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LMAKprojects in collaboration with Puncto Gris is pleased to announce to present at Preview Berlin a selection of artists whose formal considerations include architectural topics. The works presented explore ideas about space, varying from pure formal issues to more environmental related visions. Preview Berlin will be held in Berlin from September 28 to October 3, 2006 (above image)

In this issue of the fair, the limited edition catalog will include original works by Claudia Joskowicz from Punto Gris and Ariadna Carpasso from LMAK Projects. Enclosed please find an image of Ariadna Capasso’s limited fair edition Green Canopy: A Collage, 2006, Digital print, 128 mm x 128 mm.

Ariadna Capasso is a video and installation artist who developed together with : Patricia Tinajero-Baker, a sculpture/installation artist and Damián Keller, a composer specializing in three-dimensional ecological-sounds the idea of the Green Canopy, which is an environmental sound installation. Built entirely from recycled materials, including PVC-pipes, carpet padding, and crocheted plastic bags, the sculpture is the forest of the future. Green Canopy: The Tree is 10-feet high, 15-feet in diameter and finished in festive colors, a tongue-and-cheek reference to the Latin American “aesthetic. On view at Preview Berlin will: The Green Canopy: the Bud, a 5 feet tall version. The original material for the music was collected in the Amazon jungle by Keller.

Image: Walton Ford, Thanh Hoang, 1997, Watercolor, gouache, pencil and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 119 1/2 inches (153.7 x 303.5 cm.) Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford at Brooklyn Museum November 3, 2006, through January 28, 2007

Media Preview, November 2, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

More than fifty of Walton Ford’s meticulously rendered, large-scale watercolors of vividly imagined birds, animals, and flora will be on view in an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum from November 3, 2006, through January 28, 2007. Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford, which will tour to venues to be announced, comprises watercolors created between 1990 and the present exploring such themes as colonialism, the naturalist tradition, and the extinction of species.

Using the animal kingdom as a mirror of the human world, Ford employs his skill as an artist and observer to communicate his views on society. In The Starling, 2002, he depicts an enormous European starling presiding over a desert-like landscape and being fed by exotic birds from around the world. In Passenger Pigeons of Falling Bough, 2002, Ford presents a massive flock of the squabbling birds perched on a bough that has broken under their weight.

Also included in the exhibition are Dirty Dick Burton’s Aide de Camp, 2002, in which a monkey represents the nineteenth-century naturalist Richard Burton, who employed primates in his house to learn their language; Jack on His Deathbed, 2005, in which the primate is a stand-in for the eighteenth-century British ambassador to Naples, Sir William Hamilton, a diplomat who owned a pet monkey; and Delirium, 2004, which makes reference to John James Audubon’s practice of killing animals in order to study them more closely. In this image the golden eagle, still attached to a trap, flies to freedom, while the tiny figure of Audubon lies flat in the snow below.

Ford drew his early inspiration from the work of nineteenth-century artist and naturalist John James Audubon—particularly his prodigious Birds of America series–as well as from visits to the American Museum of Natural History. Other influences include J.J. Grandville and Sir John Tenniel, the French artists whose caricatures of part-human, part-animal subjects satirized nineteenth-century French and British society; Edward Lear, an artist and writer known for his nonsensical poetry and limericks; George Catlin, a self-taught painter of Native Americans; and Francisco Goya, the Spanish artist working at the turn of the nineteenth-century.

Born in Larchmont, New York, in 1960, Walton Ford is a 1982 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the recipient of several national awards and honors including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

In conjunction with Tigers of Wrath, four prints from the original edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America series (1827-1838) will be presented in the American Identities galleries on the Museum’s fifth floor. They will remain on view throughout the run of the exhibition.

Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford is organized by Marilyn Kushner, Chair and Curator, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Brooklyn Museum.

The exhibition is made possible in part by Bloomberg, with additional support from the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Council of the Brooklyn Museum.

