Art Talk Series: Jennifer Wynne Reeves
 
Tuesday, June 18th at 6:30PM
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Reeves has enjoyed numerous exhibitions internationally including one person shows at Gian Enzo Sperone in Rome, Max Protetch in New York, Ramis Barquet in New York and Monterrey, Art & Public in Geneva, The Wooster Art Museum in Massachusetts, Joan Prats in Barcelona, Gorney Bravin Lee in New York. The many reviews of her exhibitions include The New York Times by Holland Cotter, The New Yorker by Alexi Worth, New York Magazine by Jerry Saltz, Art in America by David Ebony, Art forum by Donald Kustpit, The New York Times by Ken Johnson, The Village Voice by Kim Levin and in Art in America by Sarah Valdez.

Trestle is pleased to present Will Hutnick’s abstract paintings and Jeanne Wilkinson’s photographs and the video installation.
 
Hutnick’s energetic abstract paintings utilize tape, spray paint, ink, acrylic and oil as he simultaneously plays with large, sweeping gestures and minute details. His process is spontaneous, expressive and performative. Often his paintings are finished in one sitting. As he states, the process is “an event, a challenge, an experience.” Trestle explores the dialogue between the surprises that arise from his process and the permanence of the tangible results in his work.
 
Jeanne Wilkinson is formerly an abstract painter who now incorporates her paintings and drawings in animated short films. Her most recent video installation, The Sun and the Horn, celebrates the 2013 Summer Solstice—which coincides with the date of the exhibition’s opening reception. With multiple projectors and translucent scrims, Wilkinson’s figurative, abstract, and kaleidoscopic imagery envelops viewers as they interact with the installation. Adding to the installation’s collaborative and interactive qualities, the audience is invited to wear headdresses made by Wilkinson as they walk between the scrims.
 
Trestle is also presenting photographs from Wilkinson’s series entitled ‘Painted People,’ in which Wilkinson depicts the vision quests and adventures of figurines who travel the earth and beyond.

MINUS SPACE is delighted to present the exhibition Julio Grinblatt: Cielito Lindo. This is the Argentine-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s first solo exhibition in New York and it will feature a suite of unique, large-scale C-print photographs depicting the clear blue sky.
 
An ongoing project, Grinblatt’s Cielito Lindo series stresses how aesthetic notions are generated in relation to the photographic apparatus, in particular the photographic printing process. To create this body of essentially monochromatic photographs, Grinblatt articulated the following four-step premise:
 
1. I took a photograph of a clear sky.
2. I sent the negative to a professional color lab.
3. I asked the printer to print a beautiful sky.
4. Repeat from 2.
 
Julio Grinblatt (b. 1960 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives Brooklyn, NY) has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally for the past two decades, including in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Belgium, Italy, and the United States.
 
In 2001, Grinblatt mounted the solo exhibition Uses of Photography at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has participated in group exhibitions at museums, such as MoMA PS1, El Museo del Barrio (both New York); Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA); Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (Gainsville, FL); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain); Museum of Fine Arts (Brussels, Belgium); Amos Anderson Art Museum (Helsinki, Finland); and Museo de Arte Zapopan (Guadalajara, Mexico), among others.
 
Grinblatt’s work is represented in collections worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX); Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR); Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (Gainesville, FL); Light Work Permanent Collection (Syracuse, NY); Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (both Buenos Aires, Argentina), and Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
 
In 2012, Grinblatt co-curated the survey exhibition Notations: The John Cage Effect Today at Hunter College Times Square Gallery together with Joachim Pissarro, Bibi Calderaro, and Michelle Yun. The exhibition was discussed in-depth by writer Thomas Crow in Artforum’s Best of 2012 issue. Grinblatt is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hunter College in New York, and he holds an MFA from Hunter College and BS from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
 
ABOUT MINUS SPACE

Now celebrating its 10th year, MINUS SPACE specializes in reductive abstract art on the international level. The gallery presents museum-quality solo and group exhibitions by pioneering emerging, established, and deceased artists at its Brooklyn gallery, as well as at other collaborating venues on the national and international levels.

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.

Theodore:Art is pleased to present Notorious, a group exhibition attempting to defamiliarise the iconic, deflate the mythological, and disrupt the idolatry of celebrity.
 
