Works On Paper, A Global Perspective
AT THE NY ARTS VENICE PAVILION.

On display from June 7 to November 22, 2009
Concurrent with the 53rd Biennale di Venezia,

NY Arts Pavillion Consorzio Cantieristica Minore Veneziana, will open with a gala reception to the public on Sunday June 7. With eight international curators working with a dozen different countries, the exhibition will feature works by over 100 artists and includes new works and on-site commissions in all disciplines dynamically executed on paper. The curators include L. Brandon Krall, Basak Malone and Tchera Niyego from New York, Agustina O’Farrell from Buenos Aires, Cosimo Di Leo Ricatto from Amsterdam, and Stefano Pasquini from Italy. Echoing the ideologies of the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, the NY Arts Pavillion emphasizes the process of creation and discovery. Marked by local and global relationships, aesthetics, and practices the NY Arts Pavilion comments on visual culture in a wider context, than the traditional art fair exhibition.

The location of the exhibition on the historic island of Giudecca will transform the island itself, into a visual art and media nexus for a full 5 months. In conjunction with several Internet projects, the exhibit will offer writers and viewers the chance to submit essays and comments on the nature and significance of biennials, fairs and public exposure for new and emerging artists. Works On Paper, A Global Perspective, echoes the position of the majority of artists featured, as they constantly work to respond and adapt to changing social and political conditions of the contemporary world.

At the end of the year The NY ARTS Venice exhibition will travel to China and be shown at Arts Space Beijing (www.nyartsbeijing.cn) for the duration of one month.

The Exhibition is located at:
Consorzio Cantieristica Minore Veneziana
Localita’ Giudecca 212/a
30133 Venezia (VE)

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TOM EPPERSON
12 BELOW
Opening on April 2, 2009
Tom Epperson, an American photographer who has been living in the Philippines for the past 23 years, will be presenting his first US solo exhibition, 12 Below, at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in April 2009. In recent years, Tom has been experimenting with the properties of ice, an unusual medium which is the inspiration behind this new photographic series.  While watching a documentary about the possibility of a future Ice Age, Epperson began to wonder what would happen if another Ice Age were to begin within the year. What objects from our civilization would the next generation find in the ice?

Epperson explains: “I decided to focus my story on one family, a Filipino family, and some of their most treasured belongings, most of which existed elsewhere, while some were uniquely inherent in the Philippines.”  Examples of the frozen objects include the rosary, dried fish, sampaguita flowers and the balisong (a collapsible knife used for self-defense).  Epperson juxtaposes this images to create an oblique narrative exploring issues of Filipino identity in our contemporary, globalized world.

In 2005, Epperson was honored with a solo exhibition at the Ayala Museum, one of the most important cultural institutions of the Philippines.  Entitled One Light, the exhibition featured 55 portraits taken over the course of the past 20 years of people from all walks of life, shot using only one light source.  Socialites, musicians, actors, businessmen, family and ordinary people were exhibited. 12 Below will be on view at Tyler Rollins Fine art from April 2 – May 9, 2009.

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April 16th - April 30th, 2009

Opening Reception:
Friday April 17th, 6-8 p.m.

Both the paintings and sculptures in this exhibition focus on the current upheaval that has gripped the border between the US and Mexico. The work investigates and scrutinizes the notions of violence and commerce, and how the border embodies two very different cultural mythologies that struggle to understand one another. Juarez, a border town that is heavily affected by the ‘Narco’ violence, has been a recurring theme in Tiscareno’s work for many years. The paintings precede the creation of the sculptures in the exhibition and begin to concretize the language that the artist uses to address issues of identity and loss. The sculptures, most of which were recently completed, were designed as studies for life size monuments that are intended to be installed along the US/Mexico border.

Tiscareno’s work is best known for its compelling compositions wherein traditional figuration is deconstructed along a system of semiotics. He has developed a signature style wherein method becomes narrative and multiplicity becomes the plot. Tiscareno has exhibited his works throughout the West Coast and in New York galleries. His works are represented in private collections and his images have been featured in several publications. Bedel Tiscareno currently lives and works in New York City.

