CURRICULUM VITAE 2009
Emily Dickinson's Garden of Verses (December 23, 2009 - January 6, 2010)
a visual interpretation of Emily Dickinson's nature poems in artworks by Cindy Ruskin
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
cindy@cindyruskin.com | www.cindyruskin.com
www.girlsclub.org
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Emily Dickinson's Garden of Verses
a visual interpretation of Emily Dickinson's nature poems in artworks by Cindy Ruskin and members of the Lower Eastside Girls Club
December 23, 2009 - January 6, 2010
Hours: Mon, Wed, Fri, 3-7p (except New Year's Day)
cindy@cindyruskin.com | www.cindyruskin.com | www.girlsclub.org
Ruskin created small oil paintings to reflect the intimacy of Dickinson's work, exploring the relationship between paint and the written word. Like Dickinson's poetry, the paintings use a concrete form to capture fleeting images, abstract ideas, and intangible emotions. To create Emily's poetry garden, Ruskin ran mixed media art workshops at the Lower Eastside Girls Club. The five- to ten-year-old girls made Emily and Me paper dolls, poetry posies, birdhouses, butterflies, flowers, and drawings inspired by Dickinson's poems. The teenage girls made accordion books based on poems, using pressed flowers as illustrations.
Ruskin will be working in the chashama space, cutting poems into paper that will be assembled into the kind of white dress that Dickenson wore during much of her life. Visitors are welcome to talk with the artist as she creates the dress on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (except New Year's Day) from 3PM to 7PM. On Tuesday, January 5th, at 4:30 PM, the Lower Eastside Girls Club will visit the chashama space to sing some Dickinson poems set to music, and Ruskin will host an Emily Dickinson tea party. The young artists will bring the flower dolls that they made in Ruskin's workshop.
The complete installation will celebrate Emily Dickinson as both writer and gardener, showcasing the innovative vision of the 19th century Massachusetts poet who is still inspiring Ruskin and the young girls on the Lower East Side.
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Cindy Ruskin's work has been shown since the late 1980s in California and New York. Recently she won Second Place at the Pen And Brush show, In Your Dreams, and her work was included in the East Village Invitational at Umbrella Arts Gallery. She had a solo exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery in 2006 to benefit the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in Sudan.
After growing up in South Africa, and getting an undergraduate degree in art history from Harvard, Ruskin studied painting at the San Francisco Art Academy and the Art Students League in New York.
Ruskin is passionate about bringing art programs to the children of low-income families in New York City. Since 1999, Ruskin has run art classes at the Andrew Glover Youth Program, an alternative-to-prison program for juvenile offenders. She is the art director of the Lower East Side Kids Art Bike Parade. As a consultant to Artworks, a Learning Leaders program, Ruskin created the curriculum for guided tours of the Brooklyn Museum -- and updated the Met tours -- for public elementary school students. Ruskin's art classes at the Lower Eastside Girls Club have culminated in several shows and installations: Cindy and the Cinderellas (2008), Biker Chicks (2008), Park(ing Day) and Parking Day redux (2008) and Phenomenal Art/Phenomenal Women (2007).
about CINDY RUSKIN
The Lower Eastside Girls Club, based at 56 East 1st Street in Manhattan, is dedicated to providing a place where girls and young women 8-23 can grow, learn, have fun, and develop confidence in themselves and their ability to make a difference in the world. By delivering strong and innovative arts, athletic, cultural, life-skills and career oriented programming, the club provides girls with the vision to plan -- and the tools to build -- their future.
On December 10th, 2009, the Lower Eastside Girls Club celebrated Emily Dickinson's birthday by student readings of over 1000 Emily Dickinson poems at multiple schools throughout the Lower East Side. The event culminated in a staged reading of select Emily Dickinson poetry by youth and special guest poets, such as Bob Holman and PoezThePoet, at the Bowery Poetry Club.
All the Lower Eastside Girls Club Emily Dickinson events are part of the NEA's Big Read Initiative. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.
about Lower Eastside Girls Club
"Xmas" (December 21, 2009 - January 1, 2010)
a video and sculpture installation by Donna Cheng
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
facebook.com/donna.cheng.nyc
flickr.com/photos/donnacheng/
emotra@gmail.com
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
"Xmas"
a video and sculpture installation by Donna Cheng
December 21, 2009 - January 1, 2010
Installation on view: Monday - Friday
12:00p to 5:00p (CLOSED Christmas Day, December 25)
The video and sculpture installation, "Xmas", pokes fun at the holiday onslaught of commercial advertising. Light and paper sculptures are cheery and cheesy with a dark twist. Traditional Christmas song lyrics are modified to reflect our recessionary reality as we ring in a new decade. The public is invited to hum along, or to stop for a little longer and learn these new classics . Providing a break from the traditional holiday window display, Donna Cheng's multi-racial Santa sculpture will inhabit chashama's storefront window surrounded by projections of anti-consumerism messages. Passerby are invited to interact with the sculpture – to let it know if they've been good this year. Fun for the entire family.
FREE and open to the public
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Seasonal Music (December 18, 2009 - January 15, 2010)
a new free music program featuring celebrated Soprano Malesha Jessie
Anita's Way at One Bryant Park (throughway between West 42nd-43rd Sts & 6th Ave/Bway)
www.maleshajessie.com | malesha@maleshajessie.com
www.durst.org
Anita's Way at One Bryant Park
(throughway between Broadway & Sixth Avenue, 42nd & 43rd Streets / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Seasonal Music
a new free music program featuring celebrated Soprano Malesha Jessie
Performances:
Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays, 3 - 6p
December 18 - 23, 2009 and January 4 - 15, 2010
The Durst Organization and chashama announce that celebrated Soprano Malesha Jessie will sing seasonal music every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3:00pm to 6:00pm from December 18th to the 23rd and from January 4th to the 14th in Anita's Way at the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park. Anita's Way is the mid-block passage that connects 42nd to 43rd Streets between 6th Avenue and Broadway and is anchored at the north end by Henry Miller's Theatre and on the south end by Aureole Restaurant.
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"Semi Boneless" (December 14, 2009 - January 12, 2010)
An Interactive Art Installation by Artist Robert Stratton
chashama 141, 141 East 33rd Street @Lexington Avenue
www.madbutter.com
Interactive Technology provided by Sensacell Inc.
contact@sensacell.com | www.sensacell.com
Exhibition space generously provided by Stonehenge Partners, Inc.
www.stonehengeny.com
chashama's newest venue!
chashama 141, 141 East 33rd Street
corner of 33rd Street & Lexington Avenue: 6 train to 33rd Street
M34 bus to Lexington Ave | M98, M101, M102, M103 buses to 34th Street
"semi boneless"
An Interactive Art Installation by Artist Robert Stratton
December 14, 2009 - January 12, 2010
Viewable 24 hours a day
The artwork entitled "semi boneless" transforms the storefront window into an electronic interactive canvas that senses hand movements through the window glass, allowing the viewer to interact and influence the behavior of the piece- art that begs to be touched.
Robert Stratton's work explores algorithmically generated patterns, forms and colors influenced by the hands and gestures of passers-by. "I am fascinated by the concept of rigid, mathematically generated processes being randomly influenced by random, organic happenstance" says Stratton. "The Sensacell interactive system allows me to transcend the boundaries of the traditional art installation; this piece truly becomes part of the neighborhood."
Robert Stratton received a BA in Art and Communication from Oberlin College, and a MFA in Computer Art from School of Visual Arts. Robert was one of the founding partners of Rare Medium, a web development company started in 1995 that grew to over 1000 employees with 10 offices around the world. Robert continues to pursue ventures in art, interactive media and technology.
www.madbutter.com
Interactive Technology provided by Sensacell Inc.
Contact: contact@sensacell.com | www.sensacell.com
Exhibition space generously provided by Stonehenge Partners, Inc. | www.stonehengeny.com
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You Can't Die of a Broken Heart (December 12, 2009 - February 13, 2010)
a new gallery exhibit of artworks by Al Johnson, Jr., and other chashama artists-in-residence
chashama 30 West, 30 West 8th Street @MacDougal
Contact: xframes@gmail.com
www.aljohnsonartstudio.com
xframes Flickr set
chashama's newest venue!
chashama 30, 30 West 8th Street in Manhattan, NY
corner of MacDougal Street: A,B,C,D,E,F,V to West 4th station (exit at rear of station), 1 to Christopher Street station, walk down Greenwich Avenue to West 8th.
You Can't Die of a Broken Heart
a new gallery exhibit of artworks curated by Al Johnson, Jr., and featuring his works and those of chashama artists-in-residence, Lisa Ingram, Caleb Nussear, and Ademola Olugebefola.
December 12, 2009 - February 10, 2010
Reception: Saturday, December 19, 4 - 8p
Open to the public:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11a - 7p
Sunday, 1 - 6p
www.aljohnsonartstudio.com | xframes@gmail.com
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Workforce/Forced Work (December 10 - 20, 2009)
the 1st of three of chashama's Residencies for 2009-2010
featuring Panoply Performance Laboratory
chashama 217 Art Space, 217 East 42nd Street
www.panoplylab.org | panoplylab@gmail.com
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as by an award from the New York State Council on the Arts, and also by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program, which was created with lead support from the September 11th Fund.
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
Panoply Performance laboratory's
Workforce/Forced Work
December 10 - 13 & 17 - 20, 2009, 7p
Ticket price is sliding scale: $5-15.
Reservations: panoplylab@gmail.com with the subject line TICKETS (we're sorry, but tickets MUST be paid for at the door)
The Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) will present their 70 minute documentary performance Workforce/Forced Work as part of the Residency @ chashama. Opening December 10, the piece contains live performance, clay animation, and an intricate, sample-driven soundscape and live music.
Workforce/Forced Work documents the emotional and physical patterns of American workers and uses them to map connections between private, personal experience and public, political structures. Using multi-layered rhythms of crude video, stop motion clay animation, music, sampled sound, and live performance, the piece pulls the everyday grind into the realm of sur-reality and excruciatingly sincere emotional
reaction.
Text, direction, and design by Esther Neff
Composition and sound design by Brian McCorkle
Performed by: Meredith Kitz, Herbie Go, and Chelsea O'Connor
Additional video by Meredith Kitz
This piece was made possible by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program, which was created with lead support from the September 11th Fund.
Four songs funded by 'The Work Office'.
Company website: www.panoplylab.org
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"Photo with Santa Days" (December 9 - 31, 2009)
at Bideawee's Holiday Home on Third:
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
www.bideawee.org
"Photo with Santa Days"
Bideawee, Inc., a leading pet adoption and animal welfare organization serving the New York metropolitan area, will host its annual "Photo with Santa Days" for kids, families and pets on three days in Manhattan at Bideawee's Holiday Home on Third:
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
1 block east of Grand Central, corner of 43rd Street & 3rd Avenue; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
December 9 - 31, 2009
Photo Days:
Friday, December 11, 11am - 2pm
Saturday, December 12, 11:30am - 4pm
Venue open to the public: Wednesdays - Saturdays through December
Bideawee friends and families are welcome to sit on Santa Claw's lap for a holiday photo and special gift. Bideawee Pet Therapy dogs will also be on hand to pose for photos.
All participants can enter the drawing for a $50.00 gift card good towards the purchase of pet supplies. Guests can enjoy hot chocolate and special holiday treats.
Donations of unopened food, bedding, toys and other items for Bideawee pets residing in its shelter will be accepted on site during the event.
Bideawee Holiday Home on Third will be open to the public on Wednesdays through Saturdays every week during the month of December 2009. Bideawee Holiday Home on Third is a special project "made possible in part by chashama, inc."
For more information, call 212-532-4455, ext 239; or visit: www.bideawee.org
There is a $10 fee per photo to help support Bideawee animals in its care and ongoing and educational programs.
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ann and alexx make dances - Greatest Hits! (December 9 – 20, 2009)
a performance installation by Ann Robideaux & Alexandra Shilling
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
Interactive Light Installation by Lightexture: www.lightexture.com
www.alexxmakesdances.com | annandalexx@gmail.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
ann and alexx make dances - Greatest Hits!
a combination of performance, dance on film, original sound score, photography and light installation
Installation viewable from the street 24 hours a day: December 9 – 20, 2009
Performances:
Saturday - December 12, 6 - 9p
Sunday - December 13, 2009, 5 - 8p
Friday - December 18, 2009, 6 - 9p
Saturday - December 19, 6 - 9p
Admission: By donation
For a retrospective of five years of choreography, chashama's store front is turned into one big dance event by ann and alexx make dances. An homage to the great Merce Cunningham, choreographers Ann Robideaux and Alexandra Shilling take dance material from five years of dance making, cut it up and combine it by chance to make one new site-specific dance event at chashama 112.
ann and alexx make dances Greatest Hits event includes:
Live Dance Performance: Amir Levi, Kate Patchett, Alexandra Shilling, Devika Wickremisinghe, Mimi Yin and several guest artists dance while audience members are encouraged to take photos and videos of the performance. Audience members may submit photos/video as a part of ann and alexx make dances' next multi-media work.
Interactive Light Installation by Lightexture: architect Yael Erel and lighting designer Avner Ben Natan collaborate to intersect light, shadow and choreography. See more at www.lightexture.com/gallery (click on Light intersecting movement)
Dance on Film: created by ann and alexx make dances screen in a back room.
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Bio{luminescent}Sphere (December 6 - 11, 2009)
a transformative, site-specific installation & interactive performance by
aricoco & Natalia Zubko
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.aricoco.com | princessaricoco@hotmail.com
www.nataliazubko.com | nzubko33@yahoo.com
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Bio{luminescent}Sphere
a transformative, site-specific installation & interactive performance by aricoco & Natalia Zubko
December 6 - 11, 2009
Installation on view daily
Opening: Sunday December 6, 4-7p
Interactive Performance at 5p
Additional Performance, Thursday, December 10, 4-6p
The combination of the warm, glowing installation, and the performance of the "firefly's" blinking, lighting their own path - searching for a place to play and rest, will beckon passerby's to join in the search and become fireflies themselves.
Natalia Zubko explores ideas of light and perception, redefining/creating a space for the fireflies that is calm, quite, and almost spiritual. The emergence of this environment's existence in the mid-town location, its flood of cold artificial lights that can often feel harsh and almost threatening, will create a counterpoint: a softly illuminated, peaceful resting point.
Subtle pulsating lights in the installation will summon the blinking Firefly, aricoco. The audience/participants will be invited to become "fireflies" and respond to her lights as well as light their own path as they search for a place to play and rest within the glowing, interactive installation.
FREE and open to the public
www.aricoco.com | www.nataliazubko.com
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Natalia Zubko is a sculpture/installation artist from California who currently lives and works in New York City. She has BA's in Anthropology and Art History from Brandeis University as well as a post-baccalaureate certificate (Brandeis) and MFA (Parsons) in Fine Arts, Sculpture. Natalia's work has ranged from small, intimate light sculptures built out of everyday materials to large, outdoor installations. She has worked on numerous interdisciplinary, multi-media, collaborative commissions and projects around NYC from envisioning and building an installation to house photos and interviews from the "FishBird" project (exploring the experience of being multi-racial) to designing and constructing props for an experimental theater piece. Natalia's latest project was a large, public, weather-interactive, sculpture/installation, "Luminous Accumulation," for the Art Lot, Brooklyn.
nzubko33@yahoo.com | www.nataliazubko.com
about Natalia Zubko
John Cichon (December 2, 2009 - January 3, 2010)
photography exhibit
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
Contact: jjc03@mac.com
Sponsors: Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance(NoMAA), The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone(UMEZ), and The JPMorgan Chase Foundation
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
John Cichon
a photographic series of puddles captured on the streets of Chicago and New York
December 2, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Open Reception: Sunday, December 13, 2 - 5p
Hours: Wednesday - Thursday 1-6p, Saturday - Sunday 12-5p
jjc03@mac.com
Sponsors: Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance(NoMAA), The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone(UMEZ), and The JPMorgan Chase Foundation
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Faces (November 19 - December 6, 2009)
an exhibition of collages by Todd Monaghan
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
www.tmnorthwood.com
tminism@gmail.com
This project is supported in part by an award from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
tminisms – times square
Faces
an exhibition of collages by Todd Monaghan
November 19 - December 6, 2009
Reception:
Thursday, November 19th 7-9pm
Hours: TBA
The exhibition marks Todd's return to Times Square where the collage, "America, Her History of the United States" was created at the galleries opening in the summer of 2005.
Todd Monaghan's collages, created from sequenced as well as found images, are visual bursts and patterns of images that tell various intertwining stories. Just as a story has a basic text and subtext so do each and every one of Mr. Monaghan's collages. The basic images evolve so that, with each new viewing, underlying images and storylines (i.e. sequences) "pop-out" of the collage. With each new viewing the collages take on new meaning as one looks deeper and deeper into them. Through this process Mr. Monaghan strive to create an exciting distillation of our political, spiritual and out-of-control pop culture colliding in the 21st Century. This is an ever-evolving process.
www.tmnorthwood.com | tminism@gmail.com
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SPARK student exhibit reception (November 11, 2009)
organized by Rosa Gonzales and students of the Art and Design High School, 1075 2nd Avenue
chashama 217 Art Space, 217 East 42nd Street
DOE website: schools.nyc.gov/schoolportals/02/M630/
indepedent website: www.artanddesignhs.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
SPARK student exhibit
by Rosa Gonzales
November 11, 2009 4-8p
Reception for students and parents
Located in the heart of New York City’s cultural center, the Art and Design High School is a community of learners dedicated to fostering the creative and academic talents of all our gifted art students. We are nationally known for our design programs in architecture, fashion design, graphic design, illustration and media technology. For 70 years Art and Design High School has nurtured talented students through its extensive art program to become creative problem solvers. Graduates from our school are leaders both in the art fields and other professions.
http://schools.nyc.gov/schoolportals/02/M630/ | www.artanddesignhs.com
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Queens Women's Collective (November 7 - December 15, 2009)
featuring artworks of Kate Lacour, Tishawn Gonsalves, & Jennifer Andrews
curated by Samantha Lewis
presented by chashama and Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
chashama, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
www.gjdc.org
chashama Jamaica Studios, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
Between 90th Street and Jamaica Avenue, E to Jamaica Center, F to Parsons Boulevard
Jamaica Station on the LIRR.