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http://www.brooklynmuseum.org

Jason McCoy Inc. is pleased to share with you the following good news concerning gallery artists:

KEVIN R. BRINE. We are pleased to announce that Kevin R. Brine is now represented by Jason McCoy Inc. Kevin graduated from University of Wisconsin, Madison with a BA in 1975, majoring in South Asian Studies. From 1970 to 1973 he practiced the craft of blacksmithing at the Rochester Folk Art Guild. After settling in New York City in 1976, Brine worked with blacksmith shops in Tribeca and Long Island City before joining Sanford C Bernstein & Co., Inc. (1978-2000). He studied under Graham Nickson at the New York Studio School in 2001. Kevin R. Brine works and lives in New York City and Watermill, Long Island.

CORA COHEN. In 2006, Cora was a recipient of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award. “Far Less Tangible States of Being, Cora Cohen’s altered x rays, drawings, and photographs” by Lauri Bortz was published in August. On October 24, 2006, Cora will give a lecture on her work at the New York Studio School at 6:30 pm. Her upcoming exhibitions in 2007 include Photographs and Altered x rays at Abaton Garage, Jersey City, New Jersey; Drawings at Galerie Markus Winter, Berlin, Germany; and an exhibition of recent paintings at Michael Steinberg Gallery, New York; as well as No Words And Words On Paper, a group exhibition organized by Sam Jedig of Stalke Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark.

LIZ DI GIORGIO. Liz recently participated in “Stilled Life”, an exhibition held at The Islip Museum of Art, Islip, NY. It ran from June 29 to September 11 and was curated by Daria Brit Shapiro. From October 20 to December 1, Liz’s work will be shown at the Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, featuring selected works of the college faculty.

VIRGIL GROTFELDT. Virgil has had several exhibitions this year, including at Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX (February) and Houston Contemporary Art at the Museum of Shanghai, China, which was curated by Gus Kapriva and Christopher Zhu (July 23 – August 6, 2006). A bilingual catalogue, with an extensive essay by Christopher Zhu was published. In May, Virgil’s work was featured at the Amsterdam art fair, by Galarie Luca, Zaltbommel. Upcoming exhibitions include a two-person show with Houston sculptor Merideth Jack at the Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa, TX, featuring a group of Virgil’s large bronzepowder paintings from 1991 to 2004 (opening, November 3, 2006).

TERRELL JAMES. Terrell’s 2006 projects include Drawing into Painting, at Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR, which featured a large wall installation, reviewed in the Oregonian (March); a talk on the artist Tam Van Tran entitled TAM VAN TRAN: PSYCHONAUT, held at Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX (June); Three, US, at Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong (July); and Houston Contemporary Art at the Museum of Shanghai, China, which was curated by Gus Kapriva and Christopher Zhu (July 23 – August 6, 2006). A bilingual catalogue, with an extensive essay by Christopher Zhu was published. In September, her work will be featured in Abstract Painting, held at the Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX and curated by Director Anne Allen.

MARTIN KLINE. On November 2, 2006, Martin Kline’s new exhibition entitled “Made in Japan� will open at the gallery, featuring works completed during his Atlantic Pacific Fellowship in Miyakonojo. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, which runs through December 16th. The English version of Monochromes, the accompanying catalog to the group exhibition in 2004 at the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, which was curated by Barbara Rose and included Martin’s work, has just been published by the University of California Press. The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, will host the exhibition Martin Kline, Recent Painting and Sculpture, February 1st through April 10, 2007.

LI-LAN. In November, Lin & Keng Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan, will host Unfinished Journey, an exhibition of Li-lan’s work from November 18th – December 7th. An extensive catalogue with a foreword by Christine Y. Kim and an essay by Scarlet Cheng will be published on this occasion. The catalogue will celebrate three decades of Li-lan’s work by presenting works and writings from the 1970s to the present. In addition, Joyce Brodsky’s book entitled Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan, is scheduled to be published by the University of Washington Press, in the fall of 2007.

