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Pier 66
4-7 March 10
Zeitgeist is based in Paris and represents a small stable of emerging artists. ZEVS creates paintings of bleeding corporate logos which often take the form of public interventions. For Fountain, Denis built two massive monoliths wrapped in black plastic that evoked ominous associations with the World Trade Center towers.
Open Ground is a platform that serves as a loose community of artists who are open to collaboration and collective endeavours. Brynna Tucker weaves human and synthetic hair into abstract wall tapestries. I liked the decorative simplicity of Bicht’s contact paper wall installation.
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350 West Broadway
Until 12 April
More pieces from Brucennial 2010 produced by The Bruce High Quality Foundation.
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Brucennial 2010: Miseducation
350 West Broadway
Until 12 April
The Bruce High Quality Foundation once again curated and hosted it’s biannual counterpoint to the Whitney Biennial. The aesthetic was definitely rough and refreshingly DIY. While the quality of the work vacillated between banal and brilliant, the BHQF folks delivered a necessary forum and formula for operating outside of the commercial gallery system. The irony, of course, is that The Bruce High Quality Foundation was included in this years offering at the Whitney Biennial. As I mentioned in a previous post, I found the Whitney Biennial to be bland, discombobulated and extremely disappointing. While I generally love the work these folks produce, I wasn’t overly impressed by their contribution to the “official” Biennial.
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Tamara Kostianovsky
The Persistence of Agony
Emerging Artist Fellowship
Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Blvd, LIC, Queens
until 7 March
Kind of a lame version of a “Hirstian” title. The the fact that the recent rain had left the piece sitting in a pool of water might have sold it for me…
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Mads Lynnerup
Fix It!
Emerging Artist Fellowship
Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Blvd, LIC, Queens
until 7 March
I went out to Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City Queens on my birthday to drop off my own proposal for a project and I decided to tour the park despite the cold, wet weather. Most of the sculpture projects in the park are created on site by the artists over the term of their artist in residency grant. As a result, it’s not uncommon to see projects in various stages of progress. When I saw this piece I instantly hoped that it was, in fact, the finished sculpture. I loved the idea of a constantly “in progress” construction site as sculpture featuring the ubiquitous plywood enclosure and construction signs. In fact, this seems to be the finished piece, complete with video monitors depicting vintage construction/manufacturing footage embedded in the enclosure.
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Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer (bn Hope and Grand)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
If you are ever in the ‘hood, you should check out this tiny gallery space. Definitely DIY style…they sell ‘zines, CD’s, and artist made goods not to mention some great art priced for take home enjoyment. They have monthly art openings and the occasional music or performance show. You should become a fan on Facebook and check out their website.
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Hsin-Chien Huang
“Shanghai Shall We Dance”
Speed and Chaos (Group Exhibition)
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 W 24th
until 17 February
There were several interesting pieces of contemporary Asian art in this exhibition, but I found this video installation most interesting. An infrared camera eye captured the movements of the viewer and emulated them on screen in the manner of erecting and dismantling a group of brick buildings. This piece was a perfect parable for what I witnessed in China during my visit last autumn. The pace of construction was frenetic, with very little regard for the old while fetishizing all things shiny, new and technologically advanced. Strange considering the the ancient cultural history of China. Just one of many seeming contradictions that perhaps are destined to be perplexing to the outsider…
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Miroslav Ovcharik & Maximiliano Ferro
Recent Reflections
Rites of Passage
Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
until 11 February
So simple, yet so perfect… A telescope perfectly trained on a tiny, half-sphere mirror attached to the wall high above the gallery floor. When viewed through the telescope the distorted mirror image completely fills the visible space and shows a fish-eye perspective of the action in the gallery below. Initially, it took me a moment to realize what I was seeing.
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