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Thursday, November 12 at 7:00pm
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Glowlab Announces The Eventuality of Daybreak, a Solo Exhibition of New Work by Alex Lukas.
Exhibition dates: November 12 - December 06, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday November 12, 7-9pm
Admission: free
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
New York, NY (October 1...5, 2009) - Glowlab is pleased to present The Eventuality of Daybreak, a solo exhibition by Alex Lukas featuring a new series of post-apocalyptic urban landscapes that blur the visual boundaries of fiction and reality. Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, November 12, 2009, from 7 to 9 pm.
Lukas’ work explores the existence of disaster, be it realized or fictitious, in contemporary society. Hyper-realistic motion pictures and unforgiving news footage depict seemingly identical – and equally riveting – facades of tragedy. The artist recognizes that relentless visual bombardment has resulted in society’s desensitization to the aesthetics of destruction.
For The Eventuality of Daybreak, Lukas has selected photographic spreads of well-known metropolises from vintage publications and uses them dually as canvas and unlikely subject. Through a deft handling of paint and carefully placed screenprinted passages, the artist pushes these aging illustrations in futuristic contexts. Submerging these cities conceptually and physically, Lukas inundates images of American cities with layers of media representing cataclysmic floods and crippling overgrowth.
Also included in the exhibition are works on paper depicting near-future scenes of devastated landscapes - crumbling infrastructure, overturned trucks and telling signs of human despair. As a counterpoint to the underwater cities, these darkly atmospheric and barren vistas signal devastation through an unsettling sense of absence.
Lukas’ intentional use of dated imagery presented in tandem with contemporary situations forces the viewer to reconcile two differing ideologies of urban space. The artist’s work calls into question society’s collective acceptance of the urban environment as an arena of destruction, once thought unthinkable and now seemingly inevitable.
The Eventuality of Daybreak is Lukas’ first solo exhibition with Glowlab. Lukas’ work has also been exhibited in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Stockholm and Copenhagen as well as in the pages of Swindle Quarterly, Proximity Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, The Drama and The New York Times Book Review. Lukas is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is a member of the artist collective Space 1026.
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Exhibition dates: November 12 - December 06, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday November 12, 7-9pm
Admission: free
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
New York, NY (October 1...5, 2009) - Glowlab is pleased to present The Eventuality of Daybreak, a solo exhibition by Alex Lukas featuring a new series of post-apocalyptic urban landscapes that blur the visual boundaries of fiction and reality. Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, November 12, 2009, from 7 to 9 pm.
Lukas’ work explores the existence of disaster, be it realized or fictitious, in contemporary society. Hyper-realistic motion pictures and unforgiving news footage depict seemingly identical – and equally riveting – facades of tragedy. The artist recognizes that relentless visual bombardment has resulted in society’s desensitization to the aesthetics of destruction.
For The Eventuality of Daybreak, Lukas has selected photographic spreads of well-known metropolises from vintage publications and uses them dually as canvas and unlikely subject. Through a deft handling of paint and carefully placed screenprinted passages, the artist pushes these aging illustrations in futuristic contexts. Submerging these cities conceptually and physically, Lukas inundates images of American cities with layers of media representing cataclysmic floods and crippling overgrowth.
Also included in the exhibition are works on paper depicting near-future scenes of devastated landscapes - crumbling infrastructure, overturned trucks and telling signs of human despair. As a counterpoint to the underwater cities, these darkly atmospheric and barren vistas signal devastation through an unsettling sense of absence.
Lukas’ intentional use of dated imagery presented in tandem with contemporary situations forces the viewer to reconcile two differing ideologies of urban space. The artist’s work calls into question society’s collective acceptance of the urban environment as an arena of destruction, once thought unthinkable and now seemingly inevitable.
The Eventuality of Daybreak is Lukas’ first solo exhibition with Glowlab. Lukas’ work has also been exhibited in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Stockholm and Copenhagen as well as in the pages of Swindle Quarterly, Proximity Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, The Drama and The New York Times Book Review. Lukas is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is a member of the artist collective Space 1026.
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a Solo Exhibition of New Work by Alex Lukas
Time:7:00PM Thursday, November 12th
Location:Glowlab
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Exhibition dates: October 8 – November 1, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday October 8. 7–9pm
Admission: free
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday. 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
Event link: http://www.glowlab.com/johnson-air-and-b
New York, NY (September 16, 2009) - Glowlab is pleased to pres...ent Air and Blood, a solo exhibition of works by Heather L. Johnson featuring a new series of drawings and embroideries along with a text-based installation situated within the gallery and the surrounding neighborhood.
Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 8, 2009 from 7-9 pm.
Johnson’s new body of work fixates on the circulatory nature of urban movement. Air and Blood references the connection that urban inhabitants, either transient or permanent, have with overarching public transportation systems. Using the Holland Tunnel as a point of departure, the artist investigates the way in which anatomical processes are mimicked in the transfer of people, objects and ideas in the urban environment.
