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ANNOUNCES METROPOLITAN PAVILION AS 2011 VENUE

MARCH 3-6, 2011 | Metropolitan Pavilion | 125 West 18th Street, New York

NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 – New York, September 15, 2010 – PULSE Contemporary Art Fair Director Cornell DeWitt announced today that its 2011 New York edition, his first as Director, will be held at Metropolitan Pavilion. Located in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, the centrally-located venue is a five minute walk from each of the major subway lines, and a fifteen minute walk from the Chelsea Gallery District. The new venue is also highly finished, featuring polished oak floors, cast iron columns, and comfortable amenities, including free wifi access for all exhibitors and visitors.

ANNOUNCES METROPOLITAN PAVILION AS 2011 VENUE

MARCH 3-6, 2011 | Metropolitan Pavilion | 125 West 18th Street, New York

“After a thorough study of the available locations with our team, I have decided that our guests and exhibitors are best served by a venue that is both convenient and flexible, to accommodate a fluid and creatively produced fair,” DeWitt announced, continuing that “In the new location, where we are central to both the Chelsea Gallery District and a transportation hub like Union Square, we are not only a leader among New York art fairs, but now also by far the most accessible.”

PULSE New York will take place from March 3-6, 2011. On view will be approximately 50 contemporary art galleries in the main fair and IMPULSE section.

The next edition of PULSE will take place in Miami December 2-5, 2010 at Ice Palace Studios in the city’s Wynwood Art District.
Please click here to download the most current PULSE Miami 2010 press release.

METROPOLITAN PAVILION
Metropolitan Pavilion is located at 125 West 18th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in the heart of Manhattan’s Flatiron District. For more information and to see images of the venue visit www.metropolitanevents.com

PULSE
Through its annual editions in New York and Miami, PULSE serves as the junction between central and satellite art fairs. Its exhibitors consist of a select group of leading and pioneering international galleries that present works by premier contemporary artists with those of emerging and undiscovered talents. A central component of the fair is its program of commissioned cultural projects that link its audience to all aspects of the visual and performing arts.

VISIT
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair at www.pulse-art.com or contact by phone at +1 (212) 255-2327.

MEDIA CONTACT
Andy Cushman or Andy Monk | OCTOPUS OUTREACH | E: ac@8op.us / am@8op.us | M: +1 (917) 744-4042 / +1 (917) 608-2846

PULSE’s signature program of large-scale sculptures and installations features work throughout the Fair. The program offers exhibitors a chance to present works that are otherwise too large to include in their booths and provides an opportunity for unrepresented artists to be featured in a major international platform. Among the artists whose sculptures and installations have been presented at past PULSE fairs are Leo Villareal, R. Luke DuBois, Paul Villinksi, Clifton Childree, Danny Baskin, and Mark Wagner.

PULSE NEW YORK 2011 PROJECTS

ASSEMBLY: Eight Emerging Photographers from Southern California, curated by Edward Robinson of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Courtesy of Fred Torres Collaborations and originally commissioned by FotoFest, Houston

A preview of ASSEMBLY: Eight Emerging Photographers From Southern California will be on view at PULSE New York. ASSEMBLY features recent works by Nicole Belle, Matthew Brandt, Peter Holzhauer, Whitney Hubbs, Matt Lipps, Joey Lehman Morris, Asha Schechter, and Augusta Wood who have all emerged from the Southern California region in the last decade. Approaching the making of photo-based arts in a number of different ways, they create work that both reflects the cultural heritage of the region as well as suggests important trends in current American photographic practice. ASSEMBLY will be on view at Fred Torres Collaborations located at 527 W. 29th Street on the third floor from March 15th through April 9, 2011. FotoFest a non-profit international arts organization based in Houston, Texas, originally commissioned this exhibition.

Craig Damrauer
Various Greetings, 2011
Vinyl lettering

Call To Actions, 2010

The world’s largest, most comprehensive and extensive private collection of call-to-actions from various web advertising. In other words, the state of affairs when it comes to action in these modern times.

Molly Dilworth
Field Test (NYC), 2011
Paint on mylar, 20 x 14 in.
Courtesy of David B. Smith Gallery, Denver

Field Test (NYC) is the second in a series of site-specific paintings that use X-Ray and Electron Microscopy images of Rare-Earth elements as visual references. These materials-hidden in plain sight-power our electronic environment, running everything from mobile phones to MRI’s.
Dilworth’s work gives form to things that exist outside of our conscious experience. Her painting Cool Water, Hot Island which is installed on the pedestrian plazas in Times Square and Broadway, alludes to the historical geography of midtown, especially the Great Kill stream that once flowed on this site.

Oskar Schmidts (b. 1977 Germany) latest work BACK PORTRAIT of 2010 consists of a full HD movie and several photographs. The film will be presented on a flat screen which is directly mounted on the wall and shows a loop of the almost picturesque back view of a young girl who moves very slow only upon closer inspection. The film oscillates between moving and still images and explores the boundaries between painting, photography and film. The corresponding photographs in contrast split the movie into photographic parts and show the rear view of the girl as a serial photographic sequence of movements in several minimally changing images. So, while the moving image of the film almost seems to freeze and try to undermine the features of the cinematic, the immobile photographic images of the work BACK PORTRAIT changing into the opposite and get in motion.

Ben Wolf’s site-specific installation for PULSE takes shape around an eighteen foot long ship’s hull salvaged from an abandoned vessel in Newark. Wooden wall boards, scrap metal, discarded doors and other found, architectural detritus are stacked and layered into the work on a welded steel armature to create an abstract, three-dimensional collage rich in texture and curvilinear dimension. Wolf’s journeys to zones of abandonment and destruction – from forgotten local shipyards to downtown Detroit to the mountains of Haiti – reveal a deep creative instinct to explore and understand on a physical level the effects of time over material. As he rescues beauty from chaos, Wolf constructs a spirited new aesthetics within a world of forgotten industrial wreckage.

Title: PULSE New York 2011 Exhibitors

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco B-15

Jen Bekman Gallery, New York B-4

Benrimon Contemporary, LLC, New York A-6

Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich E-3

Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn A-1

{CTS} creative thriftshop, Brooklyn C-10

Davidson Contemporary, New York B-11

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Santa Monica C-12

Dorsch Gallery, Miami C-8

fouladi projects, San Francisco B-13

Fred Torres Collaborations, New York A-10