By car: Take Long Island Expressway (I-495 E) to exit 22A-E to Grand Central Parkway East. Remain on Grand Central Parkway until exit 16 (164th St-Parsons Blvd.) Turn right onto Parsons Boulevard, left onto Jamaica Avenue, then left onto 161st Street. Our building is on the left side of the block.
chashama and Greater Jamaica Development Corporation present
an exhibit of works by the Queens Women's Collective
featuring artworks of Kate Lacour, Tishawn Gonsalves, & Jennifer Andrews
November 7 - December 15, 2009
Opening Reception, Saturday, November 7, 6 - 9p
FREE and open to the public
Sponsored in part by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
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Kate Lacour was born in New York and has traveled widely. Most recently, she visited Romania and is initiating a community art project with Gypsy (Roma) street children. She studied art and biology in college and recently earned a Master's Degree in Creative Arts Therapy from the School of Visual Arts. Kate is currently one of the few professionals in the field studying the effects of art therapy on children with autism.
"In the backyard of the old house where I lived as a teenager, there was an area where the last owners had buried their rubbish, most of it dating back to the turn of the century. I spent a lot of time digging up old bottles, rusty silverware, broken watches, and most of a rust-eaten wood burning stove. My pristine and orderly home seemed sterile and joyless. In the backyard, in the dirt, the underground junk was like a little cache of secret stories that seemed more real, more special, than the world indoors.
"Occasionally, I would uncover shapeless glass blobs of different colors and sizes, which must have been formed when an especially hot fire melted them down, maybe a house fire. Here was a little story, the long-ago fire, that was exciting and private, because I had discovered it from the hundred-year-old garbage. In itself, this kind of event is uninteresting, but discovered and owned, it can be willed into a story, with a life and value of its own.
"My drawings are an attempt to inject this imagined life into arrangements and ideas that, in and of themselves, have little value. Science, a recurring subject in my comics, is a generally unemotional topic, but can become special, intimate and strange when its facts and objects are recruited as part of an imagined narrative. Comics are a perfect medium for manipulating time, space and sound to make, with the viewer's collusion, an imagined world that is self-contained and private. By virtue of being stories, these stories have meaning."
Kate Lacour
Literati: From The Page to the Stage (November 7, 2009)
presented by CARIB with GIGI JAMES & Assoc.
hosted by DONNA FLEMING
chashama 217 Art Space, 217 East 42nd Street
www.gigijames.com
www.caribny.org
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
CARIB with GIGI JAMES & ASSOCIATES and chashama present
Literati: From The Page to the Stage
hosted by DONNA FLEMING
Saturday, November 7, 2009
7p FREE!
AFTER PARTY at 10 PM: $10 ADMISSION
featuring the sounds of DJ MIKE KISS
Sponsored by ACE OF SPADES TOURS
Featuring literary works and performances by:
T.V. comedy writer GIGI JAMES: I Didn't Sign Up For This!
With the fashion designs of YESENIA DELGADO & GEOVANNI CACHOLA
The sultry poetry of GLORIA ESTER FONTANEZ: Unspoken Canto
with Singer JESSIE ROSE & Visual Art by ANGIE MERCADO
The cooling collaborations of ANTON NIMBLETT: Sections of an Orange
With dancer DEEARAH WRIGHT, and
Reggae lyricist/poet ROD PTAHSEN-SHABAZZ: Black to the Roots
And Singer JAHSTIX
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING CARIB COMMUNITY & EVENTS:
Meet the authors for book sales & signings immediately after the show!
Signature Sangria Drinks & Refreshments Available at Suggested Donation Prices
For more information visit us at: www.gigijames.com or www.caribny.org
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"Mother Earth, Sister Moon" (November 4 - 21, 2009)
by Christian Tomaszewski in collaboration with video and performance artist Joanna Malinowska
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
Buy tickets
http://performa-arts.org
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
1 block east of Grand Central, corner of 43rd Street & 3rd Avenue; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
Performa Arts and chashama present
"Mother Earth, Sister Moon"
by Christian Tomaszewski in collaboration with video and performance artist Joanna Malinowska
November 4 - 21, 2009
Installation on view:
Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 6p FREE
Performances:
November 6, 6p & 8p
November 14, 6p & 8p
November 21, 6p & 8p
Performance Tickets: $12 / $10 Performa Members
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/84622 | http://performa-arts.org/
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For Performa 09, Polish artist Christian Tomaszewski, in collaboration with video and performance artist Joanna Malinowska, considers how the future was imagined by the Communist regimes of the former Soviet Bloc. "Mother Earth Sister Moon" explores this theme by examining the fashion and style elements related to a diverse range of Eastern Bloc phenomena, including the Soviet space program, sci-fi film and literature of the era, and the cults surrounding the mysterious 1908 explosion over the Tunguska River Valley in central Siberia. This research will manifest itself as a giant reconstruction of the suit worn by the first woman in space—Russian astronaut Valentina
Tereshkova—that also pays tribute to the sculpture "Hon-en Katedral" ("She-a Cathedral"), an enormous female figure conceived and built by Niki de Saint Phalle with Jean Tinguely in 1966.
Visitors to the sculpture will be able to walk inside it and—at designated "performance" times—view a fashion show, with music by Masami Tomihisa, featuring both reconstructions of actual garments and new designs that evoke the Soviet space program and science-fiction films. In this way, the live show will act as a curated design exhibition in motion.
Produced in association with the Polish Cultural Institute and Open Art Projects. Supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Performa Producer's Circle member Illya Szilak.
about "Mother Earth, Sister Moon"
Joanna Malinowska is a Polish-born and New York based artist working in video, sculpture, sound and performance. A graduate of Rutgers University's BFA program and Yale University's MFA program, she has exhibited her work in the United States and internationally. She participated in the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia and the International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic and shown her work at such venues as Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; Zamek Ujazdowski Contemporary Art Center in Warsaw, Poland; Sculpture Center, Smack Mellon,Momenta Art and Art in General in New York, NY; Boston Center for the Arts; Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, MN; Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. Her solo and two person exhibitions took place at Canada and Venetia Kapernekas galleries in New York City. She participated in residences at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Smack Mellon Studio Program. She is a 2009 recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Visual Arts.
about Joanna Malinowska
A Moral Aquarium on 37th Street (November 4 - 17, 2009)
a storefront diorama by Dillon de Give
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
implausibot@yahoo.com | www.implausibot.com
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
A Moral Aquarium on 37th Street
by Dillon de Give
Hours: November 4th - 10th, 8a-2p
November 11th - 17th, 1-8p
A Moral Aquarium on 37th Street is a storefront diorama where real life dramas proposed by regular everyday people will be used to create a presentation of NYC pedestrian life transposed onto a cast of undersea characters.
The project unfolds in two phases. In the construction performance, worker polyp and zooplankton volunteers help build the coral reef, assemble undersea costumes, and collect street stories from passersby. As the reef nears completion and stories are compiled, a program of presentations will begin. The schedule of narratives, scenes, dances etc. will be posted in the window and online each day. The Moral Aquarium will keep regular hours with a morality tale highlight each evening. The space will also serve as a venue for aquarium themed performances by guest artists.
Dillon de Give creates site-specific situations and elementary school style plays. His work has been shown at the Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, the Transmodern Festival Baltimore, Select Media Chicago, and various NYC parks. Dillon lives in Brooklyn, studied film at Northwestern University, and grew up in New Mexico.
implausibot@yahoo.com | www.implausibot.com
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Death of a Minstrel (November 3 - 5, 2009)
by Valentine Amartey
chashama 217 Art Space, 217 East 42nd Street
myspace.com/deathofaminstrel
www.valentineamartey.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
Death of a Minstrel
by Valentine Amartey
November 3 - 5, 2009 8p
Admission: $10
starring Valentine Amartey, Kayla Sarian, Paul Alves, and Tabetha Lorina-Baker
COME EARLY! LIMITED SEATING!
D.O.M. NEEDS YOU!
www.valentineamartey.com/ | http://www.myspace.com/deathofaminstrel
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Halloween Fall Feast (October 31, 2009)
presented by chashama and Reconstruct Art in association with the
Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
chashama, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
www.gjdc.org
chashama Jamaica Studios, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
Between 90th Street and Jamaica Avenue, E to Jamaica Center, F to Parsons Boulevard
Jamaica Station on the LIRR.
By car: Take Long Island Expressway (I-495 E) to exit 22A-E to Grand Central Parkway East. Remain on Grand Central Parkway until exit 16 (164th St-Parsons Blvd.) Turn right onto Parsons Boulevard, left onto Jamaica Avenue, then left onto 161st Street. Our building is on the left side of the block.
chashama and Reconstruct Art present
Halloween Fall Feast
October 31, 2009, 3 - 9p
free and healthy foods, open studios, music and arts activities including 'tag wall', face painting, tattoos, cookie creations, pumpkin carving!
FREE and open to the public
Sponsored in part by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
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Just Bring Your Clothes (October 28 - November 13, 2009)
a new performance/installation work by olek
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
www.agataolek.com
crochetedolek@gmail.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Just Bring Your Clothes
a new performance/installation work by olek
October 28 - November 13, 2009
Gallery will be open the following dates from 3pm-8pm:
October 28th - 30th | November 1st - 4th | November 9th - 13th
www.agataolek.com | crochetedolek@gmail.com
You are invited to participate in this performance/installation.
Actions:
To enter gallery from Oct 28th thru November 9th, you must bring a donation of clothes, fabric, sheets, or small objects to be utilized in the piece.
Donated materials will be recycled through artistic transformation into new objects.
Certified Donors will be able to purchase objects from the installation beginning November 2nd at a price of $99 each.
Non-Donors will be allowed access to the gallery beginning November 10th and will be able to purchase objects at a price of $199 each.
Please, join me there as the piece needs you and your clothes!
If you are interested in performing for Olek, please visit her blog: www.agataolek.com/blog/ or write to her at olek@agataolek.com.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts
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A Day of the Dead / El Dia de los Muertos (October 28 - November 1, 2009)
Altar & Visual Arts Display curated by Mia Roman Hernandez
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Art By Mia presents
A Day of the Dead / El Dia de los Muertos
Altar & Visual Arts Display curated by Mia Roman Hernandez
Contributing artists:
Juan Carlo Suazo, Olga Ayala, Maria Sanchez, Yoli Manzo, Kathy Cano-Murillo, Cyndi Garcia
October 28 - November 1, 2009
El Dia de los Muertos embodies the greatest expression of hope and faith. People construct altars in homes and graveyards in order to feed the souls of the dead. The feast for the dead originated as a form of ancestor worship. Celebrations begin with the cleaning of the graves and the construction of the ofrenda, or altar. It is a time of remembrance, and the sorrow of the departure of loved ones is caught up in a celebration of the continuance of life.
Sponsored by CARIB: Caribbean Association for Resource, Information & Building
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An Artist's DNA (October 23 - November 15, 2009)
paintings, drawings, sculptures by artist-in-residence Al Johnson
curated by Michael Bradley
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
aljohnsonartstudio@gmail.com
www.aljohnsonartstudio.com
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
An Artist's DNA
paintings, drawings, sculptures by artist-in-residence Al Johnson
curated by Michael Bradley
October 23 - November 15, 2009
Private Reception: October 23, 6 - 9p
Musical Selections: Boo Boo Cousins
Silent Auction and Artwork for Purchase
Open Reception: October 30, 6 - 9p
Musical Selections: Traciana Graves
Hours: TBA
www.aljohnsonartstudio.com | aljohnsonartstudio@gmail.com
Sponsors: JTE Spirits LLC, Andrew's Color Management & Fine Art Printing Services LLC
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Through the Calm Eyes of the Window (October 23 - 25, 2009)
organized by Christie Newman
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Through the Calm Eyes of the Window
Choreographic collaborators: Shannon Perlotto-Kammer, and Christie Newman
performed by Shannon Perlotto-Kammer, and Christie Newman
Friday, October 23 - Sunday, October 25, 2009
Performances:
Friday, October 23rd:
7:00, 7:30, 8:00pm
Saturday, October 24th & Sunday, October 25th:
3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00pm
FREE and open to the public
Using Billy Collin's poem "Days" as a point of inspiration, this piece is meant to be viewed as a moving sculpture progressing through the nuances and gradations of a fall day. With subtle gestures next to grand explosions of movement, "Through the Calm Eye of the Window" is a celebration of vibrant colors, intricacies, and seasons.
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chashama Film Festival 2009 (October 22 - 26, 2009)
FESTIVAL OF THE WORLDS
organized by Rick Kariolic
chashama 217 Art Space, 217 East 42nd Street
rick@chafilmfest.com
cFF 2009 schedule
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
chashama Film Festival 2009
FESTIVAL OF THE WORLDS
Thursday, October 22nd - Monday October 26, 2009
featuring dozens of films, short & full-length, from all over the world
For more information contact: rick@chafilmfest.com
For complete schedule go to: http://chafilmfest.com/2009/schedule.html
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The Intimacies Project (October 20 - 30, 2007)
a collaboration between Red Dress Films and Marinov Dance
Port Authority, 625 8th Avenue @41st Street
bill@reddressfilms.com
Port Authority website: www.panynj.gov
This presentation is made possible in part by chashama, The Port Authority, The Times Square Alliance and The Fashion BID.
chashama 266 Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
41st Street 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 42nd Street, 7 to Times Square; M104, M42 buses to 8th Ave, M11, M16, M27 to 42nd St.
The Intimacies Project
a collaboration between Red Dress Films and
Marinov Dance
Port Authority
41st Street & 8th Avenue
October 20 - 29, 2009, 12 - 7p daily
Dance performance times: 1p & 6p daily
THE INTIMACIES PROJECT at 41st Street & 8th Avenue is a daring multi-media event about relationships and the impossibility of love. This visual art installation and live performance is a rare look at the danger of intimacy expressed through dance, music, film, images, and audience participation. The installation incites individuals to focus on emotion while they are in motion. Commuters and passersby are invited to participate by sharing their thoughts and feelings in response to questions about relationships and love.
bill@reddressfilms.com
This presentation is made possible in part by chashama, The Port Authority, The Times Square Alliance and The Fashion BID.
FREE and open to the public
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More Than What You Feel You Are (October 17, 2009)
a reading & cd release party by Blis
chashama 217 Art Space, 217 East 42nd Street
poetikblis@aol.com
sponsored in part by Poets & Writers: www.pw.org
in statu nascendi (October 13 - 18, 2009)
by Alison Collins
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
in statu nascendi
by Alison Collins
October 13 - 18, 2009
Viewing Hours: Tuesday, October 13th – Saturday, October 17th, 12:30-6p
Artist Reception: Sunday, October 18th, 2-5p
The installation in statu nascendi of 100 steel nests is a response to Ovid's Metamorphoses. The nest forms embrace recurrent themes of the natural and the decorative but also conjure ideas of a dwelling, a shelter, a place where life begins, a place of nurturing, and a place of abandonment.
FREE and open to the public
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RESIDENCE (October 10 & 11, 2009)
a chashama Open Studios exhibit in association with artHarlem's H.O.A.S.T.
featuring artists-in-residence of
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
Day Job (October 6 - 10, 2009)
A performance installation by Elizabeth Otten
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Day Job
A performance installation by Elizabeth Otten
October 6-10, 2009
Performance Times: Tuesday October 6 - Friday October 9, 6:45-8:45p
Saturday October 10, 9a-6p
FREE and open to the public
Day Job is both an improvisational performance and an exorcism. Elizabeth Otten will commemorate the first anniversary of her ongoing role of "Desk Jockey" by distilling her experience into an interactive event. The artist will perform her role of "Administrative Assistant" in a make-shift office space decorated with a photographic diary of her week at work. As the floundering economy has pushed more artists into office-related "day jobs," the performative nature of office professionalism and its monotony have become increasingly relevant subjects. In Day Job, the viewer is invited to participate in the work by influencing the performer's actions. Passers-by are instructed to describe their personal experiences and feelings regarding "day jobs" on Post-It notes. The artist will actively respond to each suggestion by leaving her desk and performing her interpretation of these notes. In this, Day Job endeavors to expose, and perhaps even alleviate, the self-alienating rituals of work through the communion of shared experience.
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"...son of a nobody..." (October 5 - 15, 2009)
Visual and Digital Arts by Pamela Enz
chashama 217 Art Space, 217 East 42nd Street
Sponsors: VisCap | Bad Rep | Frogbiscuit Media
sonofanobody@yahoo.com
www.sonofanobody.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
"...son of a nobody..."
Visual and Digital Arts by Pamela Enz
October 5 - 15, 2009
Opening Reception:
Thursday October 8, 6 - 9p
Hours: 2 - 7p daily
presentation & discussion of "Visionary"
by Alex Salzman
Tuesday, October 13, 6:30p
Visionary is a socially responsible art incubator offering collectors and investors access to premiere contemporary art, and art related new media ventures, while providing a platform for emerging artists and participatory art. Alex Salzman, serial social entrepreneur, and founder of Visionary Capital will present the plan for Visionary and how supporters can immediately get involved towards that official launch in 2010. Join us for discussion and refreshments beginning at 6:30p.
"Princess", a performance by
Aimee Lutkin & Jeneva Zentz
Thursday, October 15, 7p
Exploring the cultural ideal of beauty, the quest for perfecction, and the profound sense of loss and relief when that quest fails thorugh dance, reenactment, and the text of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic tale, "The Little Princess".
VisCap | Bad Rep | Frogbiscuit Media
sonofanobody@yahoo.com | www.sonofanobody.com
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Etapa New York (October 4, 2009)
A talent show featuring singers, musicians, bands, models, dancers, actors, TV personalities, comedians, sports announcers and more, coordinated by Silvana Magda
chashama 217 Art Space, 217 East 42nd Street
www.talentobrasil.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
A Talento Brasil presentation:
Etapa New York
coordinated by Silvana Magda (917-528-8151)
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 5p
$10 in advance | $15 at the door
A talent show featuring singers, musicians, bands, models, dancers, actors, TV personalities, comedians, sports announcers and more.
www.talentobrasil.com
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so much depends upon [a red wheel barrow] (October 3 - 25, 2009)
by the art.party.theater.company
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
www.artpartytheatercompany.com
artpartytheatercompany@gmail.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
twenty-three original public performances in Times Square
October 3 - 25, 2009
a new performance every night: 6 to 8pm
www.artpartytheatercompany.com | artpartytheatercompany@gmail.com
This October, art.party.theater.company puts contemporary social debates into a new perspective— with the help of a wheelbarrow. In association with chashama's celebrated WINDOWS program, art.party.theater.company will breathe life into William Carlos Williams' mysterious poem The Red Wheel Barrow through a daily performance project that aims to answer the question of what depends upon a red wheelbarrow in our modern society.
art.party.theater.company's team of directors, performers, and designers will construct new performances every night— tackling issues from the economy to television, from healthcare to Starbucks—armed with only performers, a wheelbarrow, and maybe some live chickens. Passers-by of the Times Square storefront will discover how Williams' poem relates to some of the most challenging issues in today's headlines in surprising, audacious, and thought-provoking performances.
