Author Archives: jolanta
SCOPE New York: March 2-6, 2011
SCOPE New York – March 2-6, 2011 Building on Miami’s overwhelming success, SCOPE launches its 2011 season with its flagship fair, SCOPE New York. Serviced daily by shuttles, this year SCOPE expands to a 60,000 square foot hall on the West Side Highway, minutes from The Armory Show. The fair opens to Press and VIP’s […]
Natalie Frost
Natalie Frost works broadly in the medium of print, producing pieces in Braille, laser-cut vinyl, neon, and screen print. Materials and visual content are sourced from familiar mass published/printed items such as public information documents, branding, currency, and wallpaper. Looking increasingly at text and the boundaries of what we define and recognize as language, her […]
Ofri Cnaani, The Sota Project
Ofri Cnaani, The Sota Project, Wednesday, February 16, 6-8pm @ Kunsthalle Galapagos Kunsthalle Galapagos is pleased to present The Sota Project, an immersive, multilayered video installation that reenacts a controversial text from the Talmud. A tale of two sisters, bound together in symbiotic loyalty that unfolds in both time and three-dimensional space. Housed in an […]
Richard Butler, hypochondriacatthegramercyparkhotel
Richard Butler, hypochondriacatthegramercyparkhotel, Friday, February 18, 6-8pm @ Freight + Volume “There’s an army on the dance floor It’s a fashion with a gun, my love In a room without a door A kiss is not enough…” (“Love My Way”, The Psychedelic Furs) It has become increasingly difficult to find a painter who combines […]
Michele Allen
This work is drawn from a larger series, Designated Sites of Tranquility, which explores the idea of tranquility and mapping, and responds to research carried out by geographers at the University of Northumbria (UNN). The researchers conducted a social survey that looked at what people think makes the countryside tranquil. This information was then analyzed […]
Wei Dong, New Paintings
Wei Dong, New Paintings, Thursday, February 17, 6-8pm @ Nicholas Robinson Gallery Nicholas Robinson Gallery is pleased to present the second gallery exhibition for painter Wei Dong. Wei Dong’s new paintings consist of single or multi-figure compositions, reflecting on and satirizing the social mores of both the Maoist era in China, and its legacies within […]
Mug Shots
“I’m not with the victims, but with those making amends,” says Raphaël Dallaporta. The photographer has set up his camera where it happened. He has tried to go beyond the suffering of individual fates, his only certainty being his documentary conviction. Dallaporta doesn’t photograph what’s happening. He doesn’t cover the event; he’s not the news […]
ARMORY ARTS WEEK: Uptown and Museum Mile – Tuesday, March 1
The Art Show Gala Preview The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America to benefit Henry Street Settlement, is one of the most prestigious, varied and exciting art fairs in the nation. The Gala Preview annual event brings together an international group of collectors, connoisseurs, socialites, and celebrities for a cocktail reception […]
Aaron Johnson
Aaron Johnson’s reverse-painted acrylic-polymer-peel paintings inhabit the realms between the erotic-catastrophic/ecstatic-psychotic/comic-tragic, fusing diverse vocabularies into his own distinctive breed of Americana-grotesque, all rendered obsessively with tender brutality. Johnson’s painted universe overflows with Romantic beauty and sexual violence twisted into demonic tales of a world gone berzerk, monstrous musings on the absurdity of war and religion, […]
Falling Through the Cracks
The work, Tremors, a large-scale floor installation simulating cracked earth, is based on a photograph of a dried mud flat, splintered by desiccation cracks. The floor piece is made of MDF boards that were scraped and chiseled. One of my associations to this piece is Walter De Maria’s Earth Room (1977, New York) but, unlike […]
