CURRICULUM VITAE 2010
market (August 26 - September 7, 2010)
an installation by Audra Wolowiec
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.lineforms.blogspot.com
www.audrawolowiec.com
audra.wolo@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/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
market
an interactive installation by Audra Wolowiec
August 26 - September 7, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, August 27: 6 - 9p
Viewing hours: 11a - 6p daily
Closed: Wednesday, September 1st & Thursday, September 2nd
www.audrawolowiec.com | audra.wolo@gmail.com | www.lineforms.blogspot.com
"market", an interactive installation at chashama 266 by Audra Wolowiec, invites individuals to participate in an intimate micro-economy by bringing garments to be altered through the process of exchange. Located in the Garment District of New York City, this site-specific project stems from a desire to connect with people and draw attention to the labor embedded in the garments we wear.
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TOUCH AND FEEL MY WALLS (August 12 - 15, 2010)
a touchable exhibit by ISSART & Ashley Cimone
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
www.swabychic.com
www.swabychic.blogspot.com
isissamuels.swaby@gmail.com
ArtCrawl Harlem (August 7 - 8, 2010)
Sponsored by Canvas Paper & Stone Gallery and Taste Harlem
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
www.artcrawlharlem.com
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street, NYC
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Avenues
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
ArtCrawl Harlem
Sponsored by Canvas Paper & Stone Gallery and Taste Harlem
Saturday, August 7, 2010, 12-4p Reception: 4 - 6p
Sunday, August 8, 2010, 1-5p, Reception: 5 - 7p
Receptions to include dinner, wine and music
Limited seating: $55/$40 advance tickets at
(800) 838-3006 or visit www.artcrawlharlem.com
Join chashama for a celebration in partnership with ArtCrawl Harlem! As a part of ArtCrawl, guests will experience Harlem via trolley, and will be immersed in the community's eclectic and rich visual arts offerings, including an exclusive tour of chashama's artists-in-residence studios at chashama 461 Studios in Harlem.
Other participating galleries include: Art Horizon - LeRoy Neiman Art Center, Casa Frela Gallery, Dwyer Cultural Center, Leroy Neiman, Renaissance Fine Art Gallery, and Studio Museum in Harlem.
Seating is limited, so reserve your tickets (cost: $55; limited advance tickets $40) at www.artcrawlharlem.com or by calling 1 (800) 838-3006.
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Artists' Annex (August 7 - 8, 2010)
hosted by Reconstruct Art
161st Street & Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, Queens
(background & mission) www.reconstructart.org
(up-to-date activities & events) www.reconstructart.blogspot.com
contact: reconstructart@gmail.com | sharkbrains@gmail.com
Jamaica Arts & Music Summer Festival (JAMS): www.go2ccj.org/ijams.htm
Greater Jamaica Development Corporation: www.gjdc.org
161st Street and Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica Queens
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.
at the 14th annual Jamaica Arts & Music Summer Festival (JAMS)
Artists' Annex
hosted by Reconstruct Art
Saturday August 7 - Sunday 8, 2010, 11a - 7p
Expect performers, music, street vendors and healthy soul food catered by Reconstruct Art's own Culinary Arts Division. WPA 2010
will be demonstrating public works by and for the community, and Rocopera will be performing neo-pop in the gallery. This year's JAMS theme is
"Healthy Living: Mind, Body and Spirit", and our artists have reflected on ideas of physical and spiritual strength in their multimedia
works.
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• Has been held annually since 1996, hosted by Cultural Collaborative Jamaica (CCJ)
• Will take place August 7-8
• Attracted over 150,000 attendees last year (over 70% Queens residents, primarily families)
• features include live music, multicultural performances, celebrity appearances, food and craft vendors, free family attractions,
health and wellness stations, NYC history exhibits and an "Artists' Annex"
• This year's JAM Festival theme will be "Healthy Living: Mind, Body and Soul"
about JAMS Festival
Dissolving Dimension (August 6 - 21, 2010)
hallucinations and careful abstractions by Seth Scantlen
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street, New York, NY
seth@sethscantlen.com
www.sethscantlen.com
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
New York, NY
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
"Dissolving Dimension"
hallucinations and careful abstractions by Seth Scantlen
August 6 - 21, 2010
Opening Reception:
Saturday August 7, 6-9p
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6p
In Dissolving Dimension, an exhibit at chashama 217, Seth Scantlen uses paint as his medium to express the fluidity of
identity. Representation and abstraction flow together, seamlessly intermingling, in a state of constant flux. He explores both the terror and joy
that comes with identity's meltdown.
Growing up in a one stop light town in rural Indiana, art was access to a broader world. Art has always been a source
of escape but for Scantlen, that escape was never fully realized and always questioned.
His images hover between hallucinations and careful abstractions. Scantlen achieves technical rigor while engaged in a
visualization of intense subject breakdown, maintaining a constant tension between control and chaos. His work refers to ways in which technology
can enable us to depict and edit our identities while also threatening to flatten them into ready made consumable self-caricatures.
seth@sethscantlen.com | www.sethscantlen.com
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Have A Nice Day (August 4 - 24, 2010)
an installation by Johannah Herr
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.johannahherr.com
johannah.herr@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/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to
36th St.
Have A Nice Day
paintings by Johannah Herr
August 4 - 24, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 5: 6:30 - 9p
Viewable daily: 10a - 7p
www.johannahherr.com | johannah.herr@gmail.com
For the piece "Have a nice day" I use the rickshaw as a metaphor (where the poor literally carry the rich) to address, explore and bring into consciousness the underbelly of New York's work force- largely made up of recent (sometimes illegal) immigrants, who often get overlooked, undervalued, or even abused by an economic system supported by exploiting undocumented laborers. - Johannah Herr
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My work is about the messiness of the human experience and the struggle of existence pushing forward, both physically and metaphorically, in its grit, pain, loss, pleasure, elation. I am interested in ceremony and sanctification, construct and innate impulse. Each piece revolves around abstracted narrative; impregnating form with metaphor, and using objects as hieroglyphics- magnifying the meaning in the mundane and turning trifles into talismans.
Raised by a family of storytellers who continually demonstrated the importance of collecting experience and bearing witness, I learned to revolt against impermanence and to through storytelling to bridge the gap between beings, albeit momentarily. As such, I use abstracted narrative through my work in an attempt to bridge that same gap.
artist statement
Johannah Herr received a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2009 and has exhibited both nationally and internationally in New York, London, Cooperstown, Seattle and Berlin. She is a former member of the Berlin-based art collective GRUNTWORK, and has shown at Envoy Enterprises, Platform Gallery, DADApost, Big&Small/Casual Gallery, Space Womb Gallery, and Greenpoint's St. Cecilia Convent, amongst others. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
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Queens (August 4 - 14, 2010)
photography by Sanders Watson
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street, NYC
sanderswatson@aol.com
www.sanderswatson.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
Queens
by Sanders Watson | www.sanderswatson.com
August 4 - 15, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 5th, 6-9p
Open hours 12 - 6p:
Wednesday, August 4th - Friday, August 6th &
Tuesday, August 10th - Saturday, August 14th
for more information contact: sanderswatson@aol.com
Not only is Queens where I live but also one of the most diverse communities in the world. Within the borough, cultures
converge and coalesce into smaller neighborhoods creating uncommon yet remarkable communities. The modes of living and housing structures are no
exception as the varieties range from suburban homes, city housing, condos, large apartments, to historic brownstones.
As the dynamics of neighborhoods continually fluctuate, many old homes are being bought and torn down in favor of easy to
assemble, larger apartments. The changing landscape leaves structural anomalies as rowed homes are often nestled between large modern apartments.
The landscape of the community now becomes that of various housing structures, which creates a unique blend of culture, community, and generational
contrasts. -Sanders Watson
Sanders Watson is supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Puffin Foundation.
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chashama North Open Studios (July 31, 2010)
featuring artworks of David Biskup, Murray Dwertman, Cosme Herrera, Phaedra Mastrocola, & Jill Olm
chashama North Studios, Pine Plains, NY
For more information contact: Residency Manager Veronica Kavass
veronica.kavass@gmail.com
Multiverse (July 27 - August 2, 2010)
a live web installation by Mimi Yin & Katie Parlante
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
(Mimi) http://mvngfst.blogspot.com/
(Mimi) mimiyin@aya.yale.edu
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/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to
36th St.
Multiverse
a live web installation by Mimi Yin & Katie Parlante
July 27 - August 2, 2010
Viewable daily: 9a - 7p
Dance Performances 3 - 4p & 5 - 7p:
Friday July 30 & Monday August 2
(Mimi) http://mvngfst.blogspot.com/ | mimiyin@aya.yale.edu
Multiverse is a series of poems that are programmatically constructed from the live, public Twitter feed. An act of incidental
collaboration, each line of the Multiverse poems is from a different author: musing, observing, ranting, and disclosing mundane, unexpected and
momentous details of their lives to the public at large.
