We @ [PAM] just wanted to announce some exhibitions by artists/members as
well as friends of [PAM] (and a co-founder of [PAM] - GO Raphaele !) that
are happening during the Armory Art Fairs Week. Theses events should be
really interesting and fun.
We hope to see you there.
1. ROBYN VOSHAROT/ SVEN HUMPHREY @ DiVA Streets
2. LIVE @ Supreme Trading
3. Marc DuPucheron Gallery Presents Raphaele Shirley
4. Johnna MacArthur @ Like the Spice
5. Kenseth Armstead’s STUDIO @ LMCC Workspace
6. Amelia-Winger-Bearskin @ Grace Performance Space
7. Devin's Den Williamsburg, featuring paintings by Tom Billings
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Video Still : When I Look Up, I Fall Down
ROBYN VOSHAROT/ SVEN HUMPHREY @ DiVA Streets
BLEU ACIER, Inc. When I Look Up, I Fall Down a new video and sound
installation by collobortive artists ROBYN VOSHAROT/ SVEN HUMPHREY
On view February 17 -24 2007 during DiVA Streets:
321 West 24th St @ 8th Ave, New York 12 -8 p m
and simultaneously in their solo exhibition entitled
Controlled Bum, at the gallery in FL thru March 10.
ROBYN VOSHAROT/ SVEN HUMPHREY action of transplanting footage gathered from
on old-growth forest to a shipping container in the midst of Manhattan
reinforces the mental disconnect between nature and its conversion to
consumables. The lush tree canopy no longer offers a sense of shelter.
Experienced with intense audio in such a confined, temporal space, this
disorienting spin amplifies a larger ecological as well as personal
conundrum.
The artists are based in New York and work collaboratively in video, sound,
photography and drawing.
For more info contact
Erika Schneider- 813.215.0622 | [email protected] email address is
being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it |
www.bleuacier.com
or the artist's:
917.407.3824 | [email protected] email address is being
protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it |
www.voshardthumphrey.com
DiVA Streets in conjunction with DiVA NY 07, Fab. 22-25 |www.divafair.com
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LIVE @ SUPREME TRADING WILLIAMSBURG as Part of AFTER HOURS IN BROOKLYN
Curated by Elizabeth M Grady - Whitney Museum
Opening Reception Tuesday February 20th 2007 5pm-10pm
Works by : LAURENT AJINA ANTHONY AUERBACH BEATRICE VALENTINE AMRHEIN
[dNASAb] ANDREAS HAGENBACH MARLENE HARING JURGEN MESSENSEE MITCH MILLER IRIS
NEMECEK LETA PEER WILL RYMAN RAPHAELE SHIRLEY UWE WALTHERMARGRET WEBER-UNGER
Location
Supreme Trading
213 N. 8th Street
Williamsburg,Brooklyn
www.supremetradingny.com
Contact
347.342.2201
347.342.2224
www.puechredon.com
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Marc DuPucheron Gallery Presents Raphaele Shirley
Scope New York Feb 22-26, Lincoln Center NYC
Please join Marc de Puechredon Gallery in celebrating new work by Raphaele
Shirley at Scope Art Fair Lincoln Center. This multi-media installation
marks her arrival on the international art scene as a full-bodied and mature
voice.
Before giving herself to creating art fulltime, Shirley from 1993- 2000
worked on the creation of public art projects and festivals, in
collaboration with other artists, such as Nam June Paik and for events such
as the New York International Fringe Festival. Skill sets from these
previous careers directly inform the work she now creates without lessening
its conceptual integrity. In fact, far from being a reconciliatory hybrid of
the diverse fields, Shirley’s work employs the spatial magic of theatrical
convention while addressing more the more formal concerns of serious
contemporary photography. The result is a startlingly clear vocabulary that
moves organically toward riffs on abstraction, space, surface, light, form
and the everyday.
