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Sunday, June 16

Chelsea Galleries

GUIDED BY INVOICES
558 West 21st Street / +19172263851 / guidedbyinvoices.us
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Signature Works
Jun 13 - Jul 13, 2013
Group Exhibition
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Guided by Invoices is pleased to present Signature Works, a group exhibition of work from gallery artists.

The exhibition will include recent paintings from Charles Andresen, Cora Cohen, Nora Griffin, David Rhodes, Sean Scherer, Carol Szymanski, and Rafael Vega. Additionally on view will be new curved-crease origami from Erik and Martin Demaine, a sound installation by Sebastien Leon, and in situ work on the gallery’s windows by Stephen Pusey.

Fluorescents after dark, the palette of satellites, Isaac Newton’s solfège rainbow, and hyperbolic origami in red, white and blue: I guess it’s Summer 2013.

For further information, please contact info@guidedbyinvoices.us or visit the website www.guidedbyinvoices.us.
Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden
511 West 20th St / 212-729-3011 / hanselandgretelpicturegarden.com
Mon - Sat 10:30am to 6pm
Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Harris Lieberman
508 West 26th Street, Ground floor / +12122061290 / harrislieberman.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Harris Lieberman represents a diverse group of contemporary artists. Please visit our website or contact the gallery for more information.
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Hasted Kraeutler
537 West 24th Street / +12126270006 / hastedkraeutler.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Hasted Kraeutler specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Paolo Ventura The infinite city
May 2 - Jun 22, 2013
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Lisette Model and Diana Arbus
Jul 9 - Aug 16, 2013
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Hauser & Wirth | Chelsea
511 West 18th Street / +12127944970 / hauserwirth.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Hauser & Wirth specializes in contemporary art. Please contact the gallery for more information.
Paul McCarthy Rebel Dabble Babble
Jun 20 - Jul 26, 2013
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Heller Gallery
420 W. 14th Street / +12124144014 / hellergallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Heller Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Contact gallery for more information.
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Gallery Henoch
555 West 25th St / +19173050003 / galleryhenoch.com
Tue - Sat 10:30am to 6pm
Gallery Henoch specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Gallery Ho
547 West 27th St. #208 / +12125021894 / galleryho.net
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Gallery Ho is a contemporary art gallery located in Chelsea, Manhattan. Representing both established and emerging artists.
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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.
Ippodo Gallery
521 W. 26th Street B1 / +12129674899 / ippodogallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Ippodo Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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J. Cacciola Gallery
537 W. 23rd St / +12124624646 / jcacciolagallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Valeri Larko, Trevor Young Exit the Freeway
May 30 - Jun 29, 2013
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Group Show Cone Monochromacy
Jul 17 - Aug 31, 2013 Reception: Wed Jul 17 6am - 8pm
Nick Bierk, Michael Ciervo, Kim Frohsin, Jane LaFarge Hamill, Ron Kingswood, James Lahey, Michael Massaia, Jenny Montgomery, Amanda Wachob
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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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James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street / +12127149500 / jamescohan.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
James Cohan Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Shi Zhiying The Relics
Jun 20 - Jul 26, 2013
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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.
Jenkins Johnson Gallery | New York
521 West 26th Street, Fifth Floor / +12126290707 / jenkinsjohnsongallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Jenkins Johnson Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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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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Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, Ninth Floor / +12122433822 / jonathanlevinegallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Jonathan LeVine Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Josee Bienvenu Gallery
529 West 20th Street / +12122067990 / joseebienvenugallery.com
Mon - Fri 10am to 6pm
Josee Bienvenu Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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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
Joy Wai Gallery
122 W 18th St. / +16466883155 / joywaigallery.com
Mon - Fri 12pm to 7pm
Joy Wai Gallery focuses on contemporary art with a strong focus in fine art photography.
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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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Carolyn Janssen
Jul 10 - Aug 19, 2013
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Nikolay Bakharev Amateurs and Lovers
Jul 10 - Aug 19, 2013
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Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts
526 West 26th Street, Suite 605 / +12124638500 / kathleencullenfinearts.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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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.
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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Kips Gallery
531 West 25th Street / +12122424215 / kipsgallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Kips Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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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.
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert
524 West 19th Street / +12128079494 / gassergrunert.net
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Birgit Rathsmann October 18, 1977
Jun 20 - Jul 19, 2013 Reception: Thu Jun 20 6pm - 9pm
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October 18, 1977 opens at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert 524 West 19th St, New York, NY on Thursday, June 20, 2013- Friday, July 19, 2013. Summer hours start July 8: Mon-Fri 10 am – 6 pm