What can be magical about Multiverse is when otherwise disconnected thoughts from otherwise disconnected people come together to
form a coherent and true picture of life in the city. Poems are customized for each new installation site to reflect the state of mind of the
neighborhood and context. The poems for Multiverse on 37th are: Transit, Office and Aspiration.
Multiverse was previously installed on 14th street in the fountain at Union Square Park, as a part of last year's Art in Odd Places
Festival. You can see a slideshow of the installation here: http://blog.caketoo.us/2009/10/17/multiverse-on-14th-pictures-from-oct-16-2009/
You can experience Multiverse on 14th live, on the web at: http://multiverse.caketoo.us
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Art in a Valise (July 23 - August 1, 2010)
A group show of visual art
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street, NYC
lescargot.noir@gmail.com
www.lescargotnoir.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
Art in a Valise
artists: Alexandre Aucomte, Jacqueline Bresson, Nicolas Cordier, Katia Favodon, Jessica Lopez, Claire Wijbick
curators: Katia Favodon, Jill Ariela Putterman and Marion Sifreu
July 23 - August 1, 2010
Opening Reception: July 23rd, 6 - 10p Refreshments will be served.
Hours: 10a - 7p daily
lescargot.noir@gmail.com | www.lescargotnoir.com
www.lescargotnoir-en.blogspot.com
"Art in a Valise" plays with the concept of creating art for transport, touching on ideas of the globalization
of the art world along with ways we consider space in our creative process. Each piece of work is a variation on how to play with size and
compatibility of objects in each artist’s distinct style. Beyond the idea of simply creating a show of work that is transportable and expands the
idea of how different forms of art may be created, molded and transported we are connecting this concept to the purpose of the group themselves,
which is to form international collaborations with other groups of artists internationally. L'Escargot Noir hopes to evolve this concept and invite
collaborating artists to take part in upcoming shows in Paris and/or Mexico City.
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Throughout the course of various experiences, Katia Favodon has taken a keen interest in childhood tales and wonder, beyond
worlds that seem poetic, delicious and magical at first sight. She prefers to focus on something more disquieting, on something thornier, darker.
This sentiment is an abiding feature of her work.
Jessica Lopez is a French Visual Artist and Graphic Designer, mainly working with photography, video and sound
Installation/Performance. Her artistic statements question the relationship we have to the object, involving distance and intimacy, collectibles as
units of a mass and very personal and private objects.
Claire Wijbick is currently working as an illustrator in the music field (posters, sleeves…). She is also a comic book
author and cartoonist. Her art world is both surrealist and alternative with a strong influence from the rock music scene. In her comics she
creates strange characters playing with the absurd and tragic.
bio: Favodon, Lopez, Wijbick
La lutte pour l'intimité dans mon art visual (July 18 - 24, 2010)
photography by Christopher S. Webster
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
webstrcs@aol.com
Robots and Aliens: A Love Story (July 16 - 21, 2010)
An Interactive Improvisational Dance & Karaoke Installation by
Angela Harriell & "The Love Show"
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
info@theloveshownyc.com
www.theloveshownyc.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
Robots and Aliens: A Love Story
An Interactive Improvisational Dance & Karaoke Installation by
Angela Harriell & The Love Show
July 16 - 21, 2010
Open daily: 12p - 8p
(Early closings: 6p on the 17th , 5p on the 21st)
for more information contact: info@theloveshownyc.com
The Love Show gets the sexy goin' with their tightly choreographed and costumed numbers, theatrical appeal and gorgeous girls and boys. A little cabaret, a little ballet and a whole lotta rock and roll, The Love Show has entertained all audiences from the glitzy nightclub life to the gritty downtown theater. Classically trained dancers and detailed choreography tell a story with every number... a story both intimate and universal. The Love Show has worked for such clients as Vogue Magazine and Cointreau liqueur, and rocked stages ranging from CBGB's Gallery to The New York Burlesque Festival. The Love Show has also appeared with the glitterati on Patrick McMullan's website and been seen on The Insider.
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Why Robots and Aliens: A Love Story? Since human beings first became sentient and began to understand the ramifications of working within a society, we have been torn between the need to be efficient, predictable, reliable, productive members of that society (robots), and the desire to expressive, unpredictable, incomprehensible, mysterious individuals (aliens). In 21st Century urban environments, this is more true than ever. The massive scale of the city demands that we act the robot, lest everything descend into anarchy. Simultaneously, that same massive scale demands that we express our alien individuality, lest we drown in a sea of anonymity. While some of us may opt for grey suits while others don fabulous drag, none of us can allow one aspect to completely subsume the other. Robot and alien must learn to co-exist; theirs must be a love story. By allowing – to some extent, requiring – the passerby to choose the direction in which our piece plays out, we give the her or him officially sanctioned permission to act independently and expressively, without ever stepping outside the bounds of the acceptable, robotic behavior that being in public requires. Similarly, the karaoke sing-alongs will encourage the marriage of the two sides. While the singers will inherently bring themselves to the music, they will also be singing in unison, following the projected lyrics and our singer, and performing an action authorized by the powers that be. Thus, the piece hopes to help urbanites heal the rift between two warring sides of their personalities, all while having a huge amount of fun!
about Robots and Aliens
Angela Harriell is the director and choreographer of the popular Nutcracker: Rated R, as well as the founder and choreographer of the cabaret dance troupe, The Love Show. Her choreography has been called witty, moving, unique and theatrical with narratives that are simultaneously autobiographical and universal. Richmond Shepard, publisher of Performing Arts Insider, writes the brilliant Angela Harriell... could be the next Susan Stroman. A graduate of Fredonia University, where she received The Graduate Scholarship for ballet, she has worked with Elisa Monte and David Brown dance, Randy James Danceworks, and taught ballet at Binghamton University. Angela's work has been seen at The Flea Theater, HERE theater, The New York Burlesque Festival, White Wave Dance Festival, The Philly Fringe Festival's Late Night Cabaret, and different nightclubs throughout New York, and she has set original works for Jerboa Dance of Seattle as well as Key West Contemporary Dance in Key West, Florida. Cointreau and Vogue magazine have commissioned pieces from her, and she has created and directed two off off Broadway productions, the most recent, Nutcracker: Rated R, selling out in its runs over the past four seasons. Her work has twice been selected to be presented at special galas at the National Arts Club, where Angela has performed along with such luminaries as Elaine Stritch, Tammy Grimes, Charles Busch and Julie Halston. Angela was a Hammerstein Beauty at Simon Hammerstein's notorious downtown supper club, The Box, and also performs with Brooklyn Ballet, Brooklyn Repertory Opera and Opéra Français de New York. She has been spotted amongst the glitterati in the pages of Patrick McMullan's website, and has appeared in several television and music video spots, including an ABC Primetime documentary on connections in the dance world, as well as an STD awareness video with Alan Cumming.
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ExtraESTETICA-Exploitation (July 8 - 12, 2010)
by Olivie Ponce
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
info@olivieponce.com | www.olivieponce.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
ExtraESTETICA-Exploitation
an exhibition by Olivie Ponce
July 8 - 12, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 8, 6-9p
Open daily: 1 - 8p
for more information contact Olivie Ponce: info@olivieponce.com
I have worked for several years, both experimenting and perfecting, on my series of paintings that I call "Extra-estética". It began as a way to transmit the chaotic and messy urbanity of cities' daily life in my country of origin México. Eventually my paintings turned into more general and universal images in which every spectator could feel identified with them regardless of his or her daily life experiences.
Currently, I interpret this daily life idea on paintings that have abandoned the canvas, paintings where daily life is not necessarily represented by the painting itself but by the object on which it is created. My commitment with the spectator lies in revaluating the painting as a form of expression and in exploring new ways to emphasize the idea of the painting as an object.
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Originally from Mexico, Olivie Ponce is an artist inspired by the urban world, his paintings show a different way to appreciate the artificiality of every day life. Enamel has always been his principal medium and utilizes framed plexiglass and electronic devices as canvas. He earned a BFA from The University of Guanajuato in Mexico. He was represented by FONCA (National Fund for the Culture and the Arts, Mexico) from 2001 to 2005, and participated at NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists 2009. Olivie has exhibited his work in several international venues: Gallery Ho, Seoul Korea; The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK; La Esmeralda Gallery, Mexico City; and recently in New York at, "Storefront" NORTE MAAR, Brooklyn; Governors Island Art Fair, D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival; New York Design Center.