Often simply regarded as a thoroughfare, the Holland Tunnel also functions as an immense communal lung. As an avid motorcyclist, the artist is more aware of the life giving exchange of gases that incessantly takes place. She physically feels the synthetic gusts that most motorists take for granted. This acute awareness informs Johnson’s body of work and elicits an equally discerning response from the viewer.
For Air and Blood, Johnson gleaned images and text that reference the Holland Tunnel and its surrounding neighborhood and repurposed them as fodder for intricate drawings, installations and embroideries. The fastidious nature of Johnson’s work and the explicit evidencing of her hand force the viewer to reconsider objects and systems that are only tacitly acknowledged. The artist is a cartographer of experience, intricately mapping observations that link a seemingly disconnected populace.
Johnson holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and has completed residencies at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, and at Winthrop University in South Carolina. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., in Europe and Japan, at White Columns (New York City), Austin Museum of Art (Austin, TX), Gallery 16 (San Francisco), Room Space (Gentilly, France), Sonoma Museum of Visual Art (Sonoma, CA), and many other venues. She has curated several exhibitions, including Cracks in the Pavement: Gifts in the Urban Landscape, involving artists from around the world, and most recently, The Pickup, a project of site-specific works created in collaboration with artist/curator Eleanor Eichenbaum Eubanks for Conflux 2008 in New York City. She currently lives in Weehawken, NJ.
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Opening Reception: Thursday October 8. 7–9pm
Admission: free
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday. 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
Event link: http://www.glowlab.com/johnson-air-and-b
New York, NY (September 16, 2009) - Glowlab is pleased to pres...ent Air and Blood, a solo exhibition of works by Heather L. Johnson featuring a new series of drawings and embroideries along with a text-based installation situated within the gallery and the surrounding neighborhood.
Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 8, 2009 from 7-9 pm.
Johnson’s new body of work fixates on the circulatory nature of urban movement. Air and Blood references the connection that urban inhabitants, either transient or permanent, have with overarching public transportation systems. Using the Holland Tunnel as a point of departure, the artist investigates the way in which anatomical processes are mimicked in the transfer of people, objects and ideas in the urban environment.
Often simply regarded as a thoroughfare, the Holland Tunnel also functions as an immense communal lung. As an avid motorcyclist, the artist is more aware of the life giving exchange of gases that incessantly takes place. She physically feels the synthetic gusts that most motorists take for granted. This acute awareness informs Johnson’s body of work and elicits an equally discerning response from the viewer.
For Air and Blood, Johnson gleaned images and text that reference the Holland Tunnel and its surrounding neighborhood and repurposed them as fodder for intricate drawings, installations and embroideries. The fastidious nature of Johnson’s work and the explicit evidencing of her hand force the viewer to reconsider objects and systems that are only tacitly acknowledged. The artist is a cartographer of experience, intricately mapping observations that link a seemingly disconnected populace.
Johnson holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and has completed residencies at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, and at Winthrop University in South Carolina. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., in Europe and Japan, at White Columns (New York City), Austin Museum of Art (Austin, TX), Gallery 16 (San Francisco), Room Space (Gentilly, France), Sonoma Museum of Visual Art (Sonoma, CA), and many other venues. She has curated several exhibitions, including Cracks in the Pavement: Gifts in the Urban Landscape, involving artists from around the world, and most recently, The Pickup, a project of site-specific works created in collaboration with artist/curator Eleanor Eichenbaum Eubanks for Conflux 2008 in New York City. She currently lives in Weehawken, NJ.
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a Solo Exhibition of New Work by Heather L. Johnson
Time:7:00PM Thursday, October 8th
Location:Glowlab
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Contact: Glowlab Director Christina Ray
Phone: 212.334.0204 . Email: info@glowlab.com
Glowlab Announces Modern Ruins, a Solo Exhibition of New Work by Emily Henretta.
Exhibition dates: September 10 – October 04, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 7–9pm
Admission: free
Gallery hours: Tu...esday-Sunday. 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
Event link: http://www.glowlab.com/henretta-modern-r
New York, NY (August 6, 2009) - Glowlab is pleased to present Modern Ruins, a solo exhibition of works by Emily Henretta featuring two new series of monoprint collages and a multimedia site-specific installation. Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, September 10, 2009 from 7-9 pm.
Henretta’s new body of work voices her long-standing interest in the intersection of built and natural envi-rons from a contemporary vantage. The artist acknowledges a moment in time when frenetic con-struction, blurred ideas of ownership and natural disasters have stripped buildings of purpose. Structures – unowned, unoccupied and largely incomplete – become purely visual objects. The artist sees these unlikely monuments as evidence of both excess and poverty simultaneously and finds beauty in their nascent decay.
Her earlier collages were ripe with careful, meticulous pen work and judicious in their handling of color. For Modern Ruins, the pieces are awash with dramatic planes of pigment and studded with screenprinted and collaged found imagery culled from vintage publications. Additionally, the artist will construct a site-specific installation that will liaise the images she makes with the complex system of building materials they portray.
