Join us for an Evening of Performances May 3rd

7:30 Richard Kamerman and $am Pettigrew 
8:20 Duo
Kyungmi Lee and Mara Mayer
9:00 Duo
Plan 23 Trio (Peter Principle, Dok Gregory, and Jeremy D. Slater)

$am Pettigrew is a red bearded grizzly bear whose main weapon of choice is a tree (double bass), often augmented with a bow, a vibrator and metal poles. With this arsenal he dissects music/s, devours it/them, and spits it/them back out in a flurry of squeaky noise, drone, percussive whacks and silence. When not in bear mode, $am is a Co-Director of The NOW now, a co-conveyor of the Splinter Orchestra, a milk drinking performance artist, a bike tinker-er, and a coffee wanker/barista. To date $am has played music with a wide variety of artists form both the music world and the performance/dance scenes. $am currently resides in Marrickville, Sydney, where he has a room filled with cd’s.

Richard Kamerman prefers small sounds to large sounds but that doesn't mean they are always performed as quiet sounds. He also likes accidental sounds and collecting his instruments from people's trash on the street. He has no time for cigar breaks.

Kyungmi Lee
I'm a flute player based in Jersey city, NJ. I like to improvise. in kale elk, a duo with Elizabeth Kosack (keyboard, piano, mask maker) we play improvised music in masks and sometimes incorporate puppetry, theatrical and ritualistic elements to our shows. my formal training was at the Peabody Conservatory of music in classical performance and electroacoustic music.

Mara Mayer
Clarinetist and bass clarinetist Mara Mayer is the creator and curator of Home Audio, a house concert series in Brooklyn dedicated to new music. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, she performs with ensembles including the Nouveau Classical Project, Gamelan Dharma Swara, and the Mexican big band group Banda de los Muertos with Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega. Mara has also lived in the Costa Rican jungle studying white-faced capuchin monkeys.
maramayermusic.com/Mara_Mayer_Music/Music.html

Peter Principle
Best known for his 35 year association with the pan-national multi-disciplined performance music group Tuxedomoon (extensively described in the 2008 book "Music For Vagabonds" by Isabelle Corbisier), he has composed, played on, recorded or produced a myriad of published works within a wide spectrum of alternative music fields. Some of this work has been featured in productions by Maurice Bejart and films by Wim Wenders, and in the movie "Downtown 81". Releasing a number of critically acclaimed solo albums, he has performed in venues across the spectrum from the Pompidou Centre in Paris to the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, most recently in Berne, Switzerland. He was a guest of the Futureplaces festival in Porto Portugal Oct. 2011 where he organized a performance involving 12 musicians and a phalanx of hi powered car sound systems. In NYC he has collaborated with Dok Gregory mostly on ZGT since 2007, going twice to Russia, once with Zemi17 in support of the Gamelatron.

Dok Gregory (Doktor23)
Dok has been composing, performing and recording experimental/electronic music since 1983. His current projects include Zero Gravity Thinkers (NYC) with Peter Principle/Zemi 17, Silence Corporation (NYC/SPb, Russia) with Pavel Mikheev/Alexei Pliousnine/VJ Yuri Elik, and Future Dream Transmissions (NYC) with Masha Gitin. He has been a member of seminal NYC based audio visual group Amoeba Technology since 1997, toured and performed in festivals throughout the United States, Europe, Russia and South America and had recorded works released in most of the same. Doks' collaborative audio-visual works have been featured in programs at the Forum Des Images in Paris, Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, The Kitchen and Lincoln Center in NYC. In 2007 he began work on the ISRS system (a shortwave radio synthesizer) and continues to research, develop and deploy the technology. Dok has also toured and collaborated extensively as a member of Incidence Transmission Network, Psychic TV, Akashic Currency Bureau, Trance Pop Loops and the Ransom Corp. He is and has been based in Brooklyn, N.Y. for the past 20 years, and is director of the 23 Windows Arts Collective in Bushwick. zgt.me

