Eric Rhein @ Boxo

 

Eric Rhein

Transmutation

February 12 - April 9 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday February 12, 6-8pm

Exhibition continues Saturdays 1-6pm and by appointment

Eric Rhein, a native of New York's Hudson Valley, is known for his refined and passionate wire drawings that combine human forms with animal and plant life. He weaves personal stories, experiences and mysticism into explorations of the powerful connections among man, nature, and the spiritual world.

The exhibition features Rhein's own photographs, as well as vintage photography of male nudes, combined with found objects and bronze & silver castings of leaves & twigs. These assemblages, like Rhein's other works, depict a sense of humanity's communion with nature, and evoke figures from Celtic and Egyptian mythology.

Rhein explains:  "What matters to me is the interconnectedness, sympathetic relationships, and sensual commonalities of all things in the natural world.  Images of nature are used as a metaphor for the cycles of human experience:  birth, life, death, and regeneration."

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Living Live at The LGBT Center

January 27- February 28, 2011

The LGBT Center
208 W. 13th Street

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center is pleased to present Living Live, an exhibition of contemporary art organized by David Louis Fierman and RJ Supa. The exhibition will take place throughout the building and aims to interrogate, activate, and complicate the space of the community center. The show features work by Andrea Bowers, Becky Brown, Alejandro Cesarco, Martin Soto Climent, Leidy Churchman, Christian Dietkus, Zackary Drucker, Debo Eilers, Josh Faught, Eve Fowler, Katy Grannan, Oliver Herring, Scott Hug, Kalup Linzy, Ryan McNamara, Robert Melee, Lucas Michael, Jack Pierson, A.L. Steiner, RJ Supa, and others.

Living Live deals with the distance between representation and lived experience, between what we live and what we are told is “live.” “Live” television is always actually slightly delayed for both technical reasons and to have the chance to edit content. When we watch a “live” performance we know that it is, for the most part, a rehearsed spectacle. Taken further, to be “live” is to be spontaneous, unpredictable, and take an active role in creating one’s life. This live-ness is always tempered by routine, by the reenactment of cultural tropes and performances, and the expectations put upon actions and people by others.

This concept has a special bearing in the queer community, always hanging in a sort of limbo between forging a new “live” identity and place and re-creating hegemonic social norms (see for example, the film Paris is Burning, in which documents its subjects creating a new, entirely “live” social performance out of cultural motifs such as supermodels, polo players, and the television show Dynasty). While the exhibition will feature queer artists, it takes aim at a larger goal: to reveal and explore the distance between what we live and what is imposed, between merely living and living “live.”

For more information on the exhibition please contact Ector Simpson at ector@gaycenter.org or David Louis Fierman at Davidlouis@davidlouisfierman.com

MIXED USE, MANHATTAN: Lynne Cooke & Douglas Crimp

Wednesday, February 9 at 6:30pm
LYNNE COOKE and DOUGLAS CRIMP
MIXED USE, MANHATTAN John Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
(between 5th & 6th Avenues)

Kicking off the spring 2011 Public Art Fund Talks series "New York Stories," noted curators Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp will discuss their exhibition Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present, which was on view at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid from June through September 2010. The exhibition surveyed the uses artists have made of New York City's run-down lofts, abandoned piers, vacant lots, and deserted streets during its period of intensive de-industrialization in the 1970s and continuing to the present. As a centerpiece of their show, Cooke and Crimp reassembled Projects: Pier 18, conceived by Willoughby Sharp in 1971 and comprising twenty-seven artists' projects made on a dilapidated Hudson River pier; the projects were photographed by Shunk-Kender and initially shown at the Museum of Modern Art. In addition to Projects: Pier 18, Mixed Use, Manhattan featured more than 250 works by forty artists, including Danny Lyon, Joan Jonas, Peter Hujar, Thomas Struth, Zoe Leonard, David Wojnarowicz, Barbara Probst, Steve McQueen, and Emily Roysdon. Cooke and Crimp will talk about the genesis and realization of the exhibition and the accompanying film program and catalogue, using installation views, photographs, and film clips to illustrate their conversation.

Public Art Fund Talks are organized by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.

