ARTBOOM

Na festiwal zaprasza
Jacek Majchrowski
Prezydent Miasta Krakowa

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0100101110101101.ORG Banovich Tamas Bell-Smith Michael Cortright Petra Davis Paul B. Endlicher Ursula Eteam (Lamprecht Franziska and Moderegger Hajoe) Holmberg Joel JODI Lonergan Guthrie Lucas Kristin McKay Joe Moody Tom MTAA Murphy Luke Olson Marisa Slocum Paul Stead Jessie Van Den Dorpel Harm Yeh Cj Marcin Ramocki (Organizator)		Reenactment of Gilbert&George's The Singing Sculpture, 2007 Seria inscenizacji historycznych wewnątrz światów syntetycznych, takich jak Second Life. Wszystkie spektakle tworzą Eva i Franco Mattes poprzez swoje awatary wykonane jako odwzorowanie ich ciał i twarzy. Publiczność z całego świata może oglądać i brać czynny udział w spektaklach na żywo po zalogowaniu się w grze. Seria spektakli rozpoczęła się w styczniu 2007 r. http://0100101110101101.org

Xylor Jane

Thursday, June 3, 6:30
Artist Talk by Xylor Jane

35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013
tel: 212-219-2166
fax: 212-966-2976
email: info@drawingcenter.org

http://drawingcenter.org/index.php/2010/05/27/thursday-june-3-630-4-x-4-artist-talk-by-xylor-jane/


The third in a series of four talks in which artists discuss the influence and relevancy of drawing within their multifaceted practices. With diversity in both technique and approach, the artists in this series share an affinity for integrating drawing into a wide range of mediums – painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media – to critically investigate subjects of interest to them be it economics, politics, quantum physics, the human subconscious, or personal narrative. These artists’ unique forays into conceptual thinking and theoretical significance further broaden our conceptions of the field of drawing and highlight current trends and issues in contemporary art.

Xylor Jane’s intuitive systems of abstract patterns reveal the handmade imperfections of her drawn grids and suggest that the seemingly mechanical process is strongly indebted to autobiography and emotion. Jane received her BFA in 1993 from the San Francisco Art Institute and exhibits at CANADA, New York. She will have a solo show at Almine Rech in Paris, France this September. She lives and works in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

William Stone

THE PROPOSITION 2 Extra Place New York, NY 10003 | 212-242-0035 | www.theproposition.com

We are very excited to announce the re-location, re-opening and re-invention of The Proposition. The Proposition is now located at 2 Extra Place, East 1st Street between Bowery and 2nd Avenue, the alley behind the historic CBGB’S, steps from the New Museum on the new platinum coast of the Bowery. In its new location, The Proposition will present a series of shows juxtaposing artists shown during its seven years in Chelsea with an exciting group of architecturally and sculptor based furniture designers. We will also explore multi-media artists’ adventures into furniture making and other functional objects with the emphasis on line, process and surface. INAUGURAL SHOW WILLIAM S. STONE | THE ROUGH STUFF JUNE 01 - JULY 11 OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 1st 6-8 PM Our inaugural show, The Rough Stuff, features veteran New York artist William S. Stone (in co-operation with James Fuentes LLC) and includes a section of the film “Out of Our Minds,” (2009) by Melissa Auf der Maur and Tony Stone, conceived and shot at the Stones’ country residence documenting the felling of majestic pine trees within the framework of “19th century period piece” on their property. Subsequently, these very trees become the material for the whimsical collection of the artist’s “functional” and “non-functional” art objects, which will comprise the objects of our first exhibition. William Stone has been featured in solo exhibitions at James Fuentes LLC, Tom Cugliani Gallery, Emily Harvey Gallery and The Clock Tower/P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, in addition to group exhibitions at The New Museum, Deste Foundation for the Arts, The Aldrich Museum and most recently; Socrates Sculpture Park and Engholm Engelhorn Galerie. Stone is represented by James Fuentes LLC, New York. James Fuentes was the curator for The United States of America vs. Alfredo Martinez at The Proposition in 2003, as well as Survival of the Shittest, featuring work by Brian DeGraw and David Perry at The Proposition in 2004.

