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Saturday, June 15

Ends July 13th 2013

Bonni Benrubi
41 East 57th St, 13th Floor / +12128886007 / bonnibenrubi.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Bonni Benrubi Gallery specializes in photography. Please contact gallery for more information.
JEHAD NGA NEW WORK, MALI AND LIBYA
May 29 - Jul 13, 2013
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Edelman Arts
136 East 74th Street / +12124727770 / edelmanarts.com
Mon - Fri 10am to 5pm
Edelman Arts specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Paulo Laport
May 29 - Jul 13, 2013
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First Street Gallery
526 West 26th Street, Suite 209 / +16463368053 / firststreetgallery.net
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
2013 National Juried Exhibition
Jun 20 - Jul 13, 2013 Reception: Sat Jun 22 3pm
First Street Gallery is pleased to present the 2013 National Juried Exhibition, juried by Donald Kuspit, renowned art critic and author.
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Grey Art Gallery
New York University, 100 Washington Square East / +12129986780 / nyu.edu/greyart
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Wed 11am to 8pm, Sat 11am to 5pm
Grey Art Gallery presents exhibitions and collections of modern and contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
ALICE AYCOCK DRAWINGS: SOME STORIES ARE WORTH REPEATING
Apr 23 - Jul 13, 2013
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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.
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.
Margaret Thatcher Projects
539 West 23rd Street, Ground Floor / +12126750222 / thatcherprojects.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
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.
SOHO20 Chelsea
547 W. 27th Street, Suite 301 / +12123678994 / soho20gallery.com
Tue - Sat 12pm to 6pm
SOHO20 Chelsea is a nonprofit exhibition space supporting contemporary women artists. Please contact the gallery for more information.
HERoica
Jun 18 - Jul 13, 2013
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Stephen Haller Gallery
542 West 26th Street / +12127417777 / stephenhallergallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
LINDA STOJAK REDUX
Jun 6 - Jul 13, 2013
The Guggenheim Award-winning painter's indelible images, an intensely personal art.
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Ends July 14th 2013

The Artist's Institute
163 Eldridge Street / +17187304349 / theartistsinstitute.org
Fri - Sun 12pm to 6pm
Thomas Bayrle
Feb 10 - Jul 14, 2013
A series of successive exhibitions conceived by Thomas Bayrle, with his work shown alongside contributions by other artists.
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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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Mulherin + Pollard
187 Chrystie Street, End of Freeman Alley / +12129670045 / mulherinpollard.com
Wed - Sat 12pm to 6pm, Sun 1pm to 5pm
Mulherin + Pollard specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Aaron Williams pictures/Pictures
Jun 13 - Jul 14, 2013
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Aaron Williams tends to work with cheap, fallible materials like book pages and posters, interested in the populist, stock imagery that has very little physical value but maintains great cultural and emotional currency. While examining the differences between a hand-made mark and a photographic image ( particularly one that has the popular appeal of a music or film star ) they become abstracted images: “ideas of portrait” rather than an actual portrait.
In this sense a famous picture of the Alps exists as an idea of a landscape rather than a singular, personal record of an experience. This critical distance allows the artist to move more freely in manipulating the imagery and also opens up questions and unexpected visual directions in the studio.
Working at the intersection between image and material; the space between the emotive capacity of the image and the physical reality of the paper and printing process, Williams questions the validity and reality of the images he works with, particularly in light of them being so broadly disseminated.

