ArtBUZZ: April 22-April 28, 2010
ArdAn Özmenolu, Things On My Mind, 2009, Screenprint on transparent plastic sheets, dimensions variable. Courtesy of NURTUREart.
WILLIAMSBURG / BUSHWICK
Opening Reception: Friday, April 23, 7-9pm
The decorative principle is fundamental to art – this has been nearly forgotten in the contemporary art scene, saturated with conceptualism. Understanding of ornament as a visual language is central to the grasp of what art is. In different ways, artists in this exhibition explore the enlightening power of ornament inherent in visual forms. These forms communicate to the viewer either through symbols, ciphers, pictograms or through exotic or extinct alphabets made visible in order to resurrect a language that does not touch our ear, but only our eye. Sometimes, they evoke certain sensations in the viewer through the entire composition of the work: colors, lines, shapes, and their relationships. In any case, for artists in this show, ornament becomes a vital component of expression, subverting its more accepted definition as an external addition to a work, a mere embellishment.
Curated by Natasha Kurchanova, the exhibition features artists ArdAn Özmenoglu, Carla Cubit, Corinne Whitaker, Evan Reehl Ryer, Katherine Daniels, Lili White, Linda Ganjian, Meridith Pingree, Shelley Himmelstein, and Tsehai Johnson.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Event Time: 7-11pm / Auction Time: Promptly 7pm to 9:30pm
To celebrate the release of the new book "Street Art New York" and to benefit the programs of Free Arts NYC, original artworks by a stellar array of today’s Street Artists from New York and beyond will be featured in this silent auction.
The benefit will feature an incredibly strong selection of today’s Street Artists joining together for one night as a community to benefit NYC kids from disadvantaged backgrounds as the numbers of poor and low-income children in New York continues to rise. Representing a renaissance in modern urban art at the dawn of a new decade, this will very likely be the largest collection of 2010′s street artists in one location.
The list of participating artists thus far includes (check site for more recent additions): Abe Lincoln Jr., Alex Diamond, Anera, Avoid Pi, Billi Kid, Bishop 203, Blanco, BortusK Leer, Broken Crow, C Damage, C215, Cake, Celso, Chris RWK,Chris Stain, Creepy, Dain, Damon Ginandes, Dan Witz, Dark Clouds, Dennis McNett, Elbow Toe, Ellis G, FKDL, Gaia, General Howe, GoreB, Hargo, Hellbent, Imminent Disaster, Infinity, Jef Aerosol, Jim Avignon, JMR, Joe Iurato, Jon Burgerman, Keely, Know Hope, Logan Hicks, Mark Carvalho, Matt Siren, Mint and Serf, Miss Bugs, NohJColey, Nomadé, Peru Ana Ana Peru, PMP/Peripheral Media Projects, Poster Boy, Pufferella, Rene Gagnon, Roa, Royce Bannon, Skewville, Specter, Stikman, Swoon, The Dude Company,Tristan Eaton, UR New York (2esae & Ski), and Veng RWK.
GOWANUS
Opening Reception: Friday, April 23, 6-8pm
The Intern Initiative program at Cabinet Magazine is pleased to present “Materia: Investigative Collaborations in Health/Medicine + Art,” a group exhibition co-organized by Matthew C. Wilson and Suzanne Stroebe. The exhibition features Hana Marie Newman and Rick Arthur Wray, Caroline Woolard and Bert Woolard, Steve Gurysh and Nancy Crooks, Jana Flynn and Eve Ekman, Liz Linden and Elizabeth Milbank, David Schafer and Michelle Stroebe, Jess Ramsay and Alison Ramsay, Greg Lindquist and Nicolas Preitner, Suzanne Stroebe and Teresa Au, Matthew C. Wilson and Saul Melman.
Inspired by the interdisciplinary, progressive nature of Cabinet, Mr. Wilson and Ms. Stroebe have brought together ten projects created by collaborative pairs of artists and health professionals. Created specifically for this exhibition, each collaborative piece is an investigation into materiality, drawing on the unique combination of each pair’s professional and creative practices. The result is a collection of work that transcends boundaries in order to engage the public in a discussion about how art and health affects us all. This conversation, about the process of collaboration and the blurring of boundaries between health and aesthetics are as integral to the show as the projects presented in the exhibition space.
Hovey Brock, Twist, 2010, Acrylic on panel, 20 × 20 inches. Courtesy of Muriel Guepin Gallery.
COBBLE HILL
Opening Reception: Friday, April 23, 6-9pm
Paintings and mixed media works by Pauline Galiana, Hovey Brock, and Robert Szot. The artists create work that implores you to look closer by relinquishing your habits and preconceived ideas.
Layering stickers, fruit tags, and the remnants of her own art-making process, Pauline Galiana creates mixed media collages. Her work is a personal diary comprised of the left-over materials of daily life.
Hovey Brock’s paintings are composed of many layers of transparent washes of intense colors. His goal is for viewers to release the habits that govern the way they look, and to get “lost” in his paintings.
In his paintings, Robert Szot chooses to respond to unanswered questions relevant painters have left untouched in their own work. His study of the history of the medium allows him to create abstract canvases that engage viewers while remaining quietly personal.
RED HOOK
Opening: Saturday, April 24, 6-9pm / Sunday, April 25, 12-6pm
A two-day exhibition, curated by Eric Ayotte, featuring artists Caleb Kayin, Sandra Mack Valencia, Jan Mollet, Jason Nickel, Colin Oulighan, and Thomas Saffle.
