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Summer Mixtape Volume 1: the Get Smart edition
July 24 – August 29, 2008
Opening: Thursday July 24, 2008 7-10pm
with treats from Sweet Tooth of the Tiger

ARTISTS
Martin Basher, Colby Bird, Tyler Coburn, Corey D’Augustine, Sarah Davis, Jason Duval, Cacy Forgenie, Donna Huanca, Rashid Johnson, Jayson Keeling, Joyce Kim, Dorota Kolodziejczyk, William Lamson, Kalup Linzy, Jeffrey Lopez, Marisa Olson, Rosemarie Padovano, Alyssa Pheobus, Thabiso Phokompe, Fay Ray, Ted Riederer, Jacolby Satterwhite, Xaviera Simmons, Nick Stillman, Thomas Torrescordova, Lan Tuazon, Yuh-Shioh Wong

Long after the cassette tape has become an obsolete relic of a clumsier analog era, the essence of the mixtape lives on through CDs and MP3 playlists. Summer Mixtape Volume 1: the Get Smart edition pays tribute to this vital form of popular expression with a group exhibition that compiles some of the hottest work from the New York area that the curators have seen all year.

The curators looked back through previous calls for submissions, canvassed other curators and artists for recommendations, visited dozens of artists’ studios, and saw hundreds of shows to wind up with the 27 artists that make up Summer Mixtape Volume 1. The works in the exhibition cover a vast array of themes and mediums, mirroring the diverse mix of sights, sounds and cultures on the streets of New York. The show also features a jukebox programmed specifically for the exhibition that includes mixtapes and cover art produced by the artists and some special guests.

Audio mixes are still made for long road trips, disc jockey sets, as mood-setters for parties, as surrogate love letters, and as outlets to hear the latest hip-hop hitting the streets. Yet despite its cultural ubiquity, the mixtape remains a durable emblem of the counter culture. Drawing on these influences, Summer Mixtape Volume 1 materializes the mixtape’s spirit of appropriation, customization, unabashed nostalgia and relaxed fun.

Curated by Herb Tam and Lauren Rosati.

Friday, August 1, 7-9pm
Performances by artists Nick Stillman and Donna Huanca
and a Summer Mixtape jukebox listening party

“The Best Art Today” - With sonic contributions by artist Corey D’Augustine and noise band Knyfe Kyts, artist and Artforum critic Nick Stillman will deliver a slide lecture on the best art today.

“Rua Minx: Etapa del Funcionamiento (segundo)” - This performance by artist Donna Huanca, under the pseudonym RUA MINX, should be viewed as an experience rather than voyeuristic entertainment. Intuition and audience participation drives the performance, which may include the integration of videos, drums, sewing machine(s), bass, electronics, animals, and voice. For more information, visit http://www.ruaminx.com.

Tuesday, August 5, 7-9pm
Video mixtape by Prerana Reddy, Director of Public Events at the Queens Museum of Art, and a video mixtape by artist Colby Bird

Colby Bird presents “From Viennese Actionism to the Triumph of Vince Young”
with material by:
Otmar Bauer, Carla Edwards, Nils Ericson, Insane Clown Posse/Twiztid,
Seth Price, Mariah Robertson, The Texas Longhorns, Josh Tonsfeldt,
Hype Williams, Xtreeme Films LLC, and viral video from anonymous sources

Information on Prerana Reddy’s program TBA.

Wednesday, August 13, 7-9pm
Analog Cine Mix, a night of 16mm film inspired by summer fun; $3

WITH:
Crocus, Suzan Pitt (6:30, 1971)
Garden Path, Mary Beth Reed and Stan Brakhage (7:00, 2001)
Les Tournesols et Les Tournesols Coloré, Rose Lowder (6:00, 1982-1983)
What the Water Said, Nos. 1-3, David Gatten (16:00, 1997-1998)
Spills and Chills, by the Vitaphone Corporation (10:00, 1949)
Our Lady of the Sphere, by Larry Jordan (10:00, 1969)
and more

Friday, August 29, 7-9pm
Summer Mixtape Closing Party
with music curated by you – Bring your own iPod – first come, first served.

http://www.exitart.org

Salvador Dali

An exhibition of more than 100 rare surreal works spanning Dali’s prolific career.

