Read on Zeek “Relative Unknowns: When Images Outlast Memory, but not Meaning” By Danielle Durchslag January 21, 2014 Growing up in Chicago, the house of my childhood had the usual range of portraits on display, with a few unfortunate mid-90s studio shots of me and my sister thrown in the mix. My parents, like so many others, designated a specific wall to these images, the ones deemed important enough to merit framing and display. Most of us grow up in…Read More
Read on Slate. “Fantasy Versus Reality in the Online Dating World” by David Rosenberg Signing up on 16 online dating sites and going out on 100 dates in a year might not be something you’d talk to your mother about, but it does provide fodder for an interesting photography project. Sean Fader did exactly that beginning in January 2010 and suddenly found himself enmeshed in a project in which he felt like an “emotional train wreck.” Fader didn’t start out that way….Read More
Read on the Huffington Post. “4 Contemporary Female Artists Who Are Shaping The Future of Painting” by Priscilla Frank. December 19, 2013. The year 1913 forever changed the trajectory of painting. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were spreading the Cubist gospel, transforming the public’s understanding of not only painting, but of seeing. In the same year, Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” premiered at the Armory Show, taking abstraction to new heights. These artists did away with the…Read More
Denny Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo gallery exhibition in the United States of Nikolai Ishchuk, titled Indeterminate Objects and running from February 6 to March 16, 2014. Nikolai Ishchuk was born in 1982 in Moscow and lives in London. His work moves beyond the indexical image and even beyond the photographic object as such toward an expanded and more abstract photographic thinking. His most recent body of work, Indeterminate Objects, includes sculptures made with photographs, overpainted photographic…Read More
Round up of a couple of press mentions for Denny Gallery while exhibiting in UNTITLED. Miami Beach, December 2 – 8, 2013 BOMBlog. Denny Gallery mentioned by Omar Lopez-Chahoud in an interview by Tabitha Piseno. Read. The Art Newspaper. Elizabeth Denny quoted in “Untitled Stakes its Claim on Miami Beach” by Rachel Corbett. Read. Eyes Towards the Dove. Denny Gallery booth included in the lineup “Top Picks for Art Untitled Miami, 2013” by Katy Diamond Hamer. Read.
Exhibiting at UNTITLED. December 4 – 8, 2013 Ocean Drive & 12th Street, Miami Beach Booth B20 Artists on view: Jason Gringler, Nikolai Ishchuk, Ole Martin Lund Bø, Lauren Seiden, Jordan Tate Work available by: Michael Rudokas, Amanda Valdez, Nadja Frank
Read on photoworks Nikolai Ishchuk’s Offset series pulls apart the family album. Ishchuk has digitally reworked a set of found snapshots, separating the central figures from each other and leaving the middle of the frame oddly vacant. This gesture is a direct function of the Photoshop offset filter referenced in the title, a tool that automatically splits an image down the middle and reverses the pieces so that the centre moves to the edges and the edges meet in a…Read More
By Tina Rivers This show contributes to the heated debate over the relationship between contemporary art and digital technology by cleverly focusing on the idea of “windows.” In this context, windows is a double entendre, referring both to the long-standing metaphor for the picture plane in Western art and to the more recent use of overlapping frames to organize information on computer screens, challenging the window’s association with a single-point perspective. The artists in this show are fluent in both…Read More
Art in America “Works Off Canvas” at Denny Gallery, through Sep. 8 A concise and surprising group show at one of the Lower East Side’s newer galleries (it opened in early 2013 with a solo show by Amanda Valdez, one of the four artists in “Works Off Canvas). In addition to Valdez’s abstract assemblages incorporating embroidery thread and fabric, the exhibition includes Michael Rudokas’s compositions of layered semitransparent materials like tulle and chiffon, and Wayne Adams’s tactile faux fur pieces. Lauren Seiden’s…Read More
Departures Magazine – September 2013 “Doing the New New York Art Scene” by Leif Parsons Denny Gallery is one of ten art galleries on the Lower East Side listed and mapped in the September 2013 issue of Departures. “Elizabeth Denny’s eye for up-and-coming talent is on wide display at Denny Gallery (Amanda Valdez, in particular, is an artist to watch). The space is small and standard issue; the work is anything but.”
Lauren Seiden’s work will be exhibited in “Imago Mundi,” curated by Diego Cortez, works from the Luciano Benetton Collection. The exhibition coincides with the 55th Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. Opening on August 27 at 7 p.m. Running from August 28 – October 27, 2013. Read more.
Ole Martin Lund Bø completed a permanent, public installation outside of a school in Lørenskog, Norway this month. It is a group of sculptures consisting of 10 stacks of materials: rubber, three kinds of marble, travertine, acrylic glass, white and gray concrete, brass and stainless steel. The measurement of each sheet is approximately 35 x 43 inches and the “stacks” vary in height.