Metabolist ideas of modularity and interchangeable urban constructs are referenced in the artist’s process and her finished works. Images of buildings, abandoned developments and construction materials are introduced and reworked throughout each image and series. Ultimately these reiterated images function as building materials themselves – similar constituents manipulated to construct diverse aesthetic results.
Emily Henretta graduated from Columbia with a BA in History in 2004 and has completed a residency at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the International Print Center New York and at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ.
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Contact: Glowlab Director Christina Ray
Phone: 212.334.0204 . Email: info@glowlab.com
Glowlab Announces Modern Ruins, a Solo Exhibition of New Work by Emily Henretta.
Exhibition dates: September 10 – October 04, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 7–9pm
Admission: free
Gallery hours: Tu...esday-Sunday. 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
Event link: http://www.glowlab.com/henretta-modern-r
New York, NY (August 6, 2009) - Glowlab is pleased to present Modern Ruins, a solo exhibition of works by Emily Henretta featuring two new series of monoprint collages and a multimedia site-specific installation. Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, September 10, 2009 from 7-9 pm.
Henretta’s new body of work voices her long-standing interest in the intersection of built and natural envi-rons from a contemporary vantage. The artist acknowledges a moment in time when frenetic con-struction, blurred ideas of ownership and natural disasters have stripped buildings of purpose. Structures – unowned, unoccupied and largely incomplete – become purely visual objects. The artist sees these unlikely monuments as evidence of both excess and poverty simultaneously and finds beauty in their nascent decay.
Her earlier collages were ripe with careful, meticulous pen work and judicious in their handling of color. For Modern Ruins, the pieces are awash with dramatic planes of pigment and studded with screenprinted and collaged found imagery culled from vintage publications. Additionally, the artist will construct a site-specific installation that will liaise the images she makes with the complex system of building materials they portray.
Metabolist ideas of modularity and interchangeable urban constructs are referenced in the artist’s process and her finished works. Images of buildings, abandoned developments and construction materials are introduced and reworked throughout each image and series. Ultimately these reiterated images function as building materials themselves – similar constituents manipulated to construct diverse aesthetic results.
Emily Henretta graduated from Columbia with a BA in History in 2004 and has completed a residency at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the International Print Center New York and at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ.
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Solo Exhibition of New Work by Emily Henretta
Time:7:00PM Thursday, September 10th
Location:Glowlab
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X: The Multiples Exhibition
Opening Reception . Thursday, July 30th
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X: The Multiples Exhibition
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Glowlab is pleased to present the group show X: The Multiples Exhibition, bringing together thirteen artists producing works linked via their mode of production,... including Lynnette Astaire, Beka Goedde, Emily Henretta, Heather L. Johnson, David Kesting, Brian Leo, Roberto Mollá, Marisa Olson, Lucas Price, Mark Price, Sal Randolph, Matt Small and Lee Walton. The artists have published, screen-printed, photographed, performed and sculpted pieces identical either in manufacture or concept. The show’s title refers not only to the mathematical function of multiplication, but also to the crossing of aesthetic, commercial and conceptual boundaries when art is made in multiples. The long, slow days of summer provide the perfect opportunity to spend time among the subtle distinctions that evidence the artist’s hand in seemingly identical pieces. X: The Multiples Exhibition opens at Glowlab with a reception for the artists on Thursday, July 30th and remains on view through August 30th.
Exhibition dates: July 30–August 30, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 30. 7–9pm
Admission: free
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday. 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
Contact: Glowlab Director, Christina Ray
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http://www.glowlab.com/x-multiples-exhib
Opening Reception Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glowlab/set
Glowlab is pleased to present the group show X: The Multiples Exhibition, bringing together thirteen artists producing works linked via their mode of production,... including Lynnette Astaire, Beka Goedde, Emily Henretta, Heather L. Johnson, David Kesting, Brian Leo, Roberto Mollá, Marisa Olson, Lucas Price, Mark Price, Sal Randolph, Matt Small and Lee Walton. The artists have published, screen-printed, photographed, performed and sculpted pieces identical either in manufacture or concept. The show’s title refers not only to the mathematical function of multiplication, but also to the crossing of aesthetic, commercial and conceptual boundaries when art is made in multiples. The long, slow days of summer provide the perfect opportunity to spend time among the subtle distinctions that evidence the artist’s hand in seemingly identical pieces. X: The Multiples Exhibition opens at Glowlab with a reception for the artists on Thursday, July 30th and remains on view through August 30th.
Exhibition dates: July 30–August 30, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 30. 7–9pm
Admission: free
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday. 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
Contact: Glowlab Director, Christina Ray
Phone: 718.388.5911 . Email: info@glowlab.comRead More
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Glowlab is pleased to present Drift, a group exhibition by artists Matthew Lusk, Santiago Mostyn, Javier Piñón and Swoon. The show is timed to coincide with the voyage of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima, a fleet of three intricately handcrafted vessels currently navigating the Adriatic Sea from the Karst region of S...lovenia to Venice, Italy just in time to ‘crash’ the Venice Biennale. Glowlab has supported Swoon’s raft projects from their conception and the independent spirit of the rafts is the driving force behind this exhibition. The title, Drift, refers to both physical drifting – a raft as it moves across the ocean – and the metaphorical drifting of transient communities and populations that live on the fringes of mainstream society. These contemporary nomads are icons representing the challenges and possibilities of forging identities in places both physical and emotional that lie far beyond where most are willing to venture.
