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Sunday, June 16

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Galleries

Howard Scott Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 7th Floor / +16464867004 / howardscottgallery.com
Tue - Sat 10:30am to 6pm
Howard Scott Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Perla Krauze Memory and traces
May 16 - Jun 22, 2013
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International Print Center New York
508 West 26th Street, 5th Floor / +12129895090 / ipcny.org
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
New Prints/ New Narratives: Summer 2013 selected by Andrew Raftery
Jun 13 - Aug 9, 2013
The exhibition consists of some fifty projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
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International Print Center New York presents New Prints/New Narratives: Summer 2013, consisting of some fifty projects by artists at all stages of their careers. The exhibition will be on view at 508 West 26th St, 5th Floor, from June 13, 2013 - August 9, 2013. New Prints/New Narratives: Summer 2013 is the forty-fifth presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY several times each season featuring prints made within the past year. The exhibition will run concurrently with a small selection of prints and artists’ books from the collaboration, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, which will be shown in the IPCNY Viewing Room.

Prints were selected by Andrew Raftery, an artist, engraver and print scholar, specializing in narrative scenes of American life. Born in 1962, he earned his BFA in painting from Boston University and his MFA in printmaking from Yale University. Raftery is a professor at Rhode Island School of Design and a faculty fellow at the RISD Museum. IPCNY received over 2,400 submissions from artists and presses worldwide, and out of this varied collection of work, he chose 55 works. An illustrated brochure with a curatorial essay by Andrew Raftery will accompany the exhibition.

The Artists’ List is as follows: Lynne Allen, Kathy Aoki, Miguel Aragon, Katie Baldwin, Kristin Becker, Mildred Beltre, Allison Bianco, Douglas Bick, Doug Bosely, Alice Leora Briggs, Veronica Ceci, Liz Chalfin, Ann Chernow, Nick Conbere, Madeline D’Aversa, Amze Emmons, Richard Falle, Leslie Golomb, Art Hazelwood, Ellen Heck, Marco Hernandez, Yuji Hiratsuka, Jill Ho-You, Erik Hougen, Cary Hulbert, Jon Irving, Hans Johansson, Gabriela Jolowicz, Mehrdad Khataei, Joyce Kozloff, Brian Kreydatus, Dinh Q. Lê, Jim Lee, Kate Logue, Joseph Lupo, Nicole Maloof, Michael Menchaca, Nathaniel Stern and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, Florent Morellet, Kurt Pammer, Ryan Parker, Ester Partegàs, Lynn Peterfreund, Kahlil Rintye, Jenny Robinson, Bill Salzillo, Hannah March Sanders, Jesse Shaw, Dan Steeves, Ivanco Talevski, Matthew Van Asselt, Art Werger, George Whitman, Michelle Wilson and Erin Woodbrey.

Presses and publishers represented are: Cascade Press (OH); Centre for Fine Print Research (UK); Center Street Studio (MA); Connecticut Fine Arts, Inc (CT); Flatbed Press (Texas); the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies; Columbia University (NYC); Marginal Editions (NYC); Morakeb-e Siah Institute of Fine Art (Iran), Mullowney Printing (CA), Philagraphika (PA); Rocinante Press (CA).

New Prints/New Narratives: Summer 2013 consists of etchings, lithographs, monotypes, screenprints, books and video, and other manifestations of the printmaking process. Highlights include Richard Falle’s Ice Cream Inferno, an inkjet print from original vector artwork created entirely in Adobe Illustrator and printed at the Center for Fine Print Research in the UK; Allison Bianco’s glow-in-the-dark intaglio and silkcreen piece, the Old Man of the Mountain; a 35-second animation, Storm in a Teacup 124, created from 124 unique monotypes by Lynn Peterfreund; and Nicholas Conbere’s detailed and dreamlike invented world, Finding Niches. This exhibition explores visual narrative and the powerful presence it has had in printmaking since its origins. The prints shown here reinvent this tradition for contemporary viewers, and were selected through careful observation of specific details and then arranged into narrative categories such as direct address, layered narrative, aftermath, layered time, and implied communication.

New Prints/New Narratives is a counterpart to Visualizing Time: Narrative Print/fron the National Academy.
J. Cacciola Gallery
537 W. 23rd St / +12124624646 / jcacciolagallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
J. Cacciola Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Valeri Larko, Trevor Young Exit the Freeway
May 30 - Jun 29, 2013
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Jack Shainman Gallery | 513 West 20th Street
513 West 20th Street / +12126451701 / jackshainman.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Jack Shainman Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Toyin Odutola My Country has No Name
May 16 - Jun 29, 2013
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Jack Shainman Gallery | 524 West 24th Street
524 West 24th Street / +12123373372 / jackshainman.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Jack Shainman Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact the gallery for more information.
Tim Bavington
May 16 - Jun 29, 2013
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Janet Borden, Inc.
560 Broadway #601 / +12124310166 / janetbordeninc.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 5pm
Martin Parr USA Color
May 16 - Jun 28, 2013
An important retrospective exhibition of photographs by renowned photographer, Martin Parr. All of these images have been taken in the USA.
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Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 West 27th Street / +12129890156 / baileygallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Jeff Bailey Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
MARK SHETABI THE GRAND TOUR
May 10 - Jun 22, 2013
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Jeff Bailey Gallery is pleased to present Mark Shetabi, The Grand Tour. In new paintings and sculpture, Shetabi explores ideas about travel, transition and escape.

Several sculptures of Campers serve as points of departure on this tour of relics. Their exteriors are neutral in color and the windows emit a soft, glowing light. Resting on cylinders, with no attachment to a car or a truck, they could be new or old, ready for use or abandoned. Their simplicity recalls early examples of modernist architecture or sculpture.

Another sculpture, Arcade, is a pared down version of a video game, circa 1980. Its outer form is like a shell, a repository for a technology that was once dazzling, now obsolete. Even so, the screen still gives off a faint light.

