Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Becky Kolsrud @ JTT opens September 7th, 6-8pm
JTT
170a SUFFOLK STREET
170a SUFFOLK STREET
NEW YORK NY 10002
Becky Kolsrud
September 8 - October 21, 2012
Opening Reception: September 7th, 6 to 8pm
Floor Routine @ BOEDEGA opens September 7th, 2012
Floor Routine
Ethan Cook
John Roebas
Maria Walker
September 7 - October 21
Opening September 7, 6 - 9pm
Bodega is happy to present a collection of work by Ethan Cook, John Roebas and Maria Walker on view from September 7 to October 21.
Ethan Cook
John Roebas
Maria Walker
September 7 - October 21
Opening September 7, 6 - 9pm
Bodega is happy to present a collection of work by Ethan Cook, John Roebas and Maria Walker on view from September 7 to October 21.
SEBASTIAN BLACK @ THE NATIONAL EXEMPLAR opens WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2012
.png)
The National Exemplar, 381 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Sept 5th - October 14th
Opening Wednesday, Sept 5th 6 - 8pm
I heard a story about how El Lissitzky once painted a large suprematist-y billboard and displayed it outside of a factory in Vitebsk. I've never seen it but I imagine it had some shapes, some colors, the whole deal really. They say Lissitzky’s intention was to activate some leftist rumblings amongst the workers there, but that he didn’t quite hit his mark. I guess the gesture must have involved a kind of faith in the power of aesthetic forms to engender new social formations...
Lissitzky bumped into a foundational paradox of the aesthetic vis-a-vis praxis: that it be both autonomous AND inextricable from the socio-political conditions in which it arrives. Not incidentally the history of modern art is formulated as a series of repeated bumpings-into.
These days such encounters are made into useful signs themselves. They comprise a valuable shorthand that can inspire pathos and sell paintings (see this press release). People even say that this "making sign" of historical avant-gardes is one convention of contemporary art (and of image production generally).
Funnily enough, another convention consists of divorcing signs from their original or intended meanings and referents. People call this one “abstraction”. These complementary conventions constitute a kind of kombucha dialectic wherein a historical avant-garde as hypostatized membrane is seemingly at odds with the proliferation of flavorful abstractions in which it stews.
For better or for worse these paintings, which are called Period Pieces, imagine a vanishing point for these trajectories.
Sebastian Black
2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Martin Soto Climent: I MISS MY THREAD @ Karma International opens August 31st, 2012
Martin Soto Climent
I MISS MY THREAD
1 September - 30 September 2012
Opening reception - 31 August 2012, 6-8 pm
Karma International
Hönggerstrasse 40
CH - 8037 Zürich
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Anya Kielar: WOMEN opens Sunday, September 9th @ Rachel Uffner
Anya Kielar: WOMEN
September 9 - October 21, 2012
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 9, 6-8 pm
Monday, August 27, 2012
PRIMARY @ NUDASHANK, BALTIMORE
Katie Bell
Stacy Fisher
Joanne Greenbaum
Claire Grill
Fabienne Laserre
Lauren Luloff
Lauren Luloff
Katie Bell
Tatiana Berg
Susan Bricker
Stacy Fisher
Amanda B. Friedman
Joanne Greenbaum
Clare Grill
Fabienne Lasserre
Lauren Luloff
Elisa Soliven
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Did You See Heaven: WYSIWYG at PEREGRINEPROGRAM opens September 2nd
Did You See Heaven: WYSIWYG
McKeever Donovan
Susanne Doremus
Susanne Doremus
Ron Ewert
Richard Galling
Antonia Gurkovska
Oliver Henry
Sofia Leiby
Josh Reames
Ezara Spangl
Richard Galling
Antonia Gurkovska
Oliver Henry
Sofia Leiby
Josh Reames
Ezara Spangl
Opening Sunday, Sep 2, 4-7 p.m.
Exhibition runs through Sep 30, 2012.
PEREGRINEPROGRAM
3311 W Carroll Ave. #119
Chicago, IL 60624
www.peregrineprogram.com
Exhibition runs through Sep 30, 2012.
PEREGRINEPROGRAM
3311 W Carroll Ave. #119
Chicago, IL 60624
www.peregrineprogram.com
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
