ATTENTION: chashama is currently accepting applications for three programs: Windows, Exhibits and The Residency @chashama. See below for program timelines, deadlines and download links.
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| Windows: August - December, 2009 |
July 13, 2009, 5pm |
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| Exhibits: Sept. – December 2009 |
July 15th, 2009, 5pm |
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| The Residency @chashama: |
August 26, 2009, Noon |
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PHASE TRANSITION
by Caleb Nussear & Alexander Oleksyn
2016 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
(7th Ave btwn 120th & 121st Sts)
June 11 - July 6, 2009
Opening Reception, Thursday, June 11th, 6 – 9p
Closing Reception, Thursday, July 2nd, 7 – 9p
Viewing hours: Wednesday-Saturday 2-6p and by appointment
calebkayin@gmail.com | www.mosslandia.com
aoleksyn@gmail.com
(7th Ave. between 120th St. and 121st St.; 2/3 to 116th Street; A/C/B/D to 125th Street station)
June 11 - July 6, 2009
Opening Reception, Thursday, June 11th, 6 – 9p
Closing Reception, Thursday, July 2nd, 7 – 9p
Viewing hours: Wednesday-Saturday 2-6p and by appointment
G5 chashama is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by New York based artists Caleb Nussear and Alexander Oleksyn, from June 9th through July 6th, 2009.
In this new group of works, Nussear looks at the process of planet building through a
framework of formal abstraction. His interest lies in using both painting and installation to create panoramic, virtual landscape piles and filigreed, folded surfaces that reside in the slippery transitional spaces between 2 and 3 dimensions, 3 and 4 dimensions, and the impossible spaces of higher dimensional orders. Nussear works with ideas taken from
contemporary theoretical physics and the Earth’s own paleontological records to think a cosmology through physical
material.
Oleksyn distills elements of the urban landscape and recontextualizes them to create paintings that question the possibility of reinterpreting the meaning conveyed by his abstract mark making. In his current work he develops groups of oscillating gestures in a range of colors and on variously shaped surfaces that use the codifications of street signage as a point of departure. Oleksyn strongly believes in creating work that does not surrender the primacy of the visual experience to conceptual demands but instead aims to strike a balance between idea and object.
contact: calebkayin@gmail.com or aoleksyn@gmail.com
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chashama and the Greater Jamaica Development
Corporation present
Opening Reception
featuring the work of chashama artist-in-residence William Mwazi
chashama 161, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
July 9, 2009, 6 - 9p
Please RSVP to Masheika Lewis, 718-291-0282, x117
or mlewis@gjdc.org
www.mwazi.com
www.gjdc.org
Between 90th Street and Jamaica Avenue, E to Jamaica Center, F to Parsons Boulevard
Jamaica Station on the LIRR.
By car: Take Long Island Expressway (I-495 E) to exit 22A-E to Grand Central Parkway 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.
William Mwazi Opening Reception
presented by chashama in association with the Greater Jamaica Development
Corporation.
Thursday, July 9, 2009, 6 - 9p
chashama 161, 90-26 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens
FREE and open to the public
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"CAVE PAINTINGS"
a solo show by Elliot Sperber
2016 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
July 10 - August 5, 2009
Tue & Thu-Sun, 1-7p and by appointment
Reception: July 10, 6-9p
contact: elliot.sperber@gmail.com
Elliotsperber.com
Currently, I am exploring what I consider to be a style and approach to painting – to image making and image discovering – that falls within the "tradition" of prehistoric cave painting. Among other things, it is thought that the cave painter's subject matter was inspired, or implied, or inferred by the texture and pattern of the surface that s/he was painting. A convexity might suggest the head of a bison or horse, and this specification would be "drawn" out. I approach subject matter similarly, albeit drawing from a more varied cultural reservoir.
