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Sunday, June 16

Galleries

OPUS Project Space
526 West 26th Street, Studio 705 / +19176127687 / opusprojectspace.com
Fri - Sat 12pm to 6pm
OPUS exhibits projects by emerging contemporary artists exploring the spectrum of art, design, text, information and science.
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Orchard Windows Gallery
37 Orchard Street / +19179951001 / orchardwindowsgallery.com
11am to 6pm daily
Orchard Windows Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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OSMOS
50 E 1st Street / +19178597104 / artforum.com/?pn=picks§ion=nyc#picks41134
OSMOS specializes in contemporary art. Please contact the gallery for more information.
CURRENT PICK: Peter Roehr
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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 - 10pm
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.
P.P.O.W
535 West 22nd Street, Third Floor / +12126471044 / ppowgallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
P.P.O.W specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Carolee Schneemann Flange 6rpm
May 11 - Jun 22, 2013
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Carolee Schneemann

Flange 6rpm

May 11 – June 22, 2013

Reception: Saturday, May 11, 6-8pm

P·P·O·W is pleased to present Carolee Schneemann’s fourth exhibition at the gallery entitled Flange 6rpm. Originally a painter, Carolee Schneemann is a pioneer of extended media, from her explorations of ‘geometry of motion’ in Lateral Splay, 1963, the provocative group performance Meat Joy, 1964, her self-shot erotic film Fuses, 1965, and the meditation of solitary movements in Up To and Including Her Limits, 1973-76.

Upon entering the gallery the viewer is immersed in the projected foundry fires of Schneemann’s latest multi-sensory installation, Flange 6rpm. Seven motorized sculptural units; containing hand-sculpted components are uniquely, cast in aluminum from a lost wax process. The aluminum sculptures are not polished, but maintain a rough textured sill marked from the fire of the foundry. The sculptural units are each mounted on a motorized base which moves them at six revolutions per minute – slowly, side to side, as well as forward and back – in a continuous motion so that the sculptural elements are almost touching, creating a sense of tension and unpredictability.

Schneemann notes ‘The fundamental life of any material I use is concentrated in that material’s gesture — gesticulation, gestation, source of compression (measure of tension and expansion), resistance, developing force of visual action. Manifest in space, any particular gesture acts on the eye as a unit of time.' This statement reigns true to the materials of the four Dust Paintings, 1983-86, that occupy the walls of the second gallery. Degraded materials, ashes, soot, layers of dust, spilled paint, circuit boards, posit a visual correlative to the endless bombardments of Lebanese and Palestinian villages.

Saw Over Want, 1980-82 and Vulva’s Morphia, 1995, are composed from photographic grids separated by strips of text that accentuate and destabilize their associated images. The text in Saw Over Want, is taken from Schneemann’s childhood alphabet exercises. The words “saw”, “want”, and “over” have been repeatedly practiced. Strips of text underline images of ordinary objects and self-shot erotic body details. This contrast produces an aesthetic seepage. Vulva’s Morphia consists of thirty-six images which address normative taboos within an undulating grid of Paleolithic vulvas inscribed on rocks as well as sacred, obscene, scientific, and self-photographed vulvic images. Each sectional grid is underlined with a taboo reflection. For instance, “Vulva reads biology and understands she is an amalgam of proteins and oxytocin hormones which govern all her desires....”

