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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/09AA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/09AA">
  <Name>&quot;Folk Art Revealed&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FC8AFCCD">
    <Name>American Folk Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>45 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-977-7170</Phone>
    <Fax>212-977-8134</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: E/V to 5th Avenue or B/D/F/V to 49th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:30</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Folk Art Revealed,&quot; opened on November 16, 2004. The exhibition explores the nature of folk art through four themes applied to a diverse range of artwork from the museum's rich and extensive holdings, many of which have never before been on view.  These four perspectives: symbolism, utility, individuality, and community-- infuse all of folk art and speak to essential aspects of both traditional and unconventional expressions. Spanning the 18th century to the present, the works selected by curators Stacy C. Hollander and Brooke Davis Anderson, invite a deeper understanding of folk art and its role in people's lives.

[Image: Unknown &quot;New York&quot; (1848) Oil on wood panel 34 x 57 x 1 3/8 in. Courtesy of American Folk Art Museum, promised gift of Ralph Esmerian]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $9, Students and Seniors $7, Children under 12, Members, Friday after 5.30pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/2409" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/2409">
  <Name>&quot;Early Gothic Hall&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0472F082">
    <Name>The Cloisters</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10040</Address>
    <Phone>212-923-3700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Subway: A train to 190th Street and exit the station by elevator. Walk north along Margaret Corbin Drive for approximately ten minutes or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop. If you are coming from the Museum's Main Building, you may also take</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:15:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
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    <ScheduleNote>November–February closing 4:45pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Early Gothic Hall at The Cloisters reopened in the Spring of 2006 after a five-year renovation. Completely refurbished 13th-century limestone windows and two dozen panels of newly conserved and reinstalled stained glass, primarily from the 13th- and 14th-centuries, are among the objects on view. Four recently acquired and exceptional examples of German stained glass from the late-13th century glazing program for the convent church in Altenberg-an-der-Lahn are reunited in this new installation. The renovation of the Early Gothic Hall also features construction of two new limestone apertures in an interior wall (for the display of grisaille glass windows) and new lighting. The display in this room constitutes the largest and most varied group of 13th- and 14th-century panels outside Europe. Also returned to view are more than a dozen important Gothic sculptures and paintings from the Museum’s permanent collection, including the lifesize Virgin from the choir screen of Strasbourg Cathedral (mid-13th century) and a recently acquired late 13th-century head also from the region of Strasbourg on the Upper Rhine. As a result of a new protective glazing program installed along the exterior wall, rare examples of Gothic stained glass are now illuminated by natural daylight, as they were originally meant to be seen.
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Childeren under 12 Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/3359" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/3359">
  <Name>&quot;American Identities: A New Look&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics, and textiles) ranging in date from the colonial period to the present. For the first time, major objects from these exceptional collections are joined by selections from the Museum's important holdings of Native American and Spanish colonial art. The galleries are organized according to a set of eight innovative themes, through which visitors can explore historical moments and crucial ideas in American visual culture over the course of nearly three hundred years.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/5705" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/5705">
  <Name>&quot;The Campin Room&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0472F082">
    <Name>The Cloisters</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10040</Address>
    <Phone>212-923-3700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Subway: A train to 190th Street and exit the station by elevator. Walk north along Margaret Corbin Drive for approximately ten minutes or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop. If you are coming from the Museum's Main Building, you may also take</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:15:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>November–February closing 4:45pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Campin Room at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, recently reopened to the public following an extensive renovation. The gallery houses Robert Campin’s Annunciation Triptych (known as the Merode Triptych), which has been one of the masterworks at The Cloisters for nearly half a century. The new installation highlights the phenomenon of late medieval private devotion. Two new wall cases allow the exhibition of devotional objects formerly seen in the Treasury, and two important 15th-century stained-glass panels—one representing Christ as the Man of Sorrows, the other the Virgin as the Mater Dolorosa—have been installed in the central windows. Acquired in 1998, these panels are on view at The Cloisters for the first time and contribute greatly to the private devotional theme. New, more discreet lighting has been installed and the gallery walls have been re-plastered to match the original color. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Childeren under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-06-29</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/57EA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/57EA">
  <Name>&quot;Visible Storage ▪ Study Center&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage ▪ Study Center offers you an inside look at how museums work and provides a glimpse of the breadth and scope of the Brooklyn Museum's extensive American collections. As huge as the Museum's building is, just a small fraction of the permanent collections can be displayed in its limited exhibition gallery space. Whereas only about 350 works are on view in the adjacent American Identities exhibition, this facility gives open access to some 2,000 of the many thousands of American objects held in storage, which are now available for viewing and research by students, scholars, and the general public.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/8F9E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/8F9E">
  <Name>Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, including the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture are reopening with renovated rooms and 8,000 square feet of additional gallery space—the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries—to showcase works from 1800 through the early twentieth century. The renovated galleries feature all of the Museum's most loved nineteenth-century paintings, which have been on permanent display in the past, as well as works by Bonnard, Vuillard, Soutine, Matisse, Picasso, and other early modern artists. Among the many additions are a full-room assembly of &quot;The Wisteria Dining Room,&quot; a French art nouveau interior designed by Lucien Lévy Dhurmer shortly before World War I that is the only complete example of its kind in the United States; Henry Lerolle's enormous The Organ Rehearsal (a church interior of 1885); a group of newly accessioned nineteenth-century landscape oil sketches; and a selection of rarely exhibited paintings by an international group of artists.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $25, Seniors $17, Students $12, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-12-04</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/EF3A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/EF3A">
  <Name>&quot;What Is It? Himalayan Art&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E60BEA54">
    <Name>Rubin Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>150 W 17th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-620-5000</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 7th Ave. Subway: 1/2/3 to 14th Street or 1 to 18th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>wednesdays closinghour 19:00, fridays closinghour 22:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>7-10pm the museum is free to all visitors, the K2 Lounge/bar is open from 6 pm. until late. Happy Hour 6–7 pm. Performances in the theater start at 7pm.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Himalayan art is new terrain for many people. This exhibition is intended to serve as a guide through this exhilarating landscape. It is organized into four sections, and each object on view contributes a partial answer to the question “What is Himalayan art?” The installation will change periodically to refocus the questions and to pose others. The museum as a whole is a journey along many paths through Himalayan art, offering intimate encounters and changing perspectives.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $10, Seniors, Students, Artists and Neighbors(zips 10011/10001 with ID) $7, Children under 12 and on Fridays 7pm-10pm Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2013-02-04</DateEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.739867</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/F889" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/F889">
  <Name>&quot;Gallery Selections&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D2F542C2">
    <Name>Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>667 Madison Ave., 24 Fl., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-813-9797</Phone>
    <Fax>212-813-9876</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 61st St. Subway: N/R/W to 5th Ave., 4/5/6 to 59th St./Lexington Ave. or F to Lexington Ave./63rd St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>05:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts is pleased to present a selection of its finest and newest acquisitions. The current installation of works in the gallery highlights the modernist landscapes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield, as well as the Ashcan paintings and drawings of William Glackens and Henry Glintenkamp. Exceptional works by such American Masters as George Bellows and Marsden Hartley are also on view, and are just a sampling of the extensive inventory the gallery has to offer. Please click the image to see further information. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/1792" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/1792">
  <Name>&quot;That Place: Selections from the Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Our home, our street, our city, our country—these are familiar locations, places that define our lives. Yet places can be more than physical. Some of the works on view in these galleries evoke a literal place, either domestic or communal. Others, however, approach the concept of place metaphorically, with evocations of a social and cultural place or references to art history that offer a point of departure, where traditions can be reworked or reconsidered. The past—both personal and collective—occupies a significant place in our memories from which we see the present and imagine the future. Not limited to dwelling, the idea of place transcends geographical and temporal boundaries to include race, ethnicity, and gender in the creation of places where past and future, illusion and reality, meet.
[Image: Nina Chanel Abney (American, b. 1982) &quot;Forbidden Fruit&quot; (2009) Acrylic on canvas, 67 x 77 1/2 in. ]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/3DB5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/3DB5">
  <Name>&quot;European Paintings&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Although the collection of European paintings has often been presented in a chronological arrangement by school or style, this installation exploits the architecture of the soaring Beaux-Arts Court by devoting each wall to an exploration of the meaningful connections that the works display when arranged according to theme. The section called “Painting Land and Sea” surveys the formal methods that painters have used to render their physical surroundings across the centuries. “Art and Devotion” considers the ways in which the artists of the early Renaissance expressed the central tenets of the Catholic faith. “Narratives Large and Small” shows how artists distill the elements of a story into a single telling moment. Finally, “Tracing the Figure” charts the enduring artistic interest in the human figure, from portraits that place an individual in a clearly defined place and time to timeless abstractions of the human form.

[Image: Frans Hals &quot;Portrait of a Man&quot; Oil on canvas 29 x 21 3/4 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/91C9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/91C9">
  <Name>&quot;Small Wonders from the American Collections&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the Museum’s collections. Since its opening in January 2005, the Luce Visible Storage ▪ Study Center has housed approximately 2,100 objects in two types of storage units: vitrined cases and paintings screens. The facility also contains forty-two drawers for storage. Beginning in mid-October and in stages over subsequent months, they will be filled with works from the Museum’s renowned American holdings and opened to the public. Once the drawers are full, the number of objects on view in visible storage will rise to 2,500—an increase of almost 20 percent.

The drawers’ contents will encompass a variety of objects from the Americas—including art of the United States as well as of the indigenous and colonial peoples of North and South America—and dating from the pre-Columbian period to the present day. Although the works range widely in terms of medium, date, function, and geographical origin, they do share a diminutive scale and suitability for flat storage. Among the objects that will be installed in the drawers are: American and Hopi ceramic tiles; Mexican pottery stamps; jewelry and other ornaments from Native and South American cultures; Modernist jewelry; silverplated flatware and serving pieces; Spanish Colonial devotional objects; American portrait and mourning miniatures; commemorative medals; and embroidery. As in other sections of the Luce Visible Storage ▪ Study Center, objects in the drawers are densely installed to maximize the available space and are grouped by type, medium, or culture. Visitors can learn more about the works by using one of the nearby computer kiosks in the facility, or by accessing the Luce database online. To obtain a list of a drawer’s entire contents, use the Map feature and select numbers 41 through 47.

Held in conjunction with the drawers installation, Small Wonders from the American Collections features an eclectic selection of seventy works of art on the walls and in the display cases above the drawers. This exhibition both highlights objects that will be installed in the drawers and reveals a diversity of cultural traditions and artistic practices that constitute American art. A variety of jewelry and objects of personal adornment—although produced by different peoples—function similarly to signify information about the wearer’s identity. Flatware, pins, and other silver items on display reflect a broad array of forms, styles, and uses for this valuable metal. Ceramic tiles made contemporaneously by Native and non-Native Americans provide an interesting cross-cultural comparison with respect to the decoration and marketing of these wares.

[Image: Unknown Artist &quot;Fan&quot; (1822–31) Ivory sticks and painted paper mount. ]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/C1AA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/C1AA">
  <Name>&quot;Thannhauser Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/78479D33">
    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 19:45</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976) was the son of art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser (1859–1935), who founded the Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. From an early age, Thannhauser worked alongside his father in the flourishing gallery and helped to build an impressive and versatile exhibition program that included the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, the Italian Futurists, and regularly featured contemporary German artists. The Moderne Galerie presented the premier exhibitions of the New Artists’ Association of Munich (Neue Künstlervereinigung München) and The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), both of which included Vasily Kandinsky, in 1901 and 1911, respectively. Kandinsky later described the gallery’s rooms as “perhaps the most beautiful exhibition spaces in all of Munich.” The Moderne Galerie also mounted the first major Pablo Picasso retrospective in 1913, thus initiating the close relationship between Justin K. Thannhauser and Picasso that lasted until the artist’s death in 1973.

The Thannhausers’ commitment to promoting artistic progress paralleled the vision of Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861–1949). In appreciation of this shared spirit, and in the memory of his first wife and two sons—who might have continued in the family’s art trade had they not died at tragically young ages—Thannhauser gave a significant portion of his art collection, including over 30 works by Picasso, to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1963. From 1965 until Thannhauser’s death in 1976 (when his collection formally entered the Guggenheim’s holdings), the Thannhauser Collection was on long-term loan to the museum. A bequest of 10 additional works received after Hilde Thannhauser’s death in 1991 enhanced the legacy of this family of important art dealers.

Organized by Tracey Bashkoff.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.57419</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Students and Seniors $15, Members and Children under 12 Free, Saturday pay what you wish 5:45-7:45 (last ticket issued at 7:15)</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/01ED" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/01ED">
  <Name>Vasily Kandinsky &quot;Kandinsky at the Bauhaus, 1922–1933&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/78479D33">
    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 19:45</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In 1922 Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) accepted a teaching position at the Bauhaus, the state-sponsored Weimar school of art and applied design founded in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius. The school’s curriculum was based on the principle that the crafts were equal to the traditional arts and was organized according to a medieval-style guild system of training under the tutelage of masters. Kandinsky conducted the Wall Painting Workshop and Preliminary Course and taught at all three of the school’s sequential locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin until 1933, when the Bauhaus was closed due to pressure from the National Socialist (Nazi) government.

Geometric shapes came to play a dominant role in Kandinsky’s pictorial vocabulary at the Bauhaus; the artist, who was interested in uncovering a universal aesthetic language, increased his use of overlapping, flat planes and clearly delineated forms. This change was due, in part, to his familiarity with the Suprematist work of Kazimir Malevich and the art of the Constructivists. Kandinsky’s turn toward geometric forms was also likely a testament to the influence of industry and developments in technology.

Drawn from the museum's permanent collection, this intimate presentation features paintings and works on paper from a prolific period of Kandinsky's career. The exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>9.24829</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Students and Seniors $15, Members and Children under 12 Free, Saturday pay what you wish 5:45-7:45 (last ticket issued at 7:15)</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/02EB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/02EB">
  <Name>&quot;The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture &amp; Slavery in New York&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3C8617E">
    <Name>The New-York Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023</Address>
    <Phone>212-873-3400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th Street. Subway: B or C to 81st Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:45, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on selected holiday Mondays and Mondays during special exhibitions for school and adult groups.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In November 2000, with a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Historical Society opened a state-of-the-art facility for its renowned fine and decorative arts collection. The Luce Center is located on the entire fourth floor in the Historical Society's landmark building on Central Park West. Innovative in its design, the Luce Center safely houses and makes accessible more than 40,000 objects - representing museum collections amassed over 200 years - previously in offsite storage. Paintings, sculpture, furniture, tools for home and trade, Tiffany lamps, textiles, metals, ceramics and glass are displayed in visible storage, offering a unique behind-the-scenes museum experience for the visitor.

Information about this arsenal of Americana is delivered in a variety of ways, ranging from thematic audio tours to interactive computer kiosks and mini-exhibition stations.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults: $12, Seniors and Educators: $9, Members; Students: $7, Children under 12(accompanied by adults) and on Fridays from 6 pm to 8 pm: Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1442" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1442">
  <Name>&quot;It Happened In Brooklyn&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/11A24962">
    <Name>The Brooklyn Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-222-4111</Phone>
    <Fax>718-222-3794</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Clinton St. Subway: 2/3/4/5 to Borough Hall or A/C/F to Jay Street/Borough Hall, or M/R to Court Street  </Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed on July 4, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Years Day.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks, and documents, visitors will meet a diverse range of residents from Brooklyn's earliest Native American settlements, to the men and women who fought in the Revolutionary War on Brooklyn's shores, to the Brooklynites who worked to abolish slavery, immigrants from all over the world who made Brooklyn home, and the women who kept America going by working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults 	$6, Seniors 62 and over, Students 12 and over $4, College students must show student I.D., Teachers $4, Children under 12 and BHS Members Free. Groups of 10 people or more must arrange a group tour in advance.</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/17B8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/17B8">
  <Name>&quot;A Portrait of the City&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3C8617E">
    <Name>The New-York Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023</Address>
    <Phone>212-873-3400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th Street. Subway: B or C to 81st Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:45, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on selected holiday Mondays and Mondays during special exhibitions for school and adult groups.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[A group of 22 paintings and 2 small sculptures will offer visitors a chronological journey through highlights of the N-YHS's rich collection of New York views, including historical images of the metropolis and richly allusive images of its inhabitants and their lives. The installation will include a selection of city views, beginning and ending with two monumental cityscapes, Guy's Tontine Coffee House of ca. 1797 and Jacquette's From World Trade Center, 1998. It will feature portraits of political and cultural figures such as DeWitt Clinton, who oversaw the development of the Erie Canal, and Peter Williams, the former slave who became a successful merchant and a founding trustee of the Zion Church for Negroes. It will also illuminate the everyday lives of New Yorkers through such works as Burr's The Intelligence Office, 1849 and Thain's Italian Block Party, 1922.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults: $12, Seniors and Educators: $9, Members; Students: $7, Children under 12(accompanied by adults) and on Fridays from 6 pm to 8 pm: Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3456" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3456">
  <Name>&quot;Selections from the Permanent Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/627129FA">
    <Name>Neue Galerie</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1048 5th Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-628-6200</Phone>
    <Fax>212-628-8824</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 86th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[“Selections from the Permanent Collection” features highlights from the Neue Galerie’s superb holdings of German and Austrian fine and decorative arts from the first half of the twentieth century. It incorporates a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Though the exhibition is ongoing, the installation is updated regularly.
[Image: Gustav Klimt “Adele Bloch-Bauer” (1907) Oil, silver, and gold on canvas 140 x 140 cm.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Students and Seniors $10</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/77E2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/77E2">
  <Name>Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art and the Medieval Europe Gallery</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Portions of the Medieval Galleries have been renovated, thanks to the generous support of Mary and Michael Jaharis. The apse beneath the Great Hall Stairs has become part of the Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art and features the Museum's newly acquired manuscript, the Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary, a rare masterpiece of Byzantine art from around the year 1100. An 18-foot-tall marble ciborium (altar canopy) from twelfth–century Italy is the focal point of the former Tapestry Hall that has become a new gallery of Medieval Europe devoted to works of art in all media from about 1050 to 1300.
[Image: Nicolaus Ranucius (Ranierius) and His Sons, Johannes and Guittone “Ciborium” (c. 1150) Marble, hard stone, gold glass inlays]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $25, Seniors $17, Students $12, Members and Children Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8E96" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8E96">
  <Name>The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms</Name>
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    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing—including The Charles Engelhard Court and the American period rooms—reopened on May 19, 2009. After more than two years of construction and renovation, the unparalleled collections of American furniture, sculpture, stained glass, architectural elements, ceramics, glass, silver, pewter, and jewelry returned to public view. Twelve of the Met's historic interiors were renovated, reinterpreted, and upgraded to include interactive computer touch screens offering information about the rooms and their furnishings. The opening of the galleries marked the completion of the second of three parts of a project to reconfigure, renovate, and upgrade every section of The American Wing by 2011.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $25, Seniors $17, Students $12, Members and Children Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/024A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/024A">
  <Name>Georges Hugnet &quot;The Love Life of the Spumifers&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D6366171">
    <Name>Ubu Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>416 E 59th St., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-753-4444</Phone>
    <Fax>212-753-4470</Fax>
    <Access>Between 1st Ave. and Sutton Place. Subway: 4/5/6/N/R/W to 59th Street Lexington Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</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>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The gallery presents &quot;Georges Hugnet: The Love Life of the Spumifers,&quot; an exhibition of hand-painted photographic postcards by the eminent Surrealist artist, poet, bookbinding designer and critic. These bizarre, lusciously painted images illustrate Hugnet’s work, The Love Life of the Spumiferswhere each accompanying text poetically and humorously catalogues the mating habits of a fantastical creature or Spumifer.

&quot;The Love Life of the Spumifers,&quot; or &quot;La Vie amoureuse des Spumifères,&quot; combines Surrealist poetry’s fascination with l’amour and Dada’s tendency towards deliberate grammatical spontaneity and absurdity. Words like bowoodling, friskadoodling and alabamaraminating are concocted by Hugnet to describe the seductive strategies of his imaginary creatures. Each text is dedicated to a different creature, describing how it woos, teases, gropes and molests its intended love conquest. Each Spumifer is illustrated by a gouache “beast,” which is added to an early Twentieth Century vintage “French” photo postcard. The mellifluously painted monsters slyly slither around the bare flesh of the pictured “mademoiselle,” nibbling and tickling, arousing her sexual desire. Hugnet’s illustrations seduce the viewer, parodying the human pursuit of love and lovemaking through these adorable grotesques. Hugnet realized the series &quot;The Love Life of the Spumifers&quot; during 1947–48 and wrote the accompanying texts in the early 1960s. The whereabouts of four of the 40 original Spumifers intended to complete the series are at present unknown. Hugnet composed only 33 texts and one of those texts accompanied a missing work. He created a number of additional Spumifers, maybe as many as 20, which were not part of the final 40 which he had intended to publish as a book.

In collaboration with Myrtille Hugnet, Ubu Gallery is presenting a small contextual exhibition of collages – including originals from &quot;La Septième Face du Dé&quot; and &quot;Huit Jours a Trebaumec,&quot; gouaches and publications made by George Hugnet from the 1930s to the 1960s and unique ephemera by the artist.

[Image: Georges Hugnet &quot;L'Oru-boru À Corset (The Corsetted Oru-Boru)&quot; No. 18 from the series &quot;La Vie amoureuse des Spumifères (The Love Life of the Spumifers)&quot; (ca. 1948) gouache on vintage carte postale (ca. 1920) 13.7 x 8.6 cm.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-11-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/06CD" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/06CD">
  <Name>&quot;Dubuffet and the Art Brut&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D1A8B04A">
    <Name>Ricco/Maresca Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., 3 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-4819</Phone>
    <Fax>212-627-5117</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave and West Side Hwy. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Ricco/Maresca Gallery and Jennifer Pinto Safian present Dubuffet and the Art Brut. The exhibition presents the art of Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) alongside works championed by Dubuffet and collected under the rubric of Art Brut. Between 1945 and his death in 1985, Dubuffet defined Art Brut, aggressively collecting, exhibiting and publishing the genre. His collection, now housed at the Collection de L'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland, established the canon of recognized Art Brut artists. These artists, in turn, dramatically impacted Dubuffet’s personal artistic vision. The exhibition includes works by celebrated figures of the Art Brut circle - Alöise Corbaz, Janko Domsic, Madge Gill, Miguel Hernandez, Emile Josome Hodinos, Augustin Lesage, Scottie Wilson, Adolf Wölfli and Carlo Zinelli, along with works by abstract expressionist Alfonso Ossorio. Juxtaposed, we see Jean Dubuffet’s circle of influence.

In 1945, Dubuffet began to travel extensively throughout Europe to discover an art that “addresses itself to our spirit, not to our eyes,” an art that is pure, spontaneous, direct, and not influenced by fine art and mainstream culture. By 1948, Dubuffet and several leading Dadaists and Surrealists, including André Breton and Michel Tapié, had founded the Compagnie de l'Art Brut. Under Dubuffet's leadership, this organization defined and strictly enforced the criteria applied to the collecting of Art Brut. The most significant determinant was that the art was created by individuals who were not part of the conventional art scene. “Here, Art possesses a strength coming from desire, from magic…Isolated from society, they create their own feasts.”

Originally comprised of approximately 1200 works of art created by individuals secluded in mental hospitals or otherwise socially isolated, the Compagnie de l'Art Brut's collection was the first one of its kind to exist beyond the confines of a mental institution. With the 1949 exhibition of the collection at the Galerie René Drouin in Paris, Jean Dubuffet formally introduced Art Brut to an indifferent public. Due to philosophical differences among its founders, the Compagnie eventually dissolved in 1951. Forced to find a new home for the collection, Dubuffet shipped all the works to his friend and colleague, the abstract expressionist painter Alfonso Ossorio. Ossorio housed the collection at his Wainscott, New York estate for the next decade; in 1962, it was donated to the municipality of Lausanne, Switzerland and permanently installed in the Chateau de Beaulieu under the name Collection de L’Art Brut.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/1F3C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/1F3C">
  <Name>Damien Hirst &quot;The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BD565E74">
    <Name>Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>980 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212.744.2313</Phone>
    <Fax>212.772.7962</Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th St. Subway: 6 to 77th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[I was always a colorist, I've always had a phenomenal love of color... I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that's where the spot paintings came from-to create that structure to do those colors, and do nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the joy of color.
-Damien Hirst
 
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present &quot;The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot; by Damien Hirst.
 
The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery's eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on January 12, 2012. Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, &quot;The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot; makes use of this demographic fact to determine the content of each exhibition according to locality.
 
Included in the exhibition are more than 300 paintings, from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; to the smallest spot painting comprising half a spot and measuring 1 x 1/2 inch (1996); to a monumental work comprising only four spots, each 60 inches in diameter; and up to the most recent spot painting completed in 2011 containing 25,781 spots that are each 1 millimeter in diameter, with no single color ever repeated.
 
In conjunction with the exhibition will be the publication of The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, a fully illustrated, comprehensive and definitive catalogue of all spot paintings made by Hirst from 1986 to the present. Published by Gagosian Gallery and Other Criteria, The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011 includes essays by Museum of Modern Art curator Ann Temkin, cultural critic Michael Bracewell, and art historian Robert Pincus-Witten as well as a conversation between Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari.
 
The third issue of the Gagosian App for iPad will also launch January, providing an interactive, in-depth look at the series that features more than ninety spot paintings.
 
&quot;Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot; precedes the first major museum retrospective of Hirst's work opening at Tate Modern in London in April, 2012.
 
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol, England. Solo exhibitions include &quot;The Agony and the Ecstasy,&quot; Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples (2004); &quot;A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections,&quot; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2005); Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2005); &quot;For the Love of God,&quot; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008); &quot;No Love Lost,&quot; The Wallace Collection, London (2009); &quot;Requiem,&quot; Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2009); and &quot;Cornucopia,&quot; the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (2010). He received the Turner Prize in 1995. His work is included in many important public and private collections throughout the world.
 
Hirst lives and works in London and Devon, United Kingdom.

[Image: DAMIEN HIRST &quot;Methoxyverapamil&quot; (1991) Household gloss on canvas, 75 x 69 inches  (190.5 x 175.3 cm) © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2011]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/2749" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/2749">
  <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>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave and West Side Highway. Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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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="2011/2EAC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/2EAC">
  <Name>Ana Tzarev &quot;Russian Fairy Tales&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D7D876B7">
    <Name>Ana Tzarev Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>24 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-586-9800</Phone>
    <Fax>212-586-9802 </Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave.  Subway: B/Q to 57th Street, N/R to 5th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The gallery is pleased to exhibit a series of paintings by Ana Tzarev inspired by the Russian fairy tales. To honor her Slavic heritage and the profound influence it has had on her art, Ana Tzarev has followed in the tradition of renowned Russian artists Bilibin and Kandinsky and created her own contemporary rendition of the Russian fairy tales she grew up with. Inspired by these fantastical stories and the Palekh boxes she collects, Tzarev recreates these magical scenes from her childhood imagination. This new series captures the characters, scenes, and sentiment of stories that have been cherished for centuries.

[Image: Ana Tzarev &quot;Marfa’s Splendid Gifts from Frost&quot; (2009) oil on linen 76.75 x 76.75 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/341E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/341E">
  <Name>&quot;Luminous Modernism: 1912-2012&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FD6D96EE">
    <Name>Scandinavia House</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>58 Park Ave., New York, NY 10016</Address>
    <Phone>212-879-9779</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 37th St. and 38th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 and 7 to Grand Centra/42nd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Luminous Modernism&quot; comprising some 50 paintings by leading Scandinavian artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries-- including Edvard Munch, Vihelm Hammersøi, and Anders Zion-- revisiting a groundbreaking exhibition sponsored by The American-Scandinavian Foundation in 1912, which even before the Armory Show of 1913, introduced European modernism to North America.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-10-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>10/19/2011 9:30-11:00 am </ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/3863" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/3863">
  <Name>Damien Hirst &quot;The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/436DF6C6">
    <Name>Gagosian Gallery 21st Street</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>522 W 21st St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-741-1717</Phone>
    <Fax>212-741-0006</Fax>
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    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[I was always a colorist, I've always had a phenomenal love of color... I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that's where the spot paintings came from-to create that structure to do those colors, and do nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the joy of color.
-Damien Hirst
 
Gagosian Gallery presents &quot;The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot; by Damien Hirst.
 
The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery's eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on January 12, 2012. Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, &quot;The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot; makes use of this demographic fact to determine the content of each exhibition according to locality.
 
Included in the exhibition are more than 300 paintings, from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; to the smallest spot painting comprising half a spot and measuring 1 x 1/2 inch (1996); to a monumental work comprising only four spots, each 60 inches in diameter; and up to the most recent spot painting completed in 2011 containing 25,781 spots that are each 1 millimeter in diameter, with no single color ever repeated.
 
In conjunction with the exhibition will be the publication of The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, a fully illustrated, comprehensive and definitive catalogue of all spot paintings made by Hirst from 1986 to the present. Published by Gagosian Gallery and Other Criteria, The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011 includes essays by Museum of Modern Art curator Ann Temkin, cultural critic Michael Bracewell, and art historian Robert Pincus-Witten as well as a conversation between Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari.
 
The third issue of the Gagosian App for iPad will also launch January, providing an interactive, in-depth look at the series that features more than ninety spot paintings.
 
&quot;Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot; precedes the first major museum retrospective of Hirst's work opening at Tate Modern in London in April, 2012.
 
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol, England. Solo exhibitions include &quot;The Agony and the Ecstasy,&quot; Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples (2004); &quot;A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections,&quot; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2005); Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2005); &quot;For the Love of God,&quot; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008); &quot;No Love Lost,&quot; The Wallace Collection, London (2009); &quot;Requiem,&quot; Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2009); and &quot;Cornucopia,&quot; the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (2010). He received the Turner Prize in 1995. His work is included in many important public and private collections throughout the world.
 
Hirst lives and works in London and Devon, United Kingdom.

[Image: DAMIEN HIRST &quot;Prochlorperazine&quot; (2009) Household gloss on canvas, 82 x 78 inches  (208.3 x 198.1 cm) © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2011]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/4539" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/4539">
  <Name>&quot;Shifting Communities&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/050FFC94">
    <Name>Bronx Art Space</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>305 E 140th St., #1A, Bronx, NY 10454</Address>
    <Phone>718-772-4961 </Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 3rd and Alexander Aves. Subway: 6 to 138th Street </Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Shifting Communities highlights dynamic initiatives in culture and the arts currently at work in the margins of the art world and American society. The goal of this project is to create a paradigm where community-centric contemporary art and artist think-tanks can be a tool for public service; a language for the exploration and investigation of the broader aspects of culture and society; and a magnet that can bring different cultures and ideologies together in order to strengthen a more inclusive definition of community.


Exhibition Schedule:
Shifting: J+J, BroLab, and Nicky Enright
September 9th through October 8th 2011

Shifting: SP Weather Station, Laura Napier, and Christy Speakman
October 21st through November 18th 2011

Shifting: Action Club and Hatuey Ramos-Fermin
December 2nd 2011 through January 6th 2012

Shifiting: T.W.O., P.w.O., and W.P.C.
January 20th through February 18th 2012


Bronx artists: Laura Napier (Social Practice/Video), Nicky Enright (Video/Painting/DJ), Hatuey Ramos-Fermin (Installation/Performance), and Christy Speakman (Photography/Sculpture/Video)


Artist Collective Members: Jason Balicki and Jason Eisner (J+J Collective); Ryan Roa, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Robert Amesbury, Adam Brent, Ken Madore, Jonathan Brand, Rahul Alexander, and Edward Lee Bullock (BroLab); Douglas Paulson, Kerry Downey, Christopher Domenick, Christopher Robbins, Justin Rancourt, Chuck Yatsuk, and Jo Q Nelson (Action Club); Heidi Neilson and Natalie Campbell (SP Weather Station); Katarina Jerinic and Naomi Miller (The Work Office); Erica Leone, Heather M. O'Brien, and Felisia Tandiono (Works Progress Collective); Alexandra Woolsey-Puffer and Jeff Maki (Publicworks Office)

Shifting Communities operates multifold: as a roundtable brainstorming series for students, artists, and local residents; as a curatorial/exhibition initiative; and as Bronx-centric social sculpture.

Roundtable Brainstorming Series: An artist built installation in our exhibition facility will serve as the physical infrastructure for a series of roundtable discussions. Featuring the Bronx as a hub, the roundtable installation will host a yearlong series of discussions based on the changing socio-demographics, community development, and non-profit exhibition strategies (to name a few) across the boroughs of New York City. Each roundtable will feature a Bronx artist alongside an artist collective from outside the Bronx. In addition to the roundtable, the artists are charged with creating an exhibit of art inclusive of the discussion and informed by the Bronx community. The roundtable will also be made available to other artists and community members outside the program to schedule events and activities of their own.

Curatorial/Exhibition Initiative: This series was created in response to the current economic, environmental, and political stress across the country and the grassroots initiatives and local communities of artists that have spawned from it to create innovative and effective interpretations of development and progress. Through four separate exhibitions, this initiative changes the gallery from a space of passive art viewing into one of active art creating. The audience is as integral to the creation of the program as the artists. The artwork stems from discussion and consideration for the community it is created in.

Bronx-centric Social Sculpture: Taken as a whole, this program can be seen as one large artwork. The accumulation of sketches, notes, photographs, and other ephemera from the roundtable presentations, along with the artworks created and exhibited will be archived in a published catalog and video series of documentation and critical dialogue. As the series progresses, the roundtable installation will act as a visual timeline of the work and ideas presented culminating in an archive of the entire program at the close of our season.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-09-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Modernist Art from India&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E60BEA54">
    <Name>Rubin Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>150 W 17th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-620-5000</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 7th Ave. Subway: 1/2/3 to 14th Street or 1 to 18th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>wednesdays closinghour 19:00, fridays closinghour 22:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>7-10pm the museum is free to all visitors, the K2 Lounge/bar is open from 6 pm. until late. Happy Hour 6–7 pm. Performances in the theater start at 7pm.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The first exhibition of the three-part Modernist Art from India series focuses on representations of the figure and the body in modernist art from India after the nation's independence in 1947.
Figuration has been a long, sustained tradition in Indian art - both ancient and modern- and Indian artists had already begun to incorporate secular and non-courtly figures into their works prior to independence. Post-independence, notions of the figure and body became connected with the creation of new cultural identities, as well as the broad social and political concerns facing a new nation.
Reflecting on the predominant concerns of India's artists in the decades after Independence, The Body Unbound considers the artistic and psychic significance of figurative modes in these paintings. As India's artists negotiated professional, social, and political spaces for themselves in a changing nation, the way in which they represented the body continued to evolve. The exhibition will include works from the early 1940s - mid 1980s, ranging from traditionalist representations of Indian villagers and townspeople, to representations of metaphysical &quot;Man,&quot; to the socially and politically charged narrative representations that predominated in the 1980s.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $10, Seniors, Students, Artists and Neighbors(zips 10011/10001 with ID) $7, Children under 12 and on Fridays 7pm-10pm Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-11-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-09</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Real/Surreal&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/04C0543A">
    <Name>The Whitney Museum of American Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 75th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition, drawn entirely from the deep holdings of the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection, will focus on the tension and overlap between two strong currents in twentieth century art. Although the term “realism” has many facets, a basic connection to the observable world underlies all of them; the subversion of reality through the imagination and the subconscious lies at the heart of Surrealism. Yet there are convergences in these different and even oppositional approaches to experience, and they encourage new ways of looking at the art of the twenties, thirties, and forties in America. For example, Edward Hopper, famous for chronicling New York urban life, is also a painter whose own subjectivity and imagination are integral to his work. Many artists who developed imagery based on new and very specific, concrete conditions of industrial American, such as Charles Sheeler, were essentially interested in artificial worlds and presented these as distillations of reality. Even totally abstract painters such as Yves Tanguy depended on techniques developed from traditional, realist art to render bizarre worlds. By willfully distorting such techniques, Helen Lundeberg and Mabel Dwight could quietly undercut our sense of stability even while showing us recognizable and even mundane objects and settings. Understanding surrealism as above and beyond the real necessarily ties it to representation and reality, just as realist painting can be imaginative and bizarre without breaking with rational observation. The exhibition will feature approximately 120 works in painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking juxtaposed in ways that elucidate how artists developed qualified degrees of reality where the imagination held more or less sway, depending on intention and influence.


[George Tooker (1920–2011) &quot;The Subway&quot; (1950) Egg tempera on composition board 18 1/8 × 36 1/8 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">General admission: $18; Ages 19-25, 62+, and students: $12; Ages 18 &amp; under: FREE; Fridays 6-9pm are pay what you wish.</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-10-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/69D9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/69D9">
  <Name>Mitch Miller &quot;Natural Selection&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A7C27FD9">
    <Name>Accola Griefen Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite #634, New York NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-532-3488</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <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>
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  <Description><![CDATA[ACCOLA GRIEFEN GALLERY presents – Mitch Miller: Natural Selection. Mitch Miller’s work is rooted in a fraught relationship with the natural world that began in formative visits to the awe-inspiring sites where his father worked as a petroleum engineer. In Natural Selection, creature-like sculptures in reclaimed Styrofoam, perch on pedestals and hang suspended in the air. The largest hanging pieces are literally moving targets. After assembling and painting, the final stage of production involves invited participants shooting the glacial craters with a bow and arrow. This activity causes the structures to spin, gouges the textured surface and splinters off pieces that are then reassembled to create the smaller-scale sculptures. The paintings in Natural Selection also involve chance: to lay down the initial structure the artist starts blindfolded. The work in this series, Bobcat Mountain Studio, at first appears to be dramatic expressionist washes in white, violent red and charcoal.  On closer inspection an architectural fantasy that somewhat resembles the artist’s own mountain residence can be found nestled into what reveals itself to be a sweeping landscape.  Both in format and subject matter, Eastern scroll painting inspires these works, wherein the shifting scale and grandeur of nature often dwarfs the almost invisible mark of man. Miller’s work is a reminder that humans are capable of the most brutal and beautiful of things.

Mitch Miller earned degrees in Biology and Fine Art from the University of Colorado in 1997. After completing an MFA at the University of Kansas, Miller moved to New York in 2000 where he embarked on ambitious projects including the conversion of a former Times Square strip club into a massive art center. Through this project, Miller received grants from Scope International Art Fair and Socrates Sculpture Park, where he completed his first public sculptures in 2004.  The artist has since exhibited widely in the United States and abroad at venues including Marc DePuechredon, Basel, Switzerland; White Columns, New York City; Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Rare Gallery, New York City and ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, among others. Mitch Miller now lives and works on Bobcat Mountain in Colorado.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Works by Gallery Artists &amp; American Modernists&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B43332DA">
    <Name>Alexandre Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 E 57th St., 13 Fl., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-755-2828</Phone>
    <Fax>212-755-2882</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Madison Ave. Subway: N/R/W to 5th Avenue or 4/5/6 to 59th Street or E/V to 5th Avenue/53rd 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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  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Gregory Amenoff &quot;Pinion&quot; (1987) oil on canvas 88 x 78 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-03-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2013-01-01</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/70A5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/70A5">
  <Name>Janet Culbertson &quot;Possible Peril&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A7C27FD9">
    <Name>Accola Griefen Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite #634, New York NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-532-3488</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[ACCOLA GRIEFEN GALLERY presents –Janet Culbertson: Possible Peril.   For more than four decades Janet Culbertson’s paintings and drawings have been infused with a passionate concern for our planet’s ecology. In her most recent series, Industrial Park, Culbertson imagines a future of disastrous consequences. By mixing mica and iridescent pigments into her paint the artistsimulates the appearance of broken glass, mine tailings, and oil spills.The resulting surfaces lend a lustrous yet threatening quality to her subject matters - jungles of twisted roads, acres of concrete cylinders, massive oil rigs and an unnaturally scorched earth. Primates often appear amidst these dark landscapes as poignant reminders of the many species we have threatened in striving for a rich future with little mind to sustainability.

Janet Culbertson is a pioneering eco-feminist artist. She attended Carnegie Mellon University and earned her Master’s Degree at NYU.  She had her first solo exhibit in New York City in 1969. During the 1970’s Culbertson had four one-woman shows in New York City, received a C.A.P.S. NY state award and wrote and edited for Heresies magazine.  Since that time, Culbertson has received grants from The Pollack-Krasner Foundation, The Vogelstein Foundation and The Puffin Foundation and has exhibited her work at such significant institutions as The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC.  Culbertson has work in the permanent collections of museums including National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C.; Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ; National Museo de los Ninos, San Jose, Costa Rica; Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Long Island Museum of Art, Stony Brook, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; St. Petersburg Museum of Art, St Petersburg, FL; Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY and Islip Museum, East Islip, NY among others.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
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  <Name>Romare Bearden &quot;The Bearden Project&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6D0D23C1">
    <Name>Studio Museum Harlem</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>144 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027</Address>
    <Phone>212-864-4500</Phone>
    <Fax>212-864-4800</Fax>
    <Access>Between Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and Lenox Ave. Subway: A/B/C/D/2/3/4/5/6 to 125th Street</Access>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[September 2, 2011, marked the centennial of the birth of Romare Bearden, and the beginning of a year of international celebration of this significant and singular artist. In tribute to Bearden, who was deeply involved with the founding of The Studio Museum in Harlem, and whose work remains at the core of our collection, the Studio Museum is inviting one hundred artists to create new works of art inspired, influenced, or informed by the life, work, and legacy of one of the most important artists of the 20th Century. The Museum will share these works with the public through The Bearden Project, a dynamic exhibition initiative that will grow and change throughout the centennial year.

The Bearden Project will open to the public on November 10, 2011, but will evolve over the subsequent year as new work arrives at the Museum and works are rearranged in dialogue with Bearden’s work, each other, and concurrent exhibitions. In addition to the exhibition, the Museum will offer multiple ways for the public to engage with the art and artists participating in The Bearden Project. Building on its history of robust public programs, the Museum will celebrate The Bearden Project with the launch of a new and even more comprehensive event calendar featuring rare opportunities to experience performances, tours, artists’ talks and more with leading contemporary artists, noted scholars, and Museum curators Thelma Golden, Lauren Haynes, Naima Keith and Thomas J. Lax.

Additionally, in partnership with emerging New York design firm OCD, the Museum will create and ever-changing, interactive exhibition site spotlighting a rotating roster of participating artists as well as information about and a map of tri-state area museums displaying Bearden works in celebration of the centennial. The Studio Museum and OCD will also create a comprehensive publication reproducing each work in the project along with personal and intimate reflections from participants, a new essay by exhibition organizer and Studio Museum Assistant Curator Lauren Haynes and a foreword by director Thelma Golden.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested donation: Adults $7, Seniors and students with valid ID $3, Members and children under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-11-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/87B3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/87B3">
  <Name>&quot;Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D1E743C4">
    <Name>Grey Art Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>100 Washington Sq. East, New York, NY 10003</Address>
    <Phone>212-998-6780</Phone>
    <Fax>212-995-4024</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Washington Pl.  Subway: A/B/C/D/E/F/V to West 4th Street or R/W to 8th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</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>wednesdays closinghour 20:00, saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Comprised of some 50 works, Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970 is the first largescale exhibition dedicated to this major Venezuelan artist to be held at a New York institution in more than 35 years. Featuring works produced after Jesús Rafael Soto's move to Paris, the show highlights his visionary investigations into notions of movement, displacement, and instability. Drawing inspiration from optics, color theory, and phenomenology, Soto (1923–2005) developed a radically new relationship between the artwork and the viewer. The exhibition also explores reciprocal influences between Soto and other members of the Parisian avant-garde—such as Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely. Soto's groundbreaking achievements in the fields of perception and interactive art established his reputation as both one of the foremost proponents of kinetic art and one of the most influential 20th-century Latin American artists. Curated by Estrellita B. Brodsky, the exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: $3, NYU Students, Facutly, Staff Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/89DB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/89DB">
  <Name>Diego Rivera &quot;Murals for The Museum of Modern Art&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/AE192502">
    <Name>The Museum of Modern Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-708-9400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th Ave. and 6th Ave.  Subway: V/E to 53rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours through Sept. 3: Sunday through Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Diego Rivera was the subject of MoMA’s second monographic exhibition (the first was Henri Matisse), which set new attendance records in its five-week run from December 22, 1931, to January 27, 1932. MoMA brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the exhibition’s opening and gave him studio space within the Museum, a strategy intended to solve the problem of how to present the work of this famous muralist when murals were by definition made and fixed on site. Working around the clock with two assistants, Rivera produced five “portable murals”—large blocks of frescoed plaster, slaked lime, and wood that feature bold images drawn from Mexican subject matter and address themes of revolution and class inequity. After the opening, to great publicity, Rivera added three more murals, now taking on New York subjects through monumental images of the urban working class and the social stratification of the city during the Great Depression. All eight were on display for the rest of the show’s run. The first of these panels, Agrarian Leader Zapata, is an icon in the Museum’s collection. 

This exhibition will bring together key works made for Rivera’s 1931 exhibition, presenting them at MoMA for the first time in nearly 80 years. Along with mural panels, the show will include full-scale drawings, smaller working drawings, archival materials related to the commission and production of these works, and designs for Rivera’s famous Rockefeller Center mural, which he also produced while he was working at the Museum. Focused specifically on works created during the artist’s stay in New York, this exhibition will draw a succinct portrait of Rivera as a highly cosmopolitan figure who moved between Russia, Mexico, and the United States, and will offer a fresh look at the intersection of art making and radical politics in the 1930s. MoMA will be the exhibition’s sole venue.

[Image: Diego Rivera &quot;Agrarian Leader Zapata&quot; (1931) Fresco 7' 9 3/4&quot; x 6' 2&quot; The Museum of Modern Art. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $25, Seniors $18, Students $14, Children and Members and on Friday 4pm–8pm Free. Film Admission as of September 1, 2011: $12 adults; $10 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D.; $8 full-time students with current I.D. (for admittance to film program</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-11-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-14</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/8C5F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/8C5F">
  <Name>&quot;The Ungovernables, Second New Museum Triennial&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B16209D5">
    <Name>The New Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-1222</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner  of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The 2012 New Museum Triennial will feature thirty-four artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives—totaling over fifty participants—born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never before exhibited in the US.

The exhibition title, “The Ungovernables,” takes its inspiration from the concept of “ungovernability” and its transformation from a pejorative term used to describe unruly “natives” to a strategy of civil disobedience and self-determination. “The Ungovernables” is meant to suggest both anarchic and organized resistance and a dark humor about the limitations and potentials of this generation.

“The Ungovernables” is an exhibition about the urgencies of a generation who came of age after the independence and revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Through both materials and form, works included in “The Ungovernables” explore impermanence and an engagement with the present and future. Many of the works are provisional, site-specific, and performative reflecting an attitude of possibility and resourcefulness. In the sculpture of Adrián Villar Rojas, monumentality is juxtaposed with transience. Rendered in clay, the works depend on cracks on their surfaces—the inevitable failure of the object, of meaning, and the guaranteed transformation of all ideas and objects back to dust. But it is dust that is then repurposed, reimagined, and re-formed. When Danh Võ learned that the Statue of Liberty is simply a steel armature covered by a copper skin the thickness of two pennies, he researched the hammering process that gave her shape, then employed craftsmen to replicate the statue’s skin for his work WE THE PEOPLE. Julia Dault manipulates materials of modernity such as Formica and Plexiglas in temporal arrangements that can never be repeated. In her works, the artist’s labor is dependent on the conditions of a certain space, her strength to execute a work at a particular time, and the uncontrollable accidents her materials determine. House of Natural Fiber, a new media collective and alternative space, has recently combined microbiology and art to teach locals about safe ways to brew homemade fruit wine while amplifying and sampling the sounds of the distillation process to make electronic music. Jonathas de Andrade’s Ressaca Tropical (Tropical Hangover) is an installation of over one hundred photographs linked to pages of a romantic diary found in the trash. In isolation, the components of Ressaca are historical documents. However, pieced together, they comprise a larger fiction of what a city is and can be—how the past can remain alive, not through conservation, but instead through the invisible energy of living.

The New Museum has initiated a series of residencies and public programs to support the production of new works for the Triennial to foster artistic investigation, experimentation, and exchange. Residencies began in February 2011, with Public Movement and Adrián Villar Rojas focusing on research for Triennial projects. In June and July, the New Museum embarked on a concentrated period of activities with Wu Tsang as well as Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran of CAMP. On November 4 and 6, Public Movement presented Positions, a choreographed protest in which political and philosophical positions manifest into physical positions. Wu Tsang continued to develop his work Full Body Quotation with a performance on November 19, which will be the foundation of his installation in “The Ungovernables” exhibition.

The Triennial is curated by Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">General Admission $12, Seniors $10, Students $8, 18 and under Free, Members Free, Thursday Evenings (from 7pm) Free.</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-22</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/90D8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/90D8">
  <Name>Allison Miller Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/72F1B3A1">
    <Name>Susan Inglett Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>522 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-647-9111</Phone>
    <Fax>212-647-9333</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>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Susan Inglett presents the work of Los Angeles based painter Allison Miller in her first solo presentation with the Gallery from 26 January to 3 March 2012. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday evening 26 January from 6 to 8 PM.
 