Lynne Cooke was appointed Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid in 2008. She was co-curator of the 1991 Carnegie International, Artistic Director of the 1996 Sydney Biennale, and curator at Dia Art Foundation from 1991 to 2009. Among her numerous publications are recent essays on the works of Francis Alÿs, Richard Serra, Agnes Martin, Josiah McElheny, Zoe Leonard, Juan Muñoz and Thomas Schütte.

Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester and the author of Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (MIT Press, 2002) and On the Museum's Ruins (MIT Press, 1993). Crimp was curator of the Pictures exhibition at Artists Space, New York, 1977, and an editor of October magazine from 1977 to 1990, where he edited the 1987 special issue AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism. He is currently completing a book about Andy Warhol's films and working on a memoir of New York in the 1970s.

Tickets: single talk $10; full series $20; students FREE

Postcards from the Edge - Thank You & Sales

Thank You to everyone who came out to support Visual AIDS's 13th annual Postcards From the Edge benefit, held Jan 7–9, 2011 at CRG Gallery. To date, the benefit raised over $73,700, with over 1400 participating artists and 1,200 attending guests. We are immensely grateful to the contributing artists, CRG gallery, volunteers, sponsors and collectors for making the event so beloved, so well-attended, and so successful.


Buy a Postcard
Missed the event or want to buy more postcard artwork? For a limited time, postcard-sized artworks may be purchased for $85 each; buy 2 and receive a 3rd as our Thank You. Follow these easy steps to view and buy artwork:
Facebook & Flickr
View a limited selection of available postcard-sized artwork on our Facebook or Flickr account. If you see something you like, contact us ASAP at 212-627-9855 or info@visualAIDS.org.
In New York City
If you are in the NYC area, you can make an appointment to view a selection of postcard-sized artworks at our Visual AIDS office, 526 West 26th Street #510, btw 10th & 11th Avenues.  Office Hours: Monday-Friday from 11AM-6PM.  Set-up an appointment at 212-627-9855 or info@visualAIDS.org.

Want to do more?
Had a great time at Postcards From the Edge? Love your new artwork? Missed the event but still want to show your support?  Let Visual AIDS know you care.  Additional donations are always greatly appreciated.

Payments
Purchases and donations can be made by check, credit card or PayPal. You can pay-by-phone by calling 212-627-9855 or online through PayPal. Checks can be send to: Visual AIDS, 526 West 26th Street #510, New York, NY 10001. More donation details here.



Participating Artists
Postcards From the Edge is made possible by the generosity of artists like yourself. Participating artists will be contacted by post or e-mail in 4-6 weeks regarding the collector of your work or, if requested, the return of unsold works. Click here for a full list of participating artists, event photos and details. Thank you again for your support and patience.









images courtesy of Steven Rosen Photography

Transeuphoria - Gender Movers

Transeuphoria

Umbrella Arts Gallery
317 E 9 Street, NYC

Jan 20- Feb 13, 2011

Hours: Thurs-Sat 1-7 PM / Sun 1-5 PM

Gender Movers:
Antony
Mx Justin Vivian Bond
Sid Branch
Donna Collins
Josie Collins
Chloe Dzubilo
TJ Free
Siobhan Meow
Breyer P-Orridge

Curated by Chloe Dzubilo & Jeffery Greene

Outsider Art Fair afterparty at Umbrella Arts
Sat Feb 12 8-10 PM

Lucas Michael at EGHQ

NOW  “Lucas Michael - 10 Years in LA”  January  8th - February 15th 2011 Opening Jan 8th 6-9 pm

EGHQ is proud to present “Lucas Michael - 10 years in LA”  an exhibition, which will feature video, sculpture, photographs and drawings,  surveying the most celebrated works made by Lucas Michael in the last decade  in Los Angeles - before he departs for New York City. Lucas Michael’s work explores compulsion, narcissism  and longing that open onto a broader conversation about semiotics and the erotics of aesthetics. While probing the division and multiplicity of self, role reversal, gender and identity, Michael also manages to blend the boundaries between the personal character of his work and the inherent public essence of displaying it, to create a space –both physical and psychological– at once private and public, open and hermetic. 

