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  <Name>&quot;Hybrid Thinking&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6C7F9E5E">
    <Name>Jonathan LeVine Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., 9E, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-243-3822</Phone>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Jonathan LeVine Gallery presents Hybrid Thinking, a group exhibition curated by Marc + Sara Schiller of Wooster Collective, in their first curatorial since the groundbreaking 11 Spring exhibition, in December 2006.

Hybrid Thinking brings together six preeminent emerging artists from around the world and for some it will mark their first exhibition in New York. The show features work by: Dal, from Beijing, China (now based in Cape Town, South Africa); Herakut, a duo based in Frankfurt, Germany; Hyuro, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently based in Valencia, Spain; Roa, based in Belgium; Sit, from the Netherlands; and Vinz, born and based in Valencia, Spain.

With a wide array of discipline, medium, style and cultural influence, work by the six artists in this exhibition is thematically cohesive in its related subject matter—through figurative pairings of human and animal elements, the artists explore concepts of instinct, identity and metamorphoses. In the curators’ words: “Hybrid Thinking refers to the current zeitgeist of our time: disparate cultures coming together to create something completely new. Though from distinctly different cultural backgrounds, these artists share an understanding of our cities, of the human condition and our complex relationship with nature.”    

ABOUT THE ARTISTS 
DAL was born in Beijing, China in 1984 and is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts. The tactile quality of his three-dimensional work is complimented by the gestural approach and ribbon-like structure of forms in his works on canvas.

Herakut is the collaboration between Hera and Akut, a duo based in Frankfurt, Germany. Their work, in itself, is a hybrid of two styles. Hera’s traditional art training combined with Akut’s years of graffiti experience results in an intriguing combination of organic line and form.

Hyuro, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1974, is currently based in Valencia, Spain. She has an art degree from Escuela Nacional Manuel Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and a Master degree from Politecnic University in Valencia. Her black and white imagery is striking in its poetic simplicity yet rich in existential concepts, the work translates gracefully from canvas to mural form.

Roa is based in Ghent, Belgium. His large-scale black and white murals of animals can be found in cities throughout Europe and the US. His gallery work is often painted on multiple panels or objects, echoing the effect and imaginative placement of his images painted on public architecture.

Sit, born in 1976, lives and works in Amsterdam. In his NOIR series, he examines the troubled relationship between mankind and the animal kingdom through a bold black and white palette. Sensual textures of fur and feathers are rendered in dark brush strokes in contrast with pale, soft skin tones of female nude figures and the rigid bone of animal skulls.

Vinz was born in 1979 in Valencia, Spain, where he is currently based. He paints animal heads on large-scale photographs of human figures, and applies the work using wheatpaste to city walls. Taking a similar approach to his studio work, the artist collages paper ephemera into a background texture which he prints figures onto, then paints heads and other details in enamel or gouache.

ABOUT WOOSTER COLLECTIVE
Wooster Collective, founded in 2001 by Sara + Marc Schiller, showcases and celebrates ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. The collective’s mission is to discover and document authentic art experiences via salons, lectures, curating gallery shows, and online at: www.woostercollective.com. In 2006, they organized one of the most significant exhibitions of street art ever at an abandoned building in downtown New York. 11 Spring was chosen by the The New York Times  as one of the top art exhibitions of the year. The Schillers have published many books and in 2010, released Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art with Taschen. They have been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Good Magazine and many others. As a global voice for street art, the Schillers have spoken at the Tate Modern, Design Indaba and The New Museum. Marc is CEO and Founder of Electric Artists, a digital brand strategy and marketing firm. Sara operates their business, Meet at the Apartment, a creative meeting space in lower Manhattan. They live in downtown New York with their daughter, Samantha, and dog, Hudson.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/D18F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/D18F">
  <Name>Natalia Fabia &quot;Punk Rock Rainbow Sparkle&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6C7F9E5E">
    <Name>Jonathan LeVine Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., 9E, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-243-3822</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th Ave and West Side Highway. Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Jonathan LeVine Gallery presents Punk Rock Rainbow Sparkle, a new series of works by Los Angeles-based artist Natalia Fabia, in what will be her highly anticipated debut solo exhibition in New York.

For her first solo show on the East Coast, Fabia chose to use the location as creative direction for her paintings and spent three months exploring the region, doing research, gathering visual materials and staging photo shoots to serve as reference imagery for her new body of work. Particularly inspired by people and places with a raw, punk sensibility, she spent time in New York City (Manhattan and Brooklyn), Philadelphia, and Asbury Park in New Jersey.

In the artist’s words: “Punk rock is one of my true loves. Punk to me is an attitude, a lifestyle. Punk is a middle finger, punk is do-it-yourself, do what you want. It’s a kind of freedom. I’m attracted to my subjects for having that quality. This attitude is what I wanted to convey in this series. My models (many of which are friends) are all tough, independent, strong, fun, hard working, talented, tattooed and stylishly dressed. I look at punk rock as being dirty and rough, yet sparkly and enticing at the same time, and that’s the theme of my paintings.”

  A skilled young oil painter, Fabia selects luminous subjects with an intriguing dichotomy—adult yet innocent, strong yet vulnerable. To view her work is a voyeuristic endeavor. Lingerie-wearing vixens lounge in intimate rooms with all the comforts of home, or gather in groups for after-hour parties at dimly-lit bars. Fabia’s playfully erotic female figures are adorned with alluring details—glimmering jewelry and intricate tattoos. These confident, empowered beauties evoke burlesque and pin-up traditions. A seductive mixture of glitter and grit, they pose provocatively in the artist’s carefully arranged compositions.

  Lush settings include environmental textures, elements of graffiti, iconic landmarks and other geographically specific architecture. Infused with Fabia’s signature style, vividly saturated candy color palette and dazzling spectrum of light, scenes in these paintings—like most of her work—are a combination of fantasy narratives and actual moments captured from the artist’s vibrant life, her passion for ornate fashion, nightlife and glamour with a punk rock edge.

ABOUT THE ARTIST 
Natalia Fabia is of Polish descent, born in 1983 in Burbank, California, and currently based in Los Angeles. In 2007, she graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Inspired by light, color, punk rock music, hot chicks and sparkles, her work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions and publications.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/01A9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/01A9">
  <Name>&quot;Winners of Soho Photo's 2012  Small Works National Competition&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/39ECC723">
    <Name>Soho Photo Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>15 White St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-8571</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between W Broadway and Church St. Subway: 1 to Franklin Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Soho Photo Gallery presents the winners of its second Small Works National Competition, as chosen by our distinguished juror, Karen Marks, Exhibitions Director of The Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City. We initiated this competition to recognize those photographers who still enjoy the discipline of creating small masterpieces in an era when large photographs-very large-are in vogue. The competition's rules stated that the height and width of entries could not exceed six inches in each direction. After viewing more than 600 images submitted by 94 photographers from across the country, Karen Marks said:   
 
The jurying process for this show was not easy because there were so many wonderful images. It was very hard to choose among them. Usually, being quite decisive, I know what kind of work moves me. But I was surprisingly affected by some of these entries that are different from the ones I would ordinarily select. These artists have shown me that even when I think I know what I like, I can find something new.  
 
Marks chose 141 images from 61 photographers to be in the Small Works exhibition.   ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Aperture Foundation's The Art of Small Books (Guest exhibition) </ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/04C1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/04C1">
  <Name>Kim Dong Yoo Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/57E7DAC9">
    <Name>Hasted Kraeutler</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>537 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011 </Address>
    <Phone>212-627-0006</Phone>
    <Fax>212-627-5117</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Hasted Kraeutler presents the first exhibition of paintings by KIM DONG YOO in the United States.

Kim Dong Yoo is best known for paintings of iconic images that are comprised of thousands of smaller images, which either contradict or support the primary subject, such as John F. Kennedy, Mao Tse-Tung, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Albert Einstein.

Born in 1965 in Gongju, Korea, Kim Dong Yoo has exhibited widely in Korea and internationally since 1988, when he completed his MFA at Mokwon University. He now lives in Seoul, Korea. 

[Image: Kim Dong Yoo &quot;Marilyn &amp; JFK&quot; (2010)]]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/060D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/060D">
  <Name>James Busby &quot;Wingspan&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BB53F343">
    <Name>Stux Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-352-1600</Phone>
    <Fax>212-352-0302</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[One of the enigmatic centerpieces of James Busby’s fourth exhibition at Stux Gallery is attempting an escape. A meticulously polished black painting rests on a cart that appears as if it emerged from an ancient shipwreck. Gnarly fiberglass growth threatens to consume the pristine surface from all sides as the rusty cart wheels the piece away to a determined but indecipherable destination.

Poets have been comparing artworks to wings that transport the artist and viewer to the realm of aesthetic imagination since the Romantic Era. Works in “Wingspan”, on the other hand, remind us that in addition to the ability to sponsor intellectual flight, various properties of the figurative “wings” themselves are fascinating in their own right. Influenced by Russian Constructivism, Suprematism and the works of Robert Ryman, Donald Judd and Richard Tuttle, amongst others, Busby’s new paintings are also inspired by the physical, temporal, and interactive process of art creation. They raise important questions about the way visual art initiates dialogue with its viewers and influences—or becomes influenced by—its surrounding environment.

