Miriam Cabessa accentuates time through disciplined, measured, manual movements using her body as fine-tuned instrument resulting in organic mark making.   Upon first glance, the efforts recall computer generated or technologically produced algorithms however further investigations evidence the hand of the artist.  Miriam embraces the idea of a gesture and the resulting works pay homage to possessing and passing of time. 

 Through a single continuous gesture and controlled breathing, Miriam Cabessa employs a subtractive method of moving the paint by using her body like a machine to slowly drag manipulated fabric over the linen surface resulting in a rhythmic pattern of translucent peaks and dips.  The entire process is a painting performance piece that encapsulates vigorously meditative movements.  The final work is a confined moment in time.

Miriam Cabessa has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in the US and Israel.  She had a solo show in the Tel Aviv Museum in 1995, represented Israel in the 1997 Venice Biennale, and exhibited at the American Jewish Museum in Pittsburgh in 2007. Her work is in the collections of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Tel Aviv Museum, and the Haifa Museum of Modern Art. She was born in Casablanca, Morocco and moved to Israel with her family when she was three years old, and she currently lives and works in New York.Miriam Cabessa accentuates time through disciplined, measured, manual movements using her body as fine-tuned instrument resulting in organic mark making.   Upon first glance, the efforts recall computer generated or technologically produced algorithms however further investigations evidence the hand of the artist.  Miriam embraces the idea of a gesture and the resulting works pay homage to possessing and passing of time. 

 Through a single continuous gesture and controlled breathing, Miriam Cabessa employs a subtractive method of moving the paint by using her body like a machine to slowly drag manipulated fabric over the linen surface resulting in a rhythmic pattern of translucent peaks and dips.  The entire process is a painting performance piece that encapsulates vigorously meditative movements.  The final work is a confined moment in time.

Miriam Cabessa has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in the US and Israel.  She had a solo show in the Tel Aviv Museum in 1995, represented Israel in the 1997 Venice Biennale, and exhibited at the American Jewish Museum in Pittsburgh in 2007. Her work is in the collections of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Tel Aviv Museum, and the Haifa Museum of Modern Art. She was born in Casablanca, Morocco and moved to Israel with her family when she was three years old, and she currently lives and works in New York.

Miriam Cabessa was born in Casablanca, Morocco and raised in Israel. She lives and works in New York City, and has since 2000. She has shown in Israel, Europe, and the United States. Some of her selected shows include:

·Representing Israel in the Venice Biennale, 1997, Venice, Italy

·Winning the Nathan Gottesdiener Prize of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as having a one-person show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1995

·Showing at galleries in Chelsea, including Stefan Stux, Valerie McKenzie, Jeffrey Coploff, Moti Hasson, Vered Gallery of East Hampton, and Slate Gallery of Brooklyn

·Permanent collections of the Jerusalem Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Haifa Museum

·Various private collections in Israel, Europe, and the US

 Miriam Cabessa’s paintings are made using the movement of her body, her hands, pieces of fabric, and the rhythm of her breathing to create the work.

The surface of the painting becomes sensitive to her touch, which makes the relationship between the art and the artist very intimate; it becomes a feminine abstract. Cabessa’s paintings are stark, in-focus abstract explorations of her own isoelectric line and heartbeat, traces of movement that emerge from stillness.

Cabessa is currently involved with several projects based in New York City, the Hamptons, and Texas, as well as Milan, Italy and Tel Aviv, Israel. In January of 2007, Miriam was featured in an Israeli documentary film called Dreamers featuring nine Israelis living in the US: artists, fashion designers, and movie producers among them.

About the Gallery

Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery aims to discover and champion contemporary artists who bring fresh interpretative visions to their genre. Our focus is on Representational artists whose insight to form and color is buttressed by the iconography and conceptual context of the work. It is our intention to continue our stewardship of younger artists and to serve as an important exhibition venue for the development of their vision and careers.

www.lyonswierortt.com

Tim Knowles and Pe Lang + Zimoun
Unpredictable Forms of Sound and Motion
United States premiere of the Tim Knowles Walk series
New York debut of Pe Lang + Zimoun

Unpredictable Forms of Sound and Motion engages creative contemporary perspectives on
automated systems, performance, and sculpture. Curated by Steve Sacks.