Aaron Williams was born in Rhode Island and holds a BFA from the Maine College of Art and an MFA from Rutgers University. His work has been included in venues throughout the United States, including Bill Maynes, Max Protetch, Lu Magnus and Stephan Stoyanov galleries (NYC), Howard House (Seattle) and Rosenwald- Wolf Gallery (Philadelphia). He has had solo shows at Baumgartner and Max Protetch galleries in New York as well as at OH+T gallery in Boston. He has received reviews in the Boston Globe, the NY Times, the Seattle PI and L Magazine in addition to several online sources. Upcoming shows include the Portland Biennial at the Portland Museum (ME) and a solo show at LaMontagne Gallery in Boston in the fall. Aaron Williams lives and works in Queens, NY.
Mulherin + Pollard
187 Chrystie Street, End of Freeman Alley / +12129670045 / mulherinpollard.com
Wed - Sat 12pm to 6pm, Sun 1pm to 5pm
Mulherin + Pollard specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Saira McLaren a closing eyelid, a tiny fainting spell
Jun 13 - Jul 14, 2013
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Mulherin + Pollard is very pleased to present , “a closing eyelid, a tiny fainting spell” a recent body of work by Brooklyn-based artist Saira McLaren, which explores issues of femininity, residue and saturation.

“Colour ...is a kind of bliss...like a closing eyelid, a tiny fainting spell,” Roland Barthes

Falling lapsing into overwhelming hallucinatory - colour - spreading flowing bleeding staining, soaking merging into both the dream and the nightmare.

The pinks, the reds, the feminine threaten to engulf you — slipping over the white lines, off the white walls.

In paintings, fabric dyes on raw linen and small ceramic works, these ideas associated with chromophobia, the feminine and of generally what is good taste versus the garish, the clashing, and the `made-up` are explored.
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
327 Broome Street, (between Bowery & Chrystie) / +12123758043 / nicellebeauchene.com
Wed - Sun 11am to 6pm
Eamon Ore-Giron Smuggling the Sun
Jun 13 - Jul 14, 2013
New works by Eamon Ore-Giron
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PARTICIPANT INC
253 East Houston Street, Ground Floor / +12122544334 / participantinc.org
Wed - Sun 12pm to 7pm
Gordon Kurtti Gordon Kurtti Project
Jun 2 - Jul 14, 2013
Curated by Carl George Of Allied Productions
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Ends July 15th 2013

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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Ends July 16th 2013

Bose Pacia
163 Plymouth Street / +12129897074 / bosepacia.com
By appointment only
Chitra Ganesh Transparent Studio: Chitra Ganesh
Jun 18 - Jul 16, 2013 Reception: Thu Jul 11 6pm
Residency Dates: June 18, 2013 to July 16, 2013
Open Studio & Artist Talk: Thursday, July 11, 2013 from 6pm-9pm
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Brooklyn, NY —- Transparent Studio at Bose Pacia is pleased to announce the current artist-in-residence, Chitra Ganesh. Her drawing, installation, text-based work, and collaborations seek to excavate and rewrite hidden narratives typically excluded from official canons of history, literature, and art. Her work is inspired by mythology, folklore, sci-fi, Bollywood, comic books and graffiti. During the month long residency, Ganesh will use the space to develop her wall drawings by exploring the use of sculptural elements, printmaking technique and collage ephemera. The public is invited to an Open Studio and Artist Talk on 11th July from 6-9pm. Please contact the gallery to arrange for a visit to the studio between June 18th and July 16th.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Chitra Ganesh received her BA in Comparative Literature and Art Semiotics in 1996 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2002. Ganesh’s work has been exhibited widely at venues including PS 1/MOMA, Brooklyn Museum, the Asia Society, and the Andy Warhol Museum, Fondazione Sandretto in Italy, Nature Morte Berlin, ZKM in Germany, and the Gothenburg Kunsthalle. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Joan Mitchell Awards for Painting and Sculpture, and a John Simon Guggenheim Creative Arts Fellowship. Ganesh will be the 2012-2013 artist-in-residence at New York University’s A/P/A Institute with Mariam Ghani for their work, Index of the Disappeared. Ganesh lives and works in Brooklyn.

About Transparent Studio at Bose Pacia, NY:
Launched in January 2012, Transparent Studio is an artist studio program founded by Bose Pacia. Emerging and mid career artists are selected for the studio program through a submissions and nominations process based on project proposal and artistic merit. Residents are provided with a studio in the main gallery space for a 1-3 month period. By turning the transitional gallery space into temporary artist studios on the street-level in an active arts neighborhood, we are hoping to allow for an atmosphere of engagement and conversation around the creative process. During the program, the public is invited to interact with the artist throughout their creative process allowing exchange and collaborative relationships.

