
    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge St.  Subway: B/D/Q to Grand Street or F/J/M/Z to Essex Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition's title is borrowed from a recent series of photographs by Daniel Joseph Martinez. In each of his images, hand-groomed Bonsai trees, tended by the artist, are placed on pedestals in front of national flags, activating a rich set of connotations about nature, aesthetics and social control. Martinez will exhibit two further photographic series of works in his solo exhibition titled I want to go to Detroit; Cheerleaders CHEER at LA&gt;&lt;ART which opens on 4 February, as part of Pacific Standard Time in LA. Michelle Lopez exhibits a pair of hand-formed clay, wall-leaning sculptures that examine the iconography of the flag. Following the previous trajectory of her work titled Flare, properties of drawing invade the sculptures and expose a kind of natural, organic form. Jessica Mein will show a series of billboard works depicting construction sites. Through the artist's obsessive hand-made perforations and collage, the mechanical printing process found in the discarded material is interrupted and altered. Marco Rios' Unititled photograph is hyperbolic in nature, employing humor and slapstick tactics to address the more solemn issues of failure, death, desire, and despair. Kara Tanaka has transformed a cowhide into an abstracted map by shaving and carving onto the skin, illustrating the search for both physical and mythical mountain systems. Tanaka's use of animal hides draws a parallel to the Tibetan iconographic image of flayed skin as a symbol for the destruction of the ego. Caragh Thuring includes a volcano. Painted on unprimed linen, with an extreme efficiency of marks, the volcano appears mythical or simply dormant and elicits a certain faith and desire in its mere existence, echoing the very foundation and method in the construction of each of her paintings. Josh Tonsfeldt will exhibit recent work made while on residency at the Zabludowicz Collection in Sarvisalo, Finland. He is included in New York: Directions, Points of Interest at Massimo de Carlo , which will open on January 25th - March 24th in Milan.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DE92" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/DE92">
  <Name>&quot;007_Urban_Songline&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BBB9B5CB">
    <Name>Storefront for Art and Architecture</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>97 Kenmare St.,  New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-5795</Phone>
    <Fax>212-431-5755</Fax>
    <Access>Between Cleveland  Place and Mulberry St. /Subway: 6 to Spring Street or R/W to Prince Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Storefront for Art and Architecture presents 007_Urban_Songline by Allard van Hoorn. The exhibition is the artist's first solo exhibition in New York and will continue his series of works that explore the tradition of Songlines through a site-specific, newly commissioned work that will literally transform the Acconci/Holl façade into a sound instrument. 
 
The origin of Songlines [or Dreaming Tracks] can be traced to Australian indigenous systems for navigation and caretaking of land achieved by mapping space through the creation of music based on the topography of land. Throughout the duration of 007_Urban_Songline, van Hoorn will create a series of Dreaming Tracks utilizing the changing morphology of the Storefront façade and the sounds emerging from the urban sonic context of the gallery.
 
The installation will consist of an interwoven network of strings throughout the façade and the gallery space that will transform the facade into an interactive, responsive musical instrument. Storefront's façade contains 12 panels that pivot vertically or horizontally to open the entire length of the gallery directly onto the street. When a panel of the façade moves, the strings will physically activate the totality of the façade and acoustically transform the space of the gallery making the different spatial transformations audible for visitors. Visitors will become performers and will be encouraged to manipulate the installation as they transcend the space by moving the panels of the façade and stretching and playing the fields of strings with their bodies, thus constructing and transforming the acoustic and visual topography of Storefront.
 
The project will allow the visitor to experiment on an architectural scale the connection between sound, tension, materiality and space. 
 
Orchestrating the sounds between urban context and installation content, van Hoorn will strategically distribute a system of microphones throughout the different acoustic nodes around the gallery and its surroundings that will all merge into a synthesized, real time Songline audible to visitors in the gallery. The continuous Urban Songline produced throughout the length of the exhibition will be constantly streamed live and recorded and available in the Storefront Sound Archive.
 