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midpoint between then and now (July 3 - 17, 2010)
a solo exhibition by Meghan Wilbar
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
mwilbar@gmail.com | www.meghanwilbar.com
Work Projects Administration 2010 (July 1 - August 31, 2010)
by public artist Christopher Robbins
chashama, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
WORK@WorkProjectsAdministration.org
www.christopher-robbins.com
www.reconstructart.org
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 in association with Greater Jamaica Development Corporation and Reconstruct Art present
Work Projects Administration 2010
by public artist Christopher Robbins | www.christopher-robbins.com
July 1 - August 31, 2010
Office opening: Thursday July 1, 5 - 9p
Workshops: 11a
July 2, Friday - First Workshop
July 6, Tuesday - Action Research/ PRA Workshop
July 14, Wednesday - Action Research/ PRA Workshop II
July 16, Friday - Ushahidi Jamaica with Chris Blow
July 20, Tuesday
July 29, Thursday
FREE and open to the public
In partnership with chashama and Reconstruct Art, public artist Christopher Robbins will be bringing back the Work Projects Administration (WPA) this summer, because the government hasn't.
During the last Great Depression, the Work Projects Administration (WPA) employed millions of people through creative projects across the country. Money went directly to people who needed it, and their efforts produced some of the most important public works of the time. "In this recession, we were upset that the stimulus didn't go directly to people who needed it most. So, since the government hasn't brought the WPA back, we will!"
On July 1, 2010, WPA-2010 will open an office in Jamaica, Queens, at 90-26 161st Street. For the months of July and August, this office will be the base for a series of community-driven public works in New York City. They will be talking with the community to find out what projects people want and need, running a series of workshops on community action, and hiring people to complete the projects they have chosen.
For more information contact Christopher Robbins: 718-541-0510 or WORK@WorkProjectsAdministration.org
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Self High Five Machine (July 1 - 15, 2010)
an installation by Deniz Ozuygur
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.denizozuygur.com
deniz.ozuygur@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/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Self High Five Machine
an installation by Deniz Ozuygur
July 1 - 15, 2010
Opening Reception: July 2: 6 - 8p
Viewable daily: 11a - 7p
www.denizozuygur.com | deniz.ozuygur@gmail.com
In her piece Self High Five Machine Deniz Ozuygur examines her grade-school memory of the high five as the ultimate symbol of acceptance and popularity. Having been on the wrong end of too many "missed it!" and "too slow!" high fives, the artist takes the matter into her own hands (ha!)
Using two rubber casts of her right arm, Deniz attempts her own DIY solution. One arm is anchored to a wall. The other is attached to a motor and rotates at a speed of only one rotation per minute. This cinematic slow-motion effect builds suspense and excitement in the audience.
All does not end well, however, as the self Hi-five machine itself produce a less than satisfying brush of the fingers. Yet many optimistic onlookers remain, in the hopes that the next one will be just right…
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Martial Performance Art (June 28 - July 4, 2010)
Tai Chi, Nei Kung, Chi Kung & weapons demonstrations
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
Tai Chi Chuan Center presents
Martial Performance Art
Tai Chi, Nei Kung, Chi Kung & weapons demonstrations
June 28 - July 4, 2010
OPEN VARIOUS TIMES ALL DAY
Stop, watch, participate or brush up on your skills
call the Center at 212-221-7333 or 212-221-6110 for more details
or visit www.chutaichi.com
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group EB (June 26 - 27, 2010)
a group exhibition by Donald Downs, Peter Duffin, Elia Gurna, Sam Larson & Susan Walsh
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
More info: eliagurna@yahoo.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
group EB
a group exhibition by Donald Downs, Peter Duffin, Elia Gurna, Sam Larson & Susan Walsh
June 26 - 27, 2010
Opening Reception: June 26, 4 - 7p
Exhibit hours: Saturday - Sunday 12-6p
for more information contact Elia Gurna: eliagurna@yahoo.com
groupEB is a group of exhibiting artists who meet periodically to show and discuss work in progress. The artists, Peter
Duffin, Donald Downs, Elia Gurna, Sam Larson and Susan Walsh, work in a wide range of media including artist books, sculpture, photography,
painting, installation and performance—their work has been seen nationally and internationally.
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Elia Gurna is a visual artist and poet whose work asks questions about nature and beauty in an excessive, commercial and
increasingly artificial world. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art, the Center for Emerging Artists in
Philadelphia, Collaborative Concepts and bau galleries in Beacon, the Kentler International Drawing Space NY, the International Print Center NY,
the Ragnarhof in Vienna, Austria among others.
Elia holds a BA in German and Visual Arts from Columbia University and an MFA from Queens College,
CUNY. She currently lives and works in Beacon, NY, where she will participate in the live painting event "Electric Windows" on July 31,
2010. www.eliagurna.com
Sam Larson's recent work focuses on exploring the nature of printed language and collaboration with letterpress printers
from around the world. Sam received his MFA degree from Rutgers University. He has been working with letterpress since 1996. He and Peter Duffin
founded P.S. Press, a letterpress shop focused on art and typography, in 2005.
bio: Gurna / Larson
The Spirits Sing Across the Mountains (June 26, 2010)
A Juneteenth Commemoration Celebrating the Harlem, NY & Jamaica, Queens Artistic and Cultural Communities
Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC), 153-16 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, Queens
"Spirits" page
s6kmedia@gmail.com | s6k.com/purposelounge
www.reconstructart.org
www.gjdc.org
E or J train to Jamaica Center (last stop) or F to Parsons Boulevard: walk down 153rd Street to Jamaica Avenue.
FREE and open to the public
Purpose Lounge [s6k Arts & Reconstruct Art], chashama & Jamaica Performing Arts Center in association with Harlem Arts Alliance, The Apollo Theater, Allen-Stevenson School, and FM Charities present
The Spirits Sing Across the Mountains
Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC)
153-16 Jamaica Avenue
Saturday, June 26, 2010, noon - 9p
This production connects two legendary New York communities of the African Diaspora for a remembrance of Juneteenth [the last day of legalized slavery in the US] and its cultural legacy. By engaging the hosting communities of Jamaica and Harlem, we will expand the understanding of various culturally affirming perspectives of their different yet intertwining histories. Our multigenerational program will be entertaining as well as informative.
Sponsored by Harlem Brewery Company. Catering supplied by Creative Catering. Additional support provided by: Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL), Gifts From Deez Hands, Progressive Unlimited. Official media sponsor: Harlem World Magazine
Executive Producer - Darryl Montgomery-Hell | Associate Producer - Lawrence Joyner
www.s6k.com/purposelounge | s6kmedia@gmail.com | 917-723-7281
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- 12 noon to 4p: Documentary screenings in the theater
This will be an entertaining and educational video mastermix of documentaries spanning the history of the African Diaspora in the United States. Compiled and edited by veteran experimental video artist Darryl Hell.
- 4pm to 6:30p: Live Art exhibition in the lobby & lounge
Aleathia Brown will be doing a live art performance in the lounge and there will be viewing of work in the lobby gallery. The mixed media exhibition will feature; Reconstruct Art, Darryl Hell, "Ride: The Lifestyle of Urban Motorcycling", Lawrence Joyner, Purpose Lounge, Progressive Unlimited, and the Allen-Stevenson Prep School for Boys. We will also be serving free food and drinks during this segment of the event.
- 7pm to 9p: Feature presentation in the theater
There will be special presentations from "Ride: The Lifestyle of Urban Motorcycling", Community Board 12 District Manager Yvonne Reddick, The Apollo Theater, Harlem Arts Alliance, Ademola Olugebefola, and a Juneteenth commemoration.
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chashama North Open Studios (June 26, 2010)
featuring artworks of Emily Bolevice, Aneikit Bonnell, Darren McManus, Elias Melad, Christine Wang, & Seldon Yuan
chashama North Studios, Pine Plains, NY
For more information contact: Residency Manager Veronica Kavass
veronica.kavass@gmail.com
The Spirits Sing Across the Mountains (June 17 - 27, 2010)
a community event series and exhibition by Purpose Lounge [s6k Arts & Reconstruct Art]
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
s6kmedia@gmail.com
www.s6k.com/purposelounge
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street, NYC
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Avenues
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
FREE and open to the public
Purpose Lounge [s6k Arts & Reconstruct Art] & chashama in association with Harlem Arts Alliance, The Apollo Theater, Allen-Stevenson School, and FM Charities present
The Spirits Sing Across the Mountains
June 17 - 27, 2010
Juneteenth Gala:
Friday, June 18th, 8p-midnight
Group exhibit hours:
June 17 - 27, Tuesdays-Saturdays noon - 6p
Featuring a mixed-media exhibition by: Reconstruct Art, Aleathia Brown, Ademola Olugebefola, "Ride: The Lifestyle of Urban Motorcycling", Purpose Lounge, Allen-Stevenson School for Boys, Progressive Unlimited.
