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ALPHA & On Stellar Rays

dawire — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:37:16 +0000

Alpha & is an exploration of the body and the body in time. The exhibition proposes, or questions, transient acts and their permanence in the physical world.[...]

Sam Moyer at Rachel Uffner

dawire — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:30:48 +0000

Rachel Uffner Gallery is presenting until February 14th, a show of new work by Sam Moyer. In the gallery, Moyer will exhibit sculptures that explore the meeting point between the elevated language of abstract form, and familiar, universally accessible materials and processes. Incorporating photography, drawing and painting into her sculptural practice, the artist creates objects that somehow seem both handmade and prefab.[...]

Stanley Whitney at Team Gallery

dawire — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:10:08 +0000

Like a correspondent in the standardized Western mode, Stanley Whitney approaches the blank page of the canvas and begins to write his sentences, word by word, from the top left corner, concluding at the bottom right.[...]

Tracking the Lower East Side

dawire — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:16:04 +0000

For the last four years, the Lower East Side has been emerging as the place where young galleries have started to thrive. And as happening as Chelsea is on the first couple of weeks of September, the Lower East Side galleries have been consistently presenting contemporary artists with a cutting edge practice. So, during my last trip to New York, I ventured downtown to the Lower East Side for a couple of nights of gallery hopping.[...]

Michael Najjar at Bitforms Gallery

dawire — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:03:08 +0000

Bitforms Gallery is pleased to announce a third solo exhibition with German photographic artist Michael Najjar and the world premiere of his high altitude work series.[...]

Michael Smith & Mike Kelley at Sculpture Center

dawire — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:50:06 +0000

Who in the world goes to a sweltering Nevada desert for seven days to an event that boasts of an anything goes mentality? Well, approximately 50,000 thousand people. You can catch a glimpse of the Burning Man festival at the SculptureCenter in Long Island City, with Michael Smith and Mike Kelley’s first collaborative project, A Voyage of Growth and Discovery.[...]

Stuart Cumberland at The Approach

dawire — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:25:32 +0000

In a detached manner, alone in the studio, Stuart Cumberland begins painting by dropping his trousers and pants to his ankles and howling the names of his forebears.[...]

Michael Smith & Mike Kelley at the SculptureCenter

dawire — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:33:21 +0000

Opening on September 13th until November 30th, SculptureCenter in New York presents a video installation entitled A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, the first collaborative project between Mike Kelley and Michael Smith. A six-channel video and a 30-foot tall junk sculpture is included in the installation, both featuring Baby IKKI, a character Michael Smith has been performing for more than 30 years.[...]

Gedi Sibony

dawire — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:14:28 +0000

With his simple minimal sculptures, Gedi Sibony achieves an opening of a new, more complex concept of space. He uses packing materials and mundane objects, such as cardboard, pipes, plastic bags and carpets, to create a poetic interpretation of the surrounding environment, where ordinary objects are elevated to an elegant resourceful existence.[...]