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June 11–July 26 . 2009
Time:7:00PM Thursday, June 11th
Location:Glowlab
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Exhibition dates: May 07–June 07, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 07 . 7–9pm
Admission: free. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday . 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
Travel info: A/C/E train to Canal Street
Event link: http://www.glowlab.com/glowlab/roberto-m
Glowlab is pleased to ...present Between the Lines in Minowa, a solo exhibition by Spanish artist Roberto Mollá featuring a dozen new works on grid-paper and a large-scale wall-drawing. Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, May 7th from 7 to 9pm.
Mollá’s captivating new body of work samples from a variety of cultures to depict a strange and beautiful “floating” world reminiscent of the ukiyo-e genre of Japanese paintings and prints. The subject of these traditional scenes was city life, specifically activities from the entertainment district of Minowa. In Mollá’s modern day ukiyo-e, sinewy koi fish mingle with reclining geisha courtesans and manga characters within labyrinths of folding screens, simultaneously inviting and obscuring the viewer’s gaze.
Grounding Mollá’s lyrical compositions is a hard-edged, gridded field that undermines our assumptions of space and flattens it out. The artist draws exclusively on graph paper – a formal nod to artists of the 1960’s and 70’s whose work incorporated the grid and revolved around its freedom and limitations. Manuel Barbadillo and Julio Le Parc, Joseph Albers and El Lissitzky, Agnes Martin and Sol Lewitt, are all artists who explored the implications of space and composition through formally rigid work. Mollá’s use of flat, geometric patterning, along with the grid, references his historical predecessors in a sophisticated appeal that combines with his lithe silhouettes to create a rich language that is entirely his own. In this way, Molla finds his place in a long and rich contemporary tradition of artists working with non-perspectival space and the tensions of the surface of their chosen medium.
A focal point of the exhibition is a group of emakimono (picture scrolls) with Japanese koi fish swimming between electric wires. The pieces, created in Mollá’s signature palette of sand, crimson, sumi ink and graphite, are inspired by the prints of Hiroshige, the Japanese artist best known for his delicate renderings of fish and sea life, and the kites that populate the skies of Japan in the spring. These images are also the subject of a large-scale wall drawing the artist will produce in the gallery to accompany the exhibition.
Shepard Fairey, street artist and creator of the Andre-the-Giant “Obey” icon, adeptly summed this up on his blog in a recent post. He wrote of Molla's work that “The tension between all these elements is fascinating. At a glance they are graphically powerful, but then they also have this meticulous subtlety which is just beautiful.”
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Opening Reception: Thursday, May 07 . 7–9pm
Admission: free. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday . 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
Travel info: A/C/E train to Canal Street
Event link: http://www.glowlab.com/glowlab/roberto-m
Glowlab is pleased to ...present Between the Lines in Minowa, a solo exhibition by Spanish artist Roberto Mollá featuring a dozen new works on grid-paper and a large-scale wall-drawing. Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, May 7th from 7 to 9pm.
Mollá’s captivating new body of work samples from a variety of cultures to depict a strange and beautiful “floating” world reminiscent of the ukiyo-e genre of Japanese paintings and prints. The subject of these traditional scenes was city life, specifically activities from the entertainment district of Minowa. In Mollá’s modern day ukiyo-e, sinewy koi fish mingle with reclining geisha courtesans and manga characters within labyrinths of folding screens, simultaneously inviting and obscuring the viewer’s gaze.
Grounding Mollá’s lyrical compositions is a hard-edged, gridded field that undermines our assumptions of space and flattens it out. The artist draws exclusively on graph paper – a formal nod to artists of the 1960’s and 70’s whose work incorporated the grid and revolved around its freedom and limitations. Manuel Barbadillo and Julio Le Parc, Joseph Albers and El Lissitzky, Agnes Martin and Sol Lewitt, are all artists who explored the implications of space and composition through formally rigid work. Mollá’s use of flat, geometric patterning, along with the grid, references his historical predecessors in a sophisticated appeal that combines with his lithe silhouettes to create a rich language that is entirely his own. In this way, Molla finds his place in a long and rich contemporary tradition of artists working with non-perspectival space and the tensions of the surface of their chosen medium.
A focal point of the exhibition is a group of emakimono (picture scrolls) with Japanese koi fish swimming between electric wires. The pieces, created in Mollá’s signature palette of sand, crimson, sumi ink and graphite, are inspired by the prints of Hiroshige, the Japanese artist best known for his delicate renderings of fish and sea life, and the kites that populate the skies of Japan in the spring. These images are also the subject of a large-scale wall drawing the artist will produce in the gallery to accompany the exhibition.