Girl on a Bicycle is a painting of a girl pedaling down a sun-dappled road - a moment of leisure drawn out in the slow time of painting. It is difficult to date the image, as the girl’s clothing might be from the 1950s, ‘80s, or even today. Caspian Sea Hyatt depicts the once chic lobby of a 1970s hotel. Like other hotels before and after it, its style has become passé.

Other paintings and sculptures recall forms that constitute the visual white noise of the adolescent memories of the artist: a double-kick drum set on a glowing stage is modeled after a kit played by Keith Moon; or the heroic opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Within this framework of the familiar and archetypal, Shetabi seeks to depict objects and images in a way that invites further consideration. Addressing these subjects through the static forms of painting and sculpture, Shetabi provides a place for resistance against the eventual disappearance of things.

This is Shetabi's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. He is a 2002 recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Exhibition reviews have appeared in Art in America, The Philadelphia Enquirer, artnet.com and other publications. Shetabi lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Tyler School of Art.

For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 212.989.0156 or info@baileygallery.com.
Jeffrey Leder Gallery
2137 45th Road / +19177671734 / jeffreyledergallery.com
Wed - Sun 12pm to 6pm
Jeffrey Leder Gallery is a contemporary fine arts gallery. Its roster includes emerging and mid-career artists with a focus on painting.
Jorge Posada
May 15 - Jun 19, 2013
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Jim Kempner Fine Art
501 West 23rd Street / +12122066872 / jimkempnerfineart.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Jim Kempner Fine Art specializes in contemporary art in all media, with a special emphasis on contemporary master prints.
Carole Feuerman The Golden Mean
May 16 - Jun 29, 2013
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Joshua Liner Gallery
540 West 28th Street / +12122447415 / joshualinergallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Oliver Vernon Nothing is Everything
May 30 - Jun 29, 2013
Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Renegade Trajectories, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Oliver Vernon.
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Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Renegade Trajectories, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Oliver Vernon. This is Vernon’s third solo show with the gallery, and the artist will be present at the opening reception on May 30.

Combining elements of landscape painting, figuration, and abstraction, Vernon’s practice pushes all of these categories beyond easy distinction, creating a hybrid visual language all his own. “The picture plane is a continuum of give and take,” says Vernon, “where positive and negative space give way to each other in rhythmic intervals. Energy oscillates and migrates, initiating changes along the way. And color is a navigational tool to guide the eye through the chaotic scape.”

Vernon lives in the Sierra Nevada region of northern California, and glimpses of these breathtaking vistas turn up frequently in his work. However, landscape is never a subject or even backdrop, per se, but instead a visual cue toward the expansive scale of Vernon’s abstraction. In many works, this takes the form of a wave-like torrent of arching brushstrokes and cascading patterns that dominate the canvas, devouring mountains, valleys, clouds, and the horizon, or nimbly swirling everything into the overall composition. The effect is destabilizing, imposing an abstract system on the more common notion of a fixed, physical reality—landscape gives way to visual frenzy, flights of imagination, and transformation.

In Renegade Trajectories, Vernon explores this dynamic with twelve medium-sized acrylic on linen or canvas paintings and a suite of twelve ink on paper works. The exhibition will showcase several large-scale paintings, the largest measuring nearly 8-x-7 feet. In the painting Excavation, a jagged cyclone of geometric shapes, architectural elements, and quasi-anatomical forms swirl about a distant horizon, pulling it in or ushering it forth. In the dramatic painting Flashback, this force takes the form of an orange and violet-tinted flood, inundating the picture with a chaotic rush of brushstrokes, graphic patterns, and semi-figurative material. As the artist notes, “These incidents or events take place in worlds within worlds. Everything is whirring with activity as parts of systems engage with other systems in a state of constant flux.”

In his works on paper, Vernon’s use of Sumi ink imparts an even sharper contrast of forces, of positive and negative space, in black, white, and subtle gray scale. Hard-edged but somehow serene, these pictorial spaces draw viewers into a spiral of connected facets (or dimensions)—cascading flower petals, lozenge forms, pulmonary or lung tissue, honeycomb—giving way to a brightening horizon beyond. Ultimately, the distinctions of figuration/abstraction, figure/ground, are not the artist’s primary interest. In all of his work, Vernon is most fascinated by the dynamic interplay between these surreally juxtaposed elements—in his own words, “not the what but the how.”

Reception Thursday May 30 from 6-8pm
The Journal Gallery
106 North 1st Street / +17182187148 / thejournalgallery.com
Tue - Sun 12pm to 6pm
The Journal Gallery specializes in emerging contemporary art. Please contact the gallery for more information.
Joanne Greenbaum Chris Martin Katharina Grosse “Mushroom Hunter”
May 10 - Jun 23, 2013
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Julie Saul Gallery
535 West 22nd Street, Sixth Floor / +12126272410 / saulgallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Julie Saul Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Arne Svenson The Neighbors
May 9 - Jun 29, 2013
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Charles Johnstone Some New York Handball Courts
May 9 - Jun 29, 2013
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June Kelly Gallery
166 Mercer Street, 3rd Floor / +12122261660 / junekellygallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
June Kelly Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
James Little Never Say Never
May 16 - Jun 18, 2013
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KANSAS Gallery
59 Franklin Street / +16465591423 / kansasgallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
KANSAS specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Carey Denniston, Marley Freeman
May 17 - Jun 22, 2013
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Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
529 W 20th Street, Suite 6W / +12123665368 / markelfinearts.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Daniel Brice, Christian Haub, Rory MacArthur, Marilla Palmer, others SPRING REVIVAL: a group exhibition
May 23 - Jun 29, 2013
Celebrating Spring's arrival in New York City, Kathryn Markel is very pleased to open “SPRING REVIVAL: a group exhibition”
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Kent Fine Art
210 11th Avenue, 2nd Floor / +12123659500 / kentfineart.net
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
John Brill Every Boy's Dream
May 4 - Jun 29, 2013
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John Brill, Llyn Foulkes, Pablo Helguera, David Lynch, Jill Spector Hypnotherapy
May 4 - Jun 29, 2013
Hypnotherapy presents a multigenerational group of artists working in several media who share an intense and introspective working process.
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Kent Fine Art is pleased to open a special project, Hypnotherapy, in tandem with The New Yorker‘s Passport to the Arts event on May 4, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Hypnotherapy, which continues through June 29, presents a multigenerational group of artists working in several media who share an intense and introspective working process:

Hypnosis is a way to connect with the subconscious rather than the conscious mind. The mind accepts what the subconscious creates, however bizarre. Among these artists there is a common thread of a relentless, even myopic, focus on work so personal that its intrinsic value is much greater for the artist than for the audience. Their bond lies in their obsessiveness, idiosyncrasy, and disregard for the mainstream.
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JOHN BRILL (b. 1951, Newark, New Jersey) is a school-bus driver and self-taught photographer, whose work has been recently seen in exhibitions at the Austrian Cultural Council in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. He has been the co-chair of the Photography Judging Committee of the American Killifish Association since 1982 and is a former instructor with the International Center of Photography.