In preparation for “Elevation in Time,” which is essentially a full-scale
study for four elevators in a landmark building in Monte Carlo, Shirley
began this work by defining a set of rules. Instead of acting as a limiting
agent upon the creative process, these restrictions revitalized her approach
and made the work necessary and focused. To get an idea of the rules, a few
examples:
No formal composition, i.e. do not create narrative, Only quick efforts to
document yet systematic daily documentation Continue to reinterpret subject
through various media: photography, sculpture, painting Only one subject
matter. Use only black, white, brown and green as palette
“Elevation in Time” succeeds as a multi-media sculpture primarily because
its impetus began as a solution for a public art project. Thus, its
physicality has the clarity of practicality. The study in this exhibition
resembles the final version but is not an exact replica. The two versions
share the elevator’s shape, as well as the tri-panel interior photograph and
white marble floor. However, the study employs more extreme measures to
augment the viewer’s perception and experience in more thoughtful and
liberal ways. Infrared sensors in the floor trigger the anemic florescent
light to lower while imbuing the space with an antique glow from dozens of
single filament exposed bulbs. Also, the sensors, which respond only to the
viewer’s weight and/or physical presence, ameliorate the cliche of elevator
music by activating ambient sound art.
The photograph in “Elevation in Time” is a single image that has been
divided into equal three sections in an effort to impinge on the viewer’s
space with questions of perspective and dimensionality. To that end,
“Elevation in Time” is confrontational. However, instead of violence or
politics, its message moves toward astonishment and the sublime. The image
itself is of piece of collected Styrofoam that Shirley found unusually
fascinating. Its circular molding shares more than a passing resemblance to
the bleachers of great stadiums like the Coliseum in Rome. And yet, because
of the porous nature of Styrofoam, its formal curvature appears somehow
organic, like a dried sponge or marble.
Contact
347.342.2201
347.342.2224
www.puechredon.com
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Johnna MacArthur @ Like the Spice
Artist Reception - Friday February 23, 2007 - 6:30-10:30 PM
AFTER HOURS IN BROOKLYN - Saturday February 24, 2007 - 6:30-10:30 PM
Like the Spice Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of color and
black and white photographs by Johnna MacArthur. The exhibition will open on
Friday, February 23, and close on Saturday, March 24.
BETWEEN YOU AND ME is a selection of 30” x 36” C-prints and 11” x 14” silver
gelatin prints culled from the artist’s expanding database of people she has
known between 1972 and 2004. Predicated on the idea of portraiture as a
conversation, MacArthur invites her subjects to participate in the
construction of their own image. Subjects are asked to choose their own
locations and, armed with the cable release, the moment of “click.” When she
asks “where would you like to be seen, by me, by others?” MacArthur
challenges her subjects, as well as her viewers, to ask if where we are
defines who we are.
MacArthur transports her 4x5 camera and lighting equipment to settings as
varied as bedrooms and mountaintops. She asserts herself as photographer
through dense compositions and by directing her subjects gaze to meet her
own. MacArthur writes:
I ask my subjects to look at me when the shutter is released. This is done
not only to eliminate a mirror-like relationship between their gaze and the
camera’s lens but also to request a commitment to the moment of seeing one
another and to the camera as our witness. The result is a self-portrait, a
portrait of I and thou.
Nodding to secrecy but also to something potentially untrue, BETWEEN YOU AND
ME begs awareness of the fictions that make up any portrait and of the gaps
between an image projected and an image perceived. The project’s title, I &
Thou, is appropriated from Martin Buber’s acclaimed classic and invokes
Buber’s notions of standing in relation to an Other and to the inherent
complexities of this mutable exchange.
Like The Spice is Located at 224 Roebling St. Brooklyn, NY 11211 (between
S.2nd & S.3rd)
email: [email protected]
phone: 718.388.5388
web: http://www.likethespice.com
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GET INSIDE kenseth armstead’s STUDIO
WORKS IN PROGRESS @ THE COUNCIL’S WORKSPACE ARTIST STUDIOS @ 120 Broadway
WHAT: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Open Studios
WHERE: 120 Broadway, 8th Floor
WHEN: Friday, February 23, 1-6 PM + Sunday, February 25, 1-6 PM (Closed
Saturday)
WHO: 16 Artists @ 120 Broadway (ME included) + another 14 @ 200 Hudson
street
HOW: RSVP IS REQUIRED: http://www.formassembly.com/forms/34167
Brought to you by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Special thanks to
Silverstein Properties, Inc. and Trinity Real Estate.