An exhibition organized by Birgit Rathsmann in collaboration with Michele Abeles, Erica Baum, Neil Bender, Becket Bowes, Tania Cross, Grayson Cox, Anthony Lepore, David Lukowski, Oliver Kossack, Jessica Mein, Filip Noterdaeme, Dominic Nurre, Paul Pfeiffer, Jochen Plogsties, Claudia Pena Salinas, Daniel Rich, Siebren Versteeg, Jenny Vogel, Kristof Wickman and Jeff Williams.

New York, NY April 18, 2013 — On a single night, three terrorists in a high-security prison die, allegedly by their own hands; a fourth is hospitalized with allegedly self-inflicted stab wounds to the chest. Ever since, the events of the “Death Night” of the members of the Baader-Meinhof group have reverberated through German society and culture. But what might those events mean to artists in another country gripped by fear of radical terrorists, albeit a generation removed and an ocean away? How might today’s artists respond to iconic pieces that addressed the events in their immediate aftermath? Those are the questions that guided Brooklyn artist Birgit Rathsmann as she worked with 19 other artists from the U.S. and Europe to develop October 18, 1977. The exhibition is a meditation on that infamous night when Andreas Baader and three others were found dead or wounded in their prison cells — as well as on the images that earlier artists created in response to the events of that night. Rathsmann “commissioned” new pieces and collaborated to varying degrees with the participants in the exhibition. This created a dialog among artists who share Rathsmann’s interest in the questions raised by the events of October 18, 1977 and those raised by earlier artworks that address those events. In other words, Rathsmann didn’t curate this show; she served as its catalyst. Many of the questions she and the exhibition’s other artists examine have lingered for 36 years: Did the terrorists have a suicide pact? Was it set into motion when they learned that a hijacking intended to win their freedom had failed? If so, how did Andreas Baader and another terrorist manage to get guns into the isolated, high-security cells where they were held in solitary confinement? How did Baader manage to shoot himself in the back of his head? Why were there no fingerprints on either of the guns? How was the sole survivor of that night able to stab herself in the chest four times? Is there evidence to support her allegation that the deaths were summary executions rather than suicides? Those and other questions about that night encapsulate the dramatic relationship between the state and violent non-conformists — a relationship that becomes more relevant with each new act of mass violence. A number of works in October 18, 1977 respond directly to the eponymous cycle of 15 paintings by Gerhard Richter which depict the dead terrorists and the prison where they died. The paintings are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (169.1995), far from the location of their creation and the events that inspired them. Other works in this exhibition directly address specific aspects of the deaths and their cultural setting: the psychological effects of prolonged solitary confinement, the aesthetics of mid-twentieth century German institutional architecture, and the era’s proliferation of ‘zine-like publications that openly expressed sympathy for terrorist organizations. Some works even go so far as to imagine alternative histories. Taken together, the works in the exhibition present a multifaceted examination of that confounding historical moment in the Germany of 1977 and its lingering cultural influence — an examination that’s especially relevant in New York City of 2013.