The effects of Busby’s obsessive attention to surface texture and geometric relations are magnified in his new works of unprecedentedly large scale, for the artist. Created by sanding thick layers of gesso, his already low reliefs become vanishingly subtle amidst the enlarged overall dimensions. However, up close the viewer will discover forms that hover above or sink below one another in their new spacious habitat, creating frictions and spatial tensions that echo beyond the visual field. Oddly, the compounded complexity renders his works even more intimate as Busby’s trademark techniques dazzle in in their expanded venue.

The three-dimensionality and variations in surface quality allow Busby to paint with the light cast upon them to create ephemeral colors and textures unachievable by applying paint alone. Viewing his larger works requires viewers to completely immerse themselves in Busby’s meticulous world of visual and spiritual poetry, and engage thoroughly with the newly acquired wingspan before taking off.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0E0B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/0E0B">
  <Name>Magnus Plessen Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Gladstone Gallery (Chelsea 24th Street)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>515 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-9300</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-9301</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Gladstone Gallery presents our fourth solo exhibition of new paintings by Magnus Plessen. For over a decade, Plessen has been known for his subtle investigations into the phenomenological structure of vision, tactility, and form that are the foundation of his painting practice. Looking to the immediate material properties of paint and the two-dimensional surface, Plessen constructs his compositions by systematically adding and subtracting sections of paint to create a shifting field of positive and negative space, revealing not only the artist's process of mark making, but also the ghostly presence of what has been removed. Plessen's imagery is determinedly generalized, often showing just a suggestion of a face, bottle, or hand. These motifs emerge from a fractal landscape of lines, shapes, and colors to provide a palpable tension between abstraction and representation.

This exhibition brings together two new series of large-scale paintings that together continue to expand upon Plessen's formal strategies.  Returning to the female form, the first set of works present the image of a pregnant woman. In these paintings, the figures are positioned frontally, facing the viewer in a collage-like assemblage of fragmented body parts, creating a feeling of spatial flatness while celebrating the subject’s physical presence. 

In the second body of work, Plessen adopts the notion of rotation as an analogy for building movement and momentum within the structure of each painting. Plessen employs this as an organizational principle, invoking a visual sense of rotation by positioning the figure of a head at the center of each canvas to create a generative force of action around which the painting's elements are arranged. Unlike the directness of the female figure, these works eschew specific subject matter and instead build upon an internal logic of rhythm, motion, and temporality. Plessen explains:

These paintings take less notice of the presence of the viewer than earlier works. Imagine
a theater performance being in full blast as you enter the space of the theater to take your
seat. This indifference to me or possibly the onlooker, and a feeling of unfamiliarity of the
depicted heads and body parts, give the rotation paintings a quality of coming from a long
distance to my mind. 

While Plessen's color values have previously remained distinctly muted, both new series playfully engage a palette of bright pinks, blues, and yellows, which further punctuate the artist’s depth of space as well as a newly explored painterly light. Through these works, Plessen establishes a vibrant exchange between his rigorous formal structures, developed sense of materiality, and the ever-unfolding experience of viewing a painting. 

[Image: Magnus Plessen &quot;Untitled&quot; (2010) oil on canvas, 82 3/8 x 72 1/8 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-15</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0E5A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/0E5A">
  <Name>Eric Fischl Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Mary Boone Gallery (Midtown)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>745 5th Ave., New York, NY 10151</Address>
    <Phone>212-752-2929</Phone>
    <Fax>212-752-3939</Fax>
    <Access>Between 57th and 58th St. Subway: F to 57th Street or 4/5/6 to 59th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Dating from 1992 to 2011, the works in the exhibition range from sketched portraits cropped to the face, to commanding single figures, to complex arrangements of couples, families, or groups. As in the fraught suburban scenes for which he first rose to prominence, with each approach to portraiture Fischl demonstrates his mastery of conjuring form and light from paint to communicate the psychological bearing of his subjects.

A highlight of the exhibition is three large group portraits painted at intervals of several years that depict the Artist and his circle of friends at the beach. The earliest, The Gang (2006), is a congregation of sun-enveloped bodies with paraphernalia suggesting an extended day of revelry. Saint Barts Ralph’s 70th (2009) presents a smaller group, parched in bright light, bags packed and seemingly on the move -- a record of transition that is echoed in the painting’s title. The third, the most recent work in the exhibition, is Self-Portrait: An Unfinished Work (2011), an unsettling painting within-a-painting in which the Artist sits facing the viewer with his back to an unfinished canvas. Here, the friends Fischl portrays are pressed toward the front of the picture plane by dark rocks and waves. At the center of this group a conspicuously incomplete figure, presumably a surrogate for the Artist himself (who, until now, has been absent from the gatherings) hovers above the foreground self-portrait. Fischl allows us to see the Artist, so adept at capturing others, wrestling with seeing himself.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1562" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1562">
  <Name>&quot;IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/85B7E2A7">
    <Name>The National Museum of the American Indian (George Gustav Heye Center)</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1 Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004</Address>
    <Phone>212-514-3700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
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    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed on December 25. The Museum Stores are open every day from 10 am to 5 pm.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This 20-panel banner exhibition focuses on the interactions between African American and Native American people, especially those of blended heritage. It also sheds light on the dynamics of race, community, culture, and creativity, and addresses the human desires of being and belonging. With compelling text and powerful graphics, IndiVisible includes accounts of cultural integration and diffusion as well as the struggle to define and preserve identity. Stories are set within the context of a larger society that, for centuries, has viewed people through the prism of race brought to the Western Hemisphere by European settlers.

By combining the voices of the living with those of their ancestors, IndiVisible provides an extraordinary opportunity to understand the history and contemporary perspectives of people of African and Native American descent. The exhibition is accompanied by a 160-page publication and 10-minute media piece.

Developed by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian with the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-08-31</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>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
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 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-15" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1FC1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1FC1">
  <Name>&quot;We Are Cinema: 50 Years of Film-Makers' Coop&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4326E405">
    <Name>Microscope Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>4 Charles Place, Brooklyn, NY 11221</Address>
    <Phone>347-925-1433</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner of Myrtle and Willoughby Aves. Subway: J/M/Z to Myrtle Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[We are Cinema is a month-long exhibit and screening series celebrating 50 years of the Film-Makers’ Co-op in NYC. The exhibit features paintings, drawings, prints, light boxes, and other artworks from the group’s earliest to most recent members. Additionally, rare early documents, posters, catalogues, archival materials and historical sound recordings will also be on exhibit. Events start on Saturday February 11, at 5PM – just prior to the official exhibition opening – with the first screening of restored, fresh-from-the-lab 16mm prints of rare short works by legendary filmmaker/artist Jack Smith (Respectable Creatures, Song for Rent, Hot Air Specialists, Overstimulated, Scotch Tape, and Yellow Sequence), all new editions to the Co-op’s distribution. Original founding director Jonas Mekas and current director MM Serra will introduce the works. The four-part screening series continues with unique programs by Ken Jacobs (2/18), Jonas Mekas (2/25), and a group show of recent editions to the Co-op’s collection (3/4). Seating is limited. Please RSVP to rsvp@microscopegallery.com.
 
It was in January of 1962 that filmmaker Jonas Mekas called an urgent meeting of about 20 avant-garde/independent filmmakers including Stan Vanderbeek, Rudy Burckhardt, Jack Smith, Ken Jacobs, and Gregory Markopoulos to discuss taking the means of exhibition and distribution into their own hands. Within months the Film-Makers’ Co-op was born. Under the stewardship of filmmaker MM Serra since 1991, the organization is now the oldest and largest artist-run cooperative in the world and membership continues to be open to anyone with a film or video work. The Film-Makers’ Co-op continues to operate as a vibrant archive and distributor, housing more than 5,000 films and videos by over 900 artists. It is now located at 475 Park Ave South in Manhattan.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-05</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Ryan Sullivan Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/760D06A0">
    <Name>Maccarone</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>630 Greenwich St., New York, NY 10014</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-4977</Phone>
    <Fax>212-965-5019</Fax>
    <Access>Between Morton and Leroy St. Subway: 1 to Houston Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Maccarone presents the first solo exhibition by New York-based artist Ryan Sullivan. 
 
In several large-scale paintings, Sullivan tempers gesture and authorship through an entropic set of actions. The works often invoke topographies, with a strikingly physical surface that undermines simple signification. The cracks, mounds and fissures manifest the electric instability of the painted surface while rendering the precarious state permanent. 
 
Sullivan’s thickly applied canvases summon the materiality and alchemy inherent to paint. Laying his canvases horizontally, the artist adds layers of latex, oil, and enamel to create pooled pockets that slowly coagulate into unanticipated leathery skins and weighty flesh. Lifting the half-dry canvas, Sullivan subjects the paint to gravity, concurrently dumping out some under-painting while activating other layers beneath: with this gesture, the artist relinquishes partial authorial control. The final application of spray paint deftly captures the contours of the morphing paint.
 