We will also feature special events throughout the exhibition
* All special events are 7pm to 9pm [Thur, Fri, Sat]
* except Saturday, June 26th
- Documentary screenings
- Lectures
- Town-hall style meetings
This production connects two legendary New York communities of the African Diaspora for a remembrance of Juneteenth [the last day of legalized slavery in the US] and its cultural legacy. By engaging the hosting communities of Jamaica and Harlem, we will expand the understanding of various culturally affirming perspectives of their different yet intertwining histories. Our multigenerational program will be entertaining as well as informative.
Executive Producer - Darryl Montgomery-Hell
Associate Producer - Lawrence Joyner
www.s6k.com/purposelounge | s6kmedia@gmail.com | 917-723-7281
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A Community Connected / Una Comunidad Conectada (June 17 & 19, 2010)
a presentation by NURTUREART, chashama & the faculty and students of Charles O. Dewey MS 136
chashama Brooklyn Army Terminal Studios
140 58th Street, Building B, Suite 6-H, Brooklyn, NY
gallery@nurtureart.org
nurtureart.org
Brooklyn Army Terminal Studios
140 58th Street
Building B, Suite 6-H
Brooklyn, NY
(@ 1st Avenue
Trains: N/R to 59th Street station
Bus: B9 , B11, and B37 lines to 59th Street)
NURTUREART, chashama & Charles O. Dewey MS 136 present
A Community Connected / Una Comunidad Conectada Painting and Sculpture Exhibition
A Collaboration among artists, teachers, and students in Sunset Park
Opening Reception featuring spoken word performance, refreshments, speeches & awards:
Thursday, June 17, 6-9p
Gallery hours:
Saturday, June 19, 12-2p
http://nurtureart.org | gallery@nurtureart.org
(Please direct all questions about the NURTUREart Registry of Artists & Curators to:
registry@nurtureart.org)
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Salvaged (June 8 - 27, 2010)
an IQTEST installation of up-cycled fashion with daily de-junking performance actions by Melissa Lockwood
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.iqtest-nyc.com
http://melissalockwood-artistportfolio.iqtest-nyc.com
melissalockwood27@hotmail.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/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Salvaged
an IQTEST installation of up-cycled fashion with daily de-junking performance actions by Melissa Lockwood
June 8 - 27, 2010
Opens: 10am, June 8th
Reception: Saturday June 12, 4 - 7p
Open daily: 11a - 7p
http://melissalockwood-artistportfolio.iqtest-nyc.com | www.iqtest-nyc.com
Shown in a traditional windowfront boutique, SALVAGED is an exhibit of Melissa Lockwood's IQTEST brand of one-of-a-kind hand-made clothing made from salvaged fabrics, with information from environmental groups and semi-casual performances during open hours.
"The fabrics are collected from local NYC fabric cutting factories. Taking the fabrics from the dumpsters at the factory allows it to be up-cycled and used for another purpose. I have a life long fascination with the over production of garments and fabric waste. I don't buy brand new clothing, and it is possible for me to go without it. I find the fabric quantity entering the landfills disturbing and hope to raise awareness about that. A long term goal is to help stimulate awareness that inspires reform in the environmental laws. In the fashion industry few environmental laws are, in fact, in place." http://www.iqtest-nyc.com
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The Little People (June 4 - 23, 2010)
paintings by Halley Zien
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
contact: halleyz@hotmail.com
http://halleyzien.com/
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
The Little People
paintings by Halley Zien | http://halleyzien.com/
June 4 - 23, 2010
Opening: June 4, 6 - 8p
Wednesday - Sunday 12-6p
and by appointment: halleyz@hotmail.com
In The Little People, an exhibition by Halley Zien at chashama 112, Ms. Zien works to represent the psychological distortion in human interactions. Each piece seeks to establish a visual language that depicts the emotional inner life of its characters. These characters, the "little people" are distorted to exaggerate their psychology; their outward appearance reflects their internal state. Like masks, they are made purposely larger-than-life to telegraph their emotions and character to the audience.
Ms. Zien is an extraordinarily sensitive and perceptive person for whom the entropy of personalities, desires, and fears is very real and intense in the social situations she witnesses. The characters are by turns pathetic, familiar, loathsome, personal, joyful, lusty, furious, lonely, and awkward. These states are treated with equal respect and understanding; her paintings are celebrations of every aspect of human life, from the most petty and hypocritical to the grandest pain and joy.
This exhibit is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Showcase For Sweden (May 28 - June 2, 2010)
installation and dance by High Frequency Wavelengths
led by Artistic Director Marilynn Danitz
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
Showcase page
www.HighFrequencyWavelengths.org
RichardLongmanRWL4@columbia.edu
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/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Showcase For Sweden
installation and dance by High Frequency Wavelengths
led by Artistic Director Marilynn Danitz
May 28 - June 2, 2010
Open to the public:
Noon - 10p daily
Performance times:
Friday May 28, 9p, reception follows open to public
Saturday May 29 & Sunday May 30, 3p & 9p
Monday May 31, 7p
Tuesday, June 1, 6p, reception follows open to public
Wednesday, June 2, 6p
Dancers are: Andrew Broaddus, Caroline Carbo, Bryn Cohn, Chelsey Dunkel, Anna Massey, Sandra Passirani, Ortrun Stanzel.
High Frequency dance company brings "Showcase for Sweden" -- dances that remove the interface between audience and performers with live-interactive-feedback making both a part of the "show".
RichardLongmanRWL4@columbia.edu | www.HighFrequencyWavelengths.org
Supported in part by the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
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We are an interdisciplinary performance company conceived by Marilynn Danitz. For over thirty years, our works have challenged the boundaries of visual art, technology, and performance through an internationally-recognized repertory of works.
Our repertory directly reflects the range of interests and abilities our professional company of dancers has brought: works are set in collaboration with the performers through improvisational prompts and direction.
We integrate media and movement by a careful process of layering images and evoking honest experiences for the performers. Danitz guides the viewer's eye between, through, and about the images to create a unique and memorable experience that translates for audiences around the globe.
Danitz creates works based on an emotional foundation to make the performance personal and relatable. Her interest in blending disciplines is a reflection of her formal education in science and lifelong experiences in dance. She sees the world from a multi-dimensional visual perspective that is both engaging and human.
High Frequency's work has been presented in Japan, Australia, Italy, China, Taiwan, Korea, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cyprus, Greece, Poland, Russia, Belarus, the Philippines, Canada and throughout the USA. It has been broadcast nationally on NBC, CBS, and in 10 countries. Most recently, we were featured in the opening ceremony of the Spaceflight Dynamics and Control Conference, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
about High Frequency Wavelengths
Marilynn Danitz is Artistic Director of High Frequency, President Ex Officio of the American Dance Guild, a chemist and bio-engineer. Her choreography has garnered numerous awards including Outstanding Dance Theatre Work Of The Year (Dance Brew); Choreography Award of Distinction (National Association of Ballet); 11th International Ballet Competition Best Choreography Nominee (Varna, Bulgaria); the National Real Art Ways Residency (funded by the National Endowment for the Art); the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Creative Artist Residency; the Abrons Art Center Field Residency; the Far Space Residency, and currently Artist-in-residence at CAVE Art Space. Among her many collaborators have been Allen Ginsberg, poet-laureate, and Jerry Uelsmann, photographer.
A former Associate Professor at the Tainan College of Arts and Technology, Ms. Danitz has served as: Advisor on Cultural Policy to the President of Poland; as Curriculum Advisor to the State Dept. of Education, Poland; and to Tainan College of Arts and Technology, Taiwan; as juror for the National Choreography Competition in Vitebsk, Belarus; and as invited guest speaker for international conferences.
about Marilynn Danitz
Audacity! (May 21 - June 20, 2010)
A Multi-Media concept: featuring paintings, drawings, photographs and literary works
chashama, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
http://sweetpotato18.com
www.gjdc.org
www.reconstructart.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 in association with Greater Jamaica Development Corporation and Reconstruct Art present
Audacity! A Multi-Media concept: featuring paintings, drawings, photographs and literary works.
Special feature: A blending of the disciplines: Music, Visual, the Written and Spoken Word
http://sweetpotato18.com
May 21 - June 20, 2010
Reception & Silent Auction: Friday May 21, 6 - 10p
SPECIAL GUEST
Dr. Roxana Sulica, Director of the Pulmonary Unit, Beth Israel Medical Center
Exhibit hours: Tuesday-Saturday noon - 9p and by appointments:
Contact Sam Lewis: 914-260-7974 or samglewis@gmail.com
FREE and open to the public
"Audacity!" is an exhibition, fundraiser and awareness event in association with the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, sponsored by Reconstruct Art; a New York based non-profit youth arts education program and fiscal conduit organization for practicing artists of various disciplines.
"Audacity!" is a multi-media experience and excerpt from the book, "Art Jam! Sweetpotato Style Sisters Cookin' Together" – An Anthology of 18 African American Women.