Shepard Fairey, street artist and creator of the Andre-the-Giant “Obey” icon, adeptly summed this up on his blog in a recent post. He wrote of Molla's work that “The tension between all these elements is fascinating. At a glance they are graphically powerful, but then they also have this meticulous subtlety which is just beautiful.”
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David Kesting . Utopia Parkway
Exhibition dates: April 07–May 03, 2009
Reception and book signing with the artist: Thursday, April 16 . 7–9pm
Glowlab is pleased to present Utopia Parkway, a solo exhibition of new work by David Kesting. The artist presents his eagerly-awaited new body of mixed-media work at Glowlab with a ...residency beginning April 7th and leading up to reception for the public on Thursday the 16th. Utopia Parkway includes a limited edition, signed book and a unique fashion line to complement over 100 small illustrations on paper and larger mixed-media forays into the poignant and absurd.
During his residency, Kesting will create site-specific works in the gallery, partially in collaboration with other artists. The gallery will be open to the public during normal hours throughout the residency as characters come to life in wall drawings and an assemblage of work in multiple media.
Utopia Parkway features Kesting’s humorous cast of characters who, while animated by minimal linework, manage to achieve maximum expression. People depicted are at various times charming, industrious, sneaky or dejected, yet ambitiously attempt to live an honest life in a difficult world. Ranging from tiny to gigantic, Kesting’s characters – often drawn on found paper such as menus, flyers and printed postcards – create an interactive environment in the gallery as they communicate with each other. Tiny illustrations of urban farmers, city shoppers and dog walkers mingle with large-format paintings of drunken angels and businessmen on tricycles in Kesting’s trademark style.
Accompanying these artworks will be the release of Utopia Parkway, a 66-page illustrated book of drawings from the artist’s collection. The book’s first edition will be limited to 40 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist. Utopia Parkway - which features sections including “Family Life,” “Burning Things,” “At Work,” and “Out Drinking” - depicts Kesting’s hopeful characters in their everyday settings. Kesting’s illustrations feel playful, like those in a children’s book, but ultimately resonate with the tensions of human relationships and alienation felt deeply by adults. On one page, the reader witnesses a naked everyman cooking on a stove, and captioned beneath him the character mutters “The best part about Sunday brunch at home is getting to play naked chef,” conveying the wonder of simple pleasures in a hectic life.
Carefully chosen works from the book have been silk-screened onto items of vintage clothing as part of the installation. “I want everyone to be able to enjoy these illustrations - which are based on life in the city - not only in the traditional art-hanging-on-the-wall sort of way, but also physically, by taking the characters back onto the streets” explains Kesting.
David Kesting (b. 1974, Jacksonville) is Brooklyn-based artist whose work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, and Chicago, and is included in many private collections. He is also a gallerist, co-founding both the Leo Kesting Gallery and Capla Kesting Fine Art. He launched the art fair, Fountain, with several other Williamsburg galleries in 2006.
Glowlab is an innovative art gallery and creative catalyst located in New York, collaborating with and presenting the work of artists exploring the convergence of art, technology and the urban environment.
For further information please contact gallery Director Christina Ray: 718.388.5911 or info @ glowlab.com.
http://www.glowlab.com/glowlab/david-kes
Exhibition dates: April 07–May 03, 2009
Reception and book signing with the artist: Thursday, April 16 . 7–9pm
Glowlab is pleased to present Utopia Parkway, a solo exhibition of new work by David Kesting. The artist presents his eagerly-awaited new body of mixed-media work at Glowlab with a ...residency beginning April 7th and leading up to reception for the public on Thursday the 16th. Utopia Parkway includes a limited edition, signed book and a unique fashion line to complement over 100 small illustrations on paper and larger mixed-media forays into the poignant and absurd.
During his residency, Kesting will create site-specific works in the gallery, partially in collaboration with other artists. The gallery will be open to the public during normal hours throughout the residency as characters come to life in wall drawings and an assemblage of work in multiple media.
Utopia Parkway features Kesting’s humorous cast of characters who, while animated by minimal linework, manage to achieve maximum expression. People depicted are at various times charming, industrious, sneaky or dejected, yet ambitiously attempt to live an honest life in a difficult world. Ranging from tiny to gigantic, Kesting’s characters – often drawn on found paper such as menus, flyers and printed postcards – create an interactive environment in the gallery as they communicate with each other. Tiny illustrations of urban farmers, city shoppers and dog walkers mingle with large-format paintings of drunken angels and businessmen on tricycles in Kesting’s trademark style.
Accompanying these artworks will be the release of Utopia Parkway, a 66-page illustrated book of drawings from the artist’s collection. The book’s first edition will be limited to 40 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist. Utopia Parkway - which features sections including “Family Life,” “Burning Things,” “At Work,” and “Out Drinking” - depicts Kesting’s hopeful characters in their everyday settings. Kesting’s illustrations feel playful, like those in a children’s book, but ultimately resonate with the tensions of human relationships and alienation felt deeply by adults. On one page, the reader witnesses a naked everyman cooking on a stove, and captioned beneath him the character mutters “The best part about Sunday brunch at home is getting to play naked chef,” conveying the wonder of simple pleasures in a hectic life.