Published in conjunction with the exhibition, an artist book of photos anchors Sullivan’s observations on the architecture of material. The combing of decay, human wear, accumulation and disintegration in these images connects natural forces with the hermetic studio practice.
 
Ryan Sullivan was born in 1983 and received his Bachelor of Fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design. The artist’s work has appeared in group exhibitions including Greater New York at P.S 1 MoMA, Queens; Luxembourg &amp; Dayan, London; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin; and Nicole Klagsbrun, New York.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2C9B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2C9B">
  <Name>Charles Lutz &quot;ReMake/Re-Model&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0213BC1F">
    <Name>Hionas Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>89 Franklin St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Church St and Broadway. Subway: 1 to Franklin Street or N/Q/R/W/4/6 to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>14:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hionas Gallery presents ReMake/Re-Model, a solo exhibition of new works by Charles Lutz comprised of a selection of the artist’s signature Post-Pop paintings and sculpture, from his Equivocal Voids and High Life series’.

Lutz’s wandering eye is keen to the satirical, the sexual and the absurd, found in objects both mundane and iconic, from Warhol’s appropriated Brillo boxes, re-appropriated by Lutz for a somber result in cold black stainless steel, to Franz Kline’s fluid action brushstrokes, re-made to reveal disparate body parts lustfully intertwined. With each work, Lutz begins and ends with a simple premise: to extract from a particular source only its most vital information, and with that information find some new way to communicate. For much of his source material Lutz takes familiar symbols and brand names one might find in a magazine or on a billboard, and given the solarized, monochromatic effect that’s inherent in much of Lutz’s work, what he chooses to extract can appear to some a harsh, if not apathetic commentary on the very imagery and iconography that feeds off our minds and wallets.

“I like to think this work reveals a sober and real portrait of us as a culture,” says Lutz, “one that is constantly shifting yet has remained largely unchanged.” Indeed, the unambiguous origins of this body of work may inspire some to recall readymades or the cold steel constructions of the early Minimalists. Whatever one’s perspective, the originality, or lack thereof, of abstraction, Pop and other artistic modes is brought into question here, and becomes the crux of Re-Make/Re-Model. By synthesizing what is consumable 
and what has, in a sense, already been consumed, Lutz’s work evokes a false déjà vu, wherein we recognize the objects at hand, but clearly we have not witnessed these very things before.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>23</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/320E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/320E">
  <Name>&quot;BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG LOVE&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4B957CD4">
    <Name>Underline Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>238 W 14th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-2427</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 7th and 8th Aves. Subway: A/C/E and L to 8th Avenue / 14th Street or 1/2/3 to 7th Avenue/14th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_19_below">Chelsea 14th - 19th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG LOVE, a group show exploring the subject of relationships through the formal properties of light and color, spotlights a variety of mediums – from light installations and sculpture to painting and photography. Through these ephemeral, subjective media, the works demonstrate, question, and complicate the fragility and uncertainty of intimacy against the backdrop of some of the coldest months of the year.

The underpinning narrative of the collection speaks to the creation and destruction of relationships. The curators at Underline have managed to cull alluring, new works that address a particularly relevant theme in the coldest months: The seasonal nature of love.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
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 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:30:00" end="20:30:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/332E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/332E">
  <Name>Eric Fischl Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2DE3C62E">
    <Name>Mary Boone Gallery (Chelsea)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>541 W 24th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-752-2929</Phone>
    <Fax>212-752-3939</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Dating from 1992 to 2011, the works in the exhibition range from sketched portraits cropped to the face, to commanding single figures, to complex arrangements of couples, families, or groups. As in the fraught suburban scenes for which he first rose to prominence, with each approach to portraiture Fischl demonstrates his mastery of conjuring form and light from paint to communicate the psychological bearing of his subjects.

A highlight of the exhibition is three large group portraits painted at intervals of several years that depict the Artist and his circle of friends at the beach. The earliest, The Gang (2006), is a congregation of sun-enveloped bodies with paraphernalia suggesting an extended day of revelry. Saint Barts Ralph’s 70th (2009) presents a smaller group, parched in bright light, bags packed and seemingly on the move -- a record of transition that is echoed in the painting’s title. The third, the most recent work in the exhibition, is Self-Portrait: An Unfinished Work (2011), an unsettling painting within-a-painting in which the Artist sits facing the viewer with his back to an unfinished canvas. Here, the friends Fischl portrays are pressed toward the front of the picture plane by dark rocks and waves. At the center of this group a conspicuously incomplete figure, presumably a surrogate for the Artist himself (who, until now, has been absent from the gatherings) hovers above the foreground self-portrait. Fischl allows us to see the Artist, so adept at capturing others, wrestling with seeing himself.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/38C6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/38C6">
  <Name>Amy Wilson &quot;We Dream of Star Fish and Geodesic Domes&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6EC80A67">
    <Name>BravinLee Programs</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>526 W 26th St., #211, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-462-4404</Phone>
    <Fax>212-462-4406</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[BravinLee programs presents Amy Wilson’s sprawling exhibition, We Dream of Star Fish and Geodesic Domes.  Incorporating a wide variety of media, including watercolor on paper, acrylic on panel, collage, fabric, sewing, clay, and an interactive Flash animation, the artist reveals an ambitious set of works that center around the themes of utopia and building a new world.

Wilson is best known for her small watercolors that depict a cast of young girls who communicate the artist’s diaristic thoughts via text bubbles. In We Dream of… the girls are back, but they take on a new dimension as they roam around a landscape inspired by Hieronymous Bosch and contemplate the works of R. Buckminster Fuller, Paolo Solari, Murray Bookchin, and others. The girls wonder aloud: If we could build the perfect society from the ground up, what would it look like? What kind of values and ethics would we reward, and which ones would we shun? What kind of culture would we create, if we got to do it all over – and this time, do it right?

Highlights of this exhibition include: 
* a 9’ drawing with over 6,000 words, titled A Utopian Vision (After Bosch); 
* a series of fabric geodesic domes which represent the architecture of the artist’s proposed new society, complete with tiny handmade bedroom sets and even tinier shoes; 
* an interactive web-based game, It’s Like This Every Day, in which players pick up limited edition albums (available for free at the gallery) and play online from home, competing to win works of art.

[Image: Amy Wilson &quot;How We Came To Know We Were Ready (we felt excluded by high culture)&quot; (2011) watercolor, pencil, walnut ink on paper 7 x 5 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3A16" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3A16">
  <Name>Jan ten Broeke &quot;Ten&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7B29094D">
    <Name>Noho Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-367-7063</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Sunday by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The artist's intent is &quot;to transcend the superficial, socially established eroticism of sexuality”....” All flowers are sex organs and that their function to be fertilized, to produce seed and to propagate, gives a deeper meaning to the beauty we so admire and enjoy.”]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>23</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3C10" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3C10">
  <Name>Juergen Teller Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5569D53D">
    <Name>Lehmann Maupin (540 W 26th Street)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>540 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-2923</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-2924</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Open mondays by appointment only.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3F2F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3F2F">
  <Name>&quot;Sutured&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6DF077">
    <Name>Like the Spice</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>224 Roebling St., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone>718-388-5388</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between S 2nd and S 3rd St. Subway: L to Bedford Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</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>Monday: By Appointment</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Fabric cannot be disassociated from both its practicalities and its histories. It can be soft or course, rigid or supple, and its linkages to gender and status are unshakable. While the smallest fiber can evoke notions of femininity, touch itself is the first sense we gain in our mothers’ wombs. In “Suture,” Like the Spice presents seven artists whose work bears, and yet also exploits, the cultural norms associated with textiles and other craft materials.

Since the 1970’s the media of everyday objects have become more and more pervasive in fine art, but craft is still distinguished from sculpture and painting as art with a utilitarian purpose. For the artists in this show, both quotidian and concept can become query as they incorporate discourses of high versus low art? in acts of subversion and aesthetic playfulness.

Perhaps the artist in “Sutured” to use the methodology of fiber arts most frankly, Richard Saja’s embroidered human-animal hybrids, clowns, and fantastical beasts defy the strict delineations in the strata of art historical context. His brilliantly rendered characters upend the decorum of the centuries’ old prints of toile fabric, a textile common in drapery and upholstery. The monochromatic swooning farmers and ornate foliage in the toile are the templates for his sardonically humorous re-narrations.

Joseph Heidecker also offers interruptions of sentimentality by effacing, embossing, and sewing into vintage statuettes acquired at estate auctions and various flee markets .  His additions are less synthesis than synaesthetic as he threads beads and glues googly eyes and other items from your kindergarten’s craft drawer to his found objects.

Jude Broughan’s raw patchworks of original and re-photographed images sewn to fragments of leather and plastic are at the same time personal and disconcerting. The stitched juxtapositions represent past and present, but they are less narrative than the symbiosis of memory and experience that creates one’s sense of self and home.

Abstraction confronts formalism and a celebration of the decorative ensues in Robert Raphael’s sculptures of wood, ceramic, and satin ribbon. His stark wooden posts hint at minimalism and embracing architecture, while he adorns them with collapsed stacks of glazed ceramic geometric figures and the occasional dollop of thick paint.