Artistic Director: Mary Birnbaum
Executive Producer: Leticia Frazao
Conceived and Curated by Jess Burkle
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Founded in 2008 by Mary Birnbaum, (Artistic Director), art.party.theater.company seeks to create surprising, irreverent, physical theater that activates the audience. In February 2009, art.party's first mainstage production, SCHOOLED: or m. moliere's the learned ladies, directed by Birnbaum, was set in the salons of New York City luxury apartments. Audience members wandered through five rooms of simultaneous action, secret scenes, and an insight into a fictional family's dysfunctional home. Recently, Birnbaum and Jess Burkle (Associate Artistic Director) co-conceived the original Bryant in the Park in cooperation with the Bryant Park Corporation. The piece featured fourteen actors clad in white, playing croquet on the Bryant Park lawn while spouting the poetry of the park's namesake, William Cullen Bryant, in a sultry and stirring celebration of summer. Future projects include Duchess in the Dark a restaging of Webster's Jacobean tragedy staged in total darkness, lit only by flashlights in the hands of audience members.
about art.party.theater.company
the 3rd annual tipmycup quickie (October 3, 2009)
a 24-hour theatre festival
chashama 217 Art Space, 217 East 42nd Street
www.tipmycup.org
www.fracturedatlas.org
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
the 3rd annual
tipmycup quickie
a 24-hour theatre festival
October 3rd, 2009 6p
$12 @ smarttix.com | $15 at the door
start with unsuspecting actors, add some genius writers, plus a dash of innovative direction, mix in a top secret subject, give them less than a day to mingle and what do you get? the tipmycup quickie: a 24-hour theatre festival brings together groups of actors, writers, and directors and gives them exactly one day to create an original play to be performed for a live audience.
the tipmycup quickie is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of the tipmycup quickie may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
www.tipmycup.org | www.fracturedatlas.org
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"How to Enjoy Traffic Cones" (September 30 - October 4, 2009)
A collaborative exhibition instigated by Erik Sanner
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
eriksanner@gmail.com | www.eriksanner.com
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
"How to Enjoy Traffic Cones"
A collaborative exhibition instigated by
Erik Sanner
Wednesday, September 30th through Sunday, October 4th, 2009
12 noon to 6p
Opening Reception:
Friday, October 2nd, 6-8p
Traffic cones are almost art. Like paintings, their primary function is to be looked at. How to Enjoy Traffic Cones is an exhibition of contemporary new media art celebrating the aesthetic practice of traffic cone viewing. Works include "Conescape," an interactive piece by JudsoN and Erik Sanner, and "Eight Views of a Traffic Cone, Eight Times Removed," a new media installation by Jeffrey Chuang, Isaiah King, and Erik Sanner. Additionally, a limited edition brochure suggesting ways to engage in traffic cone appreciation is available at the gallery. How to Enjoy Traffic Cones is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
FREE and open to the public
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Jeffrey Chuang is an art director, illustrator, designer, painter, father, tennis player, and, like many people, deeply conflicted.
Jason Wilder Evans has shared stages with Steve Azar and the Nashville Star Tour. With his wife Dawn-Lee, he is walking every street in Manhattan. Jason is currently working on a creative writing and video project called HIV: USA that will take place in every state.
JudsoN has been programming interactive artwork since 1996. His work has been featured in MoMA's web art collection, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and the Kitchen in NYC, among others. He recently contributed to The Handbook on Computational Arts and Creative Infomatics.
Isaiah King's prints, paintings and drawings pursue an ongoing study of the human form in all its complex emotive facets while his design work is committed to the idea of encouraging public discourse on social and political issues.
Erik Sanner integrates traditional media with technology to create dynamic installations he calls "paintings that move." He has been treating traffic cones as aesthetic phenomena for about fifteen years.
About the Artists
SAVE THE BEES (September 25, 2009)
an experimental opera/couture fashion show by "Mr. & Mr."
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
"The art of living well requires an acute attention to what we have." --- Mr. & Mr.
SAVE THE BEES
an experimental opera/couture fashion show by Mr. & Mr.
chashama 461 Harlem Gallery Space, 461 West 126th Street
Friday, September 25, 2009
1st performance: 6:00pm
2nd performance: 8:00pm
Presented by chashama with contributions from generous supporters Blackwash Televised Art Gallery, Count Us In Productions, Donna Karan, Harlem Brewing Company, Peace Keeper Cosmetics and Surrounding Flowers and Events.
A portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to the American Beekeeping Federation.
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chashama Fall Gala 2009 (September 21, 2009)
Anita's Way, NYC 10036 (walkthrough between One Bryant Park & 4 Times Square)
Honoring Gary M. Rosenberg, Esq.
Jr. Honoree: Gavin Steinberg
Catering by Aureole
//on the site of chashama's original West Side theater space//
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave.
Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square.
Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
chashama Fall Gala 2009
Anita's Way, NYC 10036 (walkthrough between One Bryant Park & 4 Times Square)
September 21, 2009, 6-9p; after party: 9p-12mid
Honoring Gary M. Rosenberg, Esq.
Jr. Honoree: Gavin Steinberg
Catering by Aureole
Featuring a performance extravaganza with over 30 unique artists and visual and interactive installations.
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A Bailout for the Rest of Us: Recession Art Sale (September 17 - October 10, 2009)
organized by Elanit Kayne in association with Frank Shifreen
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
recessionartsale@gmail.com
www.recessionartsale.com | www.cultureinside.com
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
1 block east of Grand Central, corner of 43rd Street & 3rd Avenue; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
A Bailout for the Rest of Us: Recession Art Sale
organized by Elanit Kayne in association with Frank Shifreen
September 17 - October 9, 2009
Open: Monday Sep 21, Oct.5: 11a-7p
Tuesday Sep 22, 29, Oct.6: 11a-7p
Wednesday Sep 23, 30, Oct.7: 11a-7p
Thursday Sep 24, Oct.1, 8: 11a-7p
Friday Sep 18, 25, Oct.2, 9: 11a-3p
Sunday Sep 27: 11a-3p
A Bailout for the Rest of Us: Recession Art Sale combines art and commerce to assist artists and out-of-work professionals. In a 5500 sq ft. gallery space, thirty artists and thirty out-of-work professionals will participate in Recession Art Sale, an art and commerce event in the center of Manhattan from September 17 – October 10, 2009.
Artists will include: Noah Baen, Matthew Beall, Gene de Bartolo, Michele Brody, Gulsen Calik, Peter Ciccariello, Thom Corn, Carla Cubit, Michelle Droll, Ektarina Existart, Elanit Kayne, KK Kozik, Lorenzo Pace, Gila Paris, Susu Pianchupattana, Yulia Pinkusevich, Thaddeus Radell, Robin Ross, Rafael Rodriguez, Barnaby Ruhe, Charles Seplowin, Frank Shifreen, and Tiffany Sum.
Contact 646-462-7755 for private appointments in the space
recessionartsale@gmail.com
Official Site of Recession Art Sale:
www.recessionartsale.com and www.cultureinside.com
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Amidst a glass-walled space at 679 3rd Ave (at the corner of 43rd St.), Recession Art Sale will host a diverse group of artists and sellers, reflecting the wide economic spectrum of the recently unemployed. The objective is to create income, comment on current shifts in the market economy, and foster a sense of community amongst artists, sellers, and buyers. Unemployed individuals affected by the current economic recession will be engaged as sellers to market the works on exhibit.
Hosting the event is Anita Durst's chashama, which has worked successfully with conceptual artist Elanit Kayne on experiments in value and commissioned her to do this new project on the economy. In 2002, Kayne's Times Square installation, "All I Want for Christmas is Nothing: an Experiment in Value", considered sellers' and buyers' notions of the relative worth of objects.
A multi-channel outreach to sellers was conducted through the use of print and online advertising, job opportunity sites, and social media in order to attract an eclectic group of qualified applicants. While some sellers have a background in the arts (a former employee of the Whitney Museum, Art History graduates), other qualified sellers include former IT workers and teachers and will receive art consultation training. Positions are still available.
Kayne partners with Co-Producer Frank Shifreen, founder of the Gowanus Art Canal Project, to create the Recession Art Sale gallery for 30 top-selling international artists. Shifreen, the New York partner of www.cultureinside.com, an award-winning exhibition site currently available in French, German and English, is hosting the online gallery for the project. Marketing and management consultant and graduate of the Park School of Communication at Ithaca College, Sarah Vaynerman, joins the project as Director of Operations and Marketing.
about Recession Art Sale
Everyday Is Earth Day (September 16th - 28th, 2009)
a Back-to-School Exhibition presented by chashama and Earth Day New York
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
www.chashama.org/earthday
www.earthdayny.org
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave.
Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square.
Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Everyday Is Earth Day
a Back-to-School Exhibition presented by chashama and Earth Day New York
September 16th - 28th, 2009
FREE and open to the public
www.earthdayny.org
The exhibition is a multigenerational, multiethnic and multicultural dialog about the fragility of our Earth and the responsibilities we all have as its inhabitants. It will feature teach-ins and panel discussions that coalesce the concepts and ideas of environmental organizations, arts organizations, educators, students, youth groups and concerned citizens. We'll have plenty of info and such to help you live a greener, more sustainable life.
Come and join the discussion.
visit www.chashama.org/earthday for event & complete schedule info
"We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
~Native American Proverb
details
September 16:
6 - 9p Green your Office w/Dan Minor
September 17:
Informal announcement of TapIt events for Earth Day NY + offering petitions against gas drilling near NYC's water sources.
September 18:
12 - 1p Brown Bag Lunch Info Session about bottled water, local water, and TapIt.
20 minute presentation followed by Q & A.
6 - 10p Everyday is Earth Day Gala
September 23: Reconstruct Art / Purpose Lounge "Turning Waste into Artistic Visions"
6 - 9p A workshop to help people understand the art of turning recycled/found objects into creative works. Presentations, demonstrations and Q&A.
September 24: Screening of "Flow"
7 - 11p hosted by TapIt, followed by a Q&A session
September 25: Screening of "From the Hoods to the Woods"
8p with a special presentation by the director, Q&A and afterparty
Hoods to Woods trailers
http://vimeo.com/3245501
http://vimeo.com/3344290
personal work site http://www.guerillaartist.com
September 27: Grassroots Organizing Workshop
2 - 6p The New York Action Network will be offering a Grassroots Organizing training from 2pm to 5pm. The workshop will focus on organizing in New York City and the unique opportunities and challenges that come with
it. We will cover issues of building a strategic campaign, connecting with your target audience, identifying strategic points of intervention, and the building blocks of successful direct action.
At 5pm there will be a slide show of local campaigns and direct actions presented by the activists who produced them, followed by refreshments and an opportunity to meet and talk to local organizers.
If you would like to participate please RSVP to NYActionnetwork@gmail.com with your name and how many people you're bringing.
September 28: Freeganism
8p An event especially for newcomers. Join us for a discussion on the basics of freeganism – why we reject the capitalist system and how we reject it. We'll discuss the wastes and abuses of our current society and why they happen, and explore some of the practical community alternatives we are trying to build. We'll talk about the well-known practice of dumpster diving and why it makes sense in our current situation, as well as the basics of how we go about recovering the massive amount of usable food and other goods that is wasted every day. After our discussion, we'll take a trash tour to explore the area's wasted resources. If you ever wanted to try dumpster diving but couldn't bring yourself to do it on your own, join us for this workshop and tour.
for more info: ask@freegan.info
schedule
PEEP-O-RAMA (September 12 - 30, 2009)
featuring works by chashama artists-in-residence
Note: No one under the age of 18 will be admitted without a parent or guardian.
chashama ak-57 Gallery, 830 12th Avenue @ 57th Street
& viewable by appointment through the 30th
Contact: celso@elcelso.com
PEEP-O-RAMA
chashama ak-57 Gallery
(between 57th & 58th St.; Subway: B/D/A/C/1 to 59th Street
Bus: M57 to 11th Ave., walk one block west)
September 12 – 30, 2009
1st viewing: 1 - 4p
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 6-10p
& viewable by appointment through the 30th
FREE and open to the public.
Contact: celso@elcelso.com
EL CELSO is pleased to announce the opening of PEEP-O-RAMA, a group art show and installation at CHASHAMA's AK-57 Gallery at 830 12th Avenue, between 57th & 58th Streets in Manhattan, next to the West Side Highway in the historic ART KRAFT (Strauss) building. Note: No one under the age of 18 will be admitted without a parent or guardian.
PEEP-O-RAMA showcases the controversial works of Brent Birnbaum, Celso, John Chandler, Jillian Corbett, Ian Farrell, Ryan Frank, Suzanne Goldenberg, LA2, Jose Landoni, Pamela Lawton, Numyi Lee, Danny Licul, Linda Lee Nicholas, Dean Radinovsky, Maggie Simonelli, Miryana Todorova, James A. Willis, and special guests.
PEEP-O-RAMA features paintings, sculpture, and a full-scale site-specific installation by Celso, infinity and New York's most dynamic contemporary artists. The group show opens on Saturday, September 12 from noon-4PM with a reception from 6PM-10PM at the AK-57 Gallery at 830 12th Avenue. The exhibit will continue by appointment through Wednesday, September 30, 2009. The event is free and open to the public.
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Dance Jamaica! (September 12, 2009)
a chashama presentation made in association with
the Greater Jamaica Development Corp and
the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
featuring ESOTA, Mariana Bekerman Dance Company, and JR Entertainment
Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC), 153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY
www.gjdc.org
E or J train to Jamaica Center (last stop); or F to Parsons Boulevard: walk down 153rd Street to Jamaica Avenue.
Hours: 12 - 3p
In the event of rain, the event will move indoors to the auditorium.
FREE and open to the public
chashama, in association with Greater Jamaica Development Corp (GJDC) and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL), is proud to once again present Dance Jamaica!, unexpected dance performances outside the Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC).
Three dance companies that operate in the Queens area, ESOTA!, Mariana Bekerman Dance Company ("Black & White"), and JR Entertainment, have been selected to create outdoor performances for the lawn in front of the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in this second season. JPAC is located on one of Jamaica's busiest thoroughfares, and these public performances will delight the public as they go about their Saturday activities.
Greater Jamaica Development Corporation (GJDC) is a community-building organization that plans, promotes, coordinates and advances responsible development to revitalize Jamaica and strengthen the region. Marshaling the resources of the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, GJDC's work expands economic opportunity and improves quality of life for the ethnically and economically diverse residents of Jamaica and for the region at large, which benefits from rational, well-planned, and sustainable metropolitan growth.
The Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC), located on Jamaica Avenue and 153rd Street adjacent to a major subway and bus terminal, is a landmark Former Dutch Reformed Church building and open space that was renovated by the City of New York. The space will soon open for reuse as a 400-seat state of the art performing arts center to be operated by the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Planned programming includes theatre productions, music concerts, film festivals, dance performances and arts education.
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things which perish if not for the using (September 8 - 26, 2009)
by Hannah Craft
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
hannah.craft@gmail.com
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
things which perish if not for the using
by Hannah Craft
September 8 - 26
Opening & 2nd Receptions: September 17 & 19, 6 - 9p
Visible Monday through Friday, 12 - 6p
Open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
Hannah Craft's things which perish if not for the using is a subtly new installation each day, an illustration of growth at street level. It is a depiction of specific moments that force the viewer into the realization he or she is not looking at the same piece seen yesterday. Utilizing taxidermy, strawberry plants and wheatgrass, this piece offers a new experience upon each passing. The artist's hand is removed at a certain point, allowing light and water to control the final aesthetics of the piece. things which perish if not for the using is an opportunity for people to contemplate how we coexist with plants and animals and to observe simple things most likely overlooked everyday, if ever even witnessed amongst the hustle of midtown Manhattan. The stems crawl over the deer. The fruit rots or gets eaten. The grass grows tall and wilts.
FREE and open to the public
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Hannah Craft graduated from Ramapo College of New Jersey this past May after also studying at Emerson College in the Netherlands and Melbourne University in Australia. She has been furthering the concepts of her interactive, organic sculptures since receiving "Best in Show" at her juried thesis exhibition in Mahwah, NJ. Her work was also recently exhibited in the FIGMENT sculpture celebration on Governor's Island in June. Aside from actively making work in mediums as varied as iron, rope, eggshells, bronze and ice, Hannah keeps busy with her other endeavor, The Rabbit Hole Bakeshop, an organic cookie company started in 2007. She has also worked with Simon Gallery in Morristown, NJ, Rupert Ravens Contemporary in Newark, NJ and the Kresge and Pascal Galleries at Ramapo College.
About the Artist
Miss Connections (September 2 - 6, 2009)
a live diorama by Zhenesse
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.zhenesse.com
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Miss Connections
A Living Diorama of the Desert of Interpersonal Connectivity and an Interactive Exploration of the Loneliness of Interpersonal Communication in the Fiercest Metropolitan City There Is.
by Zhenesse
September 2 - 6, 2009
Performance Times: 4p - 11p
From Zhenesse: "Missing Connections is a diorama themed around about lack of connection, false sense of connection, and loneliness. In a room covered in yellow pages the artist makes calls, is misunderstood, reaches out and wallows in the hollowness of disconnection. Starring me, my rabbit, my cell phone, and answering machine messages and other memes to be announced."
http://www.zhenesse.com
FREE and open to the public
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bahia week expo (September 1 - 6, 2009)
created by Silvana Magda in association with The Brasilianas newspaper
chashama 217 Art Space, 217 East 42nd Street
bahiaweek@gmail.com
lavagemdarua46ny@aol.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
bahia week in New York City
created by Silvana Magda in association with The Brasilianas newspaper
September 1 - 6, 2009, 10a to 8p
exhibit, performances & presentations
FREE and open to the public
For more info: 917-528-8151 | bahiaweek@gmail.com
lavagemdarua46ny@aol.com
The idea of Bahia Week, now in its 1st year, is to exhibit and promote the rich and unique culture of the state of Bahia, which is the largest tourist destination in Brazil. Silvana Magda who is the general coordinator of Brazilian Day in New York boasts an exciting week of cultural activities such as expositions, live performances, workshops and lectures focussing on Bahia and its possibilities in the North American Market.
