Monday, September 3, 2012
RAINBOWS&MARSHMALLOWS
Curated by Anne Huntington & Natalie Trainor
Takamichi Hair 263 Bowery Street 2nd Fl (nr Stanton)
Opening Reception: May 7 2012 from 7 to 10 pm; Viewing May 8 – 15 2012
RSVP: info@amhindustries.com
Announcing Rainbows & Marshmallows – an interactive salon experience with installation and digital performance works by Reid Bingham & Sean McIntyre, Kat Kohl, Suzette Guy & Jacob Abramson, curated by Anne Huntington & Natalie Trainor at Takamichi Hair on the Bowery. Join us May 7 to experience the lights come to life with live LED painting, colorful photo-booth innovation, cavernous sculpture and digital graffiti.
The salon experience will entice and excite the senses with fleeting and lasting marks creating dialogue with the Bowery and its surroundings using windows, walls and buildings as canvas, expanding mediums from performance to portraiture and toasting the evening with cocktails and marshmallows. After the bright rainbowed lights, digital tags and geometric sculpture at the favored downtown salon experience, Takamichi Hair, the Danish restaurant, Vandaag will provide an after party continuing the downtown lit conversation.
Curators Huntington & Trainor collaborate with acclaimed stylist Takamichi Saeki to dream up an interactive innovative experience blending art, hair and all that the Bowery has to offer.
YOUNG NEW YORK SILENT ART AUCTION & FUNDRAISER
ARTISTS: Steve Powers ESPO, Steven Holl, Dread Scott, Alfredo Martinez, Jesse Hazelip, NohjColey, Joe Iurato, Miguel Ovalle, Overunder, Gaia, Rudie Diaz, Marissa, Paternoster, Ian Kuali'I, LNY, Blackmath, Mare139, Doodles, Feral Child, Cake, ND'A, QRST, Sean 9 Lugo, Radical!, C215 from the Vandalog collection, Gilf, Rachel Hays, Alice Mizrachi, SUE works, Clown Soldier, Jill Cohen, Yulia Pinkusevich, Alyse Dunn, NEVER, Sheryo, the YOK, ASVP, Labrona, Then One, Tom Smith, Day Le, Danielle Riechers, Jon Burgerman, Darnell Scott, Nathan Pickett, Joseph Grazi, John Breiner, Anne Grauso, Beau Stanton, Jamie Bruno, Luna Park, Sam Dylan Gordon, Fay Ku, Michael Bilsborough, Felipe Baeza, Sam Fleischner, Cecile Chong, Romy Scheroder, Rena Leinberger, Rebecca Jewell, Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong
ABOUT YOUNG NEW YORK: Legally classified as adults in New York State, 16- and 17-year-olds are included in the adult criminal justice system from arrest through sentencing. Young New York (YNY) is an art-focused social justice project that raises awareness about this issue and the need for positive and constructive alternatives to the school-to-prison pipeline. Young New York is supported by the Goodman Fellowship at Columbia University and Brooklyn Defender Services.
ELEVEN CUBED: PRIMAL BEINGS, 11.11.11
Slightly manipulating the space, Grauso created a photo booth and was able to get some great primitive-esque portraits including those of Malcolm Harris, Anne Huntington,Gabby the Cat, Mario Fernando Jimenez, Mauricio Herrerro aka the Fireman, Miguel Ovalle, Darnell Scott, Day Le, Danielle Riechers, Max Jahn, Amanda Wong and many, many more. Food was provided by Fat Radish’s Robin Hollis, where she offered guests a variety of meat dishes that could only be eaten with their hands--everything was devoured by the end of the evening. More art happenings coming soon. Perhaps we'll see you then.
Ffp: October 2011
Viewing: October 29 - November 3, 2011 Location: 406 West 13th Street, New York, 10014 Reception: October 28, 2011 6 - 9pm RSVP & Inquiries: info@wolfanddaughter.com
New York – October 2011
Wolf & Daughter Productions is pleased to announce Ffp, a show that interprets fear and phobia along lines undefined by boundaries, be it sculptural, conceptual, drawn or installed. Curated by Natalie Trainor, the group exhibition features the work of John Breiner, Day Le, Joseph Grazi, LNY, Biz Lynch, Miguel Ovalle and Danielle Riechers.
“The shape and interpretations of fear are indefinite: first, because it is in perpetual transformation, and second, because it is completely subjective and uncertain.” Claudia Roselli, Writer, 2008
John Breiner’s mixed media paintings reflect the pressures of everyday life: fear of the end, fear of the end not coming soon enough. The colorful palette in his collection of work and its dark subject matter reveal the artist’s ominous thoughts, feelings, and dreams: eyeballs staring at the viewer, battles of nature, and the deadly game of chess we play day in and day out. Heavily influenced by David Batchelor’s Chromophobia, artist Day Le’s investigation of fear is centered on the use of language and its arbitrary relationship to color. Using detailed word maps as his guide and yarn as his choice of material, Le’s approach is to take language and dismantle the meaning into nothing more than shapes. The fear is not with color, but with language.
