Melissa Pokorny (ways of) Exhibition Tour
Join us for a walk through of Melissa Pokorny's exhibition currently on view at the Front Room Gallery.
(ways of) on view through April 10th
Front Room Gallery
147 Roebling Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-782-2556
Front Room is pleased to present fifteen new works by Melissa Pokorny. These photo and sculpture-based assemblages range from small, singular wall mounted works to large-scale floor pieces comprised of multiple elements. Re-imagined common objects, ordinary materials used in unexpected ways, saturated colors, and textural extremes are a hallmark of her work.
Pokorny's constructed systems and collective actions suggest something akin to speculative biomes, or psychological landscapes. Individual works are re-collections of moments: lived, imagined, and borrowed. They are experientially derived, suggesting layered relationships based on memories of place, material affinities, (un) natural phenomena, and the desires of things.
Odilon Redon referred to his oeuvre as an “ambiguous realm of the undetermined.” This work also favors undetermined spaces, and between-ness.
Pokorny's new works, in this exhibition, negotiate ways of being, ways of knowing, and ways of looking. They are composed of multivalent shapes, engagements, relational entanglements, and collapsed temporalities.
Pokorny has been an exhibiting artist for over twenty years. Her large scale, assemblage-based sculptural works have been widely exhibited at venues across the US. Recent solo shows at Platform Gallery in Seattle and Front Room Gallery in New York augment a long career of solo exhibitions, beginning with Gallery Paule Anglim, in San Francisco and continuing with Bodybuilder and Sportsman in Chicago. Selected group exhibitions include venues such as Yerba Buena Gardens, Southern Exposure, Victoria Room, and New Langton Arts in San Francisco, Foodhouse Gallery in Los Angeles, Gallery 400, Columbia College,The James Hotel, and Devening Projects +Editions in Chicago, and The Richard Peeler Art Center at Depauw University, in Greencastle, Indiana. Her work is held in collections at Orange County Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Richard L. Nelson Museum at UC Davis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Richard Peeler Art Center at Depauw University.
Thomas Broadbent wins the 2016 New York PULSE Prize!
Thomas Broadbent in front of "The Challenger Craters"
We are thrilled to announce that Thomas Broadbent has won the 2016 New York PULSE PRIZE!
Awarded by a jury, the PULSE PRIZE is a grant which is given to an artist of distinction exhibiting a the fair.
Of Broadbent's work, PRIZE Juror Anthony Haden-Guest told artnet News "Most art, especially at art fairs, looks a whole lot like other art. Thomas Broadbent's work absolutely stood out for me."
Read about his work on Artnet.
The Super Defense Force vs the Titanno Beasts (The Fall of Skytopia) Performance
The Super Defense Force vs the Titanno Beasts (The Fall of Skytopia)
Performance:
Sunday, June 21st at 8PM
The Super Defense Force vs the Titanno Beasts (The Fall of Skytopia) is part of an on going series of collaborative multimedia performances involving live experimental music, shadow puppets, and Japanese pop culture inspired giant monsters and robots doing battle amongst luxury condominium city sets. The narrative of the performance involves a a super squad of military robotic defenders that do battle against a global giant monster epidemic. Max Salvo, the supreme commander of the Super Defense Force and Kungra, the evil master mind of the Titanno Beasts make dueling television proclamations that drive the narratives but also hint at themes of apocalyptic anxieties, militarism, terrorism and expanding class disparities.
This performance series is conceived by Mark Stilwell, with themes developed by a team of collaborators, live music performed by Brian Olin, Kevin Kozak and Mark Gonzalez.
The performers and collaborators include:
John, Nicte-ha and JR Bernstein
Carlos Hernandez
Keith Gopie
Mark Gonzalez
Angleo Roldan
Chris Paisley
Ethan Crenson
Yoko Stilwell
Brian Olin
and Mark Stilwell
Sonic Front Performance at Front Room Gallery for Williamsburg Second Friday
sonicfront at Front Room
Gallery
147 Roebling Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Friday, May 8th 8-10PM
http://www.frontroom.org
INSECT ARK
SEYHAN MUSAOGLU
THE SENSORIUM SAXOPHONE ORCHESTRA
sonic front is an exploration of electro-acoustic improvisation, electronic music, and sound art.
147 Roebling Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Friday, May 8th 8-10PM
http://www.frontroom.org
INSECT ARK
SEYHAN MUSAOGLU
THE SENSORIUM SAXOPHONE ORCHESTRA
sonic front is an exploration of electro-acoustic improvisation, electronic music, and sound art.
ARTIST
BIOGRAPHIES
INSECT ARK started
as a the one-woman solo project of bassist/multi-instrumentalist Dana
Schechter. Formed in late 2011, Insect Ark has been building a following in the
experimental/doom/drone scene in both her hometown of NYC and internationally.
Starting in Jan
2015, San Francisco-based drummer Ashley Spungin (Taurus) joined on drums and
synthesizers. Schechter will perform solo when Spungin is on the west coast.
