Recession Art

katieferrari: Lily’s version of Joseph Beuys’ I Like America...

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:02:25 -0400

Lily’s version of Joseph Beuys’ I Like America and America Likes Me (1974)

nyc-arts: Just opened at chashama 266 window space in...

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:20:06 -0400

Just opened at chashama 266 window space in Manhattan: ”Liberty in the Forest” exhibition of mixed-media paintings and installation by Jae Kyung Kim

Sara Bouchard & Careful Perform at Recession Art (9 Clinton St.) this Friday from 7-9pm!

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:32:31 -0400

Sara Bouchard and Careful - once fellow artists-in-residence, sometimes collaborators and always kindred song-spinners - bring their solo projects together for an evening of eclectic, avant-garde folk.

Careful – 7pm

Careful has played a blend of electronics and experimental folk aroundNYC for about 4 years, and releases its third album August 21st. Sadder and more broken than Sufjan Stevens, more cohesive thanXiu-xiu, and more electronically inflected than Will Oldham, bothrecorded and live versions of the music tend toward surreal, tragicomic elegy the New York Times calls “gorgeous.”

Sara Bouchard – 8pm

Sara Bouchard’s song cycle “The News: Monday-Friday” is a futuristic folk tale of migration which she performs on acoustic guitar, mandolin and autoharp. By collaging words and phrases from two Monday-Friday spans of the newspaper, Bouchard has created a historical account of a future civilization, in ten songs. Uprooted from their homeland by a string of natural disasters, a community is forced to journey into the unknown and adapt to their new surroundings. Individual accounts from a series of fictional characters - a mysterious religious leader, a haughty politician, a mourning mother, a stranger with bright ideas - are woven together to reveal a common concern: how can we maintain a permanent home when the waters keep rising?

More info here.

One of the feature songs of Scorpio Rising by Kenneth Anger....

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:13:51 -0400

One of the feature songs of Scorpio Rising by Kenneth Anger. Come enjoy the film with friends and drinks on Aug. 11th from 10pm to 1am at Recession Art!

ART + ANGER: Kenneth Anger Screening Party at RAC on August 11th!

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:04:18 -0400

ART + ANGER: a Kenneth Anger Screening Party

RAC hosts a night-long screening of Kenneth Anger’s short avant garde films

- by Erin Keane, RAC

August 11th 10pm to 1am, RAC | Recession Art at CULTUREfix, 9 Clinton Street NY, NY 10002

A prolific filmmaker of the 1960’s and 1970’s, Kenneth Anger created a body of the most influential avant garde films. Totaling at 3 hours, RAC will play nine of his most critically-acclaimed completed works in a relaxed ambiance with an informal seating area. Anger’s films center on and critique the dangerous allure of popular culture and Hollywood through their spectacle-based narrative structure. Visually, his pieces strongly draw on imagery from the occult, 70’s countercultures, and eroticism and are soundtracked by artists such as The Dells, A Raincoat, Jimmy Page, Elvis Presely, The Angels, Vivaldi, Ricky Nelson and the Shangri-Las. Self-described as a magician who uses cinematography as a magical power, Anger’s main goal in his filmmaking is to seduce the audience into entering an alternative construction of artistic realities and create an enigmatic atmosphere for the viewer that goes beyond the screen.

Anger famously screened his films in his windowless apartment in the Lower East Side to a small community that included notable creative minds such as Alfred Kinsey, Mick Jagger, and Tennessee Williams. RAC aims to recreate this intimate screening experience thirty years later in their Lower East Side location. With a gallery space, extensive beer selection, and communal tables with ample seating, enjoy RAC’s relaxed and social ambiance while viewing a selection of Anger’s most influential films.

Kenneth Anger (b. 1927, Santa Monica, California) has been creating films since the 1940s with his first being Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941). Anger’s six-decade-long oeuvre includes most notably Fireworks (1947), Puce Moment (1949), Eaux d’artifice (1953), Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954-66), Scorpio Rising (1963), Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965), Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969), Lucifer Rising (1970-81)), Rabbit’s Moon (1950-79), Mouse Heaven (2004), Elliot’s Suicide (2004), and the recent Ich Will! (2008) and Foreplay (2008). His films have inspired contemporary filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and David Lynch. Anger now resides in New York City and continues to work in filmmaking.

