Events

Curbs & Stoops Presents: Active Space X Beat Nite (Brooklyn, NY)

February 17, 2011 , , , , ,

Curbs and Stoops
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Sebastian Vallejo “Jardiìn Galaìctico” Detail. Image courtesy of the Curbs & Stoops

Comin’ in hot: This Friday, February 18th, Curbs & Stoops is pleased to announce the grand opening of our space on Norte Maar’s Beat Nite. The Curbs & Stoops Active Space, is a collaboration with Welner Associates to create a progressive cultural center designed to promote community through art. This Friday we open the first 6,000 square foot of space our space. The Active Space will house artists studios, our residency program, exhibition spaces, and our art accessibility think tank that will continue to produce the Curbs & Stoops blog and curated publication. Friday’s opening will include five exhibitions, three open studios and a party all curated to highlight the scope and caliber of artists we will be collaborating with.
Participating artists include: Angel Otero, Ashley Zelinskie, Brian Maller, Brian Matthew, Christopher Rivera, Hector Arce, Hector Hernandez, Jason Mones, Jeffrey Pena, Jonathan Chapline, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Pep Williams, Rachel LaBine, Sebastian Vallejo, Lapiztola Collective, UR New York Collective and Super Pop Collective.
About Beat Nite: Norte Maar’s well loved bi-annual Bushwick block party Beat Nite: Bushwick Art Spaces Stay Open Late is part art walk, part pub crawl, Beat Nite encourages an accessible and informal introduction to the neighborhood’s vibrant art community. This month’s episode of Beat Nite is sponsered by Hyperallergic, and will feature shows at local spaces English Kills, Centotto, Fortress to Solitude, Famous Accounts, and re-installation by Austin Thomas of the apartment gallery that started it all, Norte Maar.

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566 Johnson Street 2nd Floor
Friday, February 18, 6-10PM
Morgan L Stop

Opening night party with DJ Grimmace.
Beers courtesy of DogFish Head.

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The Secret Language of Retna. Graffiti Going Abstract.

February 16, 2011 , , , , ,

Looking at the cavalcade of new Retna paintings for his “Hallelujah World Tour” New York debut, currently on display at a pop up shop in West Soho, you’ll see elements of anthropology, historical academia, and the current street penchant for the remix, or mashup.

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Retna (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Retna is one of a handful of today’s Street Artists with a background in graffiti taking the art form into the abstract, making it feel genuinely fresh and forward-looking. No doubt the literal meaning on the canvas might add an extra dimension to the piece but that’s probably not what the artist had in mind when he began exploring and developing his style as a graffiti writer in Los Angeles. It’s about the jolting energy of the street. Best viewed from the distance – his kinetic letters and symbols cannot remain still. The bold handstyle is spare, elegantly unpretentious and perfectly anarchistic.

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The effect of this stunningly lit and somehow crowded traveling show (despite a 10,000 square foot exhibition space) is mystery, monastery, in motion. It is also very exciting to witness in person; A periodic splash of red in the monochromatic scheme of white, black, and silver.

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Retna (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Using the concept of the graffiti tag as a starting point to craft a secret language of symbols, the canvasses are messages known to him and his inner circle alone. His approach and style has been compared to hieroglyphics, the Egyptians, Incas and Eastern calligraphy but is probably more analogous to the coded graffiti of Brazilian pixação that his southern contemporaries are spraying in black throughout favela streets right now.