With Vadis Turner, abstraction and tradition collide in wall-hung works comprised of satin affixed to square canvases. She assembles her delicate media in bit-by-bit renderings of smoke and mold that seem to test the idea of modern painting. Her materials are heavily laden with symbolism, but she is aware of its associations. Deep in these variegated folds of color is the history of the feminine, yet the works don’t betray their formal qualities as paintings.

Adam Parker Smith’s monumental collage comprised of thousands of  hand-woven friendship bracelets fashioned to spell out “will u marry me” is a tapestry of the tragic. What could be a sublime gesture reveals itself as an assumed moment, implied by Smith to elicit our involvement. What we are left with as viewers is the dare to leave our sentimentality at the door to view the meaning of the work change as it hangs on the gallery walls for three weeks.

Zoe Sheehan Saldana creates uncanny duplications of store-bought objects, photographs them, and then returns them to the same rack or shelf of the original item. In the gallery she offers a glimpse of her travails in a full-scale photograph hung next to the original item. The clash of machine and man-made means of production foregrounds craft as a high-art concept and unsettles contemporary notions of value and utility.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4FEE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/4FEE">
  <Name>&quot;See My Voice, Hear My Vision&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EC3901AE">
    <Name>Westside Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>133/141 W 21st St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-592-2145</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 6th and 7th Ave. Subway: 1 or F/V to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_21">Chelsea 21st</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 10:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed on federal holidays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[An exhibition of selected work by second-year students in the MPS Art Therapy Department and the clients they work with at their internship sites. Curated by faculty member Liz DelliCarpini. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-15" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.74205</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5A50" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5A50">
  <Name>Rachel Pollak &quot;...the I and the We&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F45A47AC">
    <Name>Gowanus Print Lab</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>54 2nd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-788-3930</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 7th and 8th Sts., Subway: F/G/R/M to 9th St and 4th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>22:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:00, saturdays closinghour 19:00, sundays openinghour 12:00, sundays closinghour 19:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Chosen from entries to our GET SERIOUS GO SOLO solo exhibition contest, Rachel Pollak's sensitive paintings of ritual captured us with their quiet significance and simultaneously sparse and ornate spaces.

Rachel on her work:&quot;In my work I am seeking out moments when an “I” becomes a “We”—and moments when these affiliations break down. My gouache paintings are inspired by rituals I observe in everyday life: crew members raking the infield dirt at the seventh-inning stretch, children playing parachute games, the inauguration of a new president. By re-imagining the context of these rituals, and their accompanying furniture, uniforms, and equipment, my works consider the tension between the persistent identities of the individuals in these scenes and the groups they are a part of.&quot;

As our GET SERIOUS GO SOLO winner, Pollack also receives a free 1 month studio pass to explore what print can bring to her work.

&quot;The content of this work-- focused on the relationships between individuals and groups--would lend itself in an ideal way to the the print medium and its traditions of multiples, repeat patterns, and narrative series,&quot;  Rachel says of exploring print.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-05</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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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>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <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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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6153" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/6153">
  <Name>“Immaculate: Reflections of Mary” Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FE24F6F7">
    <Name>MF Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>213 Bond St., Brooklyn, NY 11217</Address>
    <Phone>917-446-8681</Phone>
    <Fax>212-431-2579</Fax>
    <Access>Between Butler and Baltic Sts. Subway: F or G to Bergen Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>14:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="1" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[MF Gallery presents “Immaculate: Reflections of Mary”.
 
The Virgin Mary has played the longstanding role of a mother, daughter, wife, and saint. This iconographic female figure’s influence on artists has been expressed through songs, poetry, paintings and statues throughout history. Today she is represented in film, television, t-shirts, stickers, tattoos, and even visualized on toast, allotting her a most unusual occupancy in popular culture.
 
Immaculate: Reflections of Mary seeks to reveal artwork influenced by the Virgin Mary.  This unique collection will show us how her image has transcended from a figure in religious institutions into modern culture.
 ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-11" start="19:00:00" end="22:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6B16" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/6B16">
  <Name>&quot;Facture&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/42F48A6C">
    <Name>Airplane</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>70 Jefferson St., Brooklyn, NY 11206</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Evergreen and Bushwick Aves., Subway: J/M/Z to Myrtle Ave.</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="1" sat="1" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Combining a handmade aesthetic with a range of materials, the works in this show manipulate spatial perception and challenge the distinctions between sculpture, painting, photography, and video. Through their formal qualities, along with personal, cultural, and technological references, the works evoke questions about the physicality of the art object. Facture includes work by Hector Arce-Espasas, Jeremy Couillard, Amy Feldman, Elana Herzog, Gisela Insuaste, Jessica Labatte, LoVid, Heather Rasmussen, and Jamil Yamani.  

In Jessica Labatte’s photography, everyday objects are juxtaposed to create abstracted tableaux of vivid colors and geometric shapes. 
Heather Rasmussen reconstructs scenes of shipping container accidents from pieces of brightly colored paper on seamless background paper. In the resulting photographs, the objects retain the fragility of their constructions. Familiar objects are decontextualized and abstracted.  
Using frayed pieces of fabric and wooden and metal supports, Elana Herzog’s labor-intensive work transforms architectural space while reinterpreting the structures of painting, sculpture, and installation. Hector Arces-Espasas’s photograph incorporates painting and portrays a paradisiacal landscape. Gisela Insuaste’s wooden sculptural works depict urban spaces and landscapes and explore the intersection of architecture, topography, and memory. In Amy Feldman’s abstract painting, inverted triangular shapes are utilized to examine spatial structures, as she explores the relationship between figure and ground.   

Jamil Yamani’s video projection of brightly colored circular shapes recall the imagery of mosaic tiles in Islamic architecture and transform into chaotic, flashing lights in the landscape of New York. LoVid, an interdisciplinary artist duo of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus, construct works of disparate materials ranging from video to fabric as well as performances. In Network, electrical wires were woven together and used to conduct live video, revealing the technological infrastructure and creating a tactile experience. Jeremy Couillard views science as an aesthetic in his painting, which illustrates the evolution of totem poles in a cellular environment —in architectural and biological terms. Patterns and shapes are maniacally repeated, creating a distorted space.    

Eileen Jeng is an independent writer and curator and the archivist at Sperone Westwater gallery in New York. Previously, she was a research assistant in the Department of Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago. She has been involved in various projects, such as FLOAT at Socrates Sculpture Park in 2007. She received an MA in arts administration and policy from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in art history and advertising from Syracuse University.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6DC4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/6DC4">
  <Name>&quot;Bling!&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/53D56C0B">
    <Name>Jim Kempner Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>501 W 23rd St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-6872</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-6873</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 10th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_23">Chelsea 23rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>37</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.747711</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/75A5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/75A5">
  <Name>Po Kim Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C2B26656">
    <Name>Gallery Korea</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>460 Park Ave., 6 Fl., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-759-9550</Phone>
    <Fax>212-688-8640</Fax>
    <Access>Between 57th and 58th St. Subway: 4/5/6/N/R/W to 59th Street Lexington Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Korean Cultural Service New York presents the exhibition of Po Kim.

This exhibition will display a great variety of the artist's recent works from 2010-2011 along with the large figurative painting in 1994-95 and small abstract paintings around his early works of 1960s. 

Through this exhibition, Korean Cultural Service NY wishes to offer an opportunity to look into the influence of the absence of the artist's wife and longtime artistic companion, the recently deceased Sylvia Wald, and display the artistic spirit of the artist in his nineties whose fiery intensity measures up to those of young and upcoming artists. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-16</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-15" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/886C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/886C">
  <Name>Julien Langendorff &quot;Goddess Fuzz Fantasy&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4A707DE5">
    <Name>agnès b. galerie boutique</Name>
    <Type>Shop</Type>
    <Address>50 Howard St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-1335</Phone>
    <Fax>212-431-1350</Fax>
    <Access>Between Broadway and Mercer Sts. Subway: 6/N/R/Q/W to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Agnès b. and the agnès b. Galerie Boutique in Soho, presents a solo show by French artist, Julien Langendorff, whose work combines collage, pen and ink drawings and paper cut-outs. He has exhibited in numerous galleries
in NYC, Paris, Tokyo and Berlin.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/890D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/890D">
  <Name>Willie Alexander &quot;Wall Works&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8D07E91F">
    <Name>Esopus Space</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>64 W 3rd St., #210, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-473-0919</Phone>
    <Fax>212-473-7212</Fax>
    <Access>Between LaGuardia Pl. and Thompson St. Subway: D/B/F/V/A/C/E to West 4th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[An exhibition of never-before-exhibited large-scale collages by rock-and-roll musician Willie Alexander, whose five-decades-long musical career includes stints with The Velvet Underground, The Bagatelle, The Lost, and The Boom Boom Band. For the past 25 years, Alexander has used thousands of yards of packing tape to affix newspaper clippings, ephemera from concert tours, personal photographs, cat litter packaging, and virtually every other material to the walls of his house in Gloucester, Massachusetts. These &quot;crazy quilts from a truly amazing creative consciousness&quot; (John Jacob) will be shown to the public for the first time at this exhibition, which represents Alexander's New York debut.
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-13</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-15" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>33</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8D14" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8D14">
  <Name>Louis Renzoni &quot;The Darker the Shadow The Brighter the Light&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D62ACC27">
    <Name>Kim Foster Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-229-0044</Phone>
    <Fax>212-229-0044</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Darker the Shadow, The Brighter the Light is a show of recent figurative paintings by Louis Renzoni.