Tim Knowles and Pe Lang + Zimoun
January 24, 2009 – March 7, 2009
bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th Street, NYC
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Opening Reception: Sat. Jan 24, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition with artists Tim Knowles (b. 1969,
United Kingdom) and duo Pe Lang (b. 1974, Switzerland) and Zimoun (b. 1977, Switzerland).
With several works making their international premiere, three Untitled Sound Objects by Pe Lang
+ Zimoun will be part of the exhibit, along with photography, video and sculpture from the Tim
Knowles “Walk” series.

Attracted to natural materials such as trees, moonlight, water, and geo-data, artist Tim Knowles
uses cameras and drawing to reveal the hidden, or otherwise unnoticed motion of objects. For
example, Knowles’ Postal Drawings are created en route from the artist’s studio to its final
destination and capture the commonplace movements within a global tide of transfer points.
Likewise exploring the interlaced spaces of earthwork, landscape and Fluxus systems, his works
from the Windwalks and Nightwalks series engage the artist’s capricious wanderings.

Nightwalk–Valley of Rocks is a series of illuminated walks that Knowles created in Devon during a
new moon and captured using an extended exposure photograph. Over a period of about one
hour in these pieces, the artist walks away from a tripod-mounted camera while carrying very
powerful flashlights illuminating his path along a rocky ridge in the darkness. Invoking Plato’s
allegory of the cave, a pathway of ghostly travelers shines inside an electrified landscape.

Knowles’ Windwalk–5 walks from Charing Cross is a sequence of performances guided solely by
the wind. Playfully exploring drawing and narrative, the artist used a helmet-mounted wind vane
for direction and traced his steps with a GPS device. Originating from the geographic center of
London in this piece, nocturnal city life is revealed through video documentation. Examining the
human mark and control of territory, the piece takes a sharp absurdist jab at the effectiveness of
modern tools in time of conflict. Executed in the early hours of the morning and guided by a set of
self-authored rules, unpredictable events unfold and Knowles’ route becomes increasingly chaotic and
indecisive. Whirling currents bouncing off buildings lead the artist into virtual wind cul-de-sacs of
littered plastic bags and swirling leaves with no escape until the wind once again changes its direction.

Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared repetitive systems, the sculptures of Pe Lang
+ Zimoun incorporate commonplace industrial objects. Pieces in their Untitled Sound Objects
series transform constructed acoustic and electrical noises into reverberating ambient hums that
resemble natural systems. Visually activated by a cyclical form that is entirely composed of
manufactured materials, Untitled Sound Objects - 100 Prepared DC Motors and Chains in
Wooden Type Cases aurally resonates in way that is similar to rushing water, rain or a gust of
wind through a long tunnel. Also affixed to the gallery wall, Untitled Sound Objects - 400
Prepared Vibration Motors in Wooden Type Cases features a white minimalist grid that contain
spinning metal and rubber components. A third sculpture, Untitled Sound Objects - 49 Prepared
Vibration Motors generates a subtly shifting buzz of electrical feedback from bobbling black nubs
at the ends of red and blue dangling wires.

Biography – Tim Knowles
The creative practice of Tim Knowles incorporates chance operations and performance into his
mark making. Elements of form are open to mechanisms or phenomena beyond the artist’s
control–seeking to reveal the hidden, or otherwise unnoticed motion of objects such as the path
drawn by the full moon’s reflection on undulating water or the intricate movement of a parcel
traveling through the postal system. Tim Knowles has been featured in numerous solo and
group exhibitions throughout Europe including the Generali Foundation, Vienna; Economist Plaza,
London; Rokeby Gallery, London; Artissima, Torino; Plymouth Arts Centre, UK; Hayward Gallery,
London; Bloomberg Space, London; Hull Time Based Arts, Hull; Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana; Essor
Gallery, London; Comune di Codogno, Italy; and Zero, Italy. The second of two unique Royal
Mail collaborations with Royal Mail will be completed shortly. His awards include grants from
South West Arts, the British Council in Rome and a residency with Makrolab [Artscatalyst] Art and
Science Research.