Studio hours are by appointment only.
For more information please contact:

mail@bosepacia.com (or) +1 212 989 7074

Ends July 19th 2013

bitforms gallery
529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor / +12123666939 / bitforms.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Vanishing Point
May 30 - Jul 19, 2013
Annie Dorsen, Kyle McDonald, Boris Meister, Elaine Reichek, Sebastian Schmieg, Mungo Thomson, Clement Valla, Siebren Versteeg
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Curatorial Statement by A.E. Benenson:
At the birth of modern computing, a paradox: only after Alan Turing theorizes an infinitely large computer do we begin to plausibly imagine how our world could be digitally remade as small as possible. That is, it’s
only after Turing fixed our technological gaze outwards onto infinity that we began our relentless dwindling inwards, towards miniaturized circuits and virtualization. Taking this contradictory movement as both its content and form, the exhibition Vanishing Point presents views of a contemporary digital vastness that is both boundless and barely there.

By understanding computing as an ongoing experiment in the incommensurate, the artists in this exhibition draw the discipline of computing into various unlikely associations: outer-space, the afterlife, Abstract Expressionism, Greek Tragedy. And yet at the same time, there is a move to deconstruct the traditional aesthetic associations with the infinite (e.g. “the sublime”) in terms of a contemporary virtual sprawl that is often pathetically insignificant, banal and quotidian. These analytical impulses are tempered with modes of address that are more lyrical, less direct; formal experiments within the contradictions of a new vastness that is simultaneously too large and too small to be fully apprehended.

Here, “vanishing point” refers not only to the infinitely distant and small destination where everything rushes to converge, but also to a potential moment of disappearance – an event horizon where technology swallows something once and for all…what exactly – irrationality, expressivity, scarcity, suffering? Nothing in this exhibition claims to know with certainty. The objective is not to make predictions, but to press ourselves a little closer to the arc that bends towards the limit.

the universal Turing machine, 1936

Exhibited Works:
Annie Dorsen, “Hello, Hi There”, 2011-2013
Kyle McDonald, “Only Everything Lasts Forever”, 2009
Boris Meister, “Above the Cloud – Archaeology of Social Networks”, 2012
RAND Corporation, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, 1955
Elaine Reichek, “SETI”, 2004
Sebastian Schmieg, “Search by Image”, 2011-ongoing
Mungo Thomson, “Einstein #1”, 2008
Clement Valla, “Paintings from Wushipu”, 2009
Siebren Versteeg, “doorformsbitman6000x6000_323 (2x3)”, 2013

This exhibition marks the US debut of artist Boris Meister, and the NYC premiere of recent works by Kyle McDonald, Sebastian Schmieg, Clement Valla and Siebren Versteeg.

Public Program:
A tour of the exhibition with curator A.E. Benenson will take place Thursday, June 27, at 5:00 PM.
It is free and open to the public. RSVP: info@bitforms.com
Higher Pictures
980 Madison Ave / +12122496100 / higherpictures.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
New York, New York
Alfred Gescheidt 30 Ways To Stop Smoking
Jun 13 - Jul 19, 2013
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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
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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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For more information please contact: HYPERLINK “mailto:gassergrunertsummer@gmail.com” gassergrunert@gmail.com 646.944.6197 For press inquiries and images contact: Margaret Fasel HYPERLINK “mailto:margaret@gassergrunert.net” margaret@gassergrunert.net 816.289.2693
Pavel Zoubok Gallery
531 West 26th Street / +12126757490 / pavelzoubok.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Pavel Zoubok Gallery specializes in contemporary and modern collage, mixed media and assemblage. Please contact gallery for more information
ECCE HOMO: THOMAS LANIGAN SCHMIDT AND THE ART OF REBELLION
Jun 6 - Jul 19, 2013
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William Holman Gallery
65 Ludlow Street / +12124751500 / wholmangallery.com
Mon - Sat 10:30am to 6:30pm
We opened in October, 2012 with nine contemporary artists in the exhibition program from America, the Caribbean and Europe.
Summer Show - New Artists
Jun 19 - Jul 19, 2013
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Ends July 20th 2013

