February 2012
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RECOMMENDED: Named after a zine published fifty years ago by Ettore Scottsass, Room East is a new gallery located at 41 Orchard Street. Its inaugural group exhibition, Ruins in Reverse, runs through March 4, 2012, and features new sculpture and painting by Ethan Breckenridge, David Brooks, Zipora Fried, Emily Henretta, Wyatt Kahn, Zak Kitnick, Erik Lindman, David Scanavino, Erin Shirreff, and Nick...
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Julia Oldham creates video art in which she dramatizes scientific and mechanical systems and theories. She is interested in the sensual aspects of scientific ideas, and searches to inject emotion and humor into the realm of science. Oldham received her MFA from the University of Chicago.
Julia Oldham, Weighing the Earth (still), 2010, video. In collaboration with physicist Eric Corwin.
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Paul Clipson is a filmmaker whose work combines densely layered, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstracted environments with a process that encourages chance results. Joshua Churchill creates immersive site-specific sound and light work that blurs the line between installation and performance. Together these two San Francisco-based artists collaborate to produce film and sound...
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Copenhagen-based artist Nanna Debois Buhl’s conceptual works juxtapose original materials (film, photographs, and drawings) with archival and found footage in order to place her personal history alongside history at large. Buhl has recently shown at the Geologisk Museum in Copenhagen and Bureau Gallery in New York, and her work is included in the public collections of The National Museum of...
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RECOMMENDED: Joseph Montgomery’s Velveteen, on view at Laurel Gitlen (261 Broome St) through February 19, 2012. Often compared to Kurt Schwitters’ assemblages, Montgomery’s constructed wall reliefs are comprised of materials such as clay, canvas, oil, sheet metal, paper, and plastic. Newer developments in the artist’s practice include large cedar shim sculptures measuring almost ten...
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Incorporating performance with photography, video, and sculpture, Bryan Zanisnik’s installations explore issues of aging and decay, masculinity, and the family. His recent projects include the site-specific installation and performance piece, Rawling Hall, during which the artist’s parents pelt him with ice cubes in a scene composed of cardboard, clocks, kitchen supplies, and domestic...
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In his sculptures, installations, drawings and videos, Marc Swanson explores overt conceptual and material dualities, such as urban and rural, masculine and feminine, and the personal and mythic. Putting the issues of camp, nostalgia and sentimentality at the forefront of his practice, he synthesizes these supposedly oppositional relationships to challenge conventional definitions and hierarchies....
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RECOMMENDED: Brooklyn-born artist Joyce Pensato’s exhibition Batman Returns is currently on view at Friedrich Petzel Gallery (537 West 22nd Street) through February 25th. The installation resurrects the Batman motif used in the artist’s early paintings, accompanied by other familiar pop culture characters. Pensato’s bold, gestural work illuminates the darker, more sinister side...
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Marie Lorenz is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and installation artist. Her ongoing project, The Tide and Current Taxi, involves ferrying passengers throughout New York City in a handmade boat. Lorenz earned her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University and has exhibited her work widely, including Locust Projects (Miami), The Glass Pavilion (Berlin), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham UK), and Artists Space.
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January 2012
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Rob Swainston merges traditional printmaking processes such as lithography, woodcut, and silkscreen, with digital photography, sculpture, painting, drawing and video. Constantly rebuilding and reassembling his work while adding new components and destroying old ones, he sees his artistic process as an analogy for how the social world is constructed. Swainston’s work has been recently shown...
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Drawn to discarded materials imbued with a certain history, New York-based artist Emily Henretta constructs sculptural installations that are neither entirely of the past or of the future. Henretta recently received her MFA from Columbia University, as well as the Toby Award, Leroy Neiman Fellowship in Printmaking, and the Emily Fisher Landau Fellowship.
Emily Henretta, Polarization Layers, Model...
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Christian de Vietri is an Australian-born and New York-based artist working in sculpture. Employing 3D animation and digital design, he engages recognizable icons, shared mythology and common imagery as a way to think about meeting space in the collective imaginary. De Vietri’s work has been exhibited internationally at Art Basel Miami, the Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, the Museum of...
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The Spaniard and the Hudson Eel is the first artistic collaboration between Keith Connolly, Ethan Ham, and Tom Thayer. Keith Connolly is a founding member of The No-Neck Blues Band (NNCK), a seven piece improvised music collective based in New York for the past 15 years. Ethan Ham is a visual artist and former game developer who teaches New Media at the City College of New York. Tom Thayer’s work...
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Michael DeLucia currently works in sculpture, drawing, and relief panels modeled with 3D computer software. These objects, digitally designed and mechanically painted with geometric patterns, reevaluate sculptural phenomenology. Michael received his MFA from Royal College of Art, London, and a BFA from RISD. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Luce Gallery (Torino) and Eleven Rivington...
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