Image: KENNETH ANGER, Hollywood Babylon, Neon and Plexiglass, 1975.

Nashalina examines the changing identity and scenescape of the...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:49:46 -0400

Nashalina examines the changing identity and scenescape of the Lower East Side. If you see a friendly blonde woman with a camera sitting outside on Clinton…

youinthe10002:

lower east side june 23 2012

nashalina photography

brooklynstreetart: New collabo with Shin Shin and Elle

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:48:23 -0400

brooklynstreetart:

New collabo with Shin Shin and Elle

Slightly jealous of Danny Ghitis’ excursions in Maine....

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:20:20 -0400

Slightly jealous of Danny Ghitis’ excursions in Maine. Beautiful Instagram magic happening here.

dannyghitis:

#mainescapes 1 #beach #maine #landscape (Taken with Instagram at Popham Beach)

What If Social Networks Just Aren’t Profitable?

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:35:07 -0400

What If Social Networks Just Aren’t Profitable?

Submit to Prolonged Exposure, Recession Art's Upcoming Show,by Midnight, August 1st!

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:00:01 -0400

Submissions are now open for Prolonged Exposure curated by Kaegan Sparks.

Deadline Wednesday August 1, 11:59pm

Selections will be conducted by the Recession Art Jury led by Guest Curator Kaegan Sparks and Art Director Ani Katz. Prolonged Exposure will be held November 3-10 at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn. Accepting Work in All Media Including Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Performance, Installation, and Video.

About Prolonged Exposure

“I will not make any more boring art.”
–John Baldessari

Prolonged Exposure will ask how we can remain curious and speculative in a culture of desensitizing barrage and static. The exhibition will concentrate on artworks that plumb boredom’s latent energy, provoking a restlessness which precipitates a desire for change.

In scholar Sianne Ngai’s investigation of minor affects or ‘ugly feelings’– diffusive, non-cathartic states like irritation, paranoia, anxiety, or envy which seem increasingly endemic to contemporary culture and aesthetics– she posits a surprising parallel between shock and boredom. Though antithetical in intensity and duration (shock is immediate and staggering, while boredom is tedious and numbing), both emotions induce states of suspended agency: “both are responses that confront us with the limitations of our capacity for responding in general.”

Likewise, our precarious political moment routinely produces both spectacle and detachment. While the U.S. military’s “shock and awe” maneuvers have exploited the disarming effect of the sublime to expedite violence, representations of such atrocities also have paralyzing power. Through recapitulation and gloss, the mediated registers via which the American or global public relates to distant warfare (or even more proximate disasters) can evoke ennui. Prolonged exposure is liable to dilute a bewildering event, resigning outrage to torpor.

Works for Prolonged Exposure may engage durational, automatic, repetitive, or tedious strategies, or seek to distract a viewer from object to ambience. They may employ exhaustive formal processes (lists, serial marks, obsessive indices) or excessive collecting functions which fatigue or frustrate attempts to parse or absorb. They may defuse trenchant source materials or deploy simulacral repetition to simultaneously jade and distress. They may be overwhelmingly monotonous, removed, spatially or temporally boundless, or reflect an inordinate amount of routine labor. They may feature bland or unremarkable landscapes that lack a commanding subject, have a presence so mundane or subtle as to be overlooked altogether (as wallpaper or Erik Satie’s furniture music), or implement ‘uncreative’ or appropriative techniques and absurdum.

Rejecting stultification for an enabling state of openness or receptivity, such practices will galvanize idleness born of surfeit or repetition, seeking to overhaul viewers’ sensory and interpretive habits and engender new modes of attention. As John Cage intoned: “If they say something is boring after two minutes, try it for four…”

Visual artists who are accepted to a Recession Art Show receive a one-week exhibition at the Invisible Dog in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Video and performance artists who are accepted will negotiate directly with staff to plan a screening or performance schedule based on their needs. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, August 1st. Artists will be notified of acceptance by August 31st. Please contact info@recessionartshows.com with any questions.

Image: Artie Vierkant, Exposure Adjustment on a Sunset (stills), 2009

Submit to Prolonged Exposure by RAC by Midnight, August 1st!

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:47:00 -0400

Submissions are now open for Prolonged Exposure curated by Kaegan Sparks.