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue / +12122498950 / as-coa.org
Wed - Sun 12pm to 6pm
The Americas Society Visual Arts program is dedicated to exhibiting and promoting art from Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada.
Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges The Art of Friendship
Apr 18 - Jul 20, 2013
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Bleecker Street Arts Club
305 Bleecker St. / +16466442602 / bsacny.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 7pm
Matt Mignanelli and Ryan Wallace Ryan Wallace/Matt Mignanelli
Jun 6 - Jul 20, 2013
The artists' works blur the boundary between analog and mechanical modes of production, through complex layering and repetition.
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Bleecker Street Arts Club
305 Bleecker St. / +16466442602 / bsacny.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 7pm
Group Show curated by Halsey McKay Gallery (Easthampton, NY) Flat Field
Jun 6 - Jul 20, 2013
Patrick Brennan, Chris Duncan, Joseph Hart, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Lauren Luloff, Hilary Pecis, Matt Rich and Ryan Steadman
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Chambers Fine Art
522 West 19th Street / +12124141169 / chambersfineart.com
Tue - Sat 9:30am to 6pm
Chambers Fine Art Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Ye Nan Like Moths to a Flame
Jun 13 - Jul 20, 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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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
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.
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA Gallery
547 West 27th Street, Suite 204 / +12122687132 / miyakoyoshinaga.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Group Exhibition IT'S IN THE CARDS
Jun 6 - Jul 20, 2013
curated by David Gimbert
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Sundaram Tagore Gallery | Chelsea
547 West 27th Street / +12126774520 / sundaramtagore.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Miya Ando Mujo [Impermanence]
Jun 20 - Jul 20, 2013 Reception: Thu Jun 20 6pm
A descendant of Bizen sword makers, New York-based artist Miya Ando combines techniques of her ancestry with modern industrial technology.
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Ends July 21st 2013

Denny Gallery
261 Broome St / +12122266537 / dennygallery.com
Wed - Sun 11am to 6pm
Denny Gallery is a contemporary art gallery specializing in emerging, interdisciplinary artists.
Aiden Simon, Amber Hawk Swanson, Oli Rodriguez and Sean Fader The Participants
Jun 20 - Jul 21, 2013 Reception: Thu Jun 20 6pm
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Rachel Uffner Gallery
47 Orchard Street / +12122740064 / racheluffnergallery.com
Wed - Sun 11am to 6pm
Rachel Uffner Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Graham Collins, Samara Golden, David Wojnarowicz Truck Baby
Jun 7 - Jul 21, 2013
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Rawson Projects
223 Franklin St / +17183882706 / rawsonprojects.com
Sat - Sun 1pm to 7pm
Rawson Projects specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
CONFETTISYSTEM, Thomas Jeppe, Georgie Georgie Roxby Smith, Pinar Yolacan Self Help
Jun 15 - Jul 21, 2013
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Studio 10
56 Bogart St, 1st Floor / +17188524396 / studio10bogart.com
Thu - Sun 1pm to 6pm
North of My Brain, South of My Ass: Hats and Shoes by Artists
Jun 21 - Jul 21, 2013 Reception: Fri Jun 21 7pm
J. Bjekrlie, S. Brower, N. Davidson, G. Drasler, M. Freedman, B. Gaman, J. Nichols, N. Singleton J. Tallichet, S. Wheat, M. Williams
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North of My Brain, South of My Ass: Hats and Shoes by Artists
- Curated by Matt Blackwell and Laurence Hegarty

Studio10 presents North of My Brain, South of My Ass: Hats and Shoes by Artists, a group exhibition of work by John Bjekrlie, Steven Brower, Nancy Davidson,Greg Drasler, Matt Freedman, Brian Gaman, Jennie Nichols,Nikki Singleton, Jude Tallichet, Summer Wheat and Moira Williams.