Daily 11-7, June 27th to July 31st
Exhibition Opening Reception: June 26th, 6-9pm.
RSVP to rsvp@williambennettgallery.com

William Bennett Gallery
65 Greene Street (between Spring and Broome Streets)
SoHo
Tel: 212-965-8707 | Fax: 212-965-8708
Subway: 6, C, E to Spring St; N, R, W to Prince St

Ray Sell, Hi Ho Silver! Mixed Media On Canvas, 72 x 52 inches, 2008

Leo Kesting Gallery Presents:
GALLERY 1: RAY SELL - Raise ‘Em To Be Cowboys
GALLERY 2: Parker’s Box artists: JASON GLASSER and JOSHUA STERN
Opening Night Reception: Thursday June 19th from 7:00 - 10:00 pm
812 Washington St (at the corner of Gansevoort) New York NY 10014
8th Ave A, C, E and L train Stop or 1,2,3 to 14th Street
Tuesday - Sunday from 11:00 am until 7:00 pm
Admission is free to the public
phone: 917-650-3760 / 917-292-8865 http://www.leokesting.com

GALLERY 1: Ray Sell - Raise ‘Em To Be Cowboys

Men on horses carrying guns, fathers teaching their sons the joys of the opposite sex and the seductive curve of a confident woman are the subject of Ray Sell’s first New York solo exhibition, Raise ‘Em To Be Cowboys, a collection of mixed media collages and large format paintings.

In this exhibition, Ray Sell draws inspiration from pin up magazines, wild west frontiers and hot rod manuals, to illustrate the hey day of “the man’s man.” One subject of focus is the relationship between father and son as exemplified in the paintings “Quality Time” and “Life Lessons”. In “Quality Time”, a father and son work side by side on a hot rod engine while televisions frame out imagery that is overtly masculine. This imagery resonates particularly well, as the engine can be viewed as a symbol of the young boy approaching manhood. While in “Life Lessons” a father and son work together on a science experiment while lovely ladies bounce up and down in a circular view finder, possibly from the microscope the duo are looking through. It is this imagery that emphasizes the masculine development leading to the early stages of puberty and male sexuality.

GALLERY 2: Parker’s Box artists: Jason Glasser and Joshua Stern

Trail-blazing is certainly part of the theme of Ray Sell’s Raise ‘Em to be Cowboys, affording both common ground and dialogue with the work and careers of Jason Glasser and Joshua Stern.

Jason Glasser was one of the founder members of the cult indy rock band, Clem Snide, and has continually oscillated between making paintings, videos and rock music. His subjects include recurring hunters, cowboys and motorbikes, for example, often reverse painted on auto-glass. Glasser explores a love-hate relationship with what might be the father figure, or the symbol of authority, government, or even planetary oppression…Joshua Stern first exhibited his paintings with Colin De Land at American Fine Arts, before beginning to photograph his own maquettes of bizarre yet familiar psychological worlds. Stern has recently returned to painting, and a monumental series of “Beaver” paintings, some of which are presented concurrently at Leo Kesting Gallery and at Parker’s Box. As Stern’s paintings testify, the beaver played a key role in American trail-blazing, as the US economy was founded on trading in beaver skins, a commodity far more important at the time than oil is!
today.
The resulting resonance of beavers appears far more often than we may realize, gliding smoothly and surely into the masculine world that Ray Sell’s work inhabits.

Parker’s Box is proud to have been invited to jump aboard the latest anti-mainsteam commando operation to be organized by the Kesting/Capla/Leo trinity- originating of course, in Williamsburg, then hurtling through the L-train tunnel like a banshee on speed in order to infiltrate the Meat Packing site of the future Whitney museum- symbolically trail-blazing ahead of the establishment which will be bringing up the rear sometime circa 2012…The CK-LK work ethic of doing stuff in order to open up new territory (for art and artists) is based on generosity, motivation and passion, and can only be commended and admired.

Ray Sell’s Raise ‘Em To Be Cowboys and Parker’s Box JASON GLASSER and JOSHUA STERN opens to the public with a reception for the artists at Leo Kesting Gallery on Thursday June 19th from 7:00 until 10:00 pm.

From its origins as Capla Kesting Fine Art in Brooklyn, the Leo Kesting Gallery launched in 2003 and developed an aggressive campaign to introduce new figurative artists to collectors and art supporters. Leo Kesting offers the art viewing public an opportunity to see forthcoming talents in an intimate setting where undiscovered, cutting-edge artists are presented to the contemporary art scene.