Jeremy D. Slater is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, and installation. Born in Reading, England and a graduate of both SUNY College at Buffalo and School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Computer Art. Performances include sound and live performed video that is ambient and sometimes interactive/reactive Video work also includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. He is currently curator of a sound and video performances at Front Room Gallery. He has curated numerous performance events and gallery shows in New York including A Sound Show at Front Room Gallery, sound/video performances series kere.u and FLOW, Sun Khronos at Millennium Film Workshop, and Video as an Instrument. at The Tank and Supreme Trading Gallery. Jeremy Slater was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has attended the Experimental Television Residency, was guest musician at Watermill Center with Cave/Leimay, and was artist in residence at Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon in Seoul, South Korea. He has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. www.jeremyslater.net  www.parenthesismusic.com

Join Us For a Closing Brunch with the Artists, Sunday May 5th

 

"A Fine Line" Exhibition Extended Through May 5th

Rob de Oude

Rodger Stevens

Rosa Valado

                                                                                                                          
Closing Brunch: Sunday May 5th 3pm


"A Fine Line" features works by Rob de Oude, Rodger Stevens and Rosa Valado. This exhibition explores the concept of layering and repetition as a means of achieving a unified whole while exploring the sum of its parts. Simple elements weave together to create tapestries of grand design, with limitless functions available to each individual part. Through repetition and meticulous placement, base materials like copper wire and masking tape take on a greater form, creating visual stability while inviting close visual scrutiny. Crisscrossing lines, concentric circles, and repeating forms become their own miniature works, elemental to the final form yet definitive in their own right.


Each of the artists in the exhibition use the texture of overlapping linear forms to create a much larger whole. Rob de Oude makes straight lines bend using a complicated and overlapping grid, while Rodger Stevens bent linear sculptural works bring two dimensional linear forms to life in his overwhelming room-sized installation, and Rosa Valado’s architectural table-top configuration confounds and astounds with small, yet massive-seeming wire and metal forms. 

 

 

Ross Racine Featured in "X-Scapes" at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

Ross Racine is featured in "X-scapes" curated by Katie Murdock at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey, opening Friday, April 26th.  The exhibition will be on view through June 30th

Ross Racine, "The Oaks"

X-scapes (Studio X) is a group exhibition featuring the work of four artists, Stephanie Beck, Christine Gedeon, Danielle Tegeder, and , who investigate city plans through their artwork by creating fictional landscapes or cityscapes. These artists alter our perspective of community organization and challenge us to reconsider the logic of our landscape. Curated by Katie Murdock, the exhibition features abstract paintings, compositions and complex digital imagery.

Second Friday Performances: Noveller, Seyhan Musa, and Jeremy Slater!

Join us Friday, April 12th for Williamsburg's 2nd Friday Event at the Front Room. We will be presenting performances by: Noveller, Seyhan Musa and Jeremy Slater, in conjunction with our current exhibition: "A Fine Line" (Rob de Oude, Rodger Stevens and Rosa Valado.)

Noveller is the solo electric guitar project of Brooklyn-based composer and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. Handling the guitar as her muse, Lipstate summons a sonic palette so rich as to challenge the listener to conceive of how it’s housed in a s...ingle instrument manipulated by a solitary performer. Her one-woman guitar soundscapes have captured the attention of NPR, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, and The Wall Street Journal. Lipstate has collaborated with several renowned musicians, including live improvised duo performances with Carla Bozulich (Evangelista, The Geraldine Fibbers), David Wm. Sims (the Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid), and Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth). She has previously performed as a member of Cold Cave, Parts & Labor, and One Umbrella. Lipstate has also participated in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, Ben Frost’s “Music for 6 Guitars” Ensemble, and Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble. http://www.sarahlipstate.com/