Carefully chosen works from the book have been silk-screened onto items of vintage clothing as part of the installation. “I want everyone to be able to enjoy these illustrations - which are based on life in the city - not only in the traditional art-hanging-on-the-wall sort of way, but also physically, by taking the characters back onto the streets” explains Kesting.
David Kesting (b. 1974, Jacksonville) is Brooklyn-based artist whose work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, and Chicago, and is included in many private collections. He is also a gallerist, co-founding both the Leo Kesting Gallery and Capla Kesting Fine Art. He launched the art fair, Fountain, with several other Williamsburg galleries in 2006.
Glowlab is an innovative art gallery and creative catalyst located in New York, collaborating with and presenting the work of artists exploring the convergence of art, technology and the urban environment.
For further information please contact gallery Director Christina Ray: 718.388.5911 or info @ glowlab.com.
http://www.glowlab.com/glowlab/david-kes
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Glowlab Benefit Exhibition for SWOON’s Swimming Cities of Serenissima at Fountain NY
VIP/Press Preview: Thursday March 05; 11am–7pm (Requires VIP pass)
Open to the Public: March 06-08; 11am–7pm
Reception for the Artists: Friday, March 06; 7pm–midnight
Location: Pier 66 at 26th St in Hudson River Park NYC
Admission: Suggeste...d donation of $5 at the door for all-weekend access
Event Link: http://www.glowlab.com/glowlab/swimming-
Glowlab is pleased to announce it will host benefit exhibition for a nautical art project pioneered by the artist SWOON. Swimming Cities of Serenissima is a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May of 2009. Designed by the visual artist SWOON, the floating sculptures are descendants of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada (Mississippi River, 2006 and 2007).
The benefit will take place in New York City during Armory Show week, March 05-08, as part of Glowlab’s exhibit space at Fountain, the alternative art exhibition known for presenting cutting-edge and independent art galleries. Fountain will be located at Pier 66 at 26th St in Hudson River Park. Participating artists include Swoon, Maya Hayuk, The London Police, Martha Cooper, Monica Canilao, Dennis McNett, Imminent Disaster, Eric White, Tod Seelie, Molly Crabapple, C. Damage, Elbow Toe and many more.
Glowlab Director Christina notes, “We’re thrilled to host this benefit for our long-time collaborator SWOON’s latest project, the Swimming Cities of Serenissima. It’s an ambitious project with an incredible creative spirit that, in the most physical way possible, engages contemporary art in the development of culture and community. I believe it’s critical to support projects like this, especially now, and we’re excited to help launch these beautiful boats in the spring.”
Serenissima is a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May of 2009. Designed by the visual artist SWOON, the floating sculptures are descendants of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada (Mississippi River, 2006 and 2007). The benefit will take place in New York City during Armory Show week, March 05-08, as part of Glowlab’s exhibit space at Fountain, the alternative art exhibition known for presenting cutting-edge and independent art galleries. Participating artists include Swoon, Maya Hayuk, Martha Cooper, Monica Canilao, Dennis McNett, Imminent Disaster, Eric White, Tod Seelie, Molly Crabapple, C. Damage and many more. Fountain will be located at Pier 66 at 26th St in Hudson River Park.
Glowlab supports artists exploring the convergence of art, technology and the urban environment. Now in its fourth successful exhibition, Glowlab’s new space in SoHo has brought strong sales and press coverage and has resulted in museum exhibitions for the gallery’s up-and-coming artists. Founder and gallery Director Christina Ray is the founder of Conflux, the annual NYC art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space. Ray is also a founding member of the Advisory Committee of the new 92YTribeca arts and entertainment venue, and is currently serving as Key Artistic Advisor for Times Square Public Art Planning with the Times Square Alliance. Ray and Glowlab have been featured extensively in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Online, The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Time Out, New York Press, Flash Art, Art Review, Adbusters and many others.
For additional information, contact Glowlab Gallery Director Christina Ray at info @ glowlab.com and visit:
glowlab.com
www.swimmingcities.org
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VIP/Press Preview: Thursday March 05; 11am–7pm (Requires VIP pass)
Open to the Public: March 06-08; 11am–7pm
Reception for the Artists: Friday, March 06; 7pm–midnight
Location: Pier 66 at 26th St in Hudson River Park NYC
Admission: Suggeste...d donation of $5 at the door for all-weekend access
Event Link: http://www.glowlab.com/glowlab/swimming-
Glowlab is pleased to announce it will host benefit exhibition for a nautical art project pioneered by the artist SWOON. Swimming Cities of Serenissima is a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May of 2009. Designed by the visual artist SWOON, the floating sculptures are descendants of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada (Mississippi River, 2006 and 2007).
The benefit will take place in New York City during Armory Show week, March 05-08, as part of Glowlab’s exhibit space at Fountain, the alternative art exhibition known for presenting cutting-edge and independent art galleries. Fountain will be located at Pier 66 at 26th St in Hudson River Park. Participating artists include Swoon, Maya Hayuk, The London Police, Martha Cooper, Monica Canilao, Dennis McNett, Imminent Disaster, Eric White, Tod Seelie, Molly Crabapple, C. Damage, Elbow Toe and many more.