A feature length film on Schneemann’s work and history entitled Breaking the Frame by Marielle Nitoslawska has recently been completed and shown at the Telluride Film Festival, BFI/London Film Festival, FNC Montreal, Glasgow, Cleveland and this month at the WRO Biennial, Wroclaw, Poland and Videoex, Zurich. Schneemann’s work has been exhibited worldwide, at institutions including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her published books include Cezanne; She Was A Great Painter (1976); Early and Recent Work (1983); More Than Meat Joy: Complete Performance Works and Selected Writings (1979); Correspondence Course (2010) by Kristine Stiles and Imaging Her Erotics–Essays, Interviews, Projects (2002). Color brochure to accompany the exhibition with essay by Melissa Ragona.
Pablo's Birthday
528 Canal Street / +12124622411 / pablosbirthday.com
Pablo's Birthday specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Pace Gallery | 508 West 25th St.
508 West 25th St. / +12129894258 / thepacegallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
The Pace Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Tim Hawkinson
May 3 - Jun 22, 2013
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Pace Gallery | 510 W. 25th Street
510 West 25th Street / +12122554044 / pacegallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Pace Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Richard Misrach
May 4 - Jun 29, 2013
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Pace Gallery | 534 W. 25th Street
534 W. 25th Street / +12129297000 / thepacegallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
The Pace Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Yoshitomo Nara
May 10 - Jun 29, 2013
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Pace Gallery | 32 E. 57th Street
32 East 57th Street, Second Floor / +12124213292 / pacegallery.com
Tue - Fri 9:30am to 6pm, Sat 10am to 6pm
Maya Lin Here and There
Apr 26 - Jun 22, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 – Jun 22, 2013
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Pace Prints | 26th Street
521 West 26th Street, 3rd Floor / +12126296100 / paceprints.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 6pm
Pace Prints specializes in fine art prints, and prints by contemporary artists. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Pace Prints | 57th
32 E. 57th Street, Third Floor / +12124213237 / paceprints.com
Tue - Fri 9:30am to 5:30pm, Sat 10am to 5pm
Pace Prints specializes in fine art prints, and prints by contemporary artists. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Pace/MacGill Gallery
32 E. 57th Street, Ninth Floor / +12127597999 / pacemacgill.com
Tue - Fri 9:30am to 5:30pm, Sat 10am to 6pm
Pace/MacGill Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary photography. Please contact gallery for more information.
Richard Misrach On the Beach 2.0
May 4 - Jun 29, 2013
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Snap Noir: Snapshot Stores From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson
Jun 20 - Aug 21, 2013
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The Painting Center
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500 / +12123431060 / thepaintingcenter.org
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
The Painting Center is a nonprofit exhibition space supporting contemporary painters. Please contact the gallery for more information.
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Panoply Performance Laboratory
104 Meserole Street / +15745367648 / panoplylab.org
By appointment only
We are a visual arts performance and curatorial collective in residence at a gallery/performance space
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Parallel Art Space
1717 Troutman Street, #220 / parallelartspace.com
Sat - Sun 1pm to 6pm
Parallel Art Space, formerly Camel Art Space, is an artist run exhibition space committed solely to exhibiting exceptional visual art.
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Parker's Box
193 Grand Street / +17183882882 / parkersbox.com
Thu - Sun 1pm to 7pm
Parker's Box specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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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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Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 Tenth Avenue / +12125634474 / paulkasmingallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Paul Kasmin Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
James Nares Road Paint
May 8 - Jun 22, 2013
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Paul Kasmin Gallery | 27th Street
515 W. 27th Street / +12125634474 / paulkasmingallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Simon Hantai
May 8 - Jun 22, 2013
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Junkies' Promises
Jun 27 - Aug 16, 2013
Curated by Iván Navarro
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Paul Kolker Gallery
511 West 25th Street, lower level / +12123677300 / paulkolker.com
Mon - Fri 10am to 6pm
shapes, spaces and surfaces, redux
May 2 - Jul 3, 2013
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Paul Kolker Standards and Horizons
Jul 11 - Sep 27, 2013 Reception: Thu Jul 11 6pm - 8pm
Light Sculptures and their vertical and horizontal reflections ad infinitum.
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Paula Cooper Gallery | 521 West 21st Street
521 West 21st Street / +12122551105 / paulacoopergallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
The Paula Cooper Gallery opened in 1968 and remains focused on conceptual and minimal art.
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Paula Cooper Gallery | 534 West 21st Street
534 West 21st Street / +12122551105 / www.paulacoopergallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
The Paula Cooper Gallery opened in 1968 and remains focused on conceptual and minimal art.
Mark di Suvero Little Dancer
May 3 - Jun 22, 2013
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Bruce Conner
May 4 - Jun 29, 2013
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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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Peter Blum Gallery
20 West 57th Street / +12122446055 / peterblumgallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Peter Blum Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
John Zurier A spring a thousand years ago
Apr 25 - Jun 22, 2013
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JOHN ZURIER

A spring a thousand years ago

April 25 – June 22, 2013

Peter Blum is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by John Zurier entitled A spring a thousand years ago at 20 West 57th Street. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, April 25th from 6-8 pm. The exhibition continues through June 22nd.

On view are new monochromatic paintings created in 2012 and 2013, influenced in part by Zurier’s travels in Iceland. The title of the exhibition comes from a poem by the Icelandic poet Stefán Hörður Grímsson.