Biography – Pe Lang + Zimoun
Swiss artists Pe Lang + Zimoun have been collaborating since 2004 creating the “Untitled Sound
Objects” which are presented as sound installations and also as live performances with audio
and visual components. They have been featured in numerous solo and group shows as well as
performances throughout Europe, Asia, and North America including the Gosia Koscielak Gallery,
Chicago; Elektroni[k] Festival, Rennes; Marks Blond Project, Bern; Espacio Menosuno, Madrid;
Die Schachtel, Milan; Artis Gallery, Büren; Stadtgalerie, Bern; Leerraum [ ], Bern; Kunstraum,
Aarau; Sonic Acts XII, Amsterdam; ISEA, Singapore; Nemo Festival, Paris; The Netherlands Media
Art Institute, Amsterdam; Volksystem, Toulouse; Cybersonica 06, London; Intersonar, Freiberg;
Elektra Festival, Montreal; tag <>, Den Haag; Blurred Edges Festival, Hamburg; Melkweg,
Amsterdam; Ausland, Berlin; Monkey Town, New York; and Dissonanze Festival, Rome.
Recently, they were awarded a Sitemapping/Mediaprojects award from the Bundesamt für Kultur
in Switzerland in 2008 as well as numerous individual awards and residencies.

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Interflow presents recent painting and mixed media works on paper by New York-based artist Emna Zghal. Color and line continually search for boundaries they never find. Forms emerge to take on shapes that feel simultaneously familiar and foreign. Though the canvas fights to act as a boundary, poetic lines overflow into infinite space. Each mark acts in unison with the next to challenge the seemingly simple nature of line itself. Emna Zghal’s artwork elicits a never-ending network of nerves pulsing with colorful abstractions and an energy that suggests organic patterns in a continual search for form.

Emna Zghal is a Tunisian-born U.S. based visual artist. She was trained in
both countries and exhibits widely. Her work is in many noted public
collections such as The New York Public Library, Yale University, and The
Museum For African Art in New York. Reviews of her work appeared in The New
Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum.com, and ARTnews, among others.
Additional distinctions include fellowship residencies from the MacDowell
Colony, the Women’s Studio Workshop, the Newark Art Museum, and the Cité
Internationale Des Arts in Paris. She is one of Creative Capital Foundation
2008 grantees.

Emna Zghal: Interflow was organized by the Museum for African Art, New York.

Jon Burgerman & Jim Avignon
Anxiety Room
featuring “Anxiety Broom” Opening Night Painting Performance
with Jon and Jim

Opening night is Thursday, February 12 from 6pm -10pm

Jon Burgerman flies across the pond to collaborate with his friend Jim Avignon
and fill the gallery with many drawings and paintings of their beloved characters. It will
be a space to relieve your anxieties, or
perhaps further incubate them.

jonburgerman.com
jimavignon.com

Show runs till March 15, 2009

Jon Burgerman:
The Nottingham-based artist is the designer of a series of figurines for Kidrobot, creator of the visually stunning book Pens Are My Friends, and the source of inspiration for innumerable tattoos. Dazed & Confused magazine has described Burgerman’s vibrant, labyrinthine images as “Walt Disney at an Incan monument on mescaline”, and he would like everyone to know he is not just another pretty face.
www.jonburgerman.com

Jim Avignon:
Unpredictable and sensational, Jim Avignon has become a pop-icon in fewer than 15 years, defying the rules
of the art market and delivering his crisp, Technicolor works directly to the people. Avignon is the author and illustrator of the Attack Delay series, founder of the one-man-techno-band Neoangin, subject of numerous television documentaries, and a wild and untamed thing. He resides in both Berlin and New York City.
www.jimavignon.com