Exploring the theme of repetition with taxidermed bats, Joseph Grazi’s newest piece titled “Legends,” illustrates man’s extreme domination over our animal cousins through strength, fear and trickery. LNY questions himself and the viewer through large scale wall drawings focused on fear and phobia; drawing to help understand fear, not explain it, while confusing its meaning. Understanding fear as sprouting from the unknown artist Biz Lynch takes a scientific approach to combatting fear by disorienting the senses and inviting exploration. Using sound waves as a catalyst, the artist explores visual effects of light traveling through different materials, such as prisms, convex surfaces, and water.
Miguel Ovalle explores the communicative and visual possibilities of the written word by creating an environment that transforms and subjugates a mind that is cluttered with fears, anxieties and desires; thus creating a meditative state and cultivating new, more positive ways of being. Danielle Riechers’ video installation documents the artist sculpting and melting an ice figure symbolizing a woman, whom the artist never met, but nearly killed six years ago. Referencing the body position of Jesus in the Pieta, the sculpture is a metaphor for the ephemerality of life, ice, memory and pain.
Using location to color the experience, Ffp creates a multi-sensory installation that identifies, isolates and explores the beautiful and hideous qualities of fear and phobia.
LOOSEWORLD Pool Party Series
Three part series of live art each weekend in July 2011.
Southampton, NY
Curated by Anne Huntington and Natalie Trainor
Looseworld from DirtyToddlerStudio on Vimeo.
ALL CITY
JACOB ABRAMSON & SUZETTE GUY, AMIR BARADARAN, JORDAN BETTEN,
DIZMOLOGY, JASON EPPINK, ISAAC FORTOUL, ELLIS G, GAIA,
JOSEPH WOLF GRAZI, AMIT GREENBERG, JUSTIN JAY, GREG LAMARCHE,
MÖSCO, MARISSA PATERNOSTER, NATHAN PICKETT, RICKY POWELL,
DARNELL SCOTT, JASON SHELOWITZ (jayshells), SMURFO, HECTOR RUIZ,
UR NEW YORK (SKI & 2ESAE), XAVIER VEAL
Curated by Anne Huntington & Natalie Trainor
Location: 435 Broome Street, NYC
Reception: April 16, 6 to 9pm
New York – April 2011
We are pleased to announce All City, a show that reflects on the layered graffiti scene from the 1970s and 1980s to today. Once a sub-culture, the graffiti scene is now an art movement. All City includes contemporary and urban art, photography, hip hop, components from BMX, skateboarding, and surf cultures that speak volumes to the street and art communities. All City brings a select group of artists from these worlds.
Going “all city” means tagging all over – the five boroughs. Getting your tag on each subway line and each division, defining an identity. Much has remained the same since the film Style Wars debuted in 1984, but much has changed. The April group show, All City, manifests the solid energy of the scene highlighting the growth and dynamism of the movement by showcasing works in various media, art from the streets and defined by the streets.
Whether artists are in the streets, in a gallery or institution, the works are contemporary art. Works included in All City range from graffiti and street design, illustrations, collages to interactive design. All forms present the visual vitality found in the street. The graffiti and street designs of Jordan Betten, Isaac Fortoul, Ellis G,Gaia, Greg Lamarche, Mösco, Nathan Pickett, Jason Shelowitz (jay shells), Smurfo, Hector Ruiz, and UR New York complement the detailed, mixed media illustrative works that these same artists create. The show includes the original punk rock fliers by Marissa Paternoster of the Screaming Females and photography by Ricky Powell, Justin Jay, Joseph Wolf Grazi, Darnell Scott and Xavier Veal that encapsulates the ancillary, but equally important, elements of the movement. Jason Eppink, of the Underbelly Project, brings forth video documentation of street and secret underground installations through socially conscious shorts. Amir Baradaran uses interactive design to bomb iconic art historical works including Leonardo da Vinci’s renowned Mona Lisa, while Jacob Abramson and Suzette Guy explore digital graffiti through an ephemeral lens. The artists cross boundaries, defying categorization.
Huntington and Trainor sourced art directly from the artists, working with them to develop the roster and ideas to survey the scene from various perspectives. The art illuminates the individual artists’ influence on the movement; a multi-layered philosophy that continues to develop through the last few decades from the beginnings and considers the influential value of all media in this broad, international and extremely specific and pointed world that is street art.
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