Allison Miller's paintings attest to the evocative possibilities of abstraction. Imbued with a vibrant and dissonant musicality, her hand-drawn lines, geometrically-inclined forms and structural use of patterning coalesce into a graceful unification of disparate energies. Drawing inspiration from a diverse and unlikely meeting of influences, most recently Vuillard, Fontana, and Magritte, the work seeks to render the uncanny and the absurd in abstract form.
 
From inspiration to execution, Miller's approach is designed to shake both maker and viewer from a well-worn track. Her process is a journey without predetermined destination, a map of its progression contained within each piece. Every line and layer resonates with the improvisational evolution of the process. &quot;There is no plan to stray from,&quot; said Miller in a recent interview, &quot;...I am constantly trying to undermine the ostensible priority of the painting in order to achieve a state of perpetual surprise.&quot; Through varied surface textures, oscillating opacities, complex transitions - Miller's paintings create a distinctive visual syntax culminating in images that give form to the idea of liminal space.

[Image: Allison Miller &quot;Bulletin&quot; (2011) Oil and acrylic/canvas 40 by 40 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/931F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/931F">
  <Name>Theodoros Stamos &quot;Evidence of Wonder: A Survey 1940s -1990s&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A7A0A636">
    <Name>ACA Galleries</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., 5 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-8080</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-8498</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and West Side Hwy. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>June 20 - August 18, Tuesday through Friday, 10:30 - 6pm. The gallery will be closed from August 19 - September 4.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[ACA Galleries presents Theodoros Stamos: Evidence of Wonder - A Survey 1940s - 1990s. This survey features work from 1943 to 1992 and shows how the natural world was a source of inspiration and imagery throughout Stamos' career. This is the first solo exhibition of his work at the gallery since 1993. 

Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997), the youngest member of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, was born in New York to Greek parents. In 1936 he won a scholarship to attend American Artists' School where he studied sculpture until 1939 when he left to focus on painting. Beginning in 1941 he ran a frame shop where he met Arshile Gorky. In 1943 he had his first solo exhibition at the Wakefield Gallery which was run by Betty Parsons. During this period he met Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman. His work was included in the Whitney Annual in 1945 and the following year the Museum of Modern Art purchased a painting. His first solo museum show was at The Duncan Phillips Collection, Washington DC in 1950 and that year he also taught at Black Mountain College. From 1955 through 1977 he was an instructor at the Art Students League. Starting in 1970 he made yearly trips to the island of Lefkada in Greece. 

His work is in numerous museum collections including Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlung, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museu d'Arte Moderno, Rio de Jenairo, Brazil; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum Modernor Kunst, Vienna, Austria; National Picture Gallery, Athens, Greece National Pinacotek, Athens, Greece, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel and Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, among others.

[Image: Theodoros Stamos &quot;Ascent for Ritual&quot; (1947) oil on masonite, 39 x 23 3/4 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-10-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/94F7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/94F7">
  <Name>&quot;Renoir, Impressionism, and the Full-Length Format&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/745F2E48">
    <Name>The Frick Collection</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1 E 70th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-288-0700</Phone>
    <Fax>212-628-4417</Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison Ave. and 5th Ave.  Subway: 6 to 68th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The Frick Collection presents an exhibition of nine iconic Impressionist paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, offering the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format, which was associated with the official Paris Salon in the decade that saw the emergence of a fully fledged Impressionist aesthetic.  The project was inspired by La Promenade of 1875-76, the most significant Impressionist work in the Frick's permanent collection.  It explores Renoir's portraits and subject pictures of this type from the mid-1870s to mid-1880s.  Intended for public display, these vertical grand-scale canvases are among the artist's most daring and ambitious presentations of contemporary subjects and are today considered masterpieces of Impressionism.  On view only at the Frick, Renoir, Impressionism, and the Full-Length Format is a landmark exhibition, bringing together, with the Frick painting, several beloved masterpieces from around the world.  Works on loan from international institutions are La Parisienne (1874) from the National Museum of Art, Cardiff; The Umbrellas (c. 1881 and 1885) from The National Gallery, London (first time since 1886 on view in the United States); and Dance in the City and Dance in the Country (1882-83) from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.  Works on loan from American institutions are The Dancer (1874) from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Madame Henriot &quot;en travesti&quot; (1875-76) from the Columbus Museum of Art; Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (1879) from the Art Institute of Chicago; and Dance at Bougival (1882-83) from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  The exhibition will be shown in the Frick's Oval Room, a gallery traditionally used for the display of full-length portraits from the institution's permanent collection.

[Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), The Umbrellas, (c. 1881 and 1885) Oil on canvas 71 x 45 in.,
The National Gallery, London; photo: National Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members Free, Sunday 11am-1pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-13</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9B2C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/9B2C">
  <Name>&quot;Foreign Bodies&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1FEF4D0D">
    <Name>SET Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>287 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-852-7609</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Carroll and President Sts., Subway: R to Union 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" />
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    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[We first “make Other” by seeing, by encountering physically. Looking at the body, we begin to categorize it. Othering is one of the first steps to identifying the self; one learns who she is in relation to/ against another. It's a method of self-identification, a construction of roles, a learning of boundaries. But it is also a way to discriminate, stigmatize, demonize, condemn. We exoticise, eroticize, fetishize and objectify what seems foreign. The process of making other applies to female bodies, ethnic bodies, queer bodies, immigrant bodies. It's a mode of exclusion and alienation, of fascination tempered by disgust, a desire covered over by fear.

Each artist in this exhibition is evoking a body or a stand in for the body, and the bodies on view are ethnic, distorted, chaotic, ambiguously gendered. But each artist examines the body through his or her own lens. At times, an overt dialogue of Otherness is made visible; in other cases, it is merely a whisper heard through the layers of multiple voices.

When encountering the video work of Vydavy Sindikat, the audience is a voyeur to a dialogue. The video is of a private conversation where participants are ethnically ambiguous, the language is not English, the state is indistinctly tense. Introduced to this foreign situation, the viewer is simultaneously estranged from and placed into the role of the objectfier. One is invited to view in order to decide how to partake.

Looking at Yevgeniya Baras’s work, one comes in contact with the skin of paint, the crustiness, scarring, dryness, and layering of material, the many different modes that define the process of painting. Sometimes, she weaves the surface out of thin strips of canvas or sheets; occasionally, it’s papier-mâché that composes the initial layer. She draws with yarn, sewing a pattern, gluing glass, foil, and paper onto canvas, or cuts and rips canvas before she begins the application of oil and acrylic paint. These works dance between sculpture and painting. They talk about an uneasy kind of beauty: unsettling and slightly repulsive. They are small and overloaded, sullied, dingy, burdened, compact, demanding bodies, loved and loathed in equal measure.


Irina Danilina’s work is created using hair. The cutting of hair is ceremonial, performative; it marks time, the stages of transformation. Hair is associated with crimes against humanity; it is what is left of the massacred. It is as much an element of beauty as it is what marks the body as ethnic. Hair both repulses and attracts, connoting desire and seediness. These braids on display are traces of a female mourning. These photographs provide context , documentation of performances passed, while the objects are contained in a scientific manner. They are trapped: the ethnic body made safe, nonthreatening, disarmed, limp.

Alina and Jeff Bliumis’s sculpture of bones overtly references the body. The bones are arranged in a circle, used as formal elements to create a composition. It is a mandala, a fragmented body reaching towards wholeness. The wooden sculptures are ambiguously gendered. They hint at masculinity and femininity but they can easily switch, can easily role-play. They make sense as a pair. As a couple, they are less vulnerable, their surface queer but armed, challenging heteronormativity. Unlike the seemingly fleeting material of Danilova’s work, these pieces are heavily present; they repeatedly reaffirm themselves. There is a density, a core of materiality in them. All three sculptures are firmly present, one in its fragmentation and two in their union. All three waver between body and spirit.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9BFF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/9BFF">
  <Name>Enrico David &quot;Head Gas&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B16209D5">
    <Name>The New Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-1222</Phone>
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    <Access>On the corner  of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[“Head Gas” is the first New York exhibition by Italian-born, Berlin-based artist Enrico David. Over the past twenty years, David has produced a body of work encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage that draws upon a rich variety of sources and expresses a range of complex emotional states. Although his work is highly celebrated throughout Europe—the artist was among the nominees for the 2009 Turner Prize, for example—David’s work has rarely been exhibited in the United States.

The figures populating David's work convey the struggle of adaptation, both physical and psychological, of the self and of the image. In his art, we see haunting, incomplete, and sometimes grotesque characters fighting against and merging into backgrounds comprising a personal lexicon of forms. These patterns are derived from craft, folk art, and twentieth-century design, as well as advertising, techniques of display, fashion, and art historical moments. Previously, David choreographed his figurative works to imply dramatic narratives, at times using the exhibition space as a stage. His exhibitions function as performances of self-analysis constructed and theatricalized specifically for public display. Through David’s highly personalized iconography, the works act as mirrors, reflecting viewers’ desires, fears, and vulnerabilities. In David’s more recent work, the implications and strands of psychological tension are enacted within a more formalized, image-based corporeality.

For his ‘Studio 231’ exhibition, David has created an entirely new body of work. The paintings and works on paper are part of a series of portraits rendered delicately in pencil and luminescent fields of acrylic paint applied with a sponge or caressing brush. David’s imagery suggests bodies at the point of apparition or dissolution—beings that cannot be contained or consumed, perhaps only passed through, and reluctantly present.

“I imagine these images as the product of a conscious, physiological act of will. To exist despite the alienating and antagonizing nature of their surrounding environment—as if a precarious and utterly temporary agreement was struck between them and the molecular components of paint and canvas, lines and colors, even the space itself, threaten to engulf them,” says David. “These conditions, as ridiculous and unlikely as they may sound, represent for me an experience that feels real, necessary to embrace, even optimistic.”

“Head Gas” also features a new series of hand-painted paravents. These folding screens, originally conceived by the artist for his own apartment, create an architectural intervention within the exhibition space, simultaneously connecting to the images occupying the gallery.

Enrico David is the second artist featured in the New Museum’s new ‘Studio 231’ series. The Museum inaugurated the series in October 2011, with a new installation and performances by London-based artist Spartacus Chetwynd. ‘Studio 231’ is a series of commissioned projects in the museum’s adjacent, ground-floor space at 231 Bowery. This new initiative will give international, emerging artists the opportunity to realize ambitious new works conceived especially for the space. These projects at 231 Bowery also seek to foster a new relationship between the artists and the public by allowing artists to create work outside the confines of the main museum building and in closer proximity to the energy of the street and to the creative space of the artist's studio.

Enrico David was born in Ancona, Italy, in 1966. He studied fine art at Central Saint Martin’s in London.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9C6B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/9C6B">
  <Name>Georges Moquay &quot;Toxic Remedy&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3A2F1B7">
    <Name>De Buck Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., Suite 502, NEW YORK, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-5735</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[ In his first New York solo exhibition, Moquay creates large dynamic canvases that transform the gallery into a splashy, colorful swirl of energy and empowerment.
Toxic Remedy is built upon Moquay’s graphic vocabulary, which consists of an amalgam of icons and symbols. Bodiless thick-outlined heads, Moquay’s “warriors”, encircle the long-necked white buddhas in a scene of cultural fusion made up of postmodern hieroglyphics. Moquay’s “warriors” draw on Aztec pictographs, Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos’ skeleton Catrinas, and even the head of Pez candy dispenser. Using colorful x’s, o’s and arrows to fill the background along with interjections of text, Moquay’s grand scale paintings resemble larger-than-life hip-hop cartoons.
Georges Moquay was born in France to Rotraut Uecker, the widow of Yves Klein and sister to Gunther Uecker, and grew up surrounded by artists such as Pierre Restany, Arman, Cesar, and Niki de Saint-Phalle. Beginning painting at 24, Moquay has explored the process of creating work, sometimes incorporating video or music in a rave-like art experience. Moquay has been featured in exhibitions at Guy Pieters Gallery (Belgium), Galerie Be-Air Fine Art (Geneve), and Galerie de Lices (Saint-Tropez).
Georges Moquay lives and works in Paris and Arizona.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-04-14</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/A2DA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/A2DA">
  <Name>Bill Jensen Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Cheim &amp; Read</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-7727</Phone>
    <Fax>212-242-7737</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1945, Bill Jensen has lived and worked in New York since the early 1970s, and was one of the first artists to establish a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He came into prominence with “the return to painting” of the late 70’s and early 80’s. Intuitive and visceral, Jensen’s abstractions have long been admired for their unconventional compositions and profound sense of color. Saturated, densely worked surfaces, seemingly primordial in origin, transcend any sense of the struggle that Jensen attributes to his painting process. For Jensen, a painting is successful only when the artist’s initial impulse and his material’s properties harmoniously converge; this can sometimes take several years to achieve. Defined by an amorphous, ever-changing search for resolution, Jensen’s results are ultimately determined by the act of painting itself.

While characterized by the same unpretentious, process-driven investigations found in his previous work, Jensen’s new paintings are connected to distinctly identifiable sources; specific forms or compositional elements repeat in several works. This foresight and repetition is a departure for Jensen, as is his format: the majority of the new paintings and drawings are diptychs or triptychs. In discussion, he cites influences as varied as José Clemente Orozco, Clyfford Still, Francisco Goya’s black paintings, Chinese poetry, and the Dogon tribe of Africa. More specifically, in regard to the triptych configuration, he references the Rothko Chapel, a lesser-known Willem de Kooning altarpiece, and Ronald Bladen’s three-paneled painting Untitled, 1960-61 and his sculpture, Three Elements, 1965. Further, the Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev (c. 1360s–1430) has provided specific inspiration for Jensen’s “imagery.” For several canvases, as seen in The Trinity, Mandate of Heaven and Substance, Spirit and Shadow, all 2010-11, Jensen outlined the main element (three angels, seated at Abraham’s table) of Rublev’s icon painting, The Holy Trinity (1410), and repositioned it as a single, abstract shape floating on a multi-layered background of subtly colored ground. Recurring in this triptych and others, the form becomes a self-contained, almost reliquary-like symbol for Jensen’s working process.

The triptych format (which also reinforces the idea of the trinity) allows for multiple interactions between three painted surfaces. Jensen finds the possibilities of different arrangements liberating – each canvas can be re-positioned, rotated, or turned upside-down. More importantly, the format displaces any sense of the temporal or sequential, fracturing narrative constructs of “past,” “present,” and “future.” It also complicates the spatial continuity by interrupting the picture plane with distinct, physical edges; the painting’s three parts do not predictably “line up,” nor do they provide a sense of dimensional unity. Large in scale but not necessarily the same size, Jensen’s canvases create notches when hung together, further enforcing the time/space distortion. (The notches also reference altarpieces in Italy, and the Rothko panels.) Though rooted in Jensen’s profound appreciation for art history, his triptychs, like his other paintings, distill and transcend his many influences, infinitely extending on multiple paths beyond any one classification.

Other paintings in the exhibition are directly related to one of Jensen’s heavily worked etchings, Eclipse, 2011 in which a sandblasted plate was scraped and re-worked to remove blacks and add highlights. The resulting composition proved fruitful for Jensen, who copied and re-worked the abstraction in an etching called Sorrow, 2011 (which then led to the diptych series of paintings called Book of Songs). A graphic palette of grays and blacks dominate, and reference a series of line paintings that Jensen did in the 1990s. The line paintings have been a sustained influence over the last decade, providing a thread of continuity between Jensen’s various bodies of work. A series of black and white drawings (also diptychs and triptychs), made while Jensen was in Italy, emerge from the same palette. Washy, vaguely anthropomorphic forms permeate the paper; the organic abstractions allude to the less deliberate, searching quality of Jensen’s past work but also anticipate his move towards the larger triptych paintings.

All of Jensen’s works are characterized by his concern with the craft of painting. He makes his own paints (using a self-developed oil-based medium and pigment), allowing for a broad spectrum of colors (the wealth and variety of blacks provides an ample example) and controlling texture, saturation, and viscosity. Tools are created to fit his needs – butcher knives become scrapers, masonry-grade trowels become palette knives. Even in the more “planned” iconography of the triptychs, process is paramount, providing impetus for the works’ execution. For Jensen, process and result are inseparably linked: one is inconceivable without the other. This is the “struggle” that he strives to resolve, searching for the moment that material and content coalesce in unexpected, almost psychic unity.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/AD96" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/AD96">
  <Name>Ellen Chuse Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/279BADB4">
    <Name>440 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>440 6th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-499-3844</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 9th and 10th St. Subway: F to 7th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The 440 Gallery presents Imagined Light, new paintings by Ellen Chuse inspired by an Italian sojourn
 
Is it possible to revive an old love affair? Almost forty years after living in Italy for a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Sculpture, Ellen Chuse returned to Rome for several months in 2010. She not only rekindled her love affair with the city, the country, and its culture, but also reconnected with the unique light, shapes and colors she encountered during her daily outings. Chuse has brought these impressions to life in a series of acrylic paintings on paper. This new body of work springs directly from her walks in the parks and gardens of Rome where the pines in particular came to represent the city for her. These new paintings, including several very large, bold pieces, reflect Chuse's decades-long fascination with tree forms as well as her continuing exploration of the emotional resonance of color and line.
 
Imagined Light opens at the 440 Gallery on Thursday, January 12th, and will run through Sunday, February 19th, 2012. There will be a reception for the artist from 6:00-9:00 PM, Thursday, January 12th. The 440 Gallery, located at 440 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, is in the Park Slope neighborhood and convenient to the F, M, and R subways.
 
This is Chuse's third solo show at the 440 Gallery. On display will be five 61&quot; by 42&quot; acrylic paintings on paper, together with five small studies and two companion pieces. Working with organic forms in nature, both representational and abstract, the work reflects the intensity of her experience of form and place. Chuse said, &quot;I prefer to paint on paper, which entices me with its texture, flexibility and abundance. Painting on paper has renewed my connection to drawing where the paper itself often creates the line. The larger scale works convey the monumentality of the forms and the intensity of the light and atmosphere surrounding them. I bring my experience of light, place and time to the viewer through these paintings, which I think of as landscapes of the mind.&quot;
 
Long a part of the Brooklyn art community, particularly in Gowanus and Red Hook, Ellen Chuse has been a member of the 440 Gallery for over five years. Chuse received a BFA in Sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1967, and her MFA in Fine Arts from Queens College, CUNY in 1971. In 1972 she was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Italy in Sculpture. During the 1970's her sculpture was exhibited in various galleries in New York and New Jersey. While living in Austin, TX, in the mid-1980s she turned to drawing in charcoal and showed widely there. In recent years her practice has evolved from painting with pastel and chalk to working in graphite and acrylic or oil on paper. She has participated in group exhibitions in New York City, such as at the Kentler International Drawing Space, and has shown regularly during the annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour since 2000.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/B44C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/B44C">
  <Name>&quot;Who, What, Wear Selections from the Permanent Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6D0D23C1">
    <Name>Studio Museum Harlem</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>144 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027</Address>
    <Phone>212-864-4500</Phone>
    <Fax>212-864-4800</Fax>
    <Access>Between Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and Lenox Ave. Subway: A/B/C/D/2/3/4/5/6 to 125th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection looks at evolutions in style—self-expression, fashion, artistic technique and societal ideals of beauty—as seen through the Studio Museum’s permanent collection. While artists including James VanDerZee (1886–1983) and Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) evoke the Harlem community as an influential and iconic arbiter of style, this exhibition is national and international in scope, surveying artists and subjects from places as varied as West Africa, the Caribbean and the American South. Including both posed portraits and candid scenes, the works on view emphasize how individuals choose to present themselves, rather than how others have represented them historically. Often these depictions oppose photographic conventions that have reiterated assumptions about what people are supposed to represent, rather than who they are as individuals. The figures on view here defy these practices, demonstrating a complex array of influences and references— hip-hop and pop music, new media and technology, African textiles, traditional dress, street style—that, taken together, refuse any singular “look” or aesthetic and mark culture and tradition as alive and constantly changing.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested donation: Adults $7, Seniors and students with valid ID $3, Members and children under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-11-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/C07B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/C07B">
  <Name>Jean-Frédéric Schnyder Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/27F575F1">
    <Name>Swiss Institute Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>18 Wooster St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-925-2035</Phone>
    <Fax>212-925-2040</Fax>
    <Access>Between Canal and Grand Sts., Subway: N/Q/R to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Swiss Institute presents a solo show of Jean-Frédéric Schnyder (born 1945, lives in Zug, Switzerland) in the United States. Despite his long and successful career the Swiss artist has remained relatively unknown beyond European borders. At Swiss Institute Jean-Frédéric Schnyder will exhibit a series of small format landscape paintings LANDSCHAFT I-XXXV (1990/91) as well as the recent video installation Corso Schnapsparade (2009).

At Swiss Institute, Schnyder exhibits Landschaft (Landscape) I-XXXV (1990/91) a typical example of his vision of painting. After finding a subject, he usually examines every possibility in his imagination without doing any preparatory drawings. The common denominator of this series is the archetypal small house treated in 35 small-sized oil paintings. From the hut of Hansel and Gretel to suburban architecture with a Swastika-lit sky, the modality of a small world is investigated by painting. “I do not care which associations my paintings provoke. Swastika, cruxifix and sugar cubes are just motives which are interesting to paint. To apply color—this is what painting is about, right?—is for me the common thread.” Schnyder’s manifesto is purely nonchalant, a balancing act between humor, kitsch and a persiflage about Western art.

Also on view is Corso Schnapsparade (Liquor Parade, 2009) an animated film featuring a highly eccentric procession. Small wooden horses pull trailers loaded with miniature versions of Swiss liquor bottles. The horses and trailers are cut in wood by Schnyder himself with painstaking craftmanship. The scenery has a childish or almost naïve element that is instantly contradicted by the presence of hard liquor. The soundtrack from the well-known film Sissy further enhances the grandeur of the parade. Schnyder’s Liquor Parade at once celebrates and ridicules festival culture and its rituals.

The exhibition has been made possible with public funds from Kanton Zug.

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  <DateStart>2011-11-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/C94E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/C94E">
  <Name>Damien Hirst &quot;The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Gagosian Gallery 24th Street</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>555 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-741-1111</Phone>
    <Fax>212-741-9611</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>
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  <Description><![CDATA[I was always a colorist, I've always had a phenomenal love of color... I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that's where the spot paintings came from-to create that structure to do those colors, and do nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the joy of color.
-Damien Hirst
 
Gagosian Gallery presents &quot;The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot; by Damien Hirst.
 
The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery's eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on January 12, 2012. Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, &quot;The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot; makes use of this demographic fact to determine the content of each exhibition according to locality.
 
Included in the exhibition are more than 300 paintings, from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; to the smallest spot painting comprising half a spot and measuring 1 x 1/2 inch (1996); to a monumental work comprising only four spots, each 60 inches in diameter; and up to the most recent spot painting completed in 2011 containing 25,781 spots that are each 1 millimeter in diameter, with no single color ever repeated.
 
In conjunction with the exhibition will be the publication of The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, a fully illustrated, comprehensive and definitive catalogue of all spot paintings made by Hirst from 1986 to the present. Published by Gagosian Gallery and Other Criteria, The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011 includes essays by Museum of Modern Art curator Ann Temkin, cultural critic Michael Bracewell, and art historian Robert Pincus-Witten as well as a conversation between Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari.
 
The third issue of the Gagosian App for iPad will also launch January, providing an interactive, in-depth look at the series that features more than ninety spot paintings.
 
&quot;Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011&quot; precedes the first major museum retrospective of Hirst's work opening at Tate Modern in London in April, 2012.
 
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol, England. Solo exhibitions include &quot;The Agony and the Ecstasy,&quot; Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples (2004); &quot;A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections,&quot; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2005); Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2005); &quot;For the Love of God,&quot; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008); &quot;No Love Lost,&quot; The Wallace Collection, London (2009); &quot;Requiem,&quot; Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2009); and &quot;Cornucopia,&quot; the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (2010). He received the Turner Prize in 1995. His work is included in many important public and private collections throughout the world.
 
Hirst lives and works in London and Devon, United Kingdom.

[Image: DAMIEN HIRST &quot;Eucatropine&quot; (2005) Household gloss on canvas, 34 x 34 inches  (86.4 x 86.4 cm) © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2011]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Looking Back / The 6th White Columns Annual&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>White Columns</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>320 W 13th St., New York, NY 10014</Address>
    <Phone>212-924-4212</Phone>
    <Fax>212-645-4764</Fax>
    <Access>Between 8th Ave. and Hudson St. Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Selected by Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi

‘Looking Back’ is the sixth installment of the White Columns Annual. The exhibition is now an annual fixture on White Columns’ calendar. Each year, an individual or a collaborative team (e.g. an artist, a curator, a writer, etc.) is invited to make an exhibition at White Columns based on their personal experience of looking at art in New York in the previous year. For the sixth ‘Annual’ exhibition, White Columns has invited the New York-based artists Ken Okiishi and Nick Mauss to make the selection. 

In a very straightforward sense, the ‘Annual’ exhibition hopes to reveal something of the complexities involved in trying to negotiate - and engage with - New York’s constantly shifting cultural landscape. The format of the exhibition inevitably encourages highly subjective and deeply personal responses to the realities of viewing art in New York. The ‘Annual’ exhibition series hopes to illuminate aspects of the specific, yet highly idiosyncratic routes – geographical, intellectual, historical, social, etc. – that individuals follow in an increasingly expansive and fragmented cultural environment.
Through the re-contextualization of artworks encountered in other circumstances and contexts, the exhibition hopes to establish – albeit temporarily – a new ‘narrative’, a conversation, of sorts, amongst artists and artworks, that seeks to illuminate and/or explore certain underlying tendencies, conditions, or connections that perhaps might otherwise have remained elusive or obscured. In re-thinking the (fairly) recent past the exhibition hopes to provoke something akin to a sense of deja-vu, establishing a scenario that is at once both reflective and forward thinking. 

There are no restrictions as to what type of work can be included. ‘Looking Back’ seeks to eliminate any categorical or hierarchical distinctions we might place upon artworks (e.g. based upon the circumstances in which they were originally seen, or the seniority of an individual artist, etc.) These works might have been originally encountered in exhibitions at institutions, galleries, and not-for-profit spaces, or at performances, readings, during visits to artists’ studios, or online, etc.
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  <Name>Gordon Moore &quot;Paintings &amp; Photo-Emulsion Drawings&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Betty Cuningham Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>541 W 25th St., New York. NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-2772</Phone>
    <Fax>212-242-5959</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The current group of large scale paintings further develops the abstracted format and reduced palette of the works exhibited in Moore’s previous shows. Notably, these new paintings reflect the artist’s interest in photography, positing dimensional space next to drawn space. Moore combines three or more distinct spaces within a single canvas with drawn lines that vary from deliberate to random. Moore describes himself as an empiricist and the paintings reveal an abstract but very tangible world. 

The works on paper in this exhibition are, as the title implies, ink and acrylic on photo-emulsion paper.  Here the tangible meets the abstract as the incidental photograph of a broken umbrella or a bent coat hanger converse with the drawn lines and the painted areas.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-12-08</DateStart>
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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>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave and West Side Highway. Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <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="2011/D9B0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/D9B0">
  <Name>Betye Saar &quot;Collected. Ritual&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Studio Museum Harlem</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>144 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027</Address>
    <Phone>212-864-4500</Phone>
    <Fax>212-864-4800</Fax>
    <Access>Between Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and Lenox Ave. Subway: A/B/C/D/2/3/4/5/6 to 125th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Collected. Ritual explores the performative and process-oriented aspects of making art and examines ritual as an act of special and sometimes mythical significance. The works in this exhibition were chosen for the innovative ways in which the artists engaged with ritual—including through studio art-making and artistic practices that use symbolic actions. This exhibition, organized by Assistant Curator Naima J. Keith, explores the relationship and nexus between art and ritual through twenty-five works of art from the permanent collection spanning the last thirty years.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/EAC4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/EAC4">
  <Name>Donald Baechler &quot;Painting and Sculpture&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6E8CA5FD">
    <Name>Fisher Landau Center For Art</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>38-27 30th St., Long Island City, NY 11101</Address>
    <Phone>718-937-0727</Phone>
    <Fax>718-937-9397</Fax>
    <Access>Between 38th Ave. and 39th Ave.  Subway: N/W to 39th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Fisher Landau Center for Art presents an exhibition exploring a wide range of Donald Baechler's artwork in two and three dimensions, created over the last 25 years. In the mid 1980's, the subject matter of his large-scale paintings began quite literally to jump off the walls, transforming into monumental bronze sculptures. Installed on two floors of the Center, the exhibition is made up of work from Fisher Landau Center for Art, supplemented by work from Donald Baecher's personal collection, highlighting the interplay of recurring motifs as they transform from the painted surface to objects in space.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956, Baechler's artistic training took place in New York, Baltimore, and Germany. In the early 80s, Baechler came into prominence alongside Basquiat, Haring, Condo and the German artists - Dokoupil and Kippenberger. He has exhibited internationally since the outset of his career and is renowned for a distinctive practice, evoking a child-like fascination with cultural symbols and commonplace elements. Emily Fisher Landau began collecting his artwork in 1985 with the purchase of &quot;Globe&quot;, 1984/85, a 52 inch square canvas whose surface is made with acrylic, cotton, paper &amp; rhoplex. Since that time Mrs. Landau has added close to 30 pieces, comprising a selection of painting, sculpture &amp; works on paper that form a cohesive cross section of Baechler's thematic vocabulary.

Included in the installation are &quot;Priceless, Wordless, Loveless&quot;, 1987-88, (111 x 111 inches), exhibited in the 1989 Whitney Biennial, a painting on linen that became the inspiration for &quot;Tree&quot;, 1988, one of Baechler's first sculptures cast in bronze. Other paintings on display include &quot;Deep North&quot;, 1989, also included in the 1989 Whitney Biennial, a seminal example of his textural layering process using acrylic, oil and fabric collage on linen, as well as &quot;Autonomy or Anarchy #1&quot; (102 ½ x 117 3/4 inches) &amp; &quot;Autonomy or Anarchy #2&quot; (99 x 114 inches), both 2003, enormous works on paper depicting disembodied horse heads, facing each other and floating on a frenetic field of collaged paper and fabric, and mounted to linen. &quot;Scarecrow&quot;, 2006, (136 x 70 x 37 inches) a towering bronze installed on the outdoor entry ramp, welcomes the viewers to the Center with a passive demeanor that belies its aggressive scale. The third floor gallery presents an oversized landscape made up of Baechler's bronze &quot;Plants&quot;, 2003-04 and &quot;Flowers&quot;, 2003-07, ranging in size up to seven feet tall. Forming a progression in space, they lead to &quot;Bather (large version)&quot;, 1997 (78 x 66 x 60 inches), a fountain of cast bronze featuring an archetypal Baechler figure, immersed in an enormous water-filled bucket.

Housed in a former parachute harness factory, Fisher Landau Center for Art was designed by Max Gordon in association with Bill Katz and is devoted to the exhibition and study of the contemporary art collection of Emily Fisher Landau. The core of the 1500 work collection spans 1960 to the present and contains key works by artists who have shaped the most significant art of the last 50 years. Emily Fisher Landau's insightful selection of works by contemporary masters, many of which she purchased from the artists at the outset of their careers, is reflected in exhibitions presented at Fisher Landau Center for Art. Her ongoing commitment to emerging artists extends to the annual presentation of the Columbia University School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition. In May of 2010, Mrs. Landau made a historic pledge of 417 artworks by nearly 100 artists, to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Excerpts from &quot;Legacy&quot; a traveling exhibition that highlights the gift to the Whitney Museum, will be on view at the Center concurrently with Donald Baechler: Painting &amp; Sculpture.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/ECCB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/ECCB">
  <Name>New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[More than one thousand works from the preeminent collection of the Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings of this material in the world—will return to view this fall in a completely renovated, expanded, and reinstalled suite of fifteen galleries. The organization of the galleries by geographical area will emphasize the rich diversity of the Islamic world, over a span of thirteen hundred years, by underscoring the many distinct cultures within its fold.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-11-01</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/EDEB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/EDEB">
  <Name>Jayson Keeling &quot;See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy.&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E69EA51F">
    <Name>Third Streaming</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>10 Greene St., 2nd fl., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>646-370-3877</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Canal and Grand St. Subway: 6/N/Q/R to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Third Streaming presents an exhibition by Jayson Keeling. See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy., marks Keeling’s first one-person show at the gallery. The exhibition features a selection of rarely seen photographs shown alongside a new series of paintings and videos.
 
Taking its cue from a 1981 Bow Wow Wow album, See Jungle! highlights the strong influence of music on the artist’s practice and his fascination with popular and street culture. Drawing from hip-hop, punk, jazz, the 1980‘s New Wave movement as well as from film, and modern and pop art, the work blends visual imagery and text - often appropriated from music lyrics and film narratives -  into unexpected outcomes. In addition, Keeling’s bi-cultural upbringing between Jamaica and the Bronx, New York comes into play in subtle ways.
 
The exhibition title provides a direct example of the cultural-recycling that saturates Keeling’s work. The Bow Wow Wow album cover features a photograph of the band posed as a tableau vivant of Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass, making Keeling’s appropriation of the title a playful commentary on cultural fluidity, the urban jungle, and the power of reinterpretation.
 
Several of the works on display straddle the gritty physicality of punk and hip-hop and the high-gloss aesthetic of fashion photography. The dialogue between these seemingly disparate outlooks creates a raw energy that Keeling takes advantage of to highlight themes of gender, race and sexuality as well as to provide a critique on commercialism and socio-political issues. In Vampire, 2004/printed 2011 and Mathias, 2002/printed 2011, the careful composition mixes with the interplay of textures to emphasize the strength and sensuality of the human body, as well as, provides a commentary on the dominance of advertising and branding in contemporary culture.
 
Jayson Keeling was born in New York and raised between Jamaica and the Bronx. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn. His work has been included in exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio (New York), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), Queens Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Keeling has been awarded residencies from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as well as the Apex Outbound Residency in Ethiopia.
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  <DateStart>2011-10-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Mongol Visions: Winged Horses and Shamanic Skies&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F027B9B1">
    <Name>Tibet House</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>22 W 15th St. New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-807-0563</Phone>
    <Fax>212-807-0565.</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: F/L/V to 6th Ave.and 14th St. or 4/5/6/L/N/Q/R/W to Union Square.</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Calligraphy</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[For more than two thousand years the Mongols have dominated the center of the Silk Road. Here, under the guidance of the great Khaans like Genghis and Kublai, the ancient traditions of shamanism and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism merged into a profound stream. The vast influence of Mongolia on Euro-Asian civilization is only now being fully appreciated. Tibet House is delighted to join in the celebration of this inspiring and magical legacy by hosting an exhibition with six of Mongolia’s greatest award-winning young artists whose works bring together the integrity of tradition and the creative impulse of the contemporary aesthetic.

These celebrated artists include Gankhuyag Natsag, whose paintings, statues and traditional lama dance masks have shown in more than a dozen cities around the world; D. Soyolmaa, renowned for bringing the clarity and precision of traditional Buddhist art into a contemporary ambiance; T. Nurmaa, famed for her ability to capture on canvas the radiance and raw intensity of the Mongolian spirit; D. Bulgantuya, an acclaimed artist who has received rave reviews in Sofia, Budapest, Warsaw, Kiev, and Vienna; and Ts. Bolor, especially known for her “aesthetics of the feminine.” 

Please join us for the opening reception. Robert Thurman, Glenn Mullin and several of the artists will be present in this celebration of their works.

]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-12-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-15</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/F87A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/F87A">
  <Name>Kira Lynn Harris &quot;The Block | Bellona&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6D0D23C1">
    <Name>Studio Museum Harlem</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>144 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027</Address>
    <Phone>212-864-4500</Phone>
    <Fax>212-864-4800</Fax>
    <Access>Between Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and Lenox Ave. Subway: A/B/C/D/2/3/4/5/6 to 125th Street</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kira Lynn Harris reimagines The Block (1971), Romare Bearden’s iconic, six-panel, eighteen-foot-long collage depicting life in Harlem. Bearden’s “block” is occupied by a church, a grocery store, a barbershop, apartment buildings and the people of Harlem who inhabit those spaces. With The Block as a touchstone, Harris, whose interdisciplinary practice mixes video, photography, drawing, painting and site-specific installation, creates a scene of a contemporary, alternate, Harlem.

The Project Space is a dynamic location dedicated to site-specific works and projects at the Studio Museum. This facet of the Museum’s exhibition program continues our commitment to activating multiple architectural sites throughout the building—such as the lobby, atrium and façade—that provide artists with laboratories for innovative contemporary art projects.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested donation: Adults $7, Seniors and students with valid ID $3, Members and children under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-11-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0083" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/0083">
  <Name>Elizabeth Yamin &quot;Wallabout&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1EC68E01">
    <Name>The Painting Center</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite 500, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-343-1060</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</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[My studio location on Wallabout Bay in the Brooklyn Navy Yard has strongly influenced my work: the dry docks, the river, the tugs and barges that make up the shifting scene. Looming as backdrop to the Yard’s day-to-day activities, the relics of shipbuilding and repairing on the grandest scale still stand and rust. The paintings are concerned with the seemingly solid blackness of barges, the thrust of cranes, the tenuous delicacy of worn-out metal. They incorporate the element of time in their allusions to the industrial past, as well as in the interplay between layers of perception, Poised between confusion and resolution, they invite the viewer into the process of their own composition.

In his review of Yamin’s 2007 show in AbstractArtOnline, Joe Walentini wrote: These paintings feel playful even as they present a tension between chaos and order ... . While composition in these pieces is tight there is a feeling that by pulling a thread they could explode in your face. Herein lies the content of the work – the push-pull between the forces of the open and closed space, variety of contrast and a democratic mix of earth tones and brighter hues. Yamin pulls it all together magnificently in an equilibrium between consistency and individuality.

Yamin has exhibited at St. John’s University, NY; The Brooklyn Museum; Haverford and William and Mary Colleges; as well as at The Painting Center. She was included in the 183rd Invitational at the National Academy Museum and has received Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Getty Foundation. Concurrently with Wallabout, she is included in MIC:CHECK (occupy) at the Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/024F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/024F">
  <Name>&quot;Méré Humd(r)um&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F86F2FF2">
    <Name>Aicon Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>35 Great Jones St., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-725-6092</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Lafayette St. and Bowery. Subway: 6 to Bleecker Street or to Astor Place.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Aicon Gallery New York presents Méré Humd(r)um, a group exhibition of Contemporary art from a new wave of young Pakistani artists. The Urdu word Humdum, one syllable removed from its mundane English cousin, means someone who is so close that their breath and yours are one. The word Méré, with even less separating it from the minimal, almost pejorative, “mere” of the English language, is infused with belonging - it means mine. Together, Méré Humdum becomes a term of endearment for a mentor, a friend or a lover. But in a linguistic coincidence it is just a syllable away from the English “mere humdrum.” Today, more than sixty years after Pakistan’s independence, the ordinary, the everyday, the humdrum, remains an object of longing for most Pakistanis - the type of longing one might reserve for a lover. A day when there is no bombing, no violence on the streets - a day when the school bus is delayed only by traffic is a day of thanksgiving and celebration. The twelve artists in this exhibition have created work in direct response to the chaos and violence surrounding them, yet much of this work is imbued with an intrinsic and eternal optimism that stands in defiant contrast to the instability and uncertainty from which it has emerged.

Much like Germany’s Weimar Republic of the 1930s, an odd dichotomy is in place with today’s generation of young Pakistani artists. While on the one hand, their political, economic and social situations are spinning out of control, the visual arts, in this landscape of circumscribed opportunities, is undergoing a transformation and creative flowering never before seen. This younger generation largely departs from the more traditional methods of their artistic heritage, such as miniature painting, and combines local materials and themes with progressive modes of post-colonial art practice, offering new interpretations and posing new questions for a society mired in political turmoil, social upheaval and violence both foreign and domestic.

Abdullah M. I. Syed’s Flying Rug works arise from Oriental myths and legends of the flying carpet and our desire for instant gratification. Made of folded U.S. dollar bills and box-cutter blades assembled into squadrons of drone-like airplanes, the rugs reference the dark and multilayered political implications of terrorism, capitalism and American hegemony, yet are intertwined with a poetic counterpoint that transmutes them and charges the works with the phenomenal capability of a magic carpet or the sublime stillness of a prayer rug. The works question not only the roots and consequences of 9/11 and the ongoing War on Terror through the prism of oversimplified Eastern and Western perceptions of one another, but also the complex relationship between capital and Contemporary art.

Cyra Ali’s haunting sculptures of disembodied intertwined limbs adorned in bright fabrics obtained from Karachi bazaars are a daring subversion of the overtly clad female body of Islamic tradition. The work stems from her desire to overturn the conventional trappings of femininity in Pakistani society and combat longstanding patriarchal desires to repress female sexuality. Ali’s bizarre doll-sized mash-ups of female legs blur the line between the most ordinary of body parts and the sinister and monstrous proportions they are capable of taking on when continually contextualized as taboo objects of desire to be both coveted and suppressed. More straightforwardly, Sarah Khan’s art is born from her resolute devotion to Pakistan, her beloved State, and her desire to see its artistic traditions, mainly miniature painting, evolve to address the socio-political complexities of its contemporary reality. She addresses her humdum (her Pakistan) for its charm and fading glory as she fortifies her wish for its resurrection from a negative entity to a positive one. 

Ehsan Ul Haq creates Duchampian assemblages of found everyday objects in which the individual components, though ordinary enough, are re-contextualized as dysfunctional or symbolic elements in what he calls “flawed systems.” Ul Haq sees his installations as operating “on a plane where art and life exist as parallels within ambiguous forms.” Through installations such as Fan and Water, man-made objects are stripped of their utility and repurposed in creations demonstrating both man’s god-like ambition to create new systems of life and the resulting absurdities brought into being when such attempts misfire.

Ultimately, this exhibition presents an examination of how a new generation of Contemporary Pakistani artists, through a range of disparate media and practices, continue to develop new methods of questioning the space between art and life in the often violent and chaotic reality they are faced with every day. Their work addresses not only the chasm and interstices between the two, but the extraordinary possibilities of art created in extraordinary surroundings.

[Image: Seher Naveed &quot;EVENING CONVERSATIONS&quot; (2011) Paper cuts, 15 x 18 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0312" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/0312">
  <Name>&quot;In Living Color&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E13CCD41">
    <Name>The FLAG Art Foundation</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>545 W 25th St, 9 and 10 Fls., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Open every Friday from 11am to 3pm and occasional Saturdays.  Otherwise open by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition presents a chromatic study from a wide range of artists including: Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Kristin Baker, Olaf Bruening, Dan Colen, Mark Grotjahn, Anselm Reyle, Gerhard Richter, Fred Tomaselli, Cy Twombly, and Rachel Whiteread. The majority of the works being shown have been completed in the past 2 years and many are on view for the first time in America. Several have never been shown at all prior to this exhibition.
 
Among the newly completed works are Kristin Baker's Once in a Mooning, a night sky streaked with hues of luminescent blue injected with electrifying pink. Dan Colen created Zero for Conduct, a flower painting of deep reds, purples and blues specifically for the exhibition.
 
The following works will be on view in the United States for the first time: Gerhard Richter's digital print Strip is comprised of a system of parallel lines generated by dividing an earlier abstract painting by the artist vertically into a pattern of 8190 strips. Shown in Athens at the last gallery exhibition of his work prior to his passing, Cy Twombly's Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves (IV) employs rich tones of turquoise with vermillion and yellow to portray the Mediterranean landscape and reference ancient literature and mythology. Rachel Whiteread's sculpture A.M. from her last show at her Rome gallery, inhabits the negative space within a windowpane, utilizing a jewel-like pink resin.
 
The exhibition explores color in a variety of contexts and ranges: within a framework of order and chaos, as a signifier of time and place, in relation to the medium of the work, and in monochromatic forms.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-19</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Michelle Doll Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Blank Space</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., Suite 204, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-924-2025</Phone>
    <Fax></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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  <DateStart>2012-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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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>
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    <Name>Hasted Kraeutler</Name>
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    <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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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <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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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Sangram Majumdar &quot;New Work&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>steven harvey fine art projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>208 Forsyth St., New York, NY 10002 </Address>
    <Phone>917-861-7312</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Stanton and E. Houston Sts.  Subway: F to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects presents the second solo exhibition of paintings by Sangram Majumdar. Born in 1976 in Calcutta, Majumdar is an image-based painter who received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from Indiana University and is currently on the faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art.
 
This new body of work ranges thematically from a portrait (Portrait Projected), to a painting that plays with geometric abstraction (Fall Into). Yet underlying all of the paintings is a complex compositional process of perceptually-based image overlays - paintings atop paintings. Majumdar’s work of ten years ago explored figure groups and crowds as subjects. In his recent work, the figures are often erased, with just traces or remnants of their presence remaining. Detailed, precisely drawn forms become pieces of a dense, but ultimately unified surface. Open spaces and voids are explored as much as accumulations of objects.
 
The layering of fragmentary information relates to Majumdar’s reflections on Bengali culture – the multi-day, multi-sensory religious festivals (pujas) that were part of his childhood in Calcutta. These paintings contain references to the myth of Durga – a Hindu Goddess who slayed the buffalo demon with her lion. The image layering is also an exploration of our relationship to social media, where partial knowledge becomes embedded in us – but only as fragments. The paintings in the exhibition are inter-related: we find small segments of imagery repeated and re-mixed in different ways, for example, in Smoke and Mirror and Fall Into.  They become half-truths, a questioning of image and narrative, and Majumdar invites the viewer to discover what is actually there.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
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  <Name>James Busby &quot;Wingspan&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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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[One of the enigmatic centerpieces of James Busby’s fourth exhibition at Stux Gallery is attempting an escape. A meticulously polished black painting rests on a cart that appears as if it emerged from an ancient shipwreck. Gnarly fiberglass growth threatens to consume the pristine surface from all sides as the rusty cart wheels the piece away to a determined but indecipherable destination.

Poets have been comparing artworks to wings that transport the artist and viewer to the realm of aesthetic imagination since the Romantic Era. Works in “Wingspan”, on the other hand, remind us that in addition to the ability to sponsor intellectual flight, various properties of the figurative “wings” themselves are fascinating in their own right. Influenced by Russian Constructivism, Suprematism and the works of Robert Ryman, Donald Judd and Richard Tuttle, amongst others, Busby’s new paintings are also inspired by the physical, temporal, and interactive process of art creation. They raise important questions about the way visual art initiates dialogue with its viewers and influences—or becomes influenced by—its surrounding environment.

The effects of Busby’s obsessive attention to surface texture and geometric relations are magnified in his new works of unprecedentedly large scale, for the artist. Created by sanding thick layers of gesso, his already low reliefs become vanishingly subtle amidst the enlarged overall dimensions. However, up close the viewer will discover forms that hover above or sink below one another in their new spacious habitat, creating frictions and spatial tensions that echo beyond the visual field. Oddly, the compounded complexity renders his works even more intimate as Busby’s trademark techniques dazzle in in their expanded venue.

The three-dimensionality and variations in surface quality allow Busby to paint with the light cast upon them to create ephemeral colors and textures unachievable by applying paint alone. Viewing his larger works requires viewers to completely immerse themselves in Busby’s meticulous world of visual and spiritual poetry, and engage thoroughly with the newly acquired wingspan before taking off.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Alfred Jensen / Sol LeWitt &quot;Systems and Transformation&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C4A326ED">
    <Name>The Pace Gallery (32 E 57th St)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>32 E 57th St., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-421-3292</Phone>
    <Fax>212-421-0835</Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison and Park Ave. Subway: 4/5/6 to 59th St. and N/R to 5th Ave.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Exhibited side-by-side, Jensen’s colorful and tactile abstract paintings and LeWitt’s minimalist white structures reveal the vastly different outcomes that can arise from similar conceptual foundations. Jensen uses mathematical systems to construct two-dimensional grid paintings and demonstrate color theories, but the work itself is metaphorical, referencing pre-Colombian and Asian cultures, textiles, and divination. LeWitt’s three-dimensional grid sculptures, in contrast, are self-referential, rooted in logic and reality, and governed by mathematical instructions that objectively organize space. The exhibition will include eight paintings by Jensen and eight open geometric structures by LeWitt. 

Jensen's intricately organized diagrams reflect his distinctive conceptual approach, begun in the late 1950s when he started to refine his wide-ranging studies of systems and philosophies—from theories of color and light, mathematics, and the Mayan calendar, to scientific formulations—into multicolored checkerboards. The paintings on view, made between 1960 and 1975, include one of Jensen’s largest and most complex works, &quot;A la Fin de l’automne&quot; (1975). A honeycomb of color, numbers, and symbols, the elements alternate between light and dark, with each square bearing an abstract marker. Jensen had travelled to Brazil and Peru just one year earlier, and the work suggests the pattern of a pre-Colombian tapestry rendered in thick impasto. 