LLYN FOULKES (b. 1934, Yakima, Washington) came up in the Los Angeles art scene of the early 60s and has been both a maverick and a force to be reckoned with ever since. His recent exhibition credits include the 2011 Venice Biennial and Documenta 13. Foulkes’s current retrospective at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, curated by Ali Subotnick, is a tribute to his craft, his dark humor, and his relentless vision of America on the edge. The retrospective travels to the New Museum in New York, where it opens on June 12.

PABLO HELGUERA (b. 1971, Mexico City) is a visual and performance artist whose projects have included a school that traveled from Anchorage to Tierra del Fuego, complete with portable schoolhouse; the recording of dying languages on wax cylinders; a memory theater; and the founding of the Instituto de la Telenovela. His work has been seen most recently at CIFO in Miami, the 2012 Havana Biennial, and the Centro de Arte Reina Soffia in Madrid. Helguera‘s first solo show with Kent Fine Art will open in September 2013.

DAVID LYNCH (b. 1946, Eagle Scout) was studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, painting “figures just sort of coming out of the darkness,” when he made his first film, in 1966: “The only reason I did a film the first time was to see a painting move . . . and feel a mood.” In the 70s Lynch began to work seriously in film and made his name with Eraserhead in 1977. Although he went on to make many more acclaimed films, he has continued to paint and exhibit. In 2007 the Fondation Cartier in Paris mounted a forty-year survey of his art, film, and music.

JILL SPECTOR (b. 1976, York, Pennsylvania) has called her sculptures both “performers” and “performances” . . . and has even referred to a sculpture as “she.” Working in improbable combinations of materials, she builds movement from the inside out, in open structures that offer audience and backstage views. Spector’s work was included in the recent exhibitions Drawing, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils, curated by Diana Thater for the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and Made in L.A. at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Special Appearance by ALEISTER CROWLEY.
Kerry Schuss
34 Orchard Street / +12129199918 / kerryschuss.com
Wed - Sun 12pm to 6pm
Kerry Schuss specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Alice Mackler Sculpture, Painting, Drawing
Jun 9 - Jul 26, 2013
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Kim Foster Gallery
529 West 20th Street / +12122290044 / kimfostergallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Kim Foster Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Ralph Bernabei, Macyn Bolt, Jeff Doran Constructed Space
Jun 13 - Jul 20, 2013
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The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street / +12122555793 / thekitchen.org
Tue - Sat 12pm to 6pm
The Kitchen is a nonprofit exhibition space supporting contemporary artists. Please contact the gallery for more information.
Maintenance Required
May 30 - Jun 22, 2013
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Curated by Nina Horisaki-Christians, Andrea Neustein, Victoria Rogers, and Jason Waite, Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program

Maintenance Required examines the large-scale systems that construct our daily lives through an investigation of the diversity of maintenance tasks. Durational by nature, maintenance networks provide life-perpetuating mechanisms of care, yet these systems have the potential to invisibly direct or limit life’s possibilities, even manifesting as malevolent systems of control. By dismantling our collective blindness toward maintenance activities, we can begin to examine how they condition our lives. Bringing maintenance into view exposes a constantly shifting set of social, political, and affective relations. Acknowledging maintenance systems invites questions about what needs to be maintained and under what conditions that maintenance occurs. Taking as an entry point Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ “Manifesto for Maintenance Art” (1969), in which the artist redefines maintenance activities as art, Maintenance Required focuses on artistic practices that frame and critically engage these invisible systems of life support: practices that articulate the paradoxical tensions of large-scale systems of maintenance whose power to sustain life may run parallel to the power to constrain it.

With works by Michael Bramwell, Goldin+Senneby, Ashley Hunt, Masaru Iwai, Yve Laris Cohen, Sam Lewitt, Park McArthur, Salvage Art Institute, Karin Sander, Taryn Simon, Pilvi Takala, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.

Public Performances
Integral to the exhibition, performances will be occurring over the duration of the exhibition in the gallery and “maintenance” spaces such as the back rooms of the Kitchen and at Regus offices on Wall Street. All events are free and open to the public; for seated events, seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Masaru Iwai

Washing Stage

Thursday, May 30, 5:00pm

Saturday, June 1, time TBA

Saturday, June 22, time TBA

Further performances TBA, please check website for updated details.
Repurposing the act of cleaning, the Tokyo-based artist Masaru Iwai will focus on the ritualistic act of cleaning and its relationship to the body while foregrounding the aesthetic materiality of the purifying act.

Yve Laris Cohen

Seth

Saturday, June 1, 8:00pm

Thursday, June 20, 8:00pm

In a new site-specific performance, Yve Laris Cohen meditates on the unused and unseen spaces of The Kitchen, responding to the history of the institution, the neighborhood, and the medium of performance. Exploring duration, perception, and the limits of human movement, Laris Cohen considers how maintenance, as well as the lack thereof, reveals our predilections and desires. This program is free of charge and open to the public. Space for the event is extremely limited. Reservations required; please register at maintenance.required.2013@gmail.com.

