JANUARY 05-14

SYNTHETIC AESTHETIC

CURATED BY CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS WITH BRUCE MOORE . PETER SORIANO . DOREEN MCCARTHY . CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS . BERND NABER MICHAEL ZANSKY . JEAN BLACKBURN . CASSANDRA LOZANO

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday January 6, 630-9PM

Carcinogenic society: unnatural food additives; blasphemous compounds, pills, and quick fixes. Fertilizers, hormones, microwaves … Prepackaged readymade phosphorescence -

Synthetic Aesthetic comprises innovative current sculptures and bas-reliefs focusing on the use of tangible synthetic new media such as plastics, epoxies, and the like to create an abstracted and futuristic art that stylistically draws on many sources; from current industrial design to modernism in general.

JANUARY  19-28

ICONS OF THE 21ST  CENTURY

CURATED BY LISA PAUL STREITFELD . WITH VINCENT BALDASSANO. MIKE BIDLO. ABRAHAM BREWSTER. LAUREL JAY CARPENTER . ARTURO CUENCA . RICHARD HUMANN . BAPTISTE IBAR . ANTON KORUBSKY KANDINSKY . MARNI KOTAK . PETER KREBS . YULIYA LANINA . D. DOMINICK LOMBARDI  ABRAHAM LUBELSKI . RANAN LURIE . SOPHIE MATISSE . REUBEN NAKIAN . OLU OGUIBE KEVIN ROBINSON. GAE SAVANNAH.  DONNA SHARRETT. ANITA STECKEL.  MARGARET TSIRANTONAKIS.  SUSAN WEINREICH. FRED WILSON.  MYKOLA ZHURAVEL.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday January 20  630-9PM


Icons of the 21^st Century presents a new movement in which contemporary artists explore the forms of the hieros gamos, or sacred marriage of the opposites. The exhibition seeks to extend the dialogue between Wolfgang Pauli and C.G. Jung, who believed this emerging archetype to be the icon of the 21^st century.

FEBRUARY 02-11

SPEAKING IN STRINGS

CURATED BY D. DOMINICK LOMBARDI

WITH KEN BUTLER AND KURT COBLE

OPENING RECTPTION:Friday February 3rd, 630-9PM

These artist/musicians challenge the definitions of musical art and instruments with a provocative and animated dialogue between “hybrid” instrument sculptures and an automated “robotic jukebox” of strings and percussion. Function and form collide and transform in a charged audio-visual environment of hyperactive hardware.

FEBRUARY 16-25

MANIPULATING THE

FOUND BODY

CURATED BY KEVIN MUTCH

WITH ADAM KLINE . KEVIN MUTCH . ALEX RADAR . SHANE SWANK

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, February 17, 630-9PM

One of the hallmarks of digital art has been the explosion of strategies it has allowed for manipulating images. Manipulating the Found Body examines the work of four artists using digital imaging to radically reimagine found images of the body and its surroundings. Using varied sources (comic books, software, pornography) and imaging techniques (collage, distortion, corruption) these artists all attempt to disrupt the flow of images by which we picture ourselves.

MARCH 02-11

JILL CORSON: PHOTOGRAPHS

CURATED BY ELIZABETH STEVENS

PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH

YELLOW BIRD GALLERY

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, March 3, 630-9PM

Jill Corson walks New York's streets peering into shop windows. Her multi-layered, jewel-toned photographs juxtapose the bustling activity of crowded streets with luscious window displays. Her message is as clear as the panes of glass she shoots through: advertising seduces us into believing we need to acquire more.

MARCH 16-25

CHRONICLE

CURATED BY RICHARD ROTH

WITH SIEMON ALLEN . ROYCE HOWES . RICHARD ROTH

OPENING RECEPTION:Friday, March 17, 630-9PM

The newspaper has been a source for artists at least since Picasso and Braque adhered scraps of newsprint to their paintings. The three artists in this exhibition approach the newspaper from a variety of directions: socio-political critique, poetic exploration of image, and as source material for curating micro-exhibitions. These artists rescue the delicate pages of aging newsprint from oblivion and find meaning in the mundane.

MARCH 30 – APRIL 08

MAURIZIO BOLOGNINI

A QUANTUM INSTALLATION

CURATED BY ENRICO PEDRINI

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday March 31, 630-9PM

Since the 1980s Maurizio Bolognini has programmed hundreds of computers to produce inexhaustible flows of random images, leaving them to function indefinitely, usually without monitors. His unique research, which has been presented all over the world, is based upon installations generating out-of-control processes, and combining programming and communication devices. This research not only represents an original development in the art language, but also helps us to understand the complexity and potential of the neo-technological environment.