In contrast, LeWitt’s austere open structures, made from basic geometrical units arranged according to pre-determined mathematical sequences, reflect their own poetics. A pillar of minimalist and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt helped revolutionize the definition of art in the 1960s with his famous declaration that “the idea becomes a machine that makes the art.” Reducing art to its essentials, the cube became the basic modular unit for his artistic inquiry—the “grammatical device” from which his work would proceed. A universally recognizable form that could not be mistaken to represent anything other than itself, the cube eliminated the necessity of inventing another form, allowing the form itself to be used for invention. The exhibition will feature all manner of structures of forms derived from the cube, made out of wood or aluminum and painted white, from between 1971 and 1997, including the ceiling-mounted work &quot;Hanging Structure&quot; (1992), and a maquette for an outdoor structure similar to those recently featured in the Public Art Fund’s landmark survey exhibition &quot;Sol LeWitt Structures: 1965–2006,&quot; installed in New York’s City Hall Park from May to December 2011. 

Concurrently, Pace has installed a monumental concrete block structure by Sol LeWitt on the roof of its Chelsea gallery at 510 West 25th Street, which is visible from the High Line. The structure, &quot;Horizontal Progression&quot; (1991), continues LeWitt’s interest in generating variety within self-imposed constrictions, moving only horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to the left or right. 

[Image: Alfred Jensen &quot;A la fin de l'automne&quot; (1975) oil on canvas, four panels, overall: 6 ft. 2 in.&quot; x 12 ft. 4 in. © Estate of Alfred Jensen/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by: Bill Jacobson/Courtesy The Pace Gallery.]
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  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Tula Telfair &quot;Out of Sight: Imaginary Landscapes&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4F06D054">
    <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>
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    <ScheduleNote>Call for Summer hours.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[An exhibition of twelve panoptic paintings that transport the viewer to emotive land formations derived entirely from the artist’s mind. Representing both a place and moment in time not reachable by mankind, these landscapes offer a private glance at the beauty and majesty of nature.

[Image: Tula Telfair &quot;Built Exclusively for Delight&quot; (2011) oil on canvas 60 x 80 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Udomsak Krisanamis &quot;Space Out&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Gavin Brown's Enterprise</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>620 Greenwich St., New York, NY 10014</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-5258</Phone>
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    <Access>Corner of Leroy St. Subway: 1 to Houston Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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  <Name>James Rosenquist &quot;F-111&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>The Museum of Modern Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-708-9400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th Ave. and 6th Ave.  Subway: V/E to 53rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours through Sept. 3: Sunday through Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[James Rosenquist began to paint the 86-foot-long &quot;F-111&quot; in 1964, in the middle of one of this country’s most turbulent decades. Inspired by advertising billboards and by earlier mural-scaled paintings, such as Claude Monet’s &quot;Water Lilies,&quot; he designed its 23 panels to wrap around the four walls of the Leo Castelli Gallery at 4 East 77th Street in Manhattan, where it would be displayed the following year. Rosenquist took as his subject the &quot;F-111&quot; fighter bomber plane, the newest, most technologically advanced weapon in development at the time, and positioned it, as he later explained, “flying through the flak of consumer society to question the collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising.” Its jumps of scale, collage-like juxtaposition of fragments of imagery, and gloriously vivid palette exemplify the style that defines Rosenquist’s singular contribution to Pop art in the United States. For this special installation, located outside the entrance to the fourth-floor Painting and Sculpture galleries, &quot;F-111&quot; will be presented as it was first exhibited at the Castelli Gallery in 1965.

[Image: James Rosenquist &quot;F-111 (detail)&quot; (1964–65) oil on canvas with aluminum, 23 sections. 10 x 86 ft. © 2011 James Rosenquist/Licensed by VAGA, New York]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $25, Seniors $18, Students $14, Children and Members and on Friday 4pm–8pm Free. Film Admission as of September 1, 2011: $12 adults; $10 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D.; $8 full-time students with current I.D. (for admittance to film program</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Viridian Affiliate Artists&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7852D8D9">
    <Name>Viridian Artists, Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., #407, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-414-4040</Phone>
    <Fax>212-414-4040</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Viridian Artists Affiliate program is a special gallery program that is an important aspect of Viridian's mission to expand exhibition and sales opportunities for outstanding contemporary artists. 

Sheila Smith has been creating a series of photos she has been taking of wall surfaces in the streets of New York City for ages. After photographing her image digitally, she then reconstructs it in Photoshop to create an abstract painterly look. To complete the work, she then prints them on canvas and glues it to a gesso board so that the photographic image &quot;becomes&quot; a painting. 

Sarah Riley is the Head of Printmaking at Southeast Missouri State University. Her book on mixed-media printmaking techniques was published in December 2011 by A &amp; C Black, London. Her artwork, too, is an exploration and mixture of media and techniques that combine drawing, collage, printmaking and paint. Many of her works contain feminist overtones and are drawn from myth, literature and personal history; the juxtaposition of images suggests both memories and re-imaginings.

Rosemary Lyons is enthralled by the multitude of Latin phrases still in use centuries after the language was declared dead. Her illuminated manuscripts are inspired by that 'dead' language but she uses Latin with contemporary imagery to create Illuminated Manuscripts of 'Renaissance choir books with an ironic twist. These images are part of a larger Manu Scriptus Series.

Lauren Purje's current paintings are part of what she calls &quot;the disaster series&quot;, a series of paintings of children thrown into disastrous-looking landscapes.  She sees the content of the paintings as allegories and metaphors for her own anxieties and fears: fear we all share like the fear of death and anxiety over circumstances out of our control.  The characters in the works are hopeless and accompanied by universal symbols of death and/or impending doom in backgrounds loosely inspired by 19th century romantic paintings.

Nancy Macina paints the great cities of the world and their environs, focusing on their beauty and how the light of nature falls upon them. Her hope is to capture the ethos of a place and how its history has evolved into the present through our perception and memory. As she travels and paints, she is recreating these places with imagination and in some situations, a sense of surreality. 

Katherine Ellinger Smith's new series of paintings and drawings is an exploration of her favorite films with female characters like Rebecca or Bette Davis in 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane' who have double-edged personalities. To begin the development of a painting or drawing, she first photographs film “moments” with a digital camera while viewing the movie on television and then edits the shots until she finds an image that she feels directly connected to. Her intent is to draw the viewer directly and powerfully into the content of the piece. She is a tenured art professor at South East Missouri State University.

Vernita N'Cognita is a visual/ performance artist/ curator who has exhibited her art throughout the world. Her artwork ranges across a variety of disciplines, from creating installations, m/m collages and tangible art objects such as the “Endless Junkmail Scroll to the creation of performance art that conceptually investigates theatre and its edges – using language, space, and time, silence and stillness as well as movement and voice as instruments of self-expression. In 1995, she assumed the name VERNITA N’COGNITA in homage to under-recognized artists.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0CDB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/0CDB">
  <Name>&quot;SIGHT (UN)SCENE Contemporary Landscape&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B4B26044">
    <Name>Benrimon Contemporary</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>514 W 24th St., Fl.2, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-924-2400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenues. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Benrimon Contemporary presents its first group exhibition of 2012, SIGHT (UN)SCENE, featuring paintings, photographs, works on paper and sculpture by a selection of international artists.

Historical landscape paintings call to mind bucolic yet contrived scenes where every tree, rock and cloud appear carefully placed to capture a pastoral moment in time. This exhibition challenges the notion of classical landscape art, exposing the unseen and forgotten, forcing the viewer to reconsider what defines this pillar of art history through a contemporary lens. 

Landscape painting can be traced back to Greek and Roman antiquity, and became the platform for religious artwork in the western world through the 16th century. The prestigious European art academies resisted the genre because a hierarchy of subject matter placed historical, religious, and allegorical themes above all other subjects - portraits, still life, and landscapes were seen as inferior. During the 19th century the hierarchy of subjects crumbled and landscape painting gained a new supremacy in Europe and North America. Artists became less concerned with idealized, classical themes and focused on painting directly from nature. Revolutionary artists emerged, such as Gustave Courbet, who pushed boundaries with their radical painting techniques and paved the way for the next generation of painters, the Impressionists, to break from the academy. 

Today artists continue to explore landscape as subject matter, but for different purposes. The landscapes are now manipulated, re-appropriated and re-imagined by contemporary artists to not only challenge the traditional trajectory of art history, but also to comment on the social and political forces that shape our surroundings. These ideas will be further explored through the works of gallery artists Shay Kun, whose paintings are both sublime and incongruent, Amanda Burnham’s urban landscape illustrations and Simon Patterson’s “Landskip” photographs. Dimitri Kozyrev’s paintings comment on man’s mental and physical impact on the environment and Trey Speegle’s playful pieces re-invent the landscape through a paint-by-number context. We will also introduce paintings by new gallery artist Christopher Mir, in addition to works by Jorge Mayet, Amanda Ross Ho, Tom Bamberger, Julia Oschatz and Kunié Sugiura.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0CEF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/0CEF">
  <Name>&quot;New City&quot; Art Fair</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/65007A7F">
    <Name>Hpgrp Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., 2W, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-727-2491</Phone>
    <Fax>212-727-7030</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street Station</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[H.P. FRANCE NY, Inc presents the launch of the NEW CITY ART FAIR, the first art fair dedicated solely to contemporary Japanese art in New York.

Open from March 7-11, 2012—dates that coincide with SCOPE, VOLTA, ADAA, and The Armory Show - the event will include booths by eleven premiere galleries from Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto.

 The New City Art Fair will benefit the Japanese art world, which has been deeply affected by the traumas of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the coastline in early 2011. Additionally, it will expose new Japanese art to a Western audience.

Exhibitors: Aisho Mura Arts, eitoeiko, FOIL GALLERY, GALLERY KOGURE, hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO, Shonandai MY Gallery, TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, unseal contemporary, waitingroom, YOD Gallery, and YUMIKO CHIBA ASSOCIATES.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-03-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Sergej Jensen Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DEB0F835">
    <Name>Anton Kern Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>532 W 20th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-367-9663</Phone>
    <Fax>212-367-8135</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave and West Side Highway. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[For his third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Danish artist Sergej Jensen will present a new body of paintings. 
 
Jensen’s work has been exhibited in numerous one-person shows at galleries in Berlin, New York, London, Sao Paulo and Brussels, as well as in museums such as MoMA PS1 (2011); Portikus, Frankfurt; the Aspen Art Museum (both 2010); Kunstwerke, Berlin (2009); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Kunsthalle Bergen, Norway (both 2008); Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2007); and the Kunstverein Braunschweig (2003). His work was prominently featured in All of This and Nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art From Germany, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (both 2011); Made in Germany, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2007); Of Mice and Men, the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006); Down By Law during the Whitney Biennial, New York (2006); Modern Art. Formalism Today, Kunstverein Hamburg (2005); the Sao Paulo Biennale (2004); and deutschemalereizweitausendrei (German-painting-two-thousand-three), Frankfurter Kunstverein (2003).

[Image: Sergej Jensen &quot;Untitled&quot; (2011) Oil on jute fibre, 23.6 x 15.7 in.]
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  <Name>Andrew Lenaghan &quot;Recent Paintings&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>George Adams Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>525 W 26th St., 1 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-564-8480</Phone>
    <Fax>212-564-8485</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of new smaller-scaled paintings by Andrew Lenaghan. The exhibition includes 19 cityscapes, landscapes, and interiors (with figures), all painted from life.

In his new paintings of Brooklyn, Lenaghan returned to several sites he previously depicted, notably the once empty lots and abandoned piers around North 8th Street, now East River Park, as well as the streets and yards near his home in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. In addition, Lenaghan has continued to introduce the figure and even narrative into his work. The exhibition includes several paintings featuring his wife and children in and around their house. Finally, there are four views of Santa Fe in the show, the results of a month-long stay and as is often the case, Lenaghan chose to depict some of the least likely sites, including a local cemetery and an abandoned housing complex.

This is Lenaghan’s tenth exhibition with the gallery since his debut in 1995. He is currently an adjunct art professor at Pratt, Brooklyn College, and New York Academy of Art, and is a 2011 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.

[Image: Andrew Lenaghan &quot;East River Park&quot; (2011) oil on panel, 24 x 32 in.]]]></Description>
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  <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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  <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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  <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>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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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>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1036" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1036">
  <Name>&quot;Detonate: Chaos and Consumerism&quot; Exhibiton</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/91E1B154">
    <Name>Denise Bibro Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., 4 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-647-7030</Phone>
    <Fax>212-647-7031</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and West Side Highway. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Denise Bibro Fine Art presents Detonate: Chaos and Consumerism. The exhibition features artists Nancy Baker, Carol Es, Bill Gusky, Leslie Kneisel, Tim Ripley and Oriane Stender. Economic and cultural turmoil are the impetus of each artist's works, creating unique dialogues in various mediums and styles, sparking conversations that seem inescapable.

Nancy Baker's works explode and swirl with objects of industry, as though an eruption has just occurred resulting in disjointed chaos. Baker's works include glitter and pop culture iconography as well as fetishized grenades. Full of angst and energy, Baker's work is anything but introverted.

Having grown up in what the artist describes as the sweatshops of the Los Angeles apparel industry; Carol Es' work evokes a dialogue between the overtly commercial and the deeply personal. Her textured works weave dysfunctional family values with industrial objects, accented by her inclusion of embroidery.

Bill Gusky projects TV cartoons from the 1960's and 1970's, reworks the images, re-appropriating these nostalgic objects to create a new dialogue or history, finding new meaning in the present. Commenting on the &quot;technology will save us&quot; mentality of that era, Gusky's work makes us wonder, in our present technological culture, what now?

Leslie Kneisel's otherworldly images move from past to present to future, taken of retro-looking rides in a visit to Disneyland. These alien-like images tempt us far away from everyday life, looking for an escape from reality.

Tim Ripley's icons are specific, particular and deftly painted. These isolated objects are oddly familiar, evoking the starkness of certain commercial advertisements.

In a nod to minimalism, Oriane Stender's painted dollar bills break down the complex. Her elegant works diverge from the explosive, the excess of consumerism, and meditate on the singular, pared down object; reminding us of the downsizing that many have had to accept.

[Images clockwise from top left: Nancy Baker, Bill Gusky, Oriane Stender, Carol Es, Leslie Kneisel, Tim Ripley]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;The Art Of....&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Fischbach Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave, #801, New York, NY, 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-759-2345</Phone>
    <Fax>212-366-1783</Fax>
    <Access>Between 24th and 25th Street Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[the ART of features recent paintings and works on paper examining the current stylistic trends and diverse interests of the Fischbach Gallery Artists’.  the Art of considers what creative challenges these Artists strive to accomplish in continuing perfecting their artistic abilities.  Whether an intricate still life, a vivid seascape, an ancient structure, a lush landscape, or a magnificent city building, each of these Fischbach Artists’ paintings portray the ultimate in excellence, resplendent in their unique styles and enchanting subject matter.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/15A8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/15A8">
  <Name>Donald Ian McCaw &quot;Corporate Mba Fabrications Inc.&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/86EA3B3A">
    <Name>AnnaKustera</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>520 W 21st St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-0082</Phone>
    <Fax>212-989-0456</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave and West Side Highway. Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street or C/E to 23rd 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[In an age when artists routinely become so successful and prolific that they morph into corporations, we are left to ponder the imponderable: what if a faceless corporation began creating its own art?  If  ideas go from focus groups straight into production,  doesn't  the  artist   become   merely   a  superfluous  middleman?  It  was  with  this  notion  that  Mba Fabrications  Inc., the brainchild of entrepreneur Donald Ian McCaw, was born.      
 
Initially, McCaw identified the fine art production industry as an ideal way to incorporate economic diversity into his business interests. As he describes it, &quot;Here was a high-profile industry with great margins that had somehow missed out on the transformative innovations of modern management science.&quot;  In 2010 the company began manufacturing appealing and marketable fine art.
 
To generate these Business Pop paintings, a revolving cast of employees work under the direction of a senior management team to perform every function from design to modeling to paint application. Multiple sketches, templates and painting techniques have been employed in the creation of each canvas. 
 
The resulting paintings produced by Mba Fabrications Inc. are as revelatory as they are handsome. They expose The Businessman for what he is: a headless suit that despite his many layers of accomplishment, can't escape the burdens of his urges, unease and endless ambition.  A contemporary anti-hero, created from an amalgam of arms, belts, wristwatches and designer wing-tipped shoes.  Sartorial vanity becomes a kind of armor.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/162C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/162C">
  <Name>Richard Kalina Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CCAF1AAB">
    <Name>Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>514 W 25th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-941-0012</Phone>
    <Fax>212-929-3265</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The New Yorker said of him, “A painter’s painter, Kalina has affinities with other New York artists who came of age in the sixties and seventies, from Jennifer Bartlett to Philip Taaffe.” The magazine referred to Luquillo, a resincoated crumpled striped canvas from 1970 as “post-painterly abstraction,” and said of A Cartesian Diver, 2009, “the buoyant hexagons traverse a grid, the intersections of which are cut into squares of raw canvas, giving the delicate composition a satisfyingly rough contrast.” It called the recent paintings “elegantly tessellated collages, his strongest work yet.” Along with A Cartesian Diver, the current exhibition includes seven
additional paintings and a group of new watercolors, all inspired by the representation of scientific phenomena — astronomy, chemistry, physics, and cybernetics. In the last decade Kalina has refined a unique method of making these paintings. He begins with a small sketch, and then draws the composition to scale on vellum placed over the surface of a panel. This “cartoon” becomes the guide for the next steps: masking the edges and areas intended to remain exposed, laying down a white ground layer, and adhering hundreds of cut and torn pieces of painted paper onto the linen. Painting sheets of rice paper using only transparent pigments, Kalina rips and cuts small pieces of paper and overlaps or abuts them to form an array of ovals, rings, circles, bands and hexagons. The shapes are distributed across fields of irregular, interleaved polygons in variegated tones of close colors that establish a shallow planar space.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1679" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1679">
  <Name>Edwin Schlossberg &quot;Beneath Suddenly&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/942C5461">
    <Name>Ronald Feldman Fine Arts</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>31 Mercer St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-3232</Phone>
    <Fax>212-941-1536</Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Canal St.. Subway: N/R/J/M/Z to Canal Street, or 4/5/6 to Spring Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Monday by appointment only.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In his twelfth solo show at the Feldman Gallery, Edwin Schlossberg will exhibit a series of new paintings that combine stenciled text and abstract images on aluminum panels.  In Beneath Suddenly, Schlossberg investigates patterns of perception by refracting the visual field with reflective surfaces created from Scotchlite and dust of lapis lazuli, ruby, and silver. 

 

In addition to his work in the visual and literary arts, Edwin Schlossberg is the founder and principal designer of ESI Design, a company that takes an interactive and technology-centered approach to large-scale projects including the Pepsi Family Center in North Carolina, the National Immigration History Museum at Ellis Island, and INFINITY at NASA Stennis Space Center. Schlossberg holds a PhD in Science and Literature from Columbia University and has exhibited and published extensively.

 ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Kim MacConnel &quot;Pleasure&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C27F0076">
    <Name>Salomon Contemporary</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>526 W 26th St., #519, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-727- 0607</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Pleasure&quot; comes from &quot;American Responses&quot;, a four-part series organized by Ned Smyth.

[Image: Kim MacConnel &quot;Fishin&quot; 1978 (detail)]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/17A3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/17A3">
  <Name>&quot;Under the Influence: The Comics and Contemporary Art&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A6C9C115">
    <Name>Lehman College Art Gallery</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, NY 10468</Address>
    <Phone>718-960-8731</Phone>
    <Fax>718-960-6991</Fax>
    <Access>Lehman College campus.  Subway: 4 or D to Bedford Park Boulevard</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Under the Influence: The Comics and Contemporary Art will examine the work of approximately 25 artists indebted to the style and energy of comics imagery. The comics connote humor with the term &quot;funnies&quot; suggesting a lighthearted sensibility and playfulness with irony and satire also a part of the territory. But the comics often explore a more complex side of human existence - for Freud humor was a path to the unconscious. The exhibition will feature a range of media. There will be an online catalogue.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-12</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1963" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1963">
  <Name>&quot;Corporations Are People Too&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/90D87E54">
    <Name>Winkleman Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>621 W 27th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-643-3152</Phone>
    <Fax>212-643-2040</Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Winkleman Gallery presents Corporations Are People Too, a group exhibition of artists whose work has touched on corporate culture and our love-hate relationship to these powerful organizations. In a time where protesters across the country, and the world, are objecting to the influence corporations have over democratically elected governments and one leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President, Mitt Romney, was roundly criticized for claiming during a campaign stop that “Corporations are people too,” a bright spotlight is being shined on the complicated role they play in contemporary life.

The exhibition begins with a selection of vintage photographs by Berenice Abbott, Louis Faurer, Lewis Hine and Dorothea Lange, showing the arc of attitudes in America about the relationship between huge companies and the average person. From Depression-era images of child laborers and migrant workers up through post-WWII images of happy shiny Americans enjoying all the conveniences that modernized manufacturing brought them in their new age of posterity, these black-and-white photos set the stage for a relationship that continues to ebb and flow with the changing economics of the nation.

The exhibition continues with works by contemporary artists that flesh out the complexity of corporate culture as it has evolved to influence, if not define, many of our political and cultural ideologies. A 2005 installation by Yevgeniy Fiks offers a broader look at how we have come to recognize corporations’ individual identities. Fiks sent 100 US corporations a copy of Lenin’s book Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism as a gift for their library, asking only that they acknowledge receipt. The 34 letters he received, some accepting the gift, others returning it, provide a series of fascinating and, in turns, hysterical portraits of the corporate personalities.

Kota Ezawa’s series of IKEA lightbox works (2008), in which he redraws the pages from the international home furnishing store’s catalog, stem from his mixed feelings about our need for furniture chosen not as an object to be kept or cherished but rather as an inexpensive solution to a living problem. Within these paired-down renderings, the catalog pages lose their function as advertisements and their staged domestic interiors become instead theater stages for the drama of contemporary life. In Ian Davis’ small paintings (2011), scores of men in black suits populate landscapes or auditoriums devoid of any clear hierarchy or leaders. In unison they raise their hands as if making a pledge or collaborate to mug other suited men, suggesting armies of blindly obedient Yes Men, answering to a particular culture more so than an obvious power figure.

In Jacqueline Hassink’s “The Table of Power” series (1993-1995), photographs of uninhabited boardrooms of well-known corporations are completely absent the executives who usually meet there, but still communicate an intimiating degree of order and control. One of the images, totally black, reflects the refusal of Shell Oil to let their excutive boardroom be photographed. People are also absent in the photographs from Phillip Toledano’s “Bankrupt” series (2001-2003), but traces of their having been there remain in the emptied offices of corporations that went out of business. Toledano has described these abandoned objects as “signs of life, interrupted,” and they speak to how the corporate experience is a big part of who they are for many people.

The exhibition concludes with an installation by Chris Dorland incorporating large- and small-scale paintings as well as video. The way that many corporations market their (often banal) products to the public by associating our collective ideals and hopes with their corporate brands is one of the themes connecting Dorland’s various series. From his well-known toxic-colored landscapes insinuating the failure of Modernist architecture to realize its promise of a utopian future, to his newer series of decontextualized, muted logotypes and mixed media paintings of sexy, happy people so interchangeable we recognize them as part of an advertising language even without any hint of their ad’s original product, to a new video titled “Restoration Hardware”, these works, seen in dialogue with one another, bring full circle his exploration of the cynical association of progressive values with consumption and desire. Dorland’s work deals head on with how, as he has said, “'Progress' gets aestheticised and then ultimately instrumentalized by Capitalism.”

[Image: Louis Faurer &quot;Times Square Convertible, New York&quot; (1949) Silver gelatin print (printed in 1980), 11&quot; x 14&quot;]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1B67" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1B67">
  <Name>Giuseppe Luciani &quot;Brooklyn Views&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F1212C26">
    <Name>Brooklyn Public Library (Central)</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>10 Grand Army Plz., Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-230-2100</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>At Eastern Pkwy. Subway: 2/3/Q to Grand Army Plaza or Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum of Art, or Q to 7th Avenue. </Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>friday closinghour 18:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, saturdays openinghour 10:00, fridays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Aiming to create a visual account of the everyday, my immediate surroundings have been the subject of recent paintings. This body of work articulates an effort to reinterpret my impressions of both the beauty and the blight of contemporary urban daily life.

My influences are culled from the entire history of Western painting: Greek/Roman murals and mosaics, Byzantine schemas, Renaissance portraiture, Dutch and Flemish peasant scenes, post-impressionist color, and twentieth-century social realism.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>9</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1D5F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1D5F">
  <Name>&quot;Cerberus&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DE782929">
    <Name>Bold Hype Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W. 27th St., 5th Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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[New works by three young artists from across the country. San Francisco based BAGGER43, DAVID HOSKINS from Florida, and Brooklynite DOUGLAS HOFFMAN.

The three artists are long time friends, joining forces for the first time in producing a single cohesive exhibit, like the three heads on the mythological beast Cerberus. Influenced by graffiti, science fiction, horror, and urban life, a definite darkness prevails in each of the artists' surreal work, alleviated by the contrast of vibrant playful colors. Be prepared for technicolor nightmares, neon mysteries, and candy coated abominations]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1DBB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1DBB">
  <Name>Joseph Montgomery Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D7B3A48B">
    <Name>Laurel Gitlen</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>261 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-274-0761</Phone>
    <Fax>212-274-0756</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Orchard St. Subway: D/B to Grand Street, J/M/Z to Essex Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Joseph Montgomery's approach to generating paintings is both streamlined and complicated by a number of repeated forms, radical scale shifts, and combinatory structures. Montgomery's paintings, often built up over time, substitute objects and images for the act of painting. Fragments pretend to be wholes and images collapse into their constituent parts from different angles. Employing found and fabricated shims, his recent works play with the idea of an abstract form as a readymade, creating an increasingly closed and circuitous loop of image making. With a more refined palette and an increasing number of painting subsets, Montgomery's exhibition focuses and expands his interrogation of painting as “image.”]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1FC1" 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>
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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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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/20B7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/20B7">
  <Name>Sarah Hardesty &quot;Imminent&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4E5D5B72">
    <Name>Maxwell Davidson Gallery/Davidson Contemporary</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>724 5th Ave., Fl. 4, New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-759-7555</Phone>
    <Fax>212-759-5824</Fax>
    <Access>Between 56th and 57th St. Subway:N/R/W to 5th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours: (Memorial Day - Labor Day): Monday - Friday 10:00 AM - 5:30PM</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition will feature new work in a variety of media, including paintings, works on paper, and sculptural installations.

Sarah Hardesty’s sculptures and installations use found and reclaimed wood, mason’s string and thread, and are almost always site-specific. The works hang from ceilings, emerge from floors, and penetrate walls. They feel precarious, as though they are about to tumble down, yet are serene in their taut stillness. The visual impression is one of both explosive force and magnetic attraction, as though the walls themselves are either erupting outward, or pulling inward.

In her paintings and drawings, Hardesty often depicts animals - usually birds - entwined with lines or covered with actual thread. The viewer is never certain whether the creatures, with their impeccably rendered silhouettes, are being ensnared by the artist’s delicate cross-hatching, or are liberating themselves from restraints.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/224A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/224A">
  <Name>Brad Nelson &quot;Even Mountains Cast Shadows&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/61A8B8AA">
    <Name>frosch &amp; portmann</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>53 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-266-5994</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge Sts., Subway: F to 1st Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[frosch&amp;portmann presents “Even Mountains Cast Shadows”, Brad Nelson’s first solo exhibition in New York.

The invisibility and intangibility of faith and the reliance on language to convince someone to believe, instead of direct phenomenological observations, is a prevalent theme in Brad Nelson’s work. Having grown up in Kentucky, Nelson was surrounded by vocal religious convictions and absolute faith-based belief. His artwork creates a vivid visual language in the form of artificial landscapes and paintings of handwritten notes that hover close to nature and attempt to destruct or obscure the sense of what came before. As mountains and rock formations are very influential on the surrounding landscape, ideas and beliefs similarly loom over our contemporary environment.

Nelson moved to northern Arizona in 2008 and his experience in the southwest inspired him to use mountains as the conceptual platform for this show. While the mountains in Brad Nelson’s oils don’t exist in nature, they do exist as a physical manifestation before he paints them. He creates the model first in his studio as sculptures made from raw pigments using a variety of sculpting tools, such as rulers, razor blades, straws, and paper. The artist is using elements of the earth to create artificial constructions of natural landscapes.

During the opening reception of the exhibition, the artist will create a new work through a performance. Nelson will work publicly in the gallery in the same manner that he normally works in the privacy of his studio. He will sculpt a mountain still life, which will function as the origin of the image presented in the new painting. Nelson will then paint on a stage consisting of an unfinished stretched canvas representing an aerial view of the neighborhood where frosch&amp;portmann is located.

Viewers will have the opportunity to observe the original and the reproduction. Once the painting is finished the sculpture will be positioned behind the wall on which the finished painting will hang, so the original event will now be invisible. The reproduction will be the new authority in which faith will be placed and transmitted to the viewer.

Brad Nelson lives and works in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY and his M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ Tufts University.

[Image: Brad Nelson &quot;EMCS #7&quot; oil on canvas 11 x 14 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2597" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2597">
  <Name>&quot;Unspecified Urban Site&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D8FB030C">
    <Name>RH Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>137 Duane St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>646-703-4473</Phone>
    <Fax>646-349-3459</Fax>
    <Access>Between West Broadway and Church St. Subway: 1/2/3/C/E to Chambers Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition will feature recent painting, photography, and sculpture by a diverse group of contemporary artists including Mike Bayne, John Chamberlain, Andy Coolquitt, Zhang Dali, Richard Deacon, Paul Edmunds, Wolfgang Ellenrider, Tamar Ettun, Myeongsoo Kim, Roxy Paine, Gordon Stevenson, Tats Cru, Mee Wong, and Lin Zhipeng, whose works present visceral urban experiences through referencing the structures, objects and communication that signify urban space.

Zhang Dali and Tamar Ettun create interventions into the urban landscape through performative actions. Beginning in the 1990s, Zhang Dali spray-painted the profiles of anonymous heads on the walls of buildings in Beijing marked for
demolition, in response to the city’s rapid modernization. For Unspecified Urban Site, Zhang Dali presents Dialogue #73, a photograph documenting one such action. Tamar Ettun’s photographic work was initiated by the artist’s walking expedition from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in which she conversed with the landscape and constructed narratives from its vestiges. Ettun will also be presenting a performance piece at the opening reception in conversation with her photographs. Both artists underscore a sense of urgency for dialog with their respective cities.

Mike Bayne, Wolfgang Ellenrieder, Lin Zhipeng and Myeongsoo Kim present documentation of urban landscapes. Bayne’s work Untitled (Downtown Owl) is part of an ongoing series of photorealistic paintings based on photographs of
downtown Toronto that depict what the artist calls “the banality of our daily routine”. Three recent paintings by Ellenrieder present urban moments removed from their original context. Feuer Reifen (Tires on Fire) is a response to the use and reuse of stock photography. The burning tires present an ambiguous narrative: they could be the result of a riot, an accident or a hate crime. Beijing-based Lin Zhipeng has been documenting Beijing’s youth culture over the past decade, a moment characterized by massive socio-economical shifts in the city. Kim’s sculptural installations displace elements of the city’s private and public spaces into dioramas. In his new work, Kim proposes dialogs between incongruous images and objects.

In selected work by John Chamberlain, Andy Coolquitt, Richard Deacon, Paul Edmunds and Roxy Paine the textures and materials of urban space are depicted, apart from the formal qualities of the urban landscape. Chamberlain’s Straits of
Muse is a chrome-plated bronze sculpture resembling a tree stump that has been transformed into a precious object. The sculptural practice of Coolquitt is based on an alternative architecture in which he creates installations and objects referencing quotidian experiences and encounters. Deacon’s No. 7 is a wall-mounted sculpture from a series of works completed in 1999 constructed from sheets of stainless steel. Although the material references the urban experience, the organic shape references the human body. Deacon calls himself a ‘fabricator’ rather than a sculptor; his work tends to expose his process. Edmunds’ abstract sculptures are often sourced from his native Cape Town. In Roll, Edmunds composed a sculpture derived from the forms of skateboard wheels rendered dysfunctional by transforming them from circular to hexagonal shapes. Scumak series is comprised of works fabricated by a sculpture-making machine created by Paine. The series raises questions about art production while also mirroring industrial production and relating to common urban materials such as tar.

Gordon Stevenson, Tats Cru and Mee Wong present yet another aspect of the urban landscape which that relates to the constructed imagery that exists on the streets. Tats Cru is an art collective that was founded in the eighties at the height of New York City’s subway graffiti movement. Hector ‘Nicer’ Nazario, Storero ‘Bg183’ and Wilfredo ‘Bio’ Feliciano are making a new work on canvas for the exhibition which relates to their renowned street art. Wong’s background as a commercial illustrator informs her painting practice which stylistically relates to contemporary advertising, and in particular the
commodification of women. Until The Morning Comes depicts three women clad in glittered undergarments lying suggestively around Philippe Starck’s iconic gun lamp.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-02</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2626" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2626">
  <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>
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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="2012/2700" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2700">
  <Name>Ai Weiwei, Wang Xingwei, Ding Yi &quot;Persona 3&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/951E6DE5">
    <Name>Chambers Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>522 W 19th St., New York, NY 10011 </Address>
    <Phone>212-414-1169</Phone>
    <Fax>212-414-1169</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E and L to 14th Street/ 8th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_19_below">Chelsea 14th - 19th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Chambers Fine Art presents Persona 3, a cooperative work by Ai Weiwei, Wang Xingwei and Ding Yi. First exhibited in Beijing in 2004, Persona 3 is an audacious experiment in which the three artists agreed temporarily to exchange artistic profiles in a demonstration of their mutual admiration for the Chinese art scholar Hans van Dijk who had died in 2002. Resident in China since 1986, van Dijk was actively involved in the documentation and promotion of contemporary Chinese art at a particularly important time in its development.

As described by Britta Erickson: “Mature artists with widely recognized signature styles, Ai Weiwei, Ding Yi, and Wang Xingwei resolved to turn the iconic nature of each unique body of work on its head. Each artist would produce works of art to be exhibited as the creations of the others. This exercise required serious stretching of both artistic imagination and technical skills, and it was brought off with great aplomb….. Each artist worked in great secrecy, revealing the works to one another only immediately prior to the installation of the exhibition. It was a challenge among the three artists, to fathom the depths of each other’s artistic approach, and then to capture that spirit in concrete form.”

For this exercise, Ai Weiwei produced Appearance of Crosses, a sculptural form in iron that is derived from Ding Yi’s series of paintings Series of Crosses on which he had been working since 1988. One of the very few abstract painters to have emerged with the remarkable growth of contemporary Chinese art in the 1990s, Ding Yi narrowed the focus of his investigations to the repetition of cross forms in endless variations and on a wide variety of supports including ready-made fabrics such as tartans. In deciding to perforate a sheet of iron with rows of crosses, Ai Weiwei produced a sculpture of the type that Ding Yi might have produced if he had ever decided to work in three dimensions.

Known for his ironic use of a naturalistic painting style to comment on a wide variety of social and cultural issues, Wang Xingwei chose to channel Ai Weiwei in his Long Ring Tea-Table, a rosewood painting table reconfigured as a round tea-table. Unlike Ai Weiwei who uses furniture and architectural members surviving from the Ching dynasty and later in his ongoing series of three-dimensional works in wood, Wang Xingwei designed a circular table that does not resemble earlier forms and the Shanghai-based carpenters who executed it used new wood.

For Morning in Shanghai, painted in oil on corrugated board in the style of Wang Xingwei, Ding Yi reverted to the representational style that he had abandoned with the emergence of his signature abstract style in 1988. As in his own works which are frequently characterized by their composite nature, Ding Yi juxtaposes four sections of board in his dramatic Shanghai cityscape in which the celebrated buildings on the Bund are dwarfed by new developments in Pudong.

Enriching the artistic dialog between these three old friends in their hybrid creations will be works by Wang Xingwei and Ding Yi on loan from the Uli Sigg collection as well as by Ai Weiwei in which the artists speak in their own voices.
]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/27C8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/27C8">
  <Name>Chris Martin Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CF258D43">
    <Name>Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash (534 W 26th St.)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>534 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-744-7400</Phone>
    <Fax>212-74407401</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[Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash presents its third solo show of Brooklyn painter Chris Martin. The exhibition will feature a group of new paintings, including several from a new series painted on newspaper grids.

Chris Martin was born in 1954 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His current solo exhibition Staring into the Sun at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, on view through January 15, is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue. Martin’s first solo museum show took place in 2010 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He has been featured in notable survey shows including “Abstract America” at the Saatchi Gallery in London, “Painting as Fact – Fact as Fiction” at de Pury and Luxembourg, Zurich, and “The Painted World” at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York. His work is in public collections including the Corcoran Gallery; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Denver Art Museum. He is represented by Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash.

Martin is a firm believer in the beauty and surprise of chance operations, in knowing and not being sure of what he is doing at any given moment. His painting materials have included foam insulation, roof cement, glitter, pom-poms, felt, bread, photographs, and newspaper clippings, record albums, and “smoke on canvas,” while he has painted on vinyl, bath towels, aluminum foil, and burlap… His approach is at the same time serious, playful, and playfully serious. … Martin’s vehicle is unquestionably painting, its history and those he identifies with as its key spiritual practitioners, and in quoting from them he is enfolding their visual language with his own, simultaneously conversing with these artists and being inside of his own head. In this sense, painting is equally a means for him to lose and find himself, over and over again.

[Image: Chris Martin &quot;1,2,3…&quot; Mixed media on canvas 77 x 68 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/290C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/290C">
  <Name>Steve Gianakos &quot;New Paintings&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C38E1A5E">
    <Name>Fredericks &amp; Freiser Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>536 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-633-6555</Phone>
    <Fax>212-633-7372</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Fredericks &amp; Freiser is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Steve Gianakos. Since the early 1970s Gianakos has been taunting and reddening the cheeks of his viewers with perversions that can throw any Freud lover into analytic shock. Dismantling its veracity with a smirk or a shaking of the head, Gianakos’ work grants us a collective purging that is curiously humorous. Coupled with crisp lines that evoke minimalism’s simplicity, Gianakos conflates formalist rigor with mind-bending vulgarity. 

Appropriating the iconic style of 1950’s children’s books, Gianakos’ characters assume a basic innocence that belies their hyperbolic actions. Violence and sexual impulse are at once portrayed as inherent as they are grossly twisted. Working with only stark black lines, Gianakos delivers his punch straight up. His geometric inter-framing both leads the eye into the scene while also disorienting it. Harnessing the grotesque both formally and contextually, Gianakos finds a way to astonishingly marry the two. 

Steve Gianakos was born in New York City in 1938.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.65266</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</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>
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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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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2DAB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2DAB">
  <Name>&quot;A Survey&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F992D72">
    <Name>Edward Thorp Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., 6 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-691-6565</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 24th and 25th St. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This survey will encompass a wide variety of mediums from ink on illustration board to mixed media multi-panel works, large-scale oil on canvas paintings to mechanical sculpture in steel and tin.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2E40" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2E40">
  <Name>&quot;Desperately Seeking Susan&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A6731464">
    <Name>Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>526 W 26th St., #605, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-463-8500</Phone>
    <Fax>212-463-8501</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours: Monday through Friday</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Desperately Seeking Susan&quot; revisits the 1980’s from the perspectives of a diverse group of artists active throughout the decade. It is in the details of the work gathered here that common threads begin to emerge and display a world in transition. Quotidian objects of modernity become the focus of landscapes and still lifes. Abstractions hover between the organic and the synthetic. The authority of the media is questioned, while an empty wheelchair provides a haunting reminder of the failure of modern medicine during the height of the AIDS crisis. Here we see records of varied reactions to a corporeal society enhanced, strangled or disappointed by the artificial. As our natural world continues to be increasingly mediated by technology, a look back to these artists concerns in the 1980’s becomes strikingly relevant.  ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-28</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2E43" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2E43">
  <Name>&quot;Voices of Home&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A1B420BA">
    <Name>Jenkins Johnson Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 26th St., 5 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-629-0707</Phone>
    <Fax>212-629-4255</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, presents &quot;Voices of Home&quot;, featuring works by various artists. Each of these artists visually articulates works inspired by their diverse and rich cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Featured events include the opening reception and a panel discussion in February coinciding with Black History Month.

Elaine Bradford, Zak Ové, Lisa Schmaltz, and Devin Troy Strother use mixed media, and draw on their childhood experiences to reference the paradoxes of their current environments. Representative of the approach is Trinidadian artist Zak Ové, who uses sculpture, film, found objects and photography to reinterpret lost culture and explore his Caribbean identity. His work emanates from an anthropological interest in African mythology, diaspora, tribalism and history, including the origins of the Trinidadian Carnivale.

[Image: Kajahl Benes &quot;Freedom in a Smooth Space&quot; (2011) oil and mixed media on canvas 90 x 80 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-28</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2EE4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2EE4">
  <Name>Katayoun Vaziri &quot;Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5AC235AC">
    <Name>Meulensteen</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-633-6999</Phone>
    <Fax>212-691-4342</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>
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    <ScheduleNote>July &amp; August,  Monday – Friday, 10:00 – 18:00</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Meulensteen presents Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud, an exhibition of new work by Katayoun Vaziri. Featuring drawings, paintings, prints and video work, this exhibition marks the artist’s second show with the gallery. Born and raised in Iran and based in New York, Vaziri draws on a wide range of cultural references to question the linearity of political and social narratives. In her most recent body of work, Vaziri critiques the arbitrariness she perceives in contemporary politics. She begins by making drawings that combine elements from various sources, including news media, advertisement, Iranian nationalist posters, photographs by others taken of her, and references to modern painting (particularly the work of Frank Stella and David Salle). After scanning the drawings, the artist manipulates them digitally, sometimes inviting friends to collaborate at this stage. Vaziri subjects her original source material to a series of actions and changes in medium in order to blur the distinctions between the private and public realms and to question the originality of ideas and the political currency of images. For the video piece “Yeki Bud Yeki Nabud,” Vaziri filmed one of her drawings in a single static shot. The words of the title (Farsi for “One was, one was not,” the traditional opening of Persian fairytales) repeat while a blank square moves across the screen, pulsating on and off. The drawing illustrates an imagined encounter between the artist and Barack Obama, in which she is poised to apply lipstick to the President’s mouth. The juxtaposition of her gleeful expression with his pensive one heightens the sense of absurdity, stressing the nebulous nature of socio-political discourse. Vaziri received an MFA from Yale University in 2009 and a BFA from Tehran University in 2005. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in San Francisco, London, and Dubai. She has held residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2010 and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, New York in 2011. She has co-curated a number of exhibitions and screenings, including “Handheld History” at the Queens Museum of Art in 2010. In addition to her artistic practice, Vaziri reports on the arts in New York for BBC Farsi.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2F4C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2F4C">
  <Name>Lori Ellison Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C988769A">
    <Name>McKenzie Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-5467</Phone>
    <Fax>212-989-5642</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenue. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>Open 11:00-18:00 on Saturday</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Lori Ellison will exhibit ink on notebook paper drawings and gouache on panel paintings. Also in the show will be paintings executed on shaped panels in various materials ranging from enamel and glitter to egg tempera. These paintings have never been exhibited previously. Although the exhibition is mostly recent work, it will include pieces spanning the past two decades. What unifies the paintings and drawings is the artist’s interest in obsessive patterning and intimate scale. Whether executed in monochromatic grid patterns or playful, organically meandering compositions, Ellison repeats single motifs throughout her compositions: wedges, circles, rectangles, and forms within forms, as well as tendril-like shapes, ropes and linked chains, among many others. Her abstract motifs, referencing nature, textile patterns, and architectural decoration, fill the pictorial space in all-over densities. The works reveal an intensity of focus and an embrace of the manifold pleasures of the slow read. As the artist has noted, her interest is in &quot;Proportion based on the lyric, not the epic - that is where the juice lives….Art that is the size and resonance of a haiku, quiet and solid as the ground beneath one's feet…A discreet art, valiantly purified of the whole hodgepodge of artist's tricks and tics.&quot; ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2F90" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2F90">
  <Name>Guenther Foerg Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F57C976F">
    <Name>Greene Naftali Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>526 W 26th St., 8 Fl, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-463-7770</Phone>
    <Fax>212-463-0890</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[Greene Naftali presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Guenther Foerg, marking the first gallery presentation of the artists work in New York in over a decade. This exhibition, comprised of twelve large-scale paintings completed from 2007 to 2009, is Foerg's first at the gallery. His work has been shown at Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie Gisela Capitain, and Galerie Barbel Grasslin as well as major museums including the Stedelijk Museum, MusdArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. Foerg's work was last exhibited in New York at Luhring Augustine in 2000.

A well-known figure in the 1980s, Foerg is a key member of an influential generation of German artists including Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, and Georg Herold. His distinct investigations into the Bauhaus and Modernism take painterly issues into the realms of architecture, sculpture, and photography to reflect on both individual experience and historical memory. Foerg took the Cologne school sensibility, associated with an embrace of ironic distancing, to his own ends by pursuing an intellectual painting practice that offers the possibility of subjectivity and autonomy, stating that abstract art today is what one sees and nothing more.

The recent paintings in this exhibition mark a stylistic departure from Foerg's signature lead paintings of the 80s, which have been widely exhibited in the US. His commitment to pure painterly abstraction coupled with a longstanding dialogue with Minimalism is evident in the canvases on view. By reducing the act of painting to its most elemental gesture, monumentalized on a human scale, Foerg activates his floating, rhythmic brushstrokes with a physical presence. His vibrantly colored marks are repetitive yet singular, doing away with shape and focusing instead on the total abstraction of the brushstroke.  

The nuanced dynamism of the three gray paintings included in this exhibition speaks to Foerg's skillful use of color. The limited palette of these works, which the artist has likened to erased chalkboards, suggests a tension between presence and absence that challenges our threshold of perception. Foerg's visually rich compositions explore intricacies of color and mark, addressing classical issues in painting while testing the limits of pictorial composition. 

Guenther Foerg was born in Fussen, Germany in 1952 and studied at the Akademie der bildenden Kunst, Munich.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2FCE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2FCE">
  <Name>Yvonne Estrada Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FC46FCEF">
    <Name>Von Lintel Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>520 W 23rd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-0599</Phone>
    <Fax>212-242-0803</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_23">Chelsea 23rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Yvonne Estrada's latest body of work is predominantly rendered in varying intensities of ultramarine and cobalt blue gouache and watercolor. Mainly inspired by architectural blueprints, these works are marked by vivid color and expressionistic gesture. Organic shapes, patterns and structures appear in her work as ubiquitously as they appear in nature. These elements interconnect endlessly by means of abstraction and synthesis. Graphite pencil is used to create silvery accents and ballpoint pen turns ovals and spheres into deep, concentrated blues.
 
The artist works from memory associations, improvising moment to moment. From afar, large gestures, drips, stains and loose lines weave in and out of graphic forms and geometric patterns. Upon closer inspection, the intricacy of the artist's labor-intensive method reveals itself. Layer upon layer of countless, ordered lines are rendered in minute detail - each fine line, sometimes no larger than a single mark of punctuation, is made all the more extraordinary by the artist's technical skill.
 
To view one of Estrada's works is like looking through a microscope at a surreal world of the artist's own making, where the dichotomy of symmetry and chaos inherent in the natural world is conveyed by a complex dynamic between pure gesture, geometry and minute graphic detail.

[Image: Yvonne Estrada &quot;LD15-10 Blue&quot; (2010) gouache, watercolor and graphite on paper 50 x 38 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Interiors&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0CDF04B2">
    <Name>Andrew Kreps Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>525 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-741-8849</Phone>
    <Fax>212-741-8163</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave and West Side Highway. Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street or C/E to 23rd Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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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>
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  <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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  <Karma>1.21241</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="2012/332E" 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>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3384" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3384">
  <Name>Luis Maldonado &amp; Fumiko Toda Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4C2D6320">
    <Name>Susan Eley Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>46 W 90th Street, Fl.2, New York, NY 10024</Address>
    <Phone>917-952-7641</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Central Park West and Columbus Ave.  Subway: B/C to 86th Street </Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Symbols of personal memory and myth inhabit Luis Maldonado's vibrant and whimsical paintings. Fumiko Toda's prints and paintings are adorned with her beloved and often overgrown insects, trees and other natural elements.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/348F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/348F">
  <Name>Hyemi Cho &quot;High Line and Personal Stories&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0F8FCB97">
    <Name>Nancy Margolis Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>523 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-3013</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hyemi Cho paints dramatic stories, personal and real, and this exhibition will show two separate narratives and bodies of work, one experienced during childhood, painted from 2009-2012, the other an on going saga impacting her daily life by the opening of the High Line.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-26" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/34E8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/34E8">
  <Name>Charles Garabedian &quot;Mythologies&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/18EB3383">
    <Name>Betty Cuningham Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>541 W 25th St., New York. NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-2772</Phone>
    <Fax>212-242-5959</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Drawn from his appreciation for the Classics, Garabedian’s most recent work focuses on characters and settings from Greek mythology. The largest work in the show, The Wine Dark Sea, which depicts a roughly constructed ship struggling to overcome the vast darkness perilously laid out before it, intentionally calls to mind the numerous sea voyages endured by the heroes in Homer’s epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Many works included in the exhibition feature other Greek mythological characters such as a blonde haired Venus and  Prometheus, writhing in pain, dreading the daily arrival of the bird that will devour his liver. Even though many of these new works call to mind specific narratives, these legends never overshadow the painting. When viewing the 12 paintings, all of which are on paper, one remains conscious of the vivid colors and fine lines- simultaneously melodious and deliberate- that Garabedian employs to compose his dreamlike figures and settings.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-16" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3637" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3637">
  <Name>&quot;St. Sebastian: 1530 to 2011&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/142980FE">
    <Name>Edelman Arts</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>136 E 74th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-472-7770</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-7709</Fax>
    <Access>Between Lexington and Park Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Cutting edge artists juxtapose renown sixteenth century Titian masterpiece in Edelman Arts' provocative exhibition St. Sebastian 1530 – 2011.