Ashley Hunt

Corrections

Thursday, June 6, 7:00pm

In his ongoing interdisciplinary project The Corrections Documentary Project, artist and filmmaker Ashley Hunt investigates the institution of the prison: how it helps to structure and preserve racial and economic divisions within society. In Corrections (2001), Hunt specifically looks at the privatization of the prison system, exposing the conflict between for-profit corporations focused on pleasing investors and the communities which must deal with the consequences of high incarceration rates.
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
54 Ludlow Street / +12127777756 / klausgallery.com
Wed - Sun 11am to 6pm
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Alex Kwartler & Elke Solomon Alex Kwartler & Elke Solomon
May 19 - Jun 23, 2013
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Klompching Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 206 / +12127962070 / klompching.com
Wed - Sat 11am to 6pm
Klompching Gallery is committed to the collection and exhibition of contemporary fine art photography.
POLYCHROMATIC
May 15 - Jul 6, 2013
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Krause Gallery
149 Orchard Street / +12127777799 / krausegallery.com
Sheryo x The Yok Yellow Fever
May 16 - Jun 23, 2013
Sheryo and YOK created a body of work that portays the modern world using an ancient technique.
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Sheryo and YOK created a body of work that portays the modern world using an ancient technique – painting on porcelain vases. They combined eastern & western elements to portray the values of ideology, devotion, relationships, dharma and karma, depicting a narrative from the rich tales of their journey in SEAsia. They re-interpret the traditional folklore and fables of old Chinese times by injecting their own personal stories with their iconic styles. They use a variety of media to bring these stories to life including the treasured fine art of porcelain vase making. Working in the very factories that have produced these exquisite vases for centuries they paint their warped characters and modern stories using the same age old techniques that produce a bold and unique body of work.
Kunsthalle Galapagos
16 Main St (at Water), 2nd Floor / kunsthallegalapagos.com
Thu - Sun 1pm to 6pm
Kunsthalle Galapagos is an artist-centric space that exhibits emerging and established artists.
On-Looking A Group Exhibition curated by Daniel Kingery
Jun 6 - Jul 14, 2013
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La MaMa Galleria
74A East 4th Street / +12124757710 / lamama.org/lagalleria/
Mon - Fri 11am to 6pm
La MaMa Galleria is a nonprofit exhibition space supporting unrepresented artists. Please contact the gallery for more information
NOT OVER 25 Years of Visual AIDS
Jun 1 - 30, 2013
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Launch F18
373 Broadway / +16033252006 / launchf18.com
By appointment only
1XX
Jun 1 - Jul 27, 2013
Launch F18 is delighted to present 1XX, a group exhibition curated by New York based artist Sam Trioli.
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Launch F18 is delighted to present 1XX, a group exhibition curated by Sam Trioli. The exhibition opens Saturday, June 1st from 6:00 - 8:00 PM and will remain on view until Saturday, July 27, 2013.

In the May 2011 issue of Frieze magazine, Ronald Jones wrote an article titled Whatever Works, a discussion on design methods and the integration of systems thinking in the 1950s. In the article Ronald quotes Jack Burnham from a 1968 issue of Art Forum, in which he writes: “In the past our technologically conceived artifacts structured living patterns. We are now in transition from an object-oriented to a systems-oriented culture. Here change emanates, not from things, but from the way things are done.”

1XX discusses this very concept within the parameters of the artist book and the forum in which this medium has been used on the contemporary art stage. Collectively, the work within the exhibition addresses the diversity of design and social structure that has reshaped the cultural standard of the medium, allowing for it to become more than only a product of simply purpose. As a result, many believe that the medium will slowly vanish as technology advances and the idea that printed matter could become obsolete to functional form. However, is this very idea merely a shift in design, as Burnham discusses, rather than being a truly undesirable product?

Within 1XX this thought is explored as it traces through a range of styles, printings, functions and techniques. Each of the works examines the function and identity of the art publication by delving further into its text, at a page, its binding and the cover. The books are experienced, not just through sight, but with the rare pleasure of tactile stimulation that is often missing from fine art exhibitions. At their roots, these works are relatives to a medium that traces back to the 27th and 26thcentury BC, which through its history has been continuously redefined and re-designed.

Participating artists and works by or on them include: Joshua Abelow, Ross Bleckner, Joy Drury Cox, f.ART magazine, Dianna Frid, Gypse Eyes, Johanna Heldebro, Sean Lamoureux, McDermott & McGough, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Adam Stennett and Peter Young. A selection of books will be traveling to the Sharon Art Center in September for the exhibition con(TEXT) which is being curated by Tim Donovan.

Sam Trioli is a artist, curator and musician based in New York City.
Lehmann Maupin
201 Chrystie Street / +12122540054 / lehmannmaupin.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Lehmann Maupin specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Tracey Emin I Followed You To The Sun
May 2 - Jun 22, 2013
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Lehmann Maupin | Chelsea
540 West 26th Street / +12122552923 / lehmannmaupin.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Lehmann Maupin (Chelsea) specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Tracey Emin I Followed You To The Sun
May 2 - Jun 22, 2013
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Leila Heller Gallery | Chelsea
568 West 25th Street / +12122497695 / ltmhgallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Leila Heller Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
FAIG AHMED EAST IN TWIST
Jun 6 - Jul 6, 2013
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NEGAR AHKAMI THE CONSUMPTION
Jun 6 - Jul 6, 2013
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Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
514 West 25th Street / +12129410012 / lennonweinberg.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Joseph Zito Tempus Fugit - New Sculptures and Works on Paper
Jun 13 - Sep 14, 2013
Zito further examines the confounding human condition of what it means to live, to love, and to lose.
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Leo Koenig Inc.
459 West 19th Street, Ground Floor / +12123349255 / www.leokoenig.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Frank Nitsche General Inn
May 31 - Jul 20, 2013
PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION:
459 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Frank Nitsche | General Inn
May 31 – July 20, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, May 31, 6-8 PM

PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION: 459 WEST 19TH STREET

Leo Koenig Inc. is pleased to present “General Inn”, Frank Nitsche’s third solo exhibition with the Gallery. “General Inn” centers on new paintings and a corresponding column of empty beverage cans that are wrapped and covered with commercial stickers collected throughout Nitsche’s world travels. The exhibition extends Nitsche’s considerations of the ubiquitous lines that permeate urban landscapes. The juxtaposition of the paintings and commodified pillar hints at the artist’s source material and reveals a formal consolidation of circulated signs into large-scale geometries.

