Frederieke Taylor Gallery

MARY LUM Review in Boston Globe

2012-01-31T08:54:00.000-08:00

Mary Lum, Incident 1073, 2011, photocollage and paint on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Mary Lum's work in the 2012 DeCordova Biennial was reviewed in the Boston Globe by Sebastian Smee.

January 27, 2012

Here is a quote from the review:

"...Time to turn to the good stuff. I liked Mary Lum, who lives and works in North Adams and shows in Boston at Carroll and Sons. Lum has a series of collages combining paint and photography, displayed here along the two walls of a narrow corridor. They are modestly scaled, but sprightly, and charged with a fruity sensitivity to color and a dynamic sense of space.

On one wall, the works are simpler, with fragments of color photography overlaying abstract shapes painted directly onto the wall. The other wall holds a series of busier collages that are framed and squeezed together in a horizontal row. It reads, as you move along it, like a love letter to Ellsworth Kelly, sent via Paris. For, as Kelly did in his early work, Lum uses oddly angled, close-in observations of the French capital - shop signs, the corners of buildings - as the basis of abstract compositions. Lum’s are more complex than Kelly’s, but they suggest similar whims, similar freedoms."

MARY LUM in 2012 DeCordova Biennial

2012-01-31T08:16:00.000-08:00

MARY LUM is currently in the 2012 DeCordova Biennial on view through April 22.

The 2012 deCordova Biennial Artists:

Antoniadis & Stone Caitlin Berrigan

Taylor Davis                   Jo Dery
Kim Faler                        Matthew Gamber
Jessica Gath                 Jonathan Gitelson
Eric Gottesman             Corin Hewitt
Lauren Kalman             Steve Lambert
Mary Lum                       Megan and Murray McMillan
Ann Pibal                        Matt Saunders
South End Knitters      Chris Taylor
Ven Voisey                    Anna Von Mertens
Joe Wardwell               Cullen Bryant Washington, Jr.
Joe Zane

Art review: Benjamin Britton at Ruth Bachofner Gallery

2012-01-31T08:07:00.000-08:00

Art review: Benjamin Britton at Ruth Bachofner Gallery

January 19, 2012

The paintings on view in “Prevailing Conditions,” Benjamin Britton’s second solo show at Ruth Bachofner Gallery, are brassy, internally spring-loaded abstractions that have the feel of being much bigger than they are. Fragmented nearly to the point of pictorial dishevelment — pattern upon pattern, gesture upon gesture, with vague allusions to recognizable forms strewn in among heaps of indeterminate strokes and swirls — they manage to contain the energy of an impact: a fevered, climactic coming together that only just precedes a falling apart.

It is a winning palette, more than anything, that keeps the paintings contained. Energetically varied and deliciously nuanced, bold without being gaudy or simplistic, Britton’s use of color has an intriguing edge, a confident, indissoluble character that carries the chaos with apparent ease.

-- Holly Myers

Ruth Bachofner Gallery, 2525 Michigan Ave., G2, Santa Monica, (310) 829-3300 through Feb. 25. Closed Sunday and Monday. www.ruthbachofnergallery.com

Image: Benjamin Britton, "A Treasured Ability to Set Fires and Feed Them," 2011. From Ruth Bachofner Gallery.

BENJAMIN BRITTON at RUTH BACHOFNER Gallery

2012-01-17T11:49:00.000-08:00

We are pleased to let you know artist BENJAMIN BRITTON has an exhibition at Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, California.

Noted Among The Diversionary Matters-of-Concern
©2011, Benjamin Britton
Oil on panel 33” x 31.5”

Benjamin Britton

Prevailing Conditions
January 14, 2012 through February 11, 2012

Ruth Bachofner Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite G2
Santa Monica, CA 90404

KIRSTEN NELSON, Broken Homes at Momenta Art

2012-01-17T11:41:00.000-08:00

Broken Homes

December 9th through January 22nd*
Opening Reception: Friday, December 9th from 6 to 9pm
*Momenta will be closed from December 20th through January 4th

Click here for image gallery

Momenta Art is pleased to present Broken Homes, a group show featuring work by Francis Cape, Kate Gilmore, Lisa Kirk, Marni Kotak, Anthony Marchetti, Gordon Matta-Clark, Kirsten Nelson, Leah Oates, Naomi Safran-Hon and Peter Scott.

Go here for more information about the show.