John Zurier explores colors and hues, nuances of light and shadow, and various atmospheres; by doing so he creates a material response to the phenomena of the natural world. His paintings are pared-down, lyrical and yet stark, highly poetic in their condensed expression of emotion and feeling.

His choices regarding the physical materials of the paintings — canvas or linen for the support, oil or distemper (dry pigments mixed with rabbit skin glue and water) — are influenced by traditional Japanese aesthetics, particularly mono no aware; late-medieval wall paintings in Swedish churches, as well as modern painters such as Cézanne, Matisse, Edvard Munch, and Franz Kline.

Above all, he is questioning the quality and meaning of painting. He aims to find the right balance between the raw materials (which he calls “the given”) and the transformation of these materials into the finished paintings. In doing so, he keeps the inherent quality of the materials present and visible.

John Zurier was born in Santa Monica, CA, in 1956 and lives in Berkeley, CA. He received his MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2012 Zurier participated in the Sao Paulo Biennial. He has exhibited at the California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art (2010), Berkeley Art Museum, CA (2009, 2004, 2002, 2001), Gwangju Biennale (2008), New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (2006), the de Young Museum, CA (2005), and the Whitney Biennial, NY (2002). In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

For additional information and photographic material please contact Renée Albada Jelgersma or David Blum at art@peterblumgallery.com (Tel: 212 244 6055). Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-6pm; Saturday, 11am-6pm.
Peter Findlay Gallery
16 East 79th Street, 2nd floor / +12126444433 / findlay.com
Peter Findlay Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Peter Freeman Gallery
140 Grand Street / +12129665154 / peterfreemaninc.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Peter Freeman Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Mel Bochner
May 10 - Jun 29, 2013
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Petzel Gallery
456 W 18th Street / +12126809467 / petzel.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Friedrich Petzel Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Simon Denny All you need is data: the DLD 2012 Conference REDUX rerun
Jun 20 - Jul 27, 2013 Reception: Thu Jun 20 6pm - 8pm
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SIMON DENNY
All you need is data: the DLD 2012 Conference REDUX rerun

June 20 – July 27, 2013

Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by Simon Denny entitled, All you need is data: the DLD 2012 Conference REDUX rerun, from June 20 to July 27, 2013. This is the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery. A catalogue published by Koenig, including an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, texts by Karen Archey, digital law expert Michael Littger and an introduction by co-curators Bart van der Heide and Saim Demircan, will accompany the show.

All you need is data: the DLD 2012 Conference REDUX rerun focuses on the 2012 edition of Munich’s annual Digital Life Design (DLD) conference dld-conference.com/. The conference is a high caliber platform for the exchange of ideas between digital media, the sciences and culture, which had the theme “All You Need Is … DATA?” in 2012. Denny’s exhibition was first presented at the Kunstverein Munich at the beginning of the year, alongside the 2013 DLD conference.

For his exhibition, Denny has created a display structure for 89 canvases that represent a visual summary of events that took place at DLD12, harvesting insights from the many speakers such as Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook), Chris “Moot” Poole (4chan) and David Karp (tumblr), among others. The viewer is lead through the exhibition following a railing system that displays individual canvas “screens” that feature photos, pull-quotes and reconfigured stage and graphic designs from the conference. This content is flattened and depicted using iOS “skeuomorphic” style with app-like components. Only print media is used to illustrate the entire high-tech conference chronologically from beginning to end, forming what critic Kevin McGarry has described as “a structuralist memento mori”.
Simon Denny explores the materialization and commodification of “future visions and experiences,” and the lifespan of information in the context of fast paced, tech-driven commerce. The exhibition is a revealing format for how predetermined futures are promoted from the perspective of the digital economy. As such, the ‘REDUX’ in the title suggests a revisit of these future forecasts and is also indicative of the ‘Director’s Cut’ or a re-edit as a means of artistic appropriation.
Simon Denny was born in New Zealand in 1982 and received his degree at the Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, with shows at the Aspen Art Museum and Kunstverein Munich in the past year. He will be included in this year’s Venice Biennial as well as have an exhibition at MuMOK, Vienna this summer as a winner of the Art Basel Statements Baloise Preis in 2012. He is also a nominee for this year’s German Nationalgalerie Preis at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. Simon Denny lives and works in Berlin.
Petzel Gallery is located at 456 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Gallery hours will switch to our summer schedule, Monday through Friday from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM starting July 8th through the end of the exhibition. For press inquiries, please contact Andrew Black at andrew@petzel.com, or call (212) 680-9467.
For general inquiries, please email andrea@petzel.com.
Pierogi
177 North 9th Street / +17185992144 / pierogi2000.com
Tue - Sun 11am to 6pm
Daniel Zeller Based On a True Story...
May 31 - Jun 30, 2013
Pierogi is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Daniel Zeller.
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Pierogi is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Daniel Zeller. In his sixth exhibition at Pierogi, Zeller’s drawings continue to oscillate between micro and macro views of invented worlds and organisms. Using only graphite or ink and acrylic on paper, he explores incredible nuances of texture and structure that develop into powerful extensions of perceived reality.