A more sedate exhibition than I’ve seen at Honey Space but the work is beautiful.
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Honey Space
146 11t5h Ave. (btw 21st & 22nd)
Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 11-6

Honey Space is pleased to present Tiberius, an exhibition of new photography by Chadwick Tyler. For his first gallery exhibition, Tyler has created a series of large-format black & white photographic portraits depicting an array of stylized female characters in a bleak and solitary space. With a cast of fifty-two models, including several of the most recognizable faces in contemporary high fashion, alongside unknown girls, models who had major careers in the 90’s, and one man in drag, Tiberius invokes the conventions of classic portraiture and cinematic representations of the tragic heroine, filtered through an individual approach that renders the classic and antiquated fresh and contemporary. With strong visual references to looks spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and informed by the pictorial aesthetics of that era, ranging from amateur and classical portraiture to Dorothea Lange’s Dust Bowl imagery, Tiberius is built upon an uneasy suspension of rarified beauty and grimy dejection. Beyond superficial qualities, what rises to the surface in each of these images is a state of being: transcendence, rage, ecstasy, hysteria, confusion, lethargy, exhaustion, lament, abjection, resignation. Emerging from the series as a whole is a sort of lexicon of unexplained broken beauty.

For the images in Tiberius, Tyler shot each model in the same dirty, outdoor space, with stark and consistent overhead lighting. An intense sense of solitude underscores the images, and mortality, suggested by the overhead light, seems always to be stalking from the periphery of the frames. As Tyler created Tiberius, the incidental remnants of each shoot were left for the next, so that over time the setting of the images itself evidenced a memory of the story he was composing. Most significantly, this recessive space provided a context where Tyler and the models could interact without preconditions: through emotional openness with his subject rather than direction, he allows the resultant qualities of being to emerge from within the models, rather than through enforced representation. This improvised approach, and Tyler’s ability to draw out qualities of being from his models, are among his signature achievements.

The images in Tiberius, ranging in size from 3″ x 5″ to 4′ by 6′, are printed on archival cotton rag paper and presented in antique, gilded frames hand-painted by the artist. The gallery has been transformed for the exhibition, with the images hung in a classical salon-style in a clean, sanctified space. After passing through a low, stooped entryway, viewers enter an interior space that opens and expands, creating the sensation of both an intimate, private realm, while maintaining the gallery’s condition as an extension of the public space. As a viewer stands in this room, the conditions of time and location are shifted, framing this story of indefinite origin.

Chadwick Tyler (b. 1975) was raised in the small town of Valrico, Florida, and held brief careers in art direction and corporate advertising before turning to women’s fashion photography in 2005. His images have since appeared in long list of well-known magazines, including: V, Exit, Tank, The Last Magazine, Joy Quarterly, Plastique, Qvest, Mirage, Elle & Nylon. Chadwick Tyler currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Tiberius is his first gallery exhibition.

for additional information and images, please contact info@honey-space.com

“Delineations” (in the front gallery)

Ad Hoc Art is proud to present “Delineations”: a collection of drawings and illustrations from a diverse group of international artists. Drawing has been and will always be a fundamental part of the art-making process. Starting as far back as the 1400’s, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo, and Raphael used drawing as not only a starting point but as a way to communicate things which could not be accomplished in any other medium. Fast forward to the 1900’s as artists such as Max Beckmann, Jean Dubuffet, Arshile Gorky, M. C. Escher, André Masson, and Pablo Picasso not only continued this serious examination of drawing as fine art, but took it to incredible new places through their creativity and talent. In more recent times artists such as Marcel Dzama, R. Crumb, Dan Clowes, Joe Sacco, Yoshitomo Nara, and Julie Doucet (among many, many others) again redefined how we look at drawing as not only a means to an end but an important and impressive end in itself. Continuing with this amazing tradition, we present to you a new generation of drawers and illustrators who hope to not only add to this amazing lineage of artists but to also find ways to reinvent and reinterpret how drawing can be used to communicate and enlighten.
January 16th through February 15th 2009