2011-11-15T08:45:00.001-08:00

We are pleased to announce MARY LUM is included in this group show opening tonight, Tuesday November 15, curated by Josh Blackwell. On view through January 22, 2012.

ZÜRCHER Studio
33 Bleecker Street (at Mott St.), subway line 6 to Bleecker St. and B,D,F,V to Broadway-Lafayette

UNDEREMPLOYEDCurated by Josh Blackwell
Brian Belott, Josh Blackwell, Rochelle Feinstein, Viktor Kopp, Miranda Lichtenstein, MaryLum, Keiko Narahashi, Lizzie Scott, B Wurtz
November 15, 2011 – January 22, 2012Opening Tuesday, November 15 from 6 -8 PM

MARION WILSON at 37PK

2011-10-11T13:24:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to announce MARION WILSON is in a group exhibition

Scenery, Landscape in the 21st Century, curated by Tanya Rumpff

October 15 through December 11

Artists included:

Jonathan Bragdon, Hans Broek, Berend Strik

Geer van der Klugt, Driessens & Verstappen

Hans Op de Beeck, Marion Wilson, Robert Nicol

Frederique Masselink-van Rijn, Sven Kroner

37PK, Platform voor Kunsten

Groot Heiligland 37 | 2011 EP Haarlem

The Netherlands

023 551 84 32 | www.37pk.nl

MARY LUM at SCAD

2011-09-13T08:40:00.000-07:00

Mary Lum Exhibition: "Shifting Perspective"

2 EXHIBITIONS at SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN

AUG. 29 – SEP. 30, 2011

Alexander Hall Gallery | 668 Indian St., Savannah, Ga.

OCT. 13 – DEC. 16, 2011

Gallery 1600 | SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA

The SCAD exhibitions department presents "Shifting Perspective," an exhibition of paintings and collages by Mary Lum. In carefully constructed two-dimensional works, Lum incorporates architectural references through painted lines and collaged materials such as photographs and comic books. These vibrant, abstracted and compressed spaces depict what the artist describes as a "web of fragments" that relate to the ways in which we experience our ever-shifting urban environment.

Alexanger Hall Gallery
Artist talk in Alexander Hall Auditorium: Friday, Sept. 23, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Reception immediately following: 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday

Gallery 1600
Artist talk: Thursday, Oct. 20, 5:30 p.m.
Reception immediately following: 6-7:30 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The exhibition, artist talk and reception are free and open to the public.

New Book by MEL CHIN

2011-09-06T13:49:00.000-07:00

We are very pleased to announce MEL CHIN's first major publication, entitled 'Do Not Ask Me'. The book expands upon the 2006 exhibition 'Do Not Ask Me.' That exhibition featured a critical selection of key works created after The Menil Collection's 'Mel Chin', a 1991 exhibition. The works present a complex, original aesthetic and an extraordinary range of issues that intersect human experience, including intellectual and scientific investigation, dreams, wars, and political and social concerns.

Featuring essays by Marcia Brennan, Associate Professor of Art History at Rice University, Dr. Paul Farmer, University Professor of Harvard University and a founder of Partners in Health, James Harithas, Director of the Station Museum, James Metcalf, artist and educator who worked alongside Duchamp, Brancusi, and Robert Graves, Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, and a conversation between Mel Chin and Eugenie Tsai, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

168 pages in full color/ artist-designed cover

The book is $30 with shipping. Please call the Station Museum to order the book 713.529.6900.

The artist also has a solo exhibition of all new work, at the NAVE Museum in Victoria Texas on view from September 1 - October 16, 2011.

LONG-BIN CHEN upcoming exhibitions

2011-09-01T07:37:00.000-07:00

LONG-BIN CHEN will have a solo exhibition at NOW Contemporary in Miami entitled "BOOKFACE", September 10 - October 31, 2011.

The artist is also included in "Buddha Trails", Kunstmuseum , Bochum, Germany. Aug 28th - Nov30th 2011.

Works on paper by JUSTIN VALDES

2011-07-08T12:01:00.000-07:00

We have some new works on paper available by JUSTIN VALDES here at the gallery. We were first introduced to Justin's work when he was included in our Viewing Room show titled, "Off the Books!", curated by Benjamin Degen.

JUSTIN VALDES, "Stenicillin", 2011, acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 14 3/4 x 11 inches

JUSTIN VALDES, Untitled, 2011, acrylic and pencil on paper, 13 x 11 inches

The above two pieces are among the new works available from Frederieke Taylor Gallery.