Jordan Tate: Gamut Warning at Denny Gallery from September 14 to October 20, 2013. Opening Reception on Sunday, September 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. Denny Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo gallery exhibition in New York City of Jordan Tate, titled Gamut Warning and running from September 14 to October 20, 2013. Jordan Tate’s work represents a shift away from the understanding of photography as mechanical reproduction and an acknowledgement of the image-maker as the mediator of sight….Read More
A selection of Nikolai Ishchuk’s recent works will be presented in the fourth and last installment of “The Studio Series” at the FoodFace space in Peckham, London. The program, curated by Louise Chignac of Goldsmiths MA Curating, is a testing ground to explore potential relationships between the two major places of art: the studio, where it is made, and the gallery, where it is displayed. Nikolai Ishchuk uses photography as his primary medium; it is both the source of his…Read More
View the video on Vimeo “New conditions create new possibilities and demands for new versions of ourselves…. It’s about transformation. It’s using the excuse of art to transform life, which is this wonderful perversion of the way we normally think about it.” – David Getsy, 6.28.13 at Denny Gallery David Getsy writes on modern and contemporary art and performance. His research focuses on the use of sexualities and genders as resources for artistic practice. His books include Scott Burton: Collected Writings…Read More
Read it on the Huffington Post. “Sean Fader Explores The Art Of Online Dating In ‘Sup?’” By Priscilla Frank. Posted 7/15/13. If you’ve ever taken your love life to the digital sphere, you’re familiar with the stressful, agonizing and self-esteem destroying task that is creating your dating profile. From choosing accurate yet complimentary photos to summing up your charm, wit and brains in a succinct bio, the challenge at hand is an arduous one. In an exhibition entitled “Sup?”, Sean…Read More
Jackie Mock has three artworks on view in “CHICK LIT: Revised Summer Reading,” curated by Molly Rand and Pilar Vahey at Tracy Williams Ltd., located at 521 West 23rd Street in New York City. June 27 – August 9, 2013 Press Release: “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”- Joyce Carol OatesTracy Williams, Ltd. is pleased to present Chick Lit: Revised Summer Reading, a group exhibition organized by Molly…Read More
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A Rock Shop, Pet Snakes and Abstracts: Gallery Shows for Artists Nadja Frank, Don Voisene and Lorna Williams By Peter Plagens Printed in the Wall Street Journal, May 25, Page A20 “Backstories have taken over much of contemporary art. Which is to say that knowing all the personal and political reasons the artist made the art is a prerequisite for any aesthetic appreciation to be had from it. In the case of Nadja Frank, who was born in 1980 in Germany…Read More
BravinLee Programs, 511 West 26th Street #211, New York FLOATER Clint Jukkala, Alexander Kroll, Evan Nesbit, Erik Olson, Eric Sall, Amanda Valdez May 22 – June 28, 2013 Opening Wednesday, May 22, 6-8pm Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, and consistency that exist within the eye’s vitreous humor. They may appear as spots, webs, fragments, or threads that float slowly before the observer’s eyes. In this exhibition, BravinLee programs presents the work of six painters, whose abstracted imagery is…Read More
Link to read on Art in America By aia staff. 5/2/13 With an ever-growing number of galleries scattered around New York, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Where to begin? Here at A.i.A., we are always on the hunt for thought-provoking, clever and memorable shows that stand out in a crowded field. Below is a selection of current shows our team of editors can’t stop talking about. Ole Martin Lund Bø at Denny Gallery, through May 12 This new Lower East Side…Read More
EXHIBITING AMANDA VALDEZ AT PULSE NEW YORK The Metropolitan Pavilion 125 West 18th Street, New York IMPULSE SECTION BOOTH I10 May 9 – 12, 2013
Photography’s Back to the Future at the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery Curated by Catherine Evans, William and Sara Soter Curator of Photography, Columbus Museum of Art May 2 – July 7, 2013 Opening Reception on Thursday, May 2 from 5 to 7 p.m. Artists: Amanda H. Cook, Dennison W. Griffith, Lori Kella, Tracy Longley-Cook, Rachel Girard Reisert, Francis Schanberger, Jordan Tate, Garie Waltzer, Janelle Young, and Christine Zuercher.
Useful Pictures at Michael Matthews Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 6-9 p.m. April 13 – 26 by appointment only Artists: Ben Alper, Heather Cleary, Bobby Davidson, Carey Denniston, Dillon DeWaters, Jon Feinstein, Brian Patrick Franklin, Jeremy Haik, Curtis Hamilton, Diane Neumaier, Sarah Palmer, Jordan Tate, Penelope Umbrico Image: Jordan Tate, New Work #137 on view in the exhibition.