In Frank Nitsche’s most recent work one encounters a filtering of process that traces the artist’s painterly trajectory towards elemental components. Working from his extensive archive of collected media clippings that range from images of catastrophe to financial graphs, Nitsche mentally and physically catalogues these materials to develop a contemporary and comparative ideation of form. These forms do not necessarily represent a static sum, but instead illustrate an evolving typology of images that shape and inform social codes.

Nitsche’s visually restrained paintings emerge from an intricate progression of previous experiments that belie the elegant simplicity of the final image. The artist sands, corrects, rebalances and overpaints, creating an opaque palimpsest that translates his cataloging process to the canvas. The result is deceptively minimal paintings. Nitsche completes the clearly defined shapes with hooks, ties and lines, as if transposing the ligatures of an unidentified calligraphy. The architectural compositions are familiar but impenetrable; the smooth and slick surfaces, along with the serial titles, intentionally obscure their varied referents.

Nitsche’s methods neither articulate nor influence; rather they elicit the potentiality for experience. For this reason, Nitsche’s work concentrates on form rather than language; materials are already fraught with meaning. To this end, Nitsche has narrowed his color palette to blacks, greys and whites. This tonal restraint isolates and intensifies an examination of structure, vertices, lines and how they intersect. While this may be initially interpreted as an ascetic reduction, the gradual physical changes and layered history of the paintings unveil the hidden opulence of the color white. Rather than presenting his paintings and sculpture as a fixed or complete language, Nitsche offers the viewer an atlas.

Frank Nitsche’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany; Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; Art & Public, Geneva; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris. Recent group exhibitions include I am a Berliner, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; HELLO CHINA, Brandenburgerischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, Germany; Abstract Confusion – Malerei, Skulptur, Video, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany; and the Prague Biennale 5. His work is featured in the collections of: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany. Frank Nitsche lives and works in Berlin.

Gallery hours of operation are Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6 pm. For further information, please contact the gallery at +1 (212) 334-9255 or info@leokoenig.com
Lesley Heller Workspace
54 Orchard Street / +12124106120 / lesleyheller.com
Wed - Sat 11am to 6pm, Sun 12pm to 6pm
Lesley Heller Workspace specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Sara Sosnowy
Jun 5 - Jul 3, 2013
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Shoot
Jun 5 - Jul 3, 2013
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Leslie Feely Fine Art
33 East 68th Street, Fifth Floor / +12129880040 / http://www.lesliefeely.com/
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Frank Gehry Frank Gehry at Work
Apr 11 - Jun 29, 2013
A selection of Frank Gehry process models drawn from significant constructions and concepts of the architect’s prolific career.
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A selection of Frank Gehry process models will be on display at Leslie Feely Fine Art from April 11 to June 29, 2013. Drawn from significant constructions and concepts of the architect’s prolific career, these organic forms stand as testament to Gehry’s tactile approach, enhancing our perception of this sculptural architect and his work. Projects on view include the California Aerospace Museum and Theater (1984), the Winton Guest House (1987), the Chiat/Day Building (1991), the Barcelona Fish or Peix completed for the 1992 Summer Olympics, and the Beekman Tower/New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street (2011).

This exhibition presents over 30 diverse process models from 1985-2012, comprising a wide array of materials and approaches that begin to illuminate the subtleties of Gehry’s thought—and working—process. Several renditions of Gehry’s concept for Sonderborg Kunsthalle, for instance, experiment with varying shapes and degrees of fluidity embodied in the structure’s metallic skin. Studies pertaining to an unrealized tower for the Brooklyn Arena utilize materials ranging from basswood, vinyl, and plexiglass to gatorboard and paper. Each successive stage of a given model’s development illustrates the exploratory nature of Gehry’s practice, and the playfulness and originality inherent to his work.

Distinguishing his methods from conventional, precision-based modes of development, Frank Gehry’s process is similar to that of artists, sculptors, and scientists. In a 1980 interview he explained, “It’s kind of like throwing things out and then following the ideas, rather than predicting what you’re going to do.” His models can therefore be understood as conceptual drafts, or three-dimensional sketches, integral to project development and design. Moreover, the structures are admirable in themselves as aesthetically beautiful sculpture.

This show provides insight into Gehry’s indelible mind, one of the most brilliant—and provocative—of contemporary architecture and design. Photographic reproductions of his studio, the architect at work, and certain realized projects accompany the models on display. This exhibition reveals otherwise concealed aspects of Gehry’s process and practice, while simultaneously inspiring an array of new questions. Ultimately, these architectural studies culminate in a perceptive study of the architect himself.

This is Frank Gehry’s second exhibition at Leslie Feely Fine Art, which also held his first ever gallery show in 2007 and featured his models at Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. Solo exhibitions including his process models have been presented by ArtisTree, Taikoo Place, Hong Kong, 2011; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2008; New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2001; the Triennale Design Museum, Milan, 1997; and the Walker Center, Minneapolis, which organized a major retrospective of Gehry’s work in 1986.

Gehry is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, Americans for the Arts (2000), the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (1999), the National Medal of Arts, National Endowment for the Arts (1998), and the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989). The architect graduated from the University of Southern California in 1954 and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 1956. Frank Gehry lives and works in Santa Monica, California.

For more information please visit www.lesliefeely.com, email gallery@lesliefeely.com, or call 212-988-0040.
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
535 West 22nd Street, Sixth Floor / +12122558450 / tonkonow.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Laurel Nakadate Strangers and Relations
May 11 - Jun 29, 2013
The exhibition will feature twenty large-scale color photographs made during the past two years.
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LMAKprojects
139 Eldridge Street / +12122559707 / lmakprojects.com
Wed - Sat 11am to 6pm, Sun 12pm to 6pm
Claudia Joskowicz Intersections
May 18 - Jun 28, 2013
LMAKprojects is pleased to announce Claudia Joskowicz’s solo exhibit ‘Intersections’. Two channeled video installation and photography.
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LMAKprojects is pleased to announce Claudia Joskowicz’s solo exhibit Intersections. The exhibit consists of a large video installation and photographs of her project Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte - After Ruscha. The work is an exploration of the urban landscape of the city of El Alto in her home country of Bolivia through a look at the intersections between everyday life and historical events that resonate in the collective memory of that city and, the country at large.