"Audacity!" is a joint effort fundraiser for both the book project, "Art Jam!..." and Silent Auction for PHA. Unlike the usual fundraiser this silent auction is designed to raise the awareness of a rare disease that has taken the lives of many people without them knowing why and to give honor to women who have been the trailblazers and glue that have under-girded a nation. All proceeds from the silent auction will go to PHA, (50% to Research and 50% to Programs and Services). Corporate funding is designated for the exhibition and book project. All contributions are tax deductible.
For more information about "Audacity!" contact BJ Winston: 917-385-3099 or betwinst@aol.com
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Aleathia Brown, Visual Artist, Writer
Noreen Mallory, Photo Journalist, Writer
BJ Winston, Visual Artist, Writer
Ariel Jackson, Visual Artist
Carla Brown, Hair Historian
Diane Bailey, Hair Naturalist
Danielle Williams, Visual Artist, Poet
Diane Fields, Writer
Karan Morrow, Conductor
Beatrice Greene, Composer, Musician and Writer
Deirdre Dallas Harris, Visual Artist, Native American Dancer
Claudia Akyeampong, Visual Artist, Writer
featuring
"An Antebellum Tribute to the Matriarchs and Their Daughters"
Sean-David Cunningham, classical violin
Edwin Cunningham, flute
participating artists
Toa (Warrior) (May 21 - 30, 2010)
curated by Billy Tangaere, Founder Te Wero
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
contact: billy@tewero.com
www.tewero.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
Toa (Warrior)
curated by Billy Tangaere, Founder Te Wero
May 22 - 30, 2010
Media Opening: May 21, 6 - 8p
Tuesday - Sunday, 10a-6p
contact: billy@tewero.com
The exhibit features eight digital photograhic art images of Traditional and contemporary Maori Warriors. Each image has a storyline of its own. Each image progresses and evokes the legend telling of the Maori people who voyaged the great oceans of the world arriving in Aotearoa New Zealand over one thousand years ago.
Our organisation Te Wero is proud to present (in conjuction with chashama New York) The Warrior art of the Maori people.
We look forward to sharing the culture of the Maori people with you.
-Billy Tangaere
Founder Te Wero
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WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (May 16 - 23, 2010)
by David Greg Harth
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.DavidGregHarth.com
harth@davidgregharth.com
Viewing hours from the sidewalk are:
Mon May 17, 9am-7pm
Tue May 18, 9am-2pm
Wed May 19, 9am-7pm
Thu May 20, 9am-7pm
Fri May 21, 9am-7pm
Viewers may enter the installation during these hours:
Sun May 16, 12pm-4pm
Mon May 17, 4pm-7pm
Tue May 18, 9am-2pm
Wed May 19, 5pm-10pm
Thu May 20, 5pm-8pm
Fri May 21, 3pm-7pm
Sat May 22, 11am-3pm
Sun May 23, 11am-4pm
For more information, contact:
harth@davidgregharth.com | www.DavidGregHarth.com
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"World News Tonight" is a provocative installation artwork exploring the mainstream media's proclivity towards the crisis of morality through the exposition of negative news. The exhibit includes hand-picked newspapers, magazines, articles and videos harping on death, dying, disgust, defame, disillusion, defeat, war, greed and corruption that have captured the world's attention for the last 15 years. The world is full of positive stories exemplifying love, heroism, generosity and charity however it is the negative news that consistently grabs the first page. The artist seeks to discover what the public truly wants to hear.
Visitors are encouraged to view the exhibit and meet Harth at the opening reception on Wednesday, May 19th from 6-10pm at chashama 266, located at 266 West 37th street in New York City.
about "World News Tonight"
"Sewing the Roses" (May 15 - 30, 2010)
solo exhibit by Marcela Carvalho
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
marcela4arts@aol.com
www.marcela4arts.com
Uplifted by a Warm Intermittent Breeze (May 14 - 16, 2010)
Choreographic direction: Christie Newman
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
cnewmanator@gmail.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
Uplifted by a Warm Intermittent Breeze
Choreographic direction: Christie Newman | cnewmanator@gmail.com
Performers: Leah Fox, Susan Raines, and Christie Newman
Performance dates:
Friday, May 14th- 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00p
Saturday, May 15th- 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00p
Sunday, May 16th- 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00p
Using Billy Collin's poem "Today" as a point of inspiration, this piece is meant to be viewed as a moving sculpture progressing through the subtleties and nuances of a spring day. Celebrating the cyclical nature of life, endings and beginnings, and glorious sunshine, "Uplifted by a Warm Intermittent Breeze" rejoices in the season of spring.
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Take Refuge Here (Monday, May 10, 2010)
by InterDependence Project and TREe
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
http://theIDProject.org
www.TREePlays.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
Take Refuge Here
by the InterDependence Project and TREe
http://theIDProject.org | www.TREePlays.com
Monday, May 10, 2010, noon - 1:30p
Join the InterDependence Project and TREe for an InterAct on May 10th at 112 W. 44th Street called "Take Refuge Here". From noon to 1:30 in an empty Times Square storefront, our ensemble of meditators and passersby will be provided a place to sit together. The space will be arranged with an island of cushions in the center for sitters, and room around them for witnesses.
Sitters will be cued by a bell every 20 minutes or so to rotate between facing inwards and facing outwards, while witnesses may choose to join in if they wish. The store will be transformed into an experience of calm, communal and mindful action within a hurricane of consumerism. More info at theIDProject.org or TREePlays.com
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"Follow The Old Internet's Plan" (May 6, 2010)
performance by Ursula Endlicher
in conjunction with Christine Gedeon's Stitched Topographies exhibit
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
www.ursenal.net
Unravel (May 4 - 11, 2010)
by Genevieve White
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
http://genwhite.blogspot.com
genevievewhite@rocketmail.com
**watch embedded videos here**
Unravel, May 8th on Vimeo
Unravel, May 9th on Vimeo
Unravel, May 10th on Vimeo stop-motion film made by Benjamin Heller
Unravel, May 11th on Vimeo
Nautical and Sailing Photography (Sunday, May 2, 2010)
by David J Blitzer
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
atanchorfornow@gmail.com
www.davidblitzer.com
David's Flickr photostream:
http://tinyurl.com/yg5lhha
www.djnutritious.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
Nautical and Sailing Photography
by David J Blitzer | atanchorfornow@gmail.com | www.davidblitzer.com
Sunday, May 2, 2010, 2-8p
This special, one day event will feature nautical, sailing, and landscape photographs from David's international series as well as local work. Music during the show will be provided by internationally recognized DJ Nutritious (www.djnutritious.com).
Highlights include:
-The islands of Vieques, Culebrita, and Cayo Norte, Puerto Rico
-Assorted nautical work from Narragansett Bay, Long Island Sound, and Sandy Hook Bay, NJ.
-Urban Light Landscapes
The show is free. Feel free to invite friends and family. All are welcome.
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Archaic Cycles (April 26 - May 20, 2010)
a light/sound installation by Max Langhurst & Ellery Widener Samson
chashama 141, 141 East 33rd Street @Lexington Avenue
www.maxlanghurst.com
mlanghurst@hotmail.com | ellerysamson@gmail.com
Exhibition space generously provided by Stonehenge Partners, Inc.
www.stonehengeny.com
Illusion (April 21 - May 5, 2010)
photography by Julia Forrest
chashama 30 West, 30 West 8th Street @MacDougal
jforrest@artspaces.net
www.juliaforrest.com
chashama 30 West
30 West 8th Street, New York, 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.
Illusion
by Julia Forrest
April 21 - May 5, 2010 (originally May 8)
Opening Reception: Saturday 24th, 6 - 9p
Opening night music provided by Treehouse DJs (Raspberry Jones & Treeboy)
Hours: Wednesdays - Sundays, 1 - 7p
jforrest@artspaces.net | www.juliaforrest.com
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The Upward Spiral (April 19 - May 2, 2010)
by Ketta Ioannidou
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.kettaioannidou.com
kettaioannidou@yahoo.com
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Ketta Ioannidou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and lives and works in New York City. She received her BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, PS 122 Gallery, Sixtyseven, Foxy Production, Heist Gallery, Metaphor Contemporary Art and Gallery Satori in New York, the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York, Go North in Beacon, New York, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in Indiana and Diatopos Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Cyprus. She represented Cyprus in the 9th International Cairo Biennale, the 24th Alexandria Biennale in Egypt and the Rome Biennale for Young Artists from European and Mediterranean Countries.
Ioannidou was selected for the Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Aljira Emerge at Aljira in Newark, New Jersey. She was awarded residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space, and the Artists' Enclave at I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut. Ioannidou's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Flash Art and The Brooklyn Rail.