GEORGE NEGROPONTE. We congratulate George and Virva on the birth of their son Viggo Paul Negroponte who was born on September 16 at 9.40 pm. In spring 2007, George will have an exhibition of new works on paper at P37 Gallery in Athens, Greece (March 15th - April 21, 2007).

ESTATE OF FREDERICK KIESLER (1890-1965). Jason McCoy Inc. is currently casting Frederick Kiesler’s sculpture “Bucephalus� at the Polich Art Works foundry. In order to bring this elaborate project to life, we are honored to be working with Kiesler’s longtime studio assistant Len Pitkowsky.

CHRISTIAN VINCENT. The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, located in Kansas City, MO, recently purchased a major painting by Christian. Christian’s current exhibition at the gallery, which runs through October 28, was reviewed by John Goodrich for The New York Sun on September 21, 2006.

Jason McCoy, Inc.
41 East 57th Street, 11th floor
New York, NY 10022
Email: jmccoy@mindspring.com

James Turrell
Meeting

One of the highlights of P.S.1, this site-specific installation has been at P.S.1 since the fall of 1986. It was initially part of a series commissioned by P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss focusing on light and perception. Meeting is composed of a square room with a rectangular opening cut directly into the ceiling. Carefully calculated artificial lights produce an orange glow on the white walls of the room, permitting the viewer to appreciate the intensity of the sky’s color. As Turrell described it: “There’s this four-square seating that’s inside, seating toward each other, having a space that created some silence, allowing something to develop slowly over time, particularly at sunset. Also, this Meeting has to do with the meeting of space that you’re in with the meeting of the space of the sky.� Meeting is one of Turrell’s series of “skyspaces,� all involving enclosed spaces with rectangular or rounded holes cut into the ceiling exposing the open sky.

The artist intends for Meeting to be open one hour before dusk, weather permitting.

Location: Third Floor

Meeting viewing hours: 2006 through 2007

October 19 – October 28 5:00 pm
October 29 – November 6 4:00 pm
November 9 – November 20 3:45 pm
November 23 – January 1 3:30 pm
January 4 – January 22 3:45 pm
January 25 – January 29 4:00 pm
February 1 – February 12 4:15 pm
February 15 – February 26 4:30 pm
March 1 – March 10 4:45 pm

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Background:

P.S.1 was founded in 1971 by Alanna Heiss as The Institute of Art and Urban Resources Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to the organization of contemporary art exhibitions in abandoned or underutilized buildings. P.S.1 became an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art in 2000 and now operates two internationally acclaimed spaces for contemporary art: P.S.1 in Long Island City, featuring museum-quality galleries, and The Clocktower Gallery, which now contains the radio studio for P.S.1’s online radio station WPS1.

P.S.1 is one of the largest and oldest arts organizations in the United States solely devoted to contemporary art. Recognized as a defining force of the alternative space movement, P.S.1 stands out from major arts institutions in its cutting edge approach to exhibitions and direct involvement of artists within a scholarly framework. P.S.1 acts as an intermediary between the artist and its audience. Functioning as a living and active meeting place for the general public, P.S.1 is a catalyst for ideas, discourses and new trends in contemporary art. With its educational programs, P.S.1 assists the public in understanding art and provides the tools to appreciate contemporary art and its practices.

Support:
Operations and programs of P.S.1 are supported by the P.S.1 Board of Directors, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Office of the President of the Borough of Queens, The Council of the City of New York, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional funding is provided by individuals, foundations and corporate contributions.

Directions:
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Street in Long Island City, Queens, across the Queensboro Bridge from midtown Manhattan. It is easily accessible by bus and subway. Traveling by subway, visitors should take either the E or V to 23 Street-Ely Avenue (note that the V does not run on weekends); the 7 to 45 Road-Courthouse Square; or the G to Court Square or 21 Street-Van Alst. Visitors may also take the Q67 bus to Jackson and 46th Avenues or the B61 to Jackson Avenue.