The photographic series and two-channel video installation Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte - After Ruscha takes as its inspiration Edward Ruscha’s photo book Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966). A selection of photographs from the series ponders the juxtaposition of the continuum of time and a still reenactment of an affecting moment in Bolivian history.

The video is installed in the back section of the gallery with two projections on opposite walls, with a true to life ration. As the viewer stands in between the two projections, one is taken along a continuous tracking shot on the major thoroughfare in El Alto. The video takes inventory of a quotidian Bolivian scene reflecting a contemporary developing city. El Alto is one of the largest urban centers and one of the fastest growing cities in Bolivia as well as one of the sites where violent protests related to the Bolivian gas conflict in October 2003 took place. In a continuous take, the mundane is juxtaposed with ritual and social conflict inserting one single still scene of violence into the register of the typical scenery of daily Bolivian life thus capturing the variegated reality of El Alto, and, by extension, also that of all developing countries.
Lombard Freid Gallery
518 West 19th Street / +12129678040 / lombardfreid.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 6pm
Lucien Samaha The Flight Attendant Years: 1978-1986
Jun 6 - Aug 2, 2013
Lombard Freid presents photographs from Samaha‘s time as a flight attendant for TWA in the 1970s and ’80s.
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“I was born to a father who wore an airline uniform. For most of my childhood, he lived and worked in another country. Each summer I would be flown from Beirut to Dhahran as an unaccompanied minor, but he always made sure he booked me on a flight where he knew at least one, if not all, of the Flight Attendants, or rather stewardesses as they were then known.

I always flew First Class, looking like Lily Tomlin’s Edith Ann, a tiny kid in a huge chair. I was totally coddled, fed, and entertained by the stewardesses who took personal care of me until I was delivered either to my dad or to my aunt, when returning to Lebanon. Flight Attendants epitomized international glamour and adventure to me. Growing up, I often dreamed of becoming one, until I took my first class in photography as a junior in high school in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.

Like most Lebanese parents, mine would have greatly preferred my becoming a doctor, a lawyer, or an architect. Although I did have an interest in medicine, I had been passionate about photography ever since I developed my first print—an abstract array of shopping carts—in a tray of Dektol. As my eighteenth birthday approached, I also realized that my airline benefits would soon come to an end. I wouldn’t be able to jaunt around the world at will, for free—something I had been used to all my life.

My only solution was to follow my childhood dream and become a Flight Attendant. A few months before turning twenty, I started sending applications to Pan Am and TWA, two of the major international airlines at the time. I was hired by¬ Trans World Airlines on my twentieth birthday, and on February 26, 1978, I reported to Breech Training Academy, the most renowned and modern flight attendant school in the industry.”
-Lucien Samaha, April 2013

Lombard Freid Gallery is pleased to present New York-based photographer Lucien Samaha’s The Flight Attendant Years: 1978-1986, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. Samaha has been a photographer since high school and has obsessively documented his personal and professional life for over 40 years, producing a rich, highly autobiographical body of work. This show will debut vintage color and black-and-white photographs from his time as a Flight Attendant for Trans World Airlines, giving a behind-the-scenes look at a bygone era. These striking, intimate images will be exhibited with a variety of archival objects, including Samaha’s golden flight wings, personal correspondence, and TWA memos.

Samaha’s photographs from the late 1970s and early ‘80s record a particular intimacy between Flight Attendants, pilots, and passengers that was rarely revealed at the time—and is certainly not seen in today’s climate of heightened airline security. The Flight Attendant Years covers all aspects of daily life: training sessions, uniform fittings, in-flight fraternization, and layover breaks. Samaha’s eye for detail and composition, matched with his direct access to his subject matter, allows for his documentary photography to exist within an extremely personal and aesthetic milieu. His images—Polaroid snapshots, elegant candid portraits, and group photographs—emphasize the spirit of adventure and conviviality integral to his surroundings.

Samaha has continued to be in touch with many of his former colleagues, and the gallery will serve as a portrait studio for current and former flight attendants who are being invited (through postings at airlines and hotels) to visit the gallery on Saturdays, June 8, 15, and 22, from 12:00 to 5:00 PM. The portraits will be on view in the gallery and posted to lombardfreid.com and luciensamaha.net.

Lucien Samaha (b. 1958, Beirut) is a New York-based photographer whose work has been shown internationally, including in exhibitions at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland. He was a finalist for the 2004 Nam June Paik Award. After his time at TWA, Samaha worked for Eastman Kodak Company and then as a DJ on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center, continuing to document his hours at work and his personal life.
Longhouse Projects
285 Spring St., Hudson Square / +16465901982 / www.longhouseprojects.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Longhouse Projects is a cross-cultural and cross-generational gallery that began in 2012 and opened in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Man
John Opera a priori
May 30 - Jul 3, 2013
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John Opera, a priori
Opening Reception: May 30th, 2013, 6–8pm
Exhibition Dates: May 30th-July 3rd, 2013

Longhouse Projects is very pleased to present a priori, by John Opera. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery.

John Opera’s recent introduction of the cyanotype into his repertoire of photographic approaches symbolically reflects his gradual evolution from empirical research to a more clinical, methodical study. His trajectory began with carefully honed and cropped landscape photographs, moving to abstract anthotypes—a photosensitive process of bleaching out images created from a fruit or vegetable based emulsion. His latest body of work centers around a focused meditation on seemingly everyday objects translated in a very specific Prussian Blue on a residue-washed linen surface. The process of the cyanotype is a now almost obsolete technique that is not too far removed from the anthotype, using liquid chemicals and ultraviolet rays to develop the images. It was originally conceived to reproduce notes and diagrams, and later blueprints. Opera’s photographic paintings curiously address this explicit objective by making notes out of rock collections and label-free bottles and diagrams out of ropes, chains, and posed hands.