Deadline Wednesday August 1, 11:59pm

About Prolonged Exposure

“I will not make any more boring art.”
–John Baldessari

Image: Artie Vierkant, Exposure Adjustment on a Sunset (stills), 2009

angelorensanzfoundation: The beach, the spheres, the colors....

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:30:52 -0400

angelorensanzfoundation:

The beach, the spheres, the colors. That is Angel Orensanz.

pacegallery: Reblog of the day: We love this glimse into the...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:30:39 -0400

pacegallery:

Reblog of the day: We love this glimse into the past in which a great artist and a great writer meet for the first and last time.

amamblog:

In the early 1980s, American poet Allen Ginsberg rediscovered negatives and drugstore prints he had taken over a period of 40 years and began to systematically reprint his old pictures and make new ones.

As Ginsberg inscribed the snapshots directly onto the photographic paper beneath the image, the camera gradually replaced his notebooks as a way of record keeping. Louise Nevelson, New York, November 9, 1986 invites a viewing experience that oscillates between reading and looking and produces the kind of self-conscious observation Ginsberg aimed to capture and foment through his poetry or, as he famously said, “to notice what we notice.” Ginsberg’s understanding of life as sacramental informed his vision of photography as a way to preserve a fleeting moment. This photograph, taken at the first—and last—time Ginsberg met the artist and captioned sometime after her death in 1988, is a poignant and powerful portrait that both records and memorializes their meeting.

Image:
Allen Ginsberg (American, 1926-1997)
Louise Nevelson, New York, November 9, 1986, 1986
Gelatin silver print
Charles Olney Fund, 2010.8

hahamagartconnect: STREET FOOD WITH A SIDE OF POLITICS… The...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:29:22 -0400

hahamagartconnect:

STREET FOOD WITH A SIDE OF POLITICS…

The Conflict Kitchen was started by three artists from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh opened a take-out restaurant that only serves the national cuisines of the countries the United States is currently in conflict with. The food comes wrapped in paper covered with facts about the current country’s government, culture and the way the U.S. perceives it. It makes starting an interesting dinner conversation a breeze.

artnet: Chelsea Art Walk 2012 The annual Chelsea Art Walk is...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:28:08 -0400

artnet:

Chelsea Art Walk 2012

The annual Chelsea Art Walk is happening this evening! Galleries will be open until 8:00 p.m. hosting artist talks, receptions, and other special events, showcasing the vibrancy of Chelsea’s summer art exhibitions, galleries, and art spaces.

Chelsea Art Walk is free and open to the public, with festivities taking place from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Mark Your Calendars! Come to the Kenneth Anger Screening at Recession Art! Aug. 11, 10pm-1am

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:51:19 -0400

RAC presents a screening of Kenneth Anger’s Short Films

Come party with us at Recession Art at Culturefix and enjoy the films of an artist who defined american avant garde!

Kenneth Anger, making films since 1947 and working primarily in the 1960’s and 1970’s, created a body of some of the most influential avant garde films. Totaling at 3 hours, RAC will play nine of his most influential completed works, with informal seating and a bar atmosphere. Angers films are critiques of Hollywood, its narrative structure and the lure that dangerously surrounds popular culture. Anger sets non-narratively driven images of the occult, counterculture and eroticism to popular musical scores by artists such as The Dells, A Raincoat, Jimmy Page, Elvis Presely, The Angels, Vivaldi, Ricky Nelson and the Shangri-Las.

Bring your friends, have a few drinks, watch the films and casually converse with other Anger fans! Casual ambiance and fun times ahead!

Hosted by Erin Kean, RAC

storyboard: Man Bartlett, Social Media Artist If the role of...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:40:48 -0400

storyboard:

Man Bartlett, Social Media Artist

If the role of the artist is to respond to the society and the times they live in, Man Bartlett is probably on the right track. The young Brooklyn-based artist carries out much of his work through social media platforms like Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. These days, we spend a lot of our lives on our computers or smartphones, and we interact more and more through social networks. But precisely because the changes associated with these new technologies are so widespread, it is difficult to judge what impact they have had on our lives and psyches. That’s where art comes in.

Through his virtual projects, performances, and lively online interventions, Bartlett acts as a critical voice, provoking his audience into rethinking how they engage with their favorite websites. He is also a leading practitioner of what has come to be known as “social media art,” a genre which gathered some momentum in recent years with Hyperallergic editor Hrag Vartanian’s 2010 exhibition “The Social Graph” and a comprehensive feature in ARTnews magazine as well as countless articles and essays.

