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LPEPMP3-JOHN FEKNER CITY SQUAD-SELECTIONS

With this new release entitled LPEPMP , street-artist John Fekner (DECAY, BROKEN PROMISES, WHEELS OVER INDIAN TRAILS, etc.) creates an aural soundtrack to his urban art experiences. For years, Fekner made the city itself his exhibition space by creating his own form of art with social commentary. He used stencils and spraypaint to create text-based messages, icons and logos throughout the five boroughs of New York.

When Fekner returned to an “indoor� studio environment, he made a decision to bring his ’street experience’ to a recording studio instead of a painting studio. An interesting choice for Fekner; one which allowed him the opportunity to bring his vision to another level. Fekner’s intense sound works are collaborative in nature with musicians and non-musicians alike.

The spirit and sounds of his City Squad is driven right from the streets; Concrete People, The Beat ‘08 and Oil Drum Mix supply high-energy with a mix of rap, industrial, jazz and sampling vignettes. Throughout LPEPMP3 , there are looping sound collages, spoken words etc., ignited with a sound production that is eclectic, harsh, poetic and difficult at times. Sight of the Child is a total contrast with a stark and delicate production. A small boy’s voice is heard from a barren futuristic back alley with only a sweetly played accompanying harmonica completing the desolate scene. The message-driven lyrics about TV, Native Indians, toxic waste, technology, greed, consumerism and space invaders are an extension to Fekner’s street works. Cover art “Space Invader” is with long-time collaborator Bronx artist Don Leicht.
LPEPMP3 is available to download at Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00168ZFT6/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&qid=1207057871&sr=8-3
More information: http://www.fekner.net

Wang Guangyi, January 2008

88 Conversations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 4, 2008

CONTACT: Erin Kornfeld, erin.kornfeld@googlemail.com or (917) 545-4299

NEW YORK — 88 Conversations is a collaborative series of works created by award-winning photographer Erin Kornfeld & writer Charlie Schultz that combines photography and poetry to create dynamic portraits of the contemporary Chinese art community.

On Friday March 21, 2008 from 4 p.m. till 8 p.m., in association with Asian Contemporary Art Week http://www.acaw.net/ACAW2008/acaw2008/> , Schultz and Kornfeld will host an open reception at their studio for a preview of 88 Conversations.

Winner of the 2006 Deloitte Commission http://www.npg.org.uk/live/photoprizedeloitte.asp> at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Erin Kornfeld joins the emerging writer Charles Schultz on a conversational journey from the streets of Queens to the hutongs of Beijing; from the cafes of Shanghai to the lake shore of Chicago.

In the last 15 months Kornfeld and Schultz met artists, curators, and scholars that propel the contemporary Chinese art movement in order to engage them in a conversation and make their photograph.

“The portraits pay homage to an artistic exchange of ideas where east meets west� says Kornfeld.

Some of the participants include: Wang Guangyi, Xu Bing, Li Xianting, Wenda Gu, Zhang Xiaotao, Zhang Dali, Shen Shaomin, Zhang Hongtu, Wang Qingsong, Yan Pei Ming, Yan Lei, Wu Hung, and seventy six more.

Kornfeld and Schultz will open their studio to the public March 18th - March 24th (1 p.m. - 6 p.m. daily). Please make an appointment to visit the studio.

Studio Location: 13-17 Laight St, Suite 26 (Between Varick & 6th Ave)
Easily accessible by 1 and ACE trains (Canal St. Station)

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Brandon Ballengée, Malamp UK, 2008

E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions)
Opening: Saturday March 15, 7-9pm
March 15 – May 3, 2008

Exit Art
(Exit Underground)
475 Tenth Avenue
A,C,E to 34th Street
212-966-7745

Exit Art is pleased to announce the opening of E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions), the first project of S.E.A, a large-scale program dealing with current environmental concerns and the way artists respond to them. E.P.A is a group exhibition surveying recent performance work from around the world that addresses current environmental crises. The exhibition will consist of videos, photographs, texts, related ephemera and a film program documenting recent performances. For this opening project we have invited Amy Lipton, co-curator, and Patricia Watts, co-curator and founder, of ecoartspace, a leading international environmental arts organization, to collaborate with Exit Art on the organization and presentation of this material.