Using a color palette of dark blue, soft yellow, pink and white , Renzoni creates a noir atmosphere of women caught in a moment of transition. Ordinary routines appear slightly sinister. Small areas of light don't illuminate but seem on the verge of being completely overwhelmed by darkness. Major characters, rather than being accented by shadows, are in and hidden by them. The paintings convey a specific mood, usually a kind of disturbing quiet. He calls it a flicker between the romantic and the ordinary.

In the largest paintings, the portraits are imbued with the glamour of old fashion movie heroines. The women appear doll-like with radiant cheeks and cherry lips. In several smaller works, faces are turned away and we are left to view shadows that become visual silhouettes. The closer one gets to the painting, the more blurred the imagery.

Renzoni's preference for oblique lines, and the constant opposition of light and dark, creates the compositional tension that radiate from these paintings. Adding to the tension is Renzoni's technique of painting in layers, sanding down, then repainting, a process that obliterates certain details but leaves smoky shadows in the background.

Louis Renzoni is a New York based, Canadian born artist who has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. He is in numerous private and public collections. His artwork has been reviewed in ARTnews, Art in America, among other publications.

[Image: Louis Renzoni &quot;Lost Necklace&quot; (2011) Oil on canvas, 70 x 70 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8E21" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8E21">
  <Name>David Febland &quot;Bringing it Home&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/04E999AD">
    <Name>George Billis Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 26th St., B1, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-645-2621</Phone>
    <Fax>212-645-2397</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/94BE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/94BE">
  <Name>&quot;Night Falls&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F26D3665">
    <Name>P.P.O.W.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 W 22nd Street, Fl. 3, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-647-1044</Phone>
    <Fax>212-647-1043</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</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="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Martin &amp; Muñoz are an art team best known for their “Travelers” series of snow globes and photographs. In the world that they have developed, blizzard transformed landscapes often serve as backdrops for enigmatic narratives. These are in some instances angst-dream inspired. Others are hard times fables. There is a socio-political as well as a psychological aspect to these images and sculptures. As is often the case with this couple's work, the narratives have an unfinished open ended quality. 

For this exhibition, Martin &amp; Muñoz have chosen night as a back drop.  Fires, flashlights and moonlight puncture the dark to expressive effect.  Important details and aspects of the narratives are lent a dynamic chiaroscuro where the interplay of light and dark shape both the mood and contour of the subject.  Some of the images and snow globes depict a sort of dystopian Kinderland.  This is a place where children have no parents, a place where adults appear only as an opposing tribe.  Some of characters depicted and developed in this group of photos include: a giant black dog, a band of rogue tree children and a nefarious priesthood.  A small group of related snow globes will also be exhibited.

Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz have been collaborating since 1993 and have since exhibited internationally. Their work is in numerous museum collections, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, and the KIASMA Museum of Contemporary art in Helsinki, Finland.  Recently their work was featured in group exhibitions at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington; the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Concurrent with the exhibition at P.P.O.W the artists are participating in the exhibition “Fairytales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination” at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</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="2012/9675" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9675">
  <Name>&quot;From Iceland&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8C69B816">
    <Name>Luise Ross Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., #307, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-343-2161</Phone>
    <Fax>212-343-2468</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Some years ago, Icelandic artists would have been a category unfamiliar to the American art public. It would have seemed a category without discernible unity or order, thus devoid of the kind of meaning that would allow itself to be turned into myth.  By connecting all the dots we have the beginnings of a myth centering  on a society precariously poised between the civilized and savage, urban and rural, self-deprecation (How do you like Iceland?) and dreams of world domination.
 
Typically, the Icelandic artists included in this survey both conform to this myth and render it meaningless. All of them have close ties to the countryside; they use it as a refuge or incorporate its features and legends into their art, both of which is true of Gudbjorg Lind, Gudrun Kristjansdottir and Niels Hafstein. At the same time they are ready to fly to New York, Paris or Beijing at a moments notice. Their approach to their work may be firmly centered on the physicality of the body, as is the case with Gudny Kristmanns, or it may be predicated on the dissolution of materiality, which is the kind of thing we find in the work of Gustav Geir Bollason. Or they may take up a position midway between sense and big time sensuality, as happens in the highly literate and knowing work of Jon Laxdal and Thordis Alda. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/98D2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/98D2">
  <Name>Yong Sun Suh &quot;Territory&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/00BEE330">
    <Name>Kips Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-4215</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[As an artist, I have always been interested in our history, our story. I have prepared this exhibition in the intention to create a base in expressing my thoughts on the Korean War. We store what we see in the society and in nature within our body as our memory and we communicated it with others. There is a moment this phenomena became a part of my identity.The Korean language I speak has been developed in a specific Asian region. Throughout the long years, as the boundary of the region where the language is used changes, the identity of the folks who speak the language changes. These memories turn into deep experience carved onto me and serve me as a guide to live in this world.  They even create ideology or faith.Like pictures or photographs, the stored images in our unconscious become imprinted in our memory and part of our social communication, Even sound or it's memories like other sensory perceptions, are sometime brought back on viewing these specific images.
 
People, particularly in the west define this event in the history of our Country, as the &quot;Korean War&quot;. The Korean War bears a special meaning for me. The Korean War refers to a regional conflict between South Korea and North Korea.  However, it also refers to a war directly involving other countries such as the United States, the Soviet Union, and China.  The point is that it is so unnatural for the twoKoreas to exist as two separate nations, because their natures are so identical.The memories of those including my parents who remember the War have become a part of mine and my personal experience. It was hard to recreate them in pictures. However, because of my experience and cultural background these past associations are dissociable from my way of living and expressing myself, as an artist.
 
These paintings represent my latest attempt in trying to give it a tangible life.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>23</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/99AF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/99AF">
  <Name>Yuka Otani Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F7553928">
    <Name>Camel Art Space</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>722 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Graham Ave.  Subway: L to Graham Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[In the Project Space Yuka Otani will be showing a new installation inspired by “Hojoki”, an essay by Chomei Kamono: a Japanese 13th century poet who expresses the sense of mujokan(impermanence) during the medieval age of wars and disasters.

Bio:
Yuka Otani’s sculptures and installations incorporate transparent and fluid materials such as glass, water, melted sugar and light to invoke a shift in a viewer’s perception of physical and cognitive spaces. The vulnerable materials change their appearance over time, thereby simultaneously emphasizing both presence and absence. Her work has been featured in venues including Museum of Art and Design, Whitney Museum of American Art, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Wight Gallery at UCLA.]]></Description>
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  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9DC4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9DC4">
  <Name>Mark Price &quot;Hyper 20XX&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/AD344CA8">
    <Name>Kesting / Ray</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>30 Grand St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-334-0204 </Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Thompson St. and 6th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</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[KESTING/RAY presents Hyper 20XX, the second New York solo exhibition for Philadelphia-based artist Mark Price. In a new series of meticulously-cut and super-color-saturated collages incorporating screenprinting, painting and photography, Price packs multiple moments into single frames stuck in the endless loop of an inescapable present. 

Price's work speaks to a deep-seated human fear of groundlessness and change. We seek stability and a world we recognize as sane and reliable, and Price's work won't give it to us. Instead he offers incomplete warnings of a shattered future in day-glow gestures that pierce the picture plane, flattening it into odd shapes that we strain to recognize. A silhouetted character appears from time to time in the work, functioning as a reminder of the fragmentary and incomplete nature of consciousness.