Creating a
personal soundtrack to the human psyche’s underbelly, Insect Ark weaves a
brooding, textural landscape, a starless night spiked with light and flash. The
music braids together delay-drenched lapsteel, drums, distorted bass &
synths to create a sonic mural both uncomfortably intimate and icy cold.
Schechter has a
history working with other projects, notably as bassist in M. Gira’s Angels of
Light (Swans) and her own band Bee and Flower. Spungin is known for her work
with Portland based bands Taurus and Purple Rhinestone Eagle. Schechter is also
an animator and video artist working in the film business by trade.
Insect Ark’s
first full-length album, “Portal/Well” will be released on CD with
Autumnsongs Records, June 2015.
Previous releases include the 10” Vinyl EP “Long Arms” (2013, Geweih Ritual Documents) and the 7” Vinyl “Collapsar” (2012, Lancashire and Somerset Records).
Previous releases include the 10” Vinyl EP “Long Arms” (2013, Geweih Ritual Documents) and the 7” Vinyl “Collapsar” (2012, Lancashire and Somerset Records).
On these first
three releases, Schechter played and recorded all the instruments in her
Brooklyn studio.
The new duo
incarnation of Insect Ark recorded their first single together, “Windless”, to
be released as a lathe cut 7" for Utech Records and will be touring in
June 2015 in support of Portal/Well.
Insect Ark Photo
Credit: Caroline Harrison
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 multi-purpose art space SPACE DEBRIS. 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.
THE SENSORIUM
SAXOPHONE ORCHESTRA formed in 2008 as NYC's first full-on Saxophone
Orchestra. Since then, SENSORIUM has enchanted NYC audiences at Douglas Street
Music Collective, Goodbye Blue Monday, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn Lyceum,
Gershwin Hotel, Shea Stadium, House of Elders, White Box Gallery, 17 Frost
Gallery, Midtown Manhattan Library, Spectrum, The Front Room Gallery and The
WAH Center.
Their unique
single-timbre take on Terry Riley's minimalist classic "In C" is
available on Living Records, Wayside Music (Cuneiform Records), and Downtown
Music Gallery. The Pulse was provided by a Snare Drum rather than the
traditional Piano Pulse, suggested by Roger Miller. The orchestra performed IN
C numerous times including at the Midtown Manhattan Library without a Pulse.
"...a
haunting dissonant swoon like that of battling church organs, or a swarm of
bugs."
- Village Voice, Christopher Weingarten, 2009
- Village Voice, Christopher Weingarten, 2009
http://www.benmiller.info/SSO.html
http://www.sensoriumsaxophone.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sensorium-Saxophone-Orchestra/277106168999578?ref=hl
http://www.sensoriumsaxophone.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sensorium-Saxophone-Orchestra/277106168999578?ref=hl
Sasha Bezzubov: "The Republic of Dust" on view through May 17
Sasha Bezzubov: The Republic of Dust
Viewing hours: Fri-Sun 1-6 and by appointment
The Front Room Gallery is proud to present "The Republic of Dust," a solo exhibition of new photographs by the artist, Sasha Bezzubov. "The Republic of Dust" is a series of landscapes and portraits of foreigners and locals who coexist in the threatened environment of the Republic of Gabon's rainforest region: a microcosm of global trade and its ruinous effects.
Bezzubov, known for his previous work addressing such subjects as global warming and natural disasters continues his investigation into the impact of humanity's interaction with the natural environment. His photo- graphs, shot with a large format view camera (8x10" and 5x7") are so sharp the dried soil caking the fern leaves on the Gabonese road seems to flake off onto the floor before ones very eyes.
Bezzubov's photographs capture the beauty of the landscape and the massive upheaval caused by the extraction industries (such as timber, rubber, manganese, among other national resourcesgatheredfromtheforestand the land) on the tropical forests in the Republic of Gabon, considered one of the worlds most precious ecosystems.
In Bezzubov's Gabonese portraits an unlikely mix of locals and foreigners coexist in this forest, often with great tension. There are Gabonese villagers and indigenous Pygmies, migrant workers from neighboring countries, European technicians working in extracting industries, Chinese laborers, drug tourists, and a motley crew of conservationists, scientists, activists that come together in resource rich regions of the developing world.
Bezzubov is a two-time recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship Award. His work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Tucson Museum of Art; Museum Belvedere, The Netherlands; Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts; Wavehill, New York; New Orleans Museum of Art; and Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee. Bezzubov's first monograph Wildfire, was published in 2009 by Nazraeli Press. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York and the Joy of Giving Something Foundation, among others. Bezzubov's work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The Telegraph Magazine, Esquire, Newsweek, Art & Auction, and Details; and has received critical acclaim in The New Yorker, Freeze, The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail and Print. In 2012, The Sylvia Bongo Foundation invited Sasha Bezzubov to Gabon, Central Africa. "Republic of Dust" is a series of photographs that resulted from this experience. Bezzubov received a MFA in Photography from Yale University in 1997. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
The Front Room Gallery is located at 147 Roebling Street in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Gallery hours are Friday-Sunday 1-6PM and by appointment. Press contact: Daniel Aycock 718-782-2556
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