This inspiring exhibition explores a fresh perspective of St. Sebastian from the Renaissance to the present. St. Sebastian, the universal icon and figure, came into prominence as a visual canon in the early Renaissance as the bound, sensuously semi-nude figure impaled with Roman arrows. This exhibition is anchored by Titian’s portrait from c. 1530, a striking illustration of the artist’s virtuosic abilities to work with light and color to infuse St. Sebastian with life and emotion. In direct view of Titian’s masterpiece are contemporary depictions of St. Sebastian by Doug Argue, Red Grooms, Carlos Betancourt, Eric Rhein, Marcia Grostein, Cynthia Karalla, Cathy McClure, Michael Murphy and Christopher Winter.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>16</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/36D7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/36D7">
  <Name>Lois Dodd &quot;New Panel Paintings&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B43332DA">
    <Name>Alexandre Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 E 57th St., 13 Fl., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-755-2828</Phone>
    <Fax>212-755-2882</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Madison Ave. Subway: N/R/W to 5th Avenue or 4/5/6 to 59th Street or E/V to 5th Avenue/53rd 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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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The gallery will present 24 recent small-scaled oil on panel paintings in the ninth one-person exhibition of Lois Dodd’s work at the gallery.
 
Dodd continues to explore her familiar everyday subjects of gardens, landscapes and interiors with freshness and directness grounded in observation.  With titles such as House and Laundry on Foggy Day (2010), Path to the Barn (2011), and Barn Window – Blue Sky (2011) Dodd paints her subjects with an unsentimental, no-nonsense directness that merges realism and abstraction with a minimalist touch.

[Image: Lois Dodd &quot;House + Laundry on Foggy Day&quot; (2010) oil on masonite 16 x 20 in. © Lois Dodd, courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Party type="3" date="2012-01-12" start="17:30:00" end="19:30:00">Reception For The Artist</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3900" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3900">
  <Name>Taylor Mead Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/25FECD23">
    <Name>Churner and Churner</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>205 10th Ave., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-675-2750</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 22nd and 23rd Sts., Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_23">Chelsea 23rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;I don't do anything. I just spontaneously happen into strange situations... I'm a renaissance person.&quot; 

- Taylor Mead

Churner and Churner presents an exhibition of works by Taylor Mead, magister ludi of the American underground in film, poetry, and painting. The exhibition focuses on works from the 1980s--many never before seen--and a new set of drawings based on Mead's &quot;Fairy Tale Poem.&quot; The exhibition opens on January 12 with a poetry reading by the artist.

On Saturday, January 14, the gallery will show Andy Warhol's Lonseome Cowboys and the rarely screened Taylor Mead's Ass, along with a collection of home-movies by Mead. A question-and-answer with the artist will follow. 

Mead's exhibition showcases his &quot;Fairy Tale Poem,&quot; a wry, illustrated tale of a castle in the woods (starring none other than Andy Warhol himself), which features prominently in the artist's regular performances at the Bowery Poetry Club and was shown in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. For his show at Churner and Churner, Mead has created a new series of drawings for the ever-evolving poem. Also on display are a group of paintings, some retrieved from Mead's apartment in the Lower East Side where he has resided for thirty-two years, and others from the collections of his friends in the neighborhood. Testimonies to the bohemian lifestyle of New York in the 1980s, the paintings have survived cockroach infestation, subsequent fumigation, and a collapsed ceiling. Mead's work supplanted everyday considerations long ago; in the artist's own words, &quot;I've painted myself out of my apartment.&quot;

These paintings take their gestures and color palettes fom Neo-Expressionism but retain a purposeful naiveté. Many are portraits, including images of Garbo and Warhol; others depict wild animals and exotic scenes. Like all of Mead's artistic practice, these paintings are invigorated by a combination of irony, innocence, and a roguish sense of humor.
 

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Taylor Mead was born in 1924 in Grosse Point, Michigan. He was an influential member of the Beat scene in San Francsico's North Beach and New York's Lower East Side, crafting witty, ironic and occasionally dirty poetry. His first venture into film stardom was in Ron Rice's The Flower Thief in 1960. Soon after Mead relocated to New York, where he was introduced to Andy Warhol, with whom he made numerous films, including a starring turn in Warhol's Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of. J. Hoberman once called Mead &quot;the first underground movie star.&quot; He recently appeared in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes, and continues to perform at the Bowery Poetry Club every Monday night.

  ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>See description</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-12" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/39C8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/39C8">
  <Name>Dwight Ripley &quot;Travel Posters and Language Panels&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0AE62E36">
    <Name>Tibor de Nagy Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>724 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-262-5050</Phone>
    <Fax>212-262-1841</Fax>
    <Access>Between 56th and 57th St. Subway: F at 57th Street or E/V at 53rd 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" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours: Monday through Friday 10am – 5:30pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Dwight Ripley was a British born artist, whose work was the subject of five solo exhibitions at Tibor de Nagy starting in 1951. A polymath, Ripley was a serious botanist, the author of a volume of poetry, and spoke fifteen languages.  However, it was for his artwork that he was most recognized. Six of his drawings were included in an exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim’s legendary gallery Art of This Century.

Ripley's &quot;Travel Posters&quot; and &quot;Language Panels&quot;-- two series of drawings made in 1962 and 1968, the last decade of his life-- combine inventive graphic clarity with allusive puns based on popular art forms. In his &quot;Travel Posters,&quot; the enticing scenery has been configured from the scientific names of indigenous plants, but spun in a cursive web that suggests the wandering line of Surrealist or abstract art. In the &quot;Language Panels,&quot; his etymologically-driven idea of the comic strip, the drawings have been divided into mysterious quadrants that imply narratives of both discovery and danger. Colorful, unusual, and pioneering in their steadfast insistence on colored pencil, the drawings are prescient of the epistemological savvy and environmental awareness that came to characterize the era we still recognize as our own.

[Image: Dwight Ripley, &quot;Setúbal&quot; (1962) ink and colored pencil on paper 14 x 20 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3A16" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3A16">
  <Name>Jan ten Broeke &quot;Ten&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7B29094D">
    <Name>Noho Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-367-7063</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Sunday by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The artist's intent is &quot;to transcend the superficial, socially established eroticism of sexuality”....” All flowers are sex organs and that their function to be fertilized, to produce seed and to propagate, gives a deeper meaning to the beauty we so admire and enjoy.”]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3B6B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3B6B">
  <Name>&quot;Notations: Cage Effect Today&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C3ACA17C">
    <Name>Hunter College Times Square Gallery</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>450 W 41st St., New York, NY 10036</Address>
    <Phone>212-772-4991</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 9th and 10th Ave. Subway: A/C/E at 42nd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Notations: The Cage Effect aims to serve as a timely platform upon the centennial of John Cage's birth. The exhibition will examine his diverse and widespread influence throughout America, Asia, Europe and Latin America not only through the artists directly following Cage but also those in successive generations to the present. By taking a chronological and geographic survey it may be possible to elucidate why Cage has been hailed as an “authorizing factor” and how his influence is manifest to such a widespread and significant degree.  The exhibition will include some 30 artists including William Anastasi, Ushio Shinohara, Rivane Neuenschwander, Kaz Oshiro and Fred Sandback among many others, and will be supplemented by a full schedule of inter-disciplinary public programming. The exhibition will also be accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition catalogue with essays by Dr. Pissarro, Julio Grinblatt and Bibi Caldero, and contributions by participating graduate students at Hunter College. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-21</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3E88" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3E88">
  <Name>Kate Arslanian &quot;Borderlands&quot; </Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2315DC2F">
    <Name>Irish Arts Center</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>553 W 51 St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-757-3318</Phone>
    <Fax>212-247-0930</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 50th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kate Arslanian was born in Crossmaglen, County Armagh and this unique part of Ireland is the center of everything she paints. &quot;Borderlands&quot;  is an instinctive, moving and nostalgic series of abstract works, reflecting on the breathtaking countryside of the northern and southern borders of Armagh, Louth and Monaghan.

[Image: Kate Arslanian &quot;Federna&quot; (2011) on canvas with oil paints]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition accessible by appointment only. Hours: 10am–6pm. Closed Saturday, Sunday. Call 212-757-3318.</ScheduleNote>
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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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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/41C7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/41C7">
  <Name>Bryan Drury &quot;Portraits&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CFDA45D0">
    <Name>Dean Project</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., Fl.2, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-229-2017</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Stemming from a desire to challenge the conventions of traditional portraiture, Drury has recently created this body of six oil paintings. He carefully selected affluent members of society to sit for him, and rather than acquiescing to expectations of flattery, he exploits the power of oil paint to describe their corporeal flaws as precisely as possible. Finding liberation in this reversal of patronage roles, Drury focuses on the organic quality of the flesh and shows the animalistic side of humans that we so commonly attempt to conceal.

The six works feature a single subject, executed with a painstaking degree of realism. The small-scale portraits capture the condescending and supercilious attitudes of the sitters, who gaze at the viewer with an air of disdain. Set against solid backgrounds, the sitters seem separated from the outside world, and their lifeless artificiality imbues the works with a sense of isolation.

In an attempt to expose their vanity and the disconnect that exists between the corporeality of the body and the abstraction of identity, Drury meticulously renders facial details, paying special attention to imperfections and blemishes. His skillful use of light and shadow in portraits highlights the contours of the sitters' faces, while the subtle glossy backgrounds further accentuate the tactile nature of the skin and hair. Jan (2011) capitalizes on the oil paint medium to convey the fleshiness of her wrinkles with a photographic precision, and Tracey (2012) depicts strands of hair and follicles with a similar exactitude. Overtly descriptive, the portraits unmask the suppressed animal qualities of humans and challenge the noble and aggrandizing aspects associated with traditional portraiture. 

Bryan Drury was born in 1980 in Salt Lake City, Utah and relocated to New York in 2001. He received his MFA Cum Laude from the New York Academy of Art in 2007 and BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2005. He has exhibited and received awards throughout the US and Europe. Select recent highlights include: The American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Drury for their highly prestigious annual Invitational Exhibition 2011; the artist was profiled and reviewed in the April 2011 issue of The Art Economist magazine as part of their &quot;Artist To Watch&quot; section. Drury's painting &quot;Ali&quot; was included in the exhibition &quot;Now WHAT?&quot; at the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach FL, the curators from the Norton Museum selected &quot;Ali&quot; as one of the twenty most engaging works exhibited during Art Basel Miami in December 2010.
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/43FA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/43FA">
  <Name>Ridley Howard &quot;Slows&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Leo Koenig, Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>545 W 23rd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-334-9255</Phone>
    <Fax>212-334-9304</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_23">Chelsea 23rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Leo Koenig Inc. presents the second solo exhibition of new paintings by Ridley Howard.    
 
Entitled Slows, this new body of work is comprised of portraits, landscapes, and abstractions. Through a subtle play with geometry, space, and color Howard evinces simple observations of modern life where the real and abstract co-exist -- buildings flatten out into abstract forms; a tile façade becomes a minimalist grid; geometric shapes mirror textile patterns. Howard's purposeful attention to scale and blending of visual language creates an elegant and deliberate syncopation; his careful consideration of the banal offers a lingering sense of time. He infuses cool detachment with hints of painterly romanticism, asking the viewer to consider subtle nuances in paint and image that do not immediately reveal themselves. Akin to the cinematic, the work is evocative of avant-garde filmmakers of the late sixties and seventies whose 'long-take' technique fixes a lens on an empty road, a field or a street long after its subjects completely disappear from the frame, and whose works are respected for their narrative vagueness and provocative mystique.
 
The paintings move from strangely detached portraits to pause on a swatch of cloth, to focus on a building's signage, or to completely succumb to imaginary patterns, compelling a slippage into a simultaneously visual and psychological abstraction. And though they have a graphic quality, the hand is evident in soft, atmospheric edges and is crucial to the works' ability to communicate complex and often contradictory emotions to the viewer. A multitude of elements rest beneath the surface of each painting, but are coalesced, and laid bare, singularly by artist's hand.
 
Howard's practice spans over a decade and grows out of a personal amalgamation of experience, fiction, illustration, cinema, design, and the history of painting. His work evokes a tradition of American image painting that encompasses the Ashcan School, Edward Hopper, Ralston Crawford, as well as more recent pop figures such as Ed Ruscha, Tom Wesselmann, and David Hockney. He also takes cues from artists as stylistically divergent as Piero della Francesco, Hans Holbein, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Francis Picabia, and Giorgio Morandi, as well as filmmakers like Michelangelo Antonioni.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/44C2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/44C2">
  <Name>Nolan Hendrickson &quot;NEW NEW FACE&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E3A5819A">
    <Name>Ramiken Crucible</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>389 Grand St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917-434-4245</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Norfolk and Suffolk Sts.  Subway: F to Delancey Street or J/M/Z to Essex Street. </Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-09</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4525" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/4525">
  <Name>Patrick Wilson &quot;Color Space&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BB060749">
    <Name>Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe </Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>525 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011 </Address>
    <Phone>212-445-0051</Phone>
    <Fax>212-445-0102</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves.  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="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The paintings lasso your attention, harness your view, burrow into your mind, and continue humming in your mental bandwidth long after you have encountered them.* — Sarah Bancroft 

Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe presents its first solo exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles based artist Patrick Wilson, Color Space.

The process of creating one of Patrick Wilson’s compositions is painstaking. At the center of the artist’s technique is an inseparable marriage of color and structure, combined with a keen attention to craft and detail. The pursuit of beauty and pleasure are his primary concerns. Wilson obsessively layers his compositions with countless colors, both muted and vibrant. Each “film” is constructed by pulling viscous paint and medium across the canvas with a drywall blade. Pressure and movement of the knife coats the canvas, creating transparent color fields of great nuance, which eventually build up to embody Wilson’s sleek, almost sculptural paintings. For as much control, exactitude, and precision that go into the construction of these works, there is an intuitive quality, a constant give and take, which is essential to their presence. The artist notes, “The key value of abstraction to me is its openness. The best abstraction isn’t didactic, it’s experiential.” The meticulous nature of Wilson’s work as a whole, combined with his very personal use of color and surprising structural relationships, garners the imagination of the viewer and rewards those who are willing to slow down and look.

Patrick Wilson (b. 1970, Redding, California) currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Recent solo exhibitions include “Good Barbeque” at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA; “The View From My Deck” at Marx &amp; Zavattero, San Francisco, CA; and “Slow Food” at Curator’s Office in Washington, D.C. Notable group exhibitions include the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, curated by Sarah Bancroft, Newport Beach, CA; “Inaugural Group Exhibition” at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA; “Tomorrow’s Legacies: Gifts Celebrating the Next 125 Years” at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; “Electric Mud” at the Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX, curated by David Pagel; “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art” at the Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, curated by Peter Frank; and “Gyroscope” at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. His work is also part of selected public collections including the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; and the San Jose Museum of Art.

[Image: Patrick Wilson &quot;Storm Chaser&quot; (2010) Acrylic on canvas, 67 x 72 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>Bob Rothstein &quot;The Other Bushwick&quot;</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[This artistic study combines old photos and present day collages to capture the feel of the Bushwick I knew as a young child. It actually speaks more about my own response to the old neighborhood.

One of the many influences on my artistic direction was a painting my grandfather did, which always hung in my family’s home. It is of three men sitting on a bench, very much like one from Ben Shahn. The painting is very primitive, but marvelous and always greeted with strong emotions.

My artistic journey has also been molded by the colors and figurative character of German expressionism, the California bay artists, the Ashcan School and John Marin. I owe a great deal to my former teacher at the Art Students League, Dan Dickerson.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;25 years anniversary show Part 1&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Gallery Onetwentyeight</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Kazuko Miyamoto presents Gallery Onetwentyeight's 25th Anniversary at 128 Rivington in New York's Lower East Side. 
During the 25 years anniversary show Part 1 we will exhibit the work of Gallery Onetwentyeight artists/friends. 
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  <Name>Five Solo Exhibitions</Name>
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    <Name>OK Harris Works of Art</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[OK Harris Works of Art presents five solo exhibitions: Alex Zwarenstein, Tony King, Allen Harrison, Mark Chester, John Tallman.

 John Tallman work consists of twelve intimately scaled “paintings” poured and cast using pigmented urethane plastic, powdered metal and acrylic paint. Each work illuminates a material quality of contemporary painting without declaring an allegiance to a particular direction. Letting intuition function within the language of the historical precedence of abstraction, subject matter that is overtly suggestive is avoided. Yet sly reverences to Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein and Mark Rothko can be found.

Each “painting” is a cast plastic replica of an original acrylic and canvas prototype. This original prototype is destroyed as part of the working process. Evidence of this prototype can be seen in particular surface and shape irregularities that are repeated in each casting. Mr. Tallman’s rabbit hole is found in the physical properties of plastic and subverting conventional expectations that come when viewing “a painting”.

After an extended period of living in Asia, Mr. Tallman returned to the United States in 2005. Since that time he has participated in exhibitions in Sydney, Amsterdam, Paris, Nashville and Philadelphia. He is part of the international post formalist movement spearheaded by such DYI groups such as Minus Space, the Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, IS Projects and Paris Concret. Mr. Tallman received his formal training Painting at Tyler School of Art and the University of Washington. The art and ideas of the conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer have also had an influence, having worked with Mr. Camnitzer on the 2007 Drawing Center Exhibit, Non-Declarative Art. Mr. Tallman splits his time living and working between suburban Philadelphia and Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.

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  <Name>Kate Pane &quot;I SCREAM/YOU SCREAM&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Mallick Williams &amp; Co</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Mallick Williams &amp; Co. Gallery presents I SCREAM/YOU SCREAM with new paintings by Kate Pane. During this past Miami Art Basel the gallery previewed an oversized outdoor installation of Pane’s work at The Shore Club. The artist is following up her Basel debut with her ﬁrst solo exhibition. 

Pane’s paintings focus on the transitional stage when childhood turns into teenage years, a time while facing forthcoming growth there is the inclination to remain innocent. The exhibition’s title I SCREAM/YOU SCREAM best represents this  period. The popular rant is learned while growing up, sung over and over in unison until satisﬁed. Though it is known between every boy and girl, there are other parts of  young adolescence that remain secretive.  This explorative age quickly leads to unknown exploitations. Curiosities turn into lustful discoveries, with screams of desires emerging from all delights - both pure and profane. More wonderment than perversion, this time of life is exciting and fully romantic notions.

Spread over the gallery’s entirety, I SCREAM/YOU SCREAM is both whimsical and dreamlike. In the front room works on canvas evoke a child’s dizzying perspective painted with imaginative visions of ponies and ﬁgures. The back space strips away the naive fantasies of the other room. Collage works of pornographic material overlaid with girlish glitter expose the reality of aging in a world of accessibility, with the gaieties of youth diminishing.  ]]></Description>
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  <Name>Jason Fox &quot;Eating Symbols&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Peter Blum Gallery (Chelsea)</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Peter Blum presents the exhibition Jason Fox: Eating Symbols. This will be Jason Fox’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
 
For this exhibition, Jason Fox will present paintings, drawings, and a sculpture that bridge together previous bodies of work. As suggested by the exhibition title, Fox plays with a wide range of influences from Abstract Expressionism via the celebrity portraits of Warhol to Cave painting born from A.R. Penck’s timeless alphabet. The paintings create a dialogue between pop culture, religious icons, and abstraction. All the work shares an interest in transparency, and symbols caught in various states of transformation between abstraction and figuration.

          The paintings can be loosely grouped into three series. In the first layers of water saturated color and pencil form portraits including Beatles, Saints, and false idols. The red paintings layer expressionistic observed portraits of the family dog with pencil messages from the outside world. The third group of paintings deploys a Malevich tilt to create a series consisting of flags, monuments, mountains, lakes, and views from a tomb.

          The drawings provide both an editorial conscience nostalgic of old New Yorker cartoons and Olyphant and reveal experiments with psychedelia and popish expressionistic portraiture that clearly bleed into the works on canvas. The idea of layering images based on familiarity rather than discordance is first articulated in the drawings where trees meet aliens and dungeons are galleries.

One sculpture made of a carved tree, drop cloth plastic, and a metal base stands alone. …part stick figure, part cross, part scarecrow for an interzone filled with aluminum foil posing as lightning, Ringo visiting Picasso, and color dissolving ideologies.

 
Jason Fox was born in 1964 in Yonkers, New York. He currently lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York. Fox received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union, New York and a M.F.A from Columbia University, New York. National and international solo exhibitions include shows at Feature Inc., New York; Mario Diacono at Ars Libri, Boston; Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada; and at the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City. Past group shows include Every Revolution is a Roll of Dice organized by Bob Nickas at Paula Cooper Gallery and at the Ballroom Marfa, Texas; That is Then…This is Now and Greater New York at P.S.1, New York; and Drunk vs. Stoned at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Zefrey Throwell &quot;Ocularpation: Wall Street&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Gasser Grunert Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>524 W 19th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-807-9494 </Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Klemens Gasser &amp; Tanja Grunert presents the exhibition Ocularpation: Wall Street by Zefrey Throwell, from January 6-February 11, 2012, featuring photographs, paintings, video, and sculpture. The exhibition centers around a large-scale continuous video projection of Ocularpation: Wall Street, created on August 1, 2011, in which 50 performers directed by Zefrey Throwell, gathered outdoors on Wall Street, stripped down to nothing, and began working in a call for transparency that caught fire and spread across the globe.

The experience and documentation of Ocularpation informs the varied works in the exhibition. A series of oil paintings, using signature Wall Street blue trader jackets sewn together as the canvas, are collaged with photographs of the performances. Fifty sculptures of everyday objects, relating to the Wall Street professions (i.e. broom—janitorial, handcuffs—police, piggybank— banker, etc.), have been coated with a thin veneer of gold enamel, thereby transforming them into precious artworks. Zefrey, who used nudity so powerfully as a symbol of exposure and transparency in the Ocularpation performance and the recent strip poker game I’ll Raise you One… at Art in General, uses gold in this body of work in reference to the current American financial dream, sold as a glittering jewel, but in fact is a fantasy whose value is speculation.

Ocularpation: Wall Street continues Zefrey Throwell’s extensive body of investigative and interactive projects focused on the connecting points and underpinnings of social discourse. Projects shown at the MoMA, Whitney Museum, Performa, and Venice Biennials, as well as major media coverage of Ocularpation (including The New York Times, BBC, CNN, NBC and more) have provided the artist with a platform to ignite public discussion and an international call to action. The artist states, the inspiration for the Ocularpation performance and exhibition was personal: “When my mother lost all her savings and was forced to come out of retirement from the market crash of 2008, I knew we had to refocus attention on Wall Street, its actions, secrecy, and real repercussions on people’s lives.”

Artist Talk
A talk with Zefrey Throwell, Clark Winter (an internationally known investor and commentator on geopolitics and global financial markets) and more, will take place at the gallery. Date and additional participants TBA. ]]></Description>
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  <Name>Chris Wyllie &quot;Just Past Happy&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Hionas Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>89 Franklin St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
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    <Access>Between Church St and Broadway. Subway: 1 to Franklin Street or N/Q/R/W/4/6 to Canal Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Hionas Gallery presetns Just Past Happy, an exhibition featuring Chris Wyllie’s paintings on found objects, comprised mostly of new works created in 2011. The paintings, although figurative, evoke the minimalistic feel of a pin-up girl silhouette, allowing the eye to rest on a subtle outline or clean curve. Wyllie leaves enough negative space in and around the feminine form so that one’s focus leans toward the texture and traces of the faded object.

In the mixed-media painting, She’s 22, his subject’s sensual, voluptuous body creates space for the chips and cracks of the found object to break through. Meanwhile, the painting’s words – “She’s 22, smokes pot every day, &amp; has a drinking problem” – and the weathered door on which they reside, reveal the temporal and fading state of her seeming perfection.

Wyllie is a nostalgic creature in both art and life. Among his collection of found objects and miscellanea are an old copy of the Newport Daily News from 1948, a set of antique Frigidaire refrigerator doors, pick-up truck tailgates, car doors, rooftops, and other ephemera. According to the artist, “these objects create a sense of nostalgia without pinpointing [their] exact source.”
When this nostalgia inevitably comes through in his paintings, one can see the appropriation of a particular time period.

Just Past Happy is curated by Vaughn Massey. According to Massey, “Chris is very much connected to the past and to the way things change. The residue. The traces. The beautiful silhouette of a female nude on something discarded and old, remind the viewer that nothing is permanent. ‘Everything we do right now is going to fade,’ Chris once remarked to me. This, I believe, speaks to the ephemeral quality of life and happiness. The object may already be faded, but a new history is created once transformed by Wyllie’s hand into something more beautiful.”

About the Artist:
Before committing to becoming an artist, Wyllie worked professionally throughout two decades in film, graphic design, and decorative painting. One can trace the evolution of his graphic design in many of his pieces. Chris Wyllie’s work is in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Fisher-Landau Center for Art, New York; The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, as well as many private collections. He has also been a featured artist at the 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Whitney Annual Art Party. Chris Wyllie splits his time between Newport, RI and New York City.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4F26" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/4F26">
  <Name>&quot;Discursive Abstraction&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F974E93">
    <Name>Bernard Jacobson Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>17 E 71st St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-879-1100</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison Ave. and 5th Ave.  Subway: 6 to 68th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>July and August Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition quietly observes a group of works on paper over a 60-year period by a disparate set of artists, chiefly British and American, whose primary common denominator is an eye towards abstraction. Ideally it will give the viewer an opportunity to observe various means of expressing abstraction on paper that are both fluent and expansive - it is not about a hard edge or geometric visual language so much as an organic and ephemeral discourse.Discursive Abstraction: Works on Paper from the 1950s to the present.

[Image: William Tyler &quot;The Age of Anxiety / The Kerry Sunset&quot; (2001) Watercolour on paper 55.9 x 76.2 cm]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.2585</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>16</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.771517</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4FAC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/4FAC">
  <Name>Miha Strukelj &quot;Memories of a City&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8AAE996A">
    <Name>LMAKprojects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>139 Eldridge St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-9707</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Broome St. Subway: B/D to Grand Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[LMAKprojects presents Slovene artist Miha Strukelj's Memories of a City, a first solo exhibit with the gallery. For this exhibit Strukelj will create an installation of murals and small drawings on panels throughout the gallery to address the limitations and confines of the gallery space. In his work Strukelj's methodology is a reduction of everything back to a grid, contour and line. His eye reacting to architectural settings combined with angular patterns that are contradicting and complex. Bringing formal order into the newly created chaos and disparate elements the grid evokes both the sense of painting and drawing tradition as well as Cartesian coordinates and maps.
 
Strukelj's scenes are usually urban spaces defined by architecture, landmarks and points, which create a tension and shape our view. In between there are empty and forgotten spaces that he captures. These anonymous moments are combined to emphasize and construct a new reality of disparate contemporaneity, a visual study of digital existential dilemma of the human experiences. The panels, found within the installation, are either layers of mylar stripping away the trails of the subjects surrounding or wood panels jutting the subjects into the viewers space. They are components of the installation but embody their own sense of space.  Through these elements, Strukelj is able to play with depth and layering while also enhancing his point of focus be it a line, structure or individual.  The acts of the subjects are not heroic yet through isolation the viewer is absorbed into their act in life.  Strukelj is an observer, yet his drawn observations force the viewer the illustrated realm and become part of these isolated instances in time. He exposes the grey area that we dismiss in our everyday life.
 
Miha Strukelj was born in 1973 in Ljubljana, Slovenia where he still lives and works. He has an MFA from Academy of Fine Arts and one such awards as the Henkel drawing award, the Pollock-Krasner Grant to name a few. His work has been shown at the 53rd Venice Biennial at the Slovenian Pavilion and can be found in the public collections such as the Uni Credit Bank, Siemens Collection, Adrian Riklin Foundation in Vienna, Societe Generale in Paris, ECB - European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, NLB - Nova Ljubljanska Banka, and Government of the Republic of Slovenia.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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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>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>37</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Name>Sylvia Wald Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8DBED0ED">
    <Name>The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>417 Lafayette St., 4th Fl., New York, NY 10003</Address>
    <Phone>212-598-1155</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Astor place and 4th st., Subway: 6 to Astor Place or N/R to 8th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-26" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>16</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.728743</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.99238</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/51DE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/51DE">
  <Name>E. K. Buckley &quot;Ale ́ Ale ́&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D65A4E9B">
    <Name>Yes gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>147 India St., Brooklyn, NY 11222</Address>
    <Phone>347-599-2322</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Manhattan Ave. and McGuinessBlvd. Subway: G to Greenpoint Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</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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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[E.K. Buckley is a figurative painter working in Brookyln whose focus is bold, eerie nudes. Her works in oil, rely on stark gestures that produce poses ranging from balletic to violent. Buckley combines the heft of unrefined mark-making with elegance, creating forms with an extreme economy of illustrated description. Her subject matter is often drawn from her early training in music and literature, and her love of dance is clear in her uncanny ability to capture the body in movement. Buckley’s work in ink includes an austere series of crows; simple gestures that show her reliance on the raw mark, at times describing the bird in just a few stark and fast pen strokes. Her recent body of work includes large, distressed pieces on paper of women in mixed media. Buckley’s art could be described as Ale ́ Ale ́, a state of bursting inspiration and creativity. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-17" start="19:00:00" end="22:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>38</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.732506</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/51F4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/51F4">
  <Name>Sunghee Jang Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/98323831">
    <Name>Gallery Henoch</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>555 W 25th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>917-305-0003</Phone>
    <Fax>917-305-0018</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>37</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/52E6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/52E6">
  <Name>Doug Wada &quot;Americana&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>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Wada extracts elements from the everyday and presents hyper-real, full-scale painting interpretations. He selects banal objects such as coolers, barber poles, and turnstiles, and suspends them on a white background, providing the opportunity to contemplate the true meaning of these familiar and often ignored elements of our lives. While these paintings create a nearly trompe l’oeil effect at first glance, when examined closely the lustrous, velvety brushstrokes create a surprisingly sensuous surface. This sumptuousness is apparent in the painting Unleaded, in which Wada bestows upon a fuel pump a richly mottled exterior with ripples of indigoes, purples, and golden yellows.

Working from the digital images he’s both shot and edited, Wada paints many of the objects in his works life-size. The canvases are hung at the height of the object in real life, and he applies the corresponding perspective to the object. For example, the work Normandie, featured in the exhibition, depicts a row of four American-made vintage hair dryers. To provide an authentic appearance, a separate canvas is devoted to each hair dryer, which is painted to scale at 17 inches tall and 14 inches wide, and each hair dryer is hung 14 inches apart, as they would be in a hair salon.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-11" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>2</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.763483</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5432" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5432">
  <Name>Stanley Boxer Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A50433E2">
    <Name>Spanierman Modern</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>53 E 58th St., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-832-1400</Phone>
    <Fax>212-588-9505</Fax>
    <Access>Between Park Ave. and Madison Ave.  Subway: F to 57th Street, 4/5/6/N/R/W to 59th Street/Lexington Avenue or E/V to 5th Avenue/ 53rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" 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 gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Stanley Boxer (1926–2000), an artist whose work is in numerous museum collections in America and abroad, Boxer worked with indefatigable energy during a career that spanned the second half of the twentieth century. In his paintings from the 1960s through the 1990s—featured in this exhibition—he developed an individualistic stylistic trajectory, drawing from the action painting techniques of Abstract Expressionism and the optical color sensations and allover approach of Color Field painting, as well as from painterly traditions stretching back to the old masters. His passion for surface vibrancy is demonstrated in his sensuous, richly textured canvases and the exuberant works he created in the 1990s, in which he blended oil paint with a range of unusual materials.

In naming his paintings, Stanley Boxer's usual practice was to string together words. The unbroken titles are a rhythmic complement to his paintings and parallel the continuous yet changing cadences of his surfaces as well as their many associations. In their animate qualities, many are suggestive of the natural world without being specifically referential. Others are map-like, conveying the presence of landforms, water, and sky, while collaged elements add a topographical and relief dimension to the later works.

In the 1960s, Stanley Boxer's work was discovered by the noted critic Clement Greenberg, who categorized him as Color Field painter. To Boxer, this label was too limiting. He stated in 1972: “Nothing is per se rejected in my work! Everything is possible.” It is therefore not surprising that critics from all persuasions over many decades have expressed an unusually high regard for Boxer and his art.

[Image: Stanley Boxer &quot;Hutchofquarriedgraces&quot; (1990) oil and mixed media on canvas 55 x 50 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>9</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.762849</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5486" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5486">
  <Name>Michael Scott &quot;Black and White Line Paintings: 1989-2011&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0676B4F1">
    <Name>Gering &amp; López Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>730 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>646-336-7183</Phone>
    <Fax>646-336-7185</Fax>
    <Access>Between W 57th and W 56th St. Subway: F to 57th Street or N/R/W to 5th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</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[Statement from the artist: &quot;Over the last twenty five years my work has taken several forms of expression, from concentric circle or target paintings, to black and white line paintings, to photographs, to cartoon-inspired drawings, to paintings that can be described as psychedelic ‘candyland’ themed landscapes, to small thickly encaustic abstractions. However, over this period of time, the most pre-dominant works are the “highly optical” black and white line paintings done since 1989. These are probably the works for which I am best known. In 1994 I stopped making abstract line paintings but I returned to this type of work in 2002 and 2003 and then most recently in 2010 and 2011. It is this grouping of highly optical black and white line paintings around which I have built this exhibition.&quot;

[Image: Michael Scott &quot;Untitled (1/3 Kilometer-007)&quot; (1993) enamel on aluminum 78.75 x 59 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>9</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.762639</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5614" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5614">
  <Name>Arne Quinze &quot;My Home, My House, My Stilthouse&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/33075AE7">
    <Name>Vicky David Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>522 W 23rd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-510-7593</Phone>
    <Fax>212-510-7594</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_23">Chelsea 23rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The gallery will present pieces from the series &quot;My Home, My House, My Stilthouse&quot; which plays on the dichotomy between chaos and equilibrium. From the apparent fragility of his material emerges overflowing energy and pure beauty. Arne Quinze dreams of an ideal society in which all individuals communicate and interact with each other. Eclectically he uses paintings, drawings, sculptures and monumental installations to develop his work in the urban movement, by focusing on the themes: Order, Disorder, Structure and Habitation.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/57B5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/57B5">
  <Name>&quot;I See the Moon&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2B2FDE0C">
    <Name>Milavec Hakimi Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003</Address>
    <Phone>817-975-5488, 516-31</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 7th and 6th Ave. Subway: 6 to Astor Place.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Milavec Hakimi Gallery presents I See the Moon, a group exhibition featuring artists: Katelyn Alain, Dina Brodsky, Sabrina Marques, Scott Kahn, Christopher Saunders, Ryan Scully and Nicolas Touron.

These seven artists display the ability to create alluring visual manifestations of their imaginations, causing viewers to suspend disbelief and dive into fantastical realms of fantasy. I See the Moon explores many worlds from post-apocalyptic landscapes to moments pulled from lifelike fairy tales.

The works in this upcoming exhibition construct settings, which intricately intertwine the real and the imagined, resulting in a unique blend of familiarity and mystery. Each painting creates a portal into a new place as well as the artist’s mind. With each artist comes a distinct fictitious vision, illustrated through lush color palettes, atmospheric effects and characters. I See the Moon pushes you to inhabit the mind of the artist while stirring your own creative subconscious.
 
Regardless of the world you find yourself standing in front of, you can always see the moon.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
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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>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:00, saturdays closinghour 19:00, sundays openinghour 12:00, sundays closinghour 19:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <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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  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-05</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5A66" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5A66">
  <Name>George Grosz &quot;The Way of All Flesh&quot; &amp; &quot;Large Drawings&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C759D2E1">
    <Name>David Nolan Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>527 W 29th St., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-925-6190</Phone>
    <Fax>212-334-9139</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street, A/C/E to 34th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_28_above">Chelsea 28th - 33rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Monday by appointment only.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[David Nolan Gallery presents two exhibitions: George Grosz, The Way of All Flesh, which includes seven works on paper, and a group exhibition entitled Large Drawings, featuring seven works by contemporary artists.

George Grosz, one of Germany’s most celebrated artists of the early 20th Century, produced a body of work centered on the theme of butcheries during his final years in Berlin, prior to his departure for the United States where he would make his home for 25 years. Perhaps one of the reasons why the subject interested Grosz was the precarious food situation in Germany that began after the first World War and became particularly acute from the mid-1920’s onwards. Germans, famous for their love of meat, was forced to severely ration food supplies; rampant inflation made meat a luxury. 

For Grosz and other artists like Otto Dix, the butchery became a metaphor for a brutalized society; instead of providing nourishment, the butcher is portrayed as a harbinger of death. In 1931, Grosz created a series of drawings entitled “Pig Slaughter in the Countryside” that was illustrated in Frankfurter Illustrierte magazine. For those who were able to see these illustrations, the scenes of pig must have been a fever dream. On view will be works from this series as well as others. A catalog published by Galerie Nolan Judin, Berlin, accompanies the exhibition. 

Large Drawings will feature artists who work in other media, like painting, sculpture, and photography, but for whom the act of drawing itself still remains an important part of the creative process.
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5AB2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5AB2">
  <Name>&quot;Dana Bell / Alasdair Duncan / Don Voisine&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DF0AECDE">
    <Name>Theodore:Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237</Address>
    <Phone>212-966-4324</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Harrison Pl. Subway: L to Morgan Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[These three artists, while creating very different work, all touch on the possibilities of communicating ideas in a space outside of language. The familiarity of signifiers -- form and gesture – is offered without the reliable connection of a signified or finite meaning. A viewer is confronted with evasive focus: unspoken directions, mute expressions, opaque progressions. The potential “unity of the thing” is proffered as a semblance of infinite suggestion.
 
Armed with a formalist’s vocabulary, an eye for the nuances of gesture, and a tendency towards dark, absurdist humor, Dana Bell has delved into cinema’s rich history and emerged with a complex study of physicalized language. While turning the aesthetic identity of her filmic source on its head, Bell’s reductive process transforms filmic narrative, creating a semiotic study that reveals the subtle manipulations and learned artifice within human expression, while breaking the connection between narrative arc and the nuances of gesture.
 
Alasdair Duncan makes “signs for the future”, stand-ins; not futurological predictions, rather they are emblems of the not yet imagined.  Duncan is interested in making art that reflects an expansive, confident and optimistic outlook, that the world as it is now can be made different and better. At a time when the future is represented substantially in terms of fears rather than opportunities, Duncan’s work manifests the hope of real affirmative social and material change through conditions of possibility which exist now, but which are beyond our view from the current state of affairs.
 
Don Voisine’s paintings impress with a complexity and meditative quality that belie their scale.  Space is defined by restrictions, controlled by borders, limited in access, via a very few well-chosen elements.  Voisine creates uncanny spatial depth and structure through color, texture, contrast, and light.  The layering and overlapping of black planes, both translucent and opaque, evoke both redaction and seduction without answer.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5D2F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5D2F">
  <Name>Yuki Ioroi Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5824D07A">
    <Name>Ouchi Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>170 Tillary St., Suits 507, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>347-559-1368</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Gold St. and Flatbush Ave. Subway : M/N/R to Lawrence Street or C/F to Jay Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Appointment needed.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Yuki Ioroi was born in 1980, Shizuoka Japan. She started her career as an artist when she moved to Los Angeles in 2001, and participated in local artist showcase events throughout the two years. Her style of pieces was mostly abstract in these years. After returning to Japan, Yuki moved to Tokyo and graduated from Asagaya Art College, School of Image Creation in 2007. She started creating painting pieces that incorporated words of her messages, shifting from the previous abstract style. Yuki creates pieces that speak to the mind of people who have lost themselves in today’s overwhelming world. Being force fed with information from every possible direction, it is easy for any of us to lose our own values, or feel threatened to live up to the unrealistic standards portrayed by the media and social peers alike. Her words directly reach out to those who have convinced themselves of their created identities as their true selves. The recurrent concept of her artwork is to offer an opportunity for the audience to look within themselves and reflect. Through her thoughtful and playful words, Yuki wants her audience to dig deep to their conscious and find that something they might have forgotten while busy living. In 2011, she moved to London and continuing her career and actively participating local exhibitions. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
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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" />
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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>
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  <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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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/61D5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/61D5">
  <Name>&quot;Resolve&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2456A56F">
    <Name>Joshua Liner Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>548 West 28th St., 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10001 </Address>
    <Phone>212-244-7415 </Phone>
    <Fax>212-244-7416</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_28_above">Chelsea 28th - 33rd</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: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Joshua Liner Gallery presents Resolve, an exhibition of twenty-five emerging and established artists whose work is rooted in classical art traditions and training. In rendering the figure, still life, or landscape subject, this illustrious group (including twenty-two painters, two sculptors, and one photographer) expresses a collective interest in classical art forms with a variety of distinct and decidedly contemporary voices. As the first in a series of annual artist-curated exhibitions at Joshua Liner Gallery, Resolve is organized by gallery artist Tony Curanaj and includes works by the following artists:

Anthony Waichulis, Brad Kunkle, Christopher Gallego, Dan Thompson, David Kassan, Edward Minoff, Graydon Parrish, Jacob Collins, Jacob A. Pfeiffer, Jefferson Hayman, Jeremy Mann, Kate Lehman, Kim Cogan Kris Kuksi, Kris Lewis, Lee Misenheimer, Michael Grimaldi, Rob Leecock, Scott Waddell, Shawn Smith, Shawn Barber, Steven Assael, Tony Curanaj, Travis Schlaht, Will Wilson

Though considered divergent from the postwar developments of Pop, Conceptual, and Minimalist art (among others), the curriculum of classical art training—with its emphasis on skill and the realistic depiction of the figure, still life, and landscape—has nevertheless continued to evolve through the interests and talents of contemporary artists. Creating on the fringes of graduate-school art programs and modern art theory, these intrepid practitioners of traditional art forms and techniques have kept them alive and vibrant, while reinterpreting them through the social and visual culture of their time.

Such influences as Van Eyck, Caravaggio, and Rembrandt, as well as Klimt, Degas, and the pre- Raphaelites, to name but a few, can be discerned in many of the figure and portrait paintings and drawings collected here. The gestures, settings, and mood, however, are entirely of the moment, emphasizing the evergreen nature of classical training and its capacity to adapt to whatever arises, from tattoo culture to contemporary graphic design. Vestiges of Turner, Eakins, and other masters are also apparent in the landscape and figurative works included, but elsewhere one can see the boundary-pushing daring of more recent and contemporary figures such as Andrew Wyeth, Antonio López García, and Odd Nerdrum.

Among the painters featured, all work in traditional media, most employing oils or egg tempera on canvas, linen, or panel. The sculptors choose from more unorthodox materials, such as toy figurines and dyed blocks of wood, while continuing a dialogue with their time through the tools and history of realism. The founders, teachers, or graduates of such influential institutions as the Water Street Atelier, Grand Central Academy of Art, New York Academy of Art, Ani Art Academy, and Janus Collaborative School of Art are included in the exhibition. In their masterful hands, the tendency toward realism serves a fresh, new generation of artists in capturing their disparate worlds, lives, and vision.

According to curator-artist Tony Curanaj: “This exhibition of colleagues and influences reflects a relatively narrow but varied slice of the art world, and presents it to an audience that may not be exposed to this segment of contemporary art practice. The title Resolve speaks of their determination and progression, qualities that imbue each of these works with beauty and technical virtuosity. From concept to execution, these contemporary masters of their craft are completely engaged in the artist’s process and an artistic direction that is unwavering, regardless of fashion or trend.”

[Image: Tony Curanaj &quot;Nouveau Red&quot; (2011) Oil on canvas, 18 x 36 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;In-Habitat&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E3C2716E">
    <Name>The Front Room Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>147 Roebling St., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone>718-782-2556</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Metropolitan Ave. Subway: L to Bedford 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="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In the exhibition “In-Habitat” each artist takes a unique perspective of the concept of habitat, and what it is to inhabit this world. 

Gregory Curry’s paintings relate his postulations of a post human environment inspired by and extrapolated from the various dynamic conditions now impacting on the human animal. The environments and entities that populate his paintings seem imbued with pure energy on a primordial level, set against a background of contrasting complimentary colors. Curry utilizes familiar modes of representation such as rendering, perspective and classic spatial relationships in a way that draws the viewers into these uncanny realms, relating our temporality within an environment of elemental particles and genetic materials. 

Lisa DiLillo creates nocturnal landscapes and still lives that engage luminosity as a visual correlation to nature's life force. The photographs depict a liminal state where subjects are transforming or are in the process of coming into being, reflecting on our evolving environment and on unusual climatic occurances. The intensity and incertitude of these photographs underscore the idea that the more we investigate nature the more mystifying and complex it becomes. 

Rooted simultaneously in science while evoking the fantastic, Julia Whitney Barnes creates works that reinterpret life and the natural environment. Her paintings explore the complex relationship and power struggles of humans with nature, and the contradictions in which our society gives life to and reveres nature while abusing and overlooking it. Her large scale oil painting depicting a tree house abstracted with layers transparencies and lush patches of color, transposes elements of the forest and individual trees with the interior panels of a the structure, relating her desire for a more balanced relationship with nature. 

Kim Holleman relates environmental issues of contamination of our natural resources, brought on by radioactive fallout, chemicals seeping into ground water, oil spills and the ephemera in our petro-chemical environment. She infers the impact of these elements and the increasing toll on our natural environment, presenting an installation of displays and scenes, colliding natural and artificial reality, both fantastical and frightening, into a curio collection gone awry. This faux-scientific archive shows us beautiful, sometimes-toxic parks, public spaces, visions of nostalgic environments and constructions straining towards natural growth, but spinning out of control, coated to saturation which threatens their very existence. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6622" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/6622">
  <Name>Ayad Alkadhi &quot;Umbilical&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B4C6F1BF">
    <Name>Leila Heller Gallery (Chelsea)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>568 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-249-7695</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The new series of recent paintings and works on paper explores Alkadhi’s experiences under the rule of Saddam Hussein, the casualties of war, the Arab Spring, and ultimately confronts immigration and assimilation.  
 
Within these broad parameters, the artist weaves personal reflections using sarcasm, humor, anger, sex, and “an honest dose of reality,” Alkadhi notes.

Alkadhi’s paintings, and the process to create them, embody human struggle: each mark on the canvas is an indication of the artist’s presence, his body and his hand, wrestling with his histories, his ghosts, and his materials.
 
The layering of such personal and historical content is reflected in the artist’s approach and mark-making, where strata upon strata of content gets buried beneath successive layers. The works typically start with Alkadhi’s signature base of yellowed newspapers pasted onto a canvas upon which he sketches in black and sanguine: bodies, embryos, and faces, thoughts and scribbled notes. A second layer obscures this phase with a heavy-handed brushwork.  A third phase overlays controlled and contained bright colored outlines. Sometimes the layers repeat, intersect, and intertwine.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Black &amp; White&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B4C260C3">
    <Name>Salmagundi Art Club</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>47 5th Ave., New York, NY</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-7740</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Sts. Subway: 4/5/6/L/N/Q/R/W to 14th Street/Union Square.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Held annually since 1878, the Black &amp; White Exhibition has in the past included great American artists such as William M. Chase, Thomas Moran, John Singer Sargent, and James M. Whistler. 
 
This exhibition in the Upper Gallery of black &amp; white or sepia monochromatic drawings, graphics, photographs, paintings, and sculpture by artist members.  

