February 2012
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Reuben Lorch-Miller creates sculptures that resemble ancient remains and ritual objects. He is inspired by traditional Mayan ceramic art, Modernist sculpture and notions of alchemy and magic. Lorch-Miller recently completed a residency at Rocksbox Contemporary Fine Art in Portland, Oregon during which he constructed an outdoor kiln in order to fire unique ceramic pieces. Lorch-Miller earned his...
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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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