The artist is also included in the following group exhibition, opening tonight at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery located at 205 Norman Ave., Brooklyn, NY.

Notable Henchmen

July 8th to July 31st, 2011

From 1980 through last week, Geoffrey Young has asked friends to supply him with drawings for his books of poetry.For three weeks in July, these drawings and books will be shown at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery.

Artists: Donald Baechler, Mel Bochner, Morgan Bulkeley,Kirsten Deirup, Carroll Dunham, Warren Isensee, Philip Knoll,James Siena, Nichole van Beek & Justin Valdes

MARY LUM Exhibition review in the Boston Globe

2011-06-16T10:49:00.000-07:00

A review of MARY LUM's exhibition currently on view at Carroll and Sons in Boston. Click on the image below for a larger version or go here for the link.

MARY LUM at MassMOCA and CARROLL and SONS

2011-05-24T10:36:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to announce MARY LUM is included in an exhibition at MassMOCA entitled "The Workers". Opening Reception this Saturday, May 28, 5:30PM.

For more information on the show, please see the following link:

http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=631

MARY LUM also has a solo exhibition currently on view at CARROLL and SONS in Boston. The reception will be Friday, June 3rd.

MARY LUM, Accidental Incident

at CARROLL and SONS, Boston, MA

May 18 - July 2, 2011

Reception: Friday, June 3, 2011, 5:30 - 7:30PM

[dNASAb] at Irvine Contemporary

2011-05-20T08:34:00.000-07:00

A recent review in the Washington Post of [dNASAb]'s solo exhibition at Irvine Contemporary in Washington D.C., on view through June 4.

Olive Ayhens in group show at Sue Scott Gallery

2011-03-22T08:23:00.000-07:00

OLIVE AYHENS has some works on paper in this group show at Sue Scott Gallery on view through April 22.

Sue Scott Gallery

1 Rivington Street

New York, NY 10002

[dNASAb] VOLTA NY 2011

2011-03-08T13:09:00.000-08:00

Thank you to everyone for visiting us this past week at Volta NY! Our booth was received with great enthusiasm. It was lovely to see old friends as well as new faces.

Overall, the fair was a huge success and business was brisk. Below are some installation images in case you couldn't make it.

Open Studios at Wave Hill: Marion Wilson

2011-02-08T07:58:00.001-08:00

Marion Wilson is currently an artist-in-residence at Wave Hill this winter where she has been focusing on the views and plant life on the premises of Wave Hill. This Sunday, February 13, you will be able to visit the artists in their studios as part of Wave Hill's Workspace Open Studios.

Winter Workspace
Open Studio
Sunday, February 13
1—4PM

WAVE HILL

Address
West 249th Street and Independence Avenue (front gate)
675 West 252nd Street (mailing)
Bronx, NY 10471-2899
Directions

Telephone
718.549.3200
Email
information@wavehill.org

Christy Rupp at Exit Art

2010-12-10T11:58:00.001-08:00

Artist Christy Rupp is included in this exhibition now on view at Exit Art and will participate in the upcoming panel discussion on January 12. Please see below for more details.

FRACKING: Art and Activism Against the Drill

December 7, 2010 - February 5, 2011

Exit Art announces Fracking: Art and Activism Against the Drill. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is a means of gas extraction that accesses gas trapped more than a mile below the earth’s surface. This exhibition, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), will expose this process of gas extraction that is contaminating water supplies worldwide. Through documentary videos, photography by Jacques del Conte and Michael Forster Rothbart, commissioned works, public responses and literature, it will engage the public in dialogue on this issue through public lectures and calls to action and encourage audiences to continue educating themselves and their communities on fracking and its detrimental effects.

PUBLIC EVENT

Tickets are $5. To purchase a ticket and RSVP click HERE.

THIS EVENT WILL FILL UP.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 / 7-9pm
Fracking and Its Effects: A Panel Discussion
Host: Mark Ruffalo, Actor / Activist
Moderator: Tracy Carluccio, Activist
Panelists: Joe Levine, Lobbyist / Activist; Michael Lebron, Grassroots Organizer; Al Appleton, Policy; Michel Boufadel, Civil Engineer; Christy Rupp, Artist; and a representative from “Gasland” to be announced

This panel discussion brings together leading experts and activists on hydraulic fracturing, representing multiple facets of this issue.

Mark Ruffalo is an actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is also a vocal critic of hydraulic fracturing, having recently appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the issue and the 2009 FRAC Act.

Tracy Carluccio is the Deputy Director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. She has served on several township boards, inter-municipal steering committees and community organizations related to issues of water and environmental preservation.

Al Appleton is the former Commissioner of NYC's Environmental Protection Agency and an international expert on water issues. He is also a Senior Fellow at the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems and an international consultant on issues of watershed and water utility management, financing, and land use.

Michel Boufadel is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Temple University and the Director of its Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection. He is one of the nation’s foremost experts on oil spills and the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposits.

Michael Lebron has had a varied career in site-specific / public forum media art installations, in advertising, and in grassroots activism. His public work has led him into a number of 1st Amendment battles, one of which involved an 8-1 decision at the Supreme court level written by Antonin Scalia, with Sandra Day O'Connor in dissent.

Joe Levine is the co-founder of NYH20 and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the Upper Delaware River Basin from the ravages of deep-shale gas extraction and the threat posed by the natural gas industry.

Christy Rupp is an artist and activist who has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally since 1977. Her most recent body of work deals with fracking, mountaintop removal and oil drilling in the Amazon.

“Gasland” is a documentary film directed by Josh Fox that focuses on communities affected by natural gas drilling. It was released in 2010 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize.

[dNASAb] at Storefront Brooklyn

2010-11-19T11:00:00.000-08:00

[dNASAb] has a piece included in Science Fiction at Storefront, opening tonight, Friday November 19th. The show includes works by Nancy Bowen, [dNASAb], Ben Godward. Meg Hitchcock, Jeff Hoppa, Linda Herritt, Marjorie Van Cura, and Letha Wilson.

Science Fiction

Storefront Gallery

16 Wilson Blvd

Brooklyn, NY

November 19-December 19

Opening Friday, November 19, 6-8pm

[dNASAb] at BRIC Arts Gala Tonight!

2010-10-19T09:07:00.000-07:00

[dNASAb] is being honored tonight as one of 20 Brooklyn-based contemporary artists who are emblematic of Brooklyn’s growing status as a world-renowned artistic capital at the BRIC ARTS GALA.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 6:30 pm
Stage 6 at Steiner Studios
15 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205

Long-Bin Chen Buddha Tower at Kips Bay Show House

2010-10-19T09:05:00.001-07:00

LONG-BIN CHEN's Buddha Tower is currently featured at the Kips Bay 2010 Decorator Show House on view
through November 11.

The artist's piece was mentioned in Thursday's NYTimes as follows:

"The most intriguing piece was a tower of acrylic vitrines filled with what looked like ancient stone Buddha heads but turned out to be sculptures by Long-Bin Chen, a Taiwanese artist who makes pieces out of the Yellow Pages, Sotheby's catalogs and other paper products. The heads were as soft as velvet; you could see the spine of the Yellow Pages behind each one. "

--Penelope Green, The New York Times

The Kips Bay Show House is located at:
106 East 71st Street, New York

To arrange for a viewing, please contact the gallery to make an appointment: info@frederieketaylorgallery.com or at 646.230.0992.

Kirsten Nelson LMCC Open Studio this weekend

2010-10-05T07:59:00.000-07:00

Artist Kirsten Nelson has been an artist-in-residence at LMCC's new studios on Governor's Island. This weekend the sixteen artists and collaborative groups will have an Open House where they will open up their studios to the public.

Dates and Times

Friday, October 8, 11AM–4:30PM
Saturday, October 9, 11AM–6PM
Sunday, October 10, 11AM–6PM

Come check out her new work!

Getting There

The ferry to Governors Island departs regularly from the Battery Maritime Building in Manhattan and Pier 6 in Brooklyn. Visit the Governors Island website for more information about visiting.

This is the last chance to visit the LMCC building for this season.

Jackie Ferrara Stairwell Project at Museum of Arts and Design

2010-09-21T07:49:00.000-07:00

CURRENTLY ON VIEW:

For the Museum of Arts and Design, artist Jackie Ferrara has conceived Traces--six wall drawings in the east and west stairways at the 6th floor and the landings between the 5^th and 6 floors. According to the artist they “allude to a perception of ‘before’". The drawings are of what is no longer there, and perhaps never was. Shadow rays of light form diagonals and curves around fragments of doorways. They are a vague memory, a suggestion or invention of what might have been.”

The installation was executed by Jackie Ferrara and Russell Busch

Antenna Design in Metropolis Magazine

2010-06-22T09:45:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Antenna Design, profiled in the June issue of Metropolis Magazine.

Intense Listeners | Metropolis Magazine

The designers speak about their project with Knoll in the Cool Hunting video here:

Christy Rupp, NY Times Science

2010-05-08T08:40:00.000-07:00

Below, a link to another review of the Museum of Arts and Design exhibit "Dead or Alive", featuring Christy Rupp.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/science/04angier.html?ref=science

NYTimes Review of "Dead or Alive at MAD"

2010-04-30T13:28:00.000-07:00

A review in the New York Times of the exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design featuring some of Christy Rupp's sculptures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/arts/design/30alive.html?ref=arts

MARY LUM receives Guggenheim Fellowship

2010-04-29T13:21:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to announce that Mary Lum is a 2010 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award. Congratulations Mary!

Christy Rupp at Museum of Arts and Design

2010-04-27T08:12:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to share this interview from WNYC featuring Christy Rupp, whose work is on view at the Museum of Arts and Design now through October 24, 2010.

http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2010/apr/23/dead-or-alive-museum-arts-design/

Dead or Alive

April 27 - October 24, 2010

MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN
2 COLUMBUS CIRCLE
NEW YORK, NY

Wake Up and Smell The Benzene

2010-04-14T13:55:00.000-07:00

New sculpture and collage in the project room from CHRISTY RUPP.

Her scrambled landscape collages and hand-felted wool oil containers refer to our careless dependence on fossil fuels and the devastating effects of our technological advancement on our environment.

10th Anniversary Invitational Part II

2010-04-14T13:21:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to announce Part II of our 10th Anniversary Invitational, our final exhibition at our current location. This show features gallery artists, Olive Ayhens, David Burrows, [dNASAb], Winka Dubbeldam, Peter Hutchinson, Julie Langsam, Raquel Maulwurf, Christian Moeller, Meredith Monk, Kirsten Nelson, Susanna Starr, Pauline Wiertz, Karen Yasinsky, and Thomas Zummer.

Poetry Reading

2010-03-25T08:35:00.001-07:00

Join us Thursday, April 1st at 6 pm for a poetry reading on the occasion of Marion Wilson's Exhibition, Artificially Free of Nature! The poets are Michael Burkard, David Eye,
and Timothy Liu.

10th Anniversary Invitational Part I

2010-03-04T09:20:00.001-08:00

MARION WILSON: Artificially Free of Nature

2010-03-04T09:12:00.001-08:00

In the Viewing Room: Forth Estate Editions

2010-02-26T12:27:00.001-08:00

In the Viewing Room:

FORTH ESTATE Editions, Recent Works

25 February - April 03, 2010

Glen Baldridge, Elizabeth Deasy, Alex Dodge, Rachel Foullon, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Joseph Hart, Butt Johnson, Andrew Kuo, Eddie Martinez, Phil Sanders, Suzanne Song, Ryan Wallace, Will Yackulic, Kevin Zucker.

OLIVE AYHENS at VOLTA NY

2010-02-16T10:38:00.001-08:00

We are pleased to announce we will be featuring works by OLIVE AYHENS at VOLTA NY March 4-7, BOOTH G-11.
VOLTA NY is located at 7 West 34th Street.
Thursday, March 4: 2-8pm
Friday, March 5 - Sunday, March 7: 11am - 7pm

Cooking with GalleryBeat Talk Show Hosted by Paul H-O with Dr. Lisa Levy

2010-02-11T10:22:00.000-08:00

The gallery is pleased to host Cooking with

GalleryBeat.

Saturday, February 13, 2:00pm - 5:00pm.

Paul H-O and Lisa Levy will be speaking with guests
Fred Tomaselli, Kirsten Nelson, Brad Kessler, Dona
McAdams, Fred Kaplan, Dave Hill, and Charmaine Wheatley.

MARY LUM, Edge Effects at Galerie Susan Nielsen

2010-02-02T12:26:00.000-08:00

We are pleased to announce Mary Lum's solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Susan Nielsen.

MARY LUM, Edge Effects
6 February - 3 April 2010
14 rue des coutures st gervais 75003 Paris

Happy New Year!

2010-01-06T12:47:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year! Thank you to all who came to the opening last night. We are pleased to start the new year off with 3 great shows on view through February 20th.

In the Main Gallery: Kirsten Nelson, assembly required; beautifully crafted sculpture with exquisite details such as hand-painted stenciling on drywall.

In the Project Room: [dNASAb], dataclysmic. New photographs and video sculpture. An environment of abstracted living organisms combining technology and sculpture.
In the Viewing Room: Poisoned Apples, curated by Monroe Denton. The exhibition’s themes are the joys and perils of childhood, as remembered and dismembered in imagination and memory. A variety of media in this show including drawing, photography, sculpture and video.

Artists included: Mary Carlson, Pamela Markham Heller, Charles Hovland, Michael Iskowitz, Jennifer Salomon, and Karen Yasinsky.

Olive Ayhens in The New York Observer

2009-11-19T12:59:00.000-08:00

From this week's New York Observer.

Olive Ayhens in CityArts

2009-11-18T09:16:00.000-08:00

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

Olive Ayhens in MocoLoco

2009-10-30T11:09:00.001-07:00

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

2009-10-23T11:25:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-23T10:41:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-30T10:10:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-16T13:39:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-16T08:57:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-11T13:24:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-07-10T09:00:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-02T14:05:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-02T13:57:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-25T11:53:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-29T10:55:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-20T09:28:00.001-07:00

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

2009-05-13T10:11:00.001-07:00

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

2009-05-12T08:02:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-07T09:13:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-01T08:55:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-04-24T11:37:00.000-07:00

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/

2009-04-23T08:02:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-04-22T11:58:00.001-07:00

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.

2009-04-22T11:31:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-21T12:49:00.000-07:00

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.

Frederieke Taylor Gallery

MARY LUM Review in Boston Globe

MARY LUM in 2012 DeCordova Biennial

Art review: Benjamin Britton at Ruth Bachofner Gallery

Art review: Benjamin Britton at Ruth Bachofner Gallery

BENJAMIN BRITTON at RUTH BACHOFNER Gallery

KIRSTEN NELSON, Broken Homes at Momenta Art

MARION WILSON at 37PK

MARY LUM at SCAD

Mary Lum Exhibition: "Shifting Perspective"

AUG. 29 – SEP. 30, 2011

OCT. 13 – DEC. 16, 2011

New Book by MEL CHIN

LONG-BIN CHEN upcoming exhibitions

Works on paper by JUSTIN VALDES

MARY LUM Exhibition review in the Boston Globe

MARY LUM at MassMOCA and CARROLL and SONS

[dNASAb] at Irvine Contemporary

Olive Ayhens in group show at Sue Scott Gallery

[dNASAb] VOLTA NY 2011

Open Studios at Wave Hill: Marion Wilson

Christy Rupp at Exit Art

FRACKING: Art and Activism Against the Drill

PUBLIC EVENT

[dNASAb] at Storefront Brooklyn

[dNASAb] at BRIC Arts Gala Tonight!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 6:30 pmStage 6 at Steiner Studios15 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205

Long-Bin Chen Buddha Tower at Kips Bay Show House

Kirsten Nelson LMCC Open Studio this weekend

Getting There

Jackie Ferrara Stairwell Project at Museum of Arts and Design

Antenna Design in Metropolis Magazine

Christy Rupp, NY Times Science

NYTimes Review of "Dead or Alive at MAD"

MARY LUM receives Guggenheim Fellowship

Christy Rupp at Museum of Arts and Design

Dead or Alive

April 27 - October 24, 2010

Wake Up and Smell The Benzene

10th Anniversary Invitational Part II

Poetry Reading

10th Anniversary Invitational Part I

MARION WILSON: Artificially Free of Nature

In the Viewing Room: Forth Estate Editions

OLIVE AYHENS at VOLTA NY

Cooking with GalleryBeat Talk Show Hosted by Paul H-O with Dr. Lisa Levy

MARY LUM, Edge Effects at Galerie Susan Nielsen

Happy New Year!

Olive Ayhens in The New York Observer

Olive Ayhens in CityArts

Olive Ayhens in MocoLoco

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

In the Viewing Room-Nuit Americaine

Olive Ayhens at BAM

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

Federico Diaz: Adhesion Opening

Welcome to the Fall Season

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

ALMOST HOME, curated by An Hoang

In the Viewing Room

Xun Dao: Seeking the Way

Art Amsterdam 2009 with Pauline Wiertz

Federico Diaz Book Launch and September Show

Mary Lum in Art News May 2009

Jean Shin on NPR's Morning Edition

Ellen Driscoll: FastForwardFossil, Part I

Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 6:30 pm
Stage 6 at Steiner Studios
15 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205