APRIL 13-22

I.D. CHECK

CURATED BY MATTHEW GARRISON

WITH GEORGE BOLSTER, ROBERT CONGER, LINDA DENNIS, MATTHEW GARRISON, GEORGE KIMMERLING, TIM LAUN, KATE TEALE, JONATHAN THURSTON, PAN XING LEI

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 14, 630-9PM

ID Check approaches the idea of identity as an outward projection of oneself defined by memories, imagination and experiences. Art has the potential to radically change one’s identity. This phenomenon takes on an even greater significance in our time of heightened security. Together the nine artists in ID Check establish identity as a malleable concept open to interpretation

APRIL 27- MARCH06

BEYOND THE THRESHOLD

A PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION BY

KATA MEJíA

OPENING RECEPTION:Friday, April 28, 630-9PM

BEYOND THE THRESHOLD will explore the human crisis of separation, the experience of moving through and beyond the crisis, and the process of reaching toward the discovery of a stable center. The 10 day performance will involve the physical transformation of both performer and space through re-enactments of the structures and habits of everyday life, ultimately arriving at a new beginning beyond the limenal state.

**Check website for performance shedule**

MAY 11-20

CUT IT OUT

CURATED BY CLINT BROWNFIELD

WITH ANITA SEAY . ANDREAS KOCKS . HENRY SANCHES . LAURA BREITMAN BERNICE SOKOL KRAMER

OPENING RECEPTION:

Friday, May 12, 630-9PM

Preschoolers do it. Matisse did it. They simply cut it out. Five top collage artists join together to exhibit their works using everything from paper and fabric, to metal-coated plastic and found objects.

MAY 25–JUNE03

MIDTOWN MEDITATIONS

AN INSTALLATION BY

DANIEL ROTHBART

CURATED BY ENRICO PEDRINI

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday May 26, 630-9PM


The business district of midtown, with its broad avenues, stately architecture, entrepreneurs, office workers and tourists serves as inspiration for this multimedia installation. The show will be made up of sculpture derived from vines, artifacts and refuse culled from a ten-block radius of the Roger Smith Hotel and video projections of performance work from midtown streets.

JUNE 08-17

THE FEMALE FORM: THREE VISIONS

CURATED BY DANIELLE MAILER

WITH ILISHA HELFMAN . DANIELLE MAILER . AMELIA DE NEERGAARD

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday June 9, 630-9PM

These three exceptional artists interpret the female body, exploring issues of sexuality, race, mythology, fashion, modesty and exhibitionism through out their work. Using various mediums, and a handful of materials each, the works in this exhibition serve as a reminder of the resilience of the human spirit.

JUNE 22 – JULY 01

KAMOKU

CURATED BY RIEKO FUJINAMI

WITH KEIKO NAKAMURA . ERI MIZUNO . JUNJI YAMADA . RIEKO FUJINAMI

OPENING RECEPION:

Friday, June 23, 630-9PM

KAMOKU: a japaneese word which describes an attitude of speaking less in order to express more; a space for silence between persons, meant to elicit a deeper, more subtle understanding. This show seeks to expose artists with very different motifs, styles and techniques, but all of whom have a sensitivity for “the silence before, and after, speaking”. Each one makes their art slowly and carefully, with many layers between their inner world and the outside, between existence and situation, between subject and object.

JULY 06-15

501 LEXINGTON

CURATED BY MCKENDREE KEY

WITH MICHAEL CATALDI, CATARINA LEITAO, MARIE LORENZ

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday July 7 , 630-9PM

501 LEXINGTON presents works by 3 artists whose work all addresses the idea of adventure or escape in an urban setting. Michael Cataldi, Catarina Leitåo and Marie Lorenz create site-specific pieces that speak to the notion of the urban journey.

JULY 20-29

WANDERINGS

CURATED BY DEBRA DREXLER

WITH CALVIN COLLINS .KAREN GOINS . PUNI KUKAHIKO .JULIE WOODDELL LAYMON . MARK MARESCA . ISAAC PARKER . BEN PFISTER DIETER RUNGE . KILEY SMITH . WILL WILLIAMS III

OPENING RECEPTION:Friday Jul 21 , 630-9PM

Through the deconstruction of maps these 10 artists from Hawai’I examine their own relationship to place and interrogate the concept of mapping. The process was begun through a collaborative “Exquisite Corpse”. Subjects investigated include; memory, globalization, anthropology, shifting weather patterns, nationalism, colonialism, racism, and Hawaiian cultural heritage and history.

