Simon Preston Gallery in the Lower East is currently presenting two impressive new media works by John Gerrard in his first New York solo exhibition. Oil Stick Work is a virtual sculpture that manifests itself as a projection on the main wall of the gallery. This projection depicts an aluminum corn silo which was digitized based on several photographs taken at the building’s physical site[…..]
Green Cardamom in London and The Third Line, a contemporary Middle Eastern art gallery in Dubai, are presenting Lines of Control, a series of exhibitions taking place in Dubai, Karachi, and London. The series is part of a project begun in 2007 by Green Cardamom which investigates the chaos and creativity present at certain national boundaries. This year, 2007, marked the 60th anniversary of the[…..]
Zoe Leonard first exhibited her photographs in 1979 and her work has since been included in Documenta IX (1992) and Documenta XII (2007), as well as the 1993 and 1997 Whitney Biennials. The artist and longtime resident of the Lower East Side began taking photographs of her neighborhood in 1998 to record the gradual decline of the city’s identity due to the influx of large[…..]
Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) have been collaborating for over two decades since the 1984 launch of Rollins’ “Art and Knowledge Workshop” in the Bronx. The workshop included at risk students who began calling themselves Kids of Survival. They have since exhibited worldwide and their work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum of Art, and the Tate Gallery[…..]
Gladstone Gallery is presenting the work of Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. The artists have been working together sine 1995 producing films, installations, performances, and sculpture. They expose the complicated dynamics of contemporary geo-political realities while engaging with history. The exhibition, Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano, features an early 20th century Bechstein piano that Allora[…..]
Nicole Klagsbrun is currently presenting a series of performance stills from Mika Rottenberg’s recent project for W Magazine. For this project, Rottenberg built a set in her Harlem studio which contained several rooms devoted to different characters with corporeal curiosities, primarily female. These actors perform tasks with substances, such as dough and cheese, that often mimic their own anatomical characteristics. Rottenberg’s video installations explore the[…..]
SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine is currently presenting a group show curated by Gideon Bok, Sound and Vision: Circuit, Tube, and Prism. The exhibition includes two sounds artists, Galen Richmond and Kevin McMahon, and three painters, Bryson Brodie, Matt Phillips, and Stephanie Pierce. These artists explore and manipulate the effects of refraction in the media of sound, electricity, and light. Sound artist Galen Richmond combines[…..]