There is a linearity that is often avoided within today’s art trends, given the progressive shift toward interdisciplinary activities and confluence of media, but part of the power in Opera’s work comes from his voracious consumption of his own personal previous bodies of works and the accumulated integration directed back into new projects. a priori literally means “from the earlier” and Opera willfully chooses to pull from the earlier and push forward. His landscape photography came from his interest in better understanding the world around him, the anthotypes came from an interest in scrutinizing and creating directly from the same locations (the fruits and vegetables used to create the photographic emulsions are sourced from the same places), and the cyanotypes come from an interest to further understand his own investigation into the history and process of photography. From one project to the next, one can trace the complicated contrapositions inherent in each of the works—particularly the heightening of contrasts between formal techniques and conceptual concerns specifically tied to photography and painting, as his work has always been mutually comprised of these two mediums. The cyanotype represents for the artist a refreshing return to an earlier mode in order to look at things anew.

John Opera (American, b. 1975) lives and works in Chicago. He received his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. He is currently represented by Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, where he has had four solo exhibitions. Other recent exhibitions include a two-person show with Matt Sheridan-Smith at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO and group shows at Carter and Citizen and Country Club in Los Angeles, Monya Rowe in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

For further information, please contact Keith J. Varadi at keith@longhouseprojects.com
Tisch Abelow, Seth Alverson, Ivin Ballen, and Ariel Dill Hot House
May 30 - Jul 3, 2013
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Hot House
Opening Reception: May 30th, 2013, 6–8pm
Exhibition Dates: May 30th-July 3rd, 2013

Longhouse Projects is very pleased to present Hot House, a group exhibition comprised of Tisch Abelow, Seth Alverson, Ivin Ballen, and Ariel Dill.

“Hot House” is a bebop standard made famous by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in the early 1950s. The 50s are an era that many Americans have placed in a saccharine time capsule, where World Wars were in the past and a prosperous suburban life was seen to be in the near future, creating a new ideology based around conformity. The Civil Rights and Counter Culture movements that spawned in opposition made for hot houses, indeed. This was the beginning of a shift in Modernism.

At this point, the art world has its own specific nostalgic history and this has seemed to forever include a healthy skepticism of moralism, ever since Greenberg’s skewed idealistic notions of conformity. Though, this skepticism has recently transformed into a somewhat aloof translation of irony. Within this evolution, many artists have stepped out and stirred a soft rebellion toward expectations. This often has resulted in works that have become described as ‘modest,’ ‘humble,’ ‘abject’, ‘non-objective,’ or ‘provisional.’

The four artists presented here have sidestepped and/or shuffled these expectations. Their paintings are seductive and deceiving, but they do not ask, “What is enough?” Instead, they ask, “What is this?” In doing so, they firm up this recent ‘soft rebellion’ and resuscitate suspicion and criticality. However, the real complication derives from their complicated comfort in superficiality—each of these painters, simultaneously revel in vicissitude and beauty, offering both a single and a flipside.

Tisch Abelow lives and works in New York, NY. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2007. Recent exhibitions include group shows at Shoot The Lobster (New York, NY) and Minus Space (Brooklyn, NY).

Seth Alverson lives and works in Houston, TX. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010. He has had three solo exhibitions at Art Palace in Houston, as well as group exhibitions at major Texas institutions.

Ivin Ballen lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2006. He has had solo shows at Winkleman Gallery (New York, NY) and Susanne Hilberry Gallery (Detroit, MI) and has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe.

Ariel Dill lives and works in Queens, NY. She received an MFA from Hunter College in 2006. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Southfirst (Brooklyn, NY), and group shows at Halsey McKay (East Hampton, NY) and 247365 (Brooklyn, NY).

For further information, please contact Keith J. Varadi at keith@longhouseprojects.com
Lori Bookstein Fine Art
138 Tenth Avenue / +12127500949 / loribooksteinfineart.com
Tue - Sat 10:30am to 6pm
Lori Bookstein Fine Art specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
James Weingrod Hush [The Open Window Project]
Apr 11 - Jul 27, 2013
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James Weingrod: Hush Open Window Project
April 11 - July 27, 2013

Lori Bookstein Fine Art is please to announce a new installation by James Weingrod. This will serve as the inaugural exhibition of The Open Window Project and the artist‘s first solo-exhibition with Lori Bookstein Fine Art and his first solo-exhibition in New York.

The Open Window Project was conceived as a project space by which to showcase the work of emerging artists and those artists who may not necessarily fit into the gallery’s program. While the gallery has always maintained the tradition of representing a focused group of core artists, it is excited about the ways in which working with other artists through the Open Window Project will enhance the dialogue surrounding the gallery's primary agenda. The Open Window Project will occupy the street front window on Tenth Avenue between 18th and 19th Streets.

James Weingrod: Hush will feature a singular, kinetic installation that actively engages street viewers. Comprised of a twirling birdcage and a series of two-way mirrors, the installation becomes an other-worldly environment where images are repeated ad infinitum within the eerie enclosure. Fascinated by the complex scientific and mathematical principles by which we have come to understand the expanses of the universe and infinity, Weingrod attempts to visually depict the ways we have come to understand the universe through theory instead of observation. Admitting the inevitable failure of such lofty ideals, he has developed an artistic practice more akin to experimentation, whereby, through trial-and-error, he hopes to develop a larger dialogue around the ways we have come to understand the incomprehensible.

