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Watêrgé^TM

a Formist installation by
Robert Deming
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street
September 3 - October 2, 2010
Opening Reception:
Saturday September 10, 6-8p
Open hours:
Tues - Fri 12-6p | Sat 11-7p
www.idbrands.com
rfd@idbrands.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)

Watêrgé^TM
a Formist installation by Robert Deming

September 3 - October 2, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday September 10, 6-8p
Open hours: Tuesday-Friday 12-6p | Saturday 11-7p

www.idbrands.com | rfd@idbrands.com

Robert Deming interprets Formism - a regimen of paradoxical artistic functionality. That is to say, his work has physical requirements that must work absolutely in order to offer the viewer a complete and uncomplicated experience; while the atmospheric demands on the integrity of the pieces are truly rigorous. With each creation Deming hopes to generate a sense of awe fused with metaphor -- his art form beckons mind-bending challenge.

Technically, Watêrgé^TM expands the capacity of a body of water – upward. Deming uses clear structures and shapes to transcend the norm. There are no valves – no apparent way to fill the structures and they are open to the body of water below. A structure is filled from the bottom up; thus, open to the normal habitat of water life. Some structures reach several meters into the air above the ordinary water level. But beyond towers, the Formist structures allow the ability to add dimension and thought provoking experience to the space where Watêrgé^TM are installed. The principle ofWatêrgé^TM combines the elements of physics, atmospherics, hydraulics and the natural laws with aesthetic structural form. details

Nomadic City

by Heejung Cho
chashama 112 Times Square
112 West 44th Street
September 8 - 27, 2010
Opening: Wed Sept.15, 6-8p
Open hours: Tue - Sat 12-6p
sisi0313@gmail.com
www.heejungcho.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.)

Nomadic City
an installation by Heejung Cho | www.heejungcho.com

September 8 - 27, 2010

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 15th, 6 - 8p

Open hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-6p

for more information contact: sisi0313@gmail.com

Two architectural wall installations, 'Nomadic City', featuring paintings, collages and sculptures of urban architecture will be created at the gallery. On the left wall, many buildings from different neighborhood in New York City will be hung on the clothe lines in various sizes and a street view in perspective with wood panel and masking tape drawing will be on the right wall. Each drawing is a flatten sculpture or a 3 dimensional painting of urban architectures that has typical sites of necessary routine such as grocery shop, restaurant, café and laundromat. The collection of urban structures from different neighborhoods in New York City is a map of my personal life and a collage of neighborhood and cultures. Also, it depicts the displacement and nomadic lifestyles of our times. As an immigrant artist myself, I also relocated to New York from Korea and keep moving neighborhood and traveling for living and working to seek my real home. details

My work represents a lot of various emotions between people and their environment. We constantly interact with typical sites of daily routine such as laundromat, coffee shop, grocery store, studio, subway and on the street. The interaction creates a sense of reality and a psychological map of daily life. Using woodcarving, painting and photo collaging, I draw the local places that contain emotional transition and compressed time of life.

I make flattened sculptures or 3 dimensional paintings in relief as an individual work and sometimes integrate and compile them to be an installation according to their relation. The collection of different places becomes a map of my personal life and a collage of different neighborhood and cultures. It also represents the displacement and nomadic lifestyles of our times. People frequently move from one place to another rather than settle permanently in one location. As an immigrant artist myself, I have relocated to New York from Korea and moved neighborhoods to seek my real home. artist statement

Heejung Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1979, lives and works in New York City. Cho received a BFA from Seoul National University, South Korea and a MFA from Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University in New Jersey (2005). She attended Vermont Studio Program, VT and Beijing Studio Center, China and Triangle Workshop, Brooklyn for residency programs (2006) and participated in AIM29, Bronx Museum for the Arts (2009). She also granted a studio from the Painting Studio 122(2007-2009) and Elizabeth Foundation (2009-2011). Her work has been widely exhibited in Korea, China and New York, including solo shows in Seoul and Beijing (2007) and Smart gallery, NY(2006)and numerous group shows internationally. Recently, her new installation is exhibiting at Invisible Dog art center in Brooklyn and KIMI gallery in Seoul, Korea and will participate in group shows in Nurture art gallery, Brooklyn and Gina gallery in Chelsea. bio

