Author Archives: jolanta
Eric Rhein, Transmutation
Eric Rhein, “Transmutation”, Saturday, February 12, 6-8pm @ BoxOFFICE Eric Rhein, “Transmutation”, Saturday, February 12, 6-8pm @ BoxOFFICE BoxoFFICE is proud to present Transmutation, a solo exhibition by Eric Rhein. 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 […]
Made Anew
Man&Eve recently opened its new exhibition venue with The Borrowed Loop, a group exhibition featuring work by Iain Andrews, Karin Brunnermeier, Filippo Caramazza, Bouke de Vries, Ori Gersht, Henrietta Simson, Esther Teichmann, and Michael Whittle. The exhibition takes its title from Nicholas Bourriaud’s 2002 book Postproduction, in which the modern-day artist’s use of appropriation is […]
Coming into Focus
Launched in 2008, the Prix Pictet is a prize that highlights artistic achievements in photography and sustainability.We aim to let the works speak unimpeded by curatorial ornament or intervention. At the heart of the Prix Pictet lies the idea that photography of the highest quality can communicate messages of critical importance to the future of […]
Virginia Bodman
Virginia Bodman’s paintings and drawings investigate, and give form and presence to ideas about the nature of memory, absence, and exile. Her current work centers on notions of remembrance and celebrates the durability and communicativeness of “things.” She uses a rich mix of visual material drawn from heraldry, nature, 19th-century paintings, and arcane domestic paraphernalia. […]
Sharon Wilson
Sharon Wilson is trained as a painter, but has since developed her career as a multimedia artist and curator who uses video, found objects, digital imagery, drawings, and sound. Interested in the media as a divisive tool for shaping public motivations, as well as looking at the edifices of architecture, of which social control is […]
SCOPE New York: March 2-6, 2011
SCOPE New York – March 2-6, 2011 Building on Miami’s overwhelming success, SCOPE launches its 2011 season with its flagship fair, SCOPE New York. Serviced daily by shuttles, this year SCOPE expands to a 60,000 square foot hall on the West Side Highway, minutes from The Armory Show. The fair opens to Press and VIP’s […]
Natalie Frost
Natalie Frost works broadly in the medium of print, producing pieces in Braille, laser-cut vinyl, neon, and screen print. Materials and visual content are sourced from familiar mass published/printed items such as public information documents, branding, currency, and wallpaper. Looking increasingly at text and the boundaries of what we define and recognize as language, her […]
Ofri Cnaani, The Sota Project
Ofri Cnaani, The Sota Project, Wednesday, February 16, 6-8pm @ Kunsthalle Galapagos Kunsthalle Galapagos is pleased to present The Sota Project, an immersive, multilayered video installation that reenacts a controversial text from the Talmud. A tale of two sisters, bound together in symbiotic loyalty that unfolds in both time and three-dimensional space. Housed in an […]
Richard Butler, hypochondriacatthegramercyparkhotel
Richard Butler, hypochondriacatthegramercyparkhotel, Friday, February 18, 6-8pm @ Freight + Volume “There’s an army on the dance floor It’s a fashion with a gun, my love In a room without a door A kiss is not enough…” (“Love My Way”, The Psychedelic Furs) It has become increasingly difficult to find a painter who combines […]
Michele Allen
This work is drawn from a larger series, Designated Sites of Tranquility, which explores the idea of tranquility and mapping, and responds to research carried out by geographers at the University of Northumbria (UNN). The researchers conducted a social survey that looked at what people think makes the countryside tranquil. This information was then analyzed […]