Civil unrest

Eva and Franco Mattes

May 15th – June 19 2010

EVA and FRANCO MATTES aka 0100101110101101.ORG

Reality is Overrated

opening reception: Saturday may 15, 6-8 pm

www.postmastersart.com - info online

Postmasters Gallery is pleased to present "Reality is Overrated" by Brooklyn based artists Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG. The exhibition will include several new net-based performances as well as their very first work together, a project that has been kept secret for 14 years. The show will open on May 15th and will be on view until June 19th.

The works in this exhibition engage in charged, high resonance issues of crime, sex, war, and death.

What we see in "Reality is Overrated” is a slow process of disintegration of some of our core beliefs about art and culture: the need for material objects, the authority of institutions, the uniqueness of an artwork and the distinction between reality and simulation. Museums have been mysteriously robbed and art objects become dust gathering, obsolete commodities. In order to get real and spontaneous reactions the artists are looking for their audience outside of traditional art spaces, confronting groups of unaware viewers.

In their work Eva and Franco Mattes manipulate video games and Internet technologies creating a permanent state of insecurity by blurring borders between reality and fiction, art and confrontation, intent and its often unexpected consequences.

For “No Fun” Franco Mattes simulated committing suicide in a public webcam-based chat room. Thousands of random people watched while he was hanging from the ceiling, swinging slowly, for hours. The video documentation of the performance, which was just banned from YouTube, is an unbelievable, at times very disturbing, sequence of reactions: some laugh, some are completely unmoved, some insult the supposed corpse, some take pictures with their mobiles. Notably, out of several thousand people, only one called the police.

In “Freedom” we are faced with a live performance set within the popular first-person shooter videogame “Counter Strike”. Here the artist, Eva Mattes, is refusing to accomplish the basic role of the game: kill the enemy. She instead tries to convince the other players to save her because she is “trying to make an artwork”. The result is the performer being endlessly and brutally killed and abused by the other players.

The artists' earliest work “Stolen Pieces” is shown here for the very first time : over a period of two years (1995-1997) Eva and Franco stole dozens of fragments of works of art - masterpieces by famous artists, such as Kandinsky, Duchamp, Beuys, Rauschenberg, Warhol, and Koons - from the most renowned museums of contemporary art in the United States and in Europe. For 14 years they have never revealed its existence. Besides the fragments themselves, the exhibition features a video, shot with a hidden camera, documenting their last heist. Making a mockery of our belief in the sacred nature of art, this controversial work is an open question: where does the value of a work of art lie? Are objects overrated?

The title of this show refers to the actual human condition in which the perception of reality is more and more filtered by the media. Humanity abandoned reality to live in front of screens, concerned only with media attention disguised as communication, and narcissistically hoping to be the protagonist of this spectacle, while chatting compulsively. For their recent works Eva and Franco went down the dark side of the Internet to meet this humanity.

All the works in this show can also be seen online on the artists’ website.

This is the Matteses third solo exhibition at Postmasters. Their work has also been show at Performa, P.S.1, the Walker Art Center, Manifesta, ARoS Kunstmuseum, The National Art Museum of China, the New Museum and the Venice Biennale. They have been recently invited by Marina Abramovic to perform at Plymouth Art Center, UK. A monograph on their work has just been published by Charta.

Postmasters is open tuesday through saturday between 11 and 6 pm. Please contact Paulina Bebecka or Magdalena Sawon with questions and image requests.

image: Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG No Fun, 2010, online performance 2010, screengrab

upcoming exhibtion:

June 29 - August 7, 2010

Defrosted, a Biography of Walt Disney

ADAM CVIJANOVIC and DAVID HUMPHREY will recount the life of Walt Disney in the form of an exhibition. Paintings, collaborations and sculptures by Cvijanovic and Humphrey (also including some guest appearances with works by other established artists) will be assembled into an installation whose subject travels from Kansas to California to Florida and beyond.