Participants will include: Johnny Lorenz, PhD, Professor at Montclair University, Claudia Green, PhD, Executive Director of Global Business, Carlos Borges, Journalist, & Walson Botelho, Anthropologist.
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chashama North Open Studios (August 29, 2009)
featuring works-in-progress by our resident artists in upstate NY
chashama North, Pine Plains, NY
with Emily Bolevice, Jason Covert, Glen Eden Einbinder, Alice Klugherz, Monisha Raja, Jen Rasinski
FREE and open to the public
emilybolevice.com
www.jasoncovert.com
www.artcodex.org/glen_einbinder/
www.jenone.org
www.elizastamps.com
more info
Straight Talk (August 27 -September 30, 2009)
a presentation by chashama in association with the
Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
for the exhibition of new works by chashama artists-in-residence Babatunde Ajiboye, Cynthia J. Epps, Lawrence Joyner, William Mwazi, Flory Ramoreboli and Jeff Sims
chashama, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
Sponsored by Greater Jamaica Development Corporation and Harlem Brewing Company
www.mwazi.com
www.jeff-sims.com
www.gjdc.org
www.harlembrewingcompany.com
chashama Jamaica Studios, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
Between 90th Street and Jamaica Avenue, E to Jamaica Center, F to Parsons Boulevard
Jamaica Station on the LIRR.
By car: Take Long Island Expressway (I-495 E) to exit 22A-E to Grand Central Parkway East. Remain on
Grand Central Parkway until exit 16 (164th St-Parsons Blvd.) Turn right onto Parsons Boulevard, left onto Jamaica
Avenue, then left onto 161st Street. Our building is on the left side of the block.
Straight Talk
new works by chashama artists-in-residence Babatunde Ajiboye, Cynthia J. Epps, Lawrence Joyner, William Mwazi, Flory Ramoreboli and Jeff Sims
August 27 -September 30, 2009
Opening Reception: August 27, 6 - 8p
Hours: Mon-Fri, 11a-3p or by appointment
FREE and open to the public
Sponsored by Greater Jamaica Development Corporation and Harlem Brewing Company
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bahia week in NYC (August 25 - September 7, 2009)
created by Silvana Magdas in association with The Brasilianas newspaper
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
bahiaweek@gmail.com
lavagemdarua46ny@aol.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave.
Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square.
Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
bahia week in New York City
created by Silvana Magdas in association with The Brasilianas newspaper
August 25 - September 7, 2009, 10a to 8p
exhibit is FREE and open to the public
For more info: 917-528-8151 | bahiaweek@gmail.com
lavagemdarua46ny@aol.com
The idea of Bahia Week, now in its 1st year, is to exhibit and promote the rich and unique culture of the state of Bahia, which is the largest tourist destination in Brazil. Silvana Magda who is the general coordinator of Brazilian Day in New York boasts an exciting week of cultural activities such as expositions, live performances, workshops and lectures focussing on Bahia and its possibilities in the North American Market.
This exhibit is in conjunction with a week of bahia week exhibits, presentations and performances at chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street.
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QUEERSEUM (August 20, 2009)
performance and collection of queer artifacts by Zhenesse
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
me@zhenesse.com
www.zhenesse.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
QUEERSEUM
performance and collection of queer artifacts by Zhenesse
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Open: 1 to 11p
Suggested donation: $5/FREE with "queer artifact"
Tour the QUEERSEUM with your Docent and Lead Curator Zhenesse! As a part of 0227 Productions' ongoing mission to promote interactive durational performance and visual art (and all things queer) this interactive museum will feature the queerest of artifacts available in our culture. "There's a greater prevalence of queerness in the majority of people's everyday existence than they recognize," says Zhenesse. What we accept as normative may be wholly trangressive to the next person. Our actions, our obsessions, our daily rituals may, in fact, queer us. The artifacts in this collection bring into relief the obtuse, the awkward, the funny, the frivolous in object and images that queer us through our recognition of them.
0227 Productions invites YOU to bring one queer artifact to be catalogued and presented as part of an ongoing QUEERSEUM project. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 or FREE with the donation of a queer artifact.
As part of the QUEERSEUM's performance series, GraceLES will present "How to Drink a Rum and Coke: Mourning Ritual #1." At 7pm on August 20, Grace will throw the cap away on a handle of rum. Join Grace onstage for a silent lesson in how to mix, drink and enjoy. By the end of the bottle Grace will, at least, be drunk. Enjoy a free drink, and sign a cup for posterity!
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The Nature of Urban Nature: Inner City Artists' Interpretives (August 16 - 31, 2009)
(FINAL EXHIBIT IN THIS SPACE)
A Group Show Curated by Roy Secord
chashama 2016, 2016 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard
contact: SecordRW@aol.com
Artist Friends in Support of Speaking in Rhythms Art Exhibit (August 15, 2009)
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
Artist Friends in Support of Speaking in Rhythms is a collaborative effort to raise money to support Syncopated Peru, a cultural exchange project that will expose approximately fifteen youth to Afro-Peruvian culture by traveling to Peru during the summer of 2010. Artists from various parts the world will present works that are reflective of the diversity of their experiences. This event not only creates an opportunity for them to network and to expose their artistic talents, but also supports the mission of a wonderful not-for-profit organization by contributing 15 percent of the proceeds from the sales of their art.
Other special features include readings of literary works by writers that will be featured in the Speaking in Rhythms Literary Journal scheduled to be published in the spring of 2010, and "A Wing Tasting in Harlem", sponsored by Harlem Atomic Wings. Attendees will lick their fingers in delight with mouth watering flavored wings such as Honey Mustard, BBQ, Jerk BBQ Teriyaki, and the traditional Buffalo Wings with various degrees of spiciness; also, to stimulate the taste buds, samples of Peruvian food and drinks will be served. Ever had skewered beef hearts marinated with tangy spices or a tasty beverage made from the base of purple corn? Well, at this exhibit, you can experience anticuchos and chicha morada, two of Peru's typical foods and drinks. The debut of a young DJ coming out of the Grant Houses-DJ Life will spin contemporary and old school music that will take us back to the here and now. Thinking in Sounds Production will give away a jamming mixtape to the first 50 people who arrive at the event.
Come join us in the spirit of collaboration, creativity, and good will to celebrate the talents of visual, spoken word, and music artists who are in support of Speaking in Rhythms Inc.
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Nowhere In Manhattan (August 13 - 22, 2009)
by Matthew Jensen
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
info@jensen-projects.com
www.jensen-projects.com
www.nowhereinmanhattan.org
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle
to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Nowhere In Manhattan
A public exhibition of work by Matthew Jensen exploring the last pieces of nowhere remaining in the borough of Manhattan.
August 13 - 22, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 13th, 6-9 pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, August 19th 7p
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 1-7p or by appointment
This exhibition of work by Matthew Jensen represents a mid-point in the artist's exploration and documentation of the last pieces of nowhere remaining in the borough of Manhattan.
Contact: 202-276-0963 | info@jensen-projects.com
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SPOOL (August 13 - 21, 2009)
drawing in space in five movements by street artist infinity
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
SPOOL
drawing in space in five movements by
infinity
Performance Time:
August 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 2009
POLLACK (overture) 1 - 1:30p
ZORN 1:30 - 2:45p
BARNEY 3:15 - 4:30p
CELSO 4:30 - 5:30p
ELLIS (epilogue) 5:30 - 6p
FREE and open to the public
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A Survivor's Celebration (August 7, 2009)
an evening of Theater, Music & Comedy featuring Gary Corbin of Globescope Productions
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
globescopewelcomesyou@gmail.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to
Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
Globescope Arts & Entertainment, Inc. in association with Eddy's Good & Plenty and
House Of Romance presents
A Survivor's Celebration
an evening of Theater, Music & Comedy featuring Gary Corbin
performing "Waiting for Oz" from "Four One-Legged
Men"
A theatrical salute to survivors of war - and all of life's traumas - their loved ones and
families.
Friday, August 7, 2009, 8p
Advance Suggested Donation: $20*
$25* at the door (seating is limited)
RSVP & Purchase Tickets Now!!!!
globescopewelcomesyou@gmail.com or 212-929-4825
If you cannot attend please donate anyway to this worthy cause!
º also featuring Robert Anton - R & B Sensation
º Musical Theater Performances (Cast members of The Love
Show)
º Comics
º Great Food & Socializing
*Will benefit Globescope Arts & Entertainment, Inc.'s upcoming productions, and
programs that promote performers who are of under-represented cultures, disabled and senior citizens.
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"Real Freedom May Look Controlled" (August 6 - 31, 2009)
an installation artwork by Meghan LeBorious
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
www.meghanleborious.com
mleborious@earthlink.net
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
1 block east of Grand Central, corner of 43rd Street & 3rd Avenue; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle
train to Grand Central | M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
"Real Freedom May Look Controlled"
an installation artwork by Meghan LeBorious
August 6 - 31, 2009
Real Freedom May Look Controlled is an installation artwork made using cut black paper, light, and chandelier crystals. The scintillating display features images of anatomical hearts and accompanying veins and arteries, along with the phrase Real Freedom May Look Controlled. The images shimmer and refract with pinks, blues and purples. The artwork deals with the idea that carefully applied discipline can lead to great joy and a sense of being connected with the world.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Metal-Heavy-Twisted (August 1 - 10, 2009)
an art show in Harlem curated by Linus Coraggio and Johnny V
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
Metal-Heavy-Twisted
an art show in Harlem
Curated by Linus Coraggio and Johnny V
From the minds that brought you Metropolis Apocalypse – L.E.S. Riot Era: Artists 1988-2008.
August 1 - 10, 2009
Opening: Saturday, August 1, 6-10p
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 3-6p
"Open House" night: Thursday, August 6, 6-9p
Please call ahead to verify access to the exhibit by calling (212) 866-9556 or (646) 234-1757
The theme is Metal: heavy and twisted; represented in an astonishing array of styles by the likes of
such masters as Hubert Kretzschmar, Terrenceo Hamond, Dr. Zian Saxon(ian), Dinah Toxic, Brett Kahler, Veronica Evanega, Steel Neal, Larz Westerwood, J J Veronis, Ken Hiratsuka, Lars Westvind, Gushon Calik, Rifka Milder, Lale Westvind, James Garvey, Kelly Irwin, Nick Kuskin, Phillip La Loche, Paolo Pelosini, and Linus Corregio.
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LEGSHOW (July 31 - August 8, 2009)
A performance installation brought to you by THE MAYA PROJECT
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
"LEGSHOW"
A performance installation brought to you by
THE MAYA PROJECT
Performance Time:
Friday, July 31 - Saturday, August 8, 7p
Opening and closing night reception:, 7:30-8:30pm
FREE and open to the public
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Shrine: What do you worship? (July 29 - August 9, 2009)
by Claire Elizabeth Barratt
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
shrine-cillavee.blogspot.com
www.cillavee.com | cillavee@gmail.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle
to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
July 29 - August 9, 2009
"SHRINE: What Do You Worship?" is an ART INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCE.
The artist is Claire Elizabeth Barratt - director of Cilla Vee
Life Arts.
She will be LIVING in a small store front gallery space for twelve days!!!
July 29, 30 & 31 will be setting up installation.
August 1 - 8 will be performance.
August 9 will be the tear down.
SATURDAY AUGUST 8th - ALL NIGHT PEACE VIGIL
Please come & pray for peace in song, dance, music, words, drawing, painting - or any other method of praying that comes from your heart.
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SHRINE: What Do You Worship? is a continuous performance installation piece wherein a solo performer inhabits a space for one week. During this time she continues to manipulate the installation, perform a variety of rituals and build a shrine (or altar) which audience members are then invited to augment.
Throughout this one-week period the performer does not leave the installation. Her every action, including those of bathing, eating and sleeping, is incorporated into her performance rituals.
Her persona often transitions between that of Deity and that of Supplicant.
Rituals are informed and influenced by the practices of various world religions and are original creations of the performer.
Rituals may include the use of: paint, written word, spoken word, musical instruments, singing / chanting, dance / movement, costume, natural materials, objects, candles, incense, water, food and drink.
The installation is comprised of large and small structures, natural materials, found objects and fabrics.
Incidental music may also be included, as both recorded music which is played on a CD player and operated by the performer and as live music performed by the artist and by guest musicians.
about the event
chashama North Open Studios (July 26, 2009)
featuring works-in-progress by our resident artists in upstate NY
chashama North, Pine Plains, NY
TINY DANCE FILM SERIES (July 20 - 26, 2009)
by Choreographer Peter Kyle and Sound Artist Jimmy Garver
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.tinydancefilms.com
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th
Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
TINY DANCE FILM SERIES
by Choreographer Peter Kyle and Sound Artist Jimmy Garver
July 20-26, 2009
Opening Reception: Monday July 20, 6:00-11:00pm
Event Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, July 21 - 24, 12:00-2:00pm & 5:00-7:00pm
Saturday-Sunday, July 25 - 26, 1:00-5:00pm
A Brand New & Totally Unique mode in which to view the beloved TINY DANCE FILM SERIES has been dreamed up by its creators, Choreographer Peter Kyle and Sound Artist Jimmy Garver.
Come celebrate the latest incarnation of the Series with its creators and a gaggle of very special guests on Monday night, July 20th starting at 6:30pm in its new home: chashama's Window Space at 266 West 37th Street, just east of 8th Avenue.
Experience the Tiny Dance Film Series as you've never seen it before! Many Special Secrets await!
www.tinydancefilms.com
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workshop production (July 15 & 16, 2009)
a workshop presentation of the play "In Fields Where They Lay", organized by Brad Raimondo
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
"Blue" (July 13, 14 & 17, 2009)
an investigation of a primary color by Christie Newman
chashama 217 Window Space, 217 East 42nd Street
www.christienewman.net
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand
Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
"Blue"
by Christie Newman
Monday, July 13th, Tuesday, July 14th & Friday, July 17th
Hours: 5 - 7p
"Blue" delves into a fluid investigation of the color blue and the emotional and natural qualities it alludes to. Using the descriptions from Alexander Theroux's "The Primary Colors" as a point of motivation, this piece looks to explore the complex implications and connotations we connect to the color through a sculpturally focused movement piece.
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HEXAHEXAFLEXAGON (July 13 - 15, 2009)
a Fortune Telling Shoppe by Damaris Drummond
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
damarisland@gmail.com | damarisland.com
Vita Coco: vitacoco.com
Feather and Folly: myspace.com/featherandfolly
PROMO VIDEO:
vimeo.com/5477250 | youtube.com/watch?v=BAQ-7DvSPxI
"CAVE PAINTINGS" (July 10 - August 5, 2009)
a solo show by Elliot Sperber
chashama 2016, 2016 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard
contact: elliot.sperber@gmail.com
Elliotsperber.com
Currently, I am exploring what I consider to be a style and approach to painting – to image making and image discovering – that falls within the "tradition" of prehistoric cave painting. Among other things, it is thought that the cave painter's subject matter was inspired, or implied, or inferred by the texture and pattern of the surface that s/he was painting. A convexity might suggest the head of a bison or horse, and this specification would be "drawn" out. I approach subject matter similarly, albeit drawing from a more varied cultural reservoir.
Walter Benjamin has noted that the cultural and technological products of the world, the so-called artificial world, can be conceptualized as something not opposed to nature, but as a second nature. When painting, I begin with a relatively random mess of colors and values, creating an artificial cave wall on which I discover all sorts of entities from the various natures – images which, if the composition is successful, will be interacting among one another compositionally as well as thematically, inter alia.
In approaching that cave wall which is not simply canvas or wood but the limit of one's
consciousness, my intention is to encroach further into what may be termed the all-pervading mystery. French theorist Alain Badiou defines Art as a means of approaching the Real (the Lacanian Real forever beyond reach), of finding symbols for the as yet un-symbolized beyond our comprehension. To a certain degree, this jibes with my conception of cave painting. Akin to a surrealism critical of its reifying tendencies, particularly Max Ernst's* oeuvre, the cave-painter explores the mystery, plunging into it as though diving into the sea of the mind, bringing back variously treasures, relics, or monsters. Other notable influences on my work include Hieronymous Bosch and painters of illuminated manuscripts such as Jean Pucelle and Kamal al-din Bihzad.
*"Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation." Max Ernst
Artist Statement
A Hero Among Us (July 9 - 26, 2009)
a presentation by chashama in association with the
Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
for the exhibition of artwork by chashama artist-in-residence William Mwazi
chashama, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
www.mwazi.com
www.gjdc.org
Between 90th Street and Jamaica Avenue, E to Jamaica Center, F to Parsons Boulevard
Jamaica Station on the LIRR.
By car: Take Long Island Expressway (I-495 E) to exit 22A-E to Grand Central Parkway E. Remain on Grand Central Parkway until exit 16 (164th St-Parsons Blvd.) Turn right onto Parsons Boulevard, left onto Jamaica Avenue, then left onto 161st Street.
William Mwazi Art Exhibit Opening Reception
presented by chashama in association with the Greater Jamaica Development
Corporation.
Opening Reception, Thursday, July 9, 2009, 6 - 9p
chashama 161, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
Exhibit term: July 9 -26, 2009
Hours: Mon-Fri, 11a-3p; Sat-Sun, 5-7p & by appointment
Over the past two years, chashama has worked with the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation (GJDC) to find a suitable space to convert into a cultural hub. Our new spaces, located at 90-26 & 90-30 161st Street,
provide us a wonderful opportunity to create up to 10 subsidized studios for local artists as well as street level galleries. This event gives local artists, businesses, service organizations and community liaisons another chance to see chashama's resources, in an informal setting in which we can meet and greet our new neighbors.