Walter Benjamin has noted that the cultural and technological products of the world, the so-called artificial world, can be conceptualized as something not opposed to nature, but as a second nature. When painting, I begin with a relatively random mess of colors and values, creating an artificial cave wall on which I discover all sorts of entities from the various natures – images which, if the composition is successful, will be interacting among one another compositionally as well as thematically, inter alia.
In approaching that cave wall which is not simply canvas or wood but the limit of one's
consciousness, my intention is to encroach further into what may be termed the all-pervading mystery. French theorist Alain Badiou defines Art as a means of approaching the Real (the Lacanian Real forever beyond reach), of finding symbols for the as yet un-symbolized beyond our comprehension. To a certain degree, this jibes with my conception of cave painting. Akin to a surrealism critical of its reifying tendencies, particularly Max Ernst's* oeuvre, the cave-painter explores the mystery, plunging into it as though diving into the sea of the mind, bringing back variously treasures, relics, or monsters. Other notable influences on my work include Hieronymous Bosch and painters of illuminated manuscripts such as Jean Pucelle and Kamal al-din Bihzad.
*"Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation." Max Ernst
Artist Statement
New chashama Window Space!
Insides Out
Paintings on mylar by Kate Fauvell
chashama 679 Window Space
679 Third Avenue
June 01 - July 13, 2009
Reception: Tuesday June 30th, 6:30-7:30p at the space, after which, drinks at The Blarney Stone, 710 3rd Avenue
Visible all hours
www.katecfauvell.com
chashama 679 Window Space, 679 Third Avenue
1 block east of Grand Central, corner of 43rd Street & 3rd Avenue; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
Insides Out
Paintings on mylar by Kate Fauvell
June 01 - July 13, 2009
Reception: Tuesday June 30th, 6:30-7:30 at the space, after which, drinks at The Blarney Stone, 710 3rd Avenue
chashama is proud to announce the inauguration of its latest Window venue, chashama 679, at 679 Third Avenue and 43rd Street with displays of paintings by artist-in-residence, Kate
Fauvell. The paintings of Insides Out express what humans would look like with their insides exposed to the artist's eye.
The new space chashama 679 is our work-in-progress. Check back from time to time to discover what we do with it next!
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What to many may appear as dirt and mess, I regard as my world. Dirty brushes, old rags, torn
paper and crusty palettes are the beautiful that comprise the existence of my everyday. Paint drips flow like blood
through my veins. I live and breathe black ink. As a result of my background in printmaking, I searched for ways to
recreate the surface of smooth zinc and I found Mylar. I became addicted to this artificial surface using it to create endless numbers of figures.
My work explores the internal. I create what humans would look like with their insides
exposed. Inside out we are all the same: beautiful, grotesque, honest and truthful. In love with the world created in my studio, the rawness of the marks and the mess making, I came to installation. So much of my work is the energy and life that exists in the process of creating it. I want the viewer to feel what I feel, to be taken in and absorbed into the space. The installations are crucial to letting the viewer into my world and perhaps, into themselves.
Artist Statement
Scalp Lock
A live performance brought to you by Donna Ahmadi
chashama Window Space
266 West 37th Street
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Performance times: 12:30, 3p & 5:30p
Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
Scalp Lock
a live performance brought to you by Donna Ahmadi
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Performance times: 12:30, 3p & 5:30p
Scalp Lock is a live, mixed-modality performance including contemporary dance, traditional Native American concepts, puppetry, and structured improvisation. Shown for the first time at chashama, SCALP LOCK explores lines of social, spiritual, ethnic, and environmental connection through the metaphor of the Native American braid. Donna Ahmadi performs as the soloist, adorned with a round decorative porcupine and deer hair roach or headpiece and four 20 foot long braids, manipulated by 2-3 dancers. The braids, as extensions of Native American personhood and identity, explore the performance space, as if with a will of their own, expanding the dancer's kinesphere and intimately connecting all the dancers throughout the piece. The piece begins with dark, grounded images and movements, building toward more emotionally charged, and even chaotic, explorations of the circle of human life. Scalp Lock was generated from experience, remembrance, and storytelling was inspired by the life and teachings of Tarin Chaplin.