Seyhan Musaoglu is a multi-media artist whose work spans the fields of live performance, sound art, film and video, and 2-D media. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources ranging from science fiction imagery, to fashion, to modern dance choreography, her work investigates the gap between sound production and music composition, contemporary feminist theory, and the history of avant-garde filmmaking. She has been performing widely with collaborations celebrated internationally in genres of sound and experimental noise. She is also an innovative independent curator, and is the founder of the sound, new media&peformance festival {SØNiK}Fest. Seyhan holds an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. Some of the venues her work has been presented at are: The Kitchen (NYC), New York Studio Gallery (NYC), Lit Lounge (NYC), Curta 8 Film Festival (Brazil), and Istanbul's famed venue, Babylon. To see some of her work:http://www.seyhanmusaoglu.com/

Jeremy D. Slater is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings. Performances include sound and live performed video that is ambient and sometimes reactive. Video work also includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. Jeremy was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has attended the Experimental Television Residency was artist in residence at Seoul Art Space in Geumcheon in Seoul, South Korea. He has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. http://www.jeremyslater.net/ http://www.parenthesismusic.com/


A FINE LINE CURRENTLY ON VIEW:


The Front Room is proud to present new works by Rob de Oude, Rodger Stevens and Rosa Valado. This exhibition explores the concept of layering and repetition as a means of achieving a unified whole while exploring the sum of its parts. Simple elements weave together to create tapestries of grand design, with limitless functions available to each individual part. Through repetition and meticulous placement, base materials like copper wire and masking tape take on a greater form, creating visual stability while inviting close visual scrutiny. Crisscrossing lines, concentric circles, and repeating forms become their own miniature works, elemental to the final form yet definitive in their own right.

Each of the artists in the exhibition use the texture of overlapping linear forms to create a much larger whole. Rob de Oude makes straight lines bend using a complicated and overlapping grid, while Rodger Stevens bent linear sculptural works bring two dimensional linear forms to life in his overwhelming room-sized installation, and Rosa Valado’s architectural table-top configuration confounds and astounds with small, yet massive-seeming wire and metal forms.

Rob de Oude’s paintings and drawings are composed of multitudes of meticulously placed and repeated lines to reveal geometric shapes and patterns. The repeated use of a single line displays the infinite possibilities of simple units towards seeking an orchestrated balance in a larger scheme. De Oude’s rigorous painting process consists of layering and weaving matrices of straight lines until, between the contrasting colors and crisscrossing patterns, grids begin to bow and warp.

In this exhibition Rodger Stevens’ installation of his linear sculptures create a space of inhabited entities, sometimes recognizable, often not, of shape and form—homages to often under appreciated things around him, they are like Egyptian hieroglyphs of our current times. Inside the space of his installation one feels absorbed and confronted, overwhelmed, by not only the objects around oneself but also by the shadows on the wall within this dense forest of sinewy metal.

Rosa Valado’s sculptures are inspired by sacred geometry, physics, and nature. Using a range of metallic light-reflecting materials, Rosa has been creating architectural forms that interact with the viewer, often containing an interior space that one can enter. Rosa, normally known for her massive public sculptures, is working on a smaller “table-top” ratio for this exhibition allowing the viewer to draw oneself inside the architectural installation, like a plan for an unworldly world’s fair unrealized.

"A Fine Line" Exhibition Opens This Friday

Please join us this Friday from 7-9pm for the opening reception of "A Fine Line" with the artists Rob de Oude, Rodger Stevens and Rosa Valado. 

The Front Room is proud to present new works by Rob de Oude, Rodger Stevens and Rosa Valado. This exhibition explores the concept of layering and repetition as a means of achieving a unified whole while exploring the sum of its parts. Simple elements weave together to create tapestries of grand design, with limitless functions available to each individual part. Through repetition and meticulous placement, base materials like copper wire and masking tape take on a greater form, creating visual stability while inviting close visual scrutiny. Crisscrossing lines, concentric circles, and repeating forms become their own miniature works, elemental to the final form yet definitive in their own right. 