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Kravets Wehby Gallery
521 West 21st Street, Ground Floor / +12123522238 / kravetswehbygallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Kravets Wehby Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Larissa Goldston Gallery
551 West 21st Street / +12122067887 / larissagoldston.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Larissa Goldston Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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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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Galerie Lelong | New York
528 West 26th Street / +12123150470 / galerielelong.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Galerie Lelong specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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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
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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Levis Fine Art
514 West 24th Street / +12122149711 / levisfineart.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 6pm
Levis Fine Art specializes in the acquisition, scholarship, exhibition and sale of Pre and Post-War modernist paintings and sculpture.
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LGBT Community Center, Campbell-Soady Gallery
208 West 13th Street / +12126207310 / gaycenter.org/community/gallery
The Center offers an eclectic array of artistic programs that celebrate and educate LGBT communities throughout New York.
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Littlejohn Contemporary
547 West 27 Street, Suite 207 / +12034515050 / littlejohncontemporary.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Anne Siems Healing
Jun 18 - Jul 20, 2013
Ann Siems’ paintings are filled with verdant landscapes, ghostly lace, and highly stylized folkloric portraits and still life tableaux.
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By adopting 17th- and 18th- century American folk motifs, Seattle-based Anne Siems’ portraits and still life paintings emit a haunting awkwardness. With rosy cheeks, haunted gaze and flattened features, Siems’ highly stylized figures inhabit a dreamy colonial landscape. As the world itself seems frozen in time, the transparent figures float in the foreground, forever youthful and mysterious. The delicate patterning found in traditional embroidery is the main element used to define their clothing. A thick application of paint, at times intentionally crackled to create the effect of an aged surface, emphasizes folk painting and faux antiquity. Siems' paintings ‘borrow backwards’ with a refreshing whimsy and off kilter grace, participating in the current revival of ‘old, weird America.’ ARTDAILY.ORG March 2011

Siems, who is German-born and now living in the northwestern United States, has drawn inspiration from the Guide on Wildlife in Europe, featuring unforgettable animal portraits. These, along with her youthful cast of human characters, celebrate the joys and mysteries of life. Distinct identities emerge in each portrait with fable-like stories becoming the narrative. Ritual elements from Native American medicine and culture, rabbits, deer, owls and mythological animals, their pelts and feathers, are prominent subjects in Siems’ menagerie. The muse of the artist is both real and imaginary.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT: In 2001 it seemed like I never recovered fully from a flu, I constantly felt fatigued and achy. Several years later I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Ever since, I have been on a path to find healing. My work in psychotherapy has helped me to shift my nervous system to a calmer, less exhausting “gear” (in Fibromyalgia the nervous system is in a constant fight or flight pattern). This work has also gotten me more deeply in touch with the earth as a sacred being.
For a while now I have longed for more ritual and ceremony in my life. I was raised with little religion, but connected to Christianity through my time as a child in South America and my upbringing in Germany.
Lately, I have found my yearning for spiritual practice in the Native American traditions of shamanic medicine making. I believe in all of us is the genuine desire to connect first and foremost with that which sustains us. All of our ancestors were originally oriented toward ritual and ceremony that honored and celebrated the earth, the sky and all that exists in between.
I believe we can attain healing for the body, soul and planet by rediscovering our relationship to these roots of worship. Consciously thanking that which sustains us –the air we breathe, the earth that holds us to her and everything that surrounds us- allows for just that. — Anne Siems, 2013

Siems, a Fulbright Scholar, has exhibited in Canada and in Europe and widely throughout the United States.
Her work is included in such collections as the Arkansas Art Centre, Boise Art Museum, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and the Tacoma Art Museum.
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.
Loretta Howard Gallery
525-531 W. 26th Street / +12126950164 / lorettahoward.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Loretta Howard Gallery specializes in classic Post War American art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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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.¬
Luhring Augustine
531 West 24th Street / +12122069100 / luhringaugustine.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Luhring Augustine specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
William Daniels
Jun 29 - Aug 2, 2013
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Luise Ross Gallery
511 West 25 Street, Suite 307 / +12123432161 / luiserossgallery.com
Mon - Fri 10am to 5:30pm
Luise Ross Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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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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Magnan Metz Gallery
521 W. 26th Street / +12122442344 / magnanmetz.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Magnan Metz Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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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.
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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.
Marianne Boesky | Chelsea
509 West 24th Street / +12126809889 / marianneboeskygallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Marianne Boesky specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Sunsets and Pussy
Jun 20 - Aug 16, 2013 Reception: Thu Jun 20 6pm - 8pm
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Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Sunsets and Pussy. This exhibition brings together two classic themes of summer wonder – so saccharine and ubiquitous we forget their awesome power. Spanning three generations, artists Ed Ruscha, Lucien Smith, Betty Tompkins, and Piotr Uklański each engage in the delight of exposing the clichéd beauty and banality inherent in these timeless images.

For further information regarding Sunsets and Pussy or images of the works, please contact Veronica Levitt at 212.680.9889 or veronica@marianneboeskygallery.com.
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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