ArtBUZZ: January 13-20, 2010
From "ACCENTED:" Miguel Luciano, Plátano Pride, 2006. Chromogenic print, 40 x 30 in. Edition of 5. Courtesy of the artist, BRIC Rotunda Gallery
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
Opening Receptions: Wednesday, January 20th, 7-9pm
Inspired by the attention to issues of language and translation precipitated by postcolonial theory, the “ACCENTED” exhibition brings together recent work in video, painting, and photography that examine the different ways in which accents might operate in our contemporary moment. Curated by Murtaza Vali, featuring works by artists Kamrooz Aram, Brendan Fernandes, Miguel Luciano, Yamini Nayar, and Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere.
“the no place” features the work of six contemporary artists who conjure utopian and dystopian environments in distinct ways to explore such issues as geo-political conflict, human rights, urban development, the environment, and most broadly, how we comprehend and utilize physical space.
Working in varied media (photography, sculpture, video, and works on paper) and with diverse approaches (social activist projects, Internet research, urban exploration, and interviews and oral histories), exhibition artists Liset Castillo, Blane De St. Croix, Nathan Kensinger, Paula Luttringer, Jenny Polak and J.G. Zimmerman have produced poetic visualizations of unseen, the inaccessible, and politically charged spaces.
Featuring a pre-opening dialogue with exhibition artist and social activist Paula Luttringer about art and the depiction of trauma by enforced political disappearance at 6 pm.
GOWANUS
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 16th, 7-10pm
Each piece in “VISION QUEST” explores the archetype of the shamanic voyage, using the tools of paint, pencil, or paper in lieu of fire, flower, feather. Taken together this work represents a full spectrum of what it means to go underground and out of body; to go there and come back again, perhaps just a little bit wiser or, at the very least, more wide awake.
Curated by Pam Grossman, with works by Jesse Bransford, William Crump. Scott Gursky.
Juliet Jacobsen. Ashley Lande, Adela Leibowitz, Jason Leinwand, Christopher Mir, Joe Newton,
Herbert Pfostl, Christopher Reiger, Christine Shields, Erika Somogyi, and Jessie Rose Vala.
DUMBO
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15th, 5:30-9pm
Inspired by the creation and destruction provoked by man. Breiner and Greis convey imagery of impending doom with their pseudo-surrealist style and convulsive beauty via recycled materials, old-fashioned transfer techniques, collage, paint, and other modern elements.
WILLIAMSBURG / BUSHWICK
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15th, 7-9pm
Pedigo removes materials from their original context while incorporating their associative qualities in new forms, acknowledging the inevitability that once an object is created it is already in a state of temporal change. The work in “Accumulations of Matter” specifically treats the environment of the gallery as a whole. Interventions on the gallery’s windows change the light in the space, while transforming the storefront into a large-scale sculptural work.
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 16th, 6-9pm
Curated by Phoenix Lights, a collection of work by thirty-seven artists, including new work by Jim Herbert, and a “forced collaboration” between Eric Fischl and Judith Supine.
