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May 2012, this site is changing! please stay tuned.
Opening March 10, 6-10PM with Beat Nite: Bushwick Art Spaces Stay Open Late, The Commons is a two person exhibit with Julie Tremblay at Botanic Gallery, curated by Paul M. Nicholson
March 2 I’m presenting Turn of the Century New York: Then/Contemporary Display, at Modernist Manhattan, the New York Institute of Technology annual interdisciplinary conference
Listen Now! CRITERIUM Wednesday February 29, 2012 7:30pm with Graham Day Guerra, Joianne Bittle Knight, Nicholas Knight, Eddie Chu, Eric Hibit, Duhirwe Serupyipyinyurimpyisi Rushemeza and Derek Fordjour
Special Guests: James Ewing, Paul M. Nicholson, Nina Disalvo, and Julie Tremblay
Special thanks to: Brooklyn Brush Studios; Voice Memo, Audacity and Lame for Windows
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I’m participating January 21 in The Making of Americans, A marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s novel with Triple Canopy
Tableaux Parisiens catalog is out now!
December 2011 at Interstate Projects with All the Guns and White Flag
NURTUREart 2011 benefit, Chelsea Art Museum
NURTUREart Non-Profit Inc. is dedicated to nurturing new contemporary art by providing exhibition opportunities and resources for both emerging artists and curators. NURTUREart, our name is our mission.
TABLEAUX PARISIENS 2011 group exhibition, Do Right Hall, Marfa, Texas
Marfa, Texas, is a small town with an unusually pervasive burden of idealism and ideology. It is a desert mirage sitting at the intersection of several vectors: the fabled American West, with its rugged individuals and unfettered capitalism; Hollywood glamour, haunted by James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor; Minimalist Mecca, all right angles and shiny sun-bleached surfaces; and jet-set getaway, with glossy spreads in the high-end lifestyle magazines. The “Idea of Marfa” occupies much more space than does its speck on the map of the high desert plain.
–Nicholas Knight, Curator
TEXTURE.TXT 2011 group exhibition, Regina Rex
In the beginning there was God’s WORD – which must have been somewhat abstract. Words, however, or at least images of words, weren’t always non-physical, symbolic entities. The first recorded instance of human writing was a system of accounting incised into clay tablets. The relationship between words and the physical world has been the subject of much philosophical debate spanning over a couple of millenniums. From monastic etchings to puncture-pressing typewriters, the physicality of words took on many forms. Texture is just another dimension of text. Text can be emotional, intellectual, philosophical, lyrical, practical, scientific. But it always has a visual feel.
With the invention of the internet, and the predominance of virtual text, even letters on a piece of paper are acquiring a startlingly nostalgic quality. As a society we seem to like surface, to celebrate appearance, the material, the feel, the shell. TEXTURE.TXT is an exhibition that will explore the multiplicity of ways in which contemporary artists are using language to create literal and figurative texture in their work. Often times conflating text and texture, rather than focusing on words alone, the selected artists use different media to highlight the materiality of text and the textured meanings that evolve when words collide with surface.
–Regina Rex, Art Gallery