Hours:
P.S.1 is open from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Thursday through Monday. It is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day.
• artbook@PS1 is open from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thursday through Sunday.
• LeRosier Café is open from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Thursday through Monday.

Admission:
Admission is a $5.00 suggested donation; $2.00 for students and senior citizens; free for MoMA members and MoMA admission ticket holders. The MoMA ticket must be presented at P.S.1 within thirty days of date on ticket and is not valid during Warm Up or other P.S.1 events or benefits.

Web Sites:
www.ps1.org • www.wps1.org • www.moma.org

This Week at Eyebeam:
- Personal Kyoto from Ben Engebreth
- Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 - Aphrodite Project: Platforms at
Next Fest
- Sept. 29 - Cory Arcangel at Team Gallery
- Reentry: New York City from Bill Dolson - on view

Upcoming:
- Oct. 5 - World of Awe - CD Release Party and Performance

540 W. 21st Street (between 10th & 11th Aves) NYC

Personal Kyoto
from Ben Engebreth

Eyebeam R&D Fellow Ben Engebreth has launched Personal
Kyoto,
a web-based tool designed to automatically measure, track and share progress
toward reduction of your residential or commercial electric consumption
in order to achieve your own Personal
Kyoto
Protocol.

By analyzing
your ConEd electric usage information, the site can calculate a Personal
Kyoto Goal for you that represents the amount you need to
reduce your electric use to to achieve something like what would be required
of you by the Kyoto
Protocol. This calculation is based on how residential
electric use has grown in the US since 1990 — the year upon which
the Kyoto Protocol is based. Assuming that your electric use has increased
at the same rate as the average American, the site calculates a target
usage goal that would effectively make you Kyoto Protocol compliant (at
least
for electric usage — a big component of New Yorkers’ energy consumption).
There are many ways to reduce your electric use, but there’s not
a good way to monitor and share your progress and that’s what Personal
Kyoto provides.

To register with
Personal Kyoto, all you need is your ConEd account number. This is used
to retrieve your historical energy usage from the
ConEd web site (try it here yourself).
The energy usage data is the only thing stored and your account
number is encrypted. Eyebeam is
a non-profit organization and will not sell or exploit your personal
information in any way. Personal Kyoto was developed by Ben during
his year-long R&D
Fellowship in Eyebeam’s
OpenLab. If
you are a software developer interested in bringing Personal Kyoto
to your town, please get in touch with Ben through the Personal Kyoto web
site.

To learn more and sign up for Personal Kyoto visit http://personal-kyoto.org/

The Aphrodite Project: Platforms
at WIRED’s Next Fest
Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2006

The Aphrodite
Project: Platforms, from Eyebeam Residents Norene Leddy and Andrew
Milmoe, will be exhibited in the Future of Design Pavilion at WIRED’s Next
Fest. The Platforms, designed for the safety and communication
needs of sex workers, are 6-inch, silver leather sandals with built-in
video
and GPS technology that link the wearer to emergency services and an
online community network. This project includes the shoe prototypes
as well as two web sites, http://theaphroditeproject.tv and http://sexygpsshoes.com,
and a P.S.A. designed to stimulate discussion about sex work and
sex workers rights.

Next Fest is WIRED Magazine’s vision of a new world’s fair including
more than 130 exciting exhibits from scientists, researchers and inventors
around
the globe. Next Fest features
innovations in communication, design, entertainment, exploration, health,
transportation, security and green living. Next Fest takes place at the
Javits Center in NYC from Sept 29 - Oct. 1 and Eyebeam is proud to be
an affiliate
sponsor of this
event.

For more information on Next Fest and a complete schedule of events
visit http://www.nextfest.net/

Cory Arcangel at Team Gallery
Sept. 29, 2006

6-8pm

Cory Arcangel, Eyebeam senior R&D Fellow, has an exhibition
opening Friday Sept. 29 at Team Gallery in Soho. If you aren’t able to make
it Friday to help Cory celebrate, subtractions,
modifications, addenda, and other recent contributions to participatory culture is
on view through Nov. 2 at Team’s new space, 83 Grand Street.