Participating artistst include, Brandon Ballengée, Vaughn Bell/Sarah Kavage/Nicole Kistler, Mark Brest van Kempen, Carissa Carman/ Joanna Lake, Susanne Cockrell/Ted Purves, Xavier Cortada, Carrie Dashow/Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Erica Fielder, Ozzie Forbes, Futurefarmers, Aaron Gach, Fritz Haeg, Amy Howden-Chapman, Basia Irland, Scot Kaplan, Carolyn Lambert, Robin Lasser, Kathryn Miller, Miss Rockaway Armada, Matthew Moore, Eve Mosher, EcoArtTech: Cary Peppermint/ Christine Nadir, Andrea Polli and Joe Gimore with Dr. Patrick Market, Rapid Response (Cobb/Fend/Fischer/Meyer), James Reed and Social Sculpture Research Unit/Earth Agenda Projects, Austin Shull, Brooke Singer/Brian Rigney Hubbard, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Chris Sollars

Andrew Carnie, Magic Forest, 2002

February 16 – April 19, 2008
Opening: Saturday, February 16, 7 – 10pm

BRAINWAVE: Common Senses responds to current advancements in neurological research by visualizing and investigating the brain’s capacity for sense perception, memory, emotion and logic. The artists in this exhibition redefine this research in a different way, abandoning literal representations of the brain and categorical analysis in favor of works that take, as starting points, elements from neuroscience and flipping these ideas on their heads.

Suzanne Anker, David Bowen, Steve Budington, Phil Buehler, Andrew Carnie, George Jenne, Daniel Marguiles and Chris Sharp, Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns, Jamie O’Shea, SERU, Devorah Sperber, Naho Taruishi, Dustin Wenzel

BRAINWAVE is a collaboration with five other Manhattan-based cultural organizations: Rubin Museum of Art; Science & the Arts at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; The Philoctetes Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute; and the School of Visual Arts; and is presented in association with the American Museum of Natural History. For more information on other BRAINWAVE programs, visit www.brainwavenyc.org.

Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue
(at 36th Street)
www.exitart.org
A C E at 34th Street/Penn Station
212-966-7745

Love is a Rose

Since 1996 Regan has been creating whimsical paintings by drawing inspiration from the beautiful places she’s seen. Regan’s work is admired for the fantastic detail painted into every scene created.

Currently Regan’s paintings hang in The Nassau County Museum of Art and can be purchased there.

http://www.regantausch.com/NCMAinformation.html

Papo Colo with a cannon, a ‘readymade’

Trickster Theater and Exit Art present:
Cannon Dialogues
Saturdays, January 19 and 26
8pm
FREE

Directed by Papo Colo
featuring:

Lily Burd
Carolina Puente
Sarah-Violet Bliss
Elia Monte-Brown
Jennifer Dees

Cannon Dialogues uses a visual art exhibition (Exit Art’s Love/War/Sex, on view through January 26) as the stage for a play that is, in part, written by the actors. It is a play in which 2 cannons point at each other; in which the actors’ performances are based on their own texts that are inspired by the narrative papering the walls; with the intervention of ghosts and apparitions; and with music by Francisco Colon Quintero.

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Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street
212-966-7745
http://www.exitart.org

Guerra de la Paz, The Kiss (from the GI Joe Series), digital print, 2006

Jakob Boeskov, Margot Herster, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Fawad Khan, Ellen Lake, Rebecca Loyche, Guerra de la Paz, Francesco Simeti, Nick Waplington

Exit Art wants to tell you war stories through the vision of nine international artists. Love/War/Sex considers memory, history, weapons and personal stories. As a cultural center, it is our mission to reflect what is going on in our society. We want to respond to current global conflicts by presenting this exhibition, Love/War/Sex, a comment on our culture’s fascination with, and addiction to, war. The title itself demonstrates the paradox of what war is, a combination of emotions, passions and idealistic convictions. Love/War/Sex considers the conflation of those basic human instincts—a toxic combination manifested in images and stories coming out of Iraq. This exhibition connects longing with violence and love with war, imagining the business of war in all its sensual manifestations. War, love and sex demand the same thing - commitment, and the purpose of this exhibition is to tell the story of these relationships.

Exit Art is known for its unique exhibitions and installation designs that heighten the concepts of the shows. The installation of Love/War/Sex, conceived by Papo Colo, is an innovation in exhibition design and presentation, in part for its inclusion of real weapons of war. Choosing these objects, these “readymades�, and applying their historical contexts to the exhibition, creates an environment that provokes, surprises, assaults and confronts you with the real tools of war. They are not simply objects on display; they were intended to kill people in battle. Hearkening back to Leonardo da Vinci, who designed weapons for a living, by exhibiting the weapons as art one can experience both the extraordinary craftsmanship and design of these killing machines.

Another installation approach was to wallpaper the exhibition space with texts of personal experiences of the war. This allows the viewer/reader to evoke images from the text. Here, the force of the narrative replaces the object and gives the viewer another kind of visual imagination, creating a sacred space for meditation. Taken from newspapers, magazines and soldiers’ blogs, these chronicles make one think of war in terms of intimate personal stories.

The juxtaposition of these weapons and the wall papered texts creates a stage for the exhibition and the public. The exhibition incorporates video, sculpture, wallpaper, and a selection of weapons and military vehicles on loan from the Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, CT.