Social media art, according to Bartlett, “uses social media as a function of its existence,” taking advantage of the possibilities of the online social space but also pushing its boundaries. For “The Social Graph,” social media artist An Xiao performed “The Artist is (Kinda) Present,” a riff on performance artist Marina Abramovic’s piece of a similar name in which Xiao interacted with her audience solely through Twitter while sitting across from them. For his part, Bartlett has turned New York’s Port Authority bus station into a platform for an interactive online experience with #24hPort, translated tweets into sculpture with “Kith and Kin,” and documented himself spending a full 140 hours in a Berlin gallery wrapped in an American flag and hanging out with a turkey — a riff on German artist Joseph Beuys’s famous piece “I Like America and America Likes Me” — on his Tumblr with #140hBerlin.

For such a technology-savvy artist, Bartlett’s studio in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood is remarkably low-tech. Wide windows overlooking the industrial landscape cast light on collections of vintage magazines, a massive minimalist drawing in progress, and an incense burner turned into an altar for used-up pens. The flip side of Bartlett’s digital creative process is that he continues to get his hands dirty, making collages out of travel ads clipped from ‘60s lifestyle periodicals that reflect on the presence of technology in culture.

— Kyle Chayka

The Wassaic Project Arts Festival, Aug. 3rd-5th! Diverse Arrangment of Artists and Free!

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:10:00 -0400

The Wassaic Project Arts Festival Aug 3rd-5th

What is the best way to beat the August city heat? Get out!

Join RAC upstate in the scenic hamlet of Wassaic for a weekend of FREE arts events, including concerts, dance performances and exhibitions from the artists in residence.

By Erin Keane, RAC Intern

Watch a video about the festival

This project is particularly close to my heart because I grew up five minutes from Wassaic in a similarly sweet town across the boarder in Connecticut. This festival provides the perfect combination of quaint weekend getaway to a quiet town and city-quality culture and entertainment. I personally am looking forward to breathing fresh air, feeling clean grass under my feet, seeing more than one star in the night sky, feeling the breeze coming off of the Housatonic River, and hearing crickets as I sleep instead of honking and break sounds; not to mention seeing the amazing exhibits put together by this year’s residents.

There are three exhibitions curated this year; Return to Rattlesnake Mountain, Liesure Work, and Clean Up. Both promising cutting edge contemporary pieces, interactions with the artists and family friendly content and activities. There is also a full line up of concerts and performances. Just a hour and a half on the metro north will bring you within walking distance to this festival in downtown Wassaic.

The following Recession Art Shows artists participated in the residency program at Wassaic; Paloma Crousillat, Ashley May, Danny Ghitis, Celia Tobin, Danielle Scruggs, Ian Trask, Johanna Povirk-Znoy, Megan Berk, Alison Wilder.

Ashley May and Ian Trask will take part in the Return to Rattlesnake Mountain Exhibit.

As a former resident of this magical corner of the world, here is some advice for how to experience Wassaic like a local, and great places to stay.

If you are planning on taking a car for the weekend I recommend staying in the town of Millerton. Literally down the road from Wassaic, this quaint town holds its own attractions; such as movies for under ten dollars, an old fashioned diner, boutiques and antique shops. It also has many great restaurants ( by many I mean like five) and two cute inns; Millbrook Country House, and Simmon’s Way Village Inn. I particularly recommend Simmons Way as a former employee of this main street location. I also recommend that in between a morning of exhibitions and an evening of concerts at the Wassaic project, that you relax by spending the afternoon wine tasting at you spend an afternoon wine tasting at Millbrook Vineyards and Winery.

I also recommend taking a short scenic drive over to Kent CT, and picnicking at the Kent Falls. Pick up some sandwiches at The Villager, a Kent staple establishment (if you extend your weekend to a Tuesday night, this diner turns into a truly authentic Mexican restaurant one night a week, but plan ahead because it is the only time you’ll need a reservation in this one stop light town!)

Sara Bouchard & Careful Perform at Recession Art this Friday from 7-9pm!

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:04:00 -0400

Amazing opportunity for artists! Apply for the Celeste Prize by the end of the month! Click here.

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:00:52 -0400

Amazing opportunity for artists! Apply for the Celeste Prize by the end of the month! Click here.