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chashama and Greater Jamaica Development Corporation present
Queens Women's Collective

postcard image for "Queens Women's Collective" at chashama 161

featuring artworks of Kate Lacour, Tishawn Gonsalves, & Jennifer Andrews
chashama Jamaica Studios
90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
November 7 - December 15, 2009
Reception, November 7, 6-9p
www.gjdc.org
Sponsored in part by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation

chashama Jamaica Studios, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens

Between 90th Street and Jamaica Avenue, E to Jamaica Center, F to Parsons Boulevard

Jamaica Station on the LIRR.

By car: Take Long Island Expressway (I-495 E) to exit 22A-E to Grand Central Parkway East. Remain on Grand Central Parkway until exit 16 (164th St-Parsons Blvd.) Turn right onto Parsons Boulevard, left onto Jamaica Avenue, then left onto 161st Street. Our building is on the left side of the block.

chashama and Greater Jamaica Development Corporation present
an exhibit of works by the Queens Women's Collective
featuring artworks of Kate Lacour, Tishawn Gonsalves, & Jennifer Andrews

November 7 - December 15, 2009
Opening Reception, Saturday, November 7, 6 - 9p

FREE and open to the public

Sponsored in part by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation details

The Queens Women's Collective features emerging and established female artists who live and work throughout the Borough of Queens. Through comics, illustration and mixed media collage the artists explore the ways in which the physical landscape of the city shapes the social and emotional urban experience. Whether critical, irreverent, or introspective, the artists in the Collective capture the relationship between the human patterns impressed upon the layers of our natural environment and the ways we individually and collectively construct knowledge. The artists wrestle with complex topics such as the veracity of poverty, the nature of imagination, subjective versus objective truth, and the capacity of common objects and spectacles to create powerful narratives about urban life. Queens Women's Collective

Kate Lacour was born in New York and has traveled widely. Most recently, she visited Romania and is initiating a community art project with Gypsy (Roma) street children. She studied art and biology in college and recently earned a Master's Degree in Creative Arts Therapy from the School of Visual Arts. Kate is currently one of the few professionals in the field studying the effects of art therapy on children with autism.

"In the backyard of the old house where I lived as a teenager, there was an area where the last owners had buried their rubbish, most of it dating back to the turn of the century. I spent a lot of time digging up old bottles, rusty silverware, broken watches, and most of a rust-eaten wood burning stove. My pristine and orderly home seemed sterile and joyless. In the backyard, in the dirt, the underground junk was like a little cache of secret stories that seemed more real, more special, than the world indoors.

"Occasionally, I would uncover shapeless glass blobs of different colors and sizes, which must have been formed when an especially hot fire melted them down, maybe a house fire. Here was a little story, the long-ago fire, that was exciting and private, because I had discovered it from the hundred-year-old garbage. In itself, this kind of event is uninteresting, but discovered and owned, it can be willed into a story, with a life and value of its own.

"My drawings are an attempt to inject this imagined life into arrangements and ideas that, in and of themselves, have little value. Science, a recurring subject in my comics, is a generally unemotional topic, but can become special, intimate and strange when its facts and objects are recruited as part of an imagined narrative. Comics are a perfect medium for manipulating time, space and sound to make, with the viewer's collusion, an imagined world that is self-contained and private. By virtue of being stories, these stories have meaning." Kate Lacour

Currently attending Pratt Institute, Tishawn Gonsalves is a student of the arts, seeking to capture the beauty within poverty. Her work blends the ideas and methods of readymade art to convey visual conceptual interpretations of society. By using found objects, collage and a limited palette of colors she depicts the grim realities of urban poverty and questions the traditional idea of visual art. For her art is not the ability to paint pictures, but the power to speak through its mediums, immersing the viewer into one's own reality. Tishawn Gonsalves

NYC based painter Jennifer Andrews was born in Buffalo NY and holds a BFA in painting from Hartford Art School. Working in thin layers of oil paint and beeswax, Andrews' paintings investigate the structure of memory, myth and our connection to the natural world. She has previously worked on location in countries including the Netherlands, Vietnam and Costa Rica. In addition to painting, Jennifer works as part of the collaborative team AndrewsLeFevre Studios, which creates site-specific commissions. Her public work seeks to unearth the untold or forgotten histories of an area – including the native species, peoples and myths that disappear as concrete and pavement take over a landscape. Working in collaboration with communities across the US, the studio's bronze relief sculptures layer these stories with contemporary life.