Hats and shoes, the parentheses of the self –everything else is in between.
(Kierkegaard)

When we asked Moira Williams to explain her “hat” in the show she told us that it was a hat made from bleached newspapers. Newspapers from Bogota Columbia, newspapers that Williams had, while working on her bee-keeping apprenticeship in Columbia, either slept on by night or worn stuffed into her shoes by day. Williams’ specific hope in this was that the words of the newspapers would enter her dreams and she would thus learn Spanish. So, we could try and understand this schematically as, the bees absorb the pollen and make honey while Williams’ body absorbs, in some imprecise way –though perhaps it is a little like the way bees gather pollen– words. Pollen thus becomes honey, while words become knowledge. Words burrow their way –from your dreams, from your feet– into your brain and this is how you come to know something. So in this theory knowledge can be dreamed into a being through bodily contact?

It should be noted that this is better deal than Freud. For Freud, as we all know, the dream was merely a wish fulfillment. The dream satisfied some social, sexual or bodily wish, but only mentally; in the dream. All you woke up with was the wish plus the dream. In Freud the dream is a consolation prize. With Williams you learn Spanish.

Freud is where much of this sorry tale begins. There we were in the studio one day trying to conjure Freud back to life from silicone rubber and cardboard, a few magical incantations were to be added later. We began, naturally enough, with his hat. That’s when we realized that the hat we were making looked much like the ones our fathers wore back in the late 50’s early 60’s. It also looked like the one we remembered Dick Tracey wearing in Warhol’s painting and the one Belmondo wears as tribute to Bogart in Breathless. In short it (they really) were all over the place. The shoes were next. we wanted to recreate the ones Ray Johnson had made and then mailed to Bert Brecht. After we had made a maquette we consulted an image of the real thing in an old Johnson catalogue: he had made them for John Cage.

We decided other artists might be more reliable. A show of other artists making hats and shoes; Freud could wait., being dead a little longer wouldn’t hurt. Richard Hulsenbeck, Sophie Tauber, Joseph Beuys, Hugo Ball all wore great hats. And to come full circle Max Ernst made his 1920 “The hat makes the man” collage, allegedly with a nod to Freud.

Matt Blackwell is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn New York Laurence Hegarty is an artist and curator based in New York City.

For more information and images, please contact Annelie McGavin at (718) 852-4396.

Ends July 22nd 2013

Sculpture Center
44-19 Purves Street / +17183611750 / sculpture-center.org
Thu - Mon 11am to 6pm
SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture.
Jonathas de Andrade, Neïl Beloufa, Keith Edmier, and others Better Homes
Apr 22 - Jul 22, 2013
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Ends July 25th 2013

On Stellar Rays
133 Orchard Street / +12125983012 / onstellarrays.com
Wed - Sat 10am to 6pm, Sun 12pm to 6pm
Bayard, Jennifer Sirey, Jonathan Van Dyke, Michael Mahalchick, Nathaniel No Name
Jun 20 - Jul 25, 2013 Reception: Thu Jun 20 6pm
The artists in No Name refuse to be pinned down or labeled, and their work cannot be described coherently.
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Ends July 26th 2013