For further information please go to
 www.broadwaygallerynyc.com

BROADWAY GALLERY

HAPPINESS
April 16 – April 30, 2009
Opening reception: Friday 17th, from 6 to 8 pm

With the high patronage of ITALIAN CULTURAL INSITUTE of New York City

Curated by Stefania Carrozzini

Artists: GIANLUIGI ALBERIO, DAVIDE ALBORGHETTI, EGIDIO CASTELLI, MARISA PEZZOLI, GABRIELLA PORPORA, LUIGI CHRISTOPHER VEGGETTI KANKU, EUGENIO VIGNALI, SUSI ZUCCHI

I have always considered art to be the principal means by which human beings communicate with one another thus feeling themselves to be a part of history and in harmony with nature and it is in this relationship that happiness resides. Pierre Restany

“HAPPINESS”, curated by Stefania Carrozzini, brings together 8 artists from Italy selected in virtue of their relation to the human experience of happiness. The exhibition is focused on the channels of happiness as light, space and energy captured by an open mind and a open heart Through different media such as sculptures, paintings, photograph, the artists testified their relation with happiness that occurred during ordinary time and life, but also as mysterious and inexplicable force that lead our creative process and our lives .

“The nature of happiness is the same as that of art: they are both revolutionary forces which stir from our thoughts and feelings and place such values as freedom and truth at stake. Art and happiness are tools with which to understand the world and human nature. They share two fundamental aspects of our being: on the one hand the desire for immortality, for duration in time, the aspiration to reach an ideal state, that of the work which represents Everything, means Everything, happiness and unhappiness, light and dark. On the other hand, there is the awareness of duration, of transience, of time, of all that is ephemeral, fleeting, worldly. When artists are absorbed in their work, they are completely immersed in a dimension which aspires to happiness as the original state of our being, of our creative intelligence. In mankind’s innermost soul the aspiration to happiness reigns supreme.

It is up to us to defend it from those who would like to suppress it. Happiness feeds on the immaterial, yet it needs matter and experience in order to transpire. Yet what is the nature of happiness? Is it a form of hedonism and asceticism, it is also the ability not to become the victim of and dependent on pleasure. For this reason art is the golden mean to happiness, because whilst being involved with matter, the artist is called upon to expand the limits of his being and can do none other than wonder at the existence of the world, than see it as a miracle with eyes which go beyond possession. The happiness of creating is above whatever joy may derive from the created object and it is immortal and because, like the patient gardening of our soul, it is a constant practice which lovingly sets us in the present with the poetic vitality of life.”(from the catalogue)

HAPPINESS is accompanied by a catalogue featuring a text by Stefania Carrozzini. The exhibition is composed by 20 artworks and is on view from April 16 to April 30 in the main space of Broadway Gallery .

Broadway Gallery Is Pleased To Present

Karl Stengel

A Solo Show

April 1 – April 15, 2009

Opening reception: Thursday 2, from 6 to 8 pm

Curated by Stefania Carrozzini

Production and organization: I AM. INTERNATIONAL ART MEDIA

“Looking at Stengel’s drawings one can realize that the limitation of expression, which is usually ascribed to this technique, does not really exist. Just on the contrary, a drawing is a perfect way to fully and spontaneously express oneself. The same can be encountered only in some forms of contemporary dance and jazz.” (Prof. Alessandro Tempi)

Karl Stengel was born in Hungary, in 1925. After the WW II, upon release from Russian captivity, he returned to Budapest where he studied at the Academy of Arts and Crafts. The first two terms were dedicated to the studies of stage design. Later, other departments offered Stengel a comprehensive education in the fields of graphic arts and painting. Even though Surrealism was then the official trend, he greatly appreciates the indispensable knowledge he received, such as the history of art and architecture, as well as anatomy. In 1956, the Soviet intervention in Hungary forced Stengel to leave the country. He came to Munich where he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. After a few years, which he spent in gainful employment, he moved to Spain where he completely devoted himself to painting. He returned to Germany and worked as a lecturer at the School of Pedagogy at the University of Munich. He also ran a private art school. At that time, his works were exhibited in Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart and Sommerhausen. Stengel moved his studio to Italy, where he has lived for the past 20 years.