Magdalena Sawon

Postmasters Gallery

459 west 19th street

New York, NY 10011

212-727-3323

www.postmastersart.com

magda@thing.net

Devon Dikeou

179 Canal Street, 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10013






Devon Dikeou : “It’s Déjà vu All Over Again”

May 6 – May 28, 2010




179 CANAL presents "It's Déjà vu All Over Again", an exhibition by Devon Dikeou. The title/quote (a Yogi-ism) originates from Berra witnessing Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris hitting back-to-back home runs in an early 1960’s Yankee’s game. Sports aphorisms aside, the exhibition revisits Dikeou’s multifaceted works as artist, curator, publisher and collector, 1991 though the present.

Never one to settle for stagnation, Dikeou has continuously sought to engage her audience with works that invite viewer participation while questioning the nature of observation from the inside-out and outside-in. In “Takes a Licking, and Keeps on Ticking”, viewers are invited to clock in and out of their tour of the exhibition. Sparking some self-consciousness, viewing time is quantified, recorded and presented publicly. The piece engenders nostalgia and gives the audience a chance to experience rarified social practices, as Dikeou’s work is unmistakably tied to America of yesteryear. In her series “Displaced Denver”, warm color photos capture Denver at street level. We recognize the buildings in their familiar post-war mid-century facades. If that was the future then, the artificial flora and fauna and mirrored planter box that makes up “Cajole” (Oriental Opulence and Tropical Paradise), are relics from their past. This floral arrangement looks as if it was plucked straight from one these building lobbies, with official signage generously elucidating the botanical nomenclature, though are we convinced yet?
“So we Must Keep Apart, You There, I Here, with Just the Door Ajar, That Oceans are, and Prayer, and That Pale Sustenance, Despair”, a functioning summer screen door, divides the exhibition space and on the other side, “What’s Love Got to Do with it: ” zingmagazine 1-21” is installed. Before the first issue of zingmagazine was published in 1995, Devon Dikeou was already addressing cross-pollination, in this ongoing installation in which a selection of the iconic directory boards listing every artist in every artist in every group show she has been in since 1991. This related series appropriately hung within the zingmagazine reading room, lists all the participants that have been published in zingmagazine. Viewers are encouraged to get cozy and reacquaint themselves with past issues. Dikeou’s most recent work “Buddha or Machiavelli”, is a color photo taken of the plaque installed at Mezzogiorno Restaurant reserving a table for the pre-eminent art dealer Ileana Sonnabend. We once again encounter the reverential and paradoxical position of an insider looking in and putting out.

All in all, this is the final show of a really great year here at 179 CANAL and it feels like bases are loaded. Let’s see how far we can hit this one out of the park. We will be closed for summer vacation. Thanks for everything and see you soon.

M.L., NYC, 2010

Charlie Horse

curated by: Catharine Ahearn
(last show)

Cityscape

CITYSCAPE: SURVEYING THE URBAN BIOTOPE
May 2 - August 1, 2010
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 2-6PM

Artists:

Saul Becker George Boorujy William Cordova David Kennedy Cutler Lillian Gerson Janelle Iglesias Katherine McLeod Ester Partegàs Zena Verda Pesta Christine Howard Sandoval Mark Lawrence Stafford

This exhibition will feature eleven artists who are exploring both the cultivated and invasive presence of nature in our built urban environment.