Know Hope (in the project room)

“The Insecurities of Time”
Know Hope
solo exhibition
For the past 4 years, Know Hope has been showing his work in galleries and exhibitions worldwide, but most of his work has been on the streets, in their natural urban settings. Know Hope deals with the ephemeral aspect of street art not only as a genre in itself, but also as a subject, exploring the need of momentary connections in everyday reality, and the common denominator that is the human struggle.
Know Hope’s recent work has been revolving around the story of an unnamed figure, following it and creating some sort of lifeline through its observations, mishaps and eventually its commentary. The figure is the visual manifestation of the human vulnerability addressed in all the pieces. The use of cardboard makes the content of the pieces physical, underlining the urgency of creating temporary art for the street, and the liability and rough fragility of the struggle.
January 16th through February 15th 2009

Meliss Murray (in the alcove)

“A Sequence of Images”
Melissa Murray
solo exhibition
In her recent body of work, intensively completed over a 6-month period, Melissa Murray lends her skills as a trained painter to a dramatic series of new drawings. The surreal imagery is taken from an extensive documentation of dreams and an exploration of metaphors, creating a vivid storyline of intense life experiences.
January 16th through February 15th 2009

Opening Reception Jan 22nd 2009
5-7pm 11th Fl

Jock McDonald, born in Vancouver, Canada in 1961, opened his commercial photography and film studio in San Francisco in 1986. He is a self-taught photographer whose work –both in black-and-white and color– has achieved national and international critical acclaim for its distinctive use of wit, humor, pathos, and qualities of mystery. McDonald’s celebrity portraiture and his depictions of rural life in America, Europe, and Asia have been widely published and exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including exhibitions in the U.S., Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, and Cuba co-sponsored by the Mexican, Canadian, U.S., Cuban, and former Eastern European Soviet governments.

www.jockmcdonald.com

http://www.jackshainman.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=107

Winter Landscape
Dec 19-Jan 31
ASS Gallery
45 Canal St
Huang Xi interprets Caspar Friedrich’s Winter Landscape With Church (1811), by transforming a storefront window to replicate blizzard conditions. The installation is visible 24 hours a day through a peep hole, and at night the light turns pink, rendering neighboring Chinatown a festive red-light district.
Postcards from the Edge, A Benefit for Visual AIDS
Sat, Jan 10, 11 am-7 pm
Metro Pictures, 519 W 24th St
Over 1500 original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists are available for $75 each. All proceeds support the work of Visual AIDS, utilizing contemporary art for AIDS advocacy and historicizing the work of HIV-positive artists while offering career support.
Artist of the Month Club
The Artist of the Month Club is an edition project that was launched in Miami to introduce chance into the act of collecting. Each month for one year, a different curator works with an artist to create a project for the subscribers. Each piece will be produced in an edition of 50 and will be accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. Among those involved with the project include Shamim Momin, Matthew Higgs and Lia Gangitano. Members of the YCC receive one month free when they join the Club, under the special offer to. To redeem this special offer, enter the promotion code YCC4AMC into the Google checkout.