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Recycling the Studio (April 17 - 28, 2010)
a group show of works by artists associated with Habitats for Artists (HFA)
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
amy@ecoartspace.org
www.ecoartspace.org
chashama 112 Times Sq Art Space
112 West 44th Street
(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.)
Recycling the Studio
a group show of works by artists associated with
Habitats for Artists (HFA)
April 17 - 28, 2010
Opening: Saturday April 17, 12p
Hours: Monday - Friday 12 to 5p
Saturday - Sunday, 11a to 6p
This exhibition will be presented in conjunction with "What Matters Most?", a benefit exhibition for ecoartspace taking place at Exit Art in NYC from April 14 – 28th.
For more information, contact Amy Lipton:
917-743-8275 | amy@ecoartspace.org | www.ecoartspace.org
Recycling the Studio will feature artworks that constitute the latest iteration of HFA, an evolving long-term collaborative project created by artist Simon Draper. HFA will launch their newest "green box art studio", a 6' x 6' x 8' structure composed of recycled and reusable materials. Various artists from the HFA collective will create artworks as "10 x 10" tiles that will cover the studio's surface as well as the interior walls of chashama at 112 West 44th Street. During the exhibition various environmental and art organizations such as Urban Go Green, Solar One and Articycle will present information and host discussions.
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Over the past three years, artists involved with HFA have built and worked in over twenty 6' x 6' x 8' temporary, portable studios made of predominantly reused and recycled material and installed on various sites, including a CSA farm, an environmental center, an art park, a river park, and a parking lot. The studios function as residencies with a modest yet distinct presence that enables artists to explore their art practice and develop a new dialogue with different communities, as well as with other artists. Simultaneously a place for creating work and the work itself, these structures function as both studios for artists and installations for viewers to enter into and engage with. The HFA initiative addresses a number of diverse topics, such as: the creation of communities by artists and the consequent ejection of artists from these communities; matters of sustainability in art; thinking about the artistic working process and its private and public manifestations; providing spaces of reflection for the public; and asking the question: How Much How Little the Space to Create?
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Stitched Topographies (April 16 - May 9, 2010)
by Christine Gedeon
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
christinegedeon@gmail.com
www.christinegedeon.com
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street, NYC
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Avenues
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
Stitched Topographies
by Christine Gedeon
April 16 - May 9, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, April 16, 6-9p
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays 4 - 7p | Fridays Saturdays Sundays 1 – 6p
christinegedeon@gmail.com | www.christinegedeon.com
In "Stitched Topographies", Christine Gedeon creates works using a sewing machine, fabric and paint on raw canvas that are inspired by aerial view landscape drawings. She invents these "plots" that are neither true abstractions, nor landscapes but navigate between interpretative poles. With a limited palette and through an improvisational approach, these works are large in scale and hint to an unfamiliar impossible space, a space that allows viewers to detach and contemplate their relationship to the external world. Gedeon seeks to connect the dichotomy of the cold, analytical masculine subject with the appropriation of traditional feminine materials, adopting a sewing machine as a mechanically precise drawing tool.
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Christine Gedeon was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in the U.S., and is based in New York City. She is currently an artist in the Bronx Museum, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM 30) program. Solo and Two-Person shows include: The Catskill Art Society, in Livingston Manor, NY; A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, where she was awarded an Emerging Artist's Fellowship in 2005-06; And/Or Gallery in Dallas, TX; and The New Art Center, in NYC. Group shows include: The Diva Fair Miami, Vertex List, WIlliamsburg, and A.I.R. Gallery, NYC. She received a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from SUNY New Paltz.
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IT'S YOUR STORY THAT COUNTS (April 10 - May 22, 2010)
chashama, 90-32 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
housingisahumanright.org
www.gjdc.org
http://jcal.org
chashama Jamaica Studios, 90-32 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 in association with Greater Jamaica Development Corporation and Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning present
IT'S YOUR STORY THAT COUNTS Jamaica Flux'10: Workspaces & Windows
April 10 - May 22, 2010, Tuesday-Saturday, 11a-5p
The month-long interactive and workshop series will take place at 90-32 161st Street at Jamaica Avenue. Sessions will occur on two Saturdays: May 8 and May 22 at 11:00am, 12:30pm, 2:00pm and 3:30pm on each date.
The associated exhibit hours are Tuesday - Sunday, 11a-5p through May 22.
Stories collected during the exhibit will become part of an installation of all new stories and photographs centered on Southeast Queens to be presented by chasama Jamaica Studios in late 2010.
For more information or to participate, contact chashama Outreach Consultant Sam Lewis: 914-260-7974 | samglewis@gmail.com
Venue generously provided by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation. Other sponsors include National Endowment for the Arts, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Arts Council Korea, and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.
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Jamaica Flux'10: Workspaces & Windows, a project of Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), is a site-specific, public art exhibition that is mounted approximately every three years with the intention of using the urban environment as a studio and exhibition space. The theme of Jamaica Flux '10 is "Art as Action." The project includes the commission, creation, and exhibition of site-specific projects, which are installed at a variety of locations along Jamaica Avenue, including banks, mall lobbies, stores, restaurants, street corners, parks, and other public spaces. Project Director/Curator: Heng-Gil Han
about Jamaica Flux
The Urban Forest (April 1 - 18, 2010)
photography by Kate Glicksberg
chashama 30 West, 30 West 8th Street @MacDougal
kate@interstatial.com
www.interstatial.com
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
chashama 30 West
30 West 8th Street, New York, 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.
The Urban Forest
photography by Kate Glicksberg
April 1 - 18, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday 1st, 7 - 10p
Hours: Wednesdays - Sundays, 1 - 7p
and by appointment:
917-902-8682 | kate@interstatial.com | www.interstatial.com
Presented here are 15 photographs and a photo 'zine from the series, "The Urban Forest" by Kate Glicksberg. This project explores the city as a unique habitat, where nature, humans and the concrete grid co-exist and intermingle. Nature may frame the series, but human presence is a fundamental part of this work. Formal land cultivation tries to contain natural growth within the urban landscape. Yet through pictorial representation, humans invent ways to insert types of wilderness into street life. The inherent desire to integrate nature into built environments competes with the need to control it. The benefits of nature to society at large have recently been re-established. Urban landscaping projects have brought another context for experiencing an outdoor city life. From replanted clusters in public plazas, to mass reforestation of the city's public/private lands, trees play an increasing role in the shifting urban landscape. In this shift, the city is reimagined.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Process is Fundamental (March 31 - April 15, 2010)
curated by Zhenesse
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
zhenesse.com | me@zhenesse.com
Schedule & descriptions
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/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Process is Fundamental
curated by Zhenesse
March 31 - April 15, 2010
Exhibits, performances, events (almost) every day featuring members of: cMAD and The Shalimar
Zhenesse Heinemann curates a revolving installation of public practice and inquiry designed to intrigue the audience and facilitate continued growth of the artist. Artists from cMAD (Shawn Shafner, Franny Silverman, Glenn Marla, and more) as well as The Shalimar Theatre Company will turn the space from empty storefront from dancefloor to Promunist party headquarters to Ministry of Elimination, and more over the course of the 18 days.
Zhenesse Staniec Heinemann creates live performative dioramas and short character-driven video art in New York City in varied spaces such as chashama, John Connelly Presents, Collective:Unconscious, Interart Annex, and the Scope Art Fair NY.
http://zhenesse.com/ | me@zhenesse.com
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One's Own Room: endless connection (March 25 - April 10, 2010)
Visual and Textile Art by Hyo Nam
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
hyojeongnam@gmail.com
www.hyonam.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street, NYC
(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.)
One's Own Room: endless connection
Visual and Textile Art by Hyo Nam
hyojeongnam@gmail.com | www.hyonam.com
March 25 - April 10, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, March 25th: 6-8p
Hours: Mondays - Saturdays, 12 - 5p
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In this exhibition, One’s Own Room: Endless Connection, Hyo Nam presents her most recent work, thread hanging installations and drawings which explore the cycle of life, especially in female view point. Not only her needle works, Red Branch but also tying thread works, Root I, Cell and Causality are time consuming and tedious work. The simply repeating process is a metaphor of female's daily chore of domestic life. Compared to the simple process, work, itself, has resemblance of nature figure showing the sublime and spirituality.
Hyo Nam received B.F.A at Kyonggi University, Korea, and had M.F.A degree at Pratt Institute. She had two persons show at Kips gallery in Chelsea, NY, and several group shows in, Gallery Satori, Space Womb, SICA, Brooklyn Art Council, Alphan Gallery and so on.
about the show
off the Beaten Path (March 19 - May 2, 2010)
artworks by Dean Richards
curated by Samantha Lewis
presented by chashama and Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
chashama, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
Dean's website: www.rhythminlines.com
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 in association with Greater Jamaica Development Corporation present
off the Beaten Path
new work by Dean Richards | www.rhythminlines.com
March 19 - May 2, 2010
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 19, 2010, 6 - 9p
FREE and open to the public
For exhibit times contact Sam Lewis: samglewis@gmail.com
Sponsored in part by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
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Water's Edge: 12 artists from the Brooklyn Army Terminal Studios (March 12 - April 3, 2010)
curated by chashama artist-in-residence at BAT Kristin Reed
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
The Fish Market (March 12 - 28, 2010)
paintings by Hannah Fierman
chashama 30 West, 30 West 8th Street, New York, NY
www.hannahfierman.info
hannahfierman@gmail.com
chashama 30 West
30 West 8th Street, New York, 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.
The Fish Market
paintings by Hannah Fierman
March 12 - 28, 2010
Opening Reception: Sunday March 21st, 6 - 9:30p
Hours:
Wednesdays - Fridays, 11a - 5p
Saturdays - Sundays 1 - 6:30p except:
*Saturday March 20th, The Fish Market will be open from 2p to 5p*
www.hannahfierman.info | hannahfierman@gmail.com
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The Quilted Parallax (March 3 - 20, 2010)
an installation by Liz Ensz & Lea Bertucci
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
lizenszgallery.blogspot.com
lizensz@gmail.com
www.brokendiorama.com
lbertucci@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/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
The Quilted Parallax
an installation by Liz Ensz & Lea Bertucci
March 3 - 20, 2010
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, March 3rd, 6 - 9p
Open hours:
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays 1p - 9p
Thursdays 3p - 7p
The Quilted Parallax merges the visual vocabulary of artists Lea Bertucci and Liz Ensz to create a shifting space that is defined by light and embellished by pattern. In Bertucci's photography and installations, light is used as an active architectural force that both describes and distorts space, while Ensz has focused on patterned imagery and transforming the textile into architecture.
This collaborative installation combines a shared interest in perception, architecture, space, and light. It is an intervention and deliberate visual contrast to the surrounding area; a contemplative space that functions as an abstract altar, a visual sanctuary from the advertising and frenetic pace of midtown Manhattan.
www.brokendiorama.com | lbertucci@gmail.com
http://lizenszgallery.blogspot.com/ | lizensz@gmail.com
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2nd Annual Celebration of Harlem Arts Alliance Members (March 3, 2010)
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
www.harlemaa.org
Art/Song (February 23 - March 16, 2010)
Visual Music/Exhibition & Performances by
Jay Alan Zimmerman & Lisa Ingram
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
www.jayalanzimmerman.com
www.lisaingram.com
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street
(between Broadway & Sixth Avenue
Subway: 1,2,3,7,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd Street, shuttle to Times Square.
Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Art/Song
Visual Music Exhibition & Performances by
Jay Alan Zimmerman &
Lisa Ingram
February 23 - March 16, 2010
2-7pm, Tuesday - Saturday
Performances every Wednesday & Saturday at 7p
Live painting by Lisa every Tuesday & Thursday
Broadway singers will have their voices converted into imagery during this free performance and exhibition series. Using layered video projections of real-time frequency analysis software, deaf composer Jay Alan Zimmerman will rehearse and present songs from his shows while attempting to re-train his brain to "hear" the shapes created by the voices of Ryan Allen, Raissa Katona Bennett (Phantom), Melvin Bell III (Black Nativity), Emily Cramer, Andrea Dora (Tarzan), Kelly Ellenwood (Phantom), Matt Lutz, Sierra Rein, Gabrielle Stravelli, and violinists Blair Lawhead, Bryony Straud-Watson, and Heather Vixler.
Called Art/Song, the project is a collaboration with abstract painter Lisa Ingram, who has further interpreted these vocal images of vowels and phonemes into a series of watercolor paintings and collaborated with Zimmerman on an installation of his destroyed synthesizers.
Open rehearsals will be every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon with free performances at 7p. The gallery will be open Tuesday through Saturday, 2-7p, with some artworks and multimedia installations on view 24 hours a day.
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Lisa Ingram studied painting with the art-world legends Ross Bleckner and Sean Scully and has since exhibited her work in numerous museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. This includes solo exhibitions at Soho Myriad Galleries, Atlanta GA; 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY; The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA; and many others, as well as group shows and collaborative projects at Fusion Arts Museum, New York, NY; The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY; and Suyama Art Space, Seattle, WA. Her oils, watercolors, and limited edition prints are owned by countless private collectors and corporations around the world including Disney, Guggenheim Productions, Mandarin NYC, and Marriot Resorts.
about Lisa Ingram
Charity Art Exhibit (February 18 - March 8, 2010)
featuring original works by Ecuadorian Artist Luis Salazar
presented by the Palms for Life Fund
chashama 30 West, 30 West 8th Street @MacDougal
info@palmsforlifefund.org
www.palmsforlifefund.org
chashama 30 West
30 West 8th Street, New York, 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.
Palms for Life Fund presents a Charity Art Exhibit
featuring original works by
Ecuadorian Artist Luis Salazar
February 18 - March 8, 2010
Wine and Cheese Opening Reception: Thursday February 18th, 6 - 8p
Hours: Tuesdays - Saturdays, 12 - 8p
The paintings are framed and prices are very reasonable!
From February 18th to March 8th, The Palms for Life Fund will present the works of accomplished Ecuadorian artist, Luis Salazar at the chashama 30 West Gallery. As part of Palms for Life "Art for Life" initiative, all net proceeds from painting sales will go directly back to Ecuador to help educate poor children. This project is in collaboration with local organizations MEVA - Music Live Now - and the Brass Band of Ecuador that provide cultural education to children in poor neighborhoods.
Through Art for Life, Palms for Life achieves two goals: to share the talent of local artists and generate funds to support social investment. In this way, "Art for Life" creates new opportunities for many disadvantaged populations in Ecuador and around the world.
**All net proceeds from your purchases are donations (tax deductible) and will go directly to help feed and educate poor children in Ecuador**
www.palmsforlifefund.org | info@palmsforlifefund.org | 718-450-0123
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Luis Salazar was born in Quito, January 31, 1966. At the age of 21, he enrolled in the Art Faculty from the Central University in Quito. While he began pursuing a career in photography, he soon became passionate about painting. He took classes with Maestro Oswaldo Viteri and traveled to Cuba to pursue his studies. He started painting soon after and was immediately recognized as a very unique talent. His most recent exhibits include: the Orbankai International Cafe in Landshut, Germany, the Meguro Art Museum in Tokyo, National Art Gallery in Malaysia, Casa de las Americas in La Havana, Jack Meier Gallery in Houston, Texas, and many other individual and collective exhibits in Ecuador. Luis teaches Art History and lives in Quito. He has produced 38 paintings for Palms for Life Fund.
about Luis Salazar
Qualia (February 5 & 6, 2010)
A Personal Iconography of Introspective Findings by Lisa Taliano
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
Contact: lisa@taliano.com | http://taliano.com/
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Avenues
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
Qualia: A Personal Iconography of Introspective Findings
A solo exhibition of new oil paintings by Lisa Taliano. This work examines the content and quality of consciousness, translating and recording subjective experience into symbols, shapes, form and color.
February 5 & 6, 2010
Open Reception: Saturday, February 6, 6 - 9p
7 - 7:45p performance by Frank Oteri and Tonally Perplexed
For exhibit hours: lisa@taliano.com
http://taliano.com/
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Old and New (February 4 - 21, 2010)
an exhibit installation by Courtney Puckett
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.cpuckett.com
courtneygpuckett@gmail.com
Old and New is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts
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/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Old and New
by Courtney Puckett
February 4 - 21, 2010
Viewable from the street 10 to 6p daily
Opening reception: February 5th, 6-9p
Closing reception: February 19th, 6-9p
Open to the public: Saturdays, February 6th and February 13th, 12 - 6p
http://www.cpuckett.com/ | courtneygpuckett@gmail.com
Old and New is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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On the Andean island in Lake Titicaca, residents weave houses and public buildings out of lake reed. This month at chashama's 266 window gallery, Courtney Puckett creates another world of public and private space weaving, stitching, wrapping, and knotting sculptures from what she finds scouring thrift stores and the closets of friends-old clothes, used towels, bed sheets-the lake reed of Brooklyn.
Bookending Fashion Week and located in the garment district among the window displays of colors, patterns, and textures, Puckett's installation speaks to a historic use of unconventional materials, craft techniques typically associated with women's work, and the more recent challenge to the definition of sculpture. Puckett's world is full of curious creatures and objects reminiscent of function but inevitably abstract relics, much like the process-oriented abstractions of Eva Hess or the whimsical objects of Claus Oldenburg.
about Old and New
Courtney Puckett, born in Winter Park, Florida, received a BFA in Painting in 2002 from Maryland Institute College of Art and attended the Center for Art and Culture in Aix-en-Provence, France. After attending University of New Mexico for a year, she received a MFA from Hunter College in 2007 and attended the Glasgow School of Art. Courtney has been an Artist-In-Residence at Vermont Studio Center and at Buffalo National River in Arkansas. Recently, Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Denise Bibro's Platform Space in New York, Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn, D.U.M.B.O Art Center's Art Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn and at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. In 2008, She curated the exhibition Yellow in Chelsea, New York. In 2010 Courtney will have solo exhibitions at Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn and at Valencia Community College in Florida.
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Portraits (February 4 - 16, 2010)
by Erik Hougen
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
erikhougen@gmail.com
Portraits is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts
(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.)
Portraits
by Erik Hougen | erik hougen@gmail.com
Opening reception: Thursday 4th: 6-8p
Thursday 4th: 10a-8p | Saturday 6th: 11a-5p
Monday 8th: 6-9p | Tuesday 9th: 10a-6p
Wednesday 10th: 6-9p | Thursday 11th: 11a-9p
Saturday 13th: 11a-8p | Monday 15th: 6-9p
Tuesday 16th: 10a-6p
Portraits, presented at chashama, is a survey of watercolors from three stages, showing my technical and conceptual experimentation. The first watercolors were created from stills of my sister hiking in the Appalachian mountains. They were only black and white, but laid the foundation for creating a dialogue between the digital video and handmade painting.
In my recent body of work I have been exploring a traditional approach to the portrait. By using only frontal head shot poses in my paintings, I have been able to concentrate on the process to capture the life and personality of my subjects.
Portraits is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Arts Advocacy Day Forum (January 29, 2010)
in association with the Harlem Arts Alliance
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
www.harlemaa.org
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)
Arts Advocacy Day Forum
January 29, 2010, 7 - 10:30p
On February 24th, chashama, in association with Harlem Arts Alliance, will take artists & arts organization representatives to Albany as part of a state-wide day of arts advocacy at the state capitol. On January 29, chashama/HAA hosts a FREE event at chashama 461 that provides information on the trip and will serve as a forum for questions and ideas. At 8:00 there will be a screening of the humorous and insightful Michael Moore documentary, SiCKO. drinks [wine, elixirs & juices] and munchies will be on hand.
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Side-by-Side (January 20 - 30, 2010)
an installation performance by Bryon Carr
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
bryoncarrdmm.com
bryoncarrdmm@yahoo.com
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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.
Side-by-Side
an installation/performance by Bryon Carr
January 20 - 30, 2010
4 to 7p daily
Join me, walk around and use a flashlight to illuminate the space. This is an open performance, no reservations needed, flashlights will be provided.
FREE and open to the public
http://bryoncarrdmm.com/ | bryoncarrdmm@yahoo.com
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Bryon Carr has trained, taught and performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. In NYC he has worked with White Wave Rising, Popo and GoGo Boys, Young Soon Kim, The Graham Ensemble, Chen and Dancers and The Erick Hawkins Dance Company. In 2002 he began showing mixed-media work throughout New York City in venues such as; Dance New Amsterdam, Dixon Place, Joyce SoHo and the Wave Rising Series in DUMBO to name a few. Outside of New York, he has shown in Seattle, Boston and Berlin, Germany. "His emotional and technical range were apparent in this piece he could be a fey, juvenile Pee Wee Herman, a Stan Laurel clown, a Merce Cunningham style or a Jacques D'Amboise style dancer."-Attitude Magazine 2007
about Bryon Carr
Playground 6 (January 16, 2010)
organized by Andrei Severny
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
PlayGround 6 video
www.severny.com
Playground 6
organized by Andrei Severny
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
January 16, 2010, 6p - midnight
PLAYGROUND 6 TEAM: Noriaki Kats, Concert Promoter, Julieta Talavera, Writer , Mahmoud Hamadani, Artist
ABOUT PLAYGROUND
Every month or two in the evening a group of chosen international artists gathers around the Synchronicity projector. Sharing own works evolves into informal illustrated conversation on artistic jewels of the world and occasional live performances. Get ready for an explosive concentration of talent in one room.
PARTICIPANTS
40-70 guests: filmmakers, musicians, painters, designers, architects, etc. Everybody is a friend, which provides for a cozy informal atmosphere.
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PARTICIPANTS (in the order of appearance)
Astrid Brucker, Costume Designer; Cui Fei, Artist; Jeff Ginsberg, Producer, Writer; Joe Lugara, Paintor; Pascal Perich, Photographer; Natalia Perlaza, Musician; Liron Peled, Musician; Malika Zarra, Singer-Songwriter; Brian Storm, Documentary Producer; Doug Fitch, Artist, Opera Director, Designer; Clarina Bezzola, Sculptor / Performance Artist; David Gaynes, Filmmaker; Irina Vodar, Filmmaker; Irina Kruzhilina, Artist; Dmitry Krasny, Designer, Photographer; Anya Klepikov, Stage Designer.
AMONG GUESTS
Amir Naderi, Filmmaker; Jan Staller, Artist; Sam Neave, Filmmaker; Joshua Yaffa, Journalist; Olivia Bransbourg, Producer; Fedra Fateh, Producer; Rick Brown, Filmmaker; Anil Mundra, Journalist.
PARTICIPANTS and GUESTS
Beyond the Line (January 14 - 31, 2010)
by Alex White Mazzarella & Giuseppe Andriani
curated by Taiwanese and New York based curator NuNu Hung
chashama Times Square Art Space, 112 West 44th Street
nunuhung@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.)
Beyond the Line
by Alex White Mazzarella & Giuseppe Andriani
curated by Taiwanese and New York based curator NuNu Hung
chashama 112 Times Square
112 West 44th Street
January 14 - 31, 2010
Hours: Wed – Sun, 12-6p
For more info, contact Nunu Hung:
646-520-8388 | 646-270-9828 | nunuhung@gmail.com
chashama 112 is pleased to announce the upcoming two-person exhibition that presents Brooklyn-based artist Alex White Mazzarella (Mazza) and his renowned great grandfather Italian artist Giuseppe Andriani. The show is entitled Beyond the Line and not only exhibits the art works from two different centuries but celebrates the artistic blood passed down between generations. In Beyond the Line , Mazza reveals paintings from the recent body of work Remixing Media to Remix Reality alongside a retrospective of his great grandfather Andriani.
Building upon today's street art and the neo-expressionism of the 80's, Mazza mixed media paintings are fun yet provocative commentaries and assertions on today's age and culture. They are abstract and spontaneous explosions of color and line that engage the viewer. In the 8 x 8 foot Becoming Bubble Gum , a seemingly punk baby morphed into an Alice in Wonderland type creature comes at the viewer alongside iconic language and provocative script. With mixed textures, photograph, paints and charcoal, Mazza creates imagery amidst raw and alive surfaces that look to communicate the life embedded in city walls and surfaces.
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Mosquitoes, Hebrew, the Deluge (January 11 - 16, 2010)
an audio-visual installation by Shalom Gorewitz
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.gorewitz.com
shalom@gorewitz.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 Street
Mosquitoes, Hebrew, the Deluge
an audio-visual installation by Shalom Gorewitz
January 11 - 16, 2010
Hours TBA
This installation features the sounds of mosquitoes, flowing water, Hebrew letters and Jewish references being read aloud out of context by Jewish Ghanaians (mostly in Africa), all in sync to the 3-minute video playing in the space. Much of the material was recorded in Ghana during a field trip in October 2009. There will also be text with scientific information concerning mosquitoes and the diseases they carry. The overall narrative is one of eradication, excavation and reunion.
Designers: Fabrice Climent & Christen Clark
Biologist: Kofi Owusu-Daaku
FREE and open to the public
www.gorewitz.com | shalom@gorewitz.com
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Anthony Newton (January 2 - February 21, 2010)
paintings and artworks
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
Anthony Newton
curated by Samantha Lewis
January 2 - February 21, 2010
Opening Reception, Saturday, January 2, 7 - 10p
FREE and open to the public
Sponsored in part by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
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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.
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"Xmas" (December 21, 2009 - January 1, 2010)
a video and sculpture installation by Donna Cheng
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
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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 - March 20, 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; extended to March 20.
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
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chashama's newest venue!
chashama 30 West, 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.
Also featuring the art of Christian March.
December 12, 2009 - February 15, 2010
Reception: Saturday, December 19, 4 - 8p
"The Gifts of Art - Harlem Comes to the West Village" Artist Talk & Reception:
Saturday January 23, 2-4p
Saturday January 30, 2-4p
Saturday February 6, 2-4p
Exhibit is open to the public:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11a - 7p
Sunday, 1 - 6p
www.aljohnsonartstudio.com | aljohnsonartstudio@gmail.com
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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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