FREE and open to the public
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The Work Office (July 3 – 26, 2009)
by Katarina Jerinic and Naomi Miller
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
office@theworkoffice.com
www.theworkoffice.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times
Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
July 3 - 26, 2009
Wednesdays: 4-8p
Thursdays: 1-8p
Fridays - Sundays: 12-8p
Payday parties held on July 10, 17 & 24 from 6p to 8p.
What is TWO?
The Work Office (TWO) is a multidisciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency.
Informed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the Great Depression in the 1930s, TWO is a gesture to "make
work" for visual and performing artists, writers, and others by giving them simple, idea-based assignments to
explore, document, and improve life in New York. From a temporary, publicly accessible storefront office, TWO's
administrators will hire employees, exhibit work, and distribute Depression-era wages during weekly Payday Parties.
Visit www.theworkoffice.com for more information. Applications were accepted on a rolling basis through July 9th.
Questions? Call us at 212-901-0659 or write us at office@theworkoffice.com
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Katarina Jerinic's mixed media, photography and ephemeral participant-based installations center on invented
explorations of urban space. She was a participant in the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace program and has
completed residencies at MacDowell Colony and the Experimental Television Center. She has an MFA from School of Visual
Arts in Photography and Related Media (2002) and a BA from American University in American History (1995). Her work has
been recently included in exhibitions at Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; the Fox Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Gallery
Aferro, Newark, NJ; the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY and
Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Naomi Miller is a photography-based artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA in
English and studio art at Clark University, Worcester, MA in 1996. In 2004 she graduated from the San Francisco Art
Institute with an MFA in photography. Recent group exhibitions include the Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT;
WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA; Five Points Arthouse, San Francisco, CA; and Printed Matter, New York, NY. She is a regular
contributor of text and images to the Satellite publication (a project of artist Jon Rubin). A blog about her self-
designed residency—the Iron Maiden Tour & Residency, in which she visits friends around the country in order to make
work—is accessible at http://naomiller.com.
TWO's Administrators
Scalp Lock (July 1st, 2009)
A live performance brought to you by Donna Ahmadi
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Scalp Lock
a live performance brought to you by Donna Ahmadi
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Performance times: 12:30, 3p & 5:30p
Scalp Lock is a live, mixed-modality performance including contemporary dance, traditional Native American concepts, puppetry, and structured improvisation. Shown for the first time at chashama, SCALP LOCK explores lines of social, spiritual, ethnic, and environmental connection through the metaphor of the Native American braid. Donna Ahmadi performs as the soloist, adorned with a round decorative porcupine and deer hair roach or headpiece and four 20 foot long braids, manipulated by 2-3 dancers. The braids, as extensions of Native American personhood and identity, explore the performance space, as if with a will of their own, expanding the dancer's kinesphere and intimately connecting all the dancers throughout the piece. The piece begins with dark, grounded images and movements, building toward more emotionally charged, and even chaotic, explorations of the circle of human life. Scalp Lock was generated from experience, remembrance, and storytelling was inspired by the life and teachings of Tarin Chaplin.
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Donna Ahmadi received her B.F.A. in dance form SUNY Purchase in 2000, and has performed in recent years for Stephan Koplowitz, Alison Chase (Pilobolus), Andrew Marcus Performance, Brett Howard Company, Tarin Chaplin, and currently dances with Zach Morris and Tom Pearson of Third Rail Projects, Red Hawk Indian Arts Council, and Thunderbird American Indian Dancers. During 2003, Ahmadi taught for the Northern Rivers Conservatory of the Arts in Australia, where she founded Mantis Dance Theater, performing her site-specific and environmental choreography in northern New South Wales. Mantis Dance Theater is currently based in NYC where Ahmadi is working on projects addressing indigenous adoption, cultural hybridity, and the politics of place. Donna teaches for New York City Ballet Educational Department as a teaching artist in Brooklyn and Queens public schools. She has been an active Native American fancy shawl dancer for over 10 years and currently teaches at Lotus Music and Dance.
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HellLab 6[66] presents:
Sonic Warriors United-Nocturnal Rhythm Tour 2009 (June 27, 2009)
Line up: [dj's] Denard Henry [Germany], Jana Clemen [Germany], Darryl Hell [NYC], Reade Truth [Austria/NYC],
[live perf] C-Dex-Live, Antfactor from N.Y.C, Zero Times Infinity [Boston]
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
www.s6k.com/HL6
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
June 27, 2009, 10p - 7a
admission: $13 advance web tix $17 at the door complete
'With this Project we present the first Gathering of Sonic Warriors out of America and Europe.
From the Techno - Electro - EBM - Industrial Scene.
It has Been way to long since the structure of this scene has been cared for.
The time to reconnect the Fusion of Old School and New School:
Techno - Electro - EBM - Industrial Beats is
Now!
We're Fighting Against:
"Narrow Thinking, Intolerance and Ignorance"
Sonic Warriors United for a Better Electronic Scene.
"Nothing is more powerful, than an Idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo.
Denard Henry and Jana Clemen after some thought and consideration, have came up with a Project whose time has come. They have reactivated something that was almost forgotten, the Fusion of Techno, EBM, Electro and Industrial Dance Music. September 2007 was the start for this project and with much interest in this Project we are now filling dates in Germany, U.S.A and all of Europe. We Plan a Tour Once a Year to bring this concept to points of interest and looking for interesting Clubs, Bars and Open Air venues to host some events. For all Sonic Warriors United Events, we plan 2-3 S.W.U. Dj's , plus 1-2 S.W.U. Live Act's along with local support: Dj and or Live Act.'
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Pirate Party Pig Roast 2009! (June 22, 2009)
a chashama summer fundraiser honoring Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas, Program Director at Rockefeller Brothers Fund for his dedication to New York City's art and culture community.
Water Taxi Beach, 2 Borden Avenue, Long Island City
www.rbf.org
www.watertaxibeach.com
photos by Louis Caldarola
Flickr photos by Sid Chidiac
chashama Flickr photos
Juneteenth Spoken Word & Poetry Celebration (June 19, 2009)
Hosted by Mr. Ace
presented by Show Off Entertainment
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
SHOWENT@GMAIL.COM
WWW.SHOWENT.COM
MYSPACE.COM/SHOWENT
YOUTUBE.COM/SHOWENT
TWITTER.COM/SHOWENT
PATRON SAINT (June 16 - 28, 2009)
An experiment with dolls made out of napkins and junk
by Juliana Francis-Kelly
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
PATRON SAINT is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Made possible in part by chashama.
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
An experiment with dolls made out of napkins and junk
by Juliana Francis-Kelly
June 16 - 28, 2009, weekdays, noon–2p
Final performance: Sunday, June 28th, noon – 5p
DO YOU NEED A PATRON SAINT?
I will make you one!
I am a doll maker and a performer. From June 16th – June 28th, I will install myself in the chashama gallery window at 266 West 37th Street weekdays noon – 2 PM, and I will build the first 50 SAINTS people tell me they need.
For the purposes of this exhibit, a Saint can be a preexisting Saint of any denomination, or it can be a Saint that does not yet exist, but perhaps should exist, i.e. "the Patron Saint of a New Job," "The
Patron Saint of Painless Dentistry" or "My Really Great Next Door Neighbor."
To date, I have received 30 Saint requests from fliers and online bulletin boards. The requests run the gamut, from Saint Joan of Arc and Saint Francis of Assisi to "The Patron Saint of a Broken Heart" and "The Patron Saint of Shut the F**k Up and Be Where You're Supposed to Be."
All Saints will be made out of Marcal paper napkins and bits of candy wrappers, salvaged embroidery thread, etcetera - i.e.: stuff that isn’t worth much at all, if anything.
On the closing day of the exhibit, SUNDAY JUNE 28th, between Street, between NOON and 5 PM, anyone who
requested a Saint is invited to stop by the gallery at 266 West 37th Street to pick up their Saint, free of charge.
PATRON SAINT is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Made possible in part by chashama.
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"grand gesture" (June 16, 18 & 21, 2009)
Open Rehearsals by Malleable Dance Theater
chashama 217 Window Space, 217 East 42nd Street
www.malleabledancetheater.org
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
"grand gesture"
Open Rehearsals by Malleable Dance Theater
June 16 & 18, 5:30-9:30p
June 21st, 6:00-10:00p
grand gesture poses the question: what is true and false about love? The work will play out in short installments that explore the contrast between the expectations of what love is and the reality of it.
grand gesture is a multi-media work created through an ensemble-generated rehearsal process. It weaves together dance, text, sculpture, Slavic folk music, and homespun films to create a textural work suggesting a physical version of a poetry anthology.
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WE ARE KAREN FINLEY (June 15 - 17, 2009)
Written and performed by Paula Hunter
chashama 217 Window Space, 217 East 42nd Street
www.paulahunterperformances.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
WE ARE KAREN FINLEY
Written and performed by Paula Hunter
June 15 & 17 @6pm and June 16 @noon
Based in Providence, RI, zany performance artist, choreographer, dancer Paula Hunter returns to the midtown windows where she first unveiled her hilarious piece known as, I AM KAREN FINLEY. Inspired by Karen Finley, who covered herself in chocolate during an infamous performance piece, Hunter along with two other dancers use all kinds of brightly packaged commercial food products to create an infinitely evolving dance work that begins with the Stepford Wife portrait of three brides in a window surrounded by Cheeze Whiz, Hershey's Syrup, and long loaves of factory-produced white bread. Hunter and her collaborators dance in robotic precision as they relish lathering their entire bodies, from her hair to toes, in foods that ring the average super store. By the end, the dance reigns as the dancers disappear underneath the transforming guise of processed foods.
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461 group show (June 12 - 29, 2009)
works by chashama artists-in-residence from our 461 Harlem Studio Space, curated by Pat Arnao & Marina Tsesarskaya
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
Opening reception: Monday, June 29, 6 - 9p
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
June 12 - 29, 2009
This exhibit brings to one space, 217 East 42nd Street, works of artists from another of our spaces, the Harlem studios at 461 West 126th Street. It is viewable during other events in the space and at random times during the weekdays.
Reception: Monday, June 29, 6-9p
Featuring works by Pat Arnao, Aleathia Brown, Marcela Carvalho, Elvira Clayton, Katherine Daniels, Elaine Defibaugh, Diane Davis, Flambeaux, Cheryl Flanagan, Vickie Fremont, Florencio Gelabert, Leslie Frank Hampton, Lisa Ingrams, Al Johnson, Fawad Khan, Sofia Maldonado, Dominic Mangila, Summer McClinton, Caleb Nussear, Ademola Olugebefola, Dionis Ortiz, Tara Parsons, Sandra Spannan, Christopher Trujillo, Marina Tsesarskaya, Richard Wager, Gina Fuentes Walker, Walford Williams
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PHASE TRANSITION (June 11 - July 6, 2009)
by Caleb Nussear & Alexander Oleksyn
chashama 2016, 2016 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard
calebkayin@gmail.com | www.mosslandia.com
aoleksyn@gmail.com
(7th Ave. between 120th St. and 121st St.; 2/3 to 116th Street; A/C/B/D to 125th Street station)
June 11 - July 6, 2009
Opening Reception, Thursday, June 11th, 6 – 9p
Closing Reception, Thursday, July 2nd, 7 – 9p
Viewing hours: Wednesday-Saturday 2-6p and by appointment
G5 chashama is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by New York based artists Caleb Nussear and Alexander Oleksyn, from June 9th through July 6th, 2009.
In this new group of works, Nussear looks at the process of planet building through a framework of formal abstraction. His interest lies in using both painting and installation to create panoramic, virtual landscape piles and filigreed, folded surfaces that reside in the slippery transitional spaces between 2 and 3 dimensions, 3 and 4 dimensions, and the impossible spaces of higher dimensional orders. Nussear works with ideas taken from contemporary theoretical physics and the Earth's own paleontological records to think a cosmology through physical material.
Oleksyn distills elements of the urban landscape and recontextualizes them to create paintings that question the possibility of reinterpreting the meaning conveyed by his abstract mark making. In his current work he develops groups of oscillating gestures in a range of colors and on variously shaped surfaces that use the codifications of street signage as a point of departure. Oleksyn strongly believes in creating work that does not surrender the primacy of the visual experience to conceptual demands but instead aims to strike a balance between idea and object.
contact: calebkayin@gmail.com or aoleksyn@gmail.com
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Hair of Sand (June 11 - 14, 2009)
an environmental sculpture/performance by Terra Incognita
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.terraincognitatheater.org
ROY SECORD: CURRENT WORKS (June 7 - 28, 2009)
A selection of current large scale acrylic paintings on canvas.
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
SecordRW@aol.com
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
June 7 - 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Sat, June 6, 7-10p
Gallery hours: Wed/Thu/Fri 12-4p, Sat/Sun 12-5p
A selection of current large scale acrylic paintings on canvas by Roy Secord will be on view at chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street, New York, from June 6 through June 28, 2009.
Based on a tradition of mid 20th Century geometric abstraction modernism to utilization of contemporary abstractional trends, Secord creates large format abstract paintings on canvas (usually in series) which are design-oriented, ultra-modern, and precisionist-based. Utilization of geometric shape and structure (and their interrelationships), as well as lineation, are key to the creation of these nonrepresentational colorist compositions. These dynamic paintings deny the eye visual stasis with compositional mutations and draw upon ambiguous-or equivocal-pictorial space to disallow a finite interpretation. The eye dances. The feel of these modernist works vary from lyrical & tranquil meditative objects, to dynamic mesmerizers and colorful, powerhouse abstractions with contemporary punch.
FREE and open to the public.
contact: SecordRW@aol.com
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The Purpose Lounge (June 5 – 28, 2009)
"A Legacy of Freedom"
presented by s6k Media, Reconstruct Art and BreakThrough Technologies
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
The Purpose Lounge at 112
www.s6k.com/purposelounge
contact: s6kmedia@gmail.com | 917.723.7281
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
June 5th - June 28th
opening party: June 5th, 6-9p | closing party: June 28th, 3-7p
inside exhibit open: Wednesday - Saturday 2-6p
from outside viewable w/sound: 24/7
special events: Thursday – Saturday 6-9p & Sunday 3-6p
www.s6k.com/purposelounge
Reconstruct Art, sektor 6 kommunikations and BreakThrough Technologies have partnered to create The Purpose Lounge, an empowering and exciting arts education program to train, mentor, and inspire people 18 to 35 years of age. By using visual arts studio sessions and training as a fulcrum to balance life mentoring and job skill preparation, The Purpose Lounge provides a positive alternative destination for people whom have traditionally been underserved with limited artistic resources and options. This program also goes beyond the traditional facility model to bring arts education and life mentoring directly to the places it's needed, such as, recreational centers, playgrounds, schools, common spaces in public housing, community events, correctional facilities and public/private spaces throughout the city. The Purpose Lounge model is to augment educational / community betterment programs, which are typically under-resourced and require assistance to realize their mission[s].
"A Legacy of Freedom" will address the issues, trials and tribulations of the struggles all peoples have gone through to define themselves as "free." By studying the battles of others, won and lost, one can create a different perspective at which to see themselves and their communities. It will feature a mixed-media exhibit, art clinics, speeches, Q&A sessions, video screenings, musical performances and special presentations.
Students and other participants will be asked to create an artwork based on a specific group's quest for freedom. The works will be graded for concept, research and presentation by a panel of judges. Prizes will be awarded on June 19th. Extra points will be awarded for those who choose to study a group other than the one they belong to.
If you would like to be involved or have The Purpose Lounge come to your school or outreach facility, please feel free to contact us:
s6kmedia@gmail.com | 917.723.7281
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* Lawrence Joyner is the Founder and Executive Director of Reconstruct Art, Inc. a NYC non-profit that serves at-risk youth through the arts. Joyner was born in Harlem, New York where he studied at Center of Media Arts and apprenticed under noted artist-scholar Francis Palazzolo. He has exhibited throughout New York City. His pen and ink drawings and expressionistic collages are in private collections and institutions throughout the country. Mr. Joyner has developed a program where participants have expanded length sessions to develop, rework and discuss their art as well as their life development.
* As a new media technologist, Tyrone Thomas (President of BreakThrough Technologies and its web services division, BreakThrough MediaLabs) has built infrastructures for multiple dynamically published websites, implemented e-commerce solutions, and implemented audio/video streaming/conferencing systems. As a programmer for AT&T/Bell Labs and Salomon Brothers, Tyrone dealt with early network technologies and large distributed applications for monitoring T1 networks and financial trade capture systems. Directed by Mr. Thomas, our Tech Lab will provide mentoring and training to gain hands-on experience with for-profit & non-profit community/Internet based business solutions.
* Darryl Montgomery-Hell (founder of sektor 6 kommunikations/s6k.com) is a veteran multimedia artist, documentarian, artivist, independent journalist/archivist. He has over 25 years of experience in event production, strategic planning and event management. As Purpose Lounge concept developer, strategic coordinator, event producer, Mr. Hell produces a mixed-media community forum environment to inspire the discussion of life issues in order to reinforce personal growth. Within this framework, we provide a wide spectrum of volunteering opportunities to encourage community/social participation. By encouraging the participants to concern themselves with the issues of others, we emphasize the responsibilities each person has to the betterment of themselves and the society as a whole.
About the founders
THINK THINK THINK WHY WHY WHY (June 3 - 8, 2009)
A Welcome Center brought to you by THINK THINK THINK WHY WHY WHY
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
thinkthinkthinkwhywhywhy.wordpress.com
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
THINK THINK THINK WHY WHY WHY
applies the zesty and strengthening spirit of "do-it-yourself" to a new frontier:
spirituality and religion.
THINK THINK THINK WHY WHY WHY's Founding Members are:
Jean Ann Douglass, Emily Schleiner, Kristin Trethewey
Hours: June 3 - 8, 10a–6p
Inaugural Reception Party: Thursday, June 4, 6–8p
The Welcome Center will prepare you for the next cycle: June 7, 2009.
If you’re looking for more, please join us.
