Upcoming at Pierogi:
JANE FINE
11 September – 11 October, 2009
HUGO CROSTHWAITE
16 October - 15 November, 2009
JOHAN NOBELL
20 November - 20 December, 2009
JANE FINE
11 September – 11 October, 2009
HUGO CROSTHWAITE
16 October - 15 November, 2009
JOHAN NOBELL
20 November - 20 December, 2009
Information
- Location:
- Brooklyn, NY, 11211
- Phone:
- 718-599-2144
- Tues - Sun:
- 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Events
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- Pierogi a Go-Go: Brooklyn Grav...
The BOILER
Wednesday, September 23 at 6:00pm - Jane Fine: Glad All Over. 11 S...
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Friday, September 11 at 7:00pm - Cream, no sugar
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Friday, June 26 at 7:00pm - William Lamson: Work and Trade
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Friday, May 22 at 11:00am
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September 2009 will mark Pierogi's 15-year anniversary. We will celebrate this 15-year adventure by holding a third raucous pinewood derby racing event and exhibition. All racers will be on display at The BOILER on rows of shelves throughout the races and the weekend prior (Sept. 18-25). There will be two evenings of e...limination heats (Sept. 23 & 24) culminating in an evening of final heats and awards in categories such as speed, aesthetics, among others (Sept. 25). Trophies will be awarded and commemorative T-shirts will be available.
The track will be approximately 60-feet long, with a vertiginous drop from 16 feet to near ground level. The cars will be powered by gravity alone, as is the tradition of pinewood derby racing. Announcers will call the races, cameras will be in place for photo finishes, and race tallies will be projected live.
For more information visit our website:
http://www.pierogi2000.com
Pierogi's 15-year anniversary event at The BOILER
Time:6:00PM Wednesday, September 23rd
Location:The BOILER
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Pierogi is pleased to present a fourth exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Jane Fine. The paintings in this exhibition incorporate a mash-up of techniques—multi-colored pools of acrylic paint, passages of exuberant brushwork, jiggly drawn lines, and areas of high-key flat color. Fine allows a variety of impro...visatory painting styles to bump against each other, while retaining their individual flavor.
Fine’s new paintings, with titles like “Happy Island” and “Blockbuster,” are celebratory. They unfold in wide-open spaces, full of verdant landscape and flowery psychedelia. But this celebration isn’t just for youngsters, it’s a mature party room complete with bandages and blubber, patches and scars.
In “Over the Hump” the artist marks the end of a time of grieving with a painting that is both very darkly hued and simultaneously uplifting. In “Family Outing,” Fine creates her first self-portrait, painting herself as a cartoon character on a date with her husband and son.
With this show Fine turns inward, from the political world toward the personal, while continuing to rely on her ability to present multiple and sometimes conflicting forces. Collapsed constructions, melted forms, and personal loss are redeemed by flowering blossoms and youthful invention in an overall spirit of renewal.
“Ultimately, as much as my work has been concerned with events and politics outside my studio, each painting is full of metaphors for the battles inherent in my own creative process: trying to make something from nothing, intention from accident, illusion from flatness and meaning from doubt.” (Fine, 2009)
Jane Fine received a BA from Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) and she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME). She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She has attended residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), Cité Internationale des Artes (Paris, France), and Millay Colony for the Arts (Austerlitz, New York).
For additional information and images see:
http://www.pierogi2000.com
An exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper
Time:7:00PM Friday, September 11th
Location:Pierogi
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Help us celebrate Pierogi's 15-year anniversary by entering the race! Register your car by September 5 by emailing sarahpierogi@earthlink.net to be included in the event.
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Pierogi A group exhibition including work by: Nadja Bournonville, Dawn Clements, Hugo Crosthwaite, Adam Dant, James Esber, Jane Fine, Tony Fitzpatrick, Sarah Hotchkiss, Patrick Jacobs, Kim Jones, Darina Karpov, William Lamson, Yoon Lee, Mark Lombardi, Ati Maier, Ryan Mrozowski, Johan Nobell, John O'Connor, Michael Schall, Davi...d Scher, Jonathan Schipper, Ward Shelley, Greg Stone, Tavares Strachan, Lynn Talbot, Jim Torok, Sarah Walker, Martin Wilner, and Daniel Zeller
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Work and Trade, William Lamson’s new solo exhibition at Pierogi, features three projects in which the artist creates a mark-making system through collaboration with forces outside of his control.
In “Hunt and Gather,” the artist shoots down shoes from power lines around Brooklyn with a bow and arrow and trades them for ...the ones he is wearing. Since each pair of shoes that he cuts down is later thrown back up in a different location, the original gesture is extended to a new place, and the original mark is maintained in an altered form. As well as drawing attention to these existing urban interventions, this process of redistribution creates a series of nearly invisible marks in the landscape, a constellation of actions and reactions.
While traveling in South America, Lamson began “Automatic,” a video and drawing project in which he uses the natural forces of wind and the ocean to power three rudimentary drawing machines made from plastic bottles, string and scrap wood. In addition to each series of distinct drawings, a video documents the uncanny movement of the apparatus at work and its relationship to the landscape around it. “Automatic” also includes “Assisted Kite Drawing,” a video in which the artist tries to hold a pen still, resisting the periodic tug of a kite connected to his hand. Like a somnambulistic performer, Lamson sits motionless with his eyes closed, his hand moving suddenly from an unseen force.
In his newest work, an installation and week-long performance entitled “Work and Trade,” Lamson continues his interest in interventions by using the gallery itself as a site of production, exchange, and dialogue. From May 22-May 29, Lamson will work in the gallery making drawings with a device that consists of a ceiling fan, string and a marker. Visitors are invited to look through a flat file archive of this work and offer him something in exchange for a drawing of their choice. The traded item will become part of a collection of unique objects on display in the gallery, and anything that is not already in the collection may be offered as a trade. By allowing viewers the ability to trade something for a drawing, Lamson creates both an opportunity for dialogue and a system through which the audience determines the content of the work on display. Through these conversations and the display of traded objects Lamson challenges the viewer to question the criteria by which the value is determined.
In all of the works, Lamson intervenes with natural forces and cultural systems in ways that question the artist’s agency. Drawings are made, objects are exchanged, and things are collected, but in all of these events the artist works with forces outside his control, be they wind, gravity, or visitors to a gallery.
William Lamson is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art, and he has shown at P.S. 1, Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis, and Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas.
For additional images and information, please visit: http://www.pierogi2000.com/flatfile/lams
Time:11:00AM Friday, May 22nd
Location:Pierogi