Queens often provides her with the material to achieve this richness and depth. She sketches the neighborhoods along her daily walk from Astoria to her studio in Long Island City and loves the details she discovers. "I love the patterns of the elevated subway lines; the arched train underpasses; the puzzle of colored rooftops; and the business signs and graffiti scattered across industrial buildings in every language". Jennifer Andrews

tminisms – times square
Faces

"America Her History of the United States" by Todd Monaghan

an exhibition of collages by Todd Monaghan
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street
November 19 - December 6, 2009
Reception:
Thursday, November 19th 7-9p
Hours:
Mon - Fri 12-8p | Sat - Sun 2-8p
www.tmnorthwood.com
tminism@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.)

tminisms – times square
Faces
an exhibition of collages by Todd Monaghan
November 19 - December 6, 2009

Reception:
Thursday, November 19th 7-9pm
Hours:
Monday - Friday 12-8p | Saturday - Sunday 2-8p

The exhibition marks Todd's return to Times Square where the collage, "America, Her History of the United States" was created at the galleries opening in the summer of 2005.

Todd Monaghan's collages, created from sequenced as well as found images, are visual bursts and patterns of images that tell various intertwining stories. Just as a story has a basic text and subtext so do each and every one of Mr. Monaghan's collages. The basic images evolve so that, with each new viewing, underlying images and storylines (i.e. sequences) "pop-out" of the collage. With each new viewing the collages take on new meaning as one looks deeper and deeper into them. Through this process Mr. Monaghan strive to create an exciting distillation of our political, spiritual and out-of-control pop culture colliding in the 21st Century. This is an ever-evolving process.

www.tmnorthwood.com | tminism@gmail.com details

This project is supported in part by an award from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

John Cichon

artworks
chashama West Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street
Dec.2, 2009 - Jan.3, 2010
Reception: Sun, Dec.13, 2-5p
Hours: Wed-Thu 1-6p
Sat-Sun 12-5p
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
artworks

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 details

John Cichon was born in Hammond, Indiana in 1973. Living in Northwest Indiana, he grew up with the contrasting urban decay of the steel industry alongside the beauty of the Lake Michigan coastline. Nature, culture and the environment have always been latent or blatant concepts. His continual questioning of the environment around him is evident in much of his work.

John Cichon was born in Hammond, Indiana in 1973. Living in Northwest Indiana, he grew up with the contrasting urban decay of the steel industry alongside the beauty of the Lake Michigan coastline. Nature, culture and the environment have always been latent or blatant concepts. His continual questioning of the environment around him is evident in much of his work.

In this series, Landscapes, he explores the surface of the urban environment through the reflected image of puddles. Approaching his subject as a work of art, he creates an image or abstraction that captures the fleeting phenomenon of accumulated water and detritus. These images are about transition and place. They capture those fleeting moments in time when thought and awareness seem to coalesce.

John graduated from Indiana University in Gary, Indiana with his Bachelors in Art and the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana with his MFA. He currently lives and works in New York, NY. bio

chashama and Greater Jamaica Development Corporation present
Anthony Newton

painting by "Anthony Newton" for his exhibit at chashama 161

paintings and portraits
curated by Samantha Lewis
chashama Jamaica Studios
90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
December 19, 2009 - January 31, 2010
Reception: December 19, 7-10p
www.gjdc.org
Sponsored in part by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation

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

Saturday, December 19th, 2009 - Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Opening Reception, Saturday, December 19th, 7 - 10p

FREE and open to the public

Sponsored in part by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation details

My art is a personal vision of vibrant color that seeks to capture and uplift the essence of inner city America. My work emerges from an autobiographical vantage point - drawing on personal experience and the broader hip hop culture which I am part of. Having formal training at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, I have grounding in realist life drawing, but I infuse this tradition with other influences, such as graffiti, street art, and the commercial imagery found in popular music magazines and CD covers. I sometimes work directly from photo references, but often I file these varied influences through my imagination. I am interested in using the physicality of paint – its color and texture – to explore unseen inner worlds, as well as to confront and challenge racial stereotypes. I see a canvas as a space where I can translate my own personal experiences and struggles into stories that can address larger issues that affect us all. artist statement

Bio{luminescent}Sphere

a transformative, site-specific installation & interactive performance by
aricoco &
Natalia Zubko
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
December 6 - 11, 2009
Installation on view daily
Opening Sunday Dec.6, 4-7p
Interactive Performance at 5p
Additional Performance, Thur, Dec.10, 4-6p
FREE and open to the public
www.aricoco.com
princessaricoco@hotmail.com
www.nataliazubko.com
nzubko33@yahoo.com

chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street

between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.