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Retna (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Retna (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Retna (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Retna (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Retna (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Retna (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Retna (photo © Jaime Rojo)

RETNA “The Hallelujah World Tour”

560 Washington Street, NYC

Thursday, February 10,2011 – Monday, February 21,2011

Daily Hours: 10 AM – 6 PM

General Inquiries: 212 242 2905

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Galerie Itinerrance Presents: Jana & Js “Jeux de Constructions” (Paris, France)

February 14, 2011 , , , , ,

Itinerrance Gallery
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Jana & Js
Solo show “Jeux de constructions”
February, 25 – March, 26
Opening on Friday, February, 25 from 6 pm
Deserted factories, parking lots being demolished, low rise apartment blocks : these elements – among many others – surround and inspire Jana & Js. Their work is nourished by the city they live in, together with its inhabitants and its ever changing architectural landscape. The paintings created by this couple of artists make use of extremely detailed and scrupulously prepared stencils..
Jana & Js raise the question of the individual in large groups of buildings and more widely in the cities, combining portraits and architectural views.
Their street paintings (in France, Austria, Russia, Slovakia, Romania and Spain) also led them to develop an interaction with the environment in which they operate and the public – passerby or spectator – using sets of mirrors as a game in order to create infinities of ways of seeing the city.
Jana & Js are young artists whose work began to take shape only in the mid-2000, and who are today among the most talented of their generation. After having lived and worked together in Paris, they are today between Austria and France.
Jeux de Constructions is the second exhibition in Itinerrance Gallery devoted to them. Combining their love for woodworking, rebuilding their own materials and images composition from their cuts, this exhibition will present for the first time a wide range of their work volume initiated a few months ago.
Galerie Itinerrance.

Art Director
00 33 6 58 05 56 01
samantha@itinerrance.fr

7bis, rue René Goscinny – 75013 Paris
FRANCE

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Ambush Gallery Presents: Project 5, Volume 3 Group Show And Live Art Event (Sydney, Australia)

February 14, 2011 , , , , , , ,

Ambush Gallery
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Cockle Bay Wharf &
aMBUSH Gallery for Project 5

A thrilling three day outdoor sensation of live street art
and cranking tunes.

For the 3rd time, Project 5 is bringing street art to Sydneysiders.

See international and home grown street art legends KID ZOOM, GHOSTPATROL, JAMES JIRAT PATRADOON and DEB hard at play letting loose on four mural panels spurred on by Sydney’s very own Future Classic Deejays

Project 5 proudly supports Information & Cultural Exchange (ICE) in a public art auction for charity at aMBUSH Gallery on 3 March 2011.

Live Art Event

Where: The Promenade Level, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour
When: Opening night Friday 25 February, 6-9pm then
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 February, 12noon-3pm

Live webcast on www.cocklebaywharf.com.au

Auction Event
Where: aMBUSH Gallery, 4A James Street, Waterloo Sydney
When: Thursday 3 March, 6-9pm

More info: www.project5.com.au

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4A James Street Waterloo
A Sydney NSW 2017
T 02 8399 0707
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New Heart City Gallery Presents: FKDL “Scènes de Vie” (Paris, France)

February 14, 2011 , , , , ,

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> The New Heart City Gallery is honored to host from February 18th to
> March 31st 2011 the urban artist who established himself these
> recent years in the Paris Street Art scene and now internationally
> recognized: Franck Duval (FKDL).
>
> The artist with the emblematic urban landmark has opted for his new
> solo show to use essentially the transparent scotch-tape collage
> technique.
>
> From pictures of 1950’s life scenes, he reinvents history. He
> removes the smooth side of idioms, boring scenes of perfection and
> innocence to lead the images in his time and modernity. Under his
> scotch-tape, the material is revealed, only the color goes through
> the ages, the mark of a new era.
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> The female silhouettes, provocative inadvented, assert this sudden
> reality marked by rhythm and movement. Only characters’ ornaments
> are survivors of the Old Time and bear faces and attitudes of actors
> and actresses of the 50’s movies.
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> The normalized and fixed scenes of life and the glossy paper stars
> have crossed through time to give way to a real live show.
> New heArt citY Gallery
> 11 rue de Picardie 75003 Paris
> +33 (0)1 43 55 03 95
> du mardi au samedi de 11h à 19h
> newheartcity@gmail.com
> http://newheartcitygallery.blogspot.com
>

