chashama is renting its theater at 217 East 42nd.
The theater is available for small, contained filmshoots or film screenings and performing arts events.
For film-related rentals, please contact Associate Artistic Director Marc Dale at dale@chashama.org
For performing arts events, please contact Performing Arts Program Director Risa Shoup at risa@chashama.org
Please include your contact information, a brief description of proposed usage, and the dates you would like to rent the theater.
Curiosities of the Floating World
by:
Angela Piehl
chashama, 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.
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July 3 - 21, 2008, Tuesday-Saturday 11am - 6pm
Opening Reception:
Friday, July 11th 6-9pm
FREE and open to the public.
Curiosities of the Floating World exhibits Piehl's paintings and drawings, and represents an installation of new works produced this year. Piehl's recent research and creative work has been an investigation of the construction of identity as it relates to gender and sexuality and the organic body. In particular, Piehl examines notions of luxury and lifestyle, and critiques the constructs of those notions from a gendered (gender-queer) perspective.
Piehl's work in Curiosities of the Floating World stemmed from an initial conceptual interest in "ukiyo" (Japanese "floating world" prints, particularly Hokusai's Dream of the Fisherman's Wife) depicting "worlds" filled with pleasure and trivia—frivolity, novelty, superficiality, and artificiality. Piehl applies this concept of creating an alternate, "floating" world and creates her own fleeting space, populated by the strange. Her inhabitants are simultaneously beautiful and seductive, while repellent and abject. They act as mutants or hybrid creatures that are both luxuriously decorative and organically corporeal, and the combination suggests a decadent femininity and an absurd opulence.
about the exhibit
Piehl's inhabitants/objects become highly fetishistic, and Piehl delights in accessing the range of visual meaning of "fetish". There are obvious suggestions of fetish as luxury/commodity, fetish as primitive personification, fetish as erotic fixation, fetish as artifact, and even paint and painting as fetish within the work.
Formally, Piehl's work engages in painterly tradition, and in some moments, loosely emulates scientific illustration. There is a quality of pseudo-science to the work, and Piehl acts as artist, voyeur, and pseudo-scientist. Piehl consciously creates compositions that confound and titillate. The scale of her subjects in relationship to the viewer's size is unclear, and engaging in that respect-- the viewer cannot be sure if he or she is looking at a close-up view, or a quick snapshot of something fleeing in the distance. There is a quality to the compositions that implies flirtation, and potentially, danger. Piehl chooses color palettes that evoke luxury and fantasy, and in Curiosities of the Floating World, two distinct bodies of work emerge, connected by color, yet ultimately divergent and unique.
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Urban Composition
a solo exhibition of works created by Diane Davis as Artist-in-Residence at chashama Harlem Studios
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street
July 10 - 20, 2008
Gala Opening:
Thursday July 10, 6 - 9pm
Gallery hours beginning Sat, July 12.
Thursday-Saturday: 3:30-7:30p
Sundays: 2-6p, ending July 20
FREE and open to the public.
also / upcoming
POST NO BILLS
an outdoor group show at
Gallerie Pulaski
48-15 11th Street @ Jackson Ave,
Long Island City
June 20 - August 31, 2008
Opening reception: June 27, 7 - 9p
celso@elcelso.com
This exhibit is part of the public art series, "Off the Wall by the People"
CHASHAMA artist-in-residence, Celso is pleased to announce the opening of POST NO BILLS, an outdoor group art show at Gallerie Pulaski, located at 11th Street & Jackson Avenue, next to the Pulaski Bridge in Long Island City. The Galerie Pulaski is New York's first plein air street gallery and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The gallery and art can be seen 24 hours a day and will officially open on Friday, June 27 with a reception to be held on the street from 7PM-9PM. The exhibit will continue through August 31, 2008. The event is free and open to the public.
POST NO BILLS is a site-specific installation by New York's most dynamic street and contemporary artists, many of whom are local to the area. Co-curated by Celso & Ian Farrell, it features original artwork that has been permanently installed onto an 80-foot long construction wall that has been painted gallery white. Pedestrians and motorists traveling along the intersection can expect to see colorful portraits, landscapes, abstract paintings, works on Plexiglas, street art and more at the site. The space for this project has been generously provided by the Simone Development Companies.
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The artists featured in this show include Abe Lincoln Jr., Celso, Ceito, Creeper, Darkcloud, DAVe, Elbow-Toe, Endless Love Crew, F.Trainer, Gaia, Gore-B, infinity, Danny Licul, Evelyn Metzger, Milquetoast, Momo, Dean Radinovsky, Abigail Rothberg, Royce Bannon, Tefsukaz, Inga Huld Tryggvadottir, James Willis and several special guests.
featured artists
Continuing its support for Long Island City's arts community, Simone Development Companies is the first developer to participate in the construction site beautification program, "Off the Wall by the People", sponsored by chashama. The project will be announced at chashama's summer fundraiser, the chashama Pirate Party Pig Roast on Monday June 23, 2008.
