// 6 Alumni & 1 Current Student - Group Show Extraordinaire! //

Julie Bahn  MFA 2014

Theresa Himmer  MFA 2011

Eunjung Kim  MFA 2012

DS Lee  MFA 2013

David Ostro  MFA 2012

Gae Savannah  MFA 1995

Meijia Wang  MFA 2013

New  20,000 sq ft venue
on the banks of the Great Falls
468 Totowa Avenue Paterson NJ

Meijia Wang

Flow Follow Flow

Inaugural Exhibition
May 25 - July 28, 2013
Opening reception: Saturday May 25 | 7PM - 9PM

In quest for Next Art, Flow Follow Flow orchestrates a move beyond the bankrupt age of conceptual replication into a state of designed phenomenology. The delectation of radiant and responsive elements is served up as a tangy marinade, releasing us from a starvation diet of post war contemporary. With laser-focus concentration, in-Flow emotions and senses are not just channeled, but heightened. In sustained momentum, Flow spawns a feeling of capricious accord, even rapture.

David Ostrow

The show also includes:

AK Airways, Anne Ferrer, April Hava Shenkman, Christopher Hart Chambers, Elio Franceschelli, Eve Ingalls, Fred Gutzeit, Glenn Richardson, Henry G. Sanchez, Jared Whitham, Joshua Knoblick, Kate Dodd,Kate Raudenbush, Kathleen Vance, Linda Pollack, Mark Esper, Michael Walsh, Mike O’Toole,Richard Wislocky,Rosa Valado, Ryan C. Doyle, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono.

Gae Savannah

Rupert Ravens Nexxt
468 Totowa Avenue Paterson NJ 07522-1573
Hours: 12 - 6PM - Friday | Saturday | Sunday 
And by appointment
next@nexxt.us

Theresa Himmer

DS Lee

Julie Bahn

Eunjung Kim

// Donna Cleary and Leah Dixon in Group Show//

// Julie Schenkelberg at Station Independent Projects//

Gallery Information:

Station Independent Projects

164 Suffolk Street, NYC 10002

www.stationindependent.com

917.698.2012

Between Stanton and East Houston

Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, Noon-6pm

F to Delancey Street or JMZ to Essex Street

// Recent Grads In Show!//

 

ART LOT

206 Columbia Street @ Sackett, Brooklyn

F or G Train to Carroll St / B61 & B71 Bus to Sackett St

 

 

// Student Solo Show In Iceland!//

The 6th Volume, work in progress by Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir Hirt. Photo by Berglind Helgadóttir.

The 6th Volume:
Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir Hirt

Living Art Museum (Nýló)

18 May–25 August, 2013

Opening 18 May, 18hr
Award ceremony at 19hr

Venue: Living Art Museum (Nýló)
Skúlagata 28
101 Reykjavík

T: +354 5514350
nylo@nylo.is

nylo.is

Curator:  Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir

The 6th Volume, a solo exhibition,presents work and writings by individuals active within the practice and theory of visual art, chosen by the artist in an attempt to define contemporary art, based on the Icelandic art practices that have influenced her. The goal is to construct an “exhibition of every Icelandic contemporary artist” and by doing so, reflect on the current political environment of art. Katrín has hand-made several hundred sculptures in the form of a victory cup, which she calls Gratitude Sculptures. In a letter to invited participants she wrote to individuals she defines as “every Icelandic contemporary artist” consisting of artists, writers and thinkers involved in the field hoping to instigate an exchange; a work donated to Katrín for the exhibition in exchange for a Gratitude Sculpture.

A publication under the title The 6th Volume will form an integral part of the exhibition. To be revised and added to in three phases over the course of the exhibition, the publication will develop in flux with the exhibition, which will be under constant change. At the end of the exhibition period, the three revised phases of the publication will be present under a single book cover. In it will be descriptions of the work and texts in the exhibition. Text pieces will be mounted on the museum walls along with the other contributions.

The exhibition explores the boundaries between the author, curator, theorist and artist by expanding and tweaking ideas about these relationships. It looks at the overhead and inner structures of the art practices in a sincere and humorous way. As an ode to some of the practitioners that have influenced her in one way or another, for Katrín the running theme throughout the exhibition is gratitude to artists, thinkers and educators. Dealing with questions of history, The 6th Volume poses questions about who writes work into art history books, who builds the public collections and who influences or decides the future significance of cultural activity.