[Image: Thomas Shelford &quot;Camp Hero Montauk View&quot; Monotype print on paper]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
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  <Name> Thomas Scheibitz &quot;A Panoramic View of Basic Events&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/545C297B">
    <Name>Tanya Bonakdar Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 21st St, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-414-4144</Phone>
    <Fax>212-414-1535</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_21">Chelsea 21st</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[For his seventh solo exhibition at the gallery, titled &quot;A Panoramic View of Basic Events,&quot; Thomas Scheibitz will present an extraordinary group of new paintings, sculptures, drawings, and collages.  These pieces function as a meditation on composition across several different media, as the artist continues his  exploration of perspective, the fine line between abstraction and figuration, and the fusion of the painterly and the graphic. Combining imagery that references classical architecture, the contemporary urban landscape, and popular culture, Scheibitz filters these sources of inspiration through his own lens of abstraction to create visually dynamic and compelling works that are layered with meaning and references, yet remain enigmatic.  ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;FUNNY HA HA&quot; Exhibition </Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F73BEDB">
    <Name>BAC Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-625-0080</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams St. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[There are many theories of humor which attempt to explain what humor is, what social function it serves, and what would be considered humorous. Artists sometimes use humor to question relationships between art and everyday life, but, using humor to deflate the pretentiousness of the art world is not a new concept. One can say that ever since Marcel Duchamp placed a urinal on a pedestal, artists have been mocking the conventions of art and the artworld. 

But can art be critical and humorous? Undoubtedly, humor is subjective, and not all of these artists are even trying to be funny. Artworks that go for the obvious joke can be easily dismissed as insincere or worse mere entertainment, but humor can also be used as a tactic, a way to help the audience digest serious ideas. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-03-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-07-27</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Double Reverse&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/07272149">
    <Name>TNC Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>155 1st Ave., New York, NY 10003</Address>
    <Phone>212-254-1109</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 9th and 10th Sts. Subway: 6 to Astor Place, N/R to 8th Street, L to 1st Avenue.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The selected group of artists for this exhibit work in a diversity of materials and approaches, both traditional and unexpected, to create work that is a mirror of contemporary issues and obsessions. Whether figurative, ornamental, or purely abstract, the exhibition (ironically hung with a theater as backdrop) draws attention to that elusive point of view called &quot;reality.&quot;]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6B15" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/6B15">
  <Name>&quot;Glass Ceiling&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4E3F1B1A">
    <Name>Kate Werble Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>83 Vandam St., New York, New York 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-352-9700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hudson and Greenwich St.  Subway: C/E to Spring Street or 1 to Houston Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kate Werble Gallery presents the work of four artists—Tony Cox, William Lamson, Ken Tisa, and Steven Thompson—in Glass Ceiling, an exhibition that investigates art making process grounded in repetition. Encompassing a range of media from Lamson’s hypnotic video to Tisa’s precisely rendered watercolors, each work stands as the result of contemplative and repetitive processes that verge on ritualistic. In each piece “losing” oneself becomes a manner of attempting to control form, pointing to the slippages between mental shifts and an alchemic transformation of material.

Tony Cox uses thread and small plastic objects to create densely woven compositions on top of canvas. In Meditative Rave, ritualistic imagery is abstracted and simultaneously made highly personal through the materials, as his process transforms a traditionally painstaking domestic activity into contemporary meditation.

In William Lamson’s Levitation Exercise a glowing, white balloon is pushed by the artist over and over into the air. As the balloon recedes, Lamson disappears into the dark. Slowly this mundane gesture transforms into a hypnotic representation. It invites the viewer to consciously know what something is and simultaneously indulge in accepting the illusion, as they are absorbed into its Sisyphean repetition.

Abstract forms are layered across Ken Tisa’s watercolors, creating dizzying visual spaces. The contrast between a Bacchanalian energy and the meticulous rendering of each element builds a tenuous balance between chaos and precision. The repetition of forms invites a state of contemplation that is constantly under siege. 

Steven Thompson creates installations of seemingly precious objects, assembled in elaborate arrangements evocative of renaissance Wunderkammer, scientific displays and religious relics. Nomadic Desk is composed of an array of oddities: found objects and semiprecious stones, mixed with his carefully rendered approximations of them. The piece designates psychological space in which nothing is what it seems.
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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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>
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  <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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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Optimismo Radical, 2&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3897570B">
    <Name>Josee Bienvenu Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-7990</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-8494</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and West Side Highway. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Josée Bienvenu Gallery presents Optimismo Radical, 2. Bringing together nine international artists, the title assembles two words that don’t ﬁt well. As a result, a high indeﬁnition that functions in a number of languages -Spanish, English, Portuguese, French- without being clearly understandable in any of them. Two redundant or contradictory words? Is radical optimism the opposite of moderate optimism? Or the opposite of conservative pessimism? The intention is to create a precise confusion, a label out of focus. In 2012, the gallery will inaugurate a series of individual project room exhibitions under the same title.

Ricardo Alcaide was born in 1967 in Caracas, Venezuela. He currently lives and works  in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Hinged between the poetic and the political, his juxtapositions of images and objects question how people cope with economic and social exclusion in different environments. He has been interested in the Latin American Modernist Movement’s often un-acknowledged debt to vernacular world architecture. His ongoing series of paintings “A Place to Hide”, based on photographs of temporary structures built by homeless people, investigates the notion of shelter. Recent exhibitions include:  A Place To Hide,  Baró Galería, Sao Paulo (2011); Horizonte Vasado, Artistas Latinoamericanos en el ﬁlo, Instituto Cervantes, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2010). 

Benjamin Appel was born in 1978 in Augsburg, Germany, he lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany. He graduated from the Karlsruhe Art Academy where he studied under Gerd van Dülmen, Thomas Zipp and Daniel Roth. At the interface between painting, sculpture and everyday object while pocking fun at them, Benjamin Appel is committed to the unspectacular and the fragile. sculptural installation of art povera materials such as concrete, earth, soil and elements of furniture coexist with abstract compositions on canvas.  Recent exhibitions include: Das Zimmer des Eremiten, NADA Miami, Weingruell gallery, Die Schwelle des Hauses, Studiokontrolle, Karlsruhe (2010);  Wie Der Vogel in seinem Nest, Kunstahalle Mannheim, Germany (2009).

Johanna Calle was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1965 where she lives and works. She received her MFA from the Chelsea College of Art at the London Institute, London UK in 1993. For the last ten years, she has been focusing exclusively on the medium of drawing. Her work consists of a non-narrative, critical and analytical approach to social and cultural issues in Colombia, speciﬁcally matters relating to women and children, social structures, urbanism and language. Her work was recently featured at the 12th Istanbul Biennial in Turkey, and is currently on view in The Air We Breathe at the San Francisco Museum of Art and in  Submergentes: a drawing approach on masculinities, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, California.  Since 2006 she has had several solo exhibitions with Galeria Casa Riegner in Bogota. She is now preparing for a solo show at Galeria Marilia Radzuk in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1961,  Alejandro Corujeira moved to Madrid in 1991. His meditative paintings and drawings refer to American Minimalism from Agnes Martin to Brice Marden, and to the Latin American abstract geometric tradition. A past resident of the Josef and Annie Albers Foundation, he has exhibited extensively in Europe and South America with solo exhibitions at the Museo Reina Soﬁa in Madrid and at the IVAM in Valencia. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Dan Galeria, Sao Paolo, Brazil (2012); El Comienzo, Marlborough gallery, Madrid, Spain; Lo accessible, vestido de sales, Marlborough Gallery, New York (2009).

Dario Escobar was born in Guatemala City in 1971 where he lives and works. He is known for his sculptural re-contextualization of everyday objects exploring concepts of sculptural, cultural, a n d  h i s t o r i c a l  h y b r i d i t y. I n  2 0 0 9 ,  h e  r e p r e s e n t e d  Gu a t ema l a  a t  t h e  5 3 r d   Ve n i c e Biennale. Upcoming and recent exhibitions include: Singular-Plural, a traveling solo exhibition at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD),  Atlanta, GA  (2012). Selections from the Jumex collection, at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, México (2011); Video otra vez, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Fortaleza, Brazil (2011); From the Recent Past: New Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA (2011). His ﬁrst monograph will be published by Harvard University Press this year.

Miguel Mitlag was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1969 and currently lives in Turin, Italy. He studied ﬁlm making in Buenos Aires in the 1990’s where he became a member of the experimental art group, ‘Art Destroy’. Minilab, Color Tests, Tropical Experiment: Miguel Mitlag’s photographs seem to document the lab of some mad scientist, they blur the boundaries between science and ﬁction. Ordinary and nearly abstract objects are carefully arranged in spaces ﬁlled with light and super bright colors in a ‘70’s Povera’ aesthetics that recalls Pedro Almodovar’s early ﬁlm sets. Recent exhibitions include:  Como Hacer Un Experimento, Galería Braga Menéndez, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010);  Anunciamos una repetición....Espacio Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010).

Philomene Pirecki was born in the Channel Islands, UK in 1972, she lives and works in London. She received her MA from The Royal College of Art, London in 1996. At the core of her work is an ongoing enquiry into notions of deﬁnitive representations. Using a  range of media from painting, photography, drawing and sculpture, Pirecki employs slight gestures to modify ﬁxed points of experience in time, history and visual memory.  Recent and upcoming exhibitions include:  Aukje Koks and Philomene Pirecki, MOT International, Brussels, Belgium (2012); Clockwork Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2012); Laure Guenillard, London (2011) ; Aftermath, Chelsea space, London (2011). She also runs the project space Occasionals in London.

Marco Rountree was born in Mexico DF in 1982. He started his career as a grafﬁti artist in  the streets of Mexico, where he still lives. Lately, he has been creating installations of altered books, questioning the access to knowledge in countries where the lower income population doesn’t gain access to education. Recent exhibitions include: Group Show, Museo de arte Moderno, Mexico DF (2011);  Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid (2011); Commissioned project curated by Patrick Charpenel for the Coppel collection, Culiacan Sinaloa, Mexico (2011); Nothingless and the being, Coleccion Jumex, Mexico DF, Curated by Shamim Momin (2009).

Fidel Sclavo was born in 1960 in Uruguay. He lives and works in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. As an acclaimed graphic designer, he has published many illustrations and  became reknown for his poster designs. His current work involves fragmenting language in many ways, creating abstract alphabets, micro-pop watercolors and minimal installations. Recent exhibitions include: Cartas no leídas, Tiempos Modernos, Madrid, Spain (2011); Recent work, Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, Uruguay (2011);  Canvas and papers, Galería Jorge Mara-La Ruche, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010).

[Image: Miguel Mitlag &quot;2010, Your black pill, Sr., (detail)&quot; (2010) Lambda C-Print, Edition 2 of 5, 29.5 x 29.5 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Portraits/Self-Portraits&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7D8487D4">
    <Name>Sperone Westwater</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>257 Bowery  New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-999-7337</Phone>
    <Fax>212-999-7338</Fax>
    <Access>Between Houston and Stanton St. Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of portrait and self-portrait paintings by notable European and American artists from the sixteenth century to the present. This survey includes Old Master paintings from Italy, France, England, and The Netherlands, as well as works by modern and contemporary artists.

The breadth of the works in &quot;Portraits/Self-Portraits&quot; demonstrates that portraiture has been an on-going and reoccurring theme in art history, especially in Western culture, for centuries. The earliest portraits were created to illustrate physical or material attributes of the sitter, which historically included nobility, family, friends, lovers, and the self. According to Angus Trumble, Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art – who has written the essay for the Portraits/Self-Portraits catalogue – in the seventeenth century, the focus of portraiture shifted to capturing the character or essence of the person. Since the Renaissance, there has been a dichotomy between what portraits – many of which were commissioned – represent or elucidate versus the “likeness” of the sitter. Portraits can depict a person’s wealth, power, piety, occupation, time period, cultural and personal interests, as well as emotional states.

The exhibition also acknowledges new scholarship on works from the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Portrait of a Gentleman from the mid-sixteenth century was recently attributed to Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (Florence 1503-1577), the Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist style whose workshop was one of the most important artist’s shops in Florence during this time. In contrast, the painting Portrait of a Young Gentleman by Jacopo Negretti called Palma the Younger (Venice 1548-1628) has a warmer palette, reminiscent of Tintoretto or Titian’s works. A primary portraitist for the Florentine court in the sixteenth century, Jacopino del Conte’s Portrait of a man with gloves is a half-length frontal view of an austere looking man holding gloves, and it has a refined and elegant dark palette. A Young Solider (1624) by Theodor Rombouts (Antwerp 1597 – 1637) is one of the artist’s few dated paintings, and it captures the soldier’s emotional state. Other historical masterworks include those by Leandro da Ponte known as Leandro Bassano (Bassano 1557 – Venice 1622), Nicolas de Largillière (Paris 1656 – 1746), Richard Van Bleeck (The Hague 1670 – 1733 London), to name a few.

Juxtaposed with these paintings are contemporary works that reflect movements in portraiture painting over the last century. Francis Picabia’s Portrait de Suzanne (1942) depicts his lover in a view that was perhaps taken from a photograph. Her makeup and hair indicate the fashion of the time, while her face and posture indicate an emotional state of unease. Pablo Picasso’s Tête de Femme (1943) is painted with vibrant colors and bold brushstrokes in the artist’s signature flat, Cubist style. Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait (1986) illustrates the artist’s characteristic “fright wig” and his exploration of identity including artist as star, while Kim Dingle’s Group Portrait (2011) explores multiple depictions of the artist.  In Susan Rothenberg’s Memory of 1951 (Self-Portrait), 2011, the artist identifies herself with a toy blue monkey she was given by her parents when she was hospitalized as a child. Tom Sachs’ Krusty (2011) elevates the status of a cartoon character from Pop culture as it becomes the subject of not only a portrait, but a self-portrait painting.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/70C0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/70C0">
  <Name>Kiyoshi Otsuka &quot;Commanding Gestures&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/9C03551E">
    <Name>Tenri Cultural Institute</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>43A W 13th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-645-2800</Phone>
    <Fax>212-727-3234</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: F/V to 14th Street or L/F/V to 14th Street or 4/5/6/N/Q/W to Union Sq. 14th St.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Otsuka's horticultural experience comes into play when painting in that he incorporates the mystifying qualities of nature into his work. This is most evident morphologically but also in the titles he uses for example Mizuumi which means body of water, or Mizoresleet. To Otsuka, &quot;water provides nourishment through roots, and the intensity of the root energy is powerful.&quot; Otsuka aims to express this power through his paintings. The element of water is evident in the liquid surfaces of his works as is the energy with which he moves his brush. This unbridled beauty is expressed in an abstract idiom that is ineradicable in its impact. The word gesture in western art is usually associated with Abstract Expressionism popular in the late Forties and early Fifties. The Gutai group and its leader Jiro Yoshihara in 1954 were also working with gestural approaches of painting in Japan from where Otsuka immigrated. However, in ancient China according to the art theorist Xie He's (aesthetics shared by Japan) first canon of painting, a lively brushwork was considered to contain Qi yun or energy/spirit/breath of life. As explained by Sherman E. Lee in A History of Far Eastern Art, &quot;the Qi yun, the life spirit, is the quality that differentiates genius from competence.&quot; (Fifth Edition, p.288)

Although abstraction in general speaks to the universal, Otsuka's abstract language becomes something very specific conveying the spiritual dynamism of his individual signature. Otsuka's abstract Bayou, 2011 contains sharp, strong line juxtaposed against soft evanescent passages of space like Sesshu Toyo's Long Landscape Scroll, (c.1420-1506) even though the latter is a representational work. Otsuka's works for this show are significant in size and site- specific to the Tenri which is a space of monumental scale. Thus, in this regard, it is conceptual because it alters the perception of the space rendering it awe-inspiring.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Karina Cavat “Psalms from a Painter”</Name>
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    <Name>Westbeth Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>55 Bethune St., New York, NY 10014</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-4650</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and West St. Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Karina Cavat’s first solo exhibition at the Westbeth Gallery opens Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the Westbeth Artists Housing in Lower Manhattan. The exhibition “ Psalms from a Painter” is from a series of works on wood and paper painted over a four year period and is based on the artist’s nomadic spiritual search and ongoing response to the feeling of a new world. Many of the formats that are shown are in triptych and vertical compositions and explore harmonious arrangements dedicated to the macro and micro dimensions found in Nature and the cosmos.

Cavat has exhibited her work nationally, has received numerous awards including a Fulbright Scholarship to Italy and two Helena Rubinstein Awards in painting. She is currently as a working teaching artist for Creative Classrooms and Studio in a School in New York City.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Po Kim Exhibition</Name>
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    <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>
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  <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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  <DateStart>2012-02-15</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;The Substance of Abstraction&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/32BEF472">
    <Name>Agora Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-4151</Phone>
    <Fax>212-966-4380</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The artists of The Substance of Abstraction use their considerable abilities to enhance and express their quest for inspiration and discovery, sharing the results with their audience through their work. Imaginative, emotional and communicative, these creations show what happens when artists allow every aspect of their lives to influence and in turn be affected by their creative impulses. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-01</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Winter Thoughts&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Prince Street Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., 4 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-230-0246</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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  <Name>George Ortman &quot;Constructions: 1949 – 2011&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Algus Greenspon</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>71 Morton St., New York, NY 10014</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-7872</Phone>
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    <Access>Corner of Hudson St. Subway: 1 to Houston Street</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Algus Greenspon presents George Ortman, Constructions: 1949 – 2011, an exhibition surveying 62 years of the artist’s work.

George Ortman’s painted constructions of the 1950s and early 1960s are pioneering works. Their reductive geometry and modular color were widely seen as being at the forefront of young artists move away from abstract expressionism. Writing about the Whitney’s Young America 1960, Hilton Kramer noted that “There is only one artist [in the exhibition] who is equal to a museum showing: that is Mr. George Ortman.” Indeed, Ortman’s work was a particular inspiration to Donald Judd who saw it at the Stable Gallery and repeatedly cited its importance as an antecedent: “[In 1959] George Ortman was doing his best reliefs and had been working along that line for some time. Their worth has never been adequately acknowledged.” (Local History, Arts Yearbook 7, 1964)
 
In many ways Ortman’s early work forms a missing link between post-war abstraction and the geometric art of the 1960s. As such it fits neatly beside the occult assemblage of Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Lee Bontecou in a progression away from abstract expressionism towards something concrete and revelatory. Judd remarks in his seminal essay on the development of the new art of the 1960s, Specific Objects that “The work of Johns and Rauschenberg and assemblage and low-relief generally, Ortman’s reliefs for example, are preliminaries.” (Arts Yearbook 8, 1965) Interestingly, Ortman shares with Johns and Rauschenberg a type of quotidian surrealism, as well as ties to Dada. Ortman’s link to post-war Surrealism originates in his studies at Stanley William Hayter‘s Atelier 17 in New York in 1949. The Dada connection comes via Duchamp, and is evident in the parallels between Ortman’s formal geomancy and chess. As Judd observes: “[Ortman’s constructions] seem to be games or models for some activity and suggest chance, from much through little, controlled and uncontrolled, operating on things both related and unrelated. They are one of the few instances of completely unnaturalistic art. They are concerned with a new area of experience, one which is relevant philosophically as well as emotionally.” (Local History, Arts Yearbook 7, 1964) 
 
The current exhibition starts with Ortman’s first construction, Beginnings (1949), done while in Paris on the GI Bill. Beginnings clearly shows the artist’s assimilation of surrealist influence, taking Cornell’s boxes in a new, abstract/constructivist, direction. Journey of a Young Man (1957 is a sententious work marking Ortman’s transition from surrealism to purely geometric constructions. Like all of Ortman’s art it belies a furtive narrative figuration undergoing an analytical progression towards pure abstraction. Tales of Love (1959), the largest work in Ortman’s breakthrough 1960 exhibition at Stable Gallery, is the apogee of the relentless, reductivist constructions that Judd found so inspirational. Blue Diamond (1960) is Ortman’s most widely reproduced work and was a centerpiece of Toward a New Abstraction, the important 1963 exhibition at the Jewish Museum that defined then emerging post-painterly tendencies. (Here Ortman took equal place alongside Ellswoth Kelly, Frank Stella, Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.) In the 1970s, as a faculty member at Cranbrook Academy near Detroit, Ortman’s work acquired a riveting elegance. Constructions such as Woodward (1974) and Eye (1977) have the unified formal presence of the best post-war abstraction to come out of New York.
 
In the late 1980s and 1990s Ortman turned his eye toward Detroit, seeing in the city’s tragic decay themes that were familiar to him from his work at the Tempo Playhouse, the theater he cofounded in 1953 that was the first in America to present plays by Ionesco and Genet. Pilgrim and Jefferson Avenue are two major constructions from this period. Stark in their use of silver, white and graphite, they have a lucid mechanical ferocity bearing interesting comparison to the work of Lee Bontecou. Most recently, fascinated by the geometric possibilities presented by the intersection of four inclined planes, Ortman has been working on an ongoing series of free standing pyramidal forms.
 
Throughout his career, Ortman has made Imitations based upon classical and modern masterpieces. Included here are drawings for Heartbeat, Ortman’s first (1962) Imitation based on Matisse’s Piano Lesson, and a group of drawings from his study of Paolo Uccello’s Battle of San Romano (1965). These drawings emphasize the figurative and symbolic foundation of Ortman’s art, demonstrating the mechanics of his abstraction and showcasing his extraordinary talent as a draughtsman–an interesting aside for a geometric abstractionist shared by others of his generation such as Ellsworth Kelly.
 
George Ortman was born in 1926 in Oakland, California. In the early 1950s Ortman showed at the cooperative Tanager Gallery on Tenth Street, then in 1957 and 1960, at the Stable Gallery. Throughout the 1960s Ortman showed at the Howard Wise Gallery. The artist had a one-person exhibition at the Walker Art Center in 1965. In 1970 Ortman left to teach at the Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and stopped exhibiting in New York. The current show is George Ortman’s third exhibition since returning to New York in the 1990s. In 2001 this gallery presented a cycle of paintings from the 1980s based on Georges Seurat’s Models, and in 2006 an exhibition of 4 constructions and new cast sculptures.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Erin Raedeke &quot;Things Left&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>First Street Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>526 W 26th St., Suite 209, New York, NY, 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-336-8053</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[In her first solo exhibition in New York City, Erin Raedeke explores complex relationships by observing the detritus of everyday life. In &quot;Things Left,&quot; the still life becomes a vehicle for grappling with unresolved thoughts and memories. The viewer enters the paintings as if they were entering a play mid-scene. The elusive plot is not unlike the subconscious. Fragments are not connected in an ordered way. Patterns are observed and dynamics play out as the motivations of characters emerge. Is the whimsical bird in a painting an innocent witness or does it play a more complicit role? These are the things that are left in the residue of daily life.
 
Erin Raedeke received her BFA from Indiana University and her MFA from American University.

[Image: Erin Raedeke &quot;The Victim&quot; oil on board 12 x 16 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>Brian Fekete &amp; Nathan Schiel &quot;Cellar Door&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>571 Projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>551 W 21st St., Unit 204A, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-229-0897</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[571 Projects presents Cellar Door, an exhibition of new works by artists Brian Fekete and Nathan Schiel, curated by Joe Elliott. This is Fekete and Schiel’s first exhibition with 571 Projects, and Schiel’s first exhibition in New York City. 
 
Often cited as an example of phonasthetics, here Cellar Door forefronts the concept of thresholds. The hidden, forgotten and stratified belong to the cellar, and a door grants or denies passage into this alternate realm. In literature gateways, portals and even rabbit holes are used as a device to define the transition between perceived truth and enlightenment, and the few who gain access must earn it. Painters Fekete and Schiel both explore similar boundaries between an apparent surface reality and an enigmatic world below in their work on view at 571 Projects. Activating similar thresholds, they challenge us to engage and interact with their work.
 
Believing in the potential of progress rather than a preoccupation with the past, Schiel builds his paintings via an unrelenting system of layers.  Cabin (2011, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in.) is heavily repainted, revealing only the slightest hint of that which lies beneath. As a result of this stratification our visual understanding is restricted by the physicality of the tangible layers. Adorning the surface of his abstract paintings, Schiel delicately grounds us in the shadows of trompe l’oeil, once again referencing depth though ultimately teasing us with concealed histories. Schiel does not intend to restrict the viewer from the origins of the work, but he asks us to look closely for windows into past layers, revealing the true personality of each painting.
 
In contrast to Schiel’s opaque layers pierced by windows, Fekete uses a latticework of juxtaposed imagery.  Thrusting us deep into a medley of visual symbolism, he challenges logic and convention on a cerebral level. In Serotonin Serenade (2011, ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 38 in.), a distorted image of a brain floats against a boundless, decoratively patterned void. Aided by an extensive image library consisting of automobile catalogues, anatomical prints, and historical illustrations, Fekete uses a process that Elliott describes as ‘analog Photoshop.’ Favoring the photocopier and projector over the convenience of their digital counterparts, he intertwines elements of nature, science, and religion. Through distortion and re-contextualization of these images, Fekete celebrates their similarities and hopes that we too might open our minds, taking a daunting yet critical step into his fantastical world.
 
Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Fekete received his BFA and MFA from the Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Most recently he has exhibited at SoapBox Gallery, NY, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, MI and Bunting Gallery, MI. His work is represented in multiple private and institutional collections including, The Detroit Institute of the Arts, CB Commercial and Miller, Cranfield, Paddock and Stone. Born in Denver Colorado, Schiel received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2011 Schiel was awarded a full scholarship and teaching fellowship to The University of Massachusetts Amherst. This will be Schiel’s first exhibition in New York City.
 
Joe Elliott is a New York City-based independent curator and the founder of Kingsley Elliott, an online gallery dedicated to supporting and promoting emerging artists via pop-up exhibitions.  Elliott received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and his Masters in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;wallflowers&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Fischbach Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>210 11th Ave, #801, New York, NY, 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-759-2345</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Wall Flowers highlights the finest selection of Fischbach Gallery Artists’ renditions of the flower.  Whether symbolic and metaphorical or photographical and representative, each painting portrays the Artists unique interpretation of the flower and expresses what a wallflower means to the Artist.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;In Their Own World&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Tache Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., No. 602, New York, NY 10001</Address>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Curator: D. Dominick Lombardi]]></Description>
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  <Name>Shalom Neuman and Terrenceo &quot;Racks On Racks and Urban ARTifacts&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Lambert Fine Arts</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>57 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-353-2787</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge Sts., Subway: F to 2nd Avenue, JMZ to Essex St or D to Grand</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Lambert Fine Arts presents &quot;Racks On Racks and Urban ARTifacts&quot; highlighting the works of Shalom Neuman and Terrenceo, two of the most prolific and original contemporary artists who expose the social issues that an egocentric society saturated with apathy has long deemed as acceptable. Both artists take a multi-sensory and multi-media approach to boldly challenge our assumptions about contemporary culture and life in the digital age.  
 
Shalom Neuman has been called a &quot;phenomenon&quot; by both Robert Morgan and Donald Kuspit, while his Fusion Art is described by critic Lester Strong as &quot;Combining color, motion, and sound into a multidisciplinary, multisensory extravaganza [that] reflects and comments on a contemporary world he sees as seriously out of joint and in need of repair.&quot;  At Lambert Fine Arts will be the Amerika series, multi-media and interactive portraits made from found objects, sound recordings, motion sensors and toys &quot;constructed from the detritus of our society, they reach beyond the individual to comment on a culture where rampant consumerism threatens to engulf us all.&quot;
 
Terrenceo refers to his bodies of work as Contemporary New Realism and Digital Primitive. Using a complex layering of collage, assorted materials, and distinctive brushwork, Terrenceo updates Nouveau Réalisme and takes a satirical approach in his juxtaposition of iconic images from popular culture to develop compelling and provocative social commentary. His use of found objects and digital manifestations from contemporary life express his response to being submerged in a highly materialistic and technologically advanced world, which we are forced to encounter with no regard for the implications, misinterpretations, and social constructions that form the foundation for entire belief systems.
 
&quot;The work of both artists reflect lives of perseverance and triumph despite conflict, forced displacement, injustice, and racism, and I think Shalom and Terrenceo have extremely significant and timeless things to say about popular culture and modern life,&quot; states Executive Director Marc Lambert.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Danica Phelps &quot;The Cost of Love&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Brennan &amp; Griffin</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>55 Delancey St., New York, NY 10002 </Address>
    <Phone>212-227-0115</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Brennan &amp; Griffin presents “The Cost of love”, an exhibition of new work by Danica Phelps.

For more than a decade, Phelps has been chronicling her own life through a series of charts and drawings that detail the passing of time and her daily actions. Working serially and using self imposed limits, Phelps has created a system of pointed stripes that correlate to her income, expenses, and debt. Similar to On Kawara and Hanne Darboven, Phelps developed a system to represent time and and her daily activities - tram the mundane to the highly emotional - in a mathematically predetermined and structured code.
For her show at the gallery, Phelps has produced a series of panels that represent a recent turn at events in the artist's life and tar the the First time, do not track the passing of time, but rather chronicles the phenomenon of loss. “The Cost of Love” details the split with her girlfriend through the text at court papers and the subsequent financial fallout. Works in the show combine Phelps' system of painted colored stripes to document her Finances that are interspersed with the legal narrative from the housing court judgement that unfolds word by word from one panel to the next. Again, using her personal lite as her source, Phelps explores highly charged and emotional territory in repetitive and systematic marks with subtle gradations at hue and tone. The Cast at love is remarkable for its elegant illustration of loss which when viewed as a whale, reflects a proiect that is greater than the sum of its parts.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Abstract Gambol&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Heskin Contemporary</Name>
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    <Address>443 W 37th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-967-4972</Phone>
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    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Abstract Gambol&quot; is a painting exhibition that includes the works of six painters whose divergent approaches in both concept and technique reflects a richness of possibility at work in abstraction today. In mediums of oil, gouache, acrylic and enamel, these six artists, each in their own way, respond to change, flux, disruption, beauty, nature- that is the world we inhabit.  Their divergent approaches are reflected in works that pull strands from abstract painting's history to extend and develop fresh ideas and painting experiences.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8049BA8A">
    <Name>Queens Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Queens Museum of Art, Meridian Rd., Flushing, NY 11368</Address>
    <Phone>718-592-9700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Ten-minute walk through the park to the Unisphere, where the museum is located. Follow the yellow signs. Subway: 7 to Willets Point/Shea Stadium</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed Monday &amp; Tuesday With the exception of Learning Programs &amp; Workshops.  Also closed on New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle is the fifth edition of the Queens Museum of Art’s biannual survey of artists living and working in the borough. The 31 artists featured this year are based in Astoria, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Long Island City, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, and Ridgewood, and comprise a multi-national and cross-generational group.

We found many artists working in forms of abstraction and collage, while many others were telling fantastical stories that layer the here and now with other spaces and times. Together, they seemed to be combining the rational and the emotional, searching for worlds beyond our own, from the midst of a daily life permeated by information technology.

These ideas are woven throughout the museum’s first-floor galleries. One gallery focuses on humble materials, basic forms and energies, and their discovery in everyday life. Another suggests possible journeys into the future and past, deploying symbols from traditional cultures, science, and mathematics. A third contains artworks that turn inward towards home and the spiritual. In addition to the works on view, three artists’ workshops are scheduled to explore these ideas in real time.

The exhibition subtitle originates with French Surrealist René Daumal’s unfinished novel Mount Analogue (1944), in which eight explorers use scientific knowledge and metaphysical powers to search for a magical mountain invisible to the human eye. In this spirit, embark on your journey through the exhibition.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested donations: Adults $5, Seniors and Children $2.50, Members and Children under 5 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-20</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8295" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8295">
  <Name>&quot;Darker Stars-The Roots of Steampunk Art&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E7FA1E66">
    <Name>Cavin-Morris Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-3768</Phone>
    <Fax>212-226-0155</Fax>
    <Access>Between 24th and 25th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The whole idea of Steampunk is revisionist..... its process is to look back on certain threads of history and reweave them into the present and future.  There are no rules.  A literary precedent has been set with Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne up through H.P. Lovecraft, Bruce Sterling, and William Giibson, but as that literary history has darkened and brought in more decadent elements it is common now to include J.K. Huysmans and his ilk for their embrace of the phantasmal and of artifice as weapons against mundane life.  Though there is a Steampunk or Steamgoth literary lineage the same isn't true of its Art.  There have indeed been Contemporary Steampunk art exhibitions but none working back through history.  As I mentioned, there are no rules and so, with this exhibition and several to follow, Cavin-Morris Gallery is going to explore alternative revisionism and establish some Old Masters in the historical lineage of what has become known as Steampunk art.

Despite the twin sisters of poverty or depression, it was a hand-me-down from Victorian times to feel that, with the right machine, the right invention, the right harnessing of one of Nature’s energies (usually having to do with electromagnetism or electricity or steam), one could be rich and a world savior to boot. The Inventor was a god.  The role models were people like Thomas Edison and Nicholas Tesla.  Inventing could push the outer limits of individual opportunity.  One could be rich, famous, and in control of one’s destiny.   It is this feeling of do it yourself unlimited opportunity that the Steampunk and Steamgoth communities draw upon.
 
But the mind does not automatically draw within the lines.   The fantasy world Jules Verne imagined was shared by others.  Charles Dellschau’s Flying Machines were not a literary device.  They represented the hopes and dreams of someone who completely believed in their existence.  Dellschau becomes the center of this exhibition because of his fixation on airships and flying, he is the epitome of what Steampunk design is all about.  But he wasn’t looking backward.  He was looking into his present and forward. 
 
Melvin Edward Nelson was another for whom the magazine, Popular Mechanics, was a Bible.  For him the machine had a different spin and fed a visionary hunger. He was physically in tune with astral geology and the ability of the human mind to receive cosmic information--the very voices of planets being born, of the healing energy of interplanetary light emanations.  He took Dellschau out further from the skyways of earth into the planetary airways.  He designed and built machines that would harness universal energy; the mind and body would fuse and see first hand the awesome births and deaths of planets and stars and use this experience for healing, and he would be the inventor who made it possible.
 
Emery Blagdon grew up with the same belief of the inventor as God.  If properly tuned and psychically aimed, a machine could prevent disease or heal the ill.  He knew he was intuitive.  He could invent and build the machines but he couldn’t necessarily explain how they worked.  That was the work for scientists.  Meanwhile he could channel energy through the Healing Machines and put them to work on an earth that was suffering.  Although his goal was a positive one, it was still infused with poignancy in his recognition of the dark side of Nature and Her legacy of Disease and Death.  Electromagnetism could be recycled through the machines to counter these curses.
 
The Victorian times were also an era of exploration of the occult; of mediums and visionary voyages, of the embrace of mental depression as a route of survival and a sign of creative intensity.  In A Rebours, by Joris-Karl Huysmans, the main character, Jean Des Esseintes, builds a mechanical fish to float in a false sea to replace Nature’s more risky version.  Some in the Victorian world, in opposition to bourgeois complacency, held a need for individual freedom of expression close to anarchy.  Religion was also potentially a path to darker visionary worlds.  In Henry Darger’s struggle with the blood, and complete immersion demanded by Catholicism, he used Prussian soldiers and huge explosions as forces that both protected and threatened the world.  War became the ultimate world of adulthood, both attractive and terrifying.  Darger’s vision is a bridge to the Goth viewpoint in its dance on the edge of cruelty.
 
 If there ever is a revisionist timeline of Steampunk and Steamgoth Art then the names Charles Dellschau, Melvin Edward Nelson, Emery Blagdon, and Henry Darger, certainly should be recorded as some of the natural self-taught progenitors. 
 
This first exhibition examines artists who are self-taught and for whom there is little differentiation between their lives and their artwork. The art itself was really life process. The second show in this series will present works by both trained and untrained artists dealing with the same subject matter.
 
Also shown will be Zbynek Semerak, Leos Wertheimer, and Sandra Sheehy.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8567" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8567">
  <Name>Madeleine Gekiere Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6AF88F88">
    <Name>Fred Torres Collaborations</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>527 W 29th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-244-5074</Phone>
    <Fax>212-244-5075</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street, C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_28_above">Chelsea 28th - 33rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Fred Torres Collaborations presents a survey of drawings, paintings, and assemblages by Madeleine Gekiere. This is Gekiere’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. 

The exhibition features a selection of over 50 years of Gekiere’s extensive body of work. Throughout Gekiere’s oeuvre, whether working in painting, drawing, or other mediums, there is a constant interest in form, memory, emotion, and text. Many of the early drawings and paintings explore modernist abstraction and feature an earthy palette of blacks, browns and tans. Later Gekiere began to experiment with assemblage, using everyday found objects including light bulbs, wood handles, toys, hosiery, and books to create witty juxtapositions. Like many of Gekiere’s works, her assemblages imply connections to figurative forms, which relate to earlier works. Gekiere’s “book assemblages” and “hieroglyphic” works demonstrate her interest in text, language, and memory. Throughout her career, Gekiere has written short stories and published many illustrated books, whereby text and book covers naturally find their place in a significant portion of her fine art work. 

Madeleine Gekiere was born in Switzerland in 1919. She lives and works in New York. Gekiere studied at NYU, Brooklyn Museum School, and the Art Students League. Gekiere began exhibiting in the 1950’s with Babcock Gallery, and continued to show there through the 1970’s. Between 1953 and 1963, her books were named five times by the New York Times as one of the “Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year.” In the 1970’s and 1980’s her experiments in over 20 films screened extensively throughout the U.S. More recently, in the fall of 2011 Anthology Film Archives screened several of her short films including the1980 film Chewing. In addition to Babcock Gallery, she has exhibited at Forum Gallery, New York University, and Galerie Wolfsberg, Zurich. Her work is in numerous museum collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, and the San Francisco Museum of Art]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8652" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8652">
  <Name>On Kawara &quot;Date Painting(s)&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4E0C8908">
    <Name>David Zwirner</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>525 W 19th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-727-2070</Phone>
    <Fax>212-727-2072</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and West Side Expressway. C/E to 23rd Street or A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_19_below">Chelsea 14th - 19th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[David Zwirner presents the exhibition On Kawara: Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities, on view at the gallery’s 525 and 533 West 19th Street spaces. The exhibition will feature over 150 works selected by the artist, comprising a seminal presentation of his renowned date paintings from 1966 to the present (known collectively as the Today series).

Spanning both of the gallery’s exhibition spaces at 525 and 533 West 19th Street, the exhibition will address the temporal and geographical scope of the artist’s continuing practice, which is characterized by its meditative approach to concepts of time, space, and consciousness. Date paintings from each year since the inception of the Today series will be brought together in an expansive, evocative installation: a comprehensive selection of works painted in New York will be displayed in one gallery, while the second exhibition space will be devoted to the presentation of works painted in almost all other cities ever visited by the artist.

For over four decades, On Kawara has created paintings, drawings, books, and recordings that examine chronological time and its function as a measure of human existence. The artist began making his now signature date paintings in 1966 in New York City, and continues to make them in different parts of the world. Following the same basic procedure and format, each of these works is carefully executed by hand with the date documented in the language and grammatical conventions of the country in which it is made (Esperanto is used when the first language of a given country does not use the Roman alphabet). The artist has created a version of the sans serif typeface, which he uses to meticulously paint the letters and numbers in white on a monochrome surface. Each painting, when not on display, is encased in a cardboard box handmade by the artist. On certain days, a newspaper clipping from the city in which the painting is executed is selected and used to line the interior of the box.

The particular syntax with which any given date is recorded evokes specific locations and subtly reflects the regional differences that exist despite the universality of time. With works on display from over a hundred cities in more than thirty countries, the grammar of the paintings emerges as a code to be deciphered. The global dimension of the Today series is further evidenced by the local newspapers accompanying many of the works, whose headlines add to the virtually endless events encompassed by the given date recorded by Kawara (presentation binders with facsimiles of the newspapers clippings will be accessible for visitors to read).

New York occupies a central importance within the Today series as the city where the first date painting was made (JAN. 4, 1966) and where the majority of the works have been executed. It also marks the location of three significant paintings produced on the days surrounding the first manned moon landing in July 1969 (JULY 16, 1969; JULY 20, 1969; and JULY 21, 1969); each presents the largest canvas size Kawara has used for the date paintings (61 x 89 inches). The actual newspaper clippings accompanying these works are exhibited alongside the paintings and offer a narrative component, with the headline of one reading “MAN WALKS ON MOON.”

Also on view will be one-hundred-year calendars: one from the twentieth century and another from the twenty-first. Starting with the date of his birth, Kawara systematically marks each day of his life with a yellow dot on the calendars, and registers a completed date painting with a green dot (red dots signify that more than one painting was completed on that given day).

Japanese writer Lei Yamabe notes in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition that each date painting “is like a letter whose delivery has been delayed, or one might say that each work resembles a star.” Conversely, for each day in which a date painting is not produced, “Kawara is shut in the closed room of time, simultaneously alive and dead...[T]he flickering between life and death, existence and non-existence, is transferred intact to the entire Today series made up of date paintings. This is because the series will be complete when Kawara’s body ceases to exist—when superposition finally collapses completely and Kawara has entered the irreversible phase of ‘death.’ Or conversely, because until that moment the series itself is a superposition of existence and non-existence.”1

On Kawara: Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities will be accompanied by an eponymous, fully illustrated catalogue published by Ludion. Since 1999, Kawara’s work has been represented by David Zwirner, and On Kawara: Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities marks his fifth solo exhibition at the gallery.

On Kawara is a prominent figure in contemporary art, and his work has been included in numerous conceptual art surveys from the seminal Information show at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1970 to 1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1995-96. The artist’s work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at prominent institutions worldwide, including the Dallas Museum of Art in 2008. On Kawara: Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills was a major solo exhibition, which traveled to a dozen international venues between 2002 and 2006, including the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore; and The Power Plant, Toronto. A long-term installation of the artist’s date paintings is currently on view at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-06</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/86D1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/86D1">
  <Name>&quot;Phases&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F36F8707">
    <Name>Wallspace</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>619 W 27th St., New York, NY 10001 </Address>
    <Phone>212-594-9478</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
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  <Name>Susan Post &quot;Color Balance&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1EC68E01">
    <Name>The Painting Center</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite 500, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-343-1060</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Susan Post finds ways for paint to “behave”, in paintings where simultaneous contrast and ambiguous space create surfaces both flat and deep. The work in “Color Balance” derives from a single composition called Seven Lines – a 2008 pencil drawing of stripes of contrasting values set perpendicularly against a third value. In 2010 a fourth color arrived and in 2011 it stuck around, affording ample complexity for Post’s idiosyncratic study of the interactions of color and edge. The composition dictates that an equal amount of each color is distributed, so that any perceived imbalance is purely a function of the colors, their relative values, and the way that they butt up against one another. Each patch or strip of color in these paintings acts as part of two of the four distinct vertical or horizontal structural elements, and every part of the painting hovers between figure and ground.

In 2007 Susan Post earned her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she was a member of their inaugural class in residence at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Post’s work has been featured on the cover of Carnegie Hall’s Playbill, and has shown at OK Harris Gallery and The Painting Center in New York City, and at the Woman’s Museum in Dallas. She has exhibited at the Barbara Krakow Gallery, The Kingston Gallery and Samson Projects in Boston, and is represented on Cape Cod by The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. Post lives and works outside Boston.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/887D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/887D">
  <Name>Ellen Emmet Rand and Ellen Emmet Rand Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/22CCE13E">
    <Name>Figureworks</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>168 N 6th St., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone>718-486-7021</Phone>
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    <Access>Corner of Bedford Ave. Subway: L to Bedford Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The work in this show will combine Ellen Emmet Rand’s portrait paintings and drawings from the turn of the century with Ellen Emmet Rand's new abstract collage paintings, which have been inspired from and created directly over a series of her earlier figurative paintings done in the 1990’s. Though these women have created quite different works in technique and subject, there is a remarkable similarity in palette, use of light, and a unified sensitivity to composition. These women, having come from very different generations, paths and circumstances, manage to share a unique bond of creativity and perspective. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/88ED" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/88ED">
  <Name>&quot;All Talk&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D99167C4">
    <Name>Pandemic Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>37 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
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    <Access>Between Kent and Wythe Sts. Subway: J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
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  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;ALL TALK&quot; features some of New York City's boldest anti-heros, cynics and preachers. Those that run us through the gauntlet of fine art, design, and graffiti. From spray paint to oil paint to print making, this group of artists will display a collection of work to be hung in a gallery, but that can also be seen on the streets, walls and rooftops of New York. Their consistency and work ethic have been unparalleled in a scene that seems to be full of come and go artists looking for quick fame. This group has proved themselves time and time again to be among the most authentic and dedicated creators around. Engulfed with the love for what they do, they demonstrate their undaunted drive and creative dominance............... unless it's just all talk.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8B36" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8B36">
  <Name>Noriyuki Haraguchi &quot;Works from Yokosuka&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>McCaffrey Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>23 E 67th St., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-988-2200</Phone>
    <Fax>212-988-2250</Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison Ave. and 5th Ave.  Subway: 6 to 68th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[McCaffrey Fine Art presenst its first solo exhibition of the work of Noriyuki Haraguchi. On the occasion of this exhibition, &quot;Works from Yokosuka&quot;, the artist has constructed a full-scale replica of the tail of a US Navy A-7E Corsair II jet, created from raw stretched canvas, aluminum, and plywood. This monumental sculpture will be shown in conjunction with a selection of works that he created between 1963 and 1972.

Noriyuki Haraguchi first came to prominence in the late 1960s, developing paintings and sculptures that engaged with cultural and environmental issues through a post-minimalist vocabulary. The artist was born in 1946 and raised in the town of Yokosuka, the home port of the US Navy's 7th Fleet since the end of hostilities in 1945. Yokosuka's large sailor population has made it a flash point in cultural relations between Japan and the United States. It was also the primary Japanese naval base from which the Vietnam War was fought, which incited antiwar and pro-pacifist protests in Japan.

In November 1968, while Haraguchi was still a student at Nihon University, Tokyo, riots broke out at the university in protest against the war in Vietnam, the presence of US military on Japanese soil, and the Japanese-American security treaty (ANPO agreement). An encounter with the exhaust vent and tail of a US Navy jet fighter being transported onto the Yokosuka Navy Base one evening in late 1968 proved decisive in cementing Haraguchi's politically infused minimalist aesthetic and inspired his first magnum opus, A-4E Skyhawk (1969). Constructed behind the barricades at Nihon University amid the riots, Haraguchi handcrafted a full-scale plywood reproduction of the tail of the aircraft. He also completed a series of monochrome white Air Pipe constructions (1968–69) of stretched canvas on plywood armatures that resemble jet engine exhausts. The A-4E Skyhawk was exhibited in 1969 in Tokyo before being returned to Nihon University, where it was subsequently destroyed by riot police and the university authorities.

The A-7 E Corsair II jet tail is the fifth sculpture of Vietnam-era American warplanes that Haraguchi has completed since 1968–69. In the exhibition, it will be accompanied by two examples from the Air Pipe series (1969), along with a lacquered paper battleship sculpture from the Ship series (1963–65) and Tsumu 147 (1966), a life-size rendition of the doors of a freight wagon. These works evince an early and acute awareness of the aesthetics of militarism and heavy industry that continues to inspire Haraguchi's distinctive body of work. 

Haraguchi's work first came to prominence in the West in 1977 at Documenta, where his Oil Pool sculpture attracted a great deal of attention. Since then, his work has only occasionally been seen in the United States and Europe, most notably at the Lenbachhaus in Munich in 2001. Retrospective exhibitions of his work have recently been held at BankART, Yokohama, Japan, in 2009, and the Yokosuka Museum of Art in 2011. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-06</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8B7E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8B7E">
  <Name>&quot;Mind the Gap&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2DD676AF">
    <Name>Kent Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., Fl.2, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-365-9500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 24th and 25th Sts. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Each of the works in &quot;Mind the Gap&quot; operates between and within signs in order to discover, tease out, and make manifest meaning that is neither obvious nor orthodox. The artists presented here respond to our world with particular intelligence and sensitivity to these gaps. It is in their natures to be radical, and each questions and provokes in their own way.

The title and spirit of the exhibition take their cue from Lise Patt's description of W.G. Sebald:

If there is a Sebaldian method, in Austerlitz we are given its opening line: &quot;mind the gap&quot; between words, between and in images and text, but most significantly, mind the gaps in (not only between) signs. Look at the spaces between seeing and not seeing (where you'll catch a glimpse of &quot;the phantom traces created by the sluggish eye&quot;). Notice the gaps between cards being dealt of pages of a book flipping by. Don't turn away from the visual magma, after-images that &quot;leak&quot; out from their moving sides. Pay attention to the momentary arrest of language required by a period, a comma, an &quot;aside.&quot; Don't ignore the &quot;whispered&quot; secrets of the last spoken syllable hanging in the air, or the last written word of a paragraph stranded on its own line. Study those photographs created in slips of the shutter or captured in concert with bodily sighs. These are the gaps that open the way to the production of thought itself, to awaking, not anesthetizing, the creative mind.

