Read on NYblk. By Stephen Wilson / October 12, 2014 Amanda Valdez: Thick As Thieves at Denny Gallery September 10th – October 19th 2014 With one week left to see Amanda Valdez’s show, Thick As Thieves, at Denny Gallery in the Lower East Side, I can’t recommend it enough. The show is a breath of fresh air amidst the downtown gallery scene this fall. In contrast with the lowbrow, lowcraft that plagues the galleries nearby, Valdez has honed her…Read More
View PDF of Evening Standard – Homes and Property September 17, 2014 Too small for all those shoes, SJP? SARAH JESSICA PARKER, right, has put her Greenwich Village townhouse on the market. Could it be the wardrobe is no longer big enough? The big, stylish, five-bedroom New York property, below, which she shares with actor husband Matthew Broderick and their three children, was first put up for sale by the couple in 2012, but they ended up taking it off…Read More
View on NY Mag September 25, 2014 Tour a Newly Transformed West Village Townhouse By Wendy Goodman When I toured the forlorn Abingdon Guest House this summer mid-renovation with developers Ari Heckman and Will Cooper — who head up the team of young design talent at ASH NYC — I had no idea what a beauty it would become.
Read on Paddle8 Paper Tiger: Lauren Seiden & The Art of Crumpling. While artist Lauren Seiden’s monochromatic sculptures start out as airy sheafs of paper, hers is no zen, delicate practice: “I begin by wrapping [the paper], as you would a canvas, moving my body back to front, pulling and pushing it with my arms and fist. This is where the process becomes physical,” says the artist, who often completes this labor-intensive process in a Tyvek hazmat suit to keep…Read More
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Read on Refinery29.com Lauren Seiden (American, born 1981) New York-based artist Lauren Seiden wraps canvas with paper and works over the paper to blacken it with charcoal — sometimes only coloring edges and gulfs, sometimes darkening the entire crinkled surface. From a distance, they could be sculptures of fabric, marble, or wood, but knowing they are paper creates a pleasure in seeing how they’ve been utterly transformed into a reimagining of canvas, painting, and sculpture. (CK)
Jumping across historical periods and registering time in the form of its passing effects, Ledgerwood conjured an alluringly immersive, sensorial experience, and took a giant step away from her more typical engagement with the white-box gallery.
One of the prevailing (and surprisingly durable) trends out on the leading edge of contemporary photography is the ongoing exploration of photographic uncertainty, the place we end up when proof and evidence break down.
Thank You Paintings Exchange initiates a series of material, social, gestural, intellectual and monetary exchanges between artist and collector, with the commercial art gallery as site and passive participant. The fifteen paintings on view depict scenes of everyday life: a woman sitting on a deserted beach, children playing, cars parked in front of a suburban home, etc. Each painting has the text, “Thank You For Your…” painted on it, completed with words such as “Email,” “Poem,” “Kiss,” “Prayers,” “Dance,” “Pants,” “Thoughts.”…Read More
Denny Gallery presents “Frameshift,” curated by useful pictures, an artist-run investigation into the future of photographic practice. “Frameshift” focuses on the blending of classic photography and the digital world. The images are each manipulated via encoding, scanning, embedding or altering context.
Read on LVL3. Artist of the Week: Ole Martin Lund Bø Ole Martin Lund Bø has exhibited extensively in Norway, Germany and elsewhere. He had his first solo show in the US at Denny Gallery in New York in 2013. He has participated in several group shows at galleries, museums and institutions, including the Astrup Fearnley Museum for Modern Art in Oslo and the Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen, Norway. In 2006-2007 he was awarded the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP)…Read More
Read on LVL3 Media. Artist of the Week: Lauren Sieden Lauren Seiden (born 1981, lives in New York City) received her B.A. in Painting and Drawing from Bennington College in Vermont. Her recent exhibitions include Querencia at Denny Gallery in New York City, Action+Object+Exchange at the Drawing Center in New York City,The Last Brucennial curated by Vito Schnabel and the Bruce High Quality Foundation in New York City, SP-Arte in Sao Paolo, Brazil,Works Off Canvas at Denny Gallery, ORGANIX: Contemporary Art From The USA, curated by Diego Cortez at the Luciano…Read More
Read on LVL3 Media. Artist of the Week: Jordan Tate Jordan Tate is an artist and professor at the University of Cincinnati. He has been there for four years, and has really enjoyed the opportunity to work with an amazing set people across a variety of disciplines. Jordan relocated to Cincinnati from Calgary, Canada for his job at the University. The majority of his work over the past five years has dealt with the implications of the photographic image as an integral component in…Read More