For more information visit http://teamgallery.com/

Reentry: New York City
Studies for Synthetic Meteors
Now on view thru Oct. 21, 2006

Bill Dolson’s Reentry: New York City merges iconic night cityscapes
with HD computer simulations in a series of studies for a daring new public
art project: synthetic meteor showers in the Manhattan sky. Evoking the
spectacle of the Apocalyptic Sublime painting movement and the audacity
of Land Art, these new simulations created by Bill during his Eyebeam
residency are on view through Oct. 21. The exhibition is open
to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12-6pm and is free of charge
with a suggested donation.

Bill is simultaneously exhibiting digital C-prints of frames from these
video studies at Photographic Gallery, 252 Front Street (South Street
Seaport Historic District) in New York City. The exhibition, Trajectories:
Carter Hodgkin & Bill Dolson opens September 28 with an artists’
reception 6-9 pm.

For more information on Reentry visit http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=exhibitions&id=103

Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell - World of Awe
CD Release Party and Performance
Oct. 5, 2006
7pm

Join us to celebrate the release of Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell
(Innova), the latest World of Awe project. The music CD is a collaboration
between media artist Yael Kanarek, composer Yoav Gal and dancefilmmaker
Evann Siebens. World of Awe band (Gal with sopranos Heather Green
and Sarah Rivkin) will play songs from the CD and Siebens will
perform choreographed elements from her dancefilm Portal.

For more information on this event visit http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=unique&id=106

Simon Starling, Tabernas Desert Run (details), 2004. Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute, Glasgow.

Friday 29 September, 7pm
International Lecture Series: Simon Starling
The Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay West. Free to members. $15 non-members.

Reserve NOW. To order tickets call Box Office at 416 973 4000.

Join The Power Plant on this rare occasion to hear British artist and 2005 Turner Prize winner Simon Starling speak on his practice and recent works. In elaborately staged installations Simon Starling creates breathtaking relationships that enact cyclical, sometimes absurd detours across geography and time, and provoke ruptures in our preconceptions about cultural and political economies. “When I’m making art,� says Simon Starling, “I’m thinking up novels in a way. Whether things I’m telling are true or not … I’m involved in an activity which is similar to that of a narrator.� Starling’s works draw out an array of ideas, revealing previously hidden relationships between art, nature, economics, history and place.
In Tabernas Desert Run, Starling retrofitted a bicycle to run on a Nexa Fuel Cell, a power source whose by-product is water. Starling rode the bike across Spain’s Tabernas Desert—the same desert where Sergio Leone filmed his renowned Spaghetti Westerns—in homage to American Chris Burden, who infamously rode a motorcycle across California’s Death Valley. Upon completing his more eco-friendly feat Starling created a watercolour painting of an Opuntia cactus—a species imported into the Tabernas from Death Valley by Leone to make Spain look more like the American West—using water from the fuel cell collected on the journey.

Simon Starling is a member of a young generation of British and Scottish artists who have emerged in the last decade to increasingly popular and international acclaim, and his work has exhibited internationally in significant solo and group exhibitions. In 2005 Starling received the Turner Prize, Britain’s most prestigious and important award for artists under the age of 50. For his recent exhibition, Cuttings, at the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland, The Power Plant co-published his exhibition catalogue (available at The Power Plant).

Currently showing at The Power Plant: Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne and Eve Sussman’s 89 Seconds at Alcázar.

Gallery Hours are Tuesday to Sunday: 12-6pm, Wednesday: 12-8pm, Closed Monday, open holiday Mondays. Admission is Free to Members, $4 adults, $2 students/seniors.

Media contact: Linda Liontis, 416 973 4381, lliontis@harbourfrontcentre.com

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