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Donna Ahmadi received her B.F.A. in dance form SUNY Purchase in 2000, and has performed in recent years for Stephan Koplowitz, Alison Chase (Pilobolus), Andrew Marcus Performance, Brett Howard Company, Tarin Chaplin, and currently dances with Zach Morris and Tom Pearson of Third Rail Projects, Red Hawk Indian Arts Council, and Thunderbird American Indian Dancers. During 2003, Ahmadi taught for the Northern Rivers Conservatory of the Arts in Australia, where she founded Mantis Dance Theater, performing her site-specific and environmental choreography in northern New South Wales. Mantis Dance Theater is currently based in NYC where Ahmadi is working on projects addressing indigenous adoption, cultural hybridity, and the politics of place. Donna teaches for New York City Ballet Educational Department as a teaching artist in Brooklyn and Queens public schools. She has been an active Native American fancy shawl dancer for over 10 years and currently teaches at Lotus Music and Dance.
about the artist
Blue
an investigation of a primary color by Christie Newman
chashama Performance Window
217 E.42nd Street
Monday, July 13th
Tuesday, July 14th
Friday, July 17th
Hours: 5 - 7p
FREE and open to the public
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand
Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
"Blue"
by Christie Newman
Monday, July 13th, Tuesday, July 14th & Friday, July 17th
Hours: 5 - 7p
"Blue" delves into a fluid investigation of the color blue and the emotional and natural qualities it alludes to. Using the descriptions from Alexander Theroux's "The Primary Colors" as a point of motivation, this piece looks to explore the complex implications and connotations we connect to the color through a sculpturally focused movement piece.
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The Work Office
by Katarina Jerinic and Naomi Miller
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street
July 3 - 26
The Work Office (TWO) is now hiring!
The Work Office (TWO) is a multidisciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency. From a temporary, publicly accessible storefront office, TWO's administrators will hire employees, exhibit work, and distribute Depression-era wages during weekly Payday Parties.
Visit www.theworkoffice.com to apply. Now accepting applications on a rolling basis through July 9th.
Questions? Call us at 212-901-0659 or write us at apply@theworkoffice.com
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times
Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
July 3 - 26, 2009
Work hours TBA
What is TWO?
The Work Office (TWO) is a multidisciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency.
Informed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the Great Depression in the 1930s, TWO is a gesture to "make
work" for visual and performing artists, writers, and others by giving them simple, idea-based assignments to
explore, document, and improve life in New York. From a temporary, publicly accessible storefront office, TWO's
administrators will hire employees, exhibit work, and distribute Depression-era wages during weekly Payday Parties.
The Work Office (TWO) is now hiring!
Visit www.theworkoffice.com to apply. We are accepting applications on a rolling basis through July 9th.
Questions? Call us at 212-901-0659 or write us apply@theworkoffice.com
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Katarina Jerinic's mixed media, photography and ephemeral participant-based installations center on invented
explorations of urban space. She was a participant in the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace program and has
completed residencies at MacDowell Colony and the Experimental Television Center. She has an MFA from School of Visual
Arts in Photography and Related Media (2002) and a BA from American University in American History (1995). Her work has
been recently included in exhibitions at Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; the Fox Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Gallery
Aferro, Newark, NJ; the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY and
Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Naomi Miller is a photography-based artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA in
English and studio art at Clark University, Worcester, MA in 1996. In 2004 she graduated from the San Francisco Art
Institute with an MFA in photography. Recent group exhibitions include the Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT;
WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA; Five Points Arthouse, San Francisco, CA; and Printed Matter, New York, NY. She is a regular
contributor of text and images to the Satellite publication (a project of artist Jon Rubin). A blog about her self-
designed residency—the Iron Maiden Tour & Residency, in which she visits friends around the country in order to make
work—is accessible at http://naomiller.com.
TWO's Administrators
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.