Amy Sillman

Michelle Grabner

current exhibition
NOW ON VIEW! Michelle Grabner: Get Better Mrs. Michelle!, MINUS SPACE project space, Brooklyn, NY, March 27 – May 1, 2010 Michelle Grabner, Untitled, 2010 Black gesso & silverpoint on 300lb Arches hot press paper 30 x 22 inches March 27 – May 1, 2010 Opening: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 3-6pm MINUS SPACE project space 98 4th Street, Buzzer #28, Brooklyn, NY 11231 between Hoyt + Bond | Carroll Gardens / Gowanus Hours: Fridays & Saturdays, 12-6pm > directions MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce a new exhibition of drawings by Chicago-based artist Michelle Grabner. Grabner works primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking, and her practice is commonly organized around straightforward mathematical systems. For her exhibition, Grabner will present a new series of drawings made from black gesso and silverpoint on heavyweight paper. In contrast to her other work, Grabner thinks of her drawing practice as “purely playing — it’s curiosity.” She continues saying, “The drawing just has to be executed, I have to play through it. I’m working on a lot of silverpoints right now; they’re not painting, but in their presence, I see them as an extension of painting.” Michelle Grabner has exhibited her work extensively, including in North America, Europe, and Australia. Her work has been presented at museums, such as the Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Kunsthalle (Bern, Switzerland), Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL), Smart Museum (Chicago, IL), Mary and Leigh Block Museum (Evanston, IL), Naples Museum of Art (Naples, FL), Ulrich Museum (Wichita, KS), and Tweed Museum of Art (Duluth, MN). Her work has been reviewed widely and is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL), Musée d’Art Moderne (Luxembourg), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Daimler Art Collection (Berlin, Germany), and Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC). Michelle Grabner is also a professor and chairperson of the Department of Painting and Drawing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She holds an MFA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University in Chicago, and an MA in Art History and BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. In addition to her artistic work, Grabner and her husband, artist Brad Killam, founded and direct The Suburban, a very well regarded, experimental exhibition space in Oak Park, Illinois. Grabner has also written extensively for publications, such as ArtForum, Modern Painters, Frieze, and X-tra. In collaboration with MINUS SPACE, Grabner recently organized the online VIEWLIST project There are many things in the air and all of them are for free, published in May 2009. Her work was also included in the group exhibition Open House for Butterflies at MINUS SPACE in August 2009. A comprehensive interview with Michelle Grabner by Saul Ostrow appears in the March 2010 issue of Art in America magazine.

Momenta Benefit

Aron Namenwirth "peace pipe" pin oak, 3.5x.5x.5 2008-1010 (click on image to enlarge)

	save the date Annual Benefit may 26 discount tickets until april 30
Brain Coral. 2010, benefit multiple by Katy Schimert.
Order your tickets now for momenta art's annual benefit raffle and auction. All tickets purchased before april 30 will receive a $50 discount. chose your number of tickets 1 $175.00 2 $350.00 3 $525.00 4 $700.00 Momenta Art presents its fifteenth annual benefit to support its ongoing mission to exhibit the work of emerging and underrepresented artists. A ticket guarantees you a work of art and entrance for two to the silent auction and raffle drawing held at White Columns Gallery on May 26. Tickets are limited to the number of artworks included. Tickets purchased after April 30 will cost $225. Momenta’s 2010 benefit will present work by both emerging and known artists. The list of artists will be announced during the third week of April. Raffle tickets may be purchased until all the tickets are sold. Work will be on exhibition at Momenta from April 30 through May 22 (before the White Columns event).
support momenta through the purchase of a 2010 benefit multiple by Katy Schimert. Brain Coral aluminum window screen, Plastolina, straight pins, monofilament Approx. 9x12x10" ea. $2,200. ea with 20% pre-buy discount available before April 30th courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery, New York. $2,200. 20% discount before April 30. a series of ten sculptures created by Ms. Schimert to benefit Momenta Art to purchase, email us at: info@momentaart.org Omer Fast has also made available one set of his Godville Portraits. Godville Portraits Ten Illustrated Short Stories , 2006 12 pigmentary prints on archive paper, 11.5 x 16.75 inches each $600.each or $950 for diptychs. Twelve pigmentary prints on archive paper, an edition of fifty plus two artist's proofs. Now available as single prints only through Momenta Art. The edition is printed by Atelier Bordas, Paris, and published by gb agency, Paris and Postmasters Gallery, New York 2006. The illustrations and stories are based on encounters with costumed staff at a living-history museum in Virginia, USA. to purchase, email us at: info@momentaart.org sponsorship opportunities Connect with momenta's benefit audience by providing goods or services for our benefit.Sponsors will be thanked on all benefit promotional materials. The costs of a benefit can quickly grow. Make our benefit more profitable by helping with catering (food and/or drinks), printing, photograph, framing, packing, postage, etc. contact us to discuss how you can help: 718.218.8058 Even small contributions can help with these expenses. Donate now at kickstarter:

KWAWRK

Opening Friday, March 19th 6-8pm

KWAWRK
Charles Lahti
Steven Salzman
Boris Torres

March 19 - April 11, 2010
Gallery hours: Thursday - Sunday 1-6pm
or by appointment

Bowman / Bloom Gallery
95 East 7th Street, NYC
basement (between 1st Avenue & Avenue A)

Please join us to celebrate the opening of Jim Torok's exhibition of recent work, "Portraits and Clowns," at Pierogi—

"You Are A Vibrant Human Being," 2010, Acrylic on panel. "Sarah Hotchkiss," 2010, Oil on panel, 5 x 3 7/8"

OPENING RECEPTION | Friday, 19 March. 7-9pm

EXHIBITION DATES | 19 March through 18 April, 2010

LOCATION | PIEROGI 177 North 9th St Bklyn, NY 11211

DIRECTIONS | Take the L train to Bedford Ave. Walk

2 blocks to N 9th St and turn right

HOURS | 11am–6pm, Tuesday through Sunday

T.718.599.2144 www.pierogi2000.com

JIM TOROK

Portraits and Clowns

Jim Torok is known for both his photo realistic, miniature portraits and his narrative storyboard, cartoon-like paintings, both based on acute observation. His portraits are generally of ordinary people he knows—artists, friends, neighbors—and depict the everyday rather than celebrity status. They are small studies of fact and plainness. His cartoon works are simultaneously hilarious and sobering, innocently optimistic and cynical, because they state so plainly what is known but most often left unsaid.

In this exhibition Torok will focus on the portrait, both realistic and cartoon-like abstractions. In Gallery 1 will be a group of Torok's miniature portraits-each no larger than 5 x 4 inches-primarily of his upstate New York neighbors. Gallery 2 will be filled with a new series of cartoon-like clown portraits and text paintings. As clowns often are, these are both comic and sinister. One text painting reads “Life Is OK, Except for the Clowns.” Another reads, “You Are A Vibrant Human Being.” Stylistically, the two groups of paintings could not be more different. The miniature portraits are carefully painted in oil with great detail using extra-fine brushes, whereas the clown portraits are larger and loosely painted in acrylic with brushy strokes of color on panel. The abstraction and loose rendering of the clown paintings links Torok's portrait work with his storyboard panel paintings.

Regarding Torok's portraits, the curators of “Portraiture Now: Communities” write—

For Torok, the discoveries made through the process of creating a likeness are part of portraiture's appeal. By painting twenty-three members of a single family, he created a record of three generations; in doing so, he also confronted the larger issue of family resemblance. What are the traits that unite a family and other group relationships? This question is central to the idea of communities. (Fortune, Goodyear, Goodyear II, 2009)

Torok's portraits are compelling studies that range from objective, life-like representations of real people, to entirely subjective, spontaneous abstractions. The work in this exhibition demonstrates a dexterity that few besides Torok can accomplish so seamlessly. In a sense he is painting independently with his left and right brain, each with complete control. At first glance these two bodies of work appear completely unrelated but they do have a real and fortunate co-existence. These are paintings that interpret the human condition and Torok makes no judgment about the distance between them, as he views the world through a wide lens.

This will be Jim Torok's third one-person exhibition at Pierogi. Torok's work is currently on view in “Portraiture Now: Communities,” a three-person exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC and was recently included in “The Lens and the Mirror: Self-Portraits from the Collection, 1957-2007” (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC), “Attention to Detail,” (The FLAG Art Foundation, NYC, Curated by Chuck Close), among others. He received a MFA from Brooklyn College and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

PIEROGI

177 North 9th Street

Brooklyn, NY 11211

T. 718.599.2144

F. 718.599.1666

E. info@pierogi2000.com

www.pierogi2000.com

The BOILER

191 North 14th Street

Brooklyn, NY 11211

T. 718.599.2144

E. info@pierogi2000.com

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What you will not see in nyc art fairs

Clyde Hall red cedar 12x6x6"

Devon Dikeou at Independent