Glowlab Director Christina notes, “We’re thrilled to host this benefit for our long-time collaborator SWOON’s latest project, the Swimming Cities of Serenissima. It’s an ambitious project with an incredible creative spirit that, in the most physical way possible, engages contemporary art in the development of culture and community. I believe it’s critical to support projects like this, especially now, and we’re excited to help launch these beautiful boats in the spring.”
Serenissima is a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May of 2009. Designed by the visual artist SWOON, the floating sculptures are descendants of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada (Mississippi River, 2006 and 2007). The benefit will take place in New York City during Armory Show week, March 05-08, as part of Glowlab’s exhibit space at Fountain, the alternative art exhibition known for presenting cutting-edge and independent art galleries. Participating artists include Swoon, Maya Hayuk, Martha Cooper, Monica Canilao, Dennis McNett, Imminent Disaster, Eric White, Tod Seelie, Molly Crabapple, C. Damage and many more. Fountain will be located at Pier 66 at 26th St in Hudson River Park.
Glowlab supports artists exploring the convergence of art, technology and the urban environment. Now in its fourth successful exhibition, Glowlab’s new space in SoHo has brought strong sales and press coverage and has resulted in museum exhibitions for the gallery’s up-and-coming artists. Founder and gallery Director Christina Ray is the founder of Conflux, the annual NYC art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space. Ray is also a founding member of the Advisory Committee of the new 92YTribeca arts and entertainment venue, and is currently serving as Key Artistic Advisor for Times Square Public Art Planning with the Times Square Alliance. Ray and Glowlab have been featured extensively in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Online, The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Time Out, New York Press, Flash Art, Art Review, Adbusters and many others.
For additional information, contact Glowlab Gallery Director Christina Ray at info @ glowlab.com and visit:
glowlab.com
www.swimmingcities.org
fountainexhibit.comRead More
Hosted by Glowlab at Fountain NY . Mar 05-08 . 2009
Time:11:00AM Thursday, March 5th
Location:Pier 66 at 26th Street in Hudson River Park
Glowlab
Shaking up the traditional art world model of the month-long-show-with-opening-reception, Glowlounge opts to evolve over the course of four weeks. Each Thursday night we’ll stay open late with a changing selection of artworks and participating artists in attendance to discuss their projects with our guests. These night...time lounges will have limited capacity, and reservations may be secured via email to rsvp @ glowlab.com. The exhibition will also be on view during our regular gallery hours.
Glowlounge brings long-time Glowlab collaborators Steve Lambert, Sal Randolph and Lee Walton together with current gallery artists CutUp, Beka Goedde, Heather L. Johnson, David Kesting, Roberto Mollá and Mark Price. We’ll also introduce works by Paloma Crousillat, Pablo Helguera, Emily Henretta, Brian Leo, Casey Porn, Tod Seelie and additional artists as the show unfolds in an environment of chance and discovery.Read More
Glowlounge brings long-time Glowlab collaborators Steve Lambert, Sal Randolph and Lee Walton together with current gallery artists CutUp, Beka Goedde, Heather L. Johnson, David Kesting, Roberto Mollá and Mark Price. We’ll also introduce works by Paloma Crousillat, Pablo Helguera, Emily Henretta, Brian Leo, Casey Porn, Tod Seelie and additional artists as the show unfolds in an environment of chance and discovery.Read More
Glowlab
Exhibition dates: February 05–March 01, 2009
Weekly Thursday night lounges:
February 05, 12, 19 and 26
7–9pm
Capacity is limited and reservations are encouraged. RSVP to rsvp @ glowlab.com.
For Glowlounge, artists will be at the gallery to speak informally about their work in conversation with our guests. Here’s the schedul...e (subject to change/updates):
Feb. 05: Special street-based event in the neighborhood by Mark Price; instructions to be transmitted via Twitter starting Wednesday, Feb. 4: twitter.com/glowlab.
Steve Lambert at Glowlab with 20 copies of the NYT Special Edition. First-come, first-served! RSVP to guarantee entry: rsvp @ glowlab.com
And…in the gallery: Paloma Crousillat, Beka Goedde, Emily Henretta, Heather L. Johnson, David Kesting, Brian Leo, Mark Price, Sal Randolph, Tod Seelie.
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Exhibition dates: February 05–March 01, 2009
Weekly Thursday night lounges:
February 05, 12, 19 and 26
7–9pm
Capacity is limited and reservations are encouraged. RSVP to rsvp @ glowlab.com.
For Glowlounge, artists will be at the gallery to speak informally about their work in conversation with our guests. Here’s the schedul...e (subject to change/updates):
Feb. 05: Special street-based event in the neighborhood by Mark Price; instructions to be transmitted via Twitter starting Wednesday, Feb. 4: twitter.com/glowlab.