Café Noir

The Work of Master French Oil Painter
Nicolas Foster Bécourt
chashama 217 Art Space
217 East 42nd Street
September 9 - 28, 2010
Opening Reception:
Thursday September 16, 8p
Hours: TBD
Contact Patrimoine Vivant LLC:
info@pvgallery.com
www.PVgallery.com

chashama 217 Art Space
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

Café Noir The Work of Master French Oil Painter Nicolas Foster Bécourt
Presented by Patrimoine Vivant LLC:
917-475-9640 | info@pvgallery.com | www.PVgallery.com

September 9 - 28, 2010

Opening Reception:
Thursday September 16, 8p

Hours: TBD

The Café Noir art exhibition will present New York with a strong dose of extraordinary craftsmanship through the French painter Nicolas Foster Bécourt, a living master whose paintings are beautiful, special, romantic and idealistic. These paintings are human treasures on canvas, which in their elegant, traditional and unpretentious way speak very loudly and have much to say.

A television broadcast documentary has been produced about Nicolas Foster Bécourt: "Le Corps Envisagé." The documentary was coordinated around a solo exhibition of his paintings and sculptures, this one in particular having been sponsored by the French Ministry of Finance. The documentary includes private interviews, sheds light on Nicolas Foster Bécourt's influences, and shows the artist at work in his Paris atelier. This documentary will be screened daily during the Café Noir exhibition in New York; an excerpt from the documentary can be viewed online at www.PVgallery.com details

Nicolas Foster Bécourt began drawing and painting at the age of 13; he studied and revered the work of the Old Masters. For years he was "under the spell of Rembrandt," as he describes in his book, "L’oeil, la Main et la Voix du Peintre" (Bécourt is an accomplished writer and clarinet player). After attending Académie Baudry and then sharing a studio for one year with French painter Louis Fachat, Nicolas Foster Bécourt was admitted into the école Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the most elite institution of fine arts in France. Bécourt draws inspiration from both ancient and modern painters; in his own words: "My tastes in painting, as in music or poetry, have always been very eclectic. The Maestà painted by Duccio in the Fourteenth century or the series of suicides painted by Rebeyrolle in the 1980s move me equally- they affect and move me differently, that is all." Bécourt paints natural forms, but forms which he gently transfigures- the human face, the female body, trees; he uses colors which are vivid but never jarring, colors which work together and complement one another. His canvases have both substance and depth, but they also create a sensation of harmony. Achieving this harmony constitutes one of the artist's most important and recurring goals: to capture and convey the perfect unification of sensuality and intellect, a synthesis highly valued in French culture and tradition, and which one could say Paris itself embodies as a city. There can be no doubt that Nicolas Foster Bécourt's beautiful, gentle and graceful canvases add something pure and positive to life, which helps explain why they have found their way into important private collections throughout Europe and America. bio

CARNIVORA

by Jason Covert
chashama @ +aRt
540 W.28th St NYC (10th/11th Av)
September 16 - October 8, 2010
Press Preview: Thu, Sept.16, 4 – 6p
Reception: 6 – 8p
CD Listening Party: 8 – 10p
Artist Brunch/Q&A with Ann Landi:
Saturday, Sept.25, 11a – 2p
Closing Party: Thu, Oct.7, 7 – 10p
Open hours: Tue - Sat 11a - 6p
spencer@canneryworks.org
www.jasoncovert.com/carnivora
www.540W28.com

chashama @ +aRt
540 West 28th Street, NYC, NY 10001

(between 10th & 11th Ave. Subway: C,E to 23rd Street or 34th Street stops. Bus: M11 [on 10th Avenue] to 27th Street, M34 to Tenth Ave.)

CARNIVORA
by Jason Covert | www.jasoncovert.com/carnivora

September 16 - October 8, 2010

Press Preview: Thursday, September 16, 4 – 6pm
Opening Reception: 6 – 8p
CD Listening Party: 8 – 10p

Artist Brunch/Q&A with Ann Landi:
Saturday, September 25, 2010, 11a – 2p

Closing Party: Thursday, October 7th, 7 – 10p

Open hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11a - 6p

for more information contact Spencer Chandler at: spencer@canneryworks.org

Cannery Works, chashama, and +aRt are proud to present the world debut of Jason Covert's CARNIVORA. Located at chashama's newest donated space in Chelsea, CARNIVORA is a cross- disciplinary exhibition of photography, illustration, sculpture, painted works, ceremonial artifacts and robes, poetry and literature, jewelry, as well as original musical compositions – all inspired by the 2004 discovery in Siorapaluk, Greenland of a series of rocky substrate slabs bearing markings indicative of a hitherto unknown Proto-Eskimo culture and language. details

"If true, history as we know it is about to change – dramatically," said Dr. Brian Lassengal, director of the expedition responsible for the discovery.