The influence of the new surroundings, especially landscapes, can be clearly seen in his works exhibited in the Italian Cultural Institute in Munich in 1985. The exhibition mainly consisted of illustrations (then the artist’s favorite means of expression) for Boccaccio’s Decameron and Frammenti by Giuseppe Ungaretti. In the ensuing years, numerous exhibitions followed in Italy - Florence, Milan, Bologna, Piacenza, Parma and Lucca and Rome - as well as abroad, in the USA, Norway, and Romania. He also participated in large group exhibitions in Turin, Monte Carlo and Parma. This reflects the enormously high requirements that the artist imposes on himself and his work. Stengel’s art, paintings, drawings, monotypes and collages can be found in many private collections.

The Broadway Gallery NYC is please to announce

Du Champêtre_ Juggler of Gravity

A Solo Show by

L. Brandon Krall

HUMID or FRESH

Du Champêtre_ Juggler of Gravity will be on display from April 1st to the 16th, with an opening reception on Thursday April 2nd 6pm-8pm.

Leave meaning to the receivers, nothing in the koan of our masters chooses us nor do we choose them. Invert a landscape unfinished by finite mirroring, re cognition gives the zero point immediate readymade smiles.

L. Brandon Krall on her most recent works.

The Broadway Gallery NYC and World Art Media are pleased to announce

Harry C. Doolittle
A solo show
Opening Tuesday, March 16-31 2009
With an opening reception on Thursday, March 19.

Harry C. Doolittle’s paintings are an exploration of language with a deeper focus on the complementary dialogue between content, the space of the exhibition, and the perceptual process. Displacement, sequences, stratification, viscosity, morphological and semantic registers are the elements with which he explores these notions. Seeing reproductions of the luminescent, brightly hued abstract assemblage paintings by Harry C. Doolittle does not do these images justice. It is only when standing before these intricately incised and subtly rendered creations that their true radiance can fully emanate. In fact, it is Doolittle’s unique approach and process that gets lost in the reproduction, the results of which can only be viewed up close, when the painting truly comes to life before the viewer. This exhibition offers viewers the chance to truly experience a unique artist and his work in person.

No stranger to the art world, or his predecessors—including Piet Mondrian and Joseph Albers—Doolittle expands and improvises on the modernist vocabulary of abstraction using his own distinctive voice. Self-trained, the artist instinctually works automatically, employing his dreams as a rich source of vivid imagery and vibrant color. The results of this innovative and spontaneous process are kaleidoscopic bejeweled surfaces that evidence his idiosyncratic compositional strategies and sense of design.

For further information please go to
www.broadwaygallerynyc.com
www.worldartmedia.com
 www.harrycdoolittle.com

A UNIQUE RESIDENCY EXPERIENCE IS BEING OFFERED IN THE FALL OF 2009
THREE MONTHS OF INTENSE PRODUCTION FOLLOWED BY A SPRING EXHIBITION

http://meduse.org/oeildepoisson/_dossier/informations.htm

MANDATE :
As part of its 2009-10 programming, Québec City artist-run centre l’Œil de Poisson is offering to all artists, the chance to present his or her work in its main gallery following an in-house production residency. (more…)

The NY Arts Beijing Residency Program offers each selected participant a private bedroom, and a shared studio/work space/work-in-progress/project space. The program offers a unique opportunity for participants to work alongside up to three other artists also selected for participation in the program, and in one of the most dynamic art world contexts of all—the city of Beijing. The primary function of the NY Arts Beijing Residency is to provide a communal workspace and project room within the gallery which participants can explore their artistic practices in a new creative environment and community. Additionally, each month artists will have the opportunity to share their work(s)-in-progress during an Open House/Open Project Room event. Similarly, the artist will be listed on the NY Arts Beijing website to promote his or her work(s)-in-progress at the NY Arts Beijing Space/Project Room.

interested participants contact: malone@worldartmedia.com