The title refers to the five volumes of Icelandic art history recently published by the National Gallery, where of the 5th volume came under considerable criticism for its attempt to deal with the contemporary period. Problems of whom and what is given significance arose immediately. The publication was the first grand scale attempt to deal with the young history of art in Iceland.

Katrin I Jonsdottir Hjordisardottir Hirt (b. 1982, Iceland) lives in Brooklyn, New York. In 2008 she recieved a BA in visual art from the Iceland Academy of the Arts and received a B.A. in art history and art theory in 2012 from the University of Iceland. Katrin is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and is a 2012/13 Fulbright Grantee. Katrin was awarded the Dungal Art Fund award for aspiring artists in 2012 and received the Guðmunda Andrésdóttir scholarship, which aims “to promote and encourage promising artists to study.” Katrin is co-funder of Artima gallery and served as board member of the Sequences Real-Time Art Festival in 2012. Katrin is co-founder of Contemporary.is, a web media about Icelandic art today and is a current board member of Endemi, an art publication. Recent exhibitions include solo projects at Gallerí Dvergur (Dwarf Gallery) Reykjavik, the SIM (Association of Icelandic Artists), and a project at Crymo in 2011. Katrín has participated in various group exhibitions, one of which was a project bearing the title Fræðimaðurinn (The Theorist) at the Museum of the 21st Century in Austria. In the work, Katrín sent Ólafur Gíslason, a renowned art writer and theorist, as her contribution to the exhibition. Katrín’s subjects often include the social and political landscape and ecology of the art environment, which she funnels into her practice in unusual and personal ways, through various methods and mediums. Katrín’s declared objective is to survive and save the world with art.

// Polly Apfelbaum (Faculty) and Huang Shih Chieh (MFA ‘01) @ 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice//

// Suzanne McClelland (Faculty) @ Frieze New York//

// LAUREL LAUDERS (MFA ‘10) ON WHITE @ OPUS PROJECTS//

Laurel Lueders: On White

April 26 –May 11, 2013

Opus Projects / 526 West 26^th Street, Suite 705, New York, NY 10001

OPUS Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Laurel Lueders entitled On White running April 26 – May 11, 2013.An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 25, from 6-8pm.

 For her first solo exhibition with Opus Projects, Laurel Lueders presents On White, a series of new photographs that use the camera as it’s own means of abstraction. Lueders relies on the mechanism of the camera, exaggerating and manipulating its settings, to convey a sense of place without inherent structure or fixed narrative. The abstract images reference architectural environments, unrecognizable to specific location or time, but undeniably suggestive of human presence. The hazy wash of the images create the feeling of déjà vu, the experience of waking from a dream, or the attempt to recall a memory not fully formed. Playing with photography’s relationship to documentation, Lueders suggests that all images are palimpsests, and that apparent beneath the surface is a larger history waiting to be unearthed.

 Subverting the photographer’s role in accurate representation, Lueders purposefully plays with camera shake, extended shutter speed, and time-lapse – employing the camera as a mark-making tool. On White is a painterly series of works, showcasing the camera’s ability to create lines with light. Mounted but unframed, Lueders’s photographs operate as canvases, the mark of her hand both paramount and pervasive. Elevating the weight of the intimate gesture, she suggests that our spatial memory can be triggered simply through a line, grid, or abstract pattern. Existing as individual works, as well as components of a larger framework and narrative, On White evokes a seductive and ghostly sense of place.

Laurel Lueders is an artist and educator living and working in New York, NY. Lueders received her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998, her MS in Design Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002, and her MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY in 2010. Lueders photographic work has been the subject of solo shows in Germany, Wisconsin, and Brooklyn, most recently including Imprints, Rektoratsvilla, Hochschule Harz University, Wernigerode, Germany (2012); and Within Without at the Schlossmuseum, Quedlinburg, Germany (2011).  She has exhibited in group exhibitions including Wilson Center Retrospective, Ploch Gallery, Wilson Center for the Arts, WI (2012); Seductive Resolution, 571 Projects Gallery, New York, NY (2011); Digital Unity, Annex Art, Berlin, Germany (2011); Urban Legend, curated by Leonora Loeb, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY (2011); among others. Lueders’s work is in public and private collections, including the permanent collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts, The Byzant Center for Visual Arts, the Sharjah Art Museum, and the Q-Druck Gross Order Collection.  Lueders is the subject of an upcoming solo exhibition at the Museum of Wisconsin Art opening in December 2013.