The language of mark-making and imagery in his drawings to date has been entirely invented based on his interest in satellite images, topographical maps, electron micrographs, anatomical drawings, among others. Recently, Zeller has begun adding to this language elements referencing actual man-made structures and natural phenomena. In one work, “Vatican / al Haram,” his abstract marks surround and coalesce into the footprint of the Vatican complex with a river-like form leading to the mosque structure. In another, “Tar Sands Woodlands,” the organically shaped footprint of the oil sands mining operation in Alberta Canada, is juxtaposed to the rectilinear shape of the Woodlands Church Fellowship Campus, a mega-church in Texas. In each work an actual site is referenced but, as Zeller notes, fact and fiction merge to become something else, and of primary importance is invention through the drawing process.

All documents, images, and ideas grow increasingly fictitious with the passage of time and distance from their original context. Fiction, like most things, encompasses a scale ranging from wildly outrageous, to that which can seem indistinguishable from fact. We are inundated with information, virtually all of it containing an unknown ratio of fact and fiction. Each of these drawings incorporates features which have their origins in specific factual information, culled from a variety of sources, satellite imagery predominant among them. While the embedded information acts as something of a scaffold or a seed from which the work develops, the process of drawing remains central and is what ultimately determines the result. (Zeller, 2013)

Zeller’s process is direct — a fluid series of spontaneous choices governed by self-imposed rules and conditions. The main rule is to respect what has already been put on the page, not to cross or obscure lines already laid down. A tension between spontaneity and predictability is central to this process, allowing for its inevitable evolution.

“A spectacle can be created from the most modest means…. Daniel Zeller manages with just pen and ink, and sometimes just pencil. His drawings…are pulse-quickening, reason-defying wonders, testaments to the boundless potential of the human mind and hand.” He “…traces complexity itself, as a condition, a matter of connections, divergence, transitions and completions, the known and the imagined reconciled with extravagant finesse.” (Leah Ollman, The Los Angeles Times)

Zeller’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions and is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), the Albright Knox Museum (NY), among others. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Mark Reynolds Compositions
May 31 - Jun 30, 2013
Pierogi is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings by Mark Reynolds, his first at Pierogi.
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Light is to the Natural World as Abstract Space is to Geometry. —Robert Grosseteste, 1112

Pierogi is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings by Mark Reynolds, his first at Pierogi. These drawings are passionately developed and result from many years of investigation into geometry. Reynolds describes drawing the various systems of geometric structures he works with as exciting, meditative, exhilarating, and humbling.

Since his days in art school, Reynolds was committed to drawing and visually constructing geometries, enough to make this his life’s work. Although he has great respect for and is aware that his work has elements of Geometric Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Minimalism, and other similar methods of drawing and painting, his work is more involved with the origins of geometry, how geometry works, especially with the human mind, how it builds things, and how it orders space and records the development of an infinite variety of choices and structures because of the ratios and relationships inherent in the system of geometric forms.

Many of the drawings in [this exhibition] “are taken from meldings of systems of geometry that are not related nor numerically commensurate, and attempting to make them so. I call these compositions, ‘Marriages of Incommensurables,’ and ‘Unions of Opposites.’ I am interested in the structures and the images – the forms – that result from these meldings.” (Reynolds, 2013)

“The nature of geometry is to compose. Each resulting composition is uniquely harmonic by the method in which it was drawn and what was chosen to be the unifying geometric principle for that drawing. Much depends on this original marriage, what specifically was being employed in the geometric construction involved in the union. Certain principles of geometry – ratios, proportioning systems, harmonic resonances or discordances – interface within the relationship. I make it visible by drawing the resulting geometric forms.”