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Amelia-Winger-Bearskin @ Grace Exhibition Space
as part of AFTER HOURS IN BROOKLYN
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2007 Williamsburg Galleries Open Until 11:00 PM
Amelia-Winger-Bearskin will perform "Johnny My Love" - a live musical
chromakey performance that finally expels the war which never ends @ 8:30,
9:30, 10:30 - free -
In the gallery :
INTO ORBITING REVOLUTIONS! FEBRUARY 16 - 25 Thursday to Sunday, 1:00 - 8:00
pm
YOSHIKO KANAI. LISA MARIE PATZER, HIROSHI SHAFER, JENNIFER TREUTING
INTO ORBITING REVOLUTIONS: a new multi-media installation series giving
voice to revolutionary ideas, presented through the visions of the artists
who orbit each other, with whatever their revolutions may be - whether they
be personal or public.
YOSHIKO KANNAI: “Utopia/Dystopia”: “Between towers symbolizing Eastern and
Western cities, a tiny ocean slowly seeps through plaster plains and rains
down on sugar mountains in Yoshiko Kanai's poetic sculpture. The water
erodes a new shape to the land in this handmade microcosm of our fragile
globe.” SpaceLab 3/05
LISA MARIE PATZER: is a video/performance artist who has worked with
multi-media for 10 years. Her work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally in both festivals and fine art galleries. The piece “Finger
Tapping” is an interactive performance video installation. The concept for
the work comes from recent psychological research that has proven humans are
able to perceive minute changes in rhythmic sound and make subconscious
adjustments in finger tapping activity. The conclusions of the research
suggests that humans have an internal mechanism that automatically guides
motor actions in response to stimuli that change without our even being
aware of it. HIROSHI SHAFER: I don't give any titles to all of my recent art
works. My previous title wasaE¨"Life is easy when mooching off others. It is
even better to mooch off two people, or two creatures than just one." (2002)
The title of the last exhibition is " ‘That's a greeeeeat idea ~ but I can't
do the impossible’, a dog muttered " (2003) I hope the above will let you
know who I am and what my art work is about. The goal for my life is to live
easy and smile, quite seriously. I believe too much thinking is not the
shortcut to an answer. I'd be glad to show you how to "Live easy" through my
art projects.
JENNIFER TREUTING: “Follow the Thread” This installation explores these
realms of possibilities using nature imagery and feminine metaphor. Visitors
are invited to enter this inner space of choice and decision-making where
they’ll be surrounded by the metaphoric imagery including yards of ribbon
and hundreds of keys. Jennifer Treuting has a BFA in Film and Animation from
the Rochester Institute of Technology, and her work has appeared in
festivals around the country.
In association with the WGA.
www.gracespace.multiply.com
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Devins Den
NEW GALLERY. REAL PAINTINGS FOR A CHANGE!
BIG PARTY SATURDAY NIGHT - February 24, 2007 8 PM
This is not the new Williamsburg. Why lie? Dirty dishes in the sink, blaring
TV with bad reception and a fat musty couch. That's Devin's
Den,Williamsburg's newest gallery. The grand opening features the paintings
of Tom Billings. The guys who run this space don't really have it together.
The space is a slapped together hovel excuse for a gallery. And proud of it.
Oldschool. Parked in the kitchen of one of the neighborhood's oldest
continuously running illegal art live/shares. If you don't know who Tom
Billings is, you're in for a treat. His paintings are right at home˜they're
the real-thing, dirt-bag beautiful. They will sell out. The
trust-afariansare slumming. What kind of model is Chelsea anyway? We want
the art back! Authenticity, friends! Who are we kidding? This is how we
live.
Upstairs from Jack the Pelican. 487 Driggs Ave. bet N. 9 and 10.
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