[Image: Lise Patt &quot;What I Know for Sure,&quot; in Searching for Sebald: Photography after W.G. Sebald (Los Angeles: Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2007), pp. 81-82.] ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8B94" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8B94">
  <Name>&quot;Alex Doolan's Mud Doctors: a story in two chapters, told with paint (Chapter One)&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/81CED815">
    <Name>The ArtBridge Drawing Room</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>526 W. 26th St., Studio 503, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>917-720-5742</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[ &quot;I've been thinkin' about the future. I could be a mud doctor. Checkin' out the eart'.  
                       Underneat&quot;.                                                                      - Days of Heaven &quot;1978&quot; 

The ArtBridge Drawing Room debuts the work of artist Alex Doolan and his whimsical six-painting narrative series, Mud Doctors. Doolan's large, loose, colorful canvases catapult the viewer into the thick of the high stakes drama taking place inside his weird and extraordinarily sincere world, where mud, (yes, mud) is rushed to a hospital underneath the earth's surface with a mystery ailment whose remedy only the mud doctors can supply. 

Taking its cues from his affection for storytelling, The ArtBridge Drawing Room will present Doolan's Mud Doctors in two, three-painting, chapters. Join us for the opening reception of Chapter One on Thursday, January 12 from 6-8PM. Chapter Two and the story's conclusion will be told in February, 2012.
                   
Alex Doolan was born in Singapore and has lived all over the world, from Hong Kong to Belgium to New Jersey. First a psychology major at Manhattanville College, Purchase, he switched to the BFA track with a concentration in painting after taking an art class during his first semester. He is currently a candidate for his MFA in Painting and Drawing at Brooklyn College. Mud Doctors is the first solo exhibition of his work. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8C76" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8C76">
  <Name>&quot;Remarkable Treasures:  Folk Art from the Allan Stone Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CAC9473D">
    <Name>Allan Stone Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>5 E 82nd St., New York, NY </Address>
    <Phone>212-987-4997</Phone>
    <Fax>212-987-1655</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and Madison Aves. Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street or 6 to 96th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Mon - Thu 10 - 6, Fri 10 - 4. Closed in August.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Allan Stone Gallery presents &quot;Remarkable Treasures: Folk Art from the Allan Stone Collection&quot;, the gallery’s second exhibition at its new East 82nd Street location. From primitivist painting, antique carousel animals, and cigar store figures, to weather vanes, store signs and prison art, this exhibition gathers over twenty five rare, prized, whimsical and bizarre folk art treasures from the collection of legendary art dealer and collector Allan Stone. Though he is most recognized for handling New York School artists such as Willem de Kooning and Joseph Cornell, Allan Stone had a covetous appetite for any aesthetic object that manifests formal vitality, visceral intrigue, unself-conscious conviction and personal vision. Combined with passionate connoisseurship, this appetite brought together the extraordinarily rich cross section of folk art and Americana from which this exhibition is drawn.

Many of the works in this exhibition were selected for their significance in the field of folk art and others for their universal accessibility or visceral impact. Most of the pieces on view were made with a utilitarian purpose that became illuminated by formal expression through the crafting process, such as a chair made of beer cans, a weather vane in the form of a rooster or an elliptical clock decorated with one giant eye. Several non-utilitarian objects in the show touch on the facetious and bizarre, such as a cluster of ghoulish figures made from gnarled roots or a small pine cone figure wearing a tiny leather jacket. Paintings in the exhibition range from nautical subjects and primitive figuration to invented fantasy landscapes.

Some of the highlights include an exceptional circa 1880 carved and painted pine “Turk” cigar store figure attributed to Samuel Robb from New York, an antique carousel camel with its original bridle still attached, a peculiarly lifelike bust of Henry Clay, and a celebrated work of “prison art” from the collection depicting a carved polychrome gorilla in stiff contraposto. On the lyrical side is an anonymous abstract figure of a man poised in a serene dance-like gesture, carved from wood in a manner reminiscent of Nadelman or early Brancusi. The beckoning sweep of his arm and the gently nuanced surface of this work fittingly convey the élan permeating the entire Allan Stone collection.

[Image: &quot;Carousel Animal in the form of a Camel&quot; painted wood, steel, leather, and glass 36 x 9 x 48 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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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>
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  <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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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
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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>
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    <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>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
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  <Name>Ward Shelley &quot;Unreliable Narrator&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Pierogi</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>177 N 9th St., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone>718-599-2144</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Bedford Ave. and Driggs Ave.  Subway: L to Bedford Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8FB6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8FB6">
  <Name>&quot;Benny Andrews, Alice Neel, Bob Thompson&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Michael Rosenfeld Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>24 W 57th St. New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-247-0082</Phone>
    <Fax>212- 247-0402</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: B/Q to 57th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours (July/Aug): Monday - Friday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM</ScheduleNote>
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  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Benny Andrews &quot;The Cop&quot; (1968) oil with fabric collage on canvas  24 x 18 x 1 1/4 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-07</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/90C6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/90C6">
  <Name>&quot;Blind Cut&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/246CDAF6">
    <Name>Marlborough Chelsea</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>545 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-463-8634</Phone>
    <Fax>212-463-9658</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Marlborough Chelsea is pleased to present Blind Cut, a group exhibition curated by Jonah Freeman and Vera Neykov. The works included address diverse notions surrounding the themes of fiction or deception. This collection, spanning several generations from Dada to the present, poses questions regarding identity, authorship, originality and reality. The practices and methodologies range from: depictions of fictional places, imagined personas, inaccurate histories, invented language, urban utopias and complex, unrevealed material gestures.

The tradition of art as trickery or deception is rich and varied. Whether it is the fantastical architecture imagined by Piranesi, the Surrealist’s use of trompe l’oeil, or the Cottingley Fairies photographic series by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, much of the significant art over the last century has approached questions of authenticity through methods of appropriation, re-contextualization, and critique. Examples in expanded culture are equally numerous, ranging from Luis Buñuel’s faux ethnographic film Land Without Bread (exhibited), and Orson Welles’ 1938 fake radio news presentation of H.G. Welles’ War of the Worlds, as well as in recent years: Clifford Irving’s fake biography of Howard Hughes, the false journalism of former New York Times writers Judith Miller and Jayson Blair and the late capitalist trends of credit default swaps and phantom wealth.

Anchoring the exhibition is the work of Marcel Broodthaers, whose short yet diverse artistic career employed fiction as its principle medium. In projects such as Musée d’Art Moderne, Department of Aigles (1968-74), and Décor (1974-75), Broodthaers presented a situation in which objects and environments framed as ‘fictions’ revealed the layered and often dubious conditions of our so-called ‘real’ institutions.

Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated catalogue that along with documentation of the work exhibited will also include interviews, writings, and ephemera surrounding the themes of fiction and deception. A viewing schedule for the films will be released on the gallery website in conjunction with the show.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9542" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9542">
  <Name>&quot;The Bricoleurs&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8887592D">
    <Name>BRIC Rotunda Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>33 Clinton St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-683-5621</Phone>
    <Fax>718-488-0609</Fax>
    <Access>Between Tillary and Pierrepont St. Subway: A/C at High Street, 2/3/4/5/M/R trains at Court Street/Borough Hall</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents The Bricoleurs, an exhibition at BRIC Rotunda Gallery featuring a range of Brooklyn artists who embrace the practice of bricolage and construct visual works from discrepant elements, creating new forms and imagery. Curated by Christian Fuller and Risa Shoup.

All artists in the show were selected from BRIC’s Contemporary Artists Registry, the oldest registry of visual artists in Brooklyn with more than 16,000 digital submissions from 800 artists. Founded in 1983, the Registry is open to artists living or working in Brooklyn; visit registry.bricartsmedia.org to view a range of artists’ work.

Bricolage is a term used in several disciplines to refer to the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of sometimes seemingly disparate  things; a person who engages in bricolage is called a bricoleur. The range of work in this show includes: video, painting, collage, assemblage, sculpture and digital printing.

According to the curators: “We have chosen artists for the exhibition who pull together styles and materials that might otherwise appear disparate and unattractive save for the artist’s ability to combine them into one cogent, integral whole… With The Bricoleurs, we turn our analytical gaze more to the practice of creating bricolage less than the product, the bricolage itself.”]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;From Iceland&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8C69B816">
    <Name>Luise Ross Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., #307, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-343-2161</Phone>
    <Fax>212-343-2468</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Some years ago, Icelandic artists would have been a category unfamiliar to the American art public. It would have seemed a category without discernible unity or order, thus devoid of the kind of meaning that would allow itself to be turned into myth.  By connecting all the dots we have the beginnings of a myth centering  on a society precariously poised between the civilized and savage, urban and rural, self-deprecation (How do you like Iceland?) and dreams of world domination.
 
Typically, the Icelandic artists included in this survey both conform to this myth and render it meaningless. All of them have close ties to the countryside; they use it as a refuge or incorporate its features and legends into their art, both of which is true of Gudbjorg Lind, Gudrun Kristjansdottir and Niels Hafstein. At the same time they are ready to fly to New York, Paris or Beijing at a moments notice. Their approach to their work may be firmly centered on the physicality of the body, as is the case with Gudny Kristmanns, or it may be predicated on the dissolution of materiality, which is the kind of thing we find in the work of Gustav Geir Bollason. Or they may take up a position midway between sense and big time sensuality, as happens in the highly literate and knowing work of Jon Laxdal and Thordis Alda. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
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  <Name>Vita Petersen &quot;In Black and White: The Last Works&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F640E91F">
    <Name>The New York Studio School</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>8 W 8th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-673-6466</Phone>
    <Fax>212-777-0996</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Aves.  Subway: R/W to 8th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Vita Petersen was born in 1915 to a family prominent in German history and politics. Her mother was the direct descendent of the 18th century Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn; her father was Secretary of State in the 1920’s. Her brother, the art historian Otto von Simson, is best known for his iconic study, The Gothic Cathedral. Petersen grew up surrounded by the paintings of Cézanne, Degas, Monet and others in the remarkable collection of her grandmother.

Petersen studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin with Carl Hofer, the German Expressionist painter, and then at the Munich School of Fine Arts until her teachers were banned by the Nazis. In 1934 she fell in love with Gustav Petersen, a Hamburg businessman. They fled Nazi Germany in 1938 for New York, where their daughter Andrea was born in 1942. The Petersens lived in New York City for the rest of their lives, and spent time in Falls Village, Connecticut and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Around 1945, Petersen met the painter Mercedes Matter while their children were playing together in Washington Square Park. The two became lifelong friends. Matter introduced Petersen to the circle of Abstract Expressionists which included Pollock, Krasner, Kline, Guston, Motherwell, de Kooning, Tworkov, Sterne and others. With them she found friendship and common values. Hans Hofmann, who invited Petersen to join his classes in New York and Provincetown, was a formative influence and close friend.

Petersen had her first solo show at the Esther Stuttman Gallery in New York in 1958. A reviewer in Arts magazine wrote: “There is no doubt Miss (sic) Petersen could be the real thing…an impressive debut.” Petersen exhibited in Berlin and New York. During the seventies, she was represented by Betty Parsons. Petersen also exhibited at the New York Studio School, the Washington Art Association in Washington Depot, CT, MB Fine Art in L.A. and NY, and the Rising Tide Gallery in Provincetown, MA. Her most recent show was in 2010 at Mark Borghi Fine Art in Bridgehampton, NY.

In 1964, with Rothko, de Kooning, Noguchi, and other extraordinary artists, Petersen helped Matter found The New  York Studio School.   Petersen  remained   an   articulate and active force in the school until her recent death at 96. A tireless advocate and an inspiring mentor for students, she was called upon for advice on art, life and even love.

As failing eye sight reduced her ability to differentiate colors, she began painting in black and white. Almost paradoxically she found the greatest happiness she had ever experienced in her studio, producing what may be her best work. Noted long-time friend, William O’Reilly, the last paintings “had a new kind of clarity; they had a resolve that was not as forcefully apparent in earlier work; they had a finish and they had a color that was new to the artist. .. Petersen was unambivalently pleased with this set of work.”

Vita Petersen died at home on October 22, 2011.

“Sometimes it is the painting itself which leads the way and I follow.” 

— Vita Petersen

[Image: Vita Petersen &quot;Untitled # 5&quot; oil stick, pastel and acrylic paint on paper, 10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.]]]></Description>
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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>
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  <Description><![CDATA[As an artist, I have always been interested in our history, our story. I have prepared this exhibition in the intention to create a base in expressing my thoughts on the Korean War. We store what we see in the society and in nature within our body as our memory and we communicated it with others. There is a moment this phenomena became a part of my identity.The Korean language I speak has been developed in a specific Asian region. Throughout the long years, as the boundary of the region where the language is used changes, the identity of the folks who speak the language changes. These memories turn into deep experience carved onto me and serve me as a guide to live in this world.  They even create ideology or faith.Like pictures or photographs, the stored images in our unconscious become imprinted in our memory and part of our social communication, Even sound or it's memories like other sensory perceptions, are sometime brought back on viewing these specific images.
 
People, particularly in the west define this event in the history of our Country, as the &quot;Korean War&quot;. The Korean War bears a special meaning for me. The Korean War refers to a regional conflict between South Korea and North Korea.  However, it also refers to a war directly involving other countries such as the United States, the Soviet Union, and China.  The point is that it is so unnatural for the twoKoreas to exist as two separate nations, because their natures are so identical.The memories of those including my parents who remember the War have become a part of mine and my personal experience. It was hard to recreate them in pictures. However, because of my experience and cultural background these past associations are dissociable from my way of living and expressing myself, as an artist.
 
These paintings represent my latest attempt in trying to give it a tangible life.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9914" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9914">
  <Name>Alakananda Mukerji Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CCE3481F">
    <Name>Blue Mountain Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-486-4730</Phone>
    <Fax>646-486-4345</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Alakananda Mukerji grew up in India on the River Ganges. She says memories, media, materials – bits of canvas, pieces of the past -- anything she can get hold of -- become her art. She works in watercolor, finding its free-flowing quality ideal for experimentation.
Artist Statement

I am Alakananda Mukerji, and I grew up on the River Ganges. I have long since left the narrow streets of Benaras where life is awash in a flood of color and a constant stream of souls. Yet however so far I may find myself from those ancient riverbanks, my memory, my art, and indeed my very being -- these are forever caught up in the notion of endless, sacred flow.

People and faces, the surge of sounds, the unfathomably old commingling with the untarnishedly new -- all the rhythms and rhymes of India: this is the wellspring of who I am. I flow from this source, but I have become the river -- changing, evolving, flowing. And what flows from me, my painting, it is often a conversation between the me that was and the me that is becoming. Memories, media, materials -- bits of canvas, pieces of the past -- anything I can get hold of: this is my art. I am the medium. I am the flow.

The subtle tones of Europe, and the soaring spirit of America: these flow in me too, for in these places I was also educated, alongside rivers with strange-sounding names like the Aliákmonas, the Thames, and the Mississippi. These are part of me now and I am part of them. And I am changed, though my wellspring stays the same. For I am a river, and a river is process. Art is process. Life is process.

I work in watercolor. I always found the free-flowing quality of watercolor interesting and ideal for experimentation. At first I thought this was some personal reaction to my source, to my life in Benaras, where everyone and everything is close, where there does not always seem room enough to grow, and where family and friends, and India itself influence one’s decisions. I was foolish. Sometimes we do not see what we have already understood. And sometimes we do not understand what we have already perceived. Watercolor was not an escape. Experimentation does not undo who I was. Watercolor is my Ganges. It is my endless, sacred flow. It is who I was but also who I am and who I am becoming. It is my medium. It is me. I am a river. I am the flow.

And I am flowing. My work that you see here today is where I have arrived after years of work. But a river never simply arrives. I am changing, I am still becoming. And we shall all see where the flow takes me next, or where I take myself, or where I allow myself to be taken, for it is all the same.

My name is Alakananda Mukerji, and I live in Manhattan, between the Hudson and the Harlem. My name is Alakananda Mukerji and I grew up on the Ganges. I am an artist. I am a teacher. I work in watercolor. I am a river.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9917" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9917">
  <Name>&quot;Exposed&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F7040037">
    <Name>The Muriel Guépin Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>47 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-858-4535</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Smith and Court Sts. Subway: F to Bergen Street, 2/ 3/ 4/ 5 to Borough Hall, R to Court Street. </Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Muriel Guépin Gallery presents &quot;Exposed&quot; a new group show featuring the artwork of: Andrea Dezsö, Donald Graham Hershey &amp; Rogelio Manzo.

Interested primarily in human forms as a vehicle to penetrate human psychology and reveal their true character, these artists all work with different medium -such as embroideries to reveal personal experiences with social myths and family pressures- or use deceptive delicate works that reveal unsettling tension of human existence.  
 
Andrea Dezso received Best show in The Village Voice 2007. A visual artist and writer work across a broad range of media including drawing, artist's books, cut paper, embroidery, sculpture, site-specific installation, animation and large scale public art.The Transylvanian-born Dezsö has embroidered dozens of her mother's sayings and arrayed them along the close-set walls of a maze-like corridor. Andrea Dezsö has shown her work in museums and galleries around the world.    
 
Donald Graham Hershey's drawing and video works memorialize the intangible world with tangible elements slowly procured from a sensualist's unconscious. Hershey's work eludes one emotional impact. Often rendered in pencil on off-white paper, his drawings explore corporeal disconnections, narrative fragments, and manifestations of distant memory all imbued with a characteristic darkness.  Hershey's drawings are not typically ornamental - sometimes depicting a singular part of a figure, a lone garment, or an aura engulfed by a graphite sfumato.  They are deceptively delicate works that reveal unsettling tension without the slightest use of gore or camp. The series is part of the artist's ongoing investigation on the effects of corporate and mass media aesthetics, primarily packaged beauty and the individual's perception of identity. 

In most of his works, Rogelio Manzo places the figures in the foreground with rarely a sense of an environment. Thus, the viewer is forced to focus on the fragmented visages and figures that are painted with an expressionistic fervor. The surfaces of these works range from thick impasto to thin washes, worn and scratched areas to realistic hand painted hints of skin, flesh and bones, and sleek digital image transfers. This treatment adds to the sensation of his subjects being flayed to reveal their innermost feelings. Manzo's preferred format of squares, often as large as 6' x 6', are painted on resin panel and canvas. Manzo also focuses the viewer's attention on the anguished faces and bodies. His palette of tones of black, brown, gray, and a blood red adds to the feeling of bleak reality. As perhaps accents of optimism, occasional hits of dandelion yellow, sky blue, or cardinal red brightens his palette.  ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
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  <Name>Iva Gueorguieva Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BB060749">
    <Name>Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe </Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>525 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011 </Address>
    <Phone>212-445-0051</Phone>
    <Fax>212-445-0102</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Iva Gueorguieva &quot;Vagal Vex&quot; (2011) Acrylic, dry pigment, collage and oil stick on canvas, 74 x 78 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Jane Swavely &quot;New Work&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>A.I.R. Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., #228, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-6651</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-6653</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>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[New Work features pastel drawings and oil paintings of vibrant and visceral landscapes. Swavely employs cinematic quick cuts of landscape against panoramic shots. Swavely captures the transient moment, the changing tide of light, tonal values of deepening color and shadow, and the volume of space and depth.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9BA2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9BA2">
  <Name>Kay Rosen &quot;Wide and Deep&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/306D8265">
    <Name>Sikkema, Jenkins &amp; Co</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-929-2262</Phone>
    <Fax>212-929-2340</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street, A/C/E to 14th Street, L to 8th Avenue.</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="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co. presents Wide and Deep, an exhibition of two series of recent works by Kay Rosen.
 
Kay Rosen’s paintings, drawings, editions, collages, and installations on walls, billboards and buildings are best known for using language as their imagery. Understanding language as a visual and malleable form, Rosen explains in a 2010 interview: “When it comes to reading my work, throw out all the rules you ever learned: spelling, spacing, capitalization, margins, linear reading, composition…all your old reading habits will be useless.”
 
The first series of Wide and Deep consists of: gray-toned paintings, which use enamel sign-paint on canvas, and two wall paintings. The wall paintings, Between a Rock and a Hard Place and Wideep (detail), enlist the limits of the basic architecture of the space and the possibilities of everyday language. 
 
Challenging normal left to right reading on both the canvas and the walls, the works in this series convey their message in a number of ways: horizontally, vertically, upside-down, as a detail or a fragment. 
 
Rosen’s second series of works—gouache and pencil drawings on watercolor paper, a wall drawing and an illuminated stained-glass edition—grew out of her investigation of words whose letters are layered on top of each other (deep), instead of sequentially (wide).  These works are abstract and function more like objects than as readable text.  In some, like Sweet Jesus, the stacked letters are transparent, revealing the lines of the underlying letters; while in others, like Open Kimono, the letters are semi-transparent, producing a kind of verbal sandwich.  The third type of work, which includes Kiss on the Cheek, depicts only the outer contours of the words, appearing only as opaque silhouettes.
 
Rosen applied three rules to this second series: the word images must begin and end with the same letter, creating a closed-end, self-contained verbal unit; the letters are to be layered on top of each other; and the strategy (transparent, sandwiched, opaque) should correspond to some aspect of the text’s meaning.
 
Born in Texas, Kay Rosen is a Midwest-based artist whose language-based work has been exhibited in museums and institutions both nationally and internationally for several decades.  Her work has previously been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where she had a retrospective exhibition in 1998-99; the Linde Family Wing at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; MASS MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; the Whitney Biennial (2000); The Art Institute of Chicago; inaugural exhibition commission for The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; The MCA Chicago, and in solo gallery exhibitions across the U.S. and Europe. 
 
Additionally, Rosen taught at The School of the Art Institute for eighteen years.  She is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and an Anonymous Was A Woman grant. A book about her work, Kay Rosen: AKAK, was published by Regency Art Press, New York City, in 2009.

[Image: Kay Rosen &quot;Wideep&quot; (2011) Enamel sign paint on canvas, 20 x 28.375 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Juan Genovés Exhibitiion</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[Born in Valencia in 1930, Genovés is one of Spain’s best-known contemporary artists. Recognized for his aesthetic style rooted in Social Realism and political art, Genovés strongly criticized Franco’s fascist regime. Genovés was sent to jail because the opposition made a poster of his painting El Abrazo, which is now in the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
At the beginning of his career, Genovés’ body of work was devoted to the subject of political engagement. His artistic development occurred in the isolated world of Franco’s Spain, where he was influenced by modern photography and cinema, and, like for Francis Bacon, the films of Sergei Eisenstein were a main source of influence.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9CDF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9CDF">
  <Name>&quot;Hey Beautiful!&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E76E578F">
    <Name>Amos Eno Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., #202, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-237-3001</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>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: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Beauty. There is perhaps no concept more closely associated with art in the popular imagination. But beauty has been having a rough time lately. Successive avant-garde movements and each corresponding “anti-art” gesture have deposed the belle of the ball. The art world did not drive out beauty directly; rather it got rid of her partner, the ugly. Decaying ruins became Romantic; banal fixtures became Culture; Film du Soleil made the burned out wasteland a magical counter-utopia. By aestheticizing and canonizing the Gothic, the Industrial, the Abject, and the Uncanny, the art world turned “ugly” into “interesting”. And where did that leave beauty? No longer the opposite of ugly, beauty became the opposite of relevant. Never one to dance alone, beauty sat on the sidelines. Someone once offered her a Sublime corsage; it lifted her spirit, but provided no gladness to the senses. 

This exhibition inquires into the role of beauty in art now. Can beauty retake the aspirational zenith of art? Or does it function as cultural décor and marketable commodity? Is art today merely designed or aesthetically purposive? These works play with, against, and for beauty, asking us to consider whether beauty can be reformed. Even celebrated. Is beauty back? ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9D5F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9D5F">
  <Name>Rene Lynch &quot;Leda's Daughter&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/65007A7F">
    <Name>Hpgrp Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., 2W, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-727-2491</Phone>
    <Fax>212-727-7030</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street Station</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="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[hpgrp GALLERY NY presents Leda’s Daughter, an exhibition of new paintings by Rene Lynch. These large-scale works present gorgeous women communing with animals in fantastic landscapes of stormy skies and over-scaled roses. These paintings are an expression of Lynch’s life as a woman and an artist, as well as an invitation into her dream world. They are lush with color, romantic, and unapologetically operatic, the manifestations of Lynch’s conviction that she “paints because she breathes.”

Lynch cites numerous sources of inspiration in the work, including the 1948 film The Red Shoes—which is about a ballet dancer who gives everything for her craft much in the same way that Lynch gives everything for her art—as well as tragic and powerful feminist icons; such as the late contemporary artists Pina Bausch and Amy Winehouse, and Joan of Arc, Icarus and Artemis, the magic realism of Japanese anime and the twin concepts of beauty and death depicted in 17th century Dutch Still Life painting. 

Referring to the works as self portraits and an “attempt to define a raw truth about women’s creative ambition and sexual energy”, Lynch depicts figures that are more goddesses than they are humans, sporting crowns of gold and plush wings of snow-white feathers, along with other accouterments of wealth, beauty, magical powers, and suffering. They are surrounded by Lynch’s own personal avatars—crows for their cleverness, cats for their sensuality, swans for their fierceness and vulnerability—which offer a glimpse into Lynch’s own psyche, as well as the pathology of her drive as an artist, which like the fairytale of The Red Shoes, she will never be able to cure.

Rene Lynch’s art has been widely exhibited around the world, and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Art and Antiques, The Washington Post, Bunte, Oxford American and American Art Collector. This is her second solo exhibition at hpgrp GALLERY NEW YORK following her 2007 exhibitions in New York and Tokyo. Recent solo exhibitions include; Galerie Kaysser in Munich Germany in 2011, 2008, and 2007, and Jenkins Johnson Gallery NYC and San Francisco in 2009, 2008, and 2007. Recent museum exhibitions include her solo Gaze at Galerie Künstlade in Zittau, Germany in 2008, and major works exhibited at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2006, and the Hunterdon Museum, Clifton, NJ, 2007 and 2005. Lynch studied painting, art history, and critical theory at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been awarded numerous fellowships including; P.S.1 Museum, NYC, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Oberpfalzer Künstlerhaus, Germany.  

[Image: Rene Lynch &quot;Swan Prisoner&quot; (2011-12) oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</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>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <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;Younger&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4AE5C862">
    <Name>Daniel Cooney Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., Suite 506, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-8158</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-8163</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9EC8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9EC8">
  <Name>Carlyle Chaudruc &quot;Ecotone&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3DFCE83B">
    <Name>Ceres Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite 201, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-947-6100</Phone>
    <Fax>212-947-6100</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>August 9-August 31, 2009   Gallery Closed for the summer break, to reopen September 1, 2009.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibit of contemporary nature painting and sculpture explores the zone where the forest meets the clearing.   Ecotone examines human shelter at the edge of the forest through imagery of tee pees, unpeeled logs, and abstracted leaves.  Paintings of old growth oaks pay homage to the trees felled in making homes for people on the margin of woods.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9F53" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9F53">
  <Name>&quot;Moon Lee and Steve Hickok&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EF649842">
    <Name>Able Fine Art NY Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 West 25th St., Suite 507, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-675-3057</Phone>
    <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>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Lee and Hickok’s paintings engage nature and landscapes that evolve within their different approaches.  

Moon Lee’s paintings embody her subconscious mind thereby naturally exposing her emotional and spiritual experiences. The natural objects, whether it is plants, trees, or flower pots, that inspire her paintings are the basis of what is a textural juxtaposition of rich colors.  Her work is not a mere still-life or landscape, but rather becomes unique through compositions concentrating on interplay of colors and various objects. She sees her paintings as an ideal method for her to communicate with the outside world, especially when there are simply not enough words to express her thoughts and emotions. Not only does she want to interact in harmony with the world, but she constantly strives to enlighten herself. By letting herself delve into a world in which she can freely “paint my favorite objects with various materials and techniques,” she also explores the depth and limits of her own life. 

This exhibition also features Steve Hickok's newest work, &quot;The Earth&quot; which fully identifies with nature through a unique process in which he leaves his paintings outside and lets the natural elements add their touch to his work. After he creates paintings with vibrant colors, Hickok then leaves them outside to be “surrendered to the elements”: to weather in the sun, scratched or sanded by the street, or left in the storm to be washed by rain. This new series has a strong biomorphic feel with its artistic designs and naturally occurring patterns reminiscent of nature. Hickok takes it one step further as the elements themselves help create the art. Sculptural geometric squares with natural paint drips and spontaneously overlapping colors show an energetic and buoyant spirit as he contemplates the raw scenery of his environment.

Their distinctive vision is unveiled in this exhibition as they explore the boundaries of the natural environment. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-22</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A144" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/A144">
  <Name>Deborah Rosenthal &quot;Journeys and Topologies&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Bowery Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., 4 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-230-6655</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Several kinds of invented compositions are featured in the exhibition. In the small paintings of the Journeys series, Rosenthal inscribes human figures within linear armatures on opaquely painted grounds. The short and rhythmical lines and intervals in these compositions reflect their origins in the rhythms and scale of art songs, particularly Schubert's &quot;Die Winterreise&quot; (Winter Journey). The Topologies are invented landscapes with forms evoking mountainous terrain. Large reciprocal curves or stark oppositions of dark and light frame the tensions that carry us through the imagined space. 

Rosenthal has shown at the Bowery Gallery since 1984. Her paintings and prints have also been shown widely in venues including the Painting Center, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, and the Francis Naumann Gallery in New York; at the University of Richmond Museums in Virginia; at the Huntington Museum in West Virginia; and in university galleries nationally. Her 1998 solo exhibition, &quot;Eve's Vocabulary,&quot; traveled from Hebrew Union College in New York to Yale University and to the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art. 

Rosenthal's work has been discussed and reproduced in the pages of many publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Modern Painters, the New York Sun, and on artcritical.com. A suite of her prints appeared, with texts by Jed Perl, in the Yale Review. Her work, including her stained-glass windows, was the subject of a segment on PBS-TV. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;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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  <Name>&quot;Elemental Realms&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/32BEF472">
    <Name>Agora Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-4151</Phone>
    <Fax>212-966-4380</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The work in Elemental Realms touches on the essence of the subjects chosen by the artists, revealing the hidden elements that help to define what we know. Passionate, varied and closely tied to the reality that we all share, these astonishing creations bring new vision to enliven and inform our own perspectives. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-01</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Gerald Ferguson Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Canada</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>55 Chrystie St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-925-4631</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Hester and Canal St.. Subway: B/D to Grand Street or 6/N/Q/R/W/J/M/Z to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[CANADA presents this exhibition of paintings by Gerald Ferguson curated by Luke Murphy. It includes eleven major works and is accompanied by a catalog with essays and pieces by Lawrence Weiner, Donald Kuspit and Peggy Gale. 

Ropes, chains, clothesline, ash cans, drain covers, black enamel house paint rubbed across raw canvas, repeated, rearranged and repeated again -- the work of Gerald Ferguson appears in New York for the first time in forty years. This array of eleven paintings include works from his 1968 typographical &quot;period&quot; paintings and a key group of his later frottages. 

Ferguson was a first generation conceptual artist whose early conversations informed his approach to painting throughout his career. From his 'task oriented' paintings to his later rigorous methodology, painting was, in his words, one of the only things he really understood. His work, he said &quot;let beauty in through the back door.&quot; 

GERALD FERGUSON. WORK. is a glimpse of a career driven by an autotelic logic. It begins with his early stenciled grids and ends with his late works, created by passing black-enamel laden rollers over abject objects under raw canvas and forming expansive landscapes of black indexical marks or dense monumental architectonic compositions. 

Ferguson's work can be characterized as sets of sometimes beautiful, sometimes difficult tensions between the manifest logic and the absurd simplicity of the process, between roughshod production and the sensitivity of the chosen compositions, between blackness and the promise of light. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A440" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/A440">
  <Name>Jeff Keen &quot;Works from the 1960s + 1970s&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7CB74E3E">
    <Name>Elizabeth Dee</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>545 W 20th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-924-7545</Phone>
    <Fax>212-924-7671</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street, A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Dee Gallery presents the first solo exhibition at the gallery and United States debut of paintings and films by Jeff Keen [b. 1923, UK]. This important first exhibition in New York will explore in depth Keen's most influential and fundamental period of work, the 1960s and 1970s, during which he established a prolific visual practice extending to five decades of drawing, painting, experimental film, concrete poetry and performance.

Keen is primarily known as a legendary underground filmmaker whose work and activities coincided with the emergence of expanded cinema. He was one of the original participants in the 60s at the London Filmmakers Co-op. The BFI and later the British Arts Council supported and enabled Keen to make films and devise a multitude of drawings and paintings. During this period, Keen maintained jobs as a landscaper in the Parks and Recreation department of his hometown, Brighton, and sometimes as a postal worker delivering mail. The artist made movies primarily on weekends with his family and friends in an ensemble cast and his painting and drawing studio was for 40 years a repository of props and art that accumulated to extraordinary effect that has been fully documented.

Embracing the increasingly available technology of 8mm, 16mm and prevelance of American Pop imagery and Comics [and later Punk], Keen employed modes of popular media, technology and music in painting, drawing and collage using a stop frame animation process and in camera editing, resulting in active and evocative films. Utilizing a frequency of speed not found in work of the period, Keen, through the possibilities of the medium, brought new life to the significance of radical visual media.

Keen was able to merge Surrealist and Dadaist ideology with a social-political critique of American consumerism with the spontaneity of the Beat and 60s era. These works are avid responses to an overwhelming sense of increasingly proliferating media and commodification during the decade. He often explored his experiences surviving World War II in this material, focusing on monuments of power and the ever-present war within the artist as individual. This took the form of invented characters or corporations [i.e. Rayday Films] with brands, personas or protagonists in a fractured narrative style. Performative and reminiscent of Surrealism's influence on his formative period in the 1950s, Keen additionally drew from English Romanticism and his love of language to devise a novel method of working in a newly evolving medium. 

Keen's work can be viewed today as prescient to modes of film and video that began to take cultural references into an exploration of our own larger social portraiture. His enthusiastic embrace of alternative modes of discourse in a pre-internet age is astoundingly fresh today, and the diversity of his practice calls to mind both painters, film and video artists who succeeded him, from such figures as Derek Jarman, Richard Hamilton and Linder, to American artists such as Jack Smith, Ryan Trecartin and Peter Saul. 

Jeff Keen very rarely exhibited his drawings and paintings. He first showed Rayday Film [1968 - 1970] in the First International Underground Film Festival at the National Film Theatre in 1970. Upcoming 2012 exhibitions include a retrospective at the Brighton and Hove Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, London and Tate Modern, London.

[Image: Jeff Keen &quot;Rayday Film&quot; (1968 - 70 +1976) 16mm, 13 mins]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Under 30&quot; Exhibiton</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A213238C">
    <Name>Skylight Gallery NYC</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>538 W 29th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-772-2407</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_28_above">Chelsea 28th - 33rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[A group exhibition featuring smaller works of art 30 inches wide and under.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A4D6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/A4D6">
  <Name>Don Doe &quot;Tossed Overboard&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/20A51708">
    <Name>Morgan Lehman Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 W 22nd St., Fl.6, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-268-6699</Phone>
    <Fax>212-268-6766</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenues. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Morgan Lehman Gallery presents, Tossed Overboard, paintings and works on paper by Don Doe. This is Doe's first solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist is closely associated with the group of figurative artists that includes Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin - all of whom graduated from the same class in Yale's Fine Art MFA program. While these artists choose to frequently represent fantastically sexualized images of nude women, each of them have chosen highly individualized stylistic methodologies and theoretical underpinnings in which to explore issues of kitsch, gender and sexuality.  
 
Don Doe creates fantasy images of women depicted in the garb and backdrop of the sea-faring pirate. Typically in a work, a lithe female is a represented, often semi-nude, with costume accouterments such as an eye-patch, bandana, parrot or buccaneer's cutlass. They are culled from magazine sources  - both old and new, such as &quot;girly&quot; magazines, advertising and vintage and contemporary fashion magazines. In any one picture, an advertisement from American Apparel, a vintage sixties stag magazine and a plate from a Robert Louis Stevenson book can be mashed together to create a perplexing work that references both our nostalgic past and our modern life.  As viewers, we recognize the humor and character of these faux-menacing harlots. Doe comments on contemporary pop culture's connection between sexuality and danger by using the symbol of the pirate archetype hybridized with the pin-up girl of teenage fantasy, while still leaving ample room for the viewer to interpret the narrative.
 
Don Doe was born in 1963 in Toledo, Ohio and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his MFA at Yale University in 1987.  Recent solo exhibitions include &quot;New Mothers&quot; at Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, NY and &quot;Heroines &amp; Hellions&quot; at Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY.  His work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, and Yale University Art Gallery among others. Doe's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Chicago Journal, Art in Review, The New Yorker and NY Arts among others.          

[Image: Don Doe &quot;Thirst&quot; (2011) Watercolor, ink, pastel on paper, 17 x 14 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Passion 2012&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0C0816AA">
    <Name>C.C.C.P. Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>38 Marcy Ave., 1R,  Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
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    <Access>Corner of Hope St.(also the entrance). Subway: G/L to Lorimer Street</Access>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
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  <Name>Sarah Kurz &quot;Made For Love&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Allegra LaViola Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>179 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917 463 3901</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Jefferson and Rutgers Sts. Subway: F to East Broadway or 4/5/6/N/R to Canal Street</Access>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Body Beautiful&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Porter Contemporary</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>548 W 28th St., Fl. 3, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-696-7432</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_28_above">Chelsea 28th - 33rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[orter Contemporary presents Body Beautiful, a group exhibition of seven artists  that will both confirm and re-examine our ideas of beauty when it comes to the human form. 

Porter / Contemporary has selected artists and works that engage our inherent sense of beauty. The graceful and smooth marble sculptures of  Carolina Baptista Rodriguez and the intimate photographs of Sarah Kaufman are juxtapozed with Juliet Foxtrot’s modernized Da Vinci type painted nudes, Jennifer Murray’s half human half animal mixed media works and Catherine Tafur’s disturbing and erotic paintings. Body Beautiful inspires a self-exploration of what defines beauty through different forms and mediums.

About the Artists:
David Agenjo is a self-taught artist born in Madrid and working in London. He works at refining his understanding of the visual language of the human body and his need to represent our psychologies, thoughts and emotions onto that which is at once most familiar, but also so easily lost in the complex visual cultures of the modern world.﻿

Born in Chile and currently living and working in London, Pato Bosich is drawn to creating atmospheres and situations that resist easy reading and instead convey a sense of mystery and tension. Often, the imagery comes from second hand visual sources and Bosich explores how experience of such sources can be arrested, slowed down and sensually intensified by  expressing them through oil paint.

Juliet Foxtrot is a Sydney based artist whose work captures the dynamic figure derived from contemporary life and imagery in punching, shouting kicks of acrylic and resin on canvas.

Sarah Kaufman, an Assistant Professor of Art in Photography at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, finds her subjects on Craigslist and visits them in their homes. She asks them to try to show her the world that they inhabit when they are alone and the resulting photographs explore the relationships among the subjects, their bodies, and their spaces. 

Exploring themes of gender, sexuality, and sociopolitical power struggles, Jennifer Murray uses totemic animal characters to express her impressions of human life within the decaying and carnal confines of New York City. Murray recently completed a Masters in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University, where her concentration was post-colonial studies, gender politics, and metaphorical framing in sociopolitical discourse.

Carolina Rodriguez Baptista draws inspiration from the complex world of women: makers of life, owners of the secret keys of wisdom and intuition, and driving forces that shape the game of life. Rodriguez Baptista was born in Venezuela, moved to New York City to attend The Parsons School of Design and currently lives in Barcelona, Spain. 

Born in Peru, Catherine Tafur moved to New York City to attend the Cooper Union School of Art and now resides in New York. Using images of the body, Tafur explores ideas of gender deconstruction, confrontational sexuality, and the disillusionment and loss of innocence through imagery of disfigurements, idealized androgyny and mutilation. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;My Hero&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/307B13A0">
    <Name>Elisa Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>5622 Mosholu Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10471</Address>
    <Phone>212-729-4974</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Liebing Ave.  Subway: 1 or 9 to last stop.</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Elisa Contemporary Art presents My Hero, a new art exhibit focusing on Superheroes in today’s contemporary art. 

From the days of Greek and Roman Gods and Goddess through today’s X-Men, Dynamic Duos, Fantastic Four and many others, we are captivated by the Superhero (male and female). Is it their superhuman strength and power? Or their seeming selflessness to put the greater needs of others ahead of their own wants and desires? Or the fact that they may embody and magnify a single aspect of the human potential in each of us? They captivate, engage and inspire us in print, on the big screen, under the Broadway lights… and now in Contemporary Art.

In the latest Elisa Contemporary Art exhibit, we see the influences of Pop Art from the 1960’s and explore how five contemporary artists bring modern heroes to life in a whole new way. You’ll see Superheroes including Superman, Wonder Woman and Captain America and meet some new characters.

We’re featuring the undulating, architectural paintings of (New Orleans born and now California) Artist Don Morris whose series “Our Heroes” was inspired by the Pop Art of the 60’s. Using comic books as his medium, Don creates canvases which at a distant appear to be an interplay of colors and textures, but upon closer examination come to life with comic book superheroes who fly, struggle, and climb before us in small fragments and vignettes. Words bubble from the comic book text and are clearly visible throughout the pieces, so the viewer can read the stories of our action heroes.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Glenn Goldberg &quot;elixirs, tales and remedies&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Jason McCoy, Inc. (Midtown)</Name>
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    <Address>41 E 57th St., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-319-1996</Phone>
    <Fax>212-319-4799</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Madison Ave. Subway: N/R/W to 5th Avenue or 4/5/6 to 59th Street or E/V to 5th Avenue/53rd Street</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition features a group of recent paintings by the New York based artist Glenn Goldberg. Goldberg’s compositions  navigate between the abstract and  referential. They manifest as dreamscapes and otherworldly spheres, where explorations of the mythic are finely balanced through geometric and organic concerns.

At first glance, Goldberg’s shapes seem graphic and as clearly delineated as cut-outs. It is upon closer inspection however, that the gesture of a free hand can be traced and the visual vocabulary appears increasingly natural. Goldberg’s formations evoke cosmic constellations, solar systems, plant forms, and labyrinthine environments - they certainly always tell of lands far away. Meanwhile, rows made of miniature dots characterize each shape and tie the elements together like a stitched rhythmic code. The viewer can choose to focus on the overall pattern or to observe the relationships between shapes. It is this inherent dialogue between microscopic and macroscopic realities that provides Goldberg’s paintings with a unique sense of dynamism. Goldberg’s inspiration and interests are eclectic. A hint of craft, Tantric art, Persian miniatures, Turkish tile patterns, Shaker furniture, African rugs or the works of Richard Pousette-Dart, for example, find some resonance here. However, it is music that has had the most significant impact. Goldberg’s compositions are rhythmic in that they counter-balance structure, geometry and symmetry, with the freedom of the imagination. 

[Image: Glenn Goldberg &quot;Love Letter (1)&quot; (2010) acrylic, ink and gesso on canvas 18 x 30 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
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  <Name>Kunié Sugiura &quot;Photographic Works from the 1970s and Now&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects</Name>
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    <Address>535 W 22nd St., 6 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-8450</Phone>
    <Fax>212-414-8744</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition centers on multi-panel works from the late 1970s, constructed of monochromatic abstract paintings and photographs printed on canvas, and a selection of the artist’s recent works, in which she revisits the themes of her earlier “photo-canvases” through the prism of more than three decades and a revolution in digital imaging.

For more than forty years, Kunié Sugiura has investigated the various uses and manifestations of photography, producing a large and varied body of work that includes unique color abstractions from the mid-1960s, photographic works on canvas from the 1970s, and life-sized depictions of people, animals, fish, botanical specimens and other living things made from the early 1980s to the present using the photogram process.

This exhibition, Sugiura’s sixth one-person show at the gallery, will also include a series of collages in which she applied photographs, paint, and blank exposed photographic paper to large sheets of etching paper. Exhibited here for the first time, they were created in dialogue with the larger canvas constructions between 1977 and 1980.

Like other notable Japanese women artists who emerged in the postwar years, Sugiura went West to fulfill her artistic ambitions. Born in Nagoya in 1942 and raised in Tokyo by a single mother, she arrived in the United States at the age of 20. With few personal connections and speaking little English, she enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where the Modernist legacy of the New Bauhaus instilled in her a lifelong commitment to invention and experimentation. After graduating in 1967, she moved to New York and immediately began to show conceptual photographic works in galleries and museum exhibitions including the Whitney Museum’s 1972 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, curated by Marcia Tucker

In the catalogue accompanying this exhibition, Sugiura notes that “in the 1970s photography was still considered a marginal artistic activity.” Eschewing traditional photographic prints on paper, she experimented by brushing emulsion on to various surfaces, eventually choosing canvas which gave the photographic image &quot;the potential to be as challenging as painting – particularly on a large scale.&quot;

The earliest canvases featured Sugiura's own close-up photographs of patterns from nature – tree bark, pebbles, leaves, rocks – and a particularly extreme series of erotic images, enlarged to a monumental scale. Having drawn and painted since childhood, she freely applied graphite and acrylic paint to these works, eventually “almost disregarding the photos underneath … One day I put a painting and photo-canvas next to each other and liked them better together than as separate works … presenting the photograph as a parallel medium, produced something more radical or original.”

In 1980, while searching for a way to make more dynamic drawings, Sugiura adopted the classic black-and-white photogram technique which she has used ever since. Expanding its technical capabilities to create painterly works with increased tonal variations, deep illusionistic spaces, and saturated colors, Sugiura's photograms evoke traditional Japanese art forms such as Ikebana and Sumi-e painting, while more directly evincing the synthesis of East and West that has always informed her aesthetic.

In 2008, inspired by a growing need to contend with rapidly changing technologies and the image-explosion of the virtual world, Sugiura, for the first time in almost thirty years, used her camera to record real places, creating works on canvas that contrast her painterly hand with the cool affect of black &amp; white digital printing. She writes:

In Asian art there has always been a co-existence of the real and the abstract … New expressions often come from crossing mediums and technologies … I can accept photography and painting as both real and abstract – completing one vision.

Works by Kunié Sugiura have been exhibited at major museums throughout Japan, Europe, and the United States and are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, among many others.

This exhibition is accompanied by a 32-page catalogue with twenty-four illustrations in color and black and white, and a conversation with the artist.

[Image: Kunié Sugiura &quot;Yellow Floor&quot; (1977) Photographic emulsion, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 50 in. ]]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/AC1E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/AC1E">
  <Name>Myong Hi Kim &quot;Borrowed Landscape&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Art Projects International </Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>434 Greenwich St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-343-2599</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Vestry Sts. Subway: 1/9 to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Myong Hi Kim’s oil pastel on chalkboard landscapes may depict children or empty sky-bound vistas or sunlit water and leaves, but nothing in Kim’s work is as it seems; she explains, “... the vision that I present is that of apparition rather than appearance.”

Since 1990, one of Kim’s studios has been in an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Korea. She also has a studio in New York and says, “... the difference is between city life and rural life, not between the United States and Korea.” In the school, the original chalkboards first served to block the bitter cold; later, they became the grounds for Kim’s signature works.

Kim had a peripatetic childhood and continues to travel to create. The black road of “Navajo Route” leads to New Mexico and references the Navajo experience and in many ways Kim’s own experiences. Kim’s landscapes are universal places set in a universal time. It is more than a metaphor to say the light of the historical past is with us now; we live in a time when we eagerly discuss starlight that has reached us, just today, from billions of years ago.

Through her careful rendering of light effects, Kim shares her understanding that events are never discrete and are of multiple spaces and times. In “Borrowed Landscape” a pond flickers in sunlight. The affect of the sun is visible; it sets the leaves across the pond alight, but the sun itself is not visible in the sky. Kim suggests that the scene as first viewed by the artist was also an apparition, a trick of the light.

MYONG HI KIM was born in Seoul, Korea. She lives and works in New York and an abandoned schoolhouse in Naep’yong-ni, a tiny mountain village in Kangwon Province, Korea. She graduated from Seoul National University and studied at Pratt Institute, New York.]]></Description>
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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>
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  <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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  <Name>Mary Corse &quot;New Work&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Lehmann Maupin (540 W 26th Street)</Name>
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    <Address>540 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-2923</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-2924</Fax>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Having first gained recognition in the 1960s Southern California art scene, working alongside the generation of 'Light and Space' artists, Mary Corse continues to be a prominent and influential figure today. Corse is best known for her exploration of radiant and interactive surfaces and her innovative technique of painting. For her inaugural exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Mary Corse will exhibit five new paintings. In Corse's work, three outstanding themes are most conspicuous: perception, time, and inner dimensions.

Because Mary Corse's works change before our eyes with the slightest shift in viewing position or ambient light, in situ they have no fixed objective appearance independent of a dynamic individual perception. The works therefore do not depict perception, but reveal the nature and operation of the perceptive act in progress. They enact rather than represent our experience of reality. Since this dynamic quality reveals itself in time as the light changes or as one traverses the field of view, the work also poses a temporal dynamic wholly contrived by the artist. A vision of adjacent works in the gallery space compounds this effect. Since, traditionally, paintings are “frozen” with respect to time while real time never stops, this dynamic addresses the nature of realism in a more fundamental way. Even though the artist employs a two-dimensional surface, one's changing perception of that surface constantly yields multiple inner dimensions in dynamic tension with each other. Since these tensions most often may be grouped under the general categories of Minimalist flatness, and painterly abstraction, the works implicitly subsume and transcend two earlier art historical epochs, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. The works' integration of these three themes both expresses and renders tangible the perceptive faculty.