These compositions are structures and spaces conceived by the nature of geometric form, and the interaction geometry has with a curious mind. Mark seeks to discover if this relationship is inherent in geometry, or within the mind as a construct a priori. More curiously, what is the relationship between geometric form and human thought?

Mark Reynolds is an artist, geometer, and educator. He has Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Art and Art Education from Towson University in Towson, Maryland. He also received an Andelot Fellowship to the University of Delaware for post-graduate work in drawing and printmaking. Additionally, Reynolds has been teaching courses in geometry and philosophical geometry to graduate and undergraduate classes at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for over twenty years and draws every day.
Pocket Utopia
191 Henry Street / +12123758532 / pocketutopia.com
Wed - Sun 11am to 6pm
Pocket Utopia specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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POP International Galleries
473 West Broadway / +12122460523 / popinternational.com
10am to 7pm daily
Pop International specializes in Pop Art, Urban Art and art and photography that is derived from, or influenced by, popular culture.
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Porter Contemporary
548 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor / +12126967432 / portercontemporary.com
Thu 11am to 8pm, Fri - Sat 11am to 6pm
Jennifer Murray Never Ending Story
May 23 - Jun 22, 2013
Jennifer Murray's second solo exhibition at Porter Contemporary.
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New York, NY. Porter Contemporary is pleased to announce Never Ending Story, a solo exhibition highlighting the new works of Jennifer Murray opening with an artist’s reception on May 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, an artist talk and music listening party on May 30 and continuing through June 22, 2013.

Charcoal, ink, acrylic, photography and animal skulls are simply the beginning of the story to Jennifer Murray’s second solo exhibition at Porter Contemporary. Murray imagines a totemic tribute to the power of mythology rooted in nature through a digital and technical lens. Murray will explore the ways in which we experience the power of the natural world using the color white in its varied patterns as the basis for inter-connectivity. In Ornament (Falcon) the white is the micro—the construction of space around living creatures that characterizes an era of surveillance and crowding. Tempest Drawing illustrates the macro of planetary movement, of weather patterns, of the increasingly interconnected ecosystem and world. Murray continues to explore this idea throughout Never Ending Story through various mediums and juxtapositions of work.

“The ‘story’ in these works is my contribution to the timeless practice of harnessing the primordial power of animals and nature to express the mythology of human imaginative existence. That this mythology must constantly be reimagined and retold for each new time is what makes it never ending,” says Jennifer Murray.

Listing Information

What: Never Ending Story – Solo exhibition of new works by Jennifer Murray

Exhibition Dates: May 23 – June 22, 2013

Opening Reception with the Artists: May 23, 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Press Preview: May 23, 4:30 – 6:30 PM

Artist Talk & Music Listening Party: May 30, 6:30 – 8:30 PM (RSVP required)

Where: Porter / Contemporary, 548 W. 28th Street, 3rd Floor, NYC

Gallery Hours: Tues & Wed by appointment; Thurs 11 - 8 PM; Fri & Sat 11 - 6 PM

General Inquiries: info@portercontemporary.com
Press Inquires: media@portercontemporary.com

About Jennifer Murray

Jennifer Murray is originally from Livermore, California. She utilizes both her study of visual art at Carnegie Mellon University, and, more recently, her study of sociology, history, and gender politics at NYU, to construct a body of work that chronicles her personal observations of social unrest, power structures, and the fallibility of culture. In addition to multiple locations in New York City, Jennifer has shown her work in Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Miami, and Mermaid Beach, Australia. She has participated in International art fairs in both New York City and Miami, most recently the Aqua Art Fair during Art Basel Miami Beach. She lives and works in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

About Porter Contemporary

Launched in 2006, Porter Contemporary is dedicated to showcasing emerging and established artists from around the world whose work embodies both skill and risk taking. The mission of Porter Contemporary continues to be based on founder Jessica L. Porter‘s vision of opening contemporary art collecting to a broader audience. Over the past seven years, the gallery has earned a dedicated following of new and established collectors who value art that pushes boundaries.