The artist frequently inserts himself into his subject matter - notably in one series “Hers and His” in which Michael’s created a series of drawings of book covers by Sylvia Plath, inscribed by the artist. By inscribing the drawings as if he were the author, Michael inserts himself into the narrative,  questioning in particular the pervasive interest in the sexual and personal life of Sylvia  Plath and by proxy the artist himself.  This idea is similarly revisited in “Michael’s Still Life (LM Squared)” shown above, depicting the artist re-enacting Liza Minnelli sitting for her Warhol portrait. David Louis Fierman captures the artists identity assimilation, writing: “The doubled, blurred image undermines the impossible glamour of the Warhol 1970’s society portrait, while it also reveals the slippery space of a star’s identity; an impersonator, an interloper, can break in and steal a bit of the shine or revel in the famous pain and dysfunction."

A native of Argentina, Lucas Michael received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Lucas Michael is represented by Silverman Gallery and his work has been exhibited at the Getty Center in Los Angeles; Apexart, NY; S.M.A.K. Museum, Gent, Belgium; White Columns, NY and Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. His performance piece “No, u didn't” was performed at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles as part of the Off Screen series. Lucas Michael’s work has been featured in Artforum, Art In America and Frieze. He is co-founder and co-director of Artist Curated Projects (ACP), an artist-run exhibition space. 

Still Life(LM Squared) I , 30 x 40”, 2008

TOMORROW  February 19th   Kirsten Stoltmann - “Post Nothing”

EGHQ

EMMA GRAY HQ

2600 La Cienega Blvd

CA 90034

Barton Lidicé Beneš at Pavel Zoubok

Barton Lidicé Beneš: Archive

January 7 - February 5, 2011
Reception: January 7 from 6-8 PM

Pavel Zoubok Gallery
533 West 23rd Street, NYC

Visual AIDS's Silent Auction at CRG

Check out Visual AIDS's Silent Auction which will be held during the Postcards from the Edge Preview Party on January 7 from 6-8 PM at CRG Gallery.

Larissa Bates
Lederhosen Rumble, 2008
10" x 8", acryla gouache and ink on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and Monya Rowe Gallery, New York



Nicole Eisenman
Group Portrait, 2010
12" x 12", oil on masonite board
Courtesy of the artist and Leo Koenig, Inc, New York



David Humphrey
Poodle on the Path, 2003
24" x 16", acrylic on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and Solomon Projects



Marc Swanson
Untitled (Devotion 1), 2009
11" X 14", graphite and collage on paper
Courtesy of the artist



Eric Rhein
Medicinal Garden Series: "Boneset", 2005
13 1/2"x10" 1/2x 2" (framed), mixed media
Courtesy of the artist



Harmony Hammond
Portraits: Oscar Wilde, 2004
19" x 12", archival inkjet prints
Courtesy the artist and Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe

STAY WARM
SLEEP IN
and still be one of the first in at
Postcards From the Edge!

NEW -- Bid on the opportunity to be one of TEN people to receive VIP ACCESS to Postcards From the Edge. The ten highest bidders will get in the front of the line on Saturday, January 8, 2010. VIP ACCESS allows you to go directly to the front of the line ... NO WAITING. You will be allowed in the gallery as soon as the doors open at 10:00 am (however, you must arrive at the gallery by 9:50 am, or lose your place in line -- no refunds). Once the doors open, those behind you in line will also be let into the gallery.
For more information or to place an absentee bid, please contact Visual AIDS at 212-627-9855 or info@visualAIDS.org.

Do Good, Get Good...

Get something for yourself while supporting Visual AIDS at our Postcards from the Edge benefit.

Hosted by CRG Gallery from January 7-9, 2011

BENEFIT SALE
Take a guess: Over 1500 anonymously displayed postcard-size masterpieces. First-come, first-served. $5 suggested admission.

Saturday, January 8, 2011 from 10:00 - 6:00
$85 EACH. Buy 4 and get the fifth as our Thank You.

Sunday, January 9, 2011 from 12:00 - 4:00
$85 EACH. Buy 2 and get the third as our Thank You.

PREVIEW PARTY
The only opportunity to see the entire exhibition. No sales.
Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m.
$85 admission includes one raffle ticket.
Admission payable at door. Participating artists attend free.
Raffle winner will select the FIRST postcard that evening. Additional raffle tickets available. Silent Auction of small works by Larissa Bates, Nicole Eisenman, Harmony Hammond, David Humphrey and Marc Swanson. New this year, top 10 bidders of VIP Access will secure the first 10 places in line -- no waiting.