For the opening night of the exhibition, van Hoorn will perform a concert of 7 Urban Songlines recorded in the space throughout the pre-opening days. In addition to performances held in the space throughout the length of the exhibition, Storefront will host events to discuss the theme of Public City Sounds; including a panel discussion moderated by the artist with sound engineers and architects. During the closing event, which will take place on February 18, 2012 at 7 PM, a live performance will mix different versions of the Storefront Songline that will then be cut live into vinyl and given away.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>A live performance will be held on February 18, 2012 at 7 PM.</ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DF76" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/DF76">
  <Name>Bruno Hadjadj &quot;Bye Bye CBGB&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/21F41C8E">
    <Name>Clic Bookstore &amp; Gallery (255 Centre St.)</Name>
    <Type>Shop</Type>
    <Address>255 Centre St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-966-2766</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Broome St.  Subway: 6 to Spring Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[BYE BYE CBGBs is a final goodbye to one of the last relics of New York punk rock and 1970s/1980s underground culture. CBGBs is a place that continues to thrive on in the collective unconscious; a historic landmark that belongs just as much to teenagers buying their first Ramones album as it does to those who attended the first Ramones gigs in 1974. It was in this dingy little rock den on Bowery and Bleecker that the seeds of punk rock germinated before transforming worldwide counterculture forever. Forget the Sex Pistols or The Clash -- it was home-spun heroes like Patti Smith, Television, and The Ramones who were at the forefront what we now understand as punk. Dirty, rebellious, crass, unpracticed, and irreverent, this new breed of rock ‘n roll hellcats who performed nightly at CBGBs redefined what it means to be a voice of a generation. During its thirty-three years in existence, CBGBs dictated and detected new currents and strains of rock ‘n roll like no one place has since.

On October 14th, 2006 people came from all other the world to say “Bye Bye” to CBGBs before the club shut its doors for good. Indoors, there were 48-hours of star-studded performances, but it was the emotionally-charged going-ons right outside the club’s doors that captivated multimedia artist Bruno Hadjadj. Using sketches, photography, and videos, he immortalized the anonymous throngs who queued up outside to pay their final respects. For two days people dedicated poems, artworks, mementos, and performances to the legacy of the greatest rock club of all time. Hadjadj’s resultant body of work not only tells the tale of an era coming to an end, but also pays testament to the incredible endurance of CBGBs influence.

“Bye Bye CBGB” is comprised of black and white prints and silver prints mounted on light boxes with the flickering electric lights animating the figures. The accompanying sketches are rendered with a mix of ink and pencils.
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-30</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-02" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/E3CC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/E3CC">
  <Name>&quot;The Family Jewels&quot; and &quot;Dorian, the Wallpaper Collection&quot; Exhibitions</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/00038288">
    <Name>Stephan Stoyanov Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>29 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-582-4425</Phone>
    <Fax>212-582-2366</Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester &amp; Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway, B/D to Grand Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Stephan Stoyanov Gallery presents &quot;The Family Jewels&quot;, Hannah Barrett's series of paintings and drawings depicting a hermaphrodite master race; and &quot;Dorian, the Wallpaper Collection&quot;, Michelle Handelman's selection of ambient video loops from Dorian, a Cinematic Perfume, a project based on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
 
In The Family Jewels, small Cranach-like icons portray an omnisexual elite enjoying their leisure in a fantasy realm reminiscent of William S. Burroughs'. Barrett creates an alternative pantheon by fusing the bodies of Hitler and Queen Elizabeth, ultimate symbols of blood-based superiority, and placing them in understated, highly charged settings. To accompany her first solo New York show, Barrett invites 2011 Guggenheim Fellow Michelle Handelman to exhibit photographs and videos from her acclaimed parable of decadence and narcissism, Dorian, a Cinematic Perfume. In this video installation characters and musicians of the underground '80s club scene act out the extremes of youthful beauty and aging decomposition as symbolized by Dorian Gray's secretly blistering portrait. Dorian exists as a contemporary celebrity, destroyed by a vacant ambition.
 