For a full calendar of events visit
thinkthinkthinkwhywhywhy.wordpress.com
FREE and open to the public daily
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Insides Out (June 1 - July 21, 2009)
Paintings on mylar by Kate Fauvell
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
www.katecfauvell.com
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
1 block east of Grand Central, corner of 43rd Street & 3rd Avenue; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
Insides Out
Paintings on mylar by Kate Fauvell
June 1 - July 21, 2009
Reception: Tuesday June 30th, 6:30-7:30 at the space, after which, drinks at The Blarney Stone, 710 3rd Avenue
chashama is proud to announce the inauguration of its latest Window venue, chashama 679, at 679 Third Avenue and 43rd Street with displays of paintings by artist-in-residence, Kate Fauvell. The paintings of Insides Out express what humans would look like with their insides exposed to the artist's eye.
The new space chashama 679 is our work-in-progress. Check back from time to time to discover what we do with it next!
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What to many may appear as dirt and mess, I regard as my world. Dirty brushes, old rags, torn paper and crusty palettes are the beautiful that comprise the existence of my everyday. Paint drips flow like blood through my veins. I live and breathe black ink. As a result of my background in printmaking, I searched for ways to recreate the surface of smooth zinc and I found Mylar. I became addicted to this artificial surface using it to create endless numbers of figures.
My work explores the internal. I create what humans would look like with their insides exposed. Inside out we are all the same: beautiful, grotesque, honest and truthful. In love with the world created in my studio, the rawness of the marks and the mess making, I came to installation. So much of my work is the energy and life that exists in the process of creating it. I want the viewer to feel what I feel, to be taken in and absorbed into the space. The installations are crucial to letting the viewer into my world and perhaps, into themselves.
Artist Statement
CONVICT THERAPIST (June 1 - 5, 2009)
performed by The Arcade
chashama 217 Window Space, 217 East 42nd Street
The Arcade can be found on Facebook by searching "Arcade Theatre"
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
conceived and directed by Molly Goforth
performed by Eric Loscheider and Hilary Bettis
Something preying on your mind? Got a problem that your family won't understand? Do your friends invent reasons to get off the phone with you? Has the suicide hotline blocked your number? Got nowhere to run to, baby?
You need: CONVICT THERAPIST -- An improvisational performance art installation by The Arcade, sponsored by chashama.
What you get:
Up to five minutes of semi-private Fake Therapy with a Genuine Convict,* safely concealed behind a Real Glass Window!
The opportunity to Choose Your Convict's Crime!** | Our patented No Judgment Guarantee!*** | Convenient Midtown Location with Instant Service!
What you pay: NADA! ZIP! ZILCH! ZERO DOLLARS CASH MONEY!
Why wait? Bring your troubles to Convict Therapist June 1-5, at 12-2p & 4:30-6:30p. What have you got to lose?
Remember: You're only as sick as your secrets!
*The Convict Therapist is an actor, neither a convicted criminal nor a licensed therapist and is in no way qualified to advise you about anything, as he is both under-employed and under-insured as well as in therapy himself, plus he cannot bring himself to break up with his passive-agressive girlfriend of six years, even though she gave him Chlamydia twice.
**Clients must choose from list of pre-approved crimes so as not to freak out the Convict Therapist, who is, after all, not a professional and also very sensitive, especially right now because his Grandpa Gary and his miniature Schnauzer Squitters died within days of each other during the first week of June in 1996 and he's never really gotten over it.
***While no judgment will be verbally expressed, The Arcade cannot guarantee against the appearance of judgment.
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The Arcade was originally formed in 2004 under the name Gansfeld Theatre Company. The Arcade is dedicated to the spectacular in it's most literal sense: our goal is to create visual, aural, and/or emotional spectacles in which the audience is wholly implicated. The Arcade preserves the sanctity of theatre as an art form separate from television or film by creating performances that rely synergistically on the audience and are thus induplicable: each performance is a unique event, whether it's performance art, improvisation, or a traditional scripted play.
The Arcade values acting that is detailed, spontaneous, and wholly committed. We seek to create theatre that highlights the commonalities that bind people across the boundaries of age, gender, race, ethnicity, and class. Most importantly, being a company of inveterate theatre-goers, we seek to create theatre that, in our experience, in completey unique, that is: theatre that is NEVER, EVER BORING.
The Arcade
The Imperial Orgy (May 22, 2009)
presented by Arete Living Arts
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
www.aretelivingarts.org
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
Friday, May 22, 2009
Doors open at 7p
Admission: $15
On May 22nd, Arete Living Arts presents an exhibition of work from the Satorism art movement. Satorism is art that inspires personal, political, or spiritual awakening. There will also be a multimedia performance by The Imperial Orgy art collective.
www.aretelivingarts.org
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UN-Censored (May 21, 2009)
Films, speakers & performances from all over the world
Film Director: Rebecca Sommer
Music Director: Elaine Benavides
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
contact: rebeccasommer@earthlink.net
elainekristin@hotmail.com
www.EARTHPEOPLES.ORG
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
UN-Censored
COMMODIFICATION OF THE SACRED: UN-Truths, Lies and False Solutions
Thursday, May 21, 2009
10a to 11a - Prayer, Ceremony and Song
11a to 12:30p - DISCUSSION GROUP: Indigenous Youth and Climate Justice
Observations of the Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change and the Road to Copenhagen
12:30p to 1p - Film Screening: "Indigenous Peoples' 2nd May Revolt at the PFII" (30min)
a documentary by Rebecca Sommer, featuring the protest of Indigenous Peoples at the conclusion of the 7th Session of the UNPFII. They were angered by the final report of the Experts of the PFII, which
ignored their concerns about forest carbon offsets (REDD) and other mechanisms for addressing climater change.
1p to 3p - Discussion Group: False Solutions to Climate Change
Governments, UN agencies, businesses and corporations are supporting a number of measures
that are seen as "cost effective" methods of fighting climate change. These include an international market for carbon trading, forest carbon offsets (REDD and CDM), clean coal technology and alternative fuels including nuclear energy and agrofuels. But many of these measures do not reduce carbon emissions now - or even guarantee carbon cuts in the future.
3p to 4:30p - Film Screening: "H2Oil" (75min)
a documentary of the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta, Canada against tar sands expansion - the largest industrial project in human history. Shannon Walsh, director of the film will introduce the film and be present after for questions.
4:35p to 5:50p - PRESENTATION: Privatization of the Sacred: Access and Benefit Sharing
Seeds, medicine, traditional knowledge - all tie in with the plans of the World Bank, the UN and multinational corporations to commodify the sacred.
6:00p to 6:45p - Film Screening: " A Silent Forest" (45min)
a documentary by Ed Schehl. The growing threat of genetically engineered trees.
contact: rebeccasommer@earthlink.net
10am - 6:45p - screenings & forums
7:30p to 7:45p
- Opening and Prayer: Tom Goldtooth and Barbara James Snyder
- Words by Western Shoshone Elder: Carrie Dann
- Indigenous Elders From The North: "Carbon Trading Not Ethical"
(a video produced by Rebecca Sommer)
7:55p - Sixto Masaquiza
Traditional Andean music performed on wind instruments
8:10p - Kinding Sindaw Dance Company: "Melayu Heritage"
Traditional Dance of the Southern Philippines. Potri Ranka Manis, Artistic Director.
8:30p - Dzul Dance Company: Combining ritual and modern dance from Mexico
Javier Dzul, Choreographer. Dancers: Javier Dzul, Ivanova Aguilar, Kyla Ernst Alper, Cornelius Brown, Robin Taylor Dzul and Nicole Lichau.
8:55p - "Spring of No Leaves"
Poetry on the impact of climate change on water, air and green life, by Candace Tarpley.
9:15 - Backworld Minimalist / Folk / Classical Improvisations
Emilio China (violin), Joseph Budenholzer (guitar), Micki Pellerano (keyboards)
9:40p - "Haiti / Congo" by Akansyei Kreyol Dance Group
Beatrice Jean and Kimberly's fierce strengthening-the-Earth dance, with Paul, joel and Jean Marie
10:00p - "Soundscape for the Universe: Expressions" by Native Lab
Lance White Magpie, Yovani Guayyaquil (flute), Lawrence Laughing (traditional vocals), Elaine Benavides (vocals, keyboards)
10:25p - Daygots: "Oneida Rap"
Modern hip-hop meets traditional Haudenausaunee
10:45p - Special Guest: Robby Romero, Native American Rock
UN Ambassador of Youth for the Environment
11:00p - "Abstract Vocal Human Expressionism"
Adam Matta (beatbox), Perry Robinson (clarinet)
contact: rebeccasommer@earthlink.net | elainekristin@hotmail.com
7:30 - 11:30p Music & Culture Jam
On*to*gen-e-sis* (May 20 - 31, 2009)
by Amanda Small
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.amandasmall.com
On*to*gen-e-sis* is inspired by the unfolding of organic architecture. In this exhibit, Amanda
Small creates a visual language to portray inter-cellular structures. The clay forms occur in multiples, intended
to symbolize vast micro-macro landscapes. The human relationship with nature is vastly explored and exploited
through technology that allows us to have intimate views of otherwise invisible worlds. Small signifies her ideas
pertaining to a living web through metaphor, using sacred geometry, radials, and lattice patterns to speak to
intrinsic patterning found within living structures.
Complex patterns of unfolding symmetry depict continuity in the organization of the elaborate
cellular structures within each living organism. Correlations between patterns in nature, nature in art, and art
in technology and the evolution of this interface reveals detailed patterns and resulted in a desire to establish
connectivity between science and nature, and nature and art, and has become the seminal focus of Small's current
body of work.
Clay is the catalyst for Small to create representational expressions of the sublime in nature;
vastness in the minute, the infinite in a detail. Small's current work exists in fragile equipoise. Balanced
between internal and external, it is her way of creating a world within a world, visually revealing the cosmos
that surrounds us.
www.amandasmall.com
about the work
HAA/chashama Artist Empowerment Forum (May 18, 2009)
Subject: The Business and Strategic Legal Aspects of the Arts Industry
Presenters:
Darryl Hell [chashama co-founder & technical director, multimedia performer]
Havona Madama [Madama Griffitts O'Hara LLP]
Harlem Arts Alliance, 290 Malcolm X Blvd
www.harlemaa.org
www.madamagriffitts.com
www.s6k.com
290 Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox Avenue), 2/3/A/B/C/D to 125th Street, Bus: #100, 101, M60 to 125th
HAA/chashama Artist Empowerment Forum
Monday, May 18, 2009 - 6:30 to 8:30pm
Harlem Arts Alliance, 290 Malcolm X Blvd, 2nd floor
Presenters:
Darryl Hell [chashama co-founder & technical director, multimedia performer]
Havona Madama [Madama Griffitts O'Hara LLP]
Discussion topic:
The Business and Strategic Legal Aspects of the Arts Industry
About the forum:
In a time when artists require a large skillset to navigate having less grant money, fewer venues to present work, diminishing employment opportunities, and higher rents, it's imperative to have a strong
foundation to develop an empowered artistic life. At chashama, we've worked with and assisted thousands of artists for more than 14 years, which has informed us greatly about artist needs. As empowered artists ourselves, we are passionate about the many aspects of artist development.
Harlem Arts Alliance and chashama are proud to present an exciting new series of multidisciplinary artist empowerment forums to discuss a wide spectrum of artist issues and also supply/share resources. Working together, we can enhance the vibrancy of an arts community that stands in the shadow of a rich artistic legacy.
"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.'
We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." -Zora Neal Hurston
For more forum info contact: darryl@chashama.org or 917-723-7281
To learn more about the Harlem Arts Alliance & chashama:
www.harlemaa.org -- www.chashama.org
Presenter websites:
Havona Madama - www.madamagriffitts.com
Darryl Hell - www.s6k.com / www.chashama.org
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Bodies of Pyongyang (May 15, 2009)
a performance art installation by Yoonhye Park
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
bodiesofpyongyang.com
yoonhyepark.com
Most people know who Kim Jong-il is, the dictator of North Korea; however, women in North Korea are
hidden and veiled in contemporary context. Bodies of Pyongyang is a live visual art performance installation--
twenty girls wear North Korean schoolgirl uniforms situated behind the glass walls of chashama Windows, located
at 266 W 37th Street in Manhattan. These tightly packed schoolgirls will try to move within the confined area
expressing their emotional pain and struggle. Red strings symbolizing their dual inner states of suppression and
resistance entangle the girls, further restricting their freedom to move inside this already constricting and
hermetic space.
These performances reference social and political themes explored by performance artists such as
Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat and Vanessa Beecroft, who have also choreographed groups of performers to make
powerful artistic statements. With Bodies of Pyongyang, a public intervention by the artist Yoonhye Park, the
plight of women in North Korea, is forced into people’s daily lives. The chashama Windows program provides an
accessible venue that will enable Bodies of Pyongyang to have maximum exposure to everyday onlookers. This is
paramount to the artist’s interest in acknowledging and giving human presence to anonymous North Koreans who are
not able to represent themselves outside of their own country. Yoonhye Park dresses the girls in high school
uniforms to symbolize that youthful moment of rebellion and fearlessness that can alter with the onset of
responsibility. With recent reports of young women protesters putting themselves at extreme risk, there exists an
illustration of the steps people are willing to take in order to resist oppression. Through action Bodies of
Pyongyang underscores these stories of a totalitarian regime, ending each performance with a dramatic gesture
representing the illusion of freedom and hope that in present circumstances, is unlikely to become a reality.
About the Work
possibilities (May 12 - 30, 2009)
a show about painting curated by Rick Herron
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
trrricky@gmail.com
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
a show about painting curated by Rick Herron
May 12-30, 2009
Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 12, 6-9p
Closing party: Sat, May 30, 8-10p
Gallery hours: M/T/W/F, 12-4p
Sat-Sun, 12-6p and by appointment
FREE and open to the public.
Danny Coeyman
Eric Doeringer
Kate Fauvell
Daniel Turner
contact: trrricky@gmail.com
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A collection of site specific, new and recent work from five emerging New York painters, possibilities is the result of the conditions affecting developing artists addressing the problem of paint and painting. Conceived, proposed, organized and hung in just two weeks by five artists without New York gallery representation and a first time curator, the exhibition itself serves as the documentation of a short, frenetic period of brainstorming, experimentation and new collaboration.
Much of the work in the show will be made just days and hours before the show opens, the exhibition serving as the catalyst for the creation of new forms and unexplored practices. During exhibition planning and installation, myriad decisions to be made about the show presented themselves by way of late night IM conversations, contractual agreements, financial hardship, geographic distance, the thrill of new lovers, the anguish of parting with old ones, and the boundless enthusiasm for an exciting opportunity. The artists in possibilities embrace limitations as opportunities and rely upon change and uncertainty to fuel their development.
the exhibit
Danny Coeyman has previously worked in portraiture and traditional means of drawing and painting. However, he will be working in a completely new direction for possibilities, making several works interested in the tactile and tensile qualities of paint itself. Using homespun cotton saturated in oil paints, Coeyman will weave abstract "canvases", the color embedded right into the material itself, obliterating the idea of surface, the "painting" becoming every bit of the cotton, front and back, inside and out, the visible and the obscured. The creation of the work contains elements of the personal and spiritual as Coeyman struggles to invent the techniques and processes he needs to realize his vision. Weaving paint soaked cotton balls by hand and building a crude homemade loom, Coeyman is interested in weaving not only paint, but also his own nature into the work he creates, imbuing work that may seem cerebral and esoteric with a warmth and soul that can be absent in minimal or process oriented painting. In addition, Coeyman will be using paint pours and paint stripping, directly on the surface of the gallery wall, to create site specific works about the viewer's awareness of the space and its material properties.
At 34, Eric Doeringer is both the oldest and most widely exhibited artist in possibilities. Perhaps best known for making cheap bootlegs of trendy contemporary artist's work and selling them on the streets, at art fairs and even the Whitney Biennial. Doeringer uses the conceptually based practice of bootlegging to continue art history's dialogue about authorship, authenticity, originality and art dealing/collecting. Recently, Doeringer has become interested in addressing the work of conceptual artists from the 60's and 70's like Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt and Lawrence Weiner. Since these artists deal in ideas and not unique, precious objects, Doeringer's appropriation of these projects, which he calls "recreations", is a delicate matter fraught with more questions than answers. In addition to showing extant works addressing several issues and periods in painting, Doeringer will create a wall text piece based on a Lawrence Weiner project for the first time.
Coeyman / Doeringer
Kate Fauvell uses dripping, oozing paint, a luminescent palette and a wide range of materials to connect with her audience in a personal and viscerally focused practice. Fauvell turns the inside out, bringing bones, spines and organs to the surface. Faces drip, melt and peel away to expose her raw, emotional relationship to the people in her life, but also acknowledge a scientific curiosity and fascination with anatomy. Painting on thin sheets of Mylar and hung on light boxes used to read X-rays, Fauvell creates work that glows with the intensity of life that resides inside her figures. For possibilities, Fauvell has created several new works on a human scale that stand on the floor, giving viewers an immersive experience simultaneously inside the body of her subject and the artist's own imagination.
Using a minimal visual language, Daniel Turner's pieces are often made with repellent intoxicating materials such as antiseptics, kerosene, vinyl, soot, and liquid aluminum. Known to destroy huge bodies of work as performance or often making objects on site and then casting them aside afterward, Turner's work can serve as art history's memento mori. For possibilities, Turner will present new paintings made of toxic liquid materials wrapped between layers of folded vinyl. Achingly beautiful and expertly crafted, Turner takes the most vitriolic and caustic parts of life and traps them in a crystalline state, lending the object a sense of grace and granting the audience a comfortable distance. In addition to his vinyl paintings, Turner will create a new project on site during the installation.
Fauvell / Turner
Aleathia Brown: '89 - '09 (May 8 - June 2, 2009)
Celebrating 20 years of the Artist: May 1989 - May 2009
chashama 2016, 2016 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard
aleathiab@msn.com
(7th Ave. between 120th St. and 121st St.; A/C/B/D to 125th Street station)
20 year celebration May 1989 - May 2009
Aleathia's Original Artworks Art Reception:
Friday, May 8, 2009 5:30 - 9pm
Mother's Day pampering and soothing art lounge:
Sunday, May 10, 2009 2 - 7pm
Art workshop Mondays: young people and adults making a difference using the environment home or outdoors to make art.