James Weingrod received his BA in visual arts from Brown University (2004) where he was the recipient of the Roberta Jocelyn Award for Excellence in Art. He received his MFA from Hunter College (2009). Weingrod has been exhibited in several group shows in New York, including “Big Drawing” in 2008 at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, and in his hometown of Providence, RI. Weingrod was an artist in residence at The Wassaic Project in 2010 and 2011. Upcoming exhibitions include his first Philadelphia Solo Exhibition, which is scheduled for September 2013. Weingrod lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

James Weingrod will be on view from April 11 - July 27, 2013. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 11th from 6:00 - 9:00 pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10:30 am to 6:00 pm. Summer hours begin Monday July 8th and will be Monday - Friday, 10:30 - 6:00. For additional information and/or visual materials, please contact the gallery at (212) 750-0949 or by email at info@loribooksteinfineart.com.¬
Lower East Side Printshop
306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor / +12126735390 / printshop.org
Mon - Fri 10am to 6pm
Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Sebastiaan Bremer, Joell Baxter, Jonggeon Lee, EDITIONS '13
May 15 - Jul 15, 2013
Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to present the EDITIONS ‘13 reception and catalogue launch on Wednesday, May 22, from 6-8pm.
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Ludlow 38
38 Ludlow Street / +12122286848 / ludlow38.org
Thu - Sun 1pm to 6pm
Patrick Price Various Swans
May 26 - Jul 7, 2013
New and recent works primarily concerned with the fundamental conventions regarding the representation of space in painting.
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LYNCH THAM
175 Rivington Street / +12123878190 / www.lynchtham.com
Wed - Sat 10am to 6pm, Sun 12pm to 6pm
Martin Creed, Holger Ecksein, Margaret Evangeline, Roland Flexner... Blink
May 15 - Jun 23, 2013
Blink is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed exhibition, The Pleasure of Slowness, curated by Florence Lynch.
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Lyons Wier Gallery
542 West 24th Street / +12122426220 / lyonswiergallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Lyons Wier Gallery specializes in contemporary art and “Conceptual Realism.”
Chrisa Biddy
Jun 6 - Jul 6, 2013
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Marc Straus
299 Grand Street / +12125107646 / www.marcstraus.com
Wed - Sun 11am to 6pm
Marc Straus specializes in contemporary art, indentifying and fostering the best new international talent.
John Newsom BESTIARY
May 1 - Jun 30, 2013
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Margaret Thatcher Projects
539 West 23rd Street, Ground Floor / +12126750222 / thatcherprojects.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Heidi Spector Disco Lemonade
Jun 13 - Jul 13, 2013
Solo exhibition with Montréal-based Minimalist painter, Heidi Spector
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Margaret Thatcher Projects is pleased to present Disco Lemonade, a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Canadian artist, Heidi Spector. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in New York and follows a small installation of her works last year at the gallery in the project room. Her paintings, composed of liquitex acrylic painted as bands of color on Russian birch, are topped with resin, creating a surface where candy-like colors pulse and dance together, alluding to the impact of popular music on her work.

Referred to by the artist as “geometric minimalism,” Spector purposefully avoids injecting specific emotional content to her paintings, instead opting for bold color choices that quickly establish an upbeat and lively mood. Her shining repetitive pattern of vertical or horizontal stripes project a natural sense of optimism and joy informed by the techno beats and self-absorption of club life.

Many of the paintings on view are influenced by popular music, taking on titles based on song lyrics by artists as varied as Duke Ellington, Roxy Music, Amy Winehouse and DJ Tiesto. The color palette of each painting is in part a response to each song, infusing the group of works with the sensation of being an audio/visual playlist.

The geometric opticality and slick surfaces of Spector’s paintings connect her works with a tradition of hard–edge painters, such as Bridget Riley and Frank Stella. Her vision of the paintings as objects of desire and joy, however, also place Spector’s work alongside contemporary pop artists embracing kitsch as profound.

Heidi Spector lives and works in Montreal, Canada. She has shown in galleries nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in Montreal, Los Angeles, and New York.
Karin Waskiewicz In the Project Room: Selected Works
Jun 13 - Jul 13, 2013
In collaboration with Schroeder Romero, carved paintings by American artist, Karin Waskiewicz.
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Thatcher Projects, in collaboration with Schroeder Romero, is pleased to present works by American artist Karin Waskiewicz. Known for her excavated, carved and rebuilt surfaces revealing thick layers of acrylic paint, Waskiewicz’ paintings feature hundreds of small, imperfect circles clustered in sprawling groups. The resulting patterns recall organic systems and serve as an exploration in both mark-making and the physical qualities of her materials.
Marlborough Chelsea
545 West 25th Street / +12124638634 / marlboroughchelsea.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Drew Heitzler Comic Books, Inverted Stamps, Paranoid Literature
May 11 - Jun 29, 2013
Marlborough Chelsea is pleased to present Drew Heitzler: Comic Books, Inverted Stamps, Paranoid Literature.
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Group Show curated by Drew Heitzler and Jan Tumlir Endless Bummer II / Still Bummin'
May 11 - Jun 29, 2013
Marlborough Chelsea is pleased to present Endless Bummer II / Still Bummin' a group exhibition curated by Drew Heitzler and Jan Tumlir.
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Mary Boone Chelsea
541 West 24th Street / +12127522929 / maryboonegallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Mary Boone Chelsea specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Marc Quinn All the time in the world
May 4 - Jun 29, 2013
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Mary Boone Gallery
745 Fifth Avenue / +12127522929 / maryboonegallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Mary Boone Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Peter Halley, Alessandro Mendini
May 2 - Jun 29, 2013
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Matthew Marks Gallery | 502 W. 22nd Street
502 W. 22nd Street / +12122430200 / matthewmarks.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Matthew Marks Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Ellsworth Kelly at Ninety
May 11 - Jun 29, 2013
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Matthew Marks Gallery | 522 W. 22nd Street
522 W. 22nd Street / +12122430200 / matthewmarks.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Matthew Marks Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Ellsworth Kelly at Ninety
May 11 - Jun 29, 2013
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Matthew Marks Gallery | 523 W. 24th Street
523 W. 24th Street / +12122430200 / matthewmarks.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Matthew Marks Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Ellsworth Kelly at Ninety
May 11 - Jun 29, 2013
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Maxwell Davidson Gallery
724 Fifth Avenue, Fourth Floor / +12127597555 / davidsongallery.com
Mon - Sat 10am to 5:30pm
Maxwell Davidson Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Carlos Cruz - Diez Circumstance and Ambiguty of Color
May 2 - Jun 28, 2013
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