In Price's installation, our own experience can no longer be trusted. The high-resolution screen through which we view things has shattered into stuttering and razor-sharp regions of color and text. Pierced and pinned to the wall as fragmentary bits of a larger situation, his collages emerge into a three-dimensional plane that feels tentative, vulnerable and hyper-real. Philosopher Paul Virilio, in describing the global financial crisis, touches on this atmosphere when he states, &quot;We have moved from the stage of the acceleration of History to that of the acceleration of the Real. This is what 'progress' is: a consensual sacrifice.&quot;

In 2011, Price spent months traveling throughout the US and India to deepen his experience of non-linear perception. In describing this time he notes, &quot;In not having a fixed home base, I began to understand a new kind of stillness that comes from being perpetually in motion. Whether on a bike or train or plane, I found comfort from the mode of constant acceleration and the knowledge that everything remains open and inconclusive.&quot;]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Cultural Production&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Andrea Rosen Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>525 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-6000</Phone>
    <Fax>212-627-5450</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Courtesy Konrad Fischer Galerie. © Estate of Hanne Darboven/DACS]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;WNTRSLN#2&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BB1D0FA1">
    <Name>Parker's Box</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>193 Grand St., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone>718-388-2882</Phone>
    <Fax>718-388-2882</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bedford Ave. and Driggs Ave.  Subway: L to Bedford Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[WNTRSLN#2 is the second 'Winter Salon' show at Parker's Box, featuring selected works by gallery artists and special guests. As we head into the deepest part of winter with undoubtedly the coldest days of 2012 ahead of us, (before the Spring madness of the Armory Show and Volta), this exhibition offers diverse inspiration from a motley crew of committed and exciting artists. From established favorites to new discoveries in terms of both practices and artists, this winter exhibition should be one to warm the cockles and tickle the fancy, while stimulating the intellect with the innovatory approach and pioneering spirit that we can expect from all of these artists.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
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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>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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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.
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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  <Name>James Croak &quot;Chandelier Mistaken for God&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Stux Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-352-1600</Phone>
    <Fax>212-352-0302</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[In Chandelier Mistaken for God, a store-bought chandelier is discovered by a boy who appears to have just finished swimming on a warm summer day. The boy is startled, empowered, and utterly absorbed by the light from the interlacing flock of bulbs and crystals, as if he is experiencing the same exhilarating, inexplicable excitement of someone encountering an angel's halo, a golden religious icon, or the glory of Aurora Borealis. It is a spontaneous, subliminal and physical experience of absolute truth that cannot be controlled or explained. However, the universal tendency to associate light with the divine is purified and replicated here with, jarringly, an almost Duchampian chandelier: an overtly ornate, artificial living room staple, designed to tame and edit the light which is deem to be holy. 

A raw dirt drawing, Repelling Foreign Invaders, complements the gleaming installation. Inspired by Francisco Goya's Disasters of War series, Croak creates an ominous, violent, eerie and oddly peaceful portrait of the war in Afghanistan. Unlike Goya's grotesque and nightmarish visions, Croak's representation of war is quiet and meditative. Soldiers sit calmly next to an unidentifiable broken machine, while undisturbed, unmistakably Afghan mountain ranges loom in the background. The composition is stable and balanced as the prolonged war has comfortably integrated into Afghanistan's identity. &quot;Repelling foreign invaders&quot;, or war in general, is now a permanent state instead of an emergency national security response. The same material used by God to create the Afghan landscape--dirt--is also used to create the drawing itself, erasing the boundary between reality and the aesthetic realm and allowing the subject to literally present itself in the drawing. This way, Croak's ideas of war are not only expressed as artistic, abstract concepts, but also a living, breathing manifestation, molded with dirt just like Adam and Eve.     ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Material Magic&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Visual Arts Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>601 W 26th St.,15th Fl, New York, NY 10010</Address>
    <Phone>212-592-2145</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[An exhibition of work presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department. Curated by Department Chair Suzanne Anker and faculty member Gunars Prande. ]]></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>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <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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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BC5C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BC5C">
  <Name>Gerri Davis &quot;Iteration&quot;</Name>
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    <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>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-15</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BD53" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BD53">
  <Name>Mark Podwal &quot;Sharing The Journey: The Haggadah&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Forum Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>730 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-355-4545</Phone>
    <Fax>212-355-4547</Fax>
    <Access>At 57th St. Subway: N/R/W to Fifth Avenue or F to 57th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Call for Summer hours.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Sharing The Journey&quot; features new paintings and drawings by Mark Podwal-- twenty-six colorful paintings that relate the story of Passover. Working in the pictorial language of symbol and metaphor, Podwal’s approach to the Passover story is at once respectful, personal, and universal in its appeal.

[Image: Mark Podwal &quot;Adir Hu&quot; (2011) acrylic, gouache and colored pencil on paper 16 x 12 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-07</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BE4F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BE4F">
  <Name>&quot;First Truth&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F7553928">
    <Name>Camel Art Space</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>722 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Graham Ave.  Subway: L to Graham Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="1" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The artist who sets out to examine or establish a truth sometimes runs into the bigger truth that came before it: that what one wants to accomplish may be fleeting and may possibly be unaccomplishable, or that what one creates will transform into an unforeseen thing between the time it is conceived and the time it is completed. This first truth takes the form of gaps and inconsistencies that erupt when attempting to tell a story, remember a vision, or attempt to follow a rule, and it is fueled by unreliable memories, unraveled experiences, and inexplicable imprecisions. It can be fought against, accepted, ignored, or even embraced, but the first truth — which can also be called the first anomaly or the first disappointment — emerges through the work whether it is intended or not. The artists in this exhibition intend and do not intend, but  nevertheless communicate, this first truth in a variety of ways.

Gina Beavers labors to recreate images and scenes from an experience that passed by with no documentation, leaving no physical reference except for the impression in her memory. Setting herself up for an impossible task, she nevertheless feverishly tries to stick so very closely to an exact replication of a memory of an experience that she inevitably fails.

Megan Hays’ attempts to anthropomorphize states of longing, loneliness and vulnerability and define the forms that exist in these intra-personal states. Glaring, bound, and excreting, these strange forms of life announce and assert their vulnerability and their inadequacies.

Sara Hubbs’ sanded drawings are the mark and the un-mark. Through the process of addition and subtraction, the work is left to feel unfinished or undone–suspended somewhere before or after the illusion.

Janelle Iglesias’ curiosity lies in the fluctuating value and meaning of objects and their materiality when displaced from their source. Severed from a previous utilitarian or emotional function, she’s interested in how they can be reused and reappropriated in new contexts.

Sara Jones’ paintings capture the slippage between the accurate representation of a calamity and its role in a larger framework of disaster. Her work often depicts the intimacy of physical or emotional aftermaths, and uses a variety of materials to describe the rift between personal experience and collective memory.

Siobhan McBride creates cinematic narratives with gouache and paper that depict a disjointed alternate reality, a fantasy and an escape. Culled from memory, photos, and clips from magazines, the works are both loose diagrams for understanding events from the past, and strange prophetic puzzles to decode experiences yet to be known.

Danielle Mysliwiec abides by a strict rule-based process of working that in itself forms its own narrative. As the materials pass through this process the perception of the piece is literally and figuratively changed. The shapes shift and open to new associations where the weaving seems to gently hug an unidentified form or express an energetic quality. By virtue of the process used in creating these pieces, “perfection” is unattainable.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C025" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C025">
  <Name>Robby Herbst &quot;New Pyramids for the Capitalist System&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A30362A3">
    <Name>Dumbo Arts Center</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., suite 212, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-694-0831</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</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></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Dumbo Arts Center presents “New Pyramids For the Capitalist System,” an exhibition by Robby Herbst. “New Pyramids For The Capitalist System” explores acrobatics, class, bodies and interpersonal dynamics through a series of large-scale drawings, installations, and performances of human pyramids. The project was inspired by Herbst’s grandfather’s photos (a collection of beach and socialist acrobats) and a 1911 diagram produced by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) called “Pyramid for the Capitalist System.”

At sites associated with Occupy LA Herbst and a group of amateur, costumed, acrobats enacted the IWW diagram by creating human pyramids. Acrobats dressed as workers, managers, law enforcement, clergy and capitalists. This exhibition focuses on social dynamics and the efforts to memorialize the actions highlighted in the pyramid performances. Drawings and sculpture will examine the spatial and political implications of what it means to bear the weight of this classed system.

“New Pyramids For The Capitalist System” reminds us that we are physical beings, inhabiting specific time and spaces. The acrobats hold and press against each other in the fleshy, intimate experience of supporting one another, a responsible community of interdependent relations.

Herbst’s grandfather was a talented acrobat involved who for decades did stunts with others at Orchard Beach in the Bronx. In the 1930s he associated with the Young Worker’s Athletic Club (YWAC) - a socialist acrobatic group. On display are many photographs of Herbst's grandparents' acrobatic performances in which banners with anti-fascist and pro-Communist slogans can be seen. Herbst's grandfather, Martin, was generally at the bottom of pyramids and stunts. As a strong trusted man, he was able to bear the weight of others. By tying in their acrobatic activities to the Capitalist Pyramid, Herbst makes literal the need we have for mutual support.

Through a public re-visitation of a popular political text (the Pyramid) from the early 20th century, the project aims to investigate the resonance of such language today. Following from a tradition of ambiguity in participatory new genres public art, this project explores the possibility of the legacy of class ideology within public spaces. &quot;New Pyramids&quot; raises questions of how the built environment can influence political participation. It explores the potential for human interaction, as exemplified by the acrobatic pyramids, to change our understanding of spaces. The show will also question how the spaces we occupy are meant to bear the weight of our interactions within them. The performance of the human pyramids raises issues of the nature of cooperation and complicity by citizens in the maintenance (or overturning!) of societal divisions.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C0CA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C0CA">
  <Name>Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, and Elizabeth Riley Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A1A837E8">
    <Name>StorefrontBushwick</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>16 Wilson Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11237</Address>
    <Phone>917-714-3813</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Noll and George Sts.  Subway: L to Morgan Avenue </Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="1" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Storefront Bushwick presents the work of Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, and Elizabeth Riley. This show marks the first time that the artists have exhibited at the gallery.