May 11, 18, & 25:
12:00 – 3:00pm Seniors
4:00 – 6:00pm Children (6-13) or Teens (14-17)
7:00 – 8:30pm Adults
Purpose Lounge celebrates Women in the Arts: "Freeing and Maintaining your Voice" (documenting and panel discussion with 4 women in 4 artistic disciplines - visual art [Aleathia], dance & music [Shanelle Jenkins], literary [Kayhan Irani]):
Thursday May 14, 2009, 6:00 – 8:30pm
Wine & Cheese with some noted African American leaders & thinkers in Black Culture: President Edison O. Jackson of Medgar Evers College, Professor Iselle Glover curator of the college, Andrew Jackson of Langston Hughs Library, and Howard Dodson of the Schomburg Library and you!
Tuesday May 26, 2009, 6:00 – 8:30pm
Going Out with a bang! A View Through Aleathia's World Live art with jazz & spoken word:
Friday, May 29, 2009 6 - 9pm
Closing night: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 6 - whenever
contact: aleathiab@msn.com
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Desires (May 5 – 23, 2009)
Curated and organized by curcioprojects
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
curcioprojects@yahoo.com | www.curcioprojects.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave.
Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square.
Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Desires
organized by curcioprojects
May 6th – 23rd, 2009
Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 5th, 6-8p
Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 7pm and by appointment:
Robert Curcio; 646.220.2557 or 212.505.7196
curcioprojects@yahoo.com | www.curcioprojects.com
Desires features an eclectic group of artists playing with the viewer's expectations and anticipations of what desire could be.
With: Ricky Allman, Sandra Bermudez, Carla Gannis, Deana Lawson, Yeni Mao, Cara Phillips, Pierre St-Jacques, and Ginna Triplett.
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Form Laboratory (May 4 - 12, 2009)
by Les Joynes and Tom Bogaert
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.formlaboratory.com
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Form Laboratory
A visual art project brought to you by Les Joynes and Tom Bogaert
Performance hours: Mon-Sat, May 4 - 12, 2009, 12p-6p
Reception: May 7, 6-9p
We live in a sea of detritus – orphaned objects are all around us and each has a discoverable narrative. Objects cast off onto the street (trash, recyclables, litter) produce orphans of form. Their reading collapses and they become either invisible or part of the ambient formic noise of the
street.
In this series of one and two day projects, Joynes and Bogaert collect objects based on an agreed “daily menu” (made of a certain material, color, form) and then reprocess them at the 266 W 37th Street venue, rediscovering or reinventing the narratives of these cast-off objects.
This project was conceived by Joynes in 2007 and is inspired by Claes Oldenburg’s object collecting in his Ray Gun Mfg. Co. originally exhibited in New York in 1962.
www.formlaboratory.com
FREE and open to the public
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Open House Cocktail Party (April 29, 2009)
a presentation by chashama in association with the
Greater Jamaica Development Corporation and the
Queens Museum of Art
chashama Jamaica Studios, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
www.gjdc.org
www.queensmuseum.org
www.carnegie.org
Between 90th Street and Jamaica Avenue, E to Jamaica Center, F to Parsons Boulevard
Jamaica Station on the LIRR.
By car: Take Long Island Expressway (I-495 E) to exit 22A-E to Grand Central Parkway E. Remain on Grand Central Parkway until exit 16 (164th St-Parsons Blvd.) Turn right onto Parsons Boulevard, left onto Jamaica Avenue, then left onto 161st Street.
Open House Cocktail Party
a presentation by chashama in association with the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation and the Queens Museum of Art.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 5 - 8p
Appearances by the artists in their studios with their works: Lawrence Joyner, Cynthia Epps, William Mwazi, Babatunde Ajiboye, Jeffrey Sims, Hidemi Takagi-Bastien, and Lishan Chang (in our sister venue 90-30 161st Street).
Gallery exhibit organized by chashama artist-in-residence in Harlem, Christopher Trujillo with works of chashama artists from over the years.
Over the past two years, chashama has worked with the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation (GJDC) to find a suitable space to convert into a cultural hub. Our new spaces, located at 90-26 & 90-30 161st Street,
provide us a wonderful opportunity to create up to 10 subsidized studios for local artists as well as street level galleries. Our Open House event gives local artists, businesses, service organizations and community liaisons a chance to see chashama's resources, in an informal setting in which we can meet and greet our new neighbors.
Also made possible in part by support from the Carnegie Corporation.
FREE and open to the public
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Yard Sale: New Footfalls... (April 21 - 30, 2009)
A performance & visual art installation brought to you by THEATER TAS
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.tajnatanovic.com
Killing Time (April 17 - 30, 2009)
by chashama artist-in-residence Pat Arnao
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
patriciaaarnao@gmail.com | http://patarnao.com
SIGNATURE NEW YORK (April 17 - 23, 2009)
Random works by Bradley Hart
presented as part of IMMIGRANT HERITAGE WEEK
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
info@bradley-hart.com
www.bradley-hart.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103
to 42nd Street
April 17-23, 2009
GALLERY HOURS Daily, 11a-7p
Launch Party: Friday April 17, 6-9p
Artist's Reception: Sunday April 19, 1-6pm
info@bradley-hart.com | www.bradley-hart.com
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Bradley Hart was born November 21, 1972, in Toronto, Canada. At the age of 11 his parents took him out of school when his teacher told them that he would either be a master criminal or the next Prime Minister. His parents subsequently put Bradley in a private fine arts school. While ther, he was trained in 2-dimensional Renaissance drawing and formal coloring.
Bradley began painting in his early 20's. After attempts at figurative painting, feeling frustrated and confined by the 'rules' of figuration, he switched to abstracts. After discarding the techniques of his formal training, Bradley was able to find his own voice.
Following years of making art and dabbling in the film and music industries, he enrolled in the University of Toronto, earning a degree in visual arts, semiotics and cinema. At university, Bradley was able to explore art theory and concepts. At that time, Bradley's work centered on major themes of process, storytelling, authentic communication and its breakdown due to the technological devices of our time. He also began working in
sculpture, installation and video art. Sculpture and installation have since become his main modes of expression.
Over the years, Bradley sold his work sporadically while working in the business world, spending time in Toronto, Miami and Vancouver. In the fall of 2008, he was inspired and compelled to work again as a full-time artist. Now, as he makes art in both Toronto and New York, Bradley's work is a mature exploration on the themes of process and identity.
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Reciprocity: Welcome to My Territory (April 16 - 17, 2009)
by Seung Ae Kim & Shani Peters
chashama 2016, 2016 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard
info@shanipeters.com | seungaekim@gmail.com
(7th Ave. between 120th St. and 121st St.; A/C/B/D to 125th Street station)
Open to public: April 16th and 17th, 5pm to 9pm
contact: info@shanipeters.com or seungaekim@gmail.com
Reciprocity: Welcome to My Territory explores the complexities and simplicities of shared experience that exists within a relationship. Seung Ae Kim and Shani Peters are artists, women, Korean and Black American, respectively, and friends. Their collaborative project examines the historical, political and geographical circumstances that brought Kim and Peters to the same place and time while revealing the everyday parts of life that compose interpersonal relationships.
Their multipart installation centers around a constructed fence enclosure made of cut cardboard and a culturally referential fabrics and materials. Around and within the fence are similarly handmade mounds of "territory" made of packing materials and tape. At first glance this room filled with structures resembling land masses and barriers may call to mind combat zones and highly politicized concepts. However, when inspected further viewers will find imaginative collages of cultural imagery throughout the installation. From the tape mounds will protrude flags composed of images of food, culture and symbolic references. Viewers will see that the fence structure does, in fact, have a welcoming opening and inside more artificial land masses, these ones substantial enough to sit on, get comfortable and share some of there own personal experiences with friends. The surrounding walls will be filled with more installation details as well an edition of prints that further explore the contrast between historical/political realities and the lived, interpersonal experiences of culture, gender, and imagination.
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The Pleasure Seekers (April 7 - 25, 2009)
curated by Dan Halm
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
danhalm@yahoo.com | www.danhalm.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
April 7 – 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 7, 6-9pm
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12-6pm
danhalm@yahoo.com | www.danhalm.com
FREE and open to the public.
chashama is pleased to present The Pleasure Seekers, an exhibition of work based on the quest for carnal delights that ooze with both sexuality and vitality, curated by artist, curator and writer Dan Halm.
What is a pleasure seeker in 2009? In a culture embroiled in war and facing economic distress, one tends to look for a way to escape worry and pain, hence the birth of a pleasure seeker. Hunting out hedonistic desires –sexual freedom, drugs, alcohol and the pursuit of free love– allows one to enjoy life and rediscover hope.
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In her video Dog (3+), Baishian Bai uses the simplicity of a childhood toy to spotlight sexual tension. A battery-operated dog performs unsuccessful back-flips, which lead to Bai blocking the so-called "naughty bits" with digital censor squares, which ingeniously sexualize the toy and its pursuit for sexual pleasure.
Michael Bilsborough draws bacchanalian bashes and mysterious misadventures in which men and women couple, compete and retreat. Initially thriving on libidinal laxity and appetitive abandon, these orgies soon crumble and we witness a mixed review of sex, reaching beyond sex as unconditional pleasure.
50/50 is a collaborative project between boyfriends Andrew Criss and Chad States that creates a "portrait" of a third lover whom both men have slept with to create a threesome. The survey answered between the two afterwards deals with the negotiations and misinterpretations that take place between the partners and the third party.
With Smoke Filtration Systems, Eric Doeringer is creating a series of sculptures that are also working marijuana water pipes. The mechanics of each pipe are thoroughly tested, but the actual sculptures are presented in a clean, unused condition. Because of their functional nature, they inhabit a space between fine art and design, between sculpture and drug paraphernalia.
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A MEETING OF LINES (April 6 - 14, 2009)
featuring the art of FLAMBEAUX & ABBY HERTZ
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
flambeauxfire@hotmail.com | www.flambeauxfire.com
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
A MEETING OF LINES
a 2-person exhibition featuring the art of FLAMBEAUX & ABBY HERTZ
The strangely convergent union of lines in sculpture, patterns, paint, structures and symbols that happens when 2 people fuze.
The strangely convergent union of lines of thought, emotion, intent and expression that happens when 2 people bond.
Paintings, armor, headpieces, claws and hearts, beings and altars from the minds of 2 lovers.
April 6 - 14, 2009
CLOSING RECEPTION Tues April 14, 7p - 11p
FREE and open to the public.
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Flops (April 4 & 5, 2009)
by Wingspan Arts
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
www.wingspanarts.org
(1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square)
Flops: Great Songs from Not-So-Great Shows
by Wingspan Arts
April 4th and 5th at 7:30PM
suggested donation: $10
reservations call: 212-586-2330
info@wingspanarts.org | www.wingspanarts.org
A brief cabaret, performed by Wingspan's Cabaret Troupe:
Tanvi Agrawal, Alice Bishop, Bea deBaere, Aneesa Folds, Chloe Hyman, Carlos Rodriguez, Alexa Santory
Director: Jessica Bashline
Musical Director: Michael Harren
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Ghost Paintings (April 2 - 17, 2009)
by Janice L. Moore
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.janicelmoore.com
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
April 2-17, 2009
Viewing hours: Daily, 10a-6p
Maine artist Janice L. Moore exhibits her latest series, "Ghost Paintings", a walk by installation at chashama 266 west 37th Street, New York, New York, which can be seen from the street throughout the exhibit, April 2 through 17th. For any questions about the exhibit or the work call (917) 453-3792 or visit www.janicelmoore.com
FREE and open to the public
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Alan & Me (March 28 - April 3, 2009)
portraits of Scottish actor Alan Cumming
by photographer Francis Hills
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
francis@francishills.com
www.francishills.com
Model For Collective Memory + Women's Work (March 28 - 31, 2009)
an installation by Eve + Bowie
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
eveandbowie.com
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Opening Party: Saturday, March 28, 7-9pm
Project hours: 3/29, 3/30, 3/31, 10a-6p
an installation by Eve + Bowie
FREE and open to the public | eveandbowie.com
Eve + Bowie is a collaborative team that lives and works in New York City and Providence, RI.
special thanks to shhhh-projects.com and wassaicproject.com for materials and support.
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M4M (March 21-23 & 25-28, 2009)
by Quality Meats
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
www.qualitymeats.org
(1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square)
Quality Meats presents the world premiere of
M4M
A radical adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
March 21, 22, 23, 25, 26 (Sat-Thur; NO TUES) at 8pm
March 27-28, Fri-Sat at 7pm & 9:30pm
Tickets: $12 at www.brownpapertickets.org
www.qualitymeats.org
Somewhere in a city, a man waits in an empty store. A woman arrives. He inspects her. Money exchanges hands. They begin. What starts hesitatingly, and then tumbles out to startling effect, is the text of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.
In this 50 minute adaptation, strangers in a room act out a bizarre fantasy of power and desire while the line between the S&M play and the Shakespeare play rapidly dissolves. The audience, in close proximity, is witness to extremely private acts of domination and submission. The production takes Shakespeare's most unpredictable play, which wrestles with the ideas of power, sex, morality and substitution, and makes it strange and dangerous again.
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Quality Meats is a production company founded by two directors, Javierantonio Gonzalez (Puerto Rico) and Meiyin Wang (Singapore) who create their work in radical response to each other. Rooted in international collaboration, their repertory of work ranges from re-imagined classics to devised new pieces with an emphasis on ensemble creation and physical imagination. It celebrates the forceful collision of
the stories and theatrical cultures of their diverse artists. Founded in 2005 by two graduates of the MFA Directing program of Columbia University, the company is made up of a porous collective of theatre artists, cooks, wanderers, circus folk and flamenco dancers who have thus far come from Australia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Singapore and the U.S.
about Quality Meats
Studies for Portrait and Landscape (Across the Road) (March 19 - 20, 2009)
by Colin Gee
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
performance and supertitled video
colingee.com
For more information visit www.chocolatefactorytheater.org
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
March 19 - 20, 2009
Find out more at: colingee.com
The Studies for Portrait and Landscape (Across the Road) series develops moments/scenes extracted from an original screenplay. Each of these moments depicts a character confronting a critical choice, and represents a shift from the narrative tensions of the story to the psychological tensions of the character. The live performance version of the series involves live action performed in front locations projected onto a series of screens. The series being developed through the chashama residency are from the solo film/performance Across the Road, opening at The Chocolate Factory in June. Previous installments have been created in Amsterdam, Mexico City, Graz, Vienna, and London.
For more information on (Across the Road), visit: www.chocolatefactorytheater.org
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Currently the founding Whitney Live Artist-in-Residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Colin Gee trained as an actor at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris and creates original works for film, performance and opera. A clown for Cirque du Soleil from 2001-2004, he was commissioned by the Whitney Museum in 2008 to create and perform Objective Suspense in the exhibition "Alexander Calder: the Paris Years." Recently published in the Austrian art journal kursiv, his libretto for the opera Sleep, composed by Erin Gee, premiered at the Zurich Opera House in 2009.
Gee's 2006 film/performance Dakota was presented at PS 122, Diskurs'04 Giesen, Wexford Arts Center, 4020 Festival, and received the Best Male Performer award at the 2006 Dublin Fringe Festival. Other film projects have included Lady Heard Voices (2004) featuring Irene Hultman, and Stardust (2007), premiered at the Brooklyn Arts Council. Gee performed with the Irene Hultman Dance Company from 2000 – 2001, and was a member of The Flying Machine Theater Company from 1998 - 2001, with works including Petrushka at Carnegie Hall with the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Utopians, Archipelago, and The Escapist at Soho Rep and Galapagos Arts Space, where the company was in residence.
about Colin
"Dancing in the Windows" (March 17 - 19, 2009)
by Dance Times Square
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
melanie@dancetimessquare.com
www.dancetimessquare.com
Golden Ages (March 13 - 14, 2009)
a stylized presentation of Cairo's golden age by Sherrine Azab
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Performances: Friday 3/13 @ 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, & 8:30pm (with a wine reception to follow 8:30 performance)
Saturday 3/14 @ 6:00, 6:30, & 7:00pm
Conceived and Directed by Sherrine Azab
Performers and Collaborators: Andrew Geske, Amanda Raleigh, Kirsten Hopkins, Bruise Kneece
Costume Designer: Allyson Velasquez
Lighting Designer: Marnie Cumings
Sound Designer: Mark Parenti
Assistant Director: Andrew Simon
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Recent Works (March 5 - 29, 2009)
by chashama artist-in-residence Caleb Nussear
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
calebkayin@gmail.com
www.mosslandia.com
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
March 5 - 29th, 2009
Hours: Thursday - Sunday 2-6p
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, March 19th, 6-9pm
FREE and open to the public.
chashama is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by New York based painter/installation artist Caleb Nussear. Nussear examines the natural landscape through a framework of formal abstraction. Nussear interweaves historical ideas from visual art and scientific thought: two realms that rarely seem to coexist. He is fascinated with the seemingly impossible higher dimensional spaces of contemporary theoretical physics’ string theory and supersymmetry, as much as with the paleontological earth-building described in the most ancient chapters of our planetary past. Nussear is constantly asking questions about the hidden structure and material of space; using abstract expressionism's gestural extravagances and the cool crystalline structures of the minimalists to think a cosmology through physical material.
The artist's working process is involved with creating painted and drawn surfaces that wrap around walls, are in corners, or are fallen to the floor. To that effect he uses both painting and installation to create panoramic, virtual landscape piles and filigreed, folded surfaces that reside in the slippery transitional spaces between 2 and 3 dimensions, 3 and 4 dimensions, and the impossible spaces of higher dimensional orders.
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Darkness Descends (March 5 - 8, 2009)
curated by Christina Vassallo, produced by Cottelston Advisors
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
www.cottelston.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
March 5, 10am-10pm; March 6 - 8, 10am-6pm
Reception: Thursday, March 5, 7-10pm with performances by Rishaug vs. Watz, Kjersti Vetterstad & Monica Winther
Artists: Thora Dolven Balke, Ole Martin Lund Bø, Halvor Bodin, Marianne Hurum, Anki King, Ingvild Langgård, Sverre Malling, Are Mokkelbost, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Rune Olsen, Alexander Rishaug, Elise Storsveen, Kjersti Vetterstad, Kira Wager, Marius Watz, Jana Winderen, Monica Winther, and Munan Øvrelid
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DARKNESS DESCENDS: Norwegian Art Now delves into the uniquely Norwegian style of neo-romanticism in contemporary art. The exhibition will bring together a multi-generational group of visual, performance, sound, and video artists to explore a fascination with darkness that is inspired by mythology and a close relationship to nature. Curated by Christina Vassallo, the exhibition will take place during The Armory Show, March 5 - 8, 2009. DARKNESS DESCENDS is the fourth installment in a series of M*A*S*H shows produced by Cottelston Advisors in conjunction with major art fairs.