Born in Berkeley, CA in 1945, Mary Corse received her B.F.A. from the University of California in 1963, and her M.F.A. from the Chouinard Art Institute in 1968.

Lehmann Maupin Gallery is presents Mary Corse's inaugural exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, entitled &quot;New Work&quot;.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
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  <Name>Joseph Arthur &quot;New Drawings&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Able Fine Art NY Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>511 West 25th St., Suite 507, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-675-3057</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-13</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Cassius Fouler &quot;Unpaid Dues&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Orchard Windows Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>37 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917-600-0807</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Hester and Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway or B/D to Grand Street.</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Ketamine, dust, and Evan Williams are the Father, Son, Holy Spirit in the world that Cassius Fouler paints. A failed attempt at self-deprecating humor and outdated hood-rat etymology, Fouler's work has been mostly swept under the rug due to his poor public relations and heroin addiction. Despite initial apprehension Orchard Windows Gallery presents &quot;Unpaid Dues&quot; a petite collection of artworks by CASSIUS FOULER.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-10</DateEnd>
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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>
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    <Access>Between Prince and Spring Sts.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue or 4 to Spring Street.</Access>
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  <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>
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  <Name>&quot;20th Anniversary&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Skoto Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>529 W 20th St., 5 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-352-8058</Phone>
    <Fax>212-352-8079</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street, A/C/E to 14th Street, L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Skoto Gallery at 20
by Geoffrey Jacques
 
It is tempting to talk about Skoto Gallery as a secret treasure of the New York art scene; but doing so brings up a lot of contradictory data. For instance, how does a “secret” survive two decades in a historically tough scene made even tougher by the cultural and economic head winds that have buffeted art, the New York art world, and the world in general in the last few years? To say the quality of the work shown at Skoto Gallery during these last twenty years is responsible for its success would be one obvious truth. There is, however, more to it than that. Skoto Gallery performs a vital intervention into the very idea of contemporary art.
 
Twenty years ago this seemed like just another gallery starting up in New York City’s Soho during that neighborhood’s historical heyday as the center of the art world. This was a time of sharp public protests and protest-style exhibitions trying to crack an art scene whose racial and gender homogeneity was only slightly masked by an essentially Eurocentric ethnic plurality. It was the era of a multiculturalism that seemed like it was always emerging, yet never quite arriving. The Museum of Modern Art had recently mounted a highly-touted exhibition on “primitivism” —still thought of, as late as the mid-1980s, as a polite word — and modern art. African art was still thought of, by a wide section of the art public and by more than a few specialists, as an art without artists. That is, one had the objects, but usually these objects had no individual names attached to them. The sources of these objects were often ascribed as tribal or regional, but were rarely ascribed to an individual artist. Of course, Africans might have had some influence on the origins of modern art —this was, after all, MOMA’s point — but none created art worth thinking about in our real-time world. Few people in New York had ever heard of a contemporary African artist making contemporary art. Meanwhile, the conversation concerning contemporary art as such focused almost exclusively on European or Eurocentric trends, individuals and individualists. Even the few African Americans whose names the official art world admitted to knowing, such as Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, were talked about, when considered at all, not as artists, exactly, but as relics or representatives.
 
This was the art world Skoto Gallery found itself in, and its own intervention into the conversation started with a bang. To open a gallery largely devoted to contemporary African art was one thing, and a pretty big thing at that; but to open the gallery with an exhibition curated by Ornette Coleman was another thing altogether. Soon enough, word got around town that something different was happening down on Prince Street. So it was. You walked in, and a whole new world opened up. It wasn’t just Africans who showed there, as remarkable as that might have been; sometimes Skoto Gallery would come up with ingenious pairings. I remember being so moved by a 1995 exhibition of works by two sculptors that I had to write about them. The pairing was, at first glance, audacious: Tom Otterness, from Kansas, who lived in New York; and Bright Bimpong, from Ghana, who was, at the time, studying in New Jersey. It was the kind of beautiful exhibition we’re now used to seeing at Skoto Gallery. On another occasion, I spent several congenial hours surrounded by the transcendent works of the category-defying El Anatsui, who was born in Ghana but who made his reputation in Nigeria. Here was an accomplished artist who’d been working for decades. I’d never heard of him. This is often the case with the artists who choose Skoto Gallery as an exhibition venue, and it is among the qualities that continue to make this gallery a unique and valuable part of New York’s art world. This is one of the rare galleries in that world where it’s still possible to get the news about art. One can hardly think of a bigger accomplishment.
 
Geoffrey Jacques is a poet and critic. He is the author of the poetry collection Just for a Thrill (2005) and A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American American Imaginary (2009), a book of criticism.
 http://www.geoffreyjacques.com

[Image: Inaugural exhibition, curated by Ornette Coleman at Skoto Gallery former 25 Prince Street location, February 7th, 1992]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Special Blend&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>The Journal Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>168 N 1st St., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
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    <Access>Between Driggs Ave. and Bedford Ave.  Subway: L to Bedford Avenue</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Presented as a melange, this exhibition has an earthy flavor with a clean finish. Balanced and light-bodied, it combines honey sweetness with a hint of citrus for a smooth-looking exhibition—perfect for viewing all day. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Bauer. Croxson. Lichty. Wood.&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Foxy Production</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>623 W 27th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-239-2758</Phone>
    <Fax>212-239-2759</Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[This group exhibition balances the elaborate, enigmatic paintings of Michael Bauer and Joel Croxson, with the hypnotic, streamlined sculptures of Stephen Lichty and Sarah E. Wood. With intriguing shapes and materials, and odd juxtapositions and references, the works defy, in varying ways, the empty signs of contemporary abstraction. Echoing, perhaps, the response of the New Realists to Abstract Expressionism, the artists here generate unexpected experiences for the viewer by inflecting abstraction with poetic and figurative notes.

Michael Bauer’s paintings display marks and icons, floating upon a flat field, that come together as spectral portraits whose roots may lay somewhere in Renaissance or Modernist portraiture. His paintings unleash an array of references that modulate from the unknown and nightmarish, to the recognizable and charming.

Joel Croxson’s meticulous, energized paintings mix patterning, lines, and shapes with fields of color. Conjuring almost, but not quite definable images and actions, they possess the visual logic of a dream: With no easily identifiable reason or direction, they make sense in the moment and then change course. Thwarting literal readings, they open doors to subjective spaces.

Stephen Lichty’s sculptures suspend familiar materials in exquisite, sculptural animation. He contours ribbons using armatures, creating relationships between elements that have a powerful and poetic sense of movement. Held in a fine balance between figure and ground, the works traverse the fault-line between representation and abstraction.

Sarah E. Woods’ elegant, sculptural constructions inject everyday materials with a stark and affective lyricism. Her wall-based work, Untitled (Broken Lines), made from wood, steel, and string, is reminiscent of a waterfall or, perhaps, the digital version of one. The theatricality of its simulated movement is matched by its pared-down gracefulness.

Michael Bauer (Erkelenz, Germany, 1973) lives and works in New York. He studied at the Foundation of BROTHERSLASHER, Cologne, with Tim Berresheim and at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst Braunschweig, Germany. Exhibitions include: Lisa Cooley, New York (solo)(upcoming 2012); Peter Kilchmann, Zurich (solo); Saatchi Gallery, London; Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris; Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin (solo); Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany (solo)(all 2011); Linn Luhn, Cologne (two person); Marquis Dance Hall, Istanbul, Turkey (two person)(both 2010); Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (solo); HOTEL, London (solo); Artleib, Dusseldorf, Germany (two person)(all 2009); Sammlung Südhausbau, Munich (2008); Lehmann Maupin, New York; Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, curated by Emma Dexter; Jack Hanley, San Francisco (solo); Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (solo); Stadtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany (solo)(all 2007); Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg (2001); Kunstverein Braunschweig (2000); and Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (1999). His curatorial series The Keno Twins (1-5) was presented across Germany and Italy (2008-2011).

Joel Croxson (1978, Bristol, UK) lives and works in London. He holds a BFA from the University of the West of England, Bristol, and a Post-graduate Diploma Fine Art from the Royal Academy, London. Exhibitions include: Frieze Frame, Frieze Art Fair (solo)(2011); Rob Tufnell Gallery, London (solo)(2011); Dicksmith Gallery, London (solo)(2009); 319 Portobello Road, London; Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin (both 2007); Bristol City Crypt, Bristol; Three Colts Gallery, London; v22/On, Ashwin Street Gallery, London (all 2006); One in the Other, London (solo)(2005); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (2003); and Spike Island, Bristol (2001).

Stephen Lichty (Kansas City, MO, 1983) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a BSc from the Department of Culture and Communications at NYU. Exhibitions include: Frutta, Rome (2012); The Barber Shop, Lisbon (2011); and School of Development, Berlin (2010). Performances include: Ribbon dance in a thunderstorm at sunset, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York (2011). Publications include: Special Effects, Advances in Neurology, re-release with Neil Marcus and Publication Studio (2011); and Alexander, Bell, Cooper, McCracken, Valentine (1971), re-release with Publication Studio (2010).

Sarah E. Wood (Beckley, WV, 1976) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BFA from The Maryland Institute, College of Art, and an MFA from Rutgers University. Exhibitions include: Grimm, Amsterdam; Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles (both 2011); Kate Werble (solo)(2010); Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; PS122, New York (solo)(both 2008); and Art in General, New York (2004).]]></Description>
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  <Name>Harriet Leonard &quot;Selections&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Atlantic Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>135 W 29th St., Suite 601,  New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-3183</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 6th and 7th Ave. Subway: N/R to 28th Street, 1/2/3 to 34th Street or F to 34th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-24</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Geraldo Perez &quot;Sketch Book Paintings&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Blue Mountain Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-486-4730</Phone>
    <Fax>646-486-4345</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition is entitled “Sketch Book Paintings.” The work draws from various sketch books, including his “on roll sketch book,” which is 110 yards long by 42 inches. Selections from the on roll sketch book will be displayed on a screen. Also included in the show will be his “phone book sketch books” and visitors will are invited to look through these intimate “sketch books.”

The essence of the work is conceived before the physical act of creating begins, but it develops and evolves, as we all must in our lives. The evolution never really ends for Perez. He describes his quest to “keep discovering and finding—because it’s all there/here.” He never ceases to discover for disparate pieces—to see them, and to make the connections. The discovery means letting the creative spirit guide his hand. “Letting go is always the tricky part, for me at least- it is always an experiment in faith.”

“Life is not all that we see and not all that we don’t see.”

“Sometimes when I am cleaning my brush and am painting,” he says, “I play around and these beautiful things appear.” It just comes out, as if his brush is a link to the universe. But Perez never really considers a piece &quot;finished.” “I stop… and sometimes go back.&quot; And stopped, the piece is a moment in time and space.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B86A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/B86A">
  <Name>Valerie Hird &quot;The Fifth Day&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/91617DD8">
    <Name>Nohra Haime Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>730 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-888-3550</Phone>
    <Fax>212-888-7869</Fax>
    <Access>Between 56th and 57th Sts. Subway: 4/5/6 or N/R/W to 59th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</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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    <ScheduleNote>Monday by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hird explores her personal take on the creation myth focusing on the cosmic moment before the birth of man. In a bow to Genesis, she has paused the six-day origin myth to reflect on what the natural systems in all their promise of new wonder would look like. After years of working on projects in the political cauldron of the Middle East-- in the midst of cultural clashes, religious conflict, and endless rhetoric-- she felt overwhelmed and haunted. Lacking any belief system that made sense, she returned to the United States to create her own 'myth' and has dedicated the last two years to the re-enchantment of her own inner world.
 
Hird has taken the vast panoply of cultural imagery found in many different (and often competing) creation myths and has integrated them; interweaving their iconic patterns into an inseparable whole. She began with four elements-- earth, sky, water and wind -- with each making reference to the other. Painting in a seductively ritualized manner, Hird created her personal mythology; a complex world based on integrated systems. The collective result of which is an intricate landscape of symbols and experiences that is both appealing and seductive. It leaves behind verbiage and travels toward an intoxicating world of unspoken but deeply-felt mythology.

[Image: Valerie Hird &quot;The Fifth Day&quot; (2010-11) oil on gessoed BFK paper]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B929" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/B929">
  <Name>&quot;MIE: a portrait by 35 artists&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E6D478AE">
    <Name>Freight and Volume</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-8700</Phone>
    <Fax>212-989-8708</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</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>Open by appointment also.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Long a muse and subject of many contemporary masters in the art world, curator/model Mie Iwatsuki joins forces with gallerist/curator/artist Nick Lawrence, of Freight+Volume, to create a very special, intimate portrait show, aptly titled MIE: A Portrait By 35 Artists. Drawing on the ancient tradition of portraiture, but bringing the medium into a contemporary discourse, this show of multiple interpretations of one subject—MIE—promises to be rich and provocative in its variety, insightful and illuminating in its focus. MIE features 35 contemporary prominent and emerging artists, working in every medium—painting, drawing, video, sculpture and performance—who have achieved a unique voice in the realm of portraiture.

The contemporary discourse on the portrait is one of the most challenging to clarify because of its wide use and traditional importance throughout art history. For thousands of years we have sought to unveil the human condition by producing portraits of individuals which transcend particular moments of time, culture, and social circumstances. Idiosyncratic Greek and Roman portrait busts, masterpieces like the all-encompassing Mona Lisa by Da Vinci, Caravaggio’s stunning David, the haunting Las Meninas by Velásquez, Holbein’s quirky The Ambassadors, Madam X’s mysterious visage by Sargent, Andy Warhol, the psychological study by Alice Neel, and microscopically-detailed Benefits Supervisor Sleeping by Lucien Freud are just a few examples of portraits that have weathered the ages and whose stories are still analyzed today.

As a medium, the portrait has always been a revelation—both a dissection of its subject as well as an abstraction. We are not just looking into the soul of another person as much as looking into our own souls when we view a portrait: indeed, the art form is similar to a mirror. The moment in time in the life of one person is not only frozen by the artist and his or her subject, but also by the viewer when engaged by the work of art in front of them. When we encounter such great works either in gallery, museum or private settings, we become a part of the painting; a triangular relationship is created between the subject, the artist, and the viewer.

The subject recorded in a portrait does not speak directly to the viewer, but its voice emanates through the filter of the regional, social, and cultural circumstances in which the portrait is created. It is further shaped by the technique of the artist and the unique interaction that takes place between the artist and the model throughout the painting process; this can include things as subtle as the time of day that the model sits, or the banter between them for the hours of company they keep. We don’t see the subject of a portrait as just another person; we encounter ourselves, reflected back, as we construct a relationship with the subject and the artist who recorded him or her.

Considering the complex conditions that surround the creation of a portrait, what could we learn if we add the third voice of the model as a sort of mediator between the artist and viewer? The model has an advantageous position to observe the artist’s creative process. By describing the conditions of the work’s creation, the model can enrich the viewer’s experience by giving them access to the artist and steering their interpretations more closely towards the artist’s intentions.

Model and curator, Mie Iwatsuki has also written on the entire range of her experience as the subject for each of the artists’ works– the &quot;Model's Voice.&quot; Her objective has been to work as closely as possible with the artist in the creation of each piece. She has made herself available to the artists for as long as necessary and has interpreted the personal stories and processes behind the works in order to share their experience and intentions as much as possible. Her observations, anecdotes, and criticisms will add a third dimension to the exhibition in lieu of the traditional gaze between artist and viewer. Her text will also be included in the catalogue, in addition to essays by John Yau, Peter Frank, Anthony Haden-Guest and Nick Lawrence.

A portion of the proceeds from the exhibition and catalogue sales will benefit the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund.

[Image: Alex Katz &quot;Mie&quot; (2010) oil on linen, 60 x 84 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B943" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/B943">
  <Name>Group show &quot;Simultaneity&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/39060712">
    <Name>Blackston</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>29C Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-695-8201</Phone>
    <Fax>212-695-8202</Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway, B/D to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Blackston presents Simultaneity, a group show featuring works by Brooklyn-based artists Ryan DaWalt, Rachel Howe, Shawn Kuruneru, Jeffrey Scott Mathews and Meghan Petras.  A reception will be held for the artists on Sunday, January 8th from 6 to 8 p.m.
 
Simultaneity addresses a current zeitgeist of pattern, motif and process in the separate studio practices of five young New York artists.  The title of the exhibition references artists Robert and Sonia Delaunay's early Twentieth Century movement, which, in both paintings and textile works, heralded the interplay of divergent color, lines and abstract forms in a single frame of reference.
 
Ryan DaWalt's steel geometric shapes on linen develop a unique color system across the plane. Using handmade pigments containing iron and steel particulates that are applied to linen backed by a magnetic field, the artist creates forms that are repeated and altered across the body of his work, resulting in a distinct color play that references formal art-making in addition to textile patterns.   
 
Rachel Howe's paper works are made with woven, hand-dyed cut strips of paper.  Concerned with both process and psychological elements of visual expression, Howe frequently incorporates symbols and patterns from ancient, occult and craft traditions.
 
Shawn Kuruneru employs rigorous application of miniscule ink marks over canvas and panel surfaces to create highly detailed minimalist work.  The undulation and accumulation of these marks develop compelling visual connections and perspective shifts, as well as altering the texture and tone of each surface.  The artist's sculptural piece in the exhibition incorporates elements of his mark-making across three dimensional space.
                 
Using bold abstract gestures, Jeffrey Scott Mathews applies a liquid form of the heavy metal bismuth to linen canvases painted with symmetrical underpinnings.  The concurrence of these pronounced metallic applications (out of which crystals grow) with a modulated background evinces a paradoxical relationship.  Mathews also works with textiles in forming large canvas wall hangings replete with recurring angular components.
 
Meghan Petras applies fabric paint to canvas, then cuts, reassembles and sews the pieces into a whole canvas that is stretched across a painting frame.  The results are bold and vital abstract paintings.  The artist's repeated gestural symbols and unique visual vocabulary reference Modernist traditions and equally the role of traditional craft disciplines in art-making. 
 
Employing concurrent use of textile, formal and alchemic traditions and newly developed processes, the works in this exhibition all embody the dynamic potential of relational exploration via color (or lack thereof), mark, material and form.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BA55" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BA55">
  <Name>Terry Winters &quot;Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures, &amp; Notebook&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FA740834">
    <Name>Matthew Marks Gallery 522 W 22nd St.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>522 W 22nd St., New York, NY, 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-243-0200</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenue. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</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[Matthew Marks announces, Terry Winters: Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures, &amp; Notebook. The exhibition consists of 11 large-scale vibrantly colored recent paintings. Winters depicts forms inspired by mathematical concepts like tessellations and knot theory, as well as shapes from the natural and scientific worlds in these new canvases. His kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, “all the events that went into the making of the painting.” The title Tessellation Figures refers to the process of creating a two-dimensional plane through the repetition of a geometric shape. 

Notebook, 2003-2011, will be on view in the gallery at 502 West 22nd Street for the first time in this country. These striking collages of found images layered on top of one another reveal the lasting tension between abstraction and representation in Winters’ work and are the source for many of his images in recent years. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-14</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BB00" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BB00">
  <Name>&quot;Fifteen Contemporary Artists Represented by Spanierman Gallery&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A50433E2">
    <Name>Spanierman Modern</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>53 E 58th St., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-832-1400</Phone>
    <Fax>212-588-9505</Fax>
    <Access>Between Park Ave. and Madison Ave.  Subway: F to 57th Street, 4/5/6/N/R/W to 59th Street/Lexington Avenue or E/V to 5th Avenue/ 53rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Frank Wimberley &quot;Flutter&quot; (2008) acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</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>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EF870F67">
    <Name>Bridge Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>98 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-674-6320</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Broome Sts. Subway: J/M/Z/F to Delancey Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Who has the balls to tackle Picasso and Matisse head-on?
Wielding her fervid palette artist Gerri Davis sets the old guys on fire against a backdrop of other seminal, temporal works.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>35</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BC7A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BC7A">
  <Name>&quot;Opulent Vision&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F7F43F4">
    <Name>fordPROJECT</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>57 W 57th St., Penthouse Fl.19 &amp; 20, New York, NY 10019 </Address>
    <Phone>212-219-6557</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Aves. Subway: F to 57th Street or N/Q/R to 59th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[“Opulent Vision” includes a collection of works that highlight many parallels of the contemporary cultural landscape.  Spanning across disciplines from painting to sculpture to conceptual works on paper, the exhibition provides a look at a selection of fordPROJECT's inaugural roster of artists, with the debut of new voices. “Opulent Vision” presents unique perspectives that reflect historical ceremonies, mythical lands, and unique architectural environments.  The exhibition will fill the gallery’s penthouse space with vivid colors, rich wallpaper, paintings of inspired interiors, and a site-specific installation. 

Also on view is the video program “What One Sees Is Not Seen,” curated by Alfredo Hertzog. In the presentation, Hertzog brings together a selection of videos to exemplify the ways in which contemporary artists approach various forms of presentation.  Works range from the dream-like imagery of Pipilotti Rist, to the politically fueled films of Mateo Maté and Hans Op de Beeck.  Other artists include Mauricio Alejo, Adriana Bustos, Cabello/Carcelle, Filipa César, Goldiechiari, Cao Guimarães, Kaoru Katayama, Jorge Macchi, Antoni Muntadas, and Kamen Stoyanov.

The opening of “Opulent Vision” also marks the second installment of the ongoing collaboration between fordPROJECT and BLACKLOTS.  A selection of artworks from BLACKLOTS’ inventory will be on view to enhance and complement fordPROJECT’s exhibition program.

[Image: Kristen Schiele &quot;Cabin Yule-Tide&quot; (2011) oil on canvas 48 x 46 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Latitude>40.7638</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BD37" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BD37">
  <Name>&quot;African American Art from the Flomenhaft Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/19A3A8B8">
    <Name>Flomenhaft</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., Suite 308, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-268-4952</Phone>
    <Fax>212-268-4953</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Description><![CDATA[The Black artists’ selections on view share neither an artistic program nor a similar background.  They are all of a different mettle.  All create with an unremitting creative force that issues from their Black heritage, their American heritage, political or societal influences or from a poetic instinct.  What is clear is that out of their shared heroic struggles have come some glorious art that feeds on life.  The Flomenhaft Gallery is proud to have collected works by wonderful Black artists and is pleased to make them available to the public.  In our exhibit are: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Beverly Buchanan, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold, Charles Lloyd Tucker, and Carrie Mae Weems.

Atlanta born artist, Emma Amos once said “For me, a black artist, to walk into the studio is a political act.”  She received her BFA at Antioch College studying fine arts and textile weaving.  She also worked as an illustrator for Sesame Street and as a textile designer for the very prestigious Dorothy Liebes.  She was the only female artist in the Spiral Group formed by Romare Bearden and his peers.  The Spiral group recently was celebrated in a superb show at the Studio Museum in Harlem.  Three of Emma’s works in our exhibit are: Let Me Off Uptown, Josephine and the Ostrich and Beauty. Her pastel painting Josephine and the Ostrich (1984) is a tribute to Josephine Baker, world famed American born French dancer, singer and actress who was carried through a boulevard in Budapest, sitting aloft her carriage and pulled by an ostrich.

Benny Andrews’  ink drawing from 1974, MacDowell Colony/Across the Water, was created 10 years after Congress gave President Lyndon Johnson the right to do whatever he deemed necessary to defend South East Asia.  Those ten years of bloodshed in Vietnam resulted in 50,000 American servicemen coming home in body bags, others coming home disabled, and American pilots and crews of downed aircrafts being taken to horrific prisons.  With terse linear forms, Andrews drew a mother standing at the edge of a cliff screaming perhaps for her son lying dead in a pool of blood across a deep chasm, a black cloud looming above.  It could just as well be a passionate depiction of any mother today bereft because of a son or daughter killed or maimed in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Romare Bearden was born in North Carolina in 1911 and grew up in Harlem.  His centennial is currently being celebrated in many museums and galleries.  His mother was actively engaged in social issues, and great black writers, musicians and politicians often visited their home.  He had a degree in education, but his first love was art.  He is arguably one of the great masters of the collage.  It is worth making a pilgrimage to our exhibit if only to see Up at Minton’s (1980) a collage with painted elements for which Bearden is renowned.  His work offers a microcosmic view of the jazz musician’s life during the Harlem Renaissance days, when after their gigs, they went to Minton’s and played their hearts out by the light of the moon.  It was the work chosen by the Bearden Foundation for a picture puzzle sold in many museums and for their 2005 engagement book cover.   Another work, Maternity/Ancestral Legend (1972), a watercolor and collage on board, is a metaphor for motherhood that freezes the images in our minds. When UNICEF was searching for the essence of a Black Madonna and Child for Christmas cards, at least 20 years ago, they asked to reproduce this one.  It is still used as one of their holiday images.

Beverly Buchanan’s shack architecture in paintings such as Ferry Road Shacks (1988), oil pastel on paper, and her sculptures are poetic works as rich in dignity as they are in complexity. They evoke the spectra of people, places and a culture that was fast disappearing in the byways of North and South Carolina, of people that could neither read nor write but raised children who became doctors, lawyers and all sorts of creative adults.  Each of her makeshift sculptures, created out of scavenged materials, she calls a “portrait,” an homage to people who may have lived in a shack, or for a friend she made along her trek.  Buchanan is also a poet and for a work in our exhibit Coming Home the Back Way, wood and mixed media, 1991, she wrote a poetic legend which will be on view.

Whereas we know Jacob Lawrence best by his socially conscious art, the ink drawing on view in this collection is a nostalgic work.  Done in 1961, it is entitled Chess on Broadway.  The preoccupation of chess players is so carefully depicted in his boldly distinctive style and the groupings orchestrated with the perfection of angular austerity, that it is hard to imagine any artist besting this work to communicate that time, place or involvement in the game.

Faith Ringgold is the quintessential story-teller and a remarkable artist.  Double Dutch on the Golden Gate Bridge (1988), which we are displaying, “is one of four quilts about being free to go and do whatever one can wish for.  In this case, she has drawn young Black girls in Harlem playing a favorite after-school street game.  Although Faith has transferred the game and the girls to the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco, of course it is Harlem in the background where Faith grew up.
 
Charles Lloyd Tucker was Bermuda’s first Black professionally trained artist and a dominant figure on the art scene during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1948 he went to London and studied at the Anglo-French Art Centre and then the Bryam Shaw School of Drawing and painting. He soaked up the culture of England and Europe, visiting art galleries always with sketchbook in hand and his talent was recognized early.  When he returned to Bermuda in 1953 he started teaching at the Berkeley Institute, and inspired a generation of artists.  Teaching provided him with the financial freedom to develop as an artist outside of the classroom. He was very fond of his mother, an elegant lady who loved to wear hats and probably inspired our painting, The Lady with the Hat (1960). The influence of his time spent in Europe is clear in this work.  There are remote echoes of Gauguin and Modigliani, artists he must have known from his student days.

Recently, several of Carrie Mae Weems works in our exhibit were borrowed by the Tate of Liverpool for an exhibit entitled “Color.”  On the subject of color, Weems says it all.  From the late 1988 to early 1990 Weems created a series entitled &quot;Colored People” which emphasized the range of skin color hidden behind the color “black.” The images portray the terms the African American community has used to create its own hierarchies by way of color.  We also include a four-part suite from her Sea Island Series of 1992. To create a new kind of historical and cultural chronicle, she visited the unique African American folk of the Gullah dialect who inhabit the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina.  Our work evokes the superstitions of the Gullah people.  This is an important part of African American history because these people were cut off from the melting pot of the mainland and retained a purer version of original customs, language, games and song.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Mark Podwal &quot;Sharing The Journey: The Haggadah&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Forum Gallery</Name>
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  <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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  <Name>&quot;First Truth&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Camel Art Space</Name>
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    <Address>722 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
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  <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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  <Name>&quot;RETROspect&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Charles Bank Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>196 Bowery, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-4095</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Charles Bank Gallery presents RETROspect, a pairing of staff selected contemporary artworks with examples of exquisitely painted nineteenth-century woodworking from the collection of Elliott and Grace Snyder. The contemporary collection includes work by Allen Grubesic, Adam Henry, Barnaby Hosking, Eske Kath, Kim Keever, Ryan James MacFarland, Kasper Sonne, and Pär Strömberg. 
 
Elliott and Grace Snyder have been full-time antiques dealers since 1970, and currently exhibit in the most important antiques shows in this country, including the Winter Antiques Show in New York. They are also founding members of the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America, a trade organization dedicated to encouraging the maintenance of high ethical standards in the business of buying and selling antiques.
 
The Snyders specialize in 17th, 18th, and early 19th century American furniture and decorative arts with an emphasis on textiles, painted and/or decorated furniture in original condition, and folk art. Their interest has always been in 'country' interpretations of formal designs in which craftsmen were freer to improvise on prevailing structures. The Snyders always seek out pieces that successfully embody individual imagination.

The six antiques from the Snyder collection were specifically chosen for their hand-painted surfaces that resemble abstract paintings from a more recent period in Art History. As a result, the juxtaposition of these pieces with artworks from the Charles Bank Gallery program offers viewers a fresh perspective on both collections.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;New Moon : Interpretations of the Chinese Zodiac 2012&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>myplasticheart</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[myplasticheart presents the 4th annual New Moon: Interpretations of the Chinese Zodiac exhibit. We are kicking the year off right with this stellar group show featuring 18 artists’ reinterpretations of the 12 animals of the Chinese lunar calendar. Curated by John Wong.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, and Elizabeth Riley Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>StorefrontBushwick</Name>
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    <Address>16 Wilson Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11237</Address>
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  <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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  <Name>Jennifer Poon &quot;Strange Blooms&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Claire Oliver</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[When conveyed with a delicate hand, dark, heavy subject matter becomes tractable enough for us to approach it, reflect on it, and digest its message. Jennifer Poon accomplishes this in her upcoming solo exhibition “Strange Blooms,” creating a provocative dialogue by juxtaposing her meticulous watercolors with her obsessively crafted fabric sculptures. Mining the relatable from both human and animal subjects, Poon’s studio practice is at once intellectual and emotional; she maximizes the feminine nature of her media while allowing it to express compelling and bleak themes. Cut and sewn paper, gouache, and watercolor along with densely stitched, stained, and sculpted fabrics narrate the Artist’s personal relationship with sorrow, death, and decay. These somber and beautiful meditations on mortality constitute Jennifer Poon’s third solo exhibition with the Gallery.

[Image: Artist: Jennifer Poon “Untitled” Watercolor and gouache on paper 41 x 53.5  in. (2011) Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Anonymous Tantra Paintings&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Address>131 Allen St., New York, NY 10002  </Address>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[These small paintings on found paper are made anonymously in India (especially in Rajasthan) by practitioners of tantraism, some of whom are artists, to represent and embody fundamental aspects of Tantra, a vast and complex spiritual and philosophical practice. Viewing or meditating on these reductive and essential images stimulates specific mental and/or spiritual experiences that are part of its teachings. While the images are centuries old with highly codified forms and colors, the paintings are packed with such a high level of the artists’ intentionality that they continually appear fresh and alive. Despite their didactic function, they also have a history of being coveted as decorative objects and abstract art both in India and in the West. Feature Inc. began exhibiting these anonymous Tantra paintings 1998, as a result of the gallery's research into contemporary Indian artists and art.

[Image: Anonymous Tantra Painting &quot;Divine Love&quot;]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.26744</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C196" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C196">
  <Name>&quot;Back From L.A.&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/70D6AF7A">
    <Name>Zürcher Studio</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>33 Bleecker St., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-777-0790</Phone>
    <Fax>212-777-0784</Fax>
    <Access>Between Mott and Elizabeth Sts. Subway: D/B/F/V to Broadway Lafayette, 6 to Bleecker Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 14:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-29</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>20</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C260" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C260">
  <Name>Henry Taylor Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CA14E641">
    <Name>MOMA PS1</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101</Address>
    <Phone>718-784-2084</Phone>
    <Fax>718-482-9454</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 46th Ave.  Subway: E/V to 23rd St./Ely Avenue, 7 to 45th Road, G to 21st Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor (American, b. 1958) applies his brush both to canvas and to unconventional materials—suitcases, crates, cereal boxes, cigarette packs—offering a refreshing, idiosyncratic perspective on culture and politics using everyone and everything around him as source material. While Taylor drew and painted in his youth, he studied art later in life, attending the California Institute of the Arts after working for ten years as a psychiatric technician at a state hospital. In the months preceding the exhibition, the artist will be in residency in one of MoMA PS1's former classrooms, using it as his New York studio to create new work for the exhibition.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested donations: Adults $10, Students and Seniors $5, MoMA members and with MoMA admission tickets Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-09</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C281" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C281">
  <Name>Annabelle Troster Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8E9E482D">
    <Name>Pleiades Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., 4 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-230-0056</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C281-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C281-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-26" start="17:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>9</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C341" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C341">
  <Name>&quot;Selected Gallery Artists&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0F1576CC">
    <Name>Flowers</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-439-1700</Phone>
    <Fax>212-439-1525</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd St.</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="1" />
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    <ScheduleNote>or by appointment</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Glenys Barton &quot;Tattoo Head I&quot; (2009) Ceramic, 63 x 44 x 28 cm / 25 x 17½ x 11¼ in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>9</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C55F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C55F">
  <Name>Paul Bloodgood &quot;Objects in Pieces&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7E64E7E3">
    <Name>Newman Popiashvili Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>504 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-274-9166</Phone>
    <Fax>212-274-3829</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</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" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Newman Popiashvili Gallery presents Objects in Pieces, the second solo exhibition of Paul Bloodgood's work at the gallery. The show consists of new painting and collages, which continue his ongoing practice of fragmentation and reassembly.

Bloodgood has made his career mining texts and images from artists, poets and philosophers, reassembling them into landscapes without the constraints of any one specific genre of painting or poetry. His method is based on fracture and assembly.

In October 2010, the artist suffered a brain injury, which altered his optical system. Bloodgood lost the ability to make perceptual closure, to &quot;make whole&quot; images from objects viewed only in part. The works in this show straddle Bloodgood 's two visual worlds. Before, he would break things apart to understand them, now the converse is necessary - he assembles fragments, reassembles, in order to understand them.

Abstraction's imperative to grant the medium priority over the subject matter frees the line, the mark, from what it delivers. In place of a requirement to convey information, there is in Bloodgood's paintings, an exploration of the expressive capability of line as an embodiment of naturalistic form.

Co-founder and curator of the AC Project Room, Paul Bloodgood has been an important figure in the New York art world for the past two decades. His work has been exhibited at David Zwirner Gallery, 303 Gallery and at the 2007 White Columns Annual. He received his MFA in Painting from the Maine College of Art in Portland and his BA in Painting from Yale University. Paul Bloodgood was a 2009 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.

[Image: Paul Bloodgood &quot;Objects in Pieces&quot; (2011) Oil on panel, 48 X 58 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.36752</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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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>
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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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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C6D5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C6D5">
  <Name>&quot;“The World According To&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A7A85009">
    <Name>Black &amp; White Gallery / Project Space</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>483 Driggs Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone>718-599-8775</Phone>
    <Fax>718-599-8798</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of N 10th St.  Subway: L to Bedford 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="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition will showcase the diversity of the gallery program. The 8 artists included with works representing a variety of media (paintings, installations, sculpture, photography and design) reveal the sharp awareness they have of today’s circumstances. Ranging from Michael Van den Besselaar’s witty and wry observations on a range of familiar social subjects and Eric White’s insightful commentary on the absurdities of life to Julian Montague’s exploration of everything from the mundane to the sublime through text and image, the works in this exhibition cover a wide range of practices, lending the exhibition an uncanny edge.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-03-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-03-10" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C78E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C78E">
  <Name>Laura Westby &quot;Transcendental Spaces&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8402CDDA">
    <Name>Phoenix Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., Suite 902, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-8711</Phone>
    <Fax>212-343-7303</Fax>
    <Access>Between W 24th and W 25th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.　</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[My work deals with the function of landscape, not from a point of view, but as a field of change. The multiple canvases allow the overall field to be a conversation between its parts, thus allowing the viewer to be able to perceive the landscape as though one were walking through it. In this way the paintings are a concept of a landscape and not a single view.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-02" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>16</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C7E3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C7E3">
  <Name>Annie Ewaskio &quot;Futurescapes&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2FD3D32C">
    <Name>A.I.R. Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., #228, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-6651</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-6653</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>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In her first solo exhibition in New York, Ewaskio exhibits a series of colorful and luminous oil paintings that depict nonexistent places. Painted in a luscious and visceral manner, the works are scenes that stem from the artist's imagination but are rooted in her experience traversing the American landscape. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Artist talk: Thursday February 2th, 6 PM</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-02" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>16</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.702653</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CB44" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/CB44">
  <Name>Borys Kosarev &quot;Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CF206ABF">
    <Name>The Ukrainian Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>222 E 6th St., New York, NY 10003</Address>
    <Phone>212-228-0110</Phone>
    <Fax>212-228-1947</Fax>
    <Access>Between 2nd and 3rd Ave. Subway: 6 to Astor Place, W/R to 8th St. or F/V to 2nd Ave. and Houston St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The first comprehensive exhibition of avant-garde artist Borys Kosarev will be presented in New York City at The Ukrainian Museum. Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931 includes 82 works on paper by Kosarev, an important contributor to the Eastern European Modernist movement and a survivor of Stalin's intellectual purges in 1930s Ukraine.

Borys Kosarev (1897-1994), also known as Boris Kosariev, was a contemporary of prominent Kharkiv, Ukraine artists David Burliuk (1882-1967), Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953), and Ilya Repin (1844-1930), as well as other celebrated Ukrainian artists such as Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) and Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964). A master graphic artist, painter, designer, photographer, and book illustrator, Kosarev worked with luminaries such as theater director Les Kurbas (1887-1937), poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), and cinema pioneer Alexander Dovzhenko (1894-1956). One of Kosarev's closest collaborators in the Kharkiv avant-garde was Volodymyr Bobrytskyi (1898-1986), who emigrated to New York and went on to become the recognized designer known as Bobri.

&quot;Kosarev is barely known in his own country. This first ever exhibition brings to light Kosarev’s prodigious talent and exposes the fundamental relationship between the artist and the site of his creative stimulus, his beloved city, Kharkiv,&quot; said Maria Shust, director of The Ukrainian Museum. &quot;Kosarev's extensive contribution to Ukrainian Modernism will finally be given its due when the collection is exhibited in Ukraine, where it will return in 2012.&quot;

Borys Kosarev’s name will forever be associated with the city of Kharkiv – the place of his birth, death, and a long life devoted to the visual arts. A native son of the fiercely independent Kharkiv territory, which produced some of Ukraine’s most creative cultural personalities, Kosarev epitomizes the spirit of the area and its regional diversity. The contents of the exhibition coincide with the period of Kharkiv’s status as Ukraine’s capital city (1919-1934) and the rise of Constructivism as an ideological aesthetic. It was also the period of Ukrainianization—a government policy that encouraged the revitalization of national culture, only to be quashed through a series of orchestrated purges of its proponents, the Ukrainian intelligentsia, beginning in the 1930s. While it flourished, Ukrainianization brought with it a renaissance of art and culture, serving as an unprecedented gateway into global Modernism through the aesthetic of Constructivism.

Sheltered from excessive official scrutiny by working in theater design and as a teacher until his death in 1994, Kosarev survived the Stalin purges and later repressions by intentionally &quot;flying under the radar.&quot; Sadly, his own reticence, coupled with the pressures exerted by the political landscape of the times, left Kosarev virtually unknown as a contributor to the Modernist movement. Not unlike Anatol Petrytsky (1895-1964), whose works were called a &quot;serendipitous discovery&quot; by the New York Times (Glueck, Grace. “Ukrainian Modernists, All Alone, Here at Last.” The New York Times, November 4, 2006, B7), Kosarev and his art are yet to be revealed and considered among the important Modernists of the early 20th century. Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931 is augmented with several works by his colleagues Vasyl Yermilov (1894-1968) and Maria Syniakova (1890-1984). The exhibition, comprising 88 objects in total, is curated by Myroslava M. Mudrak, Professor of Art History, The Ohio State University.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $8, Seniors and Students with valid ID $6, Members and Children under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-02</DateEnd>
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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>
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    <ScheduleNote>Summer: Mon -Thu 10am-6pm (Fri 10am - 4pm)</ScheduleNote>
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  <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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  <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/D0BD" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D0BD">
  <Name>Santi Moix &quot;Santi Moix on Huckleberry Finn: Watercolors and Wall Drawings&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7723074C">
    <Name>Paul Kasmin Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>293 10th Ave., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-563-4474</Phone>
    <Fax>212-563-4494</Fax>
    <Access>Between 26th and 27th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Three years after tackling themes and images from the quintessential work of Spanish satirical-heroism, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Santi Moix animates the ultimate allegory of American cultural-heroism, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Moix's series of watercolors, collages, and wall-drawings transcribe the optimism, color, and vernacular panache of Twain's characters and prose. They also represent a witty confrontation between the artist and his adopted land; the works on exhibit are the quasi-autobiographical &quot;Adventures&quot; of Santi Moix. 

Just as Twain described antebellum Mississippi while writing from his home on the Connecticut coast, Moix uses his outsider status to gain perspective on America’s traditions and cultural history. Twain had to return to the Mississippi many years after he began composing &quot;Adventures&quot; in order to be able to conclude it. Similarly, Santi engaged with this archetypically American work after returning to New York from a few years' hiatus in Barcelona. 

Much as the Mississippi is Twain's La Mancha, the book's river is also a deeply-felt symbol for Moix's life and art—a flow of fissile and mutable identities, personal and national; an agent of tension between a fluvial nomadic life and the fixity of civilization. Through Huck and his “Adventures,” Santi Moix illustrates the insight central to all great artists and writers: that art is ever-young and never docile.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D14D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D14D">
  <Name>&quot;Where Do We Migrate To?&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/9ECEFFA7">
    <Name>The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>66 5th Ave., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-229-8919</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner of 13th St. Subway: 4/5/6/l/N/Q/R/W to Union Sq. or F to 14th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</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, sundays openinghour 12:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Where Do We Migrate To? explores contemporary issues of migration as well as experiences of displacement and exile.

Where Do We Migrate To? features the work of nineteen internationally recognized artists and collectives.

Where Do We Migrate To? is curated by Niels Van Tomme, Director of Arts and Media at Provisions Learning Project, Washington, DC.  The nationally touring exhibition is organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, which also published the exhibition catalogue by the same title.  The exhibition and catalogue are made possible, in part, with the support of the Flemish Government through Flanders House New York.
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-15</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>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Street artist André Saraiva is perhaps best known for the creation of his &quot;Mr. A&quot; character which was featured last year in the award winning documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. He made his own directorial debut in 2011 with his short film, &quot;The Shoe,&quot; co-starring Leo Fitzpatrick and Annabelle Dexter-Jones. Saraiva has exhibited all over the world including shows at Colette, Palais de Tokyo and Air de Paris where he showed his love graffiti for the first time. For MOCA's landmark &quot;Art in the Streets&quot; show, he tagged up the museum's bathrooms with his colorful graffiti. Andre's show Love Letters at half gallery -- his first solo exhibition in New York -- will include paintings on french letter boxes which he used to paint all over Paris and love notes on stationery, a somewhat anachronistic celebration of communication so closely tied to the romantic. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-01</DateEnd>
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  <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" />
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    <ScheduleNote>By appointment only.</ScheduleNote>
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  <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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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D302" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D302">
  <Name>&quot;MAKE. BELIEVE.&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/72573B9B">
    <Name>Fountain Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>702 9th Ave. New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-262-2756</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 48th St. Subway: C/E to 50th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[This group exhibition features work by Fountain Gallery artists and by artists with mental illness from three other non-profit organizations based in New York City, participating through The Fountain Gallery Visiting Artists Program: HAI, The Living Museum, and Services for the UnderServed. &quot;MAKE. BELIEVE.&quot; is curated by Frank Maresca.
 
&quot;Basically, art for me falls into two categories. That which is effective, and that which is less effective. It is all about communication,&quot; said Maresca, co-owner of Ricco/Maresca Gallery. “Many of the artists in this show do not have the questionable benefit of academic training or an art historical background. However, they still have a lot to say. The art emanates from life experiences that are often harsh and unique, creating an overwhelming desire to reach out and make their stories known. The medium that they have chosen is art, and the message is powerful.&quot; Maresca has championed the work of artists communicating outside of the academic mainstream for the last 30 years; the mission of Ricco/Maresca Gallery has always been to blur the lines between the so called high and low.

[Image: Elliot Johnson &quot;Nicki Minaj&quot; (2011) graphite, ink, vinyl on paper 13.5 x 11 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-07</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D3BC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D3BC">
  <Name>Kenneth Ian &quot;Organic Lust&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D65A4E9B">
    <Name>Yes gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>147 India St., Brooklyn, NY 11222</Address>
    <Phone>347-599-2322</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Manhattan Ave. and McGuinessBlvd. Subway: G to Greenpoint Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kenneth Ian Husbands works have been displayed and sold throughout the USA. His love of art had started at a young age when his father would take him to local gallery’s and museums.
As soon as young Kenneth could he started studying art history and carrying a sketch pad and oil pastels with him everywhere he could. His original style became that of the European surrealists, as he felt most comfortable in unreal situations where his imagination could thrive. Due to economic hardships he had to leave collage and his love of art and became a off shore fisherman where he spent 265 days a year at sea and away from land.
During and after this time he didn’t paint much as time did not allow. Kenneth settled in for the &quot;American dream&quot;, bought a house and seemed to be doing well until everything he was working for fell apart.
Now once again facing economic struggles and mental hardships he turned to a place that was all to familiar to him, his art! But in redefining himself he found that the surrealistic style now longer suited his feelings and view of the world. Kenneth wanted his new style to depict his latest life lesson that although we wish to control everything around us, we are all set in a predetermined path that we have little, if any control. His first solo show of 2012 is presented by the YES gallery and entitled &quot;Organic Lust&quot; it is curated by Lesley Doukhowetzky.
Kenneth Ian’s paintings have an energy of their own. They are predetermined on their own path, either meandering like water or like flowing like lava formations. These paintings are actually formed by the forces of nature, looking like organic earth formations. He depicts abstract, organic forms
which naturally blend together  to create patterns replicating nature’s perfection. Ian’s trust in organic forms is evident in the lustful use of paint which creates interesting designs. Kenneth’s use of rich colors is just what one would expect to see in forces of nature. When you can not be surrounded by live natural beauty one might lust over being exposed to Ian’s works of art.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-13</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D3C6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D3C6">
  <Name>Carrie Pollack &quot;Witness&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/23A427A6">
    <Name>Minus Space</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Suite 226, Brooklyn, NY 11201  </Address>
    <Phone>347-525-4628</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: A/C to High Street or F to York 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="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[MINUS SPACE presents the exhibition Carrie Pollack: Witness. This is the Brooklyn-based artist’s first solo exhibition in New York and it will feature a suite of new paintings consisting of digital prints on linen.

Carrie Pollack describes her work as “a catalog of her memories”. In it she examines what we as individuals consciously or unconsciously choose to remember, and how our memories of people, places, and events degrade and change over time. Begun after the death of her father in 2009, Pollack’s new paintings are both poetic and existential, and they investigate the notions of permanence and impermanence, as well as uncertainty and contradiction. She deliberately intends her paintings to function “more as conversations than as statements”. Her imagery can often appear both familiar and unknown at the same time spanning both abstraction and representation.

The source materials of Pollack’s new paintings can be found in long meditative walks she takes daily with her dog around her Greenpoint, Brooklyn neighborhood. She carries her camera with her religiously, which she uses as a research tool to record the fleeting nature of her immediate environment. Each day Pollack takes dozens of photographs, which as of late have focused on deteriorating advertising posters, faded graffiti tags, vacant lots, worn textiles, and the fleeting quality of the sky, as well as other elements in transition and flux.

Pollack in turn organizes her photographs – now numbering in the thousands – into several distinct categories: posters, skies, newspapers, and textiles, among others. She spends weeks pouring over her images, intuitively arranging and rearranging them, looking for shared relationships between them. Once she identifies an image of essential interest, Pollack reduces it down to gray-scale in Photoshop, occasionally adjusting its contrast if needed to bring the image into a neutral state. She then prints upwards of one hundred test images with her large-format printer onto a wide array of supports, including newsprint, paper, canvas, and linen. The printing process is intentionally laden with glitches and hiccups, which she readily embraces. She remarks that the technology “adds its own interpretation of the image”, which reflects the way one’s mind continually tries to understand, interpret, and find meaning in the past, present, and future.

In the concluding steps of her process, Pollack prints a final image onto linen in a size that is unequal – sometimes larger, sometimes smaller – to the dimensions of the painting stretcher that will support it. As a result, the printed image often appears misaligned at first glance. Sometimes an image will wrap around the sides of the stretcher bars and onto the back the painting. Other times an image will be completely isolated within a much larger field of raw linen on the surface of the painting. These choices starkly contrast the digital quality of the image with the physical materiality of the painting itself, which directly parallels and exemplifies the complexity of memory.

