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November 4, 2009 - January 23, 2010
Artists Reception: Wednesday, November 4, 5:30 - 8:30 PM
Opening at Tabla Rasa Gallery on Wednesday, November 4th, ABOUT FACE offers selections curated to turn around the viewer's expectations of the human face in art. Whether obscured, distorted, psychologically askew, or oversize in scale, none of the works resemble traditional portraiture.
Original contemporary paintings, photographs, sculptures and works on paper will be on display. Among the artists exhibiting in ABOUT FACE are Jeannine Bardo, Stephen Basso, Simon Dinnerstein, Anita Giraldo,
Clarity Haynes, Kiseok Kim, Alexandra Limpert, Alex Pimienta, David Prifti, Stuart Shedletsky, and Larry Siegel.
The gallery is located two "D" or "N" express subway stops from Manhattan to the 36th Street Station plus one "R" stop to 45th Street.
Ample street parking is available.
Tabla Rasa Gallery is free and open to the public. There will be an artists’ reception on Wednesday, November 4th, from 5:30 until 8:30 pm. General gallery hours are Thursday, Friday and Saturday 1:00 until 5:00 pm. ABOUT FACE remains on view through January 23, 2010.
Call 718.833.9100 for additional hours, events, and schedule updates.
Gallery hours: 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Thursday - Saturday
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New Presentation in Brooklyn Museum Contemporary Galleries, Extended Family: Contemporary Connections,
Now on View through Summer 2010
A new installation of contemporary art presents recent acquisitions displayed along with notable works that have entered the collection over the past five decades. The recent acquisitions range from younger artists such as Nina Chanel Abney, Shinique Smith, and Isca Greenfield-Sanders to more established figures such as Mary Heilman, Mitch Epstein, and Lorraine O'Grady. The presentation focuses on familial relationships, broadening the definition of family to include larger groups or communities united by shared values, identities, lifestyles, or emotional needs. Extended Family: Contemporary Connections, now on view through summer of 2010, includes some forty works.
The intergenerational selection of works on view demonstrates that familial relationships endure as a rich source of inspiration. Each of the artists expresses fluid definitions of the family and domesticity, drawing on experiences that are private and public as well as individual and communal.
Included in Extended Family are Nick Cave's Soundsuit (2008), a mixed-media piece that transforms the human body into a still life ornamented with scavenged materials, referencing a range of rituals from African dances to Christian liturgy. In the portfolio Samar Hussein (2003-09), artist Vera Lutter commemorates the civilian deaths in the war in Iraq since the American invasion through images of a hibiscus flower's life cycle. Forbidden Fruit (2009) a painting by Jersey City-based artist Nina Chanel Abney that is part of a series of works drawing inspiration from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, alludes to the chapter featuring a hookah-puffing caterpillar. Reception (2009), a complex installation by Vadis Turner, and The Couple (2003), an aluminum sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, make their debuts in Extended Families. Several recent, self referential photographs by the late Dash Snow are also included.
Among the other artists represented are Ghada Amer, Polly Apfelbaum, Tara Donovan, Mona Hatoum, Glenn Ligon, Joe Overstreet, Hellen van Meene, Michelangelo Pisoletto, and Andres Serrano. A few of the works were on view in the previous installation, among them Fred Wilson's Grey Area (Brown Version) (1993), and Mickalene Thomas's A Little Taste Outside of Love (2007), but the vast percentage of works are new to this presentation. |
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Lisa Kellner at
BAC Gallery
Surfacing Beneath
September 25, 2009 – January 15, 2010
Special Gallery Hours: Saturday, September 26, 12-4pm

During DUMBO Art under the Bridge Festival Surfacing Beneath is a site-specific installation that will evolve over time by Brooklyn-based artist Lisa Kellner. Kellner incorporates wall drawing with sculpture made from silk and pigments, exploring patterns of disease and cellular structure and its relation to human behavior.
In Kellner's hands, silk becomes a bodily landscape of organ like forms. For Surfacing Beneath, these forms adapt to the architecture of the space, creeping along walls and pipes. Here, Kellner’s work proposes an alternative to that which cannot be seen but is known to exist and grow underneath the skin.
This dynamic installation will evolve over the course of the 16 week exhibition as the artist returns to the gallery often to add to the work.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lisa Kellner received her MFA from the Art Institute of Boston. She completed her undergraduate studies at the School of Visual Arts and Boston University. She has exhibited nationally, including such venues as Transformer Gallery in Washington, DC, The Islip Art Museum in NY, and 808 Gallery in Boston, MA. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Sculpture Magazine. Kellner currently has a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space Residency where she is developing and installing A Proposition Ate My Marriage. In December 2009, she will present Suspended Presence, a solo show of her work at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Visit her Website
BAC Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 218
(Alternate entrance is 55 Washington St.)
Brooklyn, NY
Regular gallery hours are Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm |
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“Zoe Beloff: Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Its Circle, 1926–1972” Coney Island Museum
Sundays , Thursdays noon–5pm , Fridays noon–5pm , Saturdays Through Mar 21 2010.
This exhibition, part of a series of interventions by contemporary artists on the museum’s collection, showcases the short films of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society. Through Mar 21. Created by the media artist Zoe Beloff, the exhibition fills a room with drawings, photographs, artifacts and short films purportedly made by members of a previously unknown group of vocational Freudians founded, Ms. Beloff said, by a man named Albert Grass in the 1920s.
Ms. Beloff described the group as “the only amateur psychoanalytic society that ever existed in this country.” She explained that Mr. Grass might have been working at Coney Island the day Freud visited but only became familiar with psychoanalysis as a doughboy in Europe during World War I. Returning to Coney Island after the war, he gathered his circle of Freud admirers, mostly working-class people from various backgrounds, who met at the society’s office on Surf Avenue to pursue their interests in the life of the mind.
Ms. Beloff said she first became aware of the mysterious group after buying some old home movies at a Chelsea flea market.
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