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March 27, 2008
David Ellis - Flyway at Theory Clothing Store
Theory Icon Project Commission
David Ellis: Flyway
New York, New York. The Theory Icon Project commissions artist David Ellis for a week long painting performance, March 27 through April 3. Ellis will paint every day from 11am until 7pm in the Theory store at 38 Gansevoort Street, New York City. Ellis has built an airplane hangar inspired structure for the store in which he will paint. The entire process will be captured in stop frame animation that Ellis calls Motion Painting.
A digital camera installed overhead inside the structure is programmed to take bird’s-eye-view images of the artist at work on a large canvas laid out on the floor below. The digital stills are then compiled as video sequences, and scored by a composer who is on site for the entire week of the performance. The resulting compilation, entitled Baker’s, is a fast-forward explosion of the evolving imagery in time-lapse. The time-based sequence becomes as much the work of art as the painted canvas. The final work is installed on the wall as a diptych image, painted canvas and motion painting in conversation with each another. The result is an exploration of the relationship between “art” and process.
David Ellis: Flyway includes the in-store painting performance from March 27 through April 3 and the world premiere of Baker’s, the time-lapse video presented with a live score by Roberto Carlos Lange on April 8. To celebrate the Baker’s premiere, Ellis plans a special performance of Hell's Angel vs. DJ RoyOwl a percussive battle between Ellis's newest kinetic drum sculpture and DJ JTram assuming the alter ego of RoyOwl.
David Ellis has been included in a variety of prestigious group exhibitions both in the United States, and abroad. His motion painting videos have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The in-store painting performance takes place March 27-April 3 from 11am to 7pm. The Painting and the motion painting video will be exhibited April 9 through June 2, 2008 in the Theory Gansevoort store. Both the performance and installation are free and open to the public. The April 8th evening event, including the world premiere of Baker’s and the percussive cockfight, is invitation only.
Contact: Melissa G. Weiss
melissaw@theory.com
Tel. 212.300.0945
March 19, 2008
Lane Twitchell Review - Artnet.com
Charlie Finch writes a review for Artnet of Lane Twitchell's show, Leap with Me.
Check out the review HERE
February 29, 2008
Upcoming Exhibition: Doug Young and Lane Twitchell
Roebling Hall is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition 'One Soft Infested Summer', new works by sculptor Doug Young. In addition, on display in the project room will be, 'Leap with Me' new works by painter Lane Twitchell.
January 31, 2008
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation - Upcoming Screenings
January 31st –May 4th, 2008 The Rape of the Sabine Women will be part of Adaptations curated by Stephanie Smith at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.
January 31st - March 31st, 2008 The Rape of the Sabine Women will be part of PAC Murcia: Estartos curated by Nicolas Bourriaud in Murcia, Spain.
January 25, 2008
NEW YORK CITY'S ARTISTIC COMMUNITY UNDER ATTACK
JANUARY 24, 2008 PRESS RELEASE: FROM: 475 Kent Tenants Association
MATZO-GATE
NEW YORK CITY'S ARTISTIC COMMUNITY UNDER ATTACK
The live-work building located at 475 Kent Ave in Brooklyn's coveted waterfront neighborhood of Williamsburg was issued a Vacate Order by the NYC Fire Department on Sunday, January 20th at 7:30PM, the day before Martin Luther King day. Tenants were given until 1:30 in the morning to leave the building on a frigid January night.
475 Kent is a microcosm of New York City's cultural and economic activity with creative professionals generating an estimated $15 million in annual revenue. The vibrant community of 200 working artists - photographers, architects, writers, musicians, sculptors, filmmakers, designers, painters, printmakers, etc. is under attack.
It seems that the D.O B. is intent on making sure people will never be able to return to their spaces until all repairs are made and the building has a residential C of O, a prospect that could take years and millions of dollars. This renders 200 inhabitants most of whom are self-employed, small business entrepreneurs, both homeless and out of work. This building has been consistently and viably supporting creative professionals lives and businesses for ten years. The illegal eviction at 475 Kent comes on the heels of the evacuation of 17-17 Troutman in Ridgewood. That people's livelihoods and homes are being put in complete jeopardy makes one wonder if this is a trend and begs the phrase “follow the money”.