Leo Kesting Gallery is located at 812 Washington St at the corner of Gansevoort in Manhattan’s Meat Packing District. A, C, E, or L train to 8th Ave and 14th Street or 1,2,3 train to 14th Street. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Sunday from 11am until 7pm.

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Huntington, N.Y.: Fotofoto gallery presents the results of its 4TH Annual National Photography Competition, “Your Best Shot”. The competition was open to all U.S. residents 18 years or older. Any photographic medium was accepted. The “Best in Show” winner will receive a $200.00 award. The juror was Constance Schwartz. She is the Director and Chief Curator of the Nassau County Museum of Art in Rosyln Harbor, New York.

FOTOFOTO GALLERY
372 New York Avenue, Huntington, New York 11743
www.fotofotogallery.com
631-549-0448

OPENING RECEPTION: June7, 2008 5-7P.M.
EXHIBITION DATES: June 6 – July 13, 2008
GALLER HOURS: Fri. 5 8 P.M.; Sat. 12-8 P.M.; Sun. 12-4 P.M.

Peter Drake, Pyramid, 2008, 53 x 48″

HEADSetera

Peter Drake, Laurence Hegarty, Mark Mennin

April 25, 2008 - May 25, 2008

HEADSetera, an intimate show of heady interplay between three artists, Peter Drake, Laurence Hegarty and Mark Mennin.

Jack the Pelican Presents
487 Driggs Ave,.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

Thurs–Mon, 12–6pm
eva@JackthePelicanPresents.com
tel. #718.782.0183

http://jackthepelicanpresents.com/headsetera.html

http://peterdrakeartist.com
http://markmennin.com
http://www.cynthiabroan.com/frameset_hegarty.html

Charles Juhasz-Alvarado, I-Scream (resist!), 2004

Charles Juhasz-Alvarado: Complicated Stories will present the artist’s past and present bodies of works as an ongoing dialogue on social consciousness and cultural identity. Charles Juhasz-Alvarado’s elaborate site-specific installations engage the viewer through narrative, performance, audio, and sculpture to introduce a fantasy world that serves as an acute and humorous allegory of today’s multicultural society and the artist’s own background. The exhibition includes nine large-scale sculptural works including one piece commissioned for this exhibition, Winged Termite (2008). This piece references Leonardo daVinci’s “flying machines” and is modeled after the shape, proportions and mechanics of flying animals. This exhibition will be a vital opportunity to survey the work of this important contemporary artist and to introduce him to American audiences, where he has had limited exposure.

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Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery and Performance Space
17 Second Avenue, Bay Shore NY 11706
631-669-3236 info@secondavenuefirehouse.com

Press Release 3/23/2008

Deconstructive Forms: Recent work by Steven Ceraso

Long Island Artist Steven Ceraso’s Welded Steel Sculpture entitled Deconstructive Forms, opens to the public at the Historic Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery and Performance Space, Bay Shore NY 11706, on April 6th, 2008 from 2 – 5 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through May 24th, 2008. Building hours are Sundays, 12 to 4 p.m or by appointment.

Steve Ceraso’s recent work shows its customary blend of strength of image, excellence of workmanship, and powerful use of materials. Working most often with steel and wood and working often in sizes approaching the monumental, Steve creates a visual vocabulary that has the feel of the archaic; and even when contemporary forms are suggested, they contain trace elements of the mythic and the primal. The welded work is the product of high craft, but often the steel is rusted, or will rust in time, lending his pieces an air of the found and the lost, artifacts or armatures from a lost civilization. Or, as in this most recent work, the images hint at masks and ritual practices as if they belonged to a vanished cult or were worn by strange warriors in unimaginable conflicts. Or that these forms might once have had living inhabitants, like the carapaces of huge insects or the shells of primeval crustaceans. What I always appreciate most about this work is its true modernist stat!
ure in
which haunting, even mythic forms hover on the edge of being identified but remain firmly planted in a world of abstraction and suggestivity and in which the power of the artist’s imagination renders his materials fresh, arresting, and strangely disturbing, as if they belonged to the world of dreams.

- Peter Pitzele Ph.D.

This exhibit was made possible by the efforts of Susan Barbash President, South Shore Restoration Group. More information on Deconstructive Forms and other works, can be found at Steven Ceraso’s website at www.stevenceraso.com

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