While Barrett paints in oil and gold leaf on panel, and Handelman shoots in high definition video, both create a cast of morally and sexually ambiguous characters engaged in exclusive and rarified power games and rituals. Handelman's lush glamour and Barrett's meticulous craftsmanship conspire to reveal pristine surfaces that are shattered by conflicted emotions and dark history.

[Image: &quot;Dead Dorian&quot; from Dorian by Michelle Handelman / &quot;The Bread of Future Generations&quot; by Hannah Barrett]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Artists Talk: Sunday, February 12, 4-5pm</ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/E696" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/E696">
  <Name>Ray Smith &amp; G.T. Pellizzi &quot;The Execution of Maximilian: Border Paintings&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DB6B2A8E">
    <Name>Y Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>165 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917-721-4539</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Stanton and Rivington Sts., Subway: F to 1st Avenue or F/M/J/Z to Delancey Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, sundays openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Y Gallery presents &quot;The Execution of Maximilian: Border Paintings&quot; by Ray Smith and G.T. Pellizzi, two Mexican-American artists of different heritages, but common cultural backgrounds. The exhibition refers to the violence represented by the border itself, replicated in the way illegal immigrants are treated—“backyard” policies creating a ripple effect of economic and social strife, as far off as in cities such as Ciudad Juarez. The daily violence that is produced at the borders is somehow reflected through these paintings, which were executed by shooting at cans of paint with shotguns, on the Texan border of Mexico near Brownsville, between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012. The making of the paintings took place outdoors in what is, and has been for over a century, the dump for the Iturria Ranch. This arena of action and the displacement of painterly production from the artist’s studio directly into nature and the outdoors echoes the Impressionist movement-taking place around the same time as Manet’s Maximilian paintings. Here, though, the natural landscape is taken to reference the Mexican–American border.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-06</DateEnd>
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 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/E6CD" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/E6CD">
  <Name>&quot;All Humans Do&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/164AD061">
    <Name>WHITE BOX</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>329 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-714-2347</Phone>
    <Fax>212-714-2354</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Chrystie st. Subway: B/D/Q to Grand Street or J/M to Bowery Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Curated  by Aoife Tunney]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-20</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Breyer P-Orridge &quot;I'm Mortality&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>INVISIBLE-EXPORTS</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>14A Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-5447</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment. </ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-25</DateEnd>
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 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-17" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>45</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/ED06" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/ED06">
  <Name>“EMERGING TO ESTABLISHED, OLD AND NEW WORKS GROUP SHOW” Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/404B71BB">
    <Name>Krause Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>149 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-777-7799</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Rivington and Stanton Sts. Subway:  J/M/Z and F to Delancey/ Essex Street or J/M/Z to Bowery or F to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:30:00</OpeningHour>
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    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-05</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/ED11" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/ED11">
  <Name>&quot;Accrochage&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/04A7DB29">
    <Name>Miguel Abreu Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>36 Orchard St., New York NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-995-1774</Phone>
    <Fax>646-688-2303</Fax>
    <Access>Between Canal and Hester St. Subway: F to Broadway or B/D to Grand Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Miguel Abreu Gallery presents an installation of recent works by gallery artists and others.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/ED55" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/ED55">
  <Name>Jon Kessler &quot;The Blue Period&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Salon 94 Bowery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>243 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-672-9212</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Stanton St.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Salon 94 Bowery presents Jon Kessler’s The Blue Period (2007/2011), an immersive installation featuring kinetic machines, surveillance cameras, video monitors and life-size cardboard figures. This video-drenched panopticon is the culmination of Kessler’s longtime interest in surveillance, alienation and spectacle. First shown in Berlin in 2007, this is the work’s first installation in the US.  The Blue Period is a spiritual descendant of Society as Spectacle, Guy Debord’s seminal 1967 critique of the ascendant consumer culture, and the general passivity and isolation it engenders. Riffing on Debord and his fellow Situationists, Kessler has constructed a controlled environment in which social relations are mediated through images of a fabricated, inaccessible reality. Cameras capture real and fake spectators in a maze of monitors against blue splattered walls creating a fleeting sense of community and interconnection. Processors displace this blue with wave after wave of smiling catalog faces, setting the viewer adrift in a sea of the real and the imagined: a constant feedback loop that has a paradoxically liberating effect. This feeling is fleeting as the viewer becomes trapped in the immense accumulation of images, locked in an endless cycle of passivity and voyeurism.   
At the installation’s center an inverted model–a gallery within a gallery–is surveyed with a miniature camera. Large collaged portraits from Kessler’s residency at Dieu Donné hang on the walls, supporting Kessler’s idea of the portrait as a metaphor for captivity. A bank of box monitors imprisons familiar actors in blue-face such as Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou, Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto and sequences from the Blue Man Group. Like the viewer, these characters unwittingly become part of the work, and the act of looking and being seen becomes the de facto subject. The upstairs gallery exhibits four recent small-scale sculptures, each featuring a different human organ and its prosthesis: Hands (2012), Ear (2012), Foot (2012), and Eye (2012).  ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/F394" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/F394">
  <Name>Aude Pariset, Kate Steciw &amp; Letha Wilson Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E199761A">
    <Name>Toomer Labzda</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>100 A Forsyth st., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917-488-3388</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Broome Sts. Subway: B/D to Grand street or J/M/Z/F to Delancey street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[toomer labzda presents its second group exhibition featuring new works by Aude Pariset, Kate Steciw and Letha Wilson, curated by David Harper. 