The events on Sunday night were precipitated when the FDNY inspected the basement of 475 Kent Ave. and “discovered” two 10' diameter metal canisters (containing grain used for making Matzo. The Matzo bakery has been in the building for more than ten years. The DOB and fire department have inspected 475 Kent Avenue regularly for the past ten years and would have had to be blind if they were not fully aware of the existence of a Matzo bakery and the grain. The presence of the grain resulted in a so-called “hazardous emergency” situation that gave FDNY and DOB license to vacate the building. When some residents and the landlord offered to alleviate the problem and remove the grain from the building on Sunday night the FDNY replied “you are not qualified to move the grain”. They then issued the vacate order.
What ensued was unmitigated chaos under the direction of our friends at the OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANGEMENT starring the New York City Fire Department, Department of Buildings, NYPD, Health Department, Department of Agriculture and the Red Cross. Their only area of competence was at holding closed-door, inter-agency meetings, in which no tenant representative was allowed, every two hours in their brand new location trailer. How many City agencies does it take to unscrew a lightbulb? We'll let you know, we're still counting.
Upon the issue of the vacate order 200 people scrambled to rid 110 spaces of their most crucial belongings. The following day people were given 6 hours access to remove their belongings, tools and equipment, a scenario that for most people who had been in residence for 5 - 10 years with substantial equipment and installations was completely untenable. From there the scene snowballed. On Tuesday January 22, tenants arrived with moving trucks at 10am having been told they would have another 6 hours access to the building. They found all entrances blocked by NYPD and FDNY and no one was allowed upstairs. Finally, at 1pm the leaders of each agency stood on the staircase and delivered their plan to the crowd: - residents would be allowed into the building six people at a time for one hour, followed by another group of six people each being granted one hour. Do the math. No, we'll do it for you. 200/6= 33.3 hours it would take to allow each person ONE hour access to collect their stuff. Then they shut down the elevators, insuring that the task was impossible. People, in a panic that this would be their last chance to save their belongings, began to carry equipment and valuables down ten flights of stairs, creating a real hazard.
As of Wednesday, January 23, the grain has been removed from the basement of 475 Kent Avenue, alleviating the immediate “hazardous” condition. Now the tenants have been allowed a final three days, six hours a day, to access the building. On Sunday night, January 27, the building will be padlocked prohibiting all further access for the foreseeable future. Why the building is safe enough to access for four days, but suddenly deemed unsafe again on Monday is a mystery to which DOB, OEM, FDNY has not provided an answer. Although requested repeatedly the DOB has never provided a complete list of the violations on the building. We know one of these violations is an inoperable sprinkler system, a problem that can mitigated with the presence of fire-guards while the system is repaired, allowing continued occupancy of the building.
Since the 1960's New York City's tacit urban renewal policy has been reliant on artist's moving into derelict buildings in less desirable neighborhoods. The city does nothing to bolster or support economic activity in these down and out areas, nor do they do anything to create affordable, legal, usable space for live/work entrepreneurs. 475 Kent is a prime example of this kind of turn-a-blind-eye urban renewal that has been a boon to the City of New York. A decade ago South Williamsburg was a dangerous neighborhood. Once artists take the initiative to live on the edge and restore and renew unused real estate in what were marginal areas the City becomes predatory. The transformation of Williamsburg by the artist community into one of New York City's most desirable neighborhoods encourages the city to move artists out as they calculate the tax revenue of luxury condo developers moving in. No one in any city agency cared about our health and safety ten years ago. Now that our building has become hot property the City is ready to muster all the powers of its many agencies to assist in the muscling of the property from the owners and the tenants. The tenants of 475 Kent Avenue call into question the hypocritical policies being put forth by the agencies of the City of New York. We cannot help but wonder what forces are driving this vacate and why the agencies are suddenly so concerned for out health and safety.
