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EYELEVEL B.Q.E
EyeLevel BQE was born in 2008 as an artist-run project that seeks to offer a forum in the Art and Design fields. Offering an effective documentation of the work we produce and constantly reaching out to find ways of bringing the community closer to the things we see, believe in and do.
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PROJECTS 2012 - SPRING BREAK ART SHOW (LIFTING THE VEIL)
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Doug Beube, “Interlocutors,”1996. Altered books. On view at Christopher Henry Gallery (Taken with Instagram at Christopher Henry Gallery)
For over 3 years, Tomo has featured editorial content on proposals and questions raised in the art, architecture and design fields, collaborated on several special projects to produce everything from limited edition objects to the halls of architecture that occur in young Eco Experimental Museum.
This is the first special issue in which Tomo changes its print format and taking its main objective to focus on creating and supporting independent projects that promote dialogue among many things between disciplines and the creation and promotion of new ideas. Parallel to these actions will continue to generate the content of the publication online, so timeless launch various special editions.
This special edition consists of a textbook, a picture book and a poster. Most of the content was made especially for this edition is to highlight their collaboration with the project de_sitio to present their project and the work of the artist Paloma Polo. And a brief selection of supplements prior to its relevance in this edition.
TOMO ESPECIAL will be available for sale starting May 15th at the offices of Tomo: Jose Ceballos # 10, col. San Miguel Chapultepec. It will also be in other outlets, such as Happening Store, Café Zena & Sicario.You can request a copy by mail: monsecastera@gmail.com.
Ediciones Hungría de tour en la Ciudad de México todo el mes de mayo. Vengan a decir hola!
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This month, Ediciones Hungría will be touring Mexico City. Come and say hi!
@dannyfunds + @outlier = pure linen goodness. Featuring original artwork by our dear friend & peer: Dan Funderburgh. Photo by Emiliano Granado et Laurel Golio (Taken with instagram)
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@dannyfunds + @outlier = pure linen goodness. Featuring original artwork by our dear friend & peer: Dan Funderburgh. Photo by Emiliano Granado et Laurel Golio (Taken with instagram)
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Our peer Dan Funderburgh has been working on this collaboration with Outlier Tailored Performance for a few months now. We are REALLY excited to see it all come together so well. Here is a little more about this via Outlier´s Newsletter:
“At 23 inches square, the Digital Linen Bandana clocks in a touch larger than your traditional bandana. Like an old-school handkerchief we made it out of linen; unlike cotton, linen can absorb 20% of its weight in moisture while still feeling dry to the touch. We think it makes for a better way to keep your brow dry. It also gave us a great excuse to play around with digital printing. Our friend Dan Funderburgh provided the art, and an experimental edition was born. Quantities of this test run are quite limited and will be available tomorrow, May 10th, at noon, New York time.”
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PHOTOS BY: EMILIANO GRANADO et LAUREL GOLIO
*** Clear your schedules for May 17th people.
RABBITHOLE GALLERY PRESENTS:
REAL VS. ROLE:
THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ EXPLORATIONS IN PORTRAITURE
CURATED BY CLAIRE J. DONOGHUE
FEATURING WORKS BY
EMILIANO GRANADO, ANOUK KRUITHOF, JULIETA SANS
OPENING RECEPTION WITH ARTISTS: MAY 17
Exhibition on View: May 3 - May 30, 2012Marianne Boesky Gallery. Hannah van Bart. Young Man, 2012. #frieze (Taken with instagram)
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Fabian Marti, untitled 2011. Glaze fired clay. #frieze (Taken with instagram)
Frieze-bound (Taken with Instagram at East River Ferry Terminal East 35th Street/Midtown)
Frieze New York: