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Olive Ayhens in The New York Observer

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:59:00 +0000

From this week's New York Observer.

Olive Ayhens in CityArts

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:16:00 +0000

Here is the review of Olive Ayhens' show in CityArts by Mario Naves. (Click on the review to enlarge)

Olive Ayhens in MocoLoco

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:09:00 +0000

Check out Mocoloco's mention of Olive Ayhens' show!

Amphibian Emergency by Olive Ayhens by sabine7 / October 29, 2009

Nature seems to be architecture's guest of honour in Olive Ayhens' new series of paintings where an endangered frog species takes over a new condo. The visit continues in Interior Wilderness when the great outdoors blends seamlessly into an elegant hotel. The boundaries continue to overlap, a reflection of our ever-changing world. Ayhens plays with details, scale, perspective and texture in her lush paintings and works on paper that also include cityscapes and landscapes from a unique point of view.

Artist: Olive Ayhens+ frederieketaylorgallery.com Nature/Architecture runs through December 23, 2009 at the Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York.

Tilted City

Interior Wilderness

Olive Ayhens, Nature/Architecture: New paintings and works on paper

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:25:00 +0000

Last night, Frederieke Taylor Gallery hosted the opening night of Olive Ayhens' exhibition Nature/Architecture: New Paintings and works on paper. We are thrilled to have this new body of work at the gallery. Her latest paintings give us a fresh and lively view of the environment we live in; dealing with the continuous discourse of the relationship between nature, architecture and urban landscape. On view through December 23.

Don't forget to stop by the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the Next Wave Art Exhibiton which also includes some of Olive's paintings- hanging in the main lobby!

In the Viewing Room-Nuit Americaine

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:41:00 +0000

In the Viewing Room, we are pleased to present "Nuit Americaine" curated by Jantien Jongsma on view through December 23.

"In the previous century, film-makers used to shoot scenes "day for night" - shooting night-scenes during day-time was called "Nuit Americaine". Black curtains and filters for the lens were used to dim the daylight. This exhibition is about suggesting night in fine art by choice of subject, use of color or specific technique. The works of pietsjanke fokkema, Elma van Imhoff, Jantien Jongsma, Geer van der Klugt and Paul Nassenstein make darkness visible."

-Jantien Jongsma, Amersterdam 2009

Olive Ayhens at BAM

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:10:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce gallery artist Olive Ayhens will be included in the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Art Exhibition, October 3 - December 30.

Cocktail Reception with the Artists and Curator, Dan Cameron: Tue, Oct 6, 6—8pm, Dorothy W. Levitt Lobby

In the Viewing Room: Color as Structure, curated by Julie Langsam

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:39:00 +0000

We are pleased to have Julie Langsam back on the East Coast. She has curated our latest Viewing Room show: "Color as Structure". The show features artists Timothy Callaghan, Donald Kimes, Valerie Molnar and Richard Roth. To quote Julie: "One of the exciting things about doing a project like this is the gift of being able to view work through one's own particular lens, in this case how color has ordered the work of a varied group of artists."

Federico Diaz: Adhesion Opening

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:57:00 +0000

Federico Diaz's first U.S. solo show, Adhesion, opened last night. It was a significant and successful evening for the international artist. We would like to thank all the museum curators and collectors for stopping by and supporting the show. Federico will also be having a show at Mass MOCA spring 2010. We hope you will stop by the gallery to experience Adhesion, a show combining the newest technology with ever evolving bio-morphic forms. It will be on view through Saturday, October 17th.

Welcome to the Fall Season

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:24:00 +0000

We are very excited about our upcoming show, Federico Diaz: Adhesion. The opening reception will be held on September 15th from 6pm to 8pm and runs through October 17th. Federico and his team arrived in New York late last night, they are tired and jet lagged yet happy to be in New York installing Federico's first U.S. solo show. Posted here are some images of the preparation and the art work. We hope to see you on opening night.

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000

BENJAMIN BRITTON, "The Error Chain", works on paper

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:05:00 +0000

We are pleased to present these gorgeous watercolor and gouache paintings on paper by Benjamin Britton. The artist will be at the reception which is also being held on Thursday July 9, 6-8pm. On view through August 14.

ALMOST HOME, curated by An Hoang

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:57:00 +0000

Our new show is up and ready for viewing. The reception for this show will be Thursday, July 9, 6-8pm. Here are some installation images of the show in case you are out of town. Hope to see you next Thursday! The exhibition will be on view through August 14.

In the Viewing Room

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:53:00 +0000

In the Viewing Room: Support, curated by Jeremy Adams
Featuring artists: Phranc, Stefan Saffer, Jeanne Verdoux and Zoe Wright
We have decided to extend this show through August 14.

Don't forget to peek into the flatfiles to see more works by artists from our previous flatfile exhibitions. The current inventory of works on paper in the flatfile drawers from our previous shows include the following artists:

Christopher Astley, Suzanne Bocanegra, Norma Jean Bothmer, Barry Canter, Carlos de Villasante, Alex Degen, Cheryl Goldsleger, Edwin Gunn, Benjamin Kress, Greg Kwiatek, Joanne LeFrak, Ted Mineo, Karl Nelson, Jennifer Perry, Sarah G. Sharp, Karen Shaw, Susanna Starr, Sarah Trigg, Anton Vojacek, Justin Valdes, Mark Williams, and Ryan Wigder.

Xun Dao: Seeking the Way

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:55:00 +0000

Xun Dao: Seeking the Way, Spiritual Themes in Contemporary China
Curated by Patricia Karetzky

On view through June 27

Some images from our current show.

Art Amsterdam 2009 with Pauline Wiertz

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:28:00 +0000

Last week, the gallery participated in the Art Amsterdam Art Fair in The Netherlands. Here are some images of new works by Dutch artist, Pauline Wiertz. All works are porcelain and feature unusual combinations of cast organic materials with unique shapes.

Photography by Ron Zijlstra

Federico Diaz Book Launch and September Show

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:11:00 +0000

This September, we will be launching the fall season at the gallery with Visual Activist, Federico Diaz. Federico Diaz is an artist and architect based in Prague. On Tuesday, May 19th, Storefront for Art and Architecture will be hosting a book launch for his new book 'Resonance'.

FEDERICO DIAZ
Resonance Booklaunch
May 19 2009
7pm
Book launch at Storefront Gallery
97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY 10012
Panel Discussion with Robert Buck, Federico Diaz, Alanna Heiss, and Jeffrey Kipnis.
Moderated by Joseph Grima.

Resonance
Visual activism, Installations, Architecture

Excerpt from IP phone conversation between Federico Díaz and Jeff Kipnis, April 22, 2009.

"Art and architecture, have over time, produced a highly specialized discourse.

… But let’s go back to this question of the Resonance sculptures. If you think of them as simulations, then the effect is to be fascinated by how close they imitate something else. But I have a different concept that I use, but I am not trying to impose it on this work. I have this idea that is called “re-origination”. I want to suggest the concept of Federico that helps me understand his work, it’s basically called re-origination. The idea is something like this: Let’s say you read a book, and you make a movie of it. Then I’m interested, first of all in the power of one medium to represent another medium is a really fantastic thing, and we should respect that, and not be afraid of it. So, the power of representation is really good, is important, on the other hand, what’s really interesting to me is when the movie can do something that the book couldn’t do. So, the book gets inside the movie and then becomes a new original condition. When I look at the Resonance sculpture, it’s really fascinating to me, not because they look like water, not because I don’t recognize the representation, but because they do something completely different; mostly because they are still, not because they are moving. And so, it feels like, not that it’s stopped, not that it is a picture of something that’s been stopped, but that it actually stops all the time around it, like in the Matrix.

And what I think is interesting to me, is that I don’t think that [this could be created by] any other technique or technology, but this is only something that could be done in rapid proto-typing, not because of the ability to represent so well, but the material itself, and the way it’s made, has this uncanny ability to produce this effect that nothing else can produce. … What you do seems different for me, there is a way that your project takes on a kind of original art condition. Basically, I don’t believe in such a thing as an idea. I believe that ideas are diagrams that change matter. … That’s why I think the work is so interesting.

I’m going to make it very simple. Caravaggio was a great painter. And most of his great work began with religion. Not all of it, but most of it. What he did, he would paint, for example, John the Baptist. But he would remove all of the evidence, the traditional symbols of religion. The art would make us confront the living reality of miraculous moments. I think that today science is like religion. In a certain way that’s interesting to me, Federico is like Caravaggio, in that he starts with science, and then removes everything that is scientific from it, to leave the part that’s about life. My theory is, from the moment he thought he couldn’t do what Caravaggio did, that’s all he’s been doing. The trick is to understand the relationship between science today, and religion in the 16th century.

Basically, there is something, and I don’t know what to say about this, there is some reason that digital methods can do it and paint can’t. Nietzsche was the first philosopher to ever use a typewriter. And his first publisher refused to publish anything, because he didn’t think you could write philosophy on a machine. There was a belief that there had to be a kind of intimate connection between the soul and the medium of expression."

Federico Díaz and his team, later named E AREA after one of their late 1990s breakthrough projects, have been working together for more than fifteen years. They have contributed to contemporary art with new stimuli that have broadened and transcended the current way of perceiving art and the concept of a work of art.

Every time Díaz presented a new interactive work, he caught the public’s attention. Resonance was published on the occasion of the international art exhibition Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 where the artist realized Ultra, a site-specific installation curated by Alanna Heiss and organized with P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

The cover of the book contains a thermo color that reacts to temperatures from 71,6°F/22°c. The color will change based on heat such as sunshine or human touch.

The book is published by Charta + P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in collaboration with Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář, Prague, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:02:00 +0000

The Washington Post has reviewed Jean Shin's solo exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. You can read it here:

And a friendly reminder: this is the last week of Ellen Driscoll's exhibition FastForwardFossil and Off the Books, curated by Benjamin Degen at the gallery.

Mary Lum in Art News May 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:13:00 +0000

Mary Lum's review is now out in the May issue of ArtNews. If you click on the article, it should show up in a larger format. We are thrilled that Mary's show "Edge Conditions" was also reviewed in ArtForum and Art in America. Just in case you missed those, here they are:

Art Forum April 2009

Art in America April 2009

Jean Shin on NPR's Morning Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:55:00 +0000

We are pleased to share this story on Jean Shin featured on NPR's Morning Edition.

Photograph by Michael Mansfield
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Jean Shin's solo exhibition opens today at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. and will be on view through July 26.

8th & F Streets, NW Washington, DC 20013-7012 (United States) Tel. +202 633 7970

Photograph by Michael Mansfield

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Photograph by Michael Mansfield

Smithsonian American Art Museum

For more behind-the-scenes installation images of her show, view them here.

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:37:00 +0000

Another great project Mel Chin has been working on is the Safe House project in New Orleans.
Click on the link below to listen to the artist speak about the project:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/vid eo/tech/2009/04/17/gsif.fundred.dollar.bills.c nn

The FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL PROJECT is an innovative artwork made of millions of drawings. This creative collective action is intended to support OPERATION PAYDIRT, an extraordinary art/science project uniting three million children with educators, scientists, health care professionals, designers, urban planners, engineers and artists. Together they are working to make safe the lead polluted soil of New Orleans that places thousands of children at risk for severe learning disabilities and behavioral problems, including violent crime.

Once FUNDRED reaches its goal of 3 million artworks, a specially retrofitted armored truck, running on straight vegetable oil, will be deployed across the nation to pick up the 7,000 lbs. of FUNDRED DOLLAR drawings. FUNDRED guards driving the armored truck will deliver the art currency to Washington D.C., where we will request from Congress an “even exchange” of 300,000,000 FUNDRED DOLLARS for $300,000,000 in funds and services to support the implementation of OPERATION PAYDIRT’S solution to lead-related health and quality-of-life issues still challenging post-disaster New Orleans.

http://www.fundred.org/

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:02:00 +0000

This Monday, April 27, MOMA will be screening Mel Chin's "9/11-9/11" at 7:00 p.m.
More information on the film below.

Mel Chin (b. 1951) is an internationally celebrated and socially engaged conceptual artist whose work encompasses several disciplines. Already well known for interventions, earthworks, drawings, and works in other mediums, the Texan artist recently turned to filmmaking. In 2007 he completed his first animated work, 9-11/9-11, which confronts a pair of historic September 11s: Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état in Chile, and the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City. The video will be screened twice, and a discussion with the artist and the audience will take place in between.

9-11/9-11. 2007. USA/Chile. Directed by Mel Chin. Screenplay by Chin, Steven Foster. Produced and edited by Chip Schneider. Animation by Planovisual Estudio de Animación, Santiago, from the graphic novel by Ignacio Moreles. With Lili Taylor. Courtesy Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York.

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:58:00 +0000

Jean Shin Common Threads
May 1, 2009 through July 26, 2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Friday, May 1
6-7 p.m. Exhibition viewing with Artist
at Gallery on the 3rd Floor
7-8 p.m. Artist Talk at Auditorium
8-9 p.m. Reception at the G Street Lobby

We are pleased to announce Jean Shin's major solo exhibition at The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. This exhibition features eight works created since 2000, including the new site-specific installation Everyday Monuments commissioned by the Museum in 2008.

And just in case you missed it, here is a link to the recent profile and review on Jean Shin from The New York Times.

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:31:00 +0000

In the Viewing Room: OFF THE BOOKS, curated by Benjamin Degen
Featuring works by Alex Degen, Eric Fertman, Justin Valdes, Anton Vojacek, Yuri Masnyj

"Off the Books" presents artists drawing in text-space. Using the vocabulary of typography, symbols, books, signs, newspapers, runes and digital space, these artists are engaged in an ongoing dialog about the changing nature of text and its place in art-making today. Text is presented as a bridge between the physical world and the metaphysical world; between narrative representational space and non-narrative abstraction.

Ellen Driscoll: FastForwardFossil, Part I

noreply@blogger.com (Frederieke Taylor Gallery) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:49:00 +0000

Ellen Driscoll

FastForwardFossil, Part I

Some images from our current exhibition on view through May 16.

The exhibition features sculpture and drawings by Ellen Driscoll which reflect her continued investigation of the impact of natural-resource harvesting and consumption on our landscape and its architecture.

Photography by Curtis Hamilton.