ArtBUZZ: July 22-July 28, 2010

 

Opening: Thursday, July 22, 6:30-9:30pm

 

Sean Capone received attention for his large-scale, atmospheric video projections of computer-animated florals, seen most recently in the Archway tunnel beneath the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, and in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art during the Armory Fair opening gala. This show will be Mr. Capone's first solo gallery exhibition in New York.

 

The installation will include new videos that expand upon the pattern-and-decoration themes of previous works, while considering the surface effects of the video projection within the gallery space itself. The 'special effects' of media and cinema are explored as a shifting field of illusions, codes, and sensational desires; but, rather than appropriating or sampling, the artist creates his own high-tech visual grammar based on our shared experience of this media language. The title of the work is inspired by Freud's notion of the "screen memory," a form of remembrance that depends upon substitution and fantasy, displacements and false representations.

 

Opening: Sunday, July 25, 11-7pm

 

Alison Wilder will present her installation “Why neutral” in the Invisible Dog Art Center freight elevator shaft. “Why neutral” conflates kitchen implements and celebration signage, while doppelgangers provoke each other in the backyard. The installation includes sculpture by Alison Wilder, and video by Rachel Schragis and Alison Wilder.

Sunday, July 25, 12-6pm

Knickerbocker Ave. between Star & Suydam Streets, by Maria Hernandez Park

 

This coming Sunday, Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council will host its 2nd Annual Sunday Scene events as part of the NYCDOT Weekend Walks Program.

 

This Sunday Scene installment will feature arts, crafts, and musical performances by Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Neighborhood Super Group Galore, Sangre Nueva Salsa Band, and many more. They will have arts and crafts activities all day long for kids, as well as a DOMINOES tournament for everyone.

 

 

Thursday, July 22, Happy Hour O’Clock (4-7pm)

Mission Dolores | 4^th Ave., between President and Carroll Streets

 

As always, The Telephone and Soup crew will bring the cartoon-making supplies– you just bring yourself, your friends, your mediocre drawing skills and your twisted sense of humor.

 

 

Thumbnail image courtesy of Sean Capone, Screen Memories, 2010, Production still from digital video.