In addition to presenting many distinctive exhibitions throughout the year, Porter Contemporary also provides art consultation services, collection management and artwork installation. Porter Contemporary is located in New York’s Chelsea district at 548 West 28th Street, just steps away from the beautiful High Line Park — like the gallery, a place to experience art and life from a new perspective.
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Carolina Rodriguez Baptista Contemplando
Jun 27 - Jul 27, 2013 Reception: Thu Jun 27 6pm - 8pm
Porter Contemporary is pleased to announce Contemplando, a solo exhibition highlighting the works of Carolina Baptista Rodriguez.
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Postmasters
459 West 19th Street / +12127273323 / postmastersart.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Postmasters specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Praxis International Art | New York
541 West 25th Street / +12127729478 / www.praxis-art.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm
Esteban Pastorino Timetraces
May 16 - Jun 22, 2013
Photography
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Prince Street Gallery
530 West 25th Street, Fourth Floor / +16462300246 / princestreetgallery.org
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Prince Street Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Printed Matter Inc.
195 Tenth Avenue / +12129250325 / printedmatter.org
Mon - Wed 11am to 7pm, Thu - Sat 11am to 8pm
Printed Matter is the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of publications made by artists.
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Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
Gallery is relocating / +12122444320 / priskajuschkafineart.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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The Proposition
2 Extra Place / +12122420035 / theproposition.com
Wed - Sun 12pm to 6pm
Ricardo Chavarria 51 - 55
May 15 - Jun 23, 2013
New Paintings
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Galerie Protégé
197 Ninth Ave, Lower Level / +12128078726 / galerieprotege.com
Sun 11am to 5pm, Mon - Thu 10am to 7:30pm, Fri - Sat 10am to 6pm
Jesse Pasca Star Skin
May 23 - Jun 20, 2013
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It's Our Turn
Jul 11 - Aug 15, 2013 Reception: Sat Jul 13 6pm - 9pm
A multidisciplinary exhibition of works by the staff of Chelsea Frames and Galerie Protege
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Katya Grokhovsky Bodybeautiful
Sep 5 - 28, 2013 Reception: Thu Sep 5 6pm - 9pm
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Public Art Fund | MetroTech Center
MetroTech Commons / +12122237800 / publicartfund.org
Valérie Blass, Katinka Bock, Esther Kläs, Allyson Vieira Configurations
Nov 11, 2012 - Sep 16, 2013
On view at MetroTech Commons in Downtown Brooklyn. bit.ly/PAFconfigurations
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Thomas Schütte United Enemies
Mar 5 - Aug 25, 2013
On view at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 60th Street and 5th Avenue
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Eve Bailey, Rachel Bernstein, Ryan V Brennan, Artists: Diana Heise, Roxanne Jackson, Coralina Meyer, Sono Osato, Malingering Uvula (Camilla Ha and Michael Merck) Gabriela Vainsencher.

Curated by Sarah Walko

The exhibition “The City of K. Franz Kafka and Prague” permanently on display at the Kafka Museum was the impetus for this exhibition. Kafka’s relationship with cities through his surreal lens coupled with his imagination and during the context of his time brought the simultaneous nightmare/dreamscape of the budding technological age into the realm of the real in his stories, projecting super psyches onto our cities.

The artists in this exhibition are all exploring the surreal space of our time now. Large cultural and philosophical shifts due to massive environmental and economic challenges and the level of technology we are reaching and working with daily is all ushering in new branches of consciousness and new approaches to how we live. The artists, like Kafka did, address our current cosmic predicament in various ways; our relationship with nature, our relationship to self within today’s technological tools, and with objects of alchemical/shamanic ritual and ceremony. They are writing out the dreamscapes of our now and a vision of the future that lacks the pasts’ patriarchal aesthetic and imagines the opening up of a future with more feminine traits, including acts of reclamation and the healing of our past and ourselves within our cities.

About the curator:

Sarah Walko is a multimedia artist and writer. She is currently the executive director of Triangle Arts Association. El Cadaver Exquisito, a feature length experimental documentary collaboration film she created with with director Victor Ruano and Rossemberg Rivas, is currently in festival circuits and her second film Lux/Nox with collaborator Malado Baldwin is in post production. Her fiction and non fiction essays have been published by While Whale Review Literary Journal and Hyperallergic Art Blog where she is a regular contributing writer. Her visual artwork has been published by The Dirty Goat, Redivider, Blood Lotus, Apple Valley Review, 2 River, A Capella Zoo, Awosting Alchemy, 5x5 Literary Magazine, Bathhouse, Cincinnati Review and Host Publications. Her recent exhibitions include Preternatural at the Museum of Nature, a science museum in Canada, Codex Dynamic in New York and Wonder Cabinet at Flux Factory in New York. She has participated in many artists residency programs including one currently at the Elizabeth Foundation in New York and she is working on new sculpture/installations, film and a novel.
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