Carrie Pollack (b. 1973) has exhibited her work throughout the United States, as well as in Germany and Belgium. Her work was recently included in the group exhibition Between This Light and That and Space curated by artist Douglas Melini at the gallery this past summer. Pollack has also recently exhibited at BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Monya Rowe Gallery, and David Krut Projects, all in New York. She has also produced editions with Daily Operation in New York and Sonnenzimmer in Chicago, IL.

Pollack has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Jentel, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been discussed in publications, such as Time Out New York, Metropulse, and The Daily Beacon. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, and a BFA from Alfred University, Alfred, NY.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D3D6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D3D6">
  <Name>Julia Berkman &quot;Blip.&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A9CA140E">
    <Name>Soho20 Chelsea Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., #605, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-367-8994</Phone>
    <Fax>212-367-8994</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Berkman’s work can be seen as a playful exploration in color, form and texture. Her paintings often consist of only a few simple, yet bold colors, which contain awkward shapes, lines and markings. In Ladder, small light-colored rectangles ascend out of view amid a delicious melon-pink background. Another piece, Ribbon consists of a “dirty white” surface lined horizontally with multi-colored wavering stripes. Both paintings demonstrate Berkman’s great sensitivity to the materials and color.

The rich texture and layered colors in the pieces strike out on their own, but the work can also be seen as a nod to abstract expressionists such as Phillip Guston, Barnett Newman and Agnes Martin. Based on geometric abstraction, Berkman’s painting uses a grid-like structure from which other forms derive. However, her work veers away from strict geometry and suggests the pliable nature of the grid. As seen in the monochromatic works, such as Breath to Breath, the grid emerges as a playful and energetic presence. Berkman’s work offers the viewer intimate meditations on painting’s basic elements.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-31</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D419" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D419">
  <Name>James Brooks &amp; Dan Flavin &quot;Unlikely Friends&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/36840A06">
    <Name>Greenberg Van Doren Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>730 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-445-0444</Phone>
    <Fax>212-445-0442</Fax>
    <Access>Between 56th and 57th St. Subway: F at 57th Street or E/V at 53rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 am-5:00 pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The gallery is pleased to present this two-person exhibition featuring works on paper and canvas by James Brooks and fluorescent light sculptures by Dan Flavin.

This exhibition pairs these visually disparate bodies of work by exploring the mutual professional respect and friendship Brooks and Flavin had for one another, demonstrated through correspondence, curation of exhibitions and dedication of artworks. While Brooks’ painterly Abstract Expressionist tableaux vary tremendously from Flavin’s controlled, conceptually driven Minimalist light sculptures, both artists paid particular attention to color and the application of their media on the base surface whether paper, canvas or wall.

[Image: James Brooks &quot;Mardon&quot; (1973) acrylic on canvas 76 x 76 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D454" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D454">
  <Name>Graham Durward Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DC14729E">
    <Name>Louis B. James Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>143 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-533-4670</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Rivington and Delancey Sts. Subway: F, J/M/Z to Delancey St. or F to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Durward’s paintings in oil on linen render formally the intangibility and ephemerality of desire. He works primarily in three veins: portraiture, still life, and art historical devotional imagery, and treats each subject to the same interplay of abstraction and representation, obscurity and clarity. The portraits are culled from the Internet and display anonymous men who have obscured their own faces with crude Photoshop technology. The painterly violence of erasure, with oil paint mimicking digital drawing, lends a darkness to the subjects’ advertisements of desire. Durward’s still lives bear a tenuous relationship to the tradition; based on photographs taken by the artist, they depict the smoke from incense and candles, fixing in time the fluidity of the incorporeal.  His sacred imagery, here the Shroud of Turin and the Sistine Chapel dissolved to abstraction, similarly engage the impossibility of the depiction of immateriality in paint. 
 
Graham Durward studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Whitney Independent Study program.

[Image: Graham Durward &quot;U&quot; (2011) oil on linen 20 x 22 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-27</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Luxe&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Tria Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>531 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-695-0021</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On display will be two large canvases by Franco, along with one large, three mid-sized and two smaller canvases by Satterly.
 
Satterly and Franco are both drawn to painting realistic images of sumptuous luxury items. The word luxury comes from the Latin word luxus,which relates to excess. It includes the notion of pleasure and indulgence and the connotation of something that is not necessary. &quot;Luxe&quot; goods have captured the imagination and desire of people since the beginning of time, and one cannot help but have a visceral reaction of desire when viewing these exquisite images.
 
Both Satterly and Franco's paintings are meticulously created and highly realistic. Both are entertaining and thought-provoking, for while the subject matter necessarily raises questions of materialism and conspicuous consumption, the viewer can't help but smile when looking at these items of true and luxurious beauty.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Bill Jacklin &quot;Recent Work, New York&quot;</Name>
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    <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>
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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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  <DateStart>2012-02-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D52B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D52B">
  <Name>Joyce Pensato “Batman Returns”</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C889AF53">
    <Name>Friedrich Petzel Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 &amp; 537 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-680-9467</Phone>
    <Fax>212-680-9473</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: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Friedrich Petzel Gallery presents “Batman Returns,” the third exhibition of new work by the New York-based artist Joyce Pensato. An illustrated catalogue, published by 38th Street Publishers with an accompanying essay by Ira G. Wool, will be available on the occasion of the exhibition. The book commemorates the 32 years that the artist worked in her Olive Street studio in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, before re-locating to a new space in the spring of 2011.

For this exhibition, Joyce Pensato uses Batman as the predominant subject and inspiration for her paintings. “Batman” is a motif that first appeared in Pensato’s drawings as early as the mid-1970’s and has been used by the artist only periodically since, the last Batman painting, as singular work, having been executed in 1996. Pensato’s resurrection of this iconic image sixteen years later marks an additional shift in her practice as it will be the first time that she has added various colors to what until now has been a strictly black, white and silver painting palette. Pastel color has played a role in Pensato’s drawings over the years, but color in the paintings is new, and as with her drawings, the color element marks a layer within, simultaneously erased and darkened by the profuse and continual saturation of black and white enamel. 

Alongside Pensato’s Batman motif will be paintings and drawings incorporating her familiar cartoon imagery of clowns, Homer Simpson, Groucho Marx, Mickey Mouse, and a character the artist refers to as “The Juicer.” Furthermore, she will present assemblages of toys, ephemera, and stuffed animals throughout the gallery and will show as well approximately fifteen to twenty photographs of striking tableaux of the aforementioned elements taken by the artist at various times of day and night in her former studio. Through these old and new mediums, Pensato continues her baleful transmutation of American cartoon culture - employing her fast, assured, and gestural hand to shed light on the arguable darkness lurking within our familiar Pop iconography. What lay beneath Batman’s mask was, perhaps only for a moment, Bruce Wayne.

Joyce Pensato lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has exhibited widely, including in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; the St. Louis Art Museum; The Speed Museum of Art, Louisville; and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Dallas Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France, among others. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and the Anonymous Was A Woman Award. She attended The New York Studio School.]]></Description>
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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: 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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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D99E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D99E">
  <Name>Maria Garkavenko &quot;New &amp; Recent Works&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F4F0C85">
    <Name>Ten43 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1043 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>646-476-6341</Phone>
    <Fax>646-476-6342</Fax>
    <Access>Between 80th and 79th sts., Subway: 6 to 77th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Description><![CDATA[Ten43 Gallery is proud to announce the first New York exhibition of paintings by Russian Emerging artist Maria Garkavenko.

Human psyche is the signature mark of artist Maria Garkavenko’s work. Elegant curves compose androgynous silhouettes accentuating the strength of figures in her paintings. The eleven compositions in this exhibition are a balance of line, color and shape that combined with her choice of tone elicits a confidence of calm. Universal symbols such as bowls, moons and trees are depicted in a flat folk art style meets hieroglyphic sensibility.

Garkavenko’s work evokes triune thoughts of a unity between human, spirit and soul existing in moments of time. Two figures are joined through braided hair, creating a trinity with the moon floating above. The energy that bursts from these canvases stems from the bold color and silence the work explores. We feel as though we are peeking into the inner most thoughts and rituals of the subjects.

Her ontological question of existence is visible on the canvases. The atmospheric balance achieved through flat color and line alludes to the artist’s desire for harmony and inner peace. This artist’s journey is a constant pursuit of the inspection of the soul and self-analysis combined with a simplistic voice of artistic expression.

Maria Garkavenko was born in Leningradin, 1980. She earned herd egree in classical art at the Stirlitz Academy of Art. In 2006 she was honored with membership to the prestigious union of artists.

She lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D9E0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D9E0">
  <Name>Fanny Sanin &quot;Drawings and Studies 1960 to Now&quot; </Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/452D6F3F">
    <Name>Frederico Sève Gallery/latincollector</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>37 W 57th St., Fl. 4, New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-334-7813</Phone>
    <Fax>212-334-7830</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: F at 57th Street or N/R/W at 5th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The gallery is pleased to present a retrospective of the works on paper by Fanny Sanín. The Colombian-born, now American artist is best known for her symmetrical, geometric abstract paintings in oil and acrylic on canvas. This exhibition provides an illuminating history and insights into the methodical process leading to Sanin's larger paintings on canvas. While each drawing can be appreciated on its own, the suites of drawings that she generates for each of her final composition evince her intricate thought process using a variety of drawing media on paper to build her final compositions. This exhibition project has been organized by New York independent art curator and writer Patterson Sims.

[Image: Fanny Sanín &quot;Composition No. 2&quot; (2009) acrylic and pencil on paper 33 x 25 in.]
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DD72" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/DD72">
  <Name>&quot;The First Rebellion is History, Next Week Rome Falls&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EC176588">
    <Name>Simon Preston Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>301 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-1105</Phone>
    <Fax>212-431-1106</Fax>
    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge St.  Subway: B/D/Q to Grand Street or F/J/M/Z to Essex Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition's title is borrowed from a recent series of photographs by Daniel Joseph Martinez. In each of his images, hand-groomed Bonsai trees, tended by the artist, are placed on pedestals in front of national flags, activating a rich set of connotations about nature, aesthetics and social control. Martinez will exhibit two further photographic series of works in his solo exhibition titled I want to go to Detroit; Cheerleaders CHEER at LA&gt;&lt;ART which opens on 4 February, as part of Pacific Standard Time in LA. Michelle Lopez exhibits a pair of hand-formed clay, wall-leaning sculptures that examine the iconography of the flag. Following the previous trajectory of her work titled Flare, properties of drawing invade the sculptures and expose a kind of natural, organic form. Jessica Mein will show a series of billboard works depicting construction sites. Through the artist's obsessive hand-made perforations and collage, the mechanical printing process found in the discarded material is interrupted and altered. Marco Rios' Unititled photograph is hyperbolic in nature, employing humor and slapstick tactics to address the more solemn issues of failure, death, desire, and despair. Kara Tanaka has transformed a cowhide into an abstracted map by shaving and carving onto the skin, illustrating the search for both physical and mythical mountain systems. Tanaka's use of animal hides draws a parallel to the Tibetan iconographic image of flayed skin as a symbol for the destruction of the ego. Caragh Thuring includes a volcano. Painted on unprimed linen, with an extreme efficiency of marks, the volcano appears mythical or simply dormant and elicits a certain faith and desire in its mere existence, echoing the very foundation and method in the construction of each of her paintings. Josh Tonsfeldt will exhibit recent work made while on residency at the Zabludowicz Collection in Sarvisalo, Finland. He is included in New York: Directions, Points of Interest at Massimo de Carlo , which will open on January 25th - March 24th in Milan.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DDD2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/DDD2">
  <Name>&quot;One And Many&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F230DB3">
    <Name>Location One</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>26 Greene St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-334-3347</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Canal and Grand St. Subway: A/C/E to Canal Street or N/Q/R/W to Canal St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</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>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Location One is proud to present One and Many, a group show featuring works by Monica Baptista, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Atsushi Kaga, Agnieszka Kurant, David Molander, and Hiraku Suzuki. These artists engage a variety of mediums, from digital film and photography to the traditional art of sewing, transforming one piece into many as they channel possible meta-narratives in their work. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.36752</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-10" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.721233</Latitude>
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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>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <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" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
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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>
  <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/E061" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/E061">
  <Name>Thomas Eggerer and R.H. Quaytman &quot;Preludes&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C889AF53">
    <Name>Friedrich Petzel Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 &amp; 537 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-680-9467</Phone>
    <Fax>212-680-9473</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: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Friedrich Petzel Gallery presents Preludes, a collaboration between Thomas Eggerer and R.H. Quaytman. This is Thomas Eggerer and R.H. Quaytman’s third collaboration together.

The exhibition Preludes consists of three collaborative paintings between Thomas Eggerer and R.H. Quaytman with an additional large acrylic painting, Regatta (2009), by Eggerer. Working together, Eggerer and Quaytman selected images for screenshots from documentary footage of piano virtuoso Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920 – 1995). The artists then followed Quaytman’s standard medium and formats by creating silkscreens on gessoed panels measuring: 32 3/8 x 52 3/8 inches (82.2 x 133 cm), and 32 3/8 x 32 3/8 inches (82.2 x 82.2 cm). The silkscreened images are each interrupted by Eggerer’s hand painted band across the surface.

The images of Michelangeli were selected because of Thomas Eggerer’s ongoing interest in representations of male authority. The temporal and spatial stability of this classic genre of musical portraiture is overturned through color and form via the painted image. The photographic crop appears to threaten the hierarchy of the virtuoso in relation to his instrument. The piano becomes a landscape that is at once wellspring and menace. The dated illustionistic space of the image itself becomes another kind of landscape between the painted gesso ground and the oil painted line. Eggerer and Quaytman’s process of reconfiguring and reframing the image, subdues the pianist’s and the painter’s authorial autonomy. The piano becomes the guiding vessel, an external body, and an allusion to a black coffin mirroring the pianist on the inside of its lid. In addition, the raised piano lid resembles the sailboat that quietly keels upon the endless horizon in Regatta.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/E3CC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/E3CC">
  <Name>&quot;The Family Jewels&quot; and &quot;Dorian, the Wallpaper Collection&quot; Exhibitions</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/00038288">
    <Name>Stephan Stoyanov Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>29 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-582-4425</Phone>
    <Fax>212-582-2366</Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester &amp; Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway, B/D to Grand Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Stephan Stoyanov Gallery presents &quot;The Family Jewels&quot;, Hannah Barrett's series of paintings and drawings depicting a hermaphrodite master race; and &quot;Dorian, the Wallpaper Collection&quot;, Michelle Handelman's selection of ambient video loops from Dorian, a Cinematic Perfume, a project based on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
 
In The Family Jewels, small Cranach-like icons portray an omnisexual elite enjoying their leisure in a fantasy realm reminiscent of William S. Burroughs'. Barrett creates an alternative pantheon by fusing the bodies of Hitler and Queen Elizabeth, ultimate symbols of blood-based superiority, and placing them in understated, highly charged settings. To accompany her first solo New York show, Barrett invites 2011 Guggenheim Fellow Michelle Handelman to exhibit photographs and videos from her acclaimed parable of decadence and narcissism, Dorian, a Cinematic Perfume. In this video installation characters and musicians of the underground '80s club scene act out the extremes of youthful beauty and aging decomposition as symbolized by Dorian Gray's secretly blistering portrait. Dorian exists as a contemporary celebrity, destroyed by a vacant ambition.
 
While Barrett paints in oil and gold leaf on panel, and Handelman shoots in high definition video, both create a cast of morally and sexually ambiguous characters engaged in exclusive and rarified power games and rituals. Handelman's lush glamour and Barrett's meticulous craftsmanship conspire to reveal pristine surfaces that are shattered by conflicted emotions and dark history.

[Image: &quot;Dead Dorian&quot; from Dorian by Michelle Handelman / &quot;The Bread of Future Generations&quot; by Hannah Barrett]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Artists Talk: Sunday, February 12, 4-5pm</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-15" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/E632" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/E632">
  <Name>&quot;Sound of Silence: Art During Dictatorship&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/17610F30">
    <Name>EFA Project Space</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>323 W 39th St., 11 Fl., New York, NY 10018</Address>
    <Phone>212-563-5855</Phone>
    <Fax>212-563-1875</Fax>
    <Access>Between 8th and 9th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 42th Street or A/C/E to 34th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</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="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Curated by Belarus-born Olga Kopenkina, this exhibition brings together nine of the most active young artists from Belarus, and their videos, posters, paintings and installations created in solidarity with popular protests against the December 2010 rigged election and state-sanctioned crime that unfolded in its aftermath. Belarus President Lukashenka usurped governmental control seventeen years ago, and proceeded to turn Belarus, a once culturally vibrant country re-establishing its identity after the fall of the Soviet Union, into a repressed and stagnant dictatorship. In December 2010, accusations against falsified presidential elections brought rise to a wave of peaceful protests throughout the country, which were reacted strongly against by the police and the government through violence, mass arrests, unlawful trials for the oppositional leaders and activists, and long jail terms. 
 
Young artists in Belarus responded strongly to the fast growing protest movement with new and bold expression-actions that have been gaining visibility throughout Europe despite the governments efforts to silence them. This is the generation of artists who grew up under the dictatorship of Lukashenka and now many of them have found brazen voices that enable them to take giant risks, challenging the status quo while faced with the constant threat of arrest and the fate of political exile. &quot;Sound of Silence&quot; is the first exhibition in New York City that surveys the recent and powerful activities coming from this generation of Belarusian artists. It presents a range of installation, documentation and objects: from the work generated by the collective www.antibrainwash.net, an artists-run activist website, which features radical protest posters and materials that can be downloaded, printed and distributed; to Marina Naprushkina's constantly morphing installation &quot;The Office of Anti-Propaganda,&quot; that presents images, objects, slogans and video footage exploring the illusory reality the Belarus government created through public campaign; to documentation of Ales Pushkin's outlandish staged performance protests delivered to the President, police, and other officials that led him to immediate and constant arrest; to the Minsk-based group FAU's &quot;Monopoly: The Belarusian Edition&quot;  that addresses the dominance of economics over politics and culture, when the players assume the roles of government officials and winning depends upon being the most corrupt; to Yauheni Shadko's expressionistic narrative paintings of recent political events.

[Image: antibrainwash.net &quot;Tortures #3 and #6&quot; (2011) (from series of 9 downloadable posters]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>4.3769</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/E66E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/E66E">
  <Name>&quot;The Annual: 2012&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C3D0A9CA">
    <Name>National Academy</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1083 5th Ave.,  New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-369-4880 x 223</Phone>
    <Fax>212-360-6795</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The National Academy’s Annual exhibition features works by over 100 artists and architects juxtaposing contemporary masters with emerging and mid-career artists. 

This year’s new format has been designed to reveal the cross-generational dialogue occurring in the art world by showcasing Academicians and other invited artists and architects.

&quot;Presenting three generations of artists and architects, this exhibition illustrates the continuum of American art,&quot; says Marshall Price, the Academy’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. &quot;The new format contextualizes contemporary art, indicating an evolution to 'new.' With a nod to the Academy's historic Annual, the 2012 exhibition is a forum for divergent aesthetic inclinations and in some cases for social issues being addressed by artists and architects.&quot;

This vibrant cross-generational exchange is evident throughout the Annual from the paintings of Philip Pearlstein and Ellen Altfest, to abstractions by Karl Benjamin and Stephen Westfall. Similarly in architecture, Chicago-based architect and 2011 MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient Jeanne Gang has inherited the mantle from Laurence Booth in this city rich in architectural history.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $12, Students and Seniors $7, Children under 12, members, and students of the National Academy School: Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-29</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Ray Smith &amp; G.T. Pellizzi &quot;The Execution of Maximilian: Border Paintings&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DB6B2A8E">
    <Name>Y Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>165 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917-721-4539</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Stanton and Rivington Sts., Subway: F to 1st Avenue or F/M/J/Z to Delancey Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <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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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-06</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Jamy Kahn Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/58D45216">
    <Name>Brenda Taylor Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>505 W 28th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-463-7166</Phone>
    <Fax>212-463-8083</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_28_above">Chelsea 28th - 33rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Jamy Kahn &quot;EXOTERRA: High Spirits Series&quot; 3-dimensional construction, acrylic on canvas on wood, 37 x 68 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;All Humans Do&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/164AD061">
    <Name>WHITE BOX</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>329 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-714-2347</Phone>
    <Fax>212-714-2354</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Chrystie st. Subway: B/D/Q to Grand Street or J/M to Bowery Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Curated  by Aoife Tunney]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-20</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Whiting Tennis Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F9BCE37">
    <Name>Derek Eller Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>615 W 27th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-6411</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-6977</Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or A/C/E to 34th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Derek Eller Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Whiting Tennis. 

Whiting Tennis' assemblages communicate empathy for the worn and neglected, for the histories engrained in objects and structures. Beginning with free-hand geometric sketches, his paintings employ wood-block prints and collage to transmute human and animal figures into architectural forms. Sculptural works, created with utilitarian materials such as plywood and plaster, are similarly anthropomorphized.  Flesh becomes solid, impenetrable, doorless, windowless, shut tight to the world, while the surfaces, the skin, bear the patina of age and experience.  

Works such as Hybrid, Droopy, and Glum evoke both the masculine romanticism of lone figures in desolate landscapes and the endearing quality of the battered and vulnerable. Tennis' compositions contain a brooding solitude and an awkward geometry of clashing planes and collapsing depths. Meticulously cobbled together, the shifting planes and shuffling perspective nod to Cezanne, Schwitters, and Cubism--the giants of Modernity meet American made-in-the-shed familiarity. With dexterity and formal rigor, Tennis's assemblages employ workaday materials to generate a rustling, deeply human world.

Whiting Tennis lives and works in Seattle, Washington and has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. He recently had his first solo museum show at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. This will be his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Point of Entry&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Ana Cristea gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 26th St.,  New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-904-1100</Phone>
    <Fax>212-904-1171</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Ana Cristea Gallery presents &quot;Point of Entry&quot;, a group show that brings together the work of three remarkable artists: Oliver Clegg, Daniel Pitin and Nicola Samori. The artists are all figurative painters concerned with the relationship between the surface they paint on and the subjects they depict. Each painter approaches this way of working from his own unique perspective, but each is concerned with how the viewer becomes implicated in the journey of the expression and resolution of the artist's ideas and feelings. Art, particularly painting has the ability to render that which is invisible, visible. Atmospheres and memories can be translated into a form that can not only be seen but also felt. With this in mind, the question of how the viewer can 'enter' a painting becomes even more pertinent.

In the case of Oliver Clegg, the process is enabled through the associative power of the found object and its 'ready-made' history. Child's play is a motif that runs throughout Clegg's work. His paintings of discarded toys are executed on objects such as found drawing boards or school desks. Clegg is sensitive to the significance of ordinary objects transformed in the hands of writer or artist.  While still at school Clegg collected old drawing boards, prizing them for their scratchings, doodles, and unique history of someone else's life. By working with these and other artefacts such as blanket boxes, chess sets, old diaries and more recently, prayer desks, Clegg allows the viewer to wander between narratives and worlds, uniting extant references with new images, or creating entirely new ones, recalling Duchamp. Clegg is also inspired by past masters and movements, particularly the Baroque period, as can be seen from his depictions of dramatically lit figures and still lifes. The elements one associates with this era: vanitas, chiaroscuro and a dramatic sense of theatre, run a vivid course through Clegg's work, situating his practice in the curious position of classically inspired conceptualism.

Daniel Pitin's darkly brooding paintings pan from dreamy landscapes to emotionally charged interiors to figures lounging on dingy sofas in dimly lit rooms. It is not hard to see that both film noir and old school detective dramas have been key sources of inspiration for Pitin. For Pitin crime films are particularly interesting because of the role of the detective who is someone with access to all levels of society while not belonging to any of them. He has the power to subvert the social strata and unearth secrets, in a way, the detective is similar to the position of the painter; he too can enter all levels of society. More than this, he can pare down the image he works with, leaving only a trace of its original essence behind like a clue in a crime scene. This glimpse allows the viewer to assume the role of detective, prompting the questions of what is happening, wh­at has taken place. This knowledge with the artist's deliberate decision to disrupt the surface of his paintings with abrasions, scrawling and charred fragments of burned paper and canvas, provide us with the means of entering Pitin's twilight world. The artist is attracted to situations where, he says 'you are neither here nor there'. The 'normal' rules no longer apply.

It is impossible to look at Nicola Samori's paintings without thinking of skin. The works are lushly painted in the fashion of an old master, but rather than simply aping the greats of the High Renaissance or the Baroque by repeating grand motifs of history painting, he chooses to disrupt the images he depicts by focusing on the process inherent to making painting.  Samori opens his surfaces as a surgeon would a body with a knife.  This 'skin' itself is sometimes comprised of skin - rabbit skin glue - a size which tightens the surface.  He treats the surface of his paintings as a skin: sometimes he pulls it, sometimes he uses perspective and chiaroscuro to create three dimensionality and drama. At other times he fuses subject with material imitating the act of flaying and actually creating stringy folds by cutting the canvas.  His work focuses on the corporeal: every part of his practice is about teasing and testing the skin and the flesh.  Samori's figures peel like skinned oranges, the floral still lifes grow skins of their own and sometimes, as if in a frenzied need to break through the skin into the puddled flesh beneath, he uses his fingers to push and scrape at the paint; the disruption of the surface being the point of entry.

[Image: Nicola Samori]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Jean Dubuffet &quot;The Last Two Years&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>The Pace Gallery (510 W 25th St)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>510 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
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    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[An exhibition featuring nearly twenty works from the final two bodies of work by Jean Dubuffet, who died in 1985. In 1983 Dubuffet unleashed an extended color palette across the canvas, removing the borders and a representational reference point. From February 1983 to February 1984, the artist painted the Mires, or “Test Patterns,” exclusively, meant to evoke in viewers a visceral reaction that might rid the mind of the teachings of culture and tradition so as to see with a naked eye. Dubuffet entitled his final series Non-Lieux, a legal term meaning neither guilty nor innocent—in effect, “no verdict.”]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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  <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>
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    <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>
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  <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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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/EC0D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/EC0D">
  <Name>Victoria Neel Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Jason McCoy, Inc. (Midtown)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 E 57th St., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-319-1996</Phone>
    <Fax>212-319-4799</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Madison Ave. Subway: N/R/W to 5th Avenue or 4/5/6 to 59th Street or E/V to 5th Avenue/53rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The gallery presents a group of paintings and works on paper by the New York based artist Victoria Neel. With an occasional affinity for the bizarre, Neel reinvestigates figurative expressionism. Though her style consciously borders on the naïve, her clear-eyed depictions of people, animals and mythic scenarios are far from innocent. She is particularly interested in contrasts. In her work, beauty and destruction, capture and flight, as well as loss and gain are always in close proximity.

In this complex installation of over 30 works from the past decade, Neel explores a concept she refers to as “Birds without Sky”. Many of the compositions feature antique airplanes on the ground or in mid-air, as well as urban pigeons. All these winged creatures, be they of mechanical or natural make up, serve as metaphors for dislocation and metamorphosis. While the pigeons are often considered a nuisance in the cities, Neel bestows them with iconic stature. Set against crisp white or black backgrounds, they transform into dignified reminders that we all are creatures of the same universe.

[Image: Victoria Neel &quot;Untitled&quot; (2011) gouache on paper 8.5 x 11 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.2766</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-24</DateEnd>
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  <Name>“To Be or Not To Be. New York City” Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Gallery 35</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>30 East 35th St., New York, NY 10016</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
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    <Access>Between Madison and Park Aves., Subway : 6 to 33rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Open by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Mantle, in collaboration with art@apt, present “To Be or Not To Be,” an exhibition featuring five Burmese artists, hosted by Gallery35 in New York City. 
 
The featured artists include Aung Zaw Tun, Kyain Lin Naing, Kyawswar Thant, Min Kyaw Khine, and Chaw Ei Thein. Collectively their work has hung in galleries and venues throughout the New York City region, Asia, and Europe.
 
“To Be or Not To Be” seeks to capture the ambiguous nature of being Burmese not only in New York, but also in an increasingly globalized world. Is there an obligation for the Burmese artist to be vocal about injustices occurring back home? “This exhibition is a stage for me to say something loudly,” says Chaw Ei Thein. “I can channel a ‘voice’ for those people who cannot express themselves not only from Burma, but also all over the world.” Adds Min Kyaw Khine: “I want to let people know what is happening in Burma. I want Burmese people to live without fear—that is why I am participating in this show.”
 
For the participating artists, their artistic fever burns as hot as their political concerns. “After a few years living outside of Burma, I’ve come to see things differently… more artistically. I want you to see what I’ve seen and what I’ve been thinking,” says Kyawswar Thant.
 
Burma (Myanmar) is experiencing significant political change. Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from prison, alongside hundreds of political prisoners. Recently U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the secretive country, and Suu Kyi’s political party, the National League for Democracy, has been given clearance to participate in upcoming elections. 2012 could be a formative year for the South East Asian country.
 
For Burmese artists, the time to ask “To Be or Not To Be” is now.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Robert Fox &quot;Sight Seeing&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>The Phatory LLC</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>618 E 9th St., New York, NY 10009-5226</Address>
    <Phone>212-777-7922</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The Phatory presents the installation of paintings by Robert Fox.

Robert Fox embarks in a new direction for his 2012 exhibition at The Phatory. With deft skill he adjusts the mind’s telescope to a higher magnification so that the distance between the objects of his observations and his viewing position are collapsed to the point of abstraction. Compositional patterns of foliage, snow, ice, sky and lights evade instant recognition and provide new takes on the familiar. The ensuing shifts in perspectives open standard-issue imagery of Arctic terrain up for reconsideration at the juncture where the real and the imagine are at play.

Fox is a self-taught who resides year round in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the lifestyles and coping mechanisms of his fellow inhabitants continue to inspire his subject matter.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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  <Name>“EMERGING TO ESTABLISHED, OLD AND NEW WORKS GROUP SHOW” Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/404B71BB">
    <Name>Krause Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>149 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-777-7799</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Rivington and Stanton Sts. Subway:  J/M/Z and F to Delancey/ Essex Street or J/M/Z to Bowery or F to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Accrochage&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Miguel Abreu Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>36 Orchard St., New York NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-995-1774</Phone>
    <Fax>646-688-2303</Fax>
    <Access>Between Canal and Hester St. Subway: F to Broadway or B/D to Grand Street</Access>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Miguel Abreu Gallery presents an installation of recent works by gallery artists and others.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
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  <Name>Jon Kessler &quot;The Blue Period&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Salon 94 Bowery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>243 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-672-9212</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Stanton St.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Salon 94 Bowery presents Jon Kessler’s The Blue Period (2007/2011), an immersive installation featuring kinetic machines, surveillance cameras, video monitors and life-size cardboard figures. This video-drenched panopticon is the culmination of Kessler’s longtime interest in surveillance, alienation and spectacle. First shown in Berlin in 2007, this is the work’s first installation in the US.  The Blue Period is a spiritual descendant of Society as Spectacle, Guy Debord’s seminal 1967 critique of the ascendant consumer culture, and the general passivity and isolation it engenders. Riffing on Debord and his fellow Situationists, Kessler has constructed a controlled environment in which social relations are mediated through images of a fabricated, inaccessible reality. Cameras capture real and fake spectators in a maze of monitors against blue splattered walls creating a fleeting sense of community and interconnection. Processors displace this blue with wave after wave of smiling catalog faces, setting the viewer adrift in a sea of the real and the imagined: a constant feedback loop that has a paradoxically liberating effect. This feeling is fleeting as the viewer becomes trapped in the immense accumulation of images, locked in an endless cycle of passivity and voyeurism.   
At the installation’s center an inverted model–a gallery within a gallery–is surveyed with a miniature camera. Large collaged portraits from Kessler’s residency at Dieu Donné hang on the walls, supporting Kessler’s idea of the portrait as a metaphor for captivity. A bank of box monitors imprisons familiar actors in blue-face such as Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou, Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto and sequences from the Blue Man Group. Like the viewer, these characters unwittingly become part of the work, and the act of looking and being seen becomes the de facto subject. The upstairs gallery exhibits four recent small-scale sculptures, each featuring a different human organ and its prosthesis: Hands (2012), Ear (2012), Foot (2012), and Eye (2012).  ]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/ED7A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/ED7A">
  <Name>Zak Prekop Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Harris Lieberman</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>508 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001 </Address>
    <Phone>212-206-1290</Phone>
    <Fax>212-604-0203</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>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Harris Lieberman presents Zak Prekop’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.  For the occasion, the artist will present a constellation of new work that fills the gallery with polyphonies of forms and correspondences. Ranging from large blue monochromes to paper-collaged canvases, these paintings hang in delicate suspension between optical, illusionistic and material states. 
 
Several of the works on view find Prekop collaging cut paper to the backsides of raw canvas, in a play of opacities that casts the fabric in bas-relief and projects shadow-like shapes on its surface.  In others, he spreads paint out with a palette knife, as if priming a canvas and stopping short.  These incomplete fields create gestural images, but they are rerouted by various systems and procedures: sets of parallel lines that create grids or a rendering of stretcher bars fall within the edges of the fields, for example; as do forms in pink and red, painted to simulate the paper collaged beneath.  These flat, partly pictorial areas gauge the shallow depths of their armatures, taking stock of the materials that give Prekop’s paintings their physical and visual effect.
 
Colors vibrate at tonal thresholds, inducing optical states that assert the corporeality of viewing.  Standard pigments like cobalt are at turns built up and thinned out to form the palette knifed fields and pattern mesh of a new group of large-scale monochromes.  Layered into these intricate images are stencils from Prekop’s other paintings.  These formal echoes recur, throughout the exhibition, along with punctuation-like paintings of single white dots on aleatoric, red monoprints.  
 
Brown paper-bags take over the surfaces of another group of canvases.  The bags are taken apart and flattened to reveal their two-dimensional form and set into measured relationships with the edges of the canvases they are collaged to.  Prekop paints up against their creases in black or paints lines and shapes that mimic the margins between the bags and the paintings’ edges or the perforations that are part of the bags’ manufacturing and use.  Others lie untouched with paint but are combined into diptychs with columns for raw canvas that confuse the divisions between the panels.  They, too, hang in careful suspension: neither windows nor placeholders but testaments to Prekop’s poetics of method.
 
Zak Prekop (b. 1979) received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008.  He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  He will have his first solo museum show in Fall 2012 at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina and has had solo exhibitions at Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago and Galleria Marta Cervera, Madrid.  His work has recently been exhibited in The Pittsburgh Biennial at Carnegie Museum of Art; The Fifth Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic; and Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Queens.  Prekop also makes music and art with Hurray, a collaboration with artists Josh Brand, Peter Mandradjieff and Richard Aldrich.

[Image: Zak Prekop &quot;Untitled&quot; (2011)]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-18</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Reinventing Landscape&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Baruch College/Sidney Mishkin Gallery</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>135 E 22nd St., New York, NY 10010</Address>
    <Phone>212-802-2690</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>At the corner of Lexington Ave. Subway: 6 to 23rd Street or R/W to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Grey Full&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E0C2A7B9">
    <Name>Jeff Bailey Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>625 W 27th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-0156</Phone>
    <Fax>212-989-0214</Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Jeff Bailey Gallery opens the New Year with a large group show of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography, an exhibition poised and eager to explore the color Grey in all its moody ramifications. 

In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote that he had mixed 46 shades of grey that morning, just to get a feel for grey's chromatic range. Our own Jasper Johns has been a master of grey since the mid-fifties. Younger artists use grey constantly, whether as graphite, in drawing, or as a mixed color in painting. 

If black is at one extreme, and white the other, does everything that falls between qualify as grey? What makes one grey warm, another cool? Does charcoal belong to black, or is it really grey? Is photography's nostalgia for black and white really a claim for the color grey? What if that rainbow is a bruise on the sky, as Nellie McKay asks in a song? ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
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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>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DBC66000">
    <Name>The Hole</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>312 Bowery, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-3000</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Bleecker and Houston Sts.  Subway: 6 to Bleecker Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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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;13th Annual WAH Salon Art Club Show&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Williamsburg Art &amp; Historical Center</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>135 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
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    <Fax>718-486-6012</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Bedford Ave.  Subway: J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Bedford Avenue</Access>
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  <Name>Gran Fury &quot;Read My Lips&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>80 Washington Square East</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>80 Washington Sq. East, New York, NY 10003</Address>
    <Phone>212-998-5747</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[80WSE presents &quot;Gran Fury: Read My Lips,&quot; the first comprehensive survey documenting the important AIDS activist art collective's work from 1987-1995.

Naming itself after the model of Plymouth automobile used by the New York City Police Department, Gran Fury made public projects that were simultaneously scathing, provocative, stylish and often quite funny. This exhibition conveys the collective's unique voice across a wide variety of media including billboards, postcards, video, posters and painting.	Photographs and records from the period help convey the urgency of the early AIDS crisis that lead many into the streets to demand reforms that changed public policy and saved lives.

Gran Fury's work raised public awareness of AIDS and put pressure on politicians, while sparking debate in sites ranging from the Illinois Senate to the tabloid press of Italy.	Bridging the gap between Situationist site-specific art strategies, post-modern appropriation and the Queer activist movement, Gran Fury has been influential to later practitioners. Their work opens up a broader spectrum of understanding about the political and collective art practices that flourished in downtown New York during the Eighties and Nineties.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Michael Zelehoski &quot;Secondary Structures&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>DODGEgallery</Name>
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    <Address>15 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-228-5122</Phone>
    <Fax>212-228-5211</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Chrystie St. Subway:  J/M to Bowery, 6 to Spring Street, B/D to Grand Street,  F/V to 2nd Avenue. </Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[In an ongoing dialogue between the deconstruction of objects and the construction of form, Michael Zelehoski transforms found, utilitarian subjects into two-dimensional works that are picture, relief and object in one. Dismantling the components of found objects, Zelehoski assembles two-dimensional compositions into minimal primary forms. Where he veers from minimalism is his interest in the nature of objects as referential artifacts, inspiring the exhibition title, Secondary Structures.

Once flattened and embedded into a picture plane, Zelehoski's objects enter the domain of aesthetic considerations and spatial illusionism. ]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Look | Sharp: Art and Fashion from the Edge&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Galerie Protégé</Name>
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    <Address>197 9th Ave., Lower Level, New York, NY 10011</Address>
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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>&quot;Sensorial Perspectives&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Agora Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
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    <Fax>212-966-4380</Fax>
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  <Description><![CDATA[In Sensorial Perspectives, we are introduced to sophisticated, eclectic and often joyful representations of life, the world and everything in it. Pulsing with authenticity, these works reflect the acutely honed observational skills of the artists who made them, combined with a sense of creativity and innovation that each one brings to their art. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Paperazzi&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Galeria Janet Kurnatowski</Name>
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  <Name>Josh Alexander &quot;INWARD&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Giacobetti Paul Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St. #220, Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>917-548-8107</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Washington St. Subway: F train to York Street </Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[New York based artist Josh Alexander unveila his most recent work at the Giacobetti Paul gallery in Brooklyn next month. In his latest exhibition, INWARD, Alexander presents a visual narrative of human emotions through the use of color, texture and shapes. The show will include several series of work, including collections of emotions, scars, and abstract figures. In his new works, Alexander captures honesty in introspection ­­ and reveals his continual influence from human nature.

Josh Alexander uses art to manifest truth. More commonly known for his paintings of the figure, still life’s, and self­portraits, the artist has recently taken a new direction with his work in pursuit of finding truth through imagery. “I don't set out to produce art about one subject or another. I'm never without a sketchbook so I am constantly drawing. Sometimes the drawings are left in the book and other times they develop into more in­depth ideas. A few months ago, I found myself drawing visual representations of emotions. This led to an exploration of art in a deeper and more personal level,” says Alexander. Alexander studied figure drawing under John Thrasher at The Ohio State University where he earned a degree in Architecture in 2000. After moving to New York in 2002, he studied painting under Robert Neffson at The Art Students League of New York before joining Madarts where he works from his studio in Brooklyn.]]></Description>
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  <Name>David Goerk &quot;Recent Works&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Howard Scott Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., 7 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>646-486-7004</Phone>
    <Fax>646-486-7005</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Howard Scott Gallery presents an exhibition of recently completed works by the New York artist, David Goerk.  This will be his second solo exhibition with Howard Scott Gallery.      

The works which will compose the forthcoming exhibition are characterized by an economy of means.  Their scale is decidedly intimate, with dimensions rarely exceeding twelve inches. Perforce, passages of the declarative colors which he tends to favor (often in combination with white) can occupy only a small area, but because of the manner in which the color interacts with his carefully articulated shapes, the works achieve a physical presence which far outweighs their scale  -  allowing an individual work to hold a sizable wall, even when viewed at a considerable distance. ( It was perhaps a period of restricting his palette to black and white in combination  which honed his understanding of the optical properties of color.)

The artist spoke recently about the importance to him of achieving &quot;a simple clarity&quot; in his work  -  wall-sited constructs to which he refers specifically as &quot;sculpture&quot;, but &quot;sculpture informed by painting and drawing&quot;.  He places great value in the role of intuition in his working process, wanting the work to unfold in a direct and natural manner  -  not laborious, not endlessly deliberated upon… .  Crucially important to him is that his work not be fully comprehended in a brief viewing.  For this reason, he structures the work so that it possesses &quot;multiple and variable perspectives&quot; and also contains ambiguities which gradually explain themselves via prolonged viewing.

After a seven-year (1980-86) immersion in new music in Philadelphia (as one of four members of the band, Bunnydrums), Mr Goerk began exhibiting publicly as a visual artist, primarily in Philadelphia, where he continued living until moving to New York City.  His work has been juried into numerous museum and university gallery exhibitions by such admired &quot;eyes&quot; as Diane Waldman, Neal Benezra and Ned Rifkin.  Works are included in private and public collections in this country and in Europe, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Rutgers University, New Jersey; and the Panza di Biumo Collection in Milan.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
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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>
    <Fax></Fax>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/FC1A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/FC1A">
  <Name>Howard Buchwald Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/AF00D4EA">
    <Name>Nancy Hoffman Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>520 W 27th St., New York, New York 10001 </Address>
    <Phone>212-966-6676</Phone>
    <Fax>212-334-5078</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: E/C to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Nancy Hoffman Gallery presents a show of recent works of Howard Buchwald.  This exhibition includes a wide range of work created during the past five and a half years since his last exhibition at this gallery.

From the beginning, Buchwald’s work has engaged the visual aspects of painting—ALL that is visible, as opposed to all other aspects (verbal or literary, etc.) that are “after the fact” and “interpretative”.  In his recent works, there is a new approach to scale, surface, color and organization of the painting’s structure, evoking a new range of emotional response for the viewer.

His earlier work was de-centered, dispersed as an over-all vista.  The conflict between internal shape and overall unitary surface (as a whole activated field or fabric) was central to these paintings and drawings.

In his new works, Buchwald employs shape differently—the challenge being to evade
the unwanted consequences and/or associations to a particular shape.  The appeal of a shape (or figuration) lies in its clarity and simplicity, tending to fix and pause the eye as it roams the larger field of the work.  It deflects an overall involvement, slowing down, blocking the rhythmic activity of the eye.

The artist has written:

“Painting is not in the service of some purpose, objective, image or idea residing outside, prior to, and independent of the specific work you see.  There is, in my work, no preconceived image, color scheme, composition or arrangement.  The process of invention, discovery and “working out” is part of the work’s meaning.  Painting, for me, is not an instrument of executing, through craft or otherwise, an idea or image.  There is no story, fable, myth or concatenation of material that needs translation and in any case is, if not irrelevant, always after the fact.  I understand the anxiety that direct looking and feeling still produce, it is just that the need to seek resemblances, analogies, or labels is an attempt to overcome this feeling by supplementing what is right there in front of one to be looked at, and is largely beside the point.  It is almost always unnecessary.”

Howard Buchwald was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943.  He received a B.F.A.
from Cooper Union in 1964 and an M.A. from Hunter College in 1972.  He has been awarded grants from Creative Artists Program Services (CAPS); The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation; a fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; and was twice awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The artist’s work has been shown at Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey; Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; Hunter College, New York; Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

His work is included in the collections of William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, Indiana; Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; Gulbenkian Foundation; Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts; Miami-Dade Community College Art Gallery, Florida; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Yale University Arts Library, New Haven, Connecticut.

Howard Buchwald resides in New York City.

[Image: Howard Buchwald &quot;Mapped (Large Red)&quot; (2010) acrylic on canvas, 84 x 90 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Rashid Johnson &quot;Rumble&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Hauser &amp; Wirth</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>32 E 69th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-794-4970</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Park and Madison Ave. Subway : 6 to 68th Street Hunter College.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Rashid Johnson &quot;Star&quot; (2011) Branded red oak flooring, black soap, wax, gold paint 73-3/4 x 2-3/4 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Megan Berk &quot;Weird Party on the Other Side of the Hedge&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Culturefix</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>9 Clinton St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-863-7171 x 1</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Houston and Stanton Sts., Subway: F to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Featured Artist Megan Berk inaugurates RAC and kick off Recession Art’s solo shows with Weird Party on the Other Side of the Hedge, a show that explores the impulse towards heaven. In abstracted landscapes and altered architectural spaces, a sort of bright beyond is suggested where light meets shadow. These moments of possibility allude as much to the idea of heaven as they might to an idealized future, the idea of Summer before it has arrived, or the improbable optimism that drives creative progress. They seek to transform moments of desire, self-delusion, and optimism into form and color; In this way, they echo religious painting, though the icons here are taken from the glossy pages of architecture and lifestyle magazines.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/FCA0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/FCA0">
  <Name>Susan Dory &quot;Persistent Mutualism&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E9D35000">
    <Name>Winston Wachter Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-2718</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>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In Dory's newest body of work, she leaves behind the capsule form that has been traditionally seen in her brilliantly composed paintings for more than a decade. Her new works are hard edged yet fluid. Dory's palette evokes mood and memory, while gradually establishing its own sense of autonomy that evolves from a formal hybrid of personal associations and perceptual phenomena.
 
Susan Dory holds a BA from Iowa State University and has been the recipient of many awards including: The Neddy Award from the Behnk Foundation Artist Fellowship, the Seattle Arts Commission Artist Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and most recently the Espy Foundation Artist-in-Residence Fellowship in Oysterille, Washington. Dory currently lives and works in Seattle.
 
We hope that you find an interest in this new body of work by Susan Dory and will consider reviewing or featuring her latest paintings in your upcoming publication.  If you would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.  It would be a pleasure to work with you.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/FE63" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/FE63">
  <Name>“The End&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Vogt Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>526 W 26th st., #911, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-2671</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-2827</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Vogt Gallery presents the group exhibition “The End,” featuring works by mostly New York-based artists ranging from sculpture over drawing and painting to video and installation. The show is curated by Michael Bühler-Rose and John Connelly.

&quot;The End&quot; is an open and layered interpretation of the metaphorical meaning of the concluding of one event, affair or matter being a possible beginning of another. What is voided and what is created by change, culmination, destruction, cancellation, etc... The works in the exhibition touch upon broad themes like modernism, classicism, historic preservation, manifest destiny, technological innovation, geography, popular culture, death and spirituality. In &quot;The End,&quot; a narrative and physical construct that suggests finality and permanence becomes a catalyst for change, renaissance and growth. One final event or frontier becomes it’s own dead end or the possible beginning of something unknown but adventurous, a new avenue reflected in basic and broad historical gestures of both fear and relief.

[Image: The Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York City. 1906-1910]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/FE74" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/FE74">
  <Name>Stan Narten Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Kravets/Wehby Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 21st St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-352-2238</Phone>
    <Fax>212-352-2239</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and West Side Highway. Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street or C/E to 23rd Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The Kravets/Wehby Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Stan Narten.

In this latest series, Stan’s paintings have become increasingly dense and intricate. All are composed as portraits, each comprised of a solitary ‘character’ within a mass of abstract forms. They invoke spatial and figural illusions, visual anomalies and architectural elements. Inspired by references from Classical European portraiture, Narten utilizes the style of classical painting with glazes to create the luminance reminiscent of the old masters. The title of the exhibition is inspired by a concept in philosophy and neuroscience. The Three Pound Universe is a metaphor for the known universe existing as a sole construct of the brain, culminating in all feeling, perception, distortion, and illusion. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Animal Love&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Kraine Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>85 E 4th St., New York, NY 10003</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and 2nd Ave., Subway: F to 1st Avenue or 6 to Astor Place.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Curated by Herbert Mendoza and Bonnie De Witt, ANIMAL LOVE is the latest exhibition from Kraine Gallery, conveniently adjacent to KGB (Kraine Gallery Bar), and featuring New York artists with an interest in the role of animals in contemporary art. Sincere animal portraiture, oil paintings of critters and beasts, anthropomorphism, ﬁgures and creatures, and carnal eroticism give this little art show sharp little teeth. Beware, love bites.

[Image: Sebastian Deregibus &quot;Angelicus Demonicus&quot; oil on canvas, 10 x 8 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
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