ARTISTS
Jakob Boeskov’s apocalyptic video War Wizard depicts lustful soldiers and their “wizard� enemy as they invade a little boy’s dreams. The “wizard�, who embodies at once Jesus, Osama bin Laden and an Iraqi prisoner, is tortured with sex and violence by dancing soldiers. Margot Herster presents an insider view of Guantanamo politics with This is an introduction tape, a video of the families of detainees telling their relatives to trust the lawyers representing them. Referencing sports and porn as stimulants, Tessa Hughes-Freeland’s ‘educational’ video Watch Out! explains how explicit films can warp the minds of young men. Fawad Khan fuses car culture with war imagery to create a sexy but violent wall painting that evokes the chaos of a suicide bombing. Ellen Lake’s short film Betty + Johnny combines digital video and home movies shot in the 1930s and 40s to tell the story of a love lost during World War II. Rebecca Loyche’s three-channel video installatio!
n,
All’s Fair in Love and War, is a disturbing portrait of a weapons specialist who teaches military personnel how to kill. The unnamed subject of the short videos describes in detail the tools and methods employed to kill during combat. Guerra de la Paz presents Crawl, a cloth sculpture of a dying soldier, and The Kiss, an intimate photograph of toy army men in an embrace. Francesco Simeti’s Watching the War combines explosion clouds and images of the war in Afghanistan to create deceptively ornate wallpaper. Nick Waplington’s photographs juxtapose images of war and the Iraqi landscape with keg parties and families in America to offer a telling glimpse into life at the war front and back at home.

Curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo.

ABOUT EXIT ART
Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture. We are prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 25 year old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, that has grown from a pioneering alternative art space, into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always on the verge of change.

EXHIBITION SUPPORT
General exhibition support provided by Carnegie Corporation, Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Starry Night Fund at The Tides Foundation, Exit Art’s Board of Trustees and our members. Public programs support provided by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Special thanks to Sam Johnson and the Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, Connecticut.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue, corner of 36th Street. Exit Art is open each Tuesday through Thursday, 10 am – 6 pm; Friday, 10 am – 8 pm; Saturday, noon – 8 pm.
Closed Sunday and Monday. There is a suggested donation of $5.

For more information please call 212-966-7745 or visit http://www.exitart.org

bEHINd THE SCENE

http://adhocart.org/

a group exhibition curated by Michael De Feo
December 13th, 2007 through January 20th, 2008

Opening Reception: December 13th, 7pm-9pm

GENERAL INFO
Address:
49 Bogart Street
Buzzer 22, Unit 1G
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Tel: 718.366.2466
Fax: 866.599.7270
Online: info@adhocart.org

Assembling a group of well known street artists from around the world, De Feo invited the participants to showcase work they’re not typically recognized for. Behind the Seen includes personal projects, works in different mediums or styles and pieces not necessarily intended for view on the streets. The mediums include paintings,drawings, photographs and sculptures by over 30 artists from around the world.

Street artists develop a level of notoriety for their originality, talent and frequency of a style or visual vocabulary. Like most successful artists, they don’t limit their creative endeavors to what they’re known for.

Behind the Seen goes beyond the familiar to build upon what we already know… providing connections, challenges and insights to other facets of the artist’s oeuvre.

Participating artists include:

Aiko, Blek le Rat, Caleb Neelon, Dan Witz, Don Leicht, Elbow Toe, ELC, Ellis G., Eltono, Flying Fortress, G, Ian Stevenson, Jace, Jean Faucheur, jm rizzi, John Fekner, Judith Supine, Keith Haring, Lady Pink, L’Atlas, Lee Quiñones, Leon Reid, Lister, Mark Jenkins, Martha Cooper, Maya Hayuk, Michael De Feo, Momo, Nuria, Peripheral Media Projets, Richard Hambleton, Ripo, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, She Kills He, Skewville, Swoon, Thundercut, Tofer

SALVADOR DALI’S BIBLIA SACRA

WILLIAM BENNETT GALLERY PRESENTS
SALVADOR DALI’S BIBLIA SACRA
FEATURING THE COMPLETE 105 LITHOGRAPHS IN 5 VOLUMES

December 11, 2007 – January 9, 2008
65 Greene Street

WHAT:
William Bennett Gallery is pleased to present in it’s entirety, the five-volume work of Salvador Dali’s Biblia Sacra, featuring the complete 105 original lithographs, published in 1969 by Rizzoli Editions, Milan, Italy. Dali’s Biblia Sacra is the largest issued suite of the Spanish artist’s work. The portfolio was commissioned by leading patron Dr. Giuseppe Albaretto, who was determined to redeem what he felt were Dali’s wayward views by leading him back towards the Catholic Church by using the Holy Bible. Subsequently, these exquisite works illustrate Dali’s renewed ties to Christianity as well as his profound personal spirituality. The illustrations, fertile in both color and content, exemplify Dali’s range of creativity and artistic process. The wide variety of imagery employed by Dali incorporates both religious and historical images; some Christian and some based on classical mythology. Additionally, Dali’s exploration as an artist is evident in his use!
of
“bulletism,� a Dalinian invention where an arquebus (a type of antique gun) was loaded with ink-filled capsules and then fired at blank sheets of paper. The resulting patterns were then incorporated into the suite’s compositions.