Alexander Gray Associates
508 West 26 Street #215 / +12123992636 / alexandergray.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Alexander Gray Associates specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Regina Silveira
Jun 5 - Jul 26, 2013
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Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe
525 West 22nd Street / +12124450051 / amy-nyc.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Wolf Kahn
Jun 6 - Jul 26, 2013
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Art Projects International (API)
434 Greenwich Street, Ground Floor / +12123432599 / artprojects.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Summer Selections
Jun 14 - Jul 26, 2013
Featuring a selection of works by gallery artists.
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Barbara Mathes Gallery
22 East 80th Street / +12125704190 / www.barbaramathesgallery.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 10am to 5pm
Fausto Melotti: Works on Paper and Plaster
May 2 - Jul 26, 2013
Works featuring Fausto Melotti experimenting with loose washes of color, clotted rivulets of plaster, and an assertive materiality.
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Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of the art of Fausto Melotti. In recent years, the gallery has introduced American audiences to a number of different sides to this complex artist’s career, from his elegant metal sculptures to the chromatic fireworks of his ceramics. The current exhibition—comprised of rarely seen objects drawn from the artist’s estate—features drawings and mixed media works on plaster, revealing yet another dimension to the artist’s oeuvre.
Born in Rovereto, Italy in 1901, Melotti studied both art and music in his early schooling before majoring in engineering in university. When he dedicated himself to becoming an artist in 1928, he drew on all of these experiences to formulate an expansive, harmonious understanding of the arts. Also pivotal to his development were his conversations with his Lucio Fontana, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship while in art school in Milan. His mature work was influenced by the competing avant-gardes of the early 20th century, wedding the Constructivist’s technical rigor with the Surrealists’ fantastical, biomorphic vocabulary. Underlying this eclecticism was an artistic philosophy based on inclusion and harmony, inspired in large measure by his lifelong love of music and poetry. As he once stated, “The matrimony of the arts is their life. Poetry is only such if sentiment is wedded to music, if painting is wedded to the sentiments of poetry and music, lyrical music to poetry, contrapuntal music to a plastic idea. Pure art is a spinster.”
Melotti reinvented his practice in the years following World War II. After discovering that his Milan studio had been destroyed in the aerial bombardments, he rented a kiln, thus initiating a fifteen-year period in which he only produced ceramics and terracotta sculptures. Working with ceramics introduced an organic spontaneity to his practice, as the precise geometries and refined classicism of his earlier work gave way to a more elemental urgency born out of the new postwar reality. When he resumed working in metal sculpture in the sixties, he continued to explore this aspect of his practice in drawings and plaster reliefs. The works in this exhibition find Melotti experimenting with loose washes of color, clotted rivulets of plaster, and an assertive materiality. In comparison to the studied refinement of the metal sculptures, they possess an intimacy and sense of personal poetry, representing a more private side to the artist’s practice.
Birnam Wood Galleries
514 West 24th Street / +12122422270 / birnamwoodart.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Katherine Ryan Roth, Clifford Smith, Chloe Lamb, Wolf Kahn, and others. One Summer
Jun 18 - Jul 26, 2013
June 18 through July 26. One Summer: Works by Katherine Ryan Roth, Clifford Smith, Chloe Lamb, Wolf Kahn, John Houston, Susan Grossman.
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Elizabeth Harris Gallery
529 West 20th Street / +12124639666 / elizabethharrisgallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Elizabeth Harris Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Victor Pesce selections 1978 - 2010
Apr 20 - Jul 26, 2013
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Hauser & Wirth | Uptown
32 East 69th Street / +12127944970 / hauserwirth.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Hauser & Wirth New York specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Paul McCarthy Life Cast MUST SEE
May 10 - Jul 26, 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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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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Monya Rowe Gallery
504 West 22nd Street, Second Floor / +12122555065 / monyarowegallery.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Monya Rowe Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Group show Being Paul Schrader
Jun 20 - Jul 26, 2013
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For Immediate Release

Geoff Chadsey
Angela Dufresne
Vera Iliatova
Jake Longstreth
Marcial Ramos
Cynthia Talmadge & Kevin Zucker
Craig Taylor
Andrew Witkin
Alexi Worth

June 20 – July 26, 2013
Opening reception: Thursday, June 20, 6 - 8 PM

slap that cunt • autumn • failure • cars • fear • cages • ephemerality • shadows • chaos • duality • escape • violence • hotels • the subconscious vs. the self • breakage • cocaine • redemption • pornography • honesty • the periphery of society • Armani • not giving a shit • loneliness • transcendence • alcohol • grit • sex • killing • insomnia • glamour • aggression • morality • voyeurism • darkness • deceit • narcissism & superficiality=tools for avoiding intimacy • I’m dripping • anxiety • ego • let’s disappear • beauty • relief • night • anger • obsession • the road • prostitution • style • self-destruction • dreams • loneliness • starting over • trash • escape • light • perversion • a man alone in a room • sex is not about sex • guns • mood • Pandora’s box • disconnect • flesh • suicide • sacrifice • instability • decay • isolation • let’s fuck • redemption through violence • homosexuality • writing • Mercedes • alienation • mirrors • blood • taupe • guilt • vanity • revelation • defiance • depression • decadence • discovery • self-reflection • venetian blinds