Steve Lambert at Glowlab with 20 copies of the NYT Special Edition. First-come, first-served! RSVP to guarantee entry: rsvp @ glowlab.com
And…in the gallery: Paloma Crousillat, Beka Goedde, Emily Henretta, Heather L. Johnson, David Kesting, Brian Leo, Mark Price, Sal Randolph, Tod Seelie.
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Glowlab
Beka Goedde . Phototropic Dormancy
Exhibition dates: March 05–March 29, 2009
Reception for the Artist: Thursday, March 19 . 7–9pm
Glowlab is pleased to announce Phototropic Dormancy, a solo exhibition by up-and-coming New York artist Beka Goedde. Installed as a site-specific environment at Glowlab, Goedde’s mixed-media sc...ulptures, hand-cast plaster and works on wood panel focus the viewer’s ability to read and create passages through a landscape. Her work provides a three-dimensional point of entry into a dense field of vision marked by layers of textured plywood and plaster, etchings, graphite, pigment and earth-toned encaustic wax.
This exhibition of new works is a study of landscape as time, and the ways movement and decay affect our spatial and psychological construction of imagery. The title refers to the latent potential in plants to obtain energy from and grow toward sources of light. Goedde’s research brings her to ruins in the American southwest, as well as the southeast and other locations where natural disaster or change has inscribed new areas of settlement; the use of building materials reflects the poverty of the inhabitants, who build over unstable ground or water. By studying the structures built by the very people living within them, and communities that exist together with available resources under local shelters, Goedde finds re-invented stories of creation, patterns of building and natural occurrences of life. She literally constructs her experience by, as she explains, “building a house around myself.” On a more formal level, her pieces often reference the structure of Chinese scroll painting as presence and void, of the painter’s movement across a landscape and the time passed during a journey between places. In this new installation where changes in daylight, pattern and perspective bring forth new spatial experience, the artist’s work re-inscribes our memory with embodied knowledge of the built environment.
Beka Goedde (b. 1982, Seattle) studies the concept of the landscape as a time-frame and movement as the natural decay of structural material. She received her BA from Columbia University, Barnard College, in 2004, with a concentration in behavioral neuroscience and philosophy. Her thesis work focused on the sense of touch, specifically a non-dualist way of conceiving of the space of one’s body and the space surrounding oneself, on both a phenomenal and neurophysiological level. Goedde’s work has been exhibited in New York at the International Print Center, Cheim & Read, Glowlab and Leo Kesting Gallery. Her work is included in numerous private collections, including the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection.
Glowlab is an innovative art gallery and creative catalyst located in New York, collaborating with and presenting the work of artists exploring the convergence of art, technology and the urban environment.
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For further information please contact gallery Director Christina Ray: 718.388.5911 or info @ glowlab.comRead More
Exhibition dates: March 05–March 29, 2009
Reception for the Artist: Thursday, March 19 . 7–9pm
Glowlab is pleased to announce Phototropic Dormancy, a solo exhibition by up-and-coming New York artist Beka Goedde. Installed as a site-specific environment at Glowlab, Goedde’s mixed-media sc...ulptures, hand-cast plaster and works on wood panel focus the viewer’s ability to read and create passages through a landscape. Her work provides a three-dimensional point of entry into a dense field of vision marked by layers of textured plywood and plaster, etchings, graphite, pigment and earth-toned encaustic wax.
This exhibition of new works is a study of landscape as time, and the ways movement and decay affect our spatial and psychological construction of imagery. The title refers to the latent potential in plants to obtain energy from and grow toward sources of light. Goedde’s research brings her to ruins in the American southwest, as well as the southeast and other locations where natural disaster or change has inscribed new areas of settlement; the use of building materials reflects the poverty of the inhabitants, who build over unstable ground or water. By studying the structures built by the very people living within them, and communities that exist together with available resources under local shelters, Goedde finds re-invented stories of creation, patterns of building and natural occurrences of life. She literally constructs her experience by, as she explains, “building a house around myself.” On a more formal level, her pieces often reference the structure of Chinese scroll painting as presence and void, of the painter’s movement across a landscape and the time passed during a journey between places. In this new installation where changes in daylight, pattern and perspective bring forth new spatial experience, the artist’s work re-inscribes our memory with embodied knowledge of the built environment.
Beka Goedde (b. 1982, Seattle) studies the concept of the landscape as a time-frame and movement as the natural decay of structural material. She received her BA from Columbia University, Barnard College, in 2004, with a concentration in behavioral neuroscience and philosophy. Her thesis work focused on the sense of touch, specifically a non-dualist way of conceiving of the space of one’s body and the space surrounding oneself, on both a phenomenal and neurophysiological level. Goedde’s work has been exhibited in New York at the International Print Center, Cheim & Read, Glowlab and Leo Kesting Gallery. Her work is included in numerous private collections, including the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection.
Glowlab is an innovative art gallery and creative catalyst located in New York, collaborating with and presenting the work of artists exploring the convergence of art, technology and the urban environment.
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For further information please contact gallery Director Christina Ray: 718.388.5911 or info @ glowlab.comRead More