All contemporary art-making is a response to what it means to live in the world today. The premise of the show is the multi-faceted nature of our experience of contemporary reality, which the artists draw upon to make their work. The three artists on exhibit share a free-wheeling, fractured sense of space, time, and reality, which they investigate in their work by stretching the boundaries of their practice.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-10" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>31</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C370" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C370">
  <Name>&quot;Bright Future: New Designs in Glass&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7231EE35">
    <Name>Pratt Manhattan Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>144 W 14th St., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-647-7778</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 6th and 7th Ave., Subway: L to 7th Avenue, 1/2/3/9 to 14th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Glass is an ancient material whose second life is just beginning. &quot;Bright Future&quot; introduces innovative designs that reflect traditions in glass while demonstrating its new possibilities.
 
Guest Curator: Sarah Archer

Participating artists, designers and firms:
 
Lindsey Adelman Studio, U.S.A.
Werner Aisslinger and CIAV Meisenthal, France
Omer Arbel for Bocci, Canada
Alison Berger, U.S.A.
Amiram Biton, Israel
James Carpenter Design Associates, U.S.A.
Marco Dessí for J. &amp; L. Lobmeyr, Austria
GlasPro, U.S.A.
Hulger and Samuel Wilkinson, U.K.
Helen Lee, U.S.A.
Áron Losonczi / Litracon, Hungary
Ingo Maurer, Germany and U.S.A.
Giovanni Moretti for Carlo Moretti Srl., Italy
Moving Color, U.S.A.
Bruce Munro, U.K.
Tom Patti, U.S.A.
Robert Stadler, France
SWITCH Lighting, U.S.A.
Liana Yaroslavsky, France]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-05</DateEnd>
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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" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Tuesday by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <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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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <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/C65C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C65C">
  <Name>Joseph Adolphe &quot;Toro Bravo&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EDF7F316">
    <Name>Bertrand Delacroix Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 W 25th St. New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-4444</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Toro Bravo&quot; is an exhibition of recent works by Joseph Adolphe. Echoing the anxiety of an age marked by austerity and personal uncertainty, Adolphe’s subjects vary between the beaten down fighter, the agile and stoic beast, the exposed human and the vulnerable child – each of them leaving their life force in the ring. Strength and individuality are measured by their ability to endure the respective
hardships of their personal confrontations with the world. They are brave despite facing a constant barrage of disappointments, setbacks and unfulfilled dreams. Any remaining optimism seems to slip into darkness. While the trajectory of Adolphe’s paintings follows this same course there is nevertheless an illogical optimism reflected in the confident and powerful force of his marks and colors, as if to say that, ‘in spite of the downfall of the proud, we still stand, bloody and marked, broken, but beautiful’.

Joseph Adolphe was born in Calgary, Alberta Canada in 1968. He moved to NYC in 1992 to attend the School of Visual Arts, where he received an MFA in 1994. His work is mostly in private collections, as well as in several corporate collections. He currently teaches drawing and painting in the Department of Fine Arts at St. John’s University in New York, and lives in New Haven, CT with his wife and seven children.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D02B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D02B">
  <Name>Anne Appleby &quot;Paintings&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7BC7FFEC">
    <Name>Danese</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 W 24th St., 6 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-223-2227</Phone>
    <Fax>212-605-1016</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street, A/C/E to 34th Street or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer: Mon -Thu 10am-6pm (Fri 10am - 4pm)</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Anne Appleby &quot;Oaks&quot; (2012) Oil and wax on wood panels 37 x 37 in. (overall)]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</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>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/796DDFEA">
    <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>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, saturdays closinghour 16:00</ScheduleDetails>
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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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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-01</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D2F9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D2F9">
  <Name>&quot;Dona Nobis&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2579FA0F">
    <Name>Concrete Utopia</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>39 Hampton Pl., Brooklyn, NY 11213</Address>
    <Phone>347-559-6155</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Sterling and St. John's Pls., Subway: 2/3/4/5 to Kingston Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>By appointment only.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Art is a gift. This winter the 20 artists of Dona Nobis have probed the gift dimension of the work of art---the idea that seems to come from somewhere beyond the artist, the value of the work that escapes the valuation of the market, the communities art builds through viewership and circulation, and the world of exchange between artists themselves. On February 11, Concrete Utopia opens its winter group show Dona Nobis at our project space in Crown Heights, featuring paintings, sculpture, electronic installation, and photography from:]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D51C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D51C">
  <Name>Bill Jacklin &quot;Recent Work, New York&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C0A11582">
    <Name>Marlborough (Midtown)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>40 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-541-4900</Phone>
    <Fax>212-541-4948</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: B/Q to 57th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Jacklin, born and raised in London, has lived and worked in New York City and Rhode Island since 1985. The subjects of the 30 oils on canvas and one COR-TEN steel sculpture exhibited are taken from visual encounters specific to New York City.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D6DF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D6DF">
  <Name>&quot;Come and Get It!&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3F1AA6BF">
    <Name>Hendershot Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>195 Chrystie St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-239-1210</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <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>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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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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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-16</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D819" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D819">
  <Name>&quot;Makeup on Empty Space&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/96F464D6">
    <Name>Larissa Goldston Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>551 W 21st St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-7887</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-7829</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_21">Chelsea 21st</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Larissa Goldston Gallery inaugurates its new ground floor space with the exhibition Makeup on Empty Space, featuring works by Nicole Cherubini, Lauren Clay, Orly Genger, Janelle Iglesias, Fabienne Lasserre, Shana Moulton, Arlene Shechet, Lotte Van den Audenaeren, and Lorna Williams.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DE5B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/DE5B">
  <Name>&quot;Departure&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/598BC9AF">
    <Name>2/20 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>220 W 16th St., New York, NY, 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-807-8348</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 7th Ave. and 8th Ave.  Subway: 1/2/3/9/ to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>14:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Departure is a dual exhibition, celebrating the work of artists Pansum Cheng and Phyllis and Victor Merriam, which takes the viewer on a journey into the artists’ exploration of the dislocation of physical space from the forms that exist within it. Through the mutual negation of space by form and form by space, obvious connections are lost and the audience is challenged to venture beyond the visual and enter the works in an emotional way.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DF70" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/DF70">
  <Name>Marilla Palmer &quot;Nature Burlesque&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F457E489">
    <Name>Kathryn Markel Fine Arts</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., Suite 6W, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-366-5368</Phone>
    <Fax>212-366-5468</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenue. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Marilla Palmer's delicate compositions of flowers and leaves combine nature and theatrical embellishments; sequins, glitter and beads are all decadent components used to make nature her Soubrette. Palmer's eight new works on paper and sculptures reflect her overall interest in combining natural elements with fabricated materials. Palmer's faux botanical studies are derived directly from fallen shadows of handheld twigs and branches, and incorporate mushroom spores with thread, pressed leaves with holographic paper, and glitter with watercolor. The intricacy of Palmer's work entices exploration and beguiles the viewer. Look close and the work reveals details of intense study that are faithfully copied but made to be, as Palmer says, &quot;more gorgeous, more exciting.&quot; It is what Mother Nature would create if she were casting a play. Marilla Palmer gilds the lily of nature in its perfection; delicate and ethereal, sensual and seditious, it is nature accompanied by flare.

Marilla Palmer lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has had numerous exhibitions of her work in New York and Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from Philadelphia College of Art. A review of a New York exhibition in the New Yorker says Palmer &quot;successfully amalgamates light-emitting diodes and bits of forest fungus.&quot; Time Out New York said Palmer &quot;sidesteps kitsch to create vivid and complex environment&quot;; and the Village Voice described her work as &quot;wistful rather than ornamental.&quot;]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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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>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <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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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/EABA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/EABA">
  <Name>&quot;My Last Attempt&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EC88A2E5">
    <Name>SVA Gallery</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>209 E 23rd St., New York, NY</Address>
    <Phone>212-592-2145</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 2nd and 3rd Ave. Subway: 6 to 23rd Street or R/W to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 10:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[An exhibition of projects by students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department based on Brendan Matthews' short story &quot;My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer&quot; and completed in the Book Seminar class of Fall 2011. Curated by faculty member Viktor Koen. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/EAF8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/EAF8">
  <Name>Even Robart and James Moore Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/31ECD29E">
    <Name>Open Source Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>255 17th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>646-279-3969</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: R to Prospect Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Check with the gallery for the hours. </ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Open Source presents Evan Robarts and James Moore.

Responding to their environment, Evan Robarts and James Moore will be presenting two site specific works intending to activate the space into a different dimension based on their work’s energies. Both artists work is characterized by formal and conceptual experimentation with material and a desire to transform thoughts into objects. An exchange and interplay of notions ranging from platonic ideals, semiology, biomimicry and nostalgia influence and infiltrate one another changing the original context of their individual pieces while its interplay creates a new understanding to the larger work as singular whole.

Evan Robarts’ work stems from an attraction to material and form as a means to capture the ideal and eternal. Reaching back to his childhood, he incorporates nostalgic memories, colors, and objects in his work. “Youth is central in my work, I relate very strongly to the evocative pull of the mysticism and unencumbered joy of childhood.” says Robarts about his work.