The sound art program of DARKNESS DESCENDS will be presented simultaneously at PULSE New York, Pier 40 / 353 West Side Highway @ West Houston Street, NYC. Christina Vassallo is an independent curator based in New York City.
Michael Sellinger created Cottelston Advisors to provide art advisory and exhibition production services. For more information, please contact: Michael Sellinger, msellinger@cottelston.com or go to www.cottelston.com.
Generous support for the exhibition has been provided by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General. Beverages provided by Christiania Vodka.
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40°PHI Benefit Performance! (February 28, 2009)
by and for Zhenesse
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
zhenesse.com
myspace.com/zhenesse
40PHI: myspace.com/40pt
www.fracturedatlas.org
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
40°PHI Benefit Performance!
by and for Zhenesse
Saturday, February 28, 09, 6-10pm
refreshments, entertainment, art, auction, & dancing!
Limited seating so RSVP TODAY (and save!)
$15 with rsvp (rsvp @zhenesse.com) | $20 at the door
Can't come to the Benefit? DONATE $5 to show support (see below)!
P.S. It's also Zhen's 30th Birthday Party!
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Factotum (February 25th - March 3, 2009)
by Erin McMonagle
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
beat-it-erin.blogspot.com/
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
February 25th - March 3, 2009, 9am - 5pm
Factotum explores the life of Marlene – the silent secretary in the Fassbinder film "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" – after she ends her employment with Petra, and imagines Marlene opening her own office as a factotum for hire.
The performance will consist of Marlene (Erin McMonagle) completing a wide variety of contracted tasks (a general request for employment was sent out to a wide audience in order to receive diverse assignments) including typing, note-taking, bartending, silver polishing, making and serving coffee and tea, machine sewing, hand sewing, creating clothing sketches, cleaning, dancing, etc. Marlene will, as in the film, remain silent.
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"East to West" (February 20 - 22, 2009)
an Ujamaa Black Theater Festival under the direction of Titus Walker
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
blkbroadway@yahoo.com
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square
Titus Walker's Ujamaa Black Theater Festival "East to West"
217 East 42 Street to 300 West 43 Street
at 300 West 43 Street 6th floor:
Sat January 31, 2009 7:30pm For the Love of My Black Woman
Sat February 7, 2009 7:30pm For the Love of My Black Woman
Also a salute to Bernie Mac, James Brown, Isaac Hayes
at chashama 217:
Fri February 20, 2009 8:00pm
Tribute to James Brown
Sat February 21, 7:30pm FILM PREMIERE:
Tribute to Malcolm X
and the play, 'Tribute to Malcolm X', a play for our hero
Sun February 22, 5pm Matinee:
The Sun People, an African tale featuring African actor Alioune Sall, and more
TICKETS ADVANCE: $30 AT DOOR: $35
CALL 212-642-8261 OR 917-482-9673
For information call 212-642-8261
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Playing with myselves (February 18 - March 11, 2009)
by chashama artist-in-residence Danny Licul
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
croooakt@aim.com
www.dannylicul.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
February 18 - March 11, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 18th, 6-9pm
Hours: Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays noon-6pm
Wednesdays noon-8pm
and by appointment (347-387-1228) | croooakt@aim.com
FREE and open to the public.
chashama is pleased to announce the reopening of the 112 West 44th street gallery space with a solo exhibition featuring the work of New York artist, Danny Licul. No stranger to chashama, Licul will be presenting his newest collection Playing with myselves, with an opening reception on February 15.
Licul's work explores themes of fantasy and imagination. For this project, Licul was influenced by film noir. He sees each piece like a frame in a film; they are filled with action, having a before and after. He was also greatly influenced by the best Christmas gift he ever received – a highly coveted Millennium Falcon Star Wars figurine in 1979. The Millennium Falcon looks like any other Star Wars spacecraft, but within it's walls, lays powerful secrets. The craft was thought to be impregnable due to all of its modifications, however, despite all of its benefits, it was in fact prone to recalcitrance. Perhaps that loss of control and emergence of chaos is what influenced Licul's work the most. Later in life, the Millennium Falcon will no longer instill joy in Licul, but rather a very different feeling. The shape of the spacecraft resembles that of a deer tick, something he knows quite well after being diagnosed with Lyme Disease.
Licul was raised in a Croatian household in Whitestone, Queens. To produce his new series of work, he recreated a model of his family's living room from memory. Setting the scene with clay figures, and lighting the space from different angles, Licul created a tangible template to base his work off of. Working with oil on canvas and charcoal on paper, Licul composes worlds of vibrant color and sweeping motion. Covering the entire canvas with no blank space to spare, the work draws the viewer into a thrilling world. The paintings do not end at the edge of the frame but rather the viewer is encouraged to explore beyond what is seen. Some of the pieces included are more simple and straight forward, while others are more of a complex and abstract mystery. Either way, Licul captures your attention and drives you into a world of swirling, rich hues that you won't want to leave.
The black paintings, found object constructions, video and audio works are investigations of time passing, unfolding, expanding, and collapsing. They examine what we gather, what remains and what we leave behind. It's about the inherent struggle against nature and time, and how this defines us.
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The Purpose Lounge (February 10 - 28, 2009)
organized by s6k Media, Reconstruct Art and BreakThrough Technologies
made possible in part by chashama & WBAI 99.5 Radio
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
Event contact: s6kmedia@gmail.com
www.bt-medialabs.com
www.wbai.org
www.s6k.com
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
February 10 - 28, 2009
ALL EVENTS WILL BEGIN @ 7PM SHARP | TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS
FREE and open to the public.
The Purpose Lounge, presented by
s6k Media, Reconstruct Art and BreakThrough Technologies
powered by chashama & WBAI 99.5 Radio
ALL EVENTS WILL BEGIN @ 7PM SHARP
TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS
‹tues, feb 10›
The Harlem Renaissance and the Current State of the Arts in Harlem
‹sat, feb 14›
Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Shirley Chisholm and the Legacy of Black Politics in America
‹tues, feb 17›
Revisiting Eyes on the Prize and the Continuing Struggle for Equality in America; Who Will Teach Us about Us?
‹sat, feb 21›
AIDS and Harlem: Which will Survive?
‹tues, feb 24›
Are We Afraid to Offend for the Right Reasons? Black Arts, Who Supports Them & Controversy
‹sat, feb 28›
"Like It Is" and a Discussion of Black Media (arts/culture & news)
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Reconstruct Art, sektor 6 kommunikations and BreakThrough Technologies have partnered to create The Purpose Lounge, an empowering and exciting arts education program to train, mentor, and inspire people 18 to 35 years of age. By using visual arts studio sessions and training as a fulcrum to balance life mentoring and job skill preparation, The Purpose Lounge provides a positive alternative destination for people whom have traditionally been underserved with limited artistic resources and options. This program also goes beyond the traditional facility model to bring arts education and life mentoring directly to the places it's needed, such as, recreational centers, playgrounds, schools, common spaces in public housing, community events, correctional facilities and public/private spaces throughout the city.
Our debut series of events will feature documentary video screenings, speeches, mixed-media exhibits, interactive panel discussions and plenty of give-a-ways you'll want to have. This exciting month of events during February's Black History Month celebration is an introduction to our program that will launch in June 2009.
We combine artistic and social empowerment to help people think more critically about the creation of art, technology and the we planet live on. The Purpose Lounge creates an artistically framed dialog between artists and concerned citizens about the issues of the day with the goal of establishing a greater sense of societal ownership and involvement. In addition to our creative artistic focus, we enable and motivate people to use their skills to help others in the form of mentoring.
What We Are
Lead by Lawrence Joyner/Reconstruct Art (Harlem, NY), participants will have expanded length sessions to develop, rework and discuss their art. We will provide a variety of artistic tools to augment the participant's existing resources. Our eventual goal would be to provide 100% of the visual arts resources.
Our Tech Lab, directed by Tyrone Thomas/BreakThrough Technologies (Jersey City, NJ) , will provide training, mentoring and computers access for various artistic applications, business applications and Internet research on special projects and general office applications.
We will have group mentoring sessions, developed by Darryl Hell/sektor 6 kommunikations (Brooklyn, NY), where the entire group is inspired to discuss life issues in order to reinforce personal growth. Within this framework, we will also provide a wide spectrum of volunteering opportunities to encourage community participation. By encouraging the participants to spend time helping others, we emphasize the responsibilities each person has to the betterment of themselves and the society as a whole.
What We Do
CoLAB: Artist/Curator/Artist (February 9 -21, 2009)
by CoLAB Cooperative
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Exhibition viewing hours (from street): February 9 – 21, 9AM–5:30PM
Salon Hours (meet the artists):
Sat Feb.14 & Sun Feb.15, 3–6PM
Sat Feb.21, 3–6PM
CoLAB Public Meeting, Topic: How should visual artists approach the practice of writing about themselves? --On Monday, February 16, 6–8PM, CoLAB will hold a sample writing workshop/Open Meeting, sharing their pedagogical approach, and offering a simpler way for artists to write about their own work and practice.
(Note: space is limited.)
FREE and open to the public
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CoLAB was formed as a collective in 2007 by 9 artists who wanted to empower themselves to use the writing process to inform their practice as visual artists. They enlisted the skills of 1 art critic to guide them. CoLAB holds regular (private) meetings, and also communicates virtually via blog, editing and commenting on what each has written about their own, as well as each other's, work.
In late 2008, CoLAB's members decided to branch out into the realm of visual collaboration. In this, their first exhibition, CoLAB is creating a pedagogical work-in-progress. Their mandate in "Artist/Curator/Artist" is simply: Text comes first. They've chosen work by one another, based on what they've written about each other, rather than on their work's visual appearance.
CoLAB feels that curating in this way is an exciting and valuable experiment, providing its visual artists with a new "feedback loop." Normally, a professional curator would offer up an assessment of the "value" of an artwork for the public. In this case, CoLAB asks if artists can't find a different hermeneutic to their own practice--one based on self-reflection and their ability to communicate--rather than on the perceived formal, narrative or conceptual merit of the work they create.
about CoLab
underEXPOSED (February 6 - 28, 2009)
BLACK WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS IN AMERICA
curated by Ton'ya Leigh
presented by ReconstructArt
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
underexposedshow@gmail.com
myspace.com/underexposed2008
reconstructart@gmail.com
Dark Space (February 4 - 14, 2009)
co-created by Kate Brehm and Alexis Macnab
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
www.imnotlost.net
http://infinitecoast.org
Made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for Arts: www.nea.gov
KATE BREHM directs, designs, and performs adult puppetry and experimental theater. She runs the company imnotlost, online at www.imnotlost.net, which seeks to expand the public’s vision of what performing objects can be. She has taught puppetry internationally and trained in physical acting with Kari Margolis. She has performed for Basil Twist at Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mabou Mines, the Houston and
Atlanta Grand Operas, and on a national tour of Japan. Her original works include A Seemingly Unified Spectacle, Belly Dream Real, and Do You Copy?, a science-fiction puppet show which premieres this April.
about Kate
Tortured Sleep (January 24 - 31, 2009)
by Brian Wondergem
(after Fuselli's 'The Nightmare')
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.brianwondergem.com
Birth and Accumulations (January 19 - 30, 2009)
by chashama Artist-in-Residence Florencio Gelabert
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
flogel61@yahoo.com
This project is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
www.lmcc.net
NYC DCA
Florencio Gelabert is presenting Birth and Accumulations, a project that has been awarded a 2008 Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The exhibition opens on Jan. 19th at 6 p.m. at the Chashama Studios, located at 461 W 126th St., between Morningside and Amsterdam Avenues, in Harlem. The show will be on view daily through Jan. 30, 2009, from Noon to 5pm.
The works presented illustrate the diverse nature of Gelabert's oeuvre, from sculptures to video installation, in which he addresses themes such as man's relationship with nature and environmental conservation. The exhibition is comprised of three sculptures and a video – Accumulation I (2008-2009), Accumulation II (2008-2009), Ottoland (2008), and Birth (2009).
Accumulations I and II and Ottoland come from a recent series of works, with which the artist combines artificial elements extracted from the real world and his own creations. It is comprised of an imaginary landscape, made of plastic and other non-organic materials that simulate plant life, growing out of a broken wall. In Birth, Gelabert is interested in transcending traditional notions of sculpture by expanding its definition of three-dimensionality into a media video. It consists of a two-minute video loop showing a waterfall and landscape of his own creation with yellow flower petals falling and filling the screen.
the exhibit
Gelabert's work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and public places around the country, in Latin America and in Europe. His most recent works were presented last November at a personal show for the opening of new Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, at Florida International University. His work is also included in several public collections: the Goldberg Collection at Nassau County Museum Roslyn Harbor, NY; MOCA, North Miami, FL; Everhart Museum, Philadelphia; the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach; the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Shack Collection in Miami, and The Cisneros Collection in Caracas, Venezuela.
Gelabert is a recognized Cuban-American sculptor of his generation graduated from the San Alejandro National School of Fine Arts and the Instituto Superior de Arte, in Havana, Cuba. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Miami in 1998.
about Gelabert
MY EYES! (January 15th – February 7th, 2009)
artwork by Amber Boardman, Matt Broach, Danielle Durchslag, Ryan Frank, Joan Pamboukes, Dean Radinovsky, Erik Sanner, & Kevin Stahl
Last show curated by Ad Nauseum Lyceum at
chashama U W S Gallery, 950 Columbus Avenue
adnauseamlyceum@gmail.com | www.adnaus.org
betwixt West 106th & 107th Streets; B/C to 103rd or 110th Street stations
artwork by Amber Boardman, Matt Broach, Danielle Durchslag, Ryan Frank, Joan Pamboukes, Dean Radinovsky, Erik Sanner, & Kevin Stahl
January 15th – February 7th, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 15th, 6-8 pm
Gallery Hours:
Thursdays 1-5pm
Fridays 3-7pm
Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm
and by appointment: adnauseamlyceum@gmail.com
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Paradise Pictures (December 18, 2008 - January 03, 2009)
by Richard Torchia
presented by The Montello Foundation at
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.montellofoundation.org
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Opening reception: Dec.18th, 6 - 8p
Hours: Monday - Friday 9a - 6p
Saturdays 12noon - 6p
closed December 25th and January 1st
The Montello Foundation is proud to present its inaugural show with the artist Richard Torchia at the chashama Window Space on West 37th St in the Garment District of New York. The Montello Foundation is an organization dedicated to supporting artists who foster our understanding of nature, its fragility, and our need to protect it. The Window Space provides an ideal location for this mission on a gritty block, far away from any nature and very populated.
By suggesting both a movie studio and what might appear as random, optical phenomena, Paradise Pictures frames the effects of urban tree shadows to explore the tensions between nature and culture that they demonstrate. Harnessing the combination of given conditions—winter weather, heat issuing from inside the exhibition space, and the scaffolding that currently shades the glass storefront of chashama's Window Space, the installation gives the live trees an opportunity to perform.
about the installation
The shadows of trees are among the most primitive examples of nature's capacity to create graphic images of itself. Unlike shadows cast by mountains, clouds, or heavenly bodies—which register to us more abstractly—the shadows of windblown trees are capable of impressive but comprehensible scale, dance-like movement, and intimate, detail. Henry David Thoreau, writing in his journal about the "rich tracery" of the shadows of elms he saw in the light of a half moon in 1851, was moved to comment that "men had got so much more than they bargained for, —not only trees to stand in the air, but to checker the ground with their shadows". Torchia is interested the ways in which such shadows, when thrown onto the flat planes of urban walls and streets, not only become more legible but also appear more ephemeral. Whether created by the sun or artificial light sources, when cropped and contextualized by city surfaces, the shadows of moving foliage take on the character of mediated, cinematic projections without losing their delicate and fugitive immediacy.
By suggesting both a movie studio and what might appear as random, optical phenomena, Paradise Pictures frames the effects of urban tree shadows to explore the tensions between nature and culture that they demonstrate. Harnessing the combination of given conditions—winter weather, heat issuing from inside the exhibition space, and the scaffolding that currently shades the glass storefront of chashama's Window Space, the installation gives the live trees an opportunity to perform.
about the concept
Paradise Pictures extends Torchia's ongoing work with the camera obscura and his interest in the instantaneous formation of images. The project is directly related to A Beam in the Bower, a permanent public video archive of tree shadows to be projected onto the shaded wall of the Hilton Garden Inn (Philadelphia) starting in the spring of 2009. A resident of Philadelphia since 1987, Torchia has been exhibited his work in solo projects at the Institute of Contemporary Art (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1994), the Center for Creative Photography (Tuscon, Arizona, 1987), Historic Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, 1997-2001), the Gallery of Photography (Dublin, 2002) and Evergreen House, The Johns Hopkins University, (Baltimore, Maryland, 2006). His work was last seen in New York at Wave Hill (the Bronx) in the group exhibition "Thoreau Reconsidered".
about Richard Torchia
Undone (December 18, 2008 - January 02, 2009)
an exhibit by chashama artist-in-residence Pat Arnao
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
Contact: 112w44th@gmail.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth
Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 18th, 6-9pm
Closing Party: Friday, January 2nd, 4-7pm
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 3:30-7pm
Or by appointment | Contact: 112w44th@gmail.com
(Closed December 24, 25, and 31 & January 1)
FREE and open to the public.
"The past isn't dead. It isn't even past". -William Faulkner
chashama is pleased to present Undone, an exhibition of paintings, videos and constructions by Pat Arnao.
Pat Arnao's work is driven by literary influences: in this case, Don DeLillo and William Faulkner. Both authors are consorts to personal and cultural histories, and examine the implications of the past upon the present. The work in this exhibition is based on the idea of history, and how the past defines the present.
The black paintings, found object constructions, video and audio works are investigations of time passing, unfolding, expanding, and collapsing. They examine what we gather, what remains and what we leave behind. It's about the inherent struggle against nature and time, and how this defines us.
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