Artists: Brian Dupont / Richard Hamilton / Marie Harnett / Damien Hirst / Scooter LaForge / Corinna Spencer / John Squire / Neil Winokur

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

ART TALK SERIES PRESENTS: BILL CARROLL
 
Tuesday, July 30th at 6:30PM
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Bill Carroll received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1973, and his MFA from Queens College C.U.N.Y. in 2007. For over twenty-five years he has been involved in the New York art world in a variety of roles. He was the Director of the Charles Cowles Gallery, then in Soho, for nine years; and the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea for eight years. Bill also worked in non-profit at the Dia Art Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Nancy Graves Foundation, and is presently the Director of the Studio Program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. As a curator of numerous exhibitions he has worked with artists including Donald Baechler, Mary Heilmann, Alex Katz, Jonathan Lasker, Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, and Sue Williams, among many others. Bill has taught professional practice to MFA students at both Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute and has lectured at the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bard College, School of Visual Arts, and F.I.T. In November 2007 he had a one-person exhibition of his paintings at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea, which was reviewed by Joe Fyfe in the March 2008 issue of Art in America. His third solo show with the gallery was in March, 2012.
 
About Trestle Gallery
Our primary aim is to foster creativity by expanding opportunities and providing exposure for contemporary artists.
Monday through Friday, 11AM – 6PM, Saturdays by appointment
 
168 7th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215 www.trestlegallery.org 718.858.9069

ART TALK SERIES PRESENTS: BILL CARROLL
 
Tuesday, July 30th at 6:30PM
RSVP at trestle@brooklynartspace.org
www.trestlegallery.org
$5 donation
 
Bill Carroll received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1973, and his MFA from Queens College C.U.N.Y. in 2007. For over twenty-five years he has been involved in the New York art world in a variety of roles. He was the Director of the Charles Cowles Gallery, then in Soho, for nine years; and the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea for eight years. Bill also worked in non-profit at the Dia Art Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Nancy Graves Foundation, and is presently the Director of the Studio Program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. As a curator of numerous exhibitions he has worked with artists including Donald Baechler, Mary Heilmann, Alex Katz, Jonathan Lasker, Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, and Sue Williams, among many others. Bill has taught professional practice to MFA students at both Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute and has lectured at the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bard College, School of Visual Arts, and F.I.T. In November 2007 he had a one-person exhibition of his paintings at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea, which was reviewed by Joe Fyfe in the March 2008 issue of Art in America. His third solo show with the gallery was in March, 2012.
 
About Trestle Gallery
Our primary aim is to foster creativity by expanding opportunities and providing exposure for contemporary artists.
Monday through Friday, 11AM – 6PM, Saturdays by appointment
 
168 7th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215 www.trestlegallery.org 718.858.9069

Organized in collaboration with artist John Zinsser, the exhibition will examine the history and legacy of Julian Pretto’s fabled downtown NYC galleries active during the 1970s through the early 1990s. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1945, Pretto moved to New York in 1968 where he worked for Richard L. Feigen and Sperone Westwater Fischer before opening up a series of small, eponymous galleries in Soho, Tribeca, and the West Village. His program focused on reductive abstraction and he exhibited more established artists, such as Sol Lewitt, Carl Andre, Merrill Wagner, and Marcia Hafif, alongside younger, emerging artists. He gave first solo shows to artists such as Allan McCollum, Julian Lethbridge, John Zinsser, Cary Smith, Rene Pierre Allain, Daniel Levine, and Li Trincere, among many others. Pretto died of AIDS in New York in 1995.

ART TALK SERIES PRESENTS: ELISABETH CONDON
 
Tuesday November 19th at 6:30PM
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Elisabeth Condon combines improvisational pours of paint, sketchbook drawings and digital projections in idiosyncratic compositions that heed the Tang Dynasty dictum of landscape as a fusion of observation and memory. Her paintings interweave external and internal perceptions of particular locations, treating space like a scroll that is sectioned, then layered. The recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, Condon has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, Fountainhead, the Grand Canyon Artist-in-Residence Program and Red Gate International Artist Residency, Beijing. Recent exhibition venues include the National Museum of Art, Beijing, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, Ft. Lauderdale Museum, FL, the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT and a survey exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA, for which a catalogue was published. Her work is held in public collections including the US Embassy, Beijing and is represented by Emerson Dorsch, Miami and Lesley Heller Workspace, New York.
 
About Trestle Gallery
Our primary aim is to foster creativity by expanding opportunities and providing exposure for contemporary artists.
Monday through Friday, 11AM – 6PM, Saturdays by appointment
 
168 7th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215 www.trestlegallery.org 718.858.9069