James Moore experiments with industrial objects that symbolically resemble organic matter, such as foam as tree sap, electrical circuits as a human nervous system, and modern, architectural spaces with life forms and bodily matter seeping from the cracks. “I often inject what I see as a mutating, extraterrestrial, and psychedelic life force into my work in order to resurrect or rebirth a space in contrast. ”

At Open Source Evan Robarts shows a variation of the series “popsicles”. He covers the concrete floor with (melted) popsicles. In juxtaposition to Evans nostalgic installation, James Moore will install a single light sculpture that leaks a primordial ooze out of the bulbs, reminiscent of the office light at one’s day job, or factory. As if it had a mysterious visitor channelling through it from another world.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-11" start="19:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>19</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/ED9D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/ED9D">
  <Name>&quot;Hair: Text &amp; Image&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3743889D">
    <Name>Chrystoph Marten </Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St.,# 608, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-414-1422</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 09:00, saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[CHRYSTOPH MARTEN’s gallery presents a site-specific reading, book-launch, and exhibit of artwork on the subject of hair in an exhibit space that also serves as a salon. “HAIR” is a hand-bound, limited-edition chapbook of texts and images (art, poetry, and prose) from Cover Story, an imprint of Q Avenue Press. A selection of poems will be exhibited as prints. Featured art includes photographs by Paola Ferrario**, Helen Verbanz, John Kramer, and reprints of woodcuts (of samurai hair) by Beatriz Inglessis.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:30:00" end="20:30:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/EF77" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/EF77">
  <Name>Theo A. Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer &quot;Two Heads are Better than One&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>The Hole</Name>
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    <Address>312 Bowery, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-3000</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The Hole presents the collaborative exhibition &quot;Two Heads are Better than One&quot; by Theo A. Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer opening this February 14th. This exhibition will feature sculpture, painting and drawing by these two artists, who, working in tandem over the past year, have created a significant assortment of deeply unsettling, playfully odd, and unavoidably memorable works.
 
From what the artists call &quot;a vending machine of myth, magic and mystery&quot; comes our exhibition, ranging from the intricately finished large sculptures back to the irreverent sketches where their ideas are born. The exhibition features all manner of hybrids, puns and below-the-belt punches: large sculptures like “Sandwitch&quot; may have started out as a collaborative doodle on a homophone, but realized in sculpture they reveal many strange nuances and details the original concept or sketch lacked. “Snow Manimal” may have come about just from the oddly relatable spheres of upper horse and lower snowman, but fit together physically so well that the visual and conceptual rupture created is all the more stark.
 
While the sculptures maintain the snickering subterfuge of a doodle, starting with one funny thing and evolving in all directions and sometimes back upon itself, the tiny sketches hung in the rear of the gallery are where we can watch the ideas start agglutinating.  These sketches find one level more of elaboration in the poster works, oil on found images (stock posters printed on unstretched canvas) where the artists can go back and forth adding weird tidbits until the upset is complete (like a mountain erupting with cheese, a huge hat on a tree, a goat straddling its own poo pile). Here the collaborative nature of their working is most apparent and where the work feels funnest, in-between their one-upmanship of back-and-forth bizarreness.
 
The next level of complexity is the assisted framed pieces, where a sculpted and painted frame intersects with the odd painted intervention in the found canvas itself. A bevy of knives (kitchen and cutlass) adorn a large found painting of a penumbral tropical getaway, “Blue Hawaii”, suggesting the potential assault from both pirates and chefs, perhaps. An inexplicable assortment of fast food surrounds the romantic painting of wild horses charging across a rainbowed field titled “A Horse is a Horse”, drawing a visual line between junk art and junk food, (eye candy?) or maybe just revealing the craving for something more to &quot;chew on&quot; in the boilerplate painting.
 
In all the various types of work exhibited, the often comforting and mundane familiarity of the found objects is perverted by the input of Rosenblum and Seltzer’s handcrafted interventions, resulting in an unsettling world somewhere between laughter and horror. The parts are familiar but the forms they take are strange and new with a logic all their own: the mythical meets the merry, the religious meets the natural and supernatural; the delicious meets the deformed. Like gum stuck to your shoe, these works stick in your head (whether you want them there or not) and some details may haunt your quiet moments for a long time to come: the power cord coming out of the articulated, puckered butthole of “Snow Manimal” perhaps?
 
Curatorially, I see these works as &quot;good bad&quot;: so wrong they're right. Their vibe is similar in concept to Heta-Uma (literally &quot;Bad-Good&quot;), a movement Japanese punk artist King Terry articulated. Something &quot;technically&quot; bad that challenges the notion of &quot;bad&quot; by being sensually and conceptually amazing: a wonky line often describes a face much more evocatively than a perfectly rendered photo-realist drawing, for example. In Rosenblum and Seltzer’s world, these hand-sculptured and not-quite-right forms—and even the &quot;handmade&quot; and wonky ideas that form them—are much more exciting than a fabricated (or logical) version would be.
 
Besides each piece creating a rupture in the viewer's sensibilities, in a larger sense the work stands out also from what is trending in galleries, from what their contemporaries are making, from what people expect them to make. The work shows them pursuing their own interests without the pressures of situating themselves within a particular discourse, without the pressure even of making work &quot;about something&quot;.  As Dan Colen wrote in his catalogue essay for Theo's first solo exhibition, the work is &quot;honest, brave and generous... human and accessible.&quot;
 
Now that we mention it, the assisted found paintings have a relationship to Dan Colen's adjusted thrift store paintings in this kind of &quot;dark Disney&quot; world they both hang out in. Rosenblum and Seltzer’s piece with skeleton hands holding up an old bouquet is right out of Disneyland's &quot;Haunted Mansion&quot; ride, literalizing the idea of an Old Master painting coveted by a long-dead collector and the idea of a memento mori as a genre of painting in a kind of humorous tangle. Or “The Enchanted Picnic”, the classical painting of a nymph or dryad with an irreverently added bucket of fried chicken and some pink panties louchely twirling on her toe is wryly humorous, but combined with the detail of the painting seemingly bursting into flames, like the offensiveness of the graffitied classical painting caused it to hellishly combust, I mean it’s just, de trop.
 
And while the overall mood of the show involves the humor of being de trop, these artists always manage to rein in the insanity and conceptually push things just far enough, or rather perfectly too much. There are no extraneous elements in the works, everything is as it should be, the Frankensteined parts all link up perfectly and the monster springs to life!
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  <Name>&quot;Look | Sharp: Art and Fashion from the Edge&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Galerie Protégé</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>197 9th Ave., Lower Level, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-807-8726</Phone>
    <Fax>212-924-3208</Fax>
    <Access>http://www.galerieprotege.com/</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Avant-garde art and fashion have long been associated with a lifestyle radically expressive of rebellion, the rejection of complacency, and the struggle to draw strength through vulnerability. Look | Sharp: Art and Fashion from the Edge, is a group exhibition of works by five New York-based artists displaying a selection of paintings, photographs, clothing, and accessories evocative of danger, dark glamour and sensuous alternative beauty. In a time characterized by war, protest, and insurgency, these visual manifestations are both a reflection of passionate times and a respite from oppression through beauty. Look | Sharp coincides with the launch of New York Fashion Week. ]]></Description>
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  <Name>Tom Friedman &quot;New Work&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Luhring Augustine Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>531 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-9100</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-9055</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenue. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[My creative process fluctuates between an open system and closed system approach. I would characterize this new body of work as one that follows a more closed system, with ideas that are more compressed. For me, every piece has been an evolution of surprises and will continue to be until completion. – Tom Friedman

Luhring Augustine presents an exhibition of new work by the American artist Tom Friedman. This will be Friedman’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in New York since 2005. Friedman is known for his meticulously crafted sculptures and works on paper that inhabit the intersections between the ordinary and the monstrous, the infinitesimal and the infinite, the rational and the uncanny. His work skews perception and is often deceptive, its handmade intricacy masked by a seemingly mass-produced or prefabricated appearance. Friedman’s deadpan presentation implies content and form are seamless; expectations are overturned as the viewer slowly perceives that chasm between illusion and reality.

This exhibition will include all new work, both sculptures as well as works on paper, in a wide range of materials, scales, and genres. Among the pieces to be exhibited will be a new self-portrait, a still-life sculpture, abstract wall works, text drawings, and a new large-scale stainless steel sculpture. Several works explore ideas of technology through an analog lens, such as a life-size video camera hand-crafted from wood and paint; a handmade wall collage with an upbeat futuristic pattern that mimics a high-tech flat screen; and an antiquated television screen with a pixelated static pattern made of tiny hand-applied paint tiles. Other works touch on the trials and tribulations of the artistic process itself, such as a work on paper listing the word “Verisimilitude” misspelled several times, as well as a pile of “bitten” apples sitting on the floor like an accumulation of so many failed ideas.

Tom Friedman was born in St. Louis, MO in 1965; he lives and works in Massachusetts.

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  <Name>Seong Kyung Hee Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>ArtGate Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>520 W 27th St., #101, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-455-0986-89</Phone>
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