Noteworthy Listings

Chelsea/Uptown
303 Gallery, 525 W 22nd St
Jan 10-Feb 21: Mary’s Choice (Group exhibition curated by Mary Heilmann)
Jan 10-Feb 21: Mary Heilmann
Massimo Audiello, 526 W 26th St
Jan 8-Feb 28: Alison Brady
Bellwether, 134 10th Ave
Jan 22-Feb 21: Alyssa Phoebus
Peter Blum, 526 West 29th St
Jan 24-Mar 14: Micol Assaël, Manuel Graf, Tue Greenfort, Michael Sailstorfer, and Tatiana Trouvé
Marianne Boesky Gallery, 509 W 24th St 
Jan 10-Feb 14: Jesse Chapman
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 W 21st St
Jan 15-Feb 21: Charles Long / Dirk Stewart
Bose Pacia, 508 W 26th St, 11th Floor
Jan 9-Feb 7: Guari Gill The Americans
Mary Boone, 541 W 24th St
Jan 8-Feb 14: Imi Knoebel
Mary Boone, 745 Fifth Ave
Jan 7-Feb 14: Patricia Coffie
Bortolami, 510 W 25th St 
Jan 8-Feb 14: Richard Aldrich
John Connelly Presents, 625 W 27th St 
Dec 16-Jan 10: Justin Samson
Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21st St 
Jan 8-Feb 7: Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice organized by Bob Nickas
Paula Cooper Gallery, 465 West 23rd St 
Jan 17-Feb 14: Photographs by Peter Moore
CRG Gallery, 535 W 22nd St
Dec 12-Jan 31: O Zhang
Elizabeth Dee, 545 West 20th St
17 Jan-21 Feb: Derek Jarman: Early Films (Super 8MM)
Derek Eller, 615 W 27th St 
January 16-Feb 21: Peter Caine, Per Enoksson
Zach Feuer Gallery, 530 W 24th St 
Dec 11-Jan 24: Nathalie Djurberg
Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Ave, 
Jan 20-Mar 7: Alec Soth
Gagosian Gallery, 555 W 24th St
Jan 24-Mar 21: Piero Manzoni
Gagosian Gallery, 522 W 21st St 
Nov 6-Mar 7: Hiroshi Sugimoto
Gladstone Gallery, 515 W 24th St
Jan 23-Feb 22: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 W 57th St 
Jan 15-Feb 21: Lawrence Weiner
Greenberg Van Doren, 730 5th Ave
Jan 8-Feb 14: Eva Lundsager
Stellan Holm Gallery, 524 W 24th St
Jan 31-Feb 28: Brendan Cass
Casey Kaplan, 525 W 21st St 
Jan 8-Feb 7: Anya Kielar, Yuko Murata, Lecia Dole-Recio
Sean Kelly Gallery, 528 W 29th St
Dec 13-Jan 31: Ressonacia, Resonance, Resonanz (Group Show)
Anton Kern Gallery, 532 W 20th St
Jan 8-Feb 7: Anne-Lise Coste, Araki
Andrew Kreps Gallery, 525 W 22nd St
Nov 21-Jan 10: Jan Mancuska
Nicole Klagsbrun, 526 W 26th St 
Dec 12-Jan 10: Organic Geometry (Group Show)
Yvon Lambert, 550 W 21st St
Jan 8-Feb 7: Robert Barry
Lombard - Freid Projects, 531 W 26th St (2nd floor) 
Jan 16-Feb 21: Out of Line (Group Show)
Luhring Augustine, 531 W 24th St
Jan 10-Feb 7: Luisa Lambri
Metro Pictures, 519 W 24th St 
Jan 17-Feb 21: David Maljkovic
Sara Meltzer, 525-531 W 26th St
Jan 8-Feb 14: Peter Rostovsky
Robert Miller Gallery, 524 W 26th St
Jan 8-Feb 7: Paul Miller
Pace Wildenstein, 32 E 57th St 
Dec 12-Jan 24: Ad Reinhardt & Tony Smith
Pace Wildenstein, 534 W 25th St 
Dec 11-Feb 7: Jim Dine
Pace Wildenstein, 545 W 22nd St 
Jan 23-Feb 28: Robert Irwin
Friedrich Petzel, 537 W 22nd St
Nov 21-Jan 24: Dana Hoey
Postmasters, 459 W 19th St
Nov 22-Jan 10: Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Max Protetch, 511 W 22nd St 
Jan: Zach Harris
Perry Rubenstein, 527 W 23rd St 
Dec 11-Jan 17: Daniel Rich
Perry Rubenstein, 534 W 24th St
Dec 11-Jan 17: Peter Callesen
Yancey Richardson, 535 W 22nd St
Dec 11-Jan 31: David Hilliard
Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 W 24th St
Dec 12-Jan 31: Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Julie Saul Gallery, 535 W 22nd St
Jan 8-Feb 28: Neeta Madahar & Christopher Russell
Jack Shainman, 513 W 20th St
Jan 8-Feb 7: Nick Cave
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 530 W 22nd St 
Jan 17-Feb 21: Mark Handelman; David Schutter
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 535 W 22nd St
Jan 10-Feb 21: Tracey Baran
David Zwirner, 525/519/533 W 19th St 
Jan 8-Feb 14: Fred Sandback
Jan 14-Feb 14: On Kawara
Soho/Downtown:
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 620 Greenwich St
Jan 17-Feb 21: Peter Doig
Lisa Cooley, 34 Orchard
Jan 14-Feb 22: Mark Barrow, Anthony Pearson, Blinky Palermo
Deitch Projects, 76 Grand St 
Jan 9-Jan 31: Liz Renay
Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster St 
Jan 9-Feb 28: Stephen Sprouse
Feature Inc., 276 Bowery 
Jan 15-Feb 15: Alex Brown Fodderland
James Fuentes, 35 St. James Pl
Jan 10-Feb 8: Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Latifa Echakhch
Guild & Greyshkul, 28 Wooster St 
Jan 3-Jan 31: Trenton Duerksen and Aaron King
Lehmann Maupin, 201 Chrystie St
Nov 6-Feb 21: Mr. Nobody Dies
Maccarone, 630 Greenwich St
Jan 10-Feb 21: Erik Van Lieshout
 