Bio{luminescent}Sphere
a transformative, site-specific installation & interactive performance by aricoco & Natalia Zubko

December 6 - 11, 2009
Installation on view daily
Opening: Sunday December 6, 4-7p
Interactive Performance at 5p
Additional Performance, Thursday, December 10, 4-6p

The combination of the warm, glowing installation, and the performance of the "firefly's" blinking, lighting their own path - searching for a place to play and rest, will beckon passerby's to join in the search and become fireflies themselves.

Natalia Zubko explores ideas of light and perception, redefining/creating a space for the fireflies that is calm, quite, and almost spiritual. The emergence of this environment's existence in the mid-town location, its flood of cold artificial lights that can often feel harsh and almost threatening, will create a counterpoint: a softly illuminated, peaceful resting point.

Subtle pulsating lights in the installation will summon the blinking Firefly, aricoco. The audience/participants will be invited to become "fireflies" and respond to her lights as well as light their own path as they search for a place to play and rest within the glowing, interactive installation.

FREE and open to the public

www.aricoco.com | www.nataliazubko.com details

Natalia Zubko is a sculpture/installation artist from California who currently lives and works in New York City. She has BA's in Anthropology and Art History from Brandeis University as well as a post-baccalaureate certificate (Brandeis) and MFA (Parsons) in Fine Arts, Sculpture. Natalia's work has ranged from small, intimate light sculptures built out of everyday materials to large, outdoor installations. She has worked on numerous interdisciplinary, multi-media, collaborative commissions and projects around NYC from envisioning and building an installation to house photos and interviews from the "FishBird" project (exploring the experience of being multi-racial) to designing and constructing props for an experimental theater piece. Natalia's latest project was a large, public, weather-interactive, sculpture/installation, "Luminous Accumulation," for the Art Lot, Brooklyn.

nzubko33@yahoo.com | www.nataliazubko.com about Natalia Zubko

aricoco was born and raised in Tokyo, and currently works with Smack Mellon Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY. She received MFA from University of Connecticut in sculpture and video performance art in May 2007. Participated in several residencies including: Vermont Studio Center and LMCC Swing Space in 2008. Awarded the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship 2008-2009.

princessaricoco@hotmail.com | www.aricoco.com about aricoco

ann and alexx make dances - Greatest Hits!

postcard image of "ann and alexx make dances"

photo by Bing Smith / Naomi Ramirez
a performance installation by
Ann Robideaux &
Alexandra Shilling
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street
December 9 – 20, 2009
Installation viewable from the street 24/7
Performances:
Saturdays- Dec.12 & 19, 6-9p
Sundays- Dec.13 & 20, 5-8p
Admission: By donation
Interactive Light Installation by Lightexture
www.lightexture.com
ann_and_alexx_make_dances
annandalexx@gmail.com

(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)

ann and alexx make dances - Greatest Hits!
a combination of performance, dance on film, original sound score, photography and light installation

Installation viewable from the street 24 hours a day: December 9 – 20, 2009
Performances:
Saturdays - December 12 & 19, 2009, 6-9p
Sundays - December 13 & 20, 2009, 5-8p

Admission: By donation

For a retrospective of five years of choreography, chashama's store front is turned into one big dance event by ann and alexx make dances. An homage to the great Merce Cunningham, choreographers Ann Robideaux and Alexandra Shilling take dance material from five years of dance making, cut it up and combine it by chance to make one new site-specific dance event at chashama 112.

ann and alexx make dances Greatest Hits event includes:

Live Dance Performance: Amir Levi, Kate Patchett, Alexandra Shilling, Devika Wickremisinghe, Mimi Yin and several guest artists dance while audience members are encouraged to take photos and videos of the performance. Audience members may submit photos/video as a part of ann and alexx make dances' next multi-media work.