Drawing inspiration from the myth fragments now commonly known as "The Sacred Texts of Carnivora" (which if deemed authentic would predate the earliest known cuneiform writings by some 5,000 years), Covert applies his renowned skills as illustrator, designer, painter, photographer, and writer to weave fantasy and archaeology into a compelling narrative diorama, presenting to viewers both invitation and challenge: to imagine the vanished world suggested by those texts, and to question civilization's claim to know its own history.

Ann Landi, contributing editor of ARTnews writes, "I can think of few (artists) who have so carefully constructed the remnants of a 'lost' world in such a vivid way that we enter its spirit and almost wish we could become a part of it."

While these "The Sacred Texts" may have been set down several millennia prior to humanity's previously recorded emergence of writing, what Covert and his art have to tell us about our own era is just as startling. Can we – as a civilization, taking direction from Socrates – truly claim to know our history, to "know ourselves"? Or is that other sage, Picasso, correct, and is all art merely a lie created in order to reveal a truth? about CARNIVORA

Cannery Works provides a springboard to launch the next wave of vital 21 century artists. Offering customized support for signature projects, Cannery Works nurtures early career artists and introduces their work to a wider audience. 1% of all monies related to CARNIVORA benefits The National MS Society. | www.canneryworks.org about Cannery Works

+aRt is a 13-story new construction building located at 540 West 28th Street. The development will feature 91 artfully designed condominium residences, from studios to three bedrooms ranging in price from $490,000–$2,300,000, and qualifies for the city’s 421-A tax abatement program. | www.540W28.com about +aRt

In 1974 Jason Covert was born on the peninsula known as Cape Cod between a harbor and a marsh. Schooled at Connecticut College, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Covert worked for a time with the controversial Massachusetts based artist Barre Pinske. After traveling the world, Covert landed in New York City (2000) and currently resides in Brooklyn. His work is found in many private collections. | www.jasoncovert.com/carnivora bio

market

an interactive installation by
Audra Wolowiec
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
Aug.26 - Sep.7, 2010
Hours: 11a - 6p daily
Closed: Sep.1st & 2nd
Reception: Fri Aug.27: 6-9p
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

"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. details

Acting as a "mercer" or "textile trader," the artist will provide a service that involves cutting out corresponding swatches from each item of clothing, transferring and sewing them in place of the other. By creating visible traces, new life is given to each garment. Through this process of direct relations, a market is created based not on commerce but on tactile interaction.

To participate, please visit the space (with a friend or alone) and remember to bring an item of clothing. Participants will kindly be asked to leave their garments on display throughout the duration of the project and can retrieve them when the show closes on September 7th. The artist will be available for exchange daily from 11am-6pm. about the installation

Audra Wolowiec is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is often collaborative in nature, mining themes of communication, voice, and ephemeral moments of the everyday. In recreating phenomena and trace effects, she explores the idea of a fading connection to create an elusive but shared experience. She received an MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007 and BFA in Textiles from the University of Michigan in 2002. Her work has been shown at Art in General (New York), Pocket Utopia (Brooklyn), and the Museum of New Art (Detroit). bio

Shrine

a site-specific installation by
Kate Gavriel & Katie Shelly
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
September 13 - 26, 2010
Viewable: 9a - 5p daily
Visit: Thu & Fri 9a-5p
Sat & Sun 12p-6p
Reception: Thu Sep.16: 7-9p
http://shrinenyc.info
katie.a.shelly@gmail.com
catherine.gavriel@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.