WHO:
Salvador Dali (1904-1989): Spanish painter, graphic artist, filmmaker, writer. A modern master of the surreal arts, Salvador Dali’s works continually challenged convention by questioning the antithesis of surrealism: our normal sense of the “real.” Surrealism’s objective was to make accessible to art the realms of the unconscious, irrational and imaginary. An expansive movement that extended beyond the canvas, Surrealism embraced literature, music, cinema, philosophy and popular culture. Dali’s works drew inspiration from fellow Surrealists, such as Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miro and Yves Tanguy, and also from old European masters like Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Giovanni Bracelli and Antoni Gaudi. Dali’s works depict a highly provocative pictorial language that illustrate his imagery into painted metaphors. Iconic images such as a melting clock, the burning giraffe and swarming ants are all keys that Dali offers the viewer to try and unlock his cryptic images.

Of all his diverse techniques, Dali was perhaps at his most virtuosic when it came to printmaking. The artist made over fifteen hundred prints during the course of his lifetime, fifty seven of which were created during the 1930’s, the key decade for his artistic development. Most of Dali’s prints from this era appeared as illustrations in books by fellow Surrealists like Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, among others. In 1930 Dali illustrated Les Chants de Maldoror, in which he used a stream-of-consciousness process to access personal hallucinations and delusions. These visions ultimately replaced what was described in the book, once again putting Dali on stage.

WHEN:
December 11, 2007 – January 9, 2008
Open 7 days a week; 11:00AM – 7:00PM

WHERE:
65 Greene Street, New York, NY 10012

Tel 212.965.8707
http://www.williambennettgallery.com

Over 100 Years of Educating Women

Call for Art Submissions Celebrating Women’s Contributions

Grace Institute Gallery invites artists to submit works of art for a new juried exhibition that celebrates women and their daily lives.

New York, New York (October 18, 2007)—Grace Institute Gallery has announced plans to unveil a new art show, Never Routine: Women in the Course of Their Daily Lives, that will be on display from March 3-April 25, 2008. As part Grace’s recognition of Women’s History Month in March and the school’s continued commitment to see women succeed, the exhibit commemorates all aspects of a woman’s “daily work” and her many roles as a wife, mother, friend, and professional. “This show presents a perfect opportunity to praise women for their daily talents and achievements both in and out of the workplace,” says Mary Mulvihill, executive director of Grace Institute.

The jury panel includes Ira Goldberg, executive director of the Art Students League, and Adele Ursone. A first-, second-, and third-place cash prize will be awarded to three artists chosen by the jury panel.

Artists are invited to submit works of art that depict women or objects related to women with themes that include, but are not limited to, jobs, chores, childbearing, moments of humor in their lives, their friendships and their pleasures, meals, an embrace, beauty regimes, family, and, finally, at rest. The gallery also encourages submissions that highlight the unique perspective of the immigrant woman’s experience in America.

The Grace Institute Gallery is accepting submissions from October 4, 2007-January 11, 2008. All submissions will be evaluated by the Grace Gallery jury. Artists will be notified of selections on February 8, 2008. Mediums accepted are collage, drawing, painting, mural, etching, or photographs. (No nudes, thank you). Artists must complete a submission form and attach a photograph of their work in order to submit artwork for the exhibition. Only one entry per artist will be accepted. Please contact Jennifer Kamara, art show coordinator, to obtain a submission form.

The Grace Institute Gallery will mark its sixth anniversary in 2008. In that time, almost 60 artists have displayed their work, putting Grace Institute on the New York City gallery map. Many of those artists have made generous gifts and loans of their artwork to the Grace Gallery permanent collection. Students, staff, and visitors alike enjoy the cultural enrichment these exhibits bring to Grace Institute and the community. Artists chosen for the juried show will also lead a panel discussion about their work for Grace students.

Founded in 1897 by W.R. Grace, twice mayor of New York City, Grace Institute began as a school to help New York women, especially immigrants, find employment. For over 100 years, Grace Institute has provided tuition-free, practical job training in a supportive learning community for underserved New York area women of all ages and from many different backgrounds. In the tradition of its founding family, Grace is dedicated to the development of the personal and business skills necessary for self-sufficiency, employability and an improved quality of life.