This exhibition focuses on the work of three artists who, despite their often radically different methodologies and disparate materials, continue to explore the untapped artistic potentialities of photographic imagery through the creation of sculpture. Departing from their two-dimensional sources, this transformational process gives each the ability to create new spatial relationships, to impart materiality on the immaterial and to attempt to challenge the existent visual language of photography. 

[Image: Late Steciw &quot;don't worry, we will all be dead soon I&quot; (2011) duraclear print, plexiglass, household items approx. 40 x 30 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Michael Zelehoski &quot;Secondary Structures&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>DODGEgallery</Name>
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    <Address>15 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-228-5122</Phone>
    <Fax>212-228-5211</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Chrystie St. Subway:  J/M to Bowery, 6 to Spring Street, B/D to Grand Street,  F/V to 2nd Avenue. </Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[In an ongoing dialogue between the deconstruction of objects and the construction of form, Michael Zelehoski transforms found, utilitarian subjects into two-dimensional works that are picture, relief and object in one. Dismantling the components of found objects, Zelehoski assembles two-dimensional compositions into minimal primary forms. Where he veers from minimalism is his interest in the nature of objects as referential artifacts, inspiring the exhibition title, Secondary Structures.

Once flattened and embedded into a picture plane, Zelehoski's objects enter the domain of aesthetic considerations and spatial illusionism. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
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  <Name>Megan Berk &quot;Weird Party on the Other Side of the Hedge&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Culturefix</Name>
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    <Address>9 Clinton St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-863-7171 x 1</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Featured Artist Megan Berk inaugurates RAC and kick off Recession Art’s solo shows with Weird Party on the Other Side of the Hedge, a show that explores the impulse towards heaven. In abstracted landscapes and altered architectural spaces, a sort of bright beyond is suggested where light meets shadow. These moments of possibility allude as much to the idea of heaven as they might to an idealized future, the idea of Summer before it has arrived, or the improbable optimism that drives creative progress. They seek to transform moments of desire, self-delusion, and optimism into form and color; In this way, they echo religious painting, though the icons here are taken from the glossy pages of architecture and lifestyle magazines.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
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