"What fascinates me are people who want to be one thing but who behave in a way contradictory to that. Who might say, ‘I want to be happy, but I keep doing things that make me unhappy.” - Paul Schrader

- Katherine Kennedy and Monya Rowe, 2013

Curated by Monya Rowe Gallery

Katherine Kennedy is the singer for Autodrone and is currently studying Russian Language and Culture at Columbia University, New York.

Gallery summer hours
June: Tuesday – Saturday, 11- 6 PM
July: Tuesday – Friday, 11- 6 PM
August: Closed

For more information or images please contact the gallery at 212 255 5065 or info@monyarowegallery.com
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Nancy Margolis Gallery
523 West 25th Street / +12122423013 / nancymargolisgallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
CAST PARTY
Jun 20 - Jul 26, 2013
Willem Andersson, Rachel Bone, Edward del Rosario, Jeff Depner, Eva Hild, Jackie Meier, Asuka Ohsawa, Jacob Ouillette, Gina Ruggeri
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P!
334 Broome Street / p-exclamation.org
Thu - Sun 12pm to 6pm, Wed - Sun 12pm to 6pm
Permutation 03.4: Re-mix
Jun 23 - Jul 26, 2013 Reception: Sun Jun 23 7pm
Thomas Brinkmann, Semir Alschausky, Katarina Buren, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Oliver Laric
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The final exhibition of P!’s six-month cycle on copying revives recent histories through spatial fiction and wild expropriation. Like musicians who simultaneously “cover” and claim a favorite song as their own, the works in Permutation 03.4 rewrite the linearity of succession and influence. Techno-conceptualist Thomas Brinkmann reengineers the very instrument on which records are performed. Presented at Documenta X in 1997, his double-armed turntable stretches, syncopates, and contorts the playback of any track — effortlessly yielding albums that remix and elude their original source. In contrast, Semir Alschausky exhibits a 7 ½ foot wide “copy” of Paolo Veronese’s 1563 painting, The Wedding at Cana. Painstakingly rendered in a circular line pattern, Alschausky’s drawing challenges the amnesiac rhythms of cultural reference through its pen-on-paper hatchmarks and obsessive retracings. The impulse to resurrect and reimagine the past is also ingrained in Katarina Burin, who displays the archival publications of a little-known female Czech architect, Petra Andrejova-Molnár. Within the historicized narrative of Modernist architecture, these unlikely treasures question the curated canon as a “collective” memory. Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau of Fake Industries Architectural Agonism examine myths of autonomy through their reactivated structures. In “Night Curtain by Rey Akdogan Edited,” an original installation at P!, they “elaborate the dispersed kind of Situationist Post Minimalism” that is apparent in their recent architectural and exhibition projects. Their “interest in the specificities of light […] result[s] in the gallery shifting its hours” to the evenings, and also means that a system of periodically dimmed lighting units creates “an almost cinematic dance of shadows on the walls.” The final piece in the exhibition is a reinstallation of Oliver Laric’s video essay Versions, which first appeared at P! in March 2013 and is currently on view in the exhibition A Diferent Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial. Using Laric’s work as a basis, The Julliard School’s Center for Innovation in the Arts have created a multimedia performance version of the video that —overwriting its non-definitive predecessor — is presented at P! as a new work. Undermining inscribed architectures and black-and-white narratives, Permutation 03.4 proposes the copy as a mere historical fragment: a critical moment of repetition and repression.
Susan Inglett Gallery
522 West 24 Street / +12126479111 / inglettgallery.com
Tue-Sat 10am to 6pm
CURRENT PICK: Marcia Kure
SPECIFIC OBJECTS
Jun 20 - Jul 26, 2013
This exhibition features works by artists cited in Donald Judd’s seminal essay “Specific Objects,“ 1965, from Arman to HC Westermann.”
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