Rivington Arms, 4 East 2nd St
Dec 11- Jan 25: Uri Aran
Salon 94 Freemans, 1 Freeman Alley
Dec 11-Jan 24: Peter Dayton
Jan 29-Mar 9: Francesca DiMattio
Smith Stewart, 53 Stanton
Nov 21-Jan 18: Kate Gilmore
Team Gallery, 83 Grand St 
Jan 8-Feb 14: Gardar Eide Einarsson, Davis Rhodes & Stanley Whitney.

What is Giving Gallery?

Giving Gallery is a charity art auction and a tremendous display of the amazing talent and philanthropy we have at Ogilvy. We have collected over 60 pieces of art produced by our creative cohorts here at Ogilvy, as well as contributed works from celebrated artists beyond our red carpet.
Any of these works are now available to the highest (silent) bidder. The proceeds from the sale of all the art you see tonight will benefit Hartley House, a community welfare center of Hell’s Kitchen.
All the art will be displayed in the 8th floor hallway at 309 W49th St Worldwide Plaza building, where the bidding will continue for a week. Bidding will be open to all starting on Thursday, December 11 closing Friday December 19 at 4pm. So please enjoy the art and throughout the week, and place some bids too.

The Hartley House

Manhattan’s Westside teems with the variety of life that enriches us all. Since 1897, Hartley House has held firm to the belief that every individual can be a dynamic and productive member of the community.
More than one hundred years of accomplishment have built a relationship between Hartley House and the Hell’s Kitchen community that is deep, personal and strong. With the elderly, the working poor, the single parent, children and teens, with people of all races, ages, religions, classes and ethnic backgrounds, Hartley House joins forces to maintain the health and stability of our community.
Hartley House sponsors an After School Program, Family Day Care, Pied Piper Summer Day Camp, Alternative High School, after-school and evening tutoring, programs and services for seniors, GED and English classes, art classes, social service counseling and referrals, and other programs and activities for all ages.
Hartley House is an incorporated, tax-exempt social service agency. All contributions (including auction bids) are tax deductible.
www.hartleyhouse.org

Special thanks to all the artists who contributed their art to this beautiful cause.