Read on Blouin Artinfo “5 Must-See Gallery Shows: Lauren Seiden, Michael Berryhill, and More” By Scott Indrisek Lauren Seiden at Denny Gallery, through June 8 Crumpled, graphite-laden masses of paper assume the appearance of marble or stone in Seiden’s debut solo show in New York. They’re simultaneously delicate and imposing, practically begging the viewer to poke them, simply to see if they’ll yield or resist. (But yeah, don’t do that. Really.) As abstract objects — part drawing, part sculpture — they’re…Read More
Read on Blouin Artinfo “The Line Ventures into Art Wolrd with Artsy Collab” by Michelle Tay TheLine.com, an online fashion, home, and beauty retailer, is venturing into the art world. It has, via a partnership with Artsy.net, launched an exhibition and sale of art by contemporary artists such as Lauren Seiden, Sanda Iliescu, Jeffrey Hoone, Werner Bischof, Nicholas Alan Cope, Chip Hooper, Do Ho Suh and Tony Scherman. The works range from photography to mixed media collage pieces sourced from…Read More
Read on LVL3 Media “Artist of The Week: Amanda Valdez” Amanda Valdez is a Brooklyn based artist, born in Seattle, Washington. She received her MFA from Hunter College in New York City and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; additionally she studied at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. Amanda has been the recipient of a Yaddo Artist-in-Residency, MacDowell Colony Artist-in-Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Artist-in-Residency, and the 2011 College Art Association MFA Professional-Development Fellowship. Recent…Read More
Jordan Tate talks about SUPERBLACK Jordan Tate discusses his work as an artist and a photographer and new work showing at the Transformer Station March 28 – June 14 at Transformer Station. Produced by Transformer Station and directed and edited by Laura Ruth Bidwell.
Read on style.com “Exclusive: The Line Makes a Bid for the Art World” by Kristin Anderson Having barely marked its six-month anniversary, The Line just got one step closer to offering a 360-degree curated life. Vanessa Traina Snow and Morgan Wendelborn’s immaculately edited concept shop has partnered with online database Artsy (which counts Larry Gagosian and John Elderfield among its advisers) to venture into the world of art dealing. Beginning today, The Line will offer a selection of artworks by the…Read More
Read on ARTslant “Black as Midnight on a Moonless Night” by Natalie Hegert That’s how Special Agent Cooper likes his coffee, and that’s what I thought of when viewing SUPERBLACK by Jordan Tate, at Transformer Station in Cleveland, Ohio. “That’s pretty black,” says Pete Martell, as he pours a cup of coffee for Cooper in that first episode of Twin Peaks. SUPERBLACK is pretty black all right. In fact it’s the blackest black you’ll ever see. It’s… excuse me… really…Read More
Read on WCPO Cincinnati “Black Hole Sun: Cincinnati Artist Jordan Tate Plays with Perceptions of Light and Dark ‘Superblack’ is Result of Both Art and Science” by Matt Peiken CINCINNATI — Unlike most artists, Jordan Tate cares more about triggering reactions in viewers than he does about the objects he creates. Raised in Cincinnati and now an assistant professor of photography at the University of Cincinnati, Tate devotes his parallel careers in art and academia to shaping “how we come…Read More
Exhibition runs March 29 – June 14, 2014 Link to Transformer Station website SUPERBLACK is the result of a two-year research project in collaboration with scientists at the University of Cincinnati. SUPERBLACK is a physical body designed to absorb nearly all electromagnetic radiation (visible light, infrared light, ultraviolet light, etc.) and offer the experience of a localized, contained, and absolute darkness. At its core, SUPERBLACK is an exploration of certain dualities – subject/object, void/full, black/white. Tate’s larger photo-based practice further…Read More
Read on LVL3 ARTIST OF THE WEEK: MICHAEL RUDOKAS Michael Rudokas received his MFA from Hunter College in New York City and his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Visual Art from Marlboro College in Vermont. His first solo exhibition, Terrible Shadow, will be on view at Denny Gallery in New York City from March 20 to April 27, 2014. Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do. I studied both art and the philosophy of language as an undergraduate. Having always found…Read More
Nikolai Ishchuk, Indeterminate Objects @Denny By Loring Knoblauch/ In Galleries/ February 20, 2014 Read on Collector Daily. JTF (just the facts): A total of 16 photographic works, generally unframed and pinned to the wall with masonry nails or set on pedestals, and displayed in the two room gallery space and the back office area. 15 of the works are unique sculptural objects, variously constructed from gelatin silver prints, c-prints, cyanotype chemicals, acrylic paint, polymer spray, and cement, all made in 2013. Physical…Read More
Read on the Tenement Museum Blog “Contemporary Art with a Historical Twist” by Lib Tietjen Museums can have the bad habit of getting stuck in the past. At the Tenement Museum, we work hard to make connections to the present day, and we’re inspired by the bustling, ever-evolving neighborhood that surrounds us. To see how history influences contemporary art, look no further than the Denny Gallery at 261 Broome Street. The gallery ”specializes in work by emerging and mid-career artists whose practices are interdisciplinary, process-oriented,…Read More