SEPTEMBER 7-16

SCAPES:A BOLD NEW WORLD

CURATED BY D. DOMINICK LOMBARDI

WITH Joseph Ari Aloi aka JK5, Saul Becker, Toc Fetch, Ron Johnson, Michael Perrone, Liza Phillips, Kent Rush, Patricia Smith, Alejandra Villasmil.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday September 8^th, 630-9PM

Landscapes and seascapes are two of the oldest genre of the visual artist. Over the years, through Modernism and now in Contemporary Art, artists represent our world  through perspectives that lean to the psychological, where relative proportion can become a political statement, and individual features metaphor. For this show, Lombardi will select some of the most intriguing artists which illustrate these current trends.

SEPTEMBER 21-30

METEMPSYCHOSIS

FASHION SCULPTURE BY JOHN PERREAULT

MODELS: BRETT LITTMAN, FRANCINE HUNTER,DANIEL ROTHBART, RON SCAPP, MERYL SIEGMAN, BUNNY SMITH, KARA VANDER WEG, JEFF WEINSTEIN, AND OTHERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday Sept. 22 , 630-9PM

Metempsychosis, a site-specific work, imitates a high-fashion boutique by displaying John Perreault’s unisex line of jackets, overcoats and sarongs made from recycled or reincarnated men’s clothing. Logos, labels, man ikins, shopping bags, and an opening night photo-shoot are all part of the sculpture, signifying both the art and fashion systems.

OCTOBER 05–10

GLORIA GARFINKEL

– OBI PAINTINGS

CURATED BY PAUL SHARPE

& PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH PAUL SHARPE CONTEMPORARY ART

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday October 6 , 630-9PM

Gloria Garfinkel combines color and pattern in a powerful way that David Butler of the Ulrich Museum of Art has likenened to Matisse. Her work is inspired loosely on the culture and color of Japan and South East Asia. When she first saw a small Hiroshige print, her visual world became entranced with layering, mystifying, taking apart, and revealing. Garfinkel’s art is both beautiful and entrancing… always offering the eye new delights while challenging the brain and soul to see more and to live more with each encounter. Gloria Garfinkel’s work is presented courtesy of Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York

OCTOBER 19-28

COLOR CORRECTION

CURATED BY MATTHEW GARRISON

WITH JOEL CARREIRO . MARY CARLSON . NICHOLAS GAFFNEY . MATTHEW GARRISON . STACY GREENE . YUKO ODA .

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday October 20, 630-9PM

Research shows that behavior and perception are directly linked to the presence of color. The six artists in Color Correction investigate the exaggerated and enhanced colors of the new millennium. In turn, this exploration of contemporary esthetics reshapes perceptions of nature, history and current events.

NOVEMBER 02-11
FANTASTIC ROUTES
CURATED BY ALEJANDRA VILLASMIL
WITH JANICE CASWELL . ELISABETH CONDON . CLAIRE COREY . FRANKLIN EVANS . SANDY LITCHFIELD . KAREN MARGOLIS . CARRIE SOLOMON . SARAH TRIGG . ALEJANDRA VILLASMIL
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH GALERIA GALOU
OPENING RECEPTION:Friday, November 03, 6:30-9 PM

An exhibition of paintings, drawings and installationsdealing with notions of space and displacement, FANTASTIC ROUTES invites a group of New York City based artists to create methods of charting ideas, capturing memories, and expressing visions of the future in the dynamic, technology-driven context of globalization.

NOVEMBER 16-25

EELight

AN INSTALLATION BY

BILL FITZGIBBONS & CREIGHTON MICHAEL

OPENING RECEPTION:Friday Nov 171 , 630-9P

EELight, the premiere collaboration of sculptors, Bill FitzGibbons and Creighton Michael, transforms The LAB Gallery into an underwater sea inhabited by forms, which suggest the whimsical descendants of a distant union between eels and humans. A continuous, computerized light program that mimics the flow and density of seawater helps to create this aquatic illusion. Viewers, like visitors to an aquarium, may experience this other world only by looking through the glass.

NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 09

URBAN ALCHEMY

SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATIONS BY ROBERT DELL

OPENING RECEPTION:Friday, December 1, 630-9PM

Now powered by Consolidated Edison’s steam and powered previously by geysers in Iceland and Yellowstone National Park, these works have audible mammalian hot water circulation systems that make electricity directly from the temperature difference with the microclimate.  This creates visual ballads of brilliant LEDs, laser light and color where changes occur in a slow, rhythmic, turtle - time cadence.