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Becker Galleries Present: “Unintended Calculations” A Group Show Curated By Indigo (Vancouver, Canada)

February 10, 2011 , , , , , ,

Becker Galleries

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Curated by Indigo, Unintended Calculations brings together a group of internationally renowned artists – Augustine Kofie (LA), Jerry Inscoe (PDX), Remi/Rough (LDN) and Scott Sueme (VAN) – for an exhibition at Becker Galleries and two collaborative murals at Moda Hotel exploring four very different approaches to abstraction. Working in a variety of mediums, these artists have evolved the letter form building blocks of their shared graffiti background, deconstructing and rebuilding them as compositions of color, line, shape and movement.

  • Dates:

    Mural installation @ Moda Hotel: March 1-3, 2011
    VIP opening @ Becker Galleries: March 4, 2011 6-10pm
    Public opening @ Becker Galleries March 5, 2011 11-3pm
    Afterparty @ Red Card Sports Bar: March 5, 2011 9pm-12am
    Show closes: March 26th, 2011

  • Becker Galleries Inc
    Pier 32, Granville Island
    Suite 210 – 1333 Johnston St
    Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9

To learn more about this show and to see the curator and artist’s bios please click the link below:

http://unintendedcalculations.com/

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Verge Art Fair (Brooklyn, NY) – Armory Week

February 9, 2011 , , , , , ,

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Verge Announces the First-Ever Brooklyn Art Fair

THE INAUGURAL ART BROOKLYN
Verge is proud to announce its return to New York during Armory Show 2011 with the inaugural Art Brooklyn, a historic first-ever art fair to take place in multiple locations throughout the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, 3-6 March. Verge has partnered with Two Trees Management, Brooklyn Arts Council and the Brooklyn Borough President’s office to provide critical real estate, government and institutional support to ensure a successful Brooklyn art fair. Available spaces will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. Affordable and accessible for every conceivable tier of exhibitor, we expect available space to fill quickly. Applications are now being accepted for galleries and artists to participate in Art Brooklyn. There are three types of application available, as detailed below.
ABOUT VERGE ART BROOKLYN
An art fair without precedent, Art Brooklyn is the first fair of its kind to be held in Brooklyn, NY. The intention of the fair is to promote and support Brooklyn as a cultural bellwether of artistic endeavor that influences artistic practice the world over. Open to artists and galleries alike at all levels of practice, Art Brooklyn recovers the standard of an art fair as a platform for presenting the best work by living artists.

ABOUT VERGE

Verge is an international platform for the most exciting and interesting in new and emerging art. Verge exists to establish boundaries of the extraordinary as a counter to the natural compulsion towards stagnation in the way art is evaluated and delivered to the public. Staying true to this necessary state for the advancement of art requires a sustained focus on the best new ideas and practices of those marginal or newly emerging to international art audiences. The satisfaction of this fixed requirement for a healthy and competitive artistic culture is at the core of Verge as an international exposition of the highest quality artistic production and the galleries, museums and audiences who sustain it.

PUBLIC HOURS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 3 – 5 March, Noon to 10 pm
Sunday, 6 March, Noon to 6 pm

OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION
Thursday, 3 March, 2011, 10:00 pm to 2 am

http://www.brooklynartfair.com/

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Scope Art Fair (Manhattan, NY) – Armory Week

February 9, 2011 , , , , , ,

Scope

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New York’s Destination Fair Commandeers
60,000 square foot Hall Minutes from Armory Show

NEW YORK- 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 on Wednesday, March 2 with the FirstView benefit.

This year’s New York edition of the fair, March 2–March 6, 2011, will present 50 international galleries from four continents and sixteen countries including China, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Spain, and Canada. SCOPE New York’s invitees will uphold its unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows providing the real opportunity for gallerists, collectors, curators, artists, critics and art lovers alike to experience a view of the contemporary art market available nowhere else.