Shrine
a site-specific installation by Kate Gavriel and Katie Shelly

September 13 - 26, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 16: 7 - 9p

Viewing hours: 9a - 5p daily
Open for visitation: Thursday & Friday, 9a - 5p
Saturday & Sunday 12p - 6p

http://shrinenyc.info
catherine.gavriel@gmail.com | katie.a.shelly@gmail.com

In Shrine, Shelly and Gavriel transform the 37th street gallery space into a glittering storefront shrine. An unexpected inlet of texture, light and color in the highly commercialized, frenetic zone of midtown Manhattan, Shrine invites all forms of visitation.

The symbols are generic, pointing to no deity or tradition; an exercise in condensing thousands of years of ritual into a contemporary spin-off. Visitors may draw as much or as little spiritual meaning as they choose from the installation's aesthetically deliberate, but iconographically empty arrangement of colors, shapes, textures and sounds. There is no wrong way to worship, un-worship, respect or rebel. details

Kate Gavriel received a degree in Studio Arts from Wesleyan University, and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her paintings, sculptures, and installations assert their identity as objects in space to be encountered by the viewer. By juxtaposing modes of presentation traditionally associated with different types of media, Gavriel asks the viewer to reengage with the work and meet each piece with a refreshed gaze, specifically seeking to incorporate the viewer's body and their relationship to the artwork in their consideration of the piece. about Kate

Katie Shelly is a visual artist based in Queens, New York. Through a process that incorporates video, installation, photography and theater arts, Shelly's work depicts fictional worlds and belief systems. Especially compelled by the synergy of multidisciplinary collaboration, Shelly has worked together with a number of emerging composers, filmmakers, dancers, web artists and visual artists. She has shown work at The Textile Museum in Washington, DC, Uniondocs in Brooklyn, and is currently preparing for a solo show in Portland, Oregon. Shelly was raised in Queens, holds a B.A. in American Studies from Wesleyan University, and works a day job in Manhattan as a computer technician. about Katie

SAVE THE DATE!
Rebels
Renegades

postcard image for the chashama Annual Gala 2010 at Anita's Way

Anita's Way, NYC
September 27th, 2010
Become a Gala Sponsor or Purchase tickets
for info: chashama@dalzell.com
212-647-1828

Open Studios

featuring artworks of Sara Bouchard, Crystal Gregory, Yuko Oda, Çağri Saray, Ryan Schneider & Eliza Stamps
chashama North Studios
2600 Route 199
Pine Plains, NY
Saturday Sept.4, 2010 2 - 8p
For more information contact:
Residency Manager Veronica Kavass
veronica.kavass@gmail.com
chashama north page

chashama North Studios
2600 Route 199
Pine Plains, NY

Directions: Taconic Parkway to Route 199 (Pine Plains/Red Hook)
Head East towards Pine Plains
chashama North is 5.3 Miles down on the right.

chashama North Open Studios
Saturday September 4th, 2010 2 - 8p

Artists of Session 3:
Sara Bouchard (www.myspace.com/sarabouchardmusic)
Crystal Gregory (www.crystalgregory.org)
Yuko Oda (www.yukooda.com)
Çağri Saray (http://cagrisaray.blogspot.com)
Ryan Schneider (www.priskajuschkafineart.com)
Eliza Stamps (www.elizastamps.com)

For more information contact Residency Manager Veronica Kavass
518-398-1005 or veronica.kavass@gmail.com details

chashama North is a residency program for artists and writers designed as a nourishing environment within which great artwork is born. The program offers live and work space for seven rotating artists-in-residence from June-October. chaNorth provides artists with a setting that nurtures their body, allowing their artistic practice to flourish. The residency fosters a culture of both serious artistic production and play. Participants emerge from the residency sated both physically and artistically, many commenting that they have never had a healthier month, or a more productive one. The communal kitchen is stocked with fresh, local organic produce and whole grains. Cooperatively prepared daily meals with a focus on whole foods act as the anchor of the residency program. Residents are asked to contribute a few hours per week working at a local organic farm, allowing artists the opportunity to interact with the environment, the community and agricultural history of the Hudson Valley. about chashama North

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 supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and an award from the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with the City Council: Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Delegation, Council Member Sara Gonzalez and Council Member Daniel Garodnick; and with funds from A.R.T./New York, Carnegie Corporation, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Dramatists Guild Fund, Peg Santvoord Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Steinberg Charitable Trust, Tides Foundation, and through private donations from individuals. Also supported in part with goods and materials provided through donations to Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Education.

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

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