May 2013
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Yuki Kimura’s most recent installations derive from and incorporate found and original photographs. Kimura disrupts typical artistic categories, such as photography and sculpture, by employing photographic images, primarily of domestic spaces, to create sculptural and immersive environments that explore the often complex relationship between images, perception, memory and temporality. Kimura...
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RECOMMENDED: Garrett Pruter’s solo exhibition INTERIORS currently on view at Charles Bank Gallery (196 Bowery, NYC) through May 26th.
Garrett Pruter focuses on re-purposing found 20th-century film negatives through various subtractive processes. Exploring nostalgia, entropy, and mnemonic frailty, he investigates images of interior space as a constructed personal and reflective...
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The simplicity of Sebastian Black’s works add to the physical and conceptual richness of the objects themselves, as well as the general vernacular of painting. His seemingly reserved paintings reference modernist art historical precedents, giving his work subtle, yet tangible complexity. Recent solo and two-person shows include ”__________.” (with Robin Cameron), Bodega,...
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Nick Paparone functions within the systems of mass culture and the marketplace in order to satirize and expose their inner-workings. Employing a variety of media from video, installation, and performance, the artist states that his work “is slathered with evolving iterations that anatomize branding idioms and client dynamics.”
Paparone’s work has been performed and exhibited at ...
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Trudy Benson’s most recent paintings are heavily influenced by early graphics programs such as Microsoft Paint. For Benson, painting has everything to do with surface as a viscose, sculptural material and color as a mutable component. Her contemporary painting vocabulary incorporates digital imaging techniques as well as historical painting tropes.
Trudy Benson was born in Richmond, VA, and...
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Elena Bajo’s practice is concerned with the social and political dimensions of everyday spaces, strategies of resistance, and the poetics of ideologies. She works individually and collectively in a variety of media including installation, sculpture, painting, performance, participatory events, film, and writing. Bajo currently has a solo exhibition La Femme Radicale or The Point of no...
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Irina Rozovsky’s photography work has been published and exhibited in the United States and abroad. Her first solo museum exhibition A Perpetual Hold is on display at the Southeast Museum of Photography through May 2013. Rozovsky received her MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and teaches at the International Center of Photography. Rozovsky says...
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Alice Channer lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Invertebrates at the Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK and Cold Blood at Lisa Cooley, NY. She will present a solo show at the Kunstverein Freiburg in the Fall of 2013, and will be included in the 55th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace. Channer completed a BA...
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Katie Bell is interested in the way materials and surfaces associated with the home—such as linoleum, wallpaper, and carpet—relate to abstract painting, as well as how the process of building can relate to constructing a painting. Bell has shown her work at venues including Mixed Greens Gallery in New York, Nudashank in Baltimore, PLUG Projects in Kansas City, and Okay Mountain Gallery...
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Grayson Cox is a New York City-based artist working in a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, photography, and furniture-like sculpture. Cox is the recent recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic innovation and collaboration grant, and has exhibited in New York and internationally internationally including the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland and Bezalel...
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Alexandra Gorczynski’s work emerges from an ongoing pursuit to form an identity for herself amidst a codependent relationship with the Internet. In her efforts to exist in two spaces at once, a feedback loop is created in which her digital and physical reality coexist and support one other. Gorczynski holds a BFA in Painting from RISD. Her recent solo show, Truisms, was presented at Transfer...
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Brad Troemel’s Etsy store plays on the difference between idealized images and their physical manifestations, advertising a series of objects prone to decay to be shipped through the USPS. Troemel’s buyers determine the course of what among the products becomes physical and what remains a digital hypothetical. Troemel also buys objects through the black market site The Silk Road and...
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Eyes as Big as Plates is an ongoing body of work by Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth. The two artists met during a residency in Sandnes, Norway in 2011, where the first part of their photographic series was produced in collaboration with local senior citizens. The project later continued in Ikonen’s home town of Pohjois-Karjala, Finland, and has since continued in New York City with the support...
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Conor Backman recently moved to New York City from Richmond, VA where he was co-owner of Reference Art Gallery from 2009-2012. His work is currently on view in a solo show at Nudashank in Baltimore, and group exhibitions at Stadium and NurtureArt in New York. Backman’s first solo show in New York will open this fall at Mixed Greens. He received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. ...
