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- Brendan Fowler - Performa '09
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Sunday, November 15 at 1:00pm - Brendan Fowler at Rental Fall ...
Rental Gallery, 120 East Broadway, ...
Sunday, October 25 at 7:00pm - Richard Kern: 1980-1999
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Thursday, June 4 at 7:00pm
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5 hours of fowler!
Refreshments will be served.
Time:1:00PM Sunday, November 15th
Location:RENTAL
Brendan Fowler, Fall 2009 (Transparency For Flower Print Order... - Decoding Images - Art in America
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Digital C prints, silk screen ink and enamel on paper, frames, plexiBrendan Fowler is best known for his performance work under the name BARR, for which he spins long-winded, humorous, self-deprecating and self-reflexive songs about such topics as the song he is singing, and relationships. ...
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RENTAL is proud to announce its first solo exhibition of new works by artist Brendan Fowler entitled Brendan Fowler at Rental Fall 2009. The opening reception will be held on Sunday October 25 from 6 to 9pm. A special surprise performance, as part of Performa 09, will take place in the gallery on Sunday November 15, fr...om 1 to 6pm.
Initially best known for his performances, and increasingly for his object based works, Brendan Fowler at Rental, Fall 2009 continues the artist's growth into the sculptural territory of an interdisciplinary practice. Framed photographs and silkscreened prints crash in violent compositions that Fowler began as an attempt to capture the percussive rhythms of free jazz. As an undergrad, Fowler studied free jazz alongside printmaking, and now, more than twelve years later, he marries the two out of the hope that free jazz, as a form, will inform his practice and serve as an opening in his work. After a considerable hiatus from his focus, it is a rhythm, which has, in recent years, come back to his work in earnest. Although never conceived as such, Fowler's long running project, BARR, was often referred to in terms of motivational speaking set to music. Just as his performance and sound works were heart-on-sleeve biographical, so, too, is his object based work entirely personal. This show functions largely as a memoir of the current— Fowler's life circa 2009— as it unpacks itself in real time. Actual "cancelled" performance tour posters formed the departure point for his contributions to a four person show at Rental in the Spring. While in the current show a series of further negated versions of these same posters form the basis for the work. Fowler plays with time and the physical memory of space as he considers the new works specific to the same walls where his works in the group show hung. His day job is at a magazine, and the cement blocks which hold up the show's sculptural centerpiece are cast from the boxes in which the magazines are shipped. Many of the works in the show are incidentally photographed in various stages of progress in his studio. Increasingly, Fowler is developing games around the transparency of his content. Two of the primary visual elements are flowers, which Fowler has inserted as "the
penultimate, universally un-specific signifier for aesthetic 'beauty;'" and, standing in stark and hyper specific contrast, a reproduction of an unspecified interview in which Fowler explains, verbatim, most of the references in the show. His dialog is simultaneously opening up as it narrows in. For the first time in his work we see cancellation strategies which inch at pure abstraction, but given the work's stated formal starting reference of improvised music, the same abstractions could be taken as signifiers for a "crash" or "tonal wash." Pure gesture functions as a specific reference unto itself, and Fowler complicates the conversation a step further. Brendan Fowler (b. 1978) has exhibited in solo exhibitions with Rivington Arms in New York and 2nd Cannons Publications in Los Angeles. He was included in The New Museum’s inaugural Triennial, Younger Than Jesus, earlier this year. He has performed at The Kitchen and New Museum in New York, David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, at the Frieze and NADA art fairs and at countless rock clubs, independent DIY venues and independent spaces internationally.
Time:7:00PM Sunday, October 25th
Location:Rental Gallery, 120 East Broadway, 6th Floor, New York
Peter Hujar, Matt Chambers, Xu Zhen, Stephen Dean, Ori Gersht, Nicholas Robinson - Review - NYTimes.
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Peter Hujar at Matthew Marks Gallery, Matt Chambers at Rental Gallery, Xu Zhen at James Cohan Gallery and more.
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Time:7:00PM Saturday, September 12th
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Two square canvases by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami flash Louis Vuitton logos, cutesy pink and yellow graphics and the price of $350,000.
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Time:7:00PM Thursday, July 9th
Location:Printed Matter
Time:5:00PM Saturday, June 13th
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Printed Matter is pleased to announce a launch for Brendan Fowler’s publication ISBN-10: 0-9820559-3-5, which has recently been published by Brian Kennon’s 2nd Cannons Press. The launch will take place from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at Printed Matter, which is located at 195 Tenth Avenue in New York City. ...
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To listen to BARR is to jump into Brendan Fowler’s head, to enter a jumble of memory, laughter, fear and perseverance. His songs are built from tiny, heart-tugging piano melodies, insistent drumming, and a singular voice that is as relentlessly obsessive and anxious as it is cheerful and celebratory...
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DYKENASTY ALL ON MY TIP!TOO SHORT TOO SHORT(said it twice).CHALLENGE THEM!!!FUCK POKHERFACE, SHORTY IN THE TUB GOT THE STRAIGHT JOKER FACE. ALL SHE NEEDS IS THE CLOWN MAKEUPS.OH YEAH, NICE TITS FOR BEIN IN THE ITTY BITTY COMMITTEE.
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A new exhibition of the work of Richard Kern is on view. Photo director Emma Reeves scopes it out.
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Jaiko’s Butt from Richard Kern’s show Photos 1980... - purple DIARY - Official Blog of the Purple Fashion Magazine by Olivier Zahm.