“Our new monumental location will highlight SCOPE’s core mission of introducing international galleries alongside museum quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events. Anchoring SCOPE as New York’s destination fair, programming expands in partnership with local and international cultural organizations, featuring: film, music, installation and performance. “SCOPE New York will again highlight our lead role as creative R+D for a wider audience of taste makers who make art their business” says SCOPE President & Founder Alexis Hubshman.

With over 40 fairs spanning ten years in Miami, Basel, New York, London, and the Hamptons, SCOPE Art Show’s have hosted an impressive line-up of A-list galleries, blue-chip institutional groups, and respected patrons, garnering critical acclaim, sales of over $150 million and attendance of over 350,000 visitors.

Location
320 West St (West Side Highway)
Across from Pier 40
New York NY 10014

Opening Schedule
FirstView
(For VIPs and Press
or $100 donation at the door)
Wednesday | March 2 | 3pm-9pm

General Admission Fair Hours
Thursday | March 3 | noon – 8pm
Friday | March 4 | noon – 8pm
Saturday | March 5 | noon – 8pm
Sunday | March 6 | noon – 7pm

SCOPE FOUNDATION
Program to be announced

Admission
Free for VIP cardholders
FirstView | Wednesday Only | $100
General | Thursday – Sunday | $20
Student | Thursday – Sunday | $10

Subway
SCOPE’S 320 West St entrance is walkable from the Subway Spring St A,C,E and Subway Houston st 1,2. Christopher St PATH train is also close by. Upon exiting these stations head west towards West St (West Side Highway). SCOPE is across from Pier 40.

Bus
The following bus routes stop within the vicinity of SCOPE. The 8 line runs West on Christopher St. The 20 line runs South on Seventh Ave & North on Hudson St. The 21 line runs West on Houston St

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Pulse Art Fair (Manhattan, NY) – Armory Week

February 9, 2011 , , , , , ,

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ANNOUNCES METROPOLITAN PAVILION AS 2011 VENUE

MARCH 3-6, 2011 | Metropolitan Pavilion | 125 West 18th Street, New York

NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 – New York, September 15, 2010 – PULSE Contemporary Art Fair Director Cornell DeWitt announced today that its 2011 New York edition, his first as Director, will be held at Metropolitan Pavilion. Located in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, the centrally-located venue is a five minute walk from each of the major subway lines, and a fifteen minute walk from the Chelsea Gallery District. The new venue is also highly finished, featuring polished oak floors, cast iron columns, and comfortable amenities, including free wifi access for all exhibitors and visitors.

“After a thorough study of the available locations with our team, I have decided that our guests and exhibitors are best served by a venue that is both convenient and flexible, to accommodate a fluid and creatively produced fair,” DeWitt announced, continuing that “In the new location, where we are central to both the Chelsea Gallery District and a transportation hub like Union Square, we are not only a leader among New York art fairs, but now also by far the most accessible.”

PULSE New York will take place from March 3-6, 2011. On view will be approximately 50 contemporary art galleries in the main fair and IMPULSE section.

METROPOLITAN PAVILION
Metropolitan Pavilion is located at 125 West 18th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in the heart of Manhattan’s Flatiron District. For more information and to see images of the venue visit www.metropolitanevents.com

PULSE
Through its annual editions in New York and Miami, PULSE serves as the junction between central and satellite art fairs. Its exhibitors consist of a select group of leading and pioneering international galleries that present works by premier contemporary artists with those of emerging and undiscovered talents. A central component of the fair is its program of commissioned cultural projects that link its audience to all aspects of the visual and performing arts.

VISIT
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair at http://www.pulse-art.com/ or contact by phone at +1 (212) 255-2327.

FAIR HOURS
Thursday March 3 10am-1pm
Press and VIP Private Preview
Thursday March 3 1pm- 8pm
Friday March 4 12pm – 8pm
Saturday March 5 12pm – 8pm
Sunday March 6 12pm – 5pm
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