475 Kent Tenant's Association
January 17, 2008
Upcoming Exhibition: Ray Smith & Rebecca Horne
Roebling Hall is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of new works by painter Ray Smith and photographer Rebecca Horne.
December 13, 2007
David Ellis and Doze Green at Fifty24SF
"Rubicon Sun"
Upper Playground in association with FIFTY24SF Gallery is pleased to announce Rubicon Sun, a collaborative show between David Ellis and Doze Green.
December 4, 2007
NADA Miami
Roebling Hall will be participating at this years NADA Miami Art Fair. Roebling hall will be presenting an installation by Courtney Smith and new works by Eve Sussman, David Ellis, Erik Benson, Lane Twitchell, Simon Lee, David Ersser, Sebastiaan Bremer, Christoph Draeger, and Nancy Drew.
THE NEW ART DEALERS ALLIANCE (NADA) ART FAIR
December 5-9, 2007
The Ice Palace
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
(corner of North Miami Avenue and NW 14th Street)Opening Night Preview To benefit The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 4pm to 9pm
8:30pm SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY KEN KAGAMI AND DEERHOOF
Tickets may be purchased online at newmuseumstore.orgShow Dates and Times
Wednesday, Dec 5; 11am to 7pm
Thursday, Dec 6; 11am to 7pm
Friday, Dec 7; 11am to 7pm
Saturday, Dec 8; 11am to 7pm
Sunday, Dec 9; 11am to 4pmAdmission is free and open to the public
November 29, 2007
Upcoming Exhibition : Bjorn Melhus
Roebling Hall is pleased to announce the upcoming solo exhibition of German born video artist Bjorn Melhus. 'The Castle - The Meadow - The City'
November 29 - January 12, 2008 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 29, 2007, 6-8 PM
November 10, 2007
BJORN MELHUS TO SPEAK NOVEMBER 27 AS PART OF THE PRATT 2007-2008 VISITING ARTISTS LECTURE SERIES
BROOKLYN, N.Y. October 17, 2007 – Artist Bjorn Melhus will speak at Pratt Institute about his artwork and career as part of the 2007-2008 Visiting Artists Lecture Series from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, November 27 in the Engineering Building, Room 371, on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The Pratt Visiting Artists Lecture Series is an annual year-long series organized by the Department of Fine Arts in the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute to welcome nationally and internationally recognized fine artists to share their experiences with the Pratt community.
Melhus, a Berlin-based video artist, will speak about video installations “The Castle - The Meadow - The City,” “Far Far Away,” “Weeping,” and “Auto Center Drive.”
Melhus has exhibited extensively overseas and is represented by Roebling Hall in New York, where “The Castle – The Meadow – The City” will be on view from November 29 – January 12, 2008. His films have been screened at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; LUX, London; and at Goethe Institutes in Buenos Aires, Bogota, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore, and Toronto.
Melhus attended Adolf-Lazi-Schule in Stuttgart, Germany; Braunschweig School of the Arts, Germany; and California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, on a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship.
Additional speakers for the 2007 fall semester of this series include Anna Shuliet on December 4. Past speakers have included Ryan McGinness, Wangechi Mutu, Brian Alfred, Chitra Ganesh, Xu Bing, Kehinde Wiley, Stephen Westfall, Janine Antoni, and Richard Tuttle.
This year’s series is being coordinated by graduate students Natalie Stevens and Mary Cook under the supervision of Professor Dominique Nahas in the Department of Fine Arts.
Visitors can enter Pratt Institute’s campus on DeKalb Avenue or on Willoughby Avenue between Hall Street and Classon Avenue. The closest subway stop is the Clinton-Washington station on the G line. For directions to campus or parking information, visit www.pratt.edu/directions.
About Pratt Institute: Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute www.pratt.edu is one of the largest independent colleges of art and design in the United States, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the schools of architecture, art and design, information and library science, and liberal arts and sciences. Pratt is located on 25 landscaped acres in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn and has a Manhattan campus in a renovated eight-story building on West 14th Street.