Interactive Light Installation by Lightexture: architect Yael Erel and lighting designer Avner Beten collaborate to intersect light, shadow and choreography. See more at www.lightexture.com/gallery (click on Light intersecting movement)

Dance on Film: created by ann and alexx make dances screen in a back room. details

From Performa Arts
"Mother Earth, Sister Moon"

postcard image for "Mother Earth Sister Moon" at chashama 679 Third Avenue

by Christian Tomaszewski in collaboration with video and performance artist Joanna Malinowska
chashama 679 Window Space
679 Third Avenue
November 4 - 21, 2009
Installation on view:
Tue-Sat 1-6p FREE
Performances:
November 6, 14 & 21, 6p & 8p
Performance Tickets:
$12 / $10 Performa Members
Buy tickets
http://performa-arts.org
Produced in association with the Polish Cultural Institute and Open Art Projects. Supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Performa Producer's Circle member Illya Szilak.

chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue

1 block east of Grand Central, corner of 43rd Street & 3rd Avenue; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street

Performa Arts and chashama present
"Mother Earth, Sister Moon"

by Christian Tomaszewski in collaboration with video and performance artist Joanna Malinowska

November 4 - 21, 2009

Installation on view:
Tuesday - Saturday 1 - 6p FREE

Performances:
November 6, 6p & 8p
November 14, 6p & 8p
November 21, 6p & 8p

Performance Tickets: $12 / $10 Performa Members

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/84622 | http://performa-arts.org/ details

For Performa 09, Polish artist Christian Tomaszewski, in collaboration with video and performance artist Joanna Malinowska, considers how the future was imagined by the Communist regimes of the former Soviet Bloc. "Mother Earth Sister Moon" explores this theme by examining the fashion and style elements related to a diverse range of Eastern Bloc phenomena, including the Soviet space program, sci-fi film and literature of the era, and the cults surrounding the mysterious 1908 explosion over the Tunguska River Valley in central Siberia. This research will manifest itself as a giant reconstruction of the suit worn by the first woman in space—Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova—that also pays tribute to the sculpture "Hon-en Katedral" ("She-a Cathedral"), an enormous female figure conceived and built by Niki de Saint Phalle with Jean Tinguely in 1966.

Visitors to the sculpture will be able to walk inside it and—at designated "performance" times—view a fashion show, with music by Masami Tomihisa, featuring both reconstructions of actual garments and new designs that evoke the Soviet space program and science-fiction films. In this way, the live show will act as a curated design exhibition in motion.

Produced in association with the Polish Cultural Institute and Open Art Projects. Supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Performa Producer's Circle member Illya Szilak. about "Mother Earth, Sister Moon"

Christian Tomaszewski was born in Gdansk, Poland and currently lives and works in New York. He has been predominantly working in multi-media installation exploring various aspects of cinema, architecture and experiments with reconstruction or deconstruction of a narrative. In his work, he has been also interested in adapting different roles and definitions of an artist, balancing between making things out of sincere or self-induced obsession and critical calculation. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland and past participant in several prestigious residency programs including the American Academy in Rome, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City and recently Artpace in San Antonio. Tomaszewski is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including past support form the Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2008 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and 2009 Travel Grant from the Jerome Foundation. He teaches at Princeton University. about Christian Tomaszewski

Joanna Malinowska is a Polish-born and New York based artist working in video, sculpture, sound and performance. A graduate of Rutgers University's BFA program and Yale University's MFA program, she has exhibited her work in the United States and internationally. She participated in the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia and the International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic and shown her work at such venues as Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; Zamek Ujazdowski Contemporary Art Center in Warsaw, Poland; Sculpture Center, Smack Mellon,Momenta Art and Art in General in New York, NY; Boston Center for the Arts; Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, MN; Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. Her solo and two person exhibitions took place at Canada and Venetia Kapernekas galleries in New York City. She participated in residences at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Smack Mellon Studio Program. She is a 2009 recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Visual Arts. about Joanna Malinowska

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.

chashama is the recipient of a 2009-2010 National Endowment for the Arts Recovery Act grant.

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