Too Art for TV is an annual exhibition designed to promote and encourage the fine arts in the animation industry. We look for work that isn’t your typical animation fair, and we accept anybody who works in animation broadly. We believe that artists in the animation industry have extraordinary artistic skills and a unique perspective on pop culture at large. We hope to continue to provide a reliable home for animation’s creative minds otherwise “owned” by networks and studios.

We are a community, not-for-profit event and all applicants are selected by committee. Our committee members change year-to-year; they are artists in the animation industry who exemplify the theme and character of our show. This year’s committee members are: Kelly Denato, Todd Lown, Christy Karacas, Jared Deal, Justin Simonich, and Kim Rygiel. Liz Artinian founded the show, curates it, and invests her time, love, and money to support it.

Too Art for TV 3

New York’s 3rd Annual Fine Art Exhibit for the Animation Industry
Opening reception - Friday, December 5th, 6pm-9pm
December 5th through December 15th, 2008
at Erebuni 158 Roebling St. Williamsburg, NY 11211

For additional info: http://www.bunnycutlet.com/2A4TV

December 5th, 7-10PM
t.b.d. lounge
224 Franklin St., corner of Greene St.
G train to Greenpoint Ave.
rsvp to info@freshsurfaceart.com

For additional info: http://www.freshsurfaceart.com/

http://ogilvyart.com/art/?p=316 NOVEMBER 11th, 2008 Mikhail Sokovikov and Jason Aaron Wall: Industry Calling OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st 6 - 9pm RSVP@MINTANDSERF.COM Andy Warhol appropriated the everyday pop image into a work of art, added a new layer of meaning to the familiar, and conceded. Warhol and others of the Pop Art movement exposed our subconscious obsession with superficial surfaces. Slick [...]]]>

NOVEMBER 11th, 2008

Mikhail Sokovikov and Jason Aaron Wall: Industry Calling

OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st 6 - 9pm

RSVP@MINTANDSERF.COM

Andy Warhol appropriated the everyday pop image into a work of art, added a new layer of meaning to the familiar, and conceded. Warhol and others of the Pop Art movement exposed our subconscious obsession with superficial surfaces. Slick design, balanced color fields, and textures with 3-dimensional illusions are techniques that advertisers and artists use to captivate viewers. Today advertisers and artists continue to dig deep into what compels consumers visually. However, with the introduction of an educated consumer and heightened visual comprehension advertisers often create as if they are producing works of art.

Artists Mikhail Sokovikov and Jason Aaron Wall in their new series titled, Industry Calling, draw influences from advertising, consumerism, and capitalism. The large vinyl on Plexiglas collages contain bold primary colors that crisscross seamlessly across the surface. The result is a hypnotizing design that requires nothing more than a visceral reaction. The representations within the frames are recognized objects like tropical trees, graffiti elements, national flags, and classic fonts that homogenize the works against a rainbow-like palette.

The process for Sokovikov and Wall begin at their computers pulling countless images from the Internet then deconstructing them within Illustrator and Photoshop programs. The final composites printed on vinyl and then mounted to Plexiglas leave behind products that visually stimulate viewers like a commercial advertisement. The methodology and materials are identical to that of a advertising graphic designer. Mimicking the advertorial approaches that is seen in banners and signs throughout the city begin to blur lines between art and advertising. As Andy Warhol stated in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again): “Business art is the step that comes after Art. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.”

ABOUT MINT&SERF
Mikhail Sokovikov and Jason Aaron Wall are New York based visual artists. With financial backing from Red Bull N.A. they launched The Canal Chapter in 2005, a multi-disciplinary art gallery in SoHo that created a platform for many emerging artists including Ron Beach Jr., Harif Guzman, Adam Krueger, Alfredo Martinez,Lance de los Reyes, Jordan Seiler, and many more. After the success of The Canal Chapter, they launched The Stanton Chapter in May of 2008, a gallery in Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. Mikhail Sokovikov and Jason Aaron Wall have exhibited extensively through out United States and abroad. They have created commissioned work for Nike, Red Bull N.A. , Ogilvy New York, Adidas, Yahoo among other clients.

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