Postcards from the Edge is an exhibit and benefit sale of over a thousand one-of-a-kind postcard-size works of art by established and emerging artists. The fun twist about the Postcards from the Edge benefit is that all artwork is exhibited anonymously. The works are signed on the back only and though viewers receive a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created which piece until after purchased! It makes for a fun guessing game, but also puts all the artwork on an even playing field, whether you show at a blue chip gallery or just graduated from art school...you don't know who you might be showing next to or whos art collection you might end up in!  All proceeds support the programs of Visual AIDS.

Get a sneak-peek at Postcards from the Edge on Facebook.

Web Gallery: ESCAPE, Visual AIDS Redux Curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden

Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. To start off 2011, J.J. Kegan McFadden curated an Escape, featuring the artwork of Archive Members; Rene Capone, Jose Luis Cortes, Edgard Guanipa, Jerry Hooten, Marc Lida, Edward Lightner, Elliott Linwood, Humberto Moreno, Mark Morrisroe, Luna Luis Ortiz, J. Robert Reed, Richard Sawdon Smith, Clifford Smith, Hugh Steers, Sam Tan, Tseng Kwong Chi, TRET, Jorge Veras, Bruce Volpone,  and Joel Wateres.

From the Curator's Statement:

There has always been more than one way to escape. The term itself carries with it several connotations: to flee, to transcend, to avoid. In our ever-evolving digital realm, to escape means something different altogether. When online, we escape through various quasi-anonymous discourses (blogs, chat rooms, games). The button located at the top left of the computer keyboard provides the user a means to get out of certain messy situations; to begin anew. With this selection of images, I am interested in an escape narrative. One informed by the archive, the history of story-telling, and the Hero’s Journey. This escape attempt is for us all  (read more)


About the Curator:
J.J. Kegan McFaddenis a writer, curator, and artist living in Winnipeg (Canada) whose practice blurs the lines between cultural research and storytelling. From 2009 to 2010 Kegan embarked on a twelve-city international tour of single night screenings in support of his curatorial project, ESCAPE, produced through Video Pool Media Arts Centre.  The collection of fifteen experimental videos by Canadian artists was inspired by escape narratives found in popular culture. For the online web gallery, he has revisited this approach and curated ESCAPE \ VISUAL AIDS redux from The Frank Moore Archive Project. Currently the Director / Curator of platform: centre for photographic + digital arts, Kegan found himself in New York City this past June as a participant in the inaugural Curatorial Intensive with Independent Curators International, where he work-shopped the exhibition Cabin Fever, which opened at platform in October.


View WEB GALLERY here
[web gallery may contain adult content]

image: TRET, Life Guard Off-duty, 2000

Postcards from the Edge

Get something for yourself while supporting Visual AIDS at our Postcards from the Edge benefit.
Hosted by CRG Gallery from January 7-9, 2011
BENEFIT SALE
Take a guess: Over 1500 anonymously displayed postcard-size masterpieces. First-come, first-served. $5 suggested admission.
Saturday, January 8, 2011 from 10:00 - 6:00
$85 EACH. Buy 4 and get the fifth as our Thank You.
Sunday, January 9, 2011 from 12:00 - 4:00
$85 EACH. Buy 2 and get the third as our Thank You.

PREVIEW PARTY
The only opportunity to see the entire exhibition. No sales.
Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m.
$85 admission includes one raffle ticket.
Admission payable at door. Participating artists attend free.
Raffle winner will select the FIRST postcard that evening. Additional raffle tickets available. Silent Auction of small works by Larissa Bates, Nicole Eisenman, Harmony Hammond, David Humphrey and Marc Swanson. New this year, top 10 bidders of VIP Access will secure the first 10 places in line -- no waiting.
Postcards from the Edge is an exhibit and benefit sale of over a thousand one-of-a-kind postcard-size works of art by established and emerging artists. The fun twist about the Postcards from the Edge benefit is that all artwork is exhibited anonymously. The works are signed on the back only and though viewers receive a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created which piece until after purchased! It makes for a fun guessing game, but also puts all the artwork on an even playing field, whether you show at a blue chip gallery or just graduated from art school...you don't know who you might be showing next to or whos art collection you might end up in!  All proceeds support the programs of Visual AIDS.

Get a sneak-peek at Postcards from the Edge on Facebook.