Each of the artists in the exhibition use the texture of overlapping linear forms to create a much larger whole. Rob de Oude makes straight lines bend using a complicated and overlapping grid, while Rodger Stevens bent linear sculptural works bring two dimensional linear forms to life in his overwhelming room-sized installation, and Rosa Valado’s architectural table-top configuration confounds and astounds with small, yet massive-seeming wire and metal forms. 

Rob de Oude’s paintings and drawings are composed of multitudes of meticulously placed and repeated lines to reveal geometric shapes and patterns. The repeated use of a single line displays the infinite possibilities of simple units towards seeking an orchestrated balance in a grand design. De Oude’s rigorous and meticulous painting process, layering and weaving matrices of straight lines until, between the contrasting colors and crisscrossing patterns, grids begin to bow and warp.

In this exhibition Rodger Stevens’ installation of his linear sculptures create is a space inhabited entities, sometimes recognizable, often not, of shape and form—homages to often under appreciated things around him they are like Egyptian hieroglyphs of our current times. Inside the space of his installation one feels absorbed and confronted, overwhelmed, by not only the objects around oneself but also by the shadows on the wall within this dense forest of sinewy metal. 

Rosa Valado’s sculptures are inspired by sacred geometry, physics, and nature. Using a range of metallic light-reflecting materials, Rosa has been creating architectural forms that interact with the viewer, often containing an interior space that one can enter. Rosa is known for massive public sculptures that envelope the viewers. In this exhibition the smaller table-top ratio draws oneself inside the architectural installation, like a plan for an unworldly world’s fair unrealized. 

Sean Hemmerle: Rust Belt Closing Reception

This Sunday, March 24th from 3-5pm

Sean Hemmerle: 

"Artist Guac"Artist Talk 


Please join us for a closing reception/brunch for the “Rust Belt” exhibition with the artist Sean Hemmerle.
We will have food and drinks and Sean will be making his famous Guacamole for his “Artist’s Guac” Artist Talk

Sean Hemmerle "Rust Belt" Exhibition Opens Next Friday

The Front Room Presents:  Sean Hemmerle "Rust Belt" February 15-March 10, 2013 Opening Reception Friday, February, 15th 7-9pm Fri-Sun 1-6 & by appointment In Sean Hemmerle's poignant photographs of theaters, banks, factories, and abandoned houses in the "Rust Belt" the architecture is metaphoric of societal issues that have evolved over decades. Hemmerle's stunning photos create a visual language in textures of flaking paint, broken windows and decayed reflections in pools of frozen industrial interiors- that instills in us a feeling of loneliness and longing for these neighborhoods that have been all but forgotten. The Industrial Center of the United States once stretched from Chicago to New York City. Linked first by waterways, then rail, and finally by road, built by the likes of Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Ford, affluence blossomed in cities like Gary, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Albany with the advent of steel, rail, oil and associated industries. Manufacturing in the United States continued to outpace the rest of the world for almost 100 years, eliciting phrases like "American Exceptionalism" to mark this period of unprecedented growth and prosperity. When manufacturing slipped away from these cities the area began to die the death of 1000 cuts, and in 1976 Walter Mondale renamed the acres of darkened factories and streets stretching from Chicago to New York as "The Rust Belt". As the automobile industry declined, acres of downtown Detroit reverted to prairie. As steel production shifted to Asia, workers abandoned Braddock, and Gary. Citizens of Troy, New York know of the final resting place of Uncle Sam in the local cemetery and the shuttered houses that border it. Sean Hemmerle's photographs explore the architectural icons of American independence as they become repurposed into a new post-manufacturing era. Hemmerle's haunting images of these once bustling towns and city-centers explore the transformation into decay, as proud structures are reclaimed back into the land. Once glorious architectural elements have been absorbed into a contemporary post modernism, and long-standing hold-outs struggle to preserve at least an aesthetic of community. This is Sean's fourth solo show at the Front Room Gallery. His work has recently been shown at Paris Photo and in Bonn at Feroz Gallery. He will be presenting His Rust Belt work at the New York Public Library in May. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The International Center of Photography, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.