Headquartered in New Rochelle, NY, Simone Development Companies is a full service real estate investment company specializing in the acquisition and development of office, retail, industrial and residential properties in the tri-state area. The privately held company owns and manages an extensive range of commercial projects from multi-building office parks to retail and industrial space in Westchester County, Queens, the Bronx, Long Island and Connecticut. The company's portfolio of more than 90 real estate properties totals approximately 4 million square feet of development space. Simone Development has also developed a number of significant residential projects ranging from luxury homes to rental residences.
About Simone Development Companies
Claims of the Negro:
400 Years of Chains and 143 Years of Gains?
by
Darryl Hell
chashama Gallery, 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.)
directions
June 19 - 28, 2008
Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 19, 2008, 4-8pm
Inside viewing of exhibit:
Thur – Sat noon to 6pm
24-hr outdoor viewing w/sound
FREE and open to the public.
Information:
www.s6k.com/juneteenth
chashama is pleased to present, Claims of the Negro: 400 Years of Chains and 143 Years of Gains, an InfoArt exhibition created by Darryl Hell, curator Real University/sektor 6 kommunikations.
History begs us to learn its lessons and demands that we be the products of it. Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, is an annual commemoration/celebration of the last day of legalized slavery in the United States. This exhibition informs viewers about what this historic day might mean to us in the present, as a nation, and the opportunities it provides for positive societal and cultural growth. It also exposes the emotional, cultural and structural connective tissue of the past 143 years, which supplies a more broad comprehension of our current cultural condition. Juneteenth, primarily seen as a Black-American holiday, is a day of celebration for all Americans.
The installation will feature video, audio and text works from a number of artists/researchers, exclusive video/audio interviews with human rights leaders, live performances and a special project from high school students who attend the Urban Assembly School of Music and Art, Brooklyn.
about the exhibit
Darryl Hell, veteran mixed media artist, has consistently pushed the boundaries to explore the educative power of art and information as a combined force for social change. Since the mid 1970's, Hell has developed a broad range of skills, which led to the creation of what he calls "InfoArt."
Contributors include; Adelaide Sanford, A. Peter Bailey, Cynthia McKinney, Reconstruct Art, Jared Ball Ph.d, Dr. Ron Daniels, Jonn Nubian/Brown Eyed Intelligence and WBAI 99.5 fm, Pacifica Radio [legendary artist/journalist driven, noncommercial radio network].
about Darryl & company
The Ladies Aide Society...
by the Wreckio Ensemble
chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street, New York, NY
July 8 - 12, 2008:
Tues and Wed @ 7p,
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday @ 7p & 9p
Art opening
June 19, 6:30p-8:30p
Tickets: pay what you think the art is worth
BENEFIT: Wednesday, July 9th | $40
Reservations:
info@wreckio.com
www.wreckio.com
Visit The Foundation for Ethical Art & Culture to see full details of the 2008 Sophie von Wellington Emerging Artist Residency program.
Wreckio Ensemble's new original work, The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture, has no set ticket price. The company asks audience members to value their experience after watching the show. Premiering July 8, 2008 at chashama, 217 East 42nd Street, the show explores the intersection of power and art in America. Through a series of vignettes, experiences and narrative, Wreckio Ensemble questions the cost at which art exists.
Set in a gallery with an exposed shop window facing 42nd Street, the show blurs the lines between artist and spectator; creating a world where power shifts constantly. "There are moments in this piece where we give the audience total agency in dictating the action," says co-writer and performer Karly Maurer "that's exciting, but also very scary." Another of the show's writer/performers, Dechelle Damien, echoes Maurer's thoughts about the risks and fears of the piece, "Whether or not they pay for their ticket is only one of many variables we can't predict; we are figuratively, and at times literally, at the mercy of our audience." The show's director Kimberlea Kressal explains that examining the show's central question requires a certain amount of peril and discomfort, "We're exploring both the economic and very human costs of making and selling art in America, we can't do that if we keep the audience at arms length, this is a dialogue we must have together and that is inherently unpredictable."
about the show
Site-Specific Sundays
presented by chashama in association with Waterside Plaza
at
25th Street & FDR Drive
July 13, 20, and 27, 2008
Performances at 3pm & 5pm All Sundays
chashama, faithful to its tradition of free summer performances, is proud to present Site-Specific Sundays at the Waterside Plaza, located at 25th Street and the FDR. Two companies and one individual artist have been selected to create site-specific movement pieces for Waterside Plaza.
For more information visit
www.watersideplaza.com.
Featuring NEW Site-Specific Dance Pieces by
also / upcoming
"LETTING GO"
chashama 217
217 East 42nd Street
September 15, 2008 at 7p
ADMISSION FREE
CALL: 848-250-3881 FOR RESERVATIONS
Since 1995, chashama, a non-profit arts organization has provided opportunities
for performing and visual artists by awarding grants, producing shows and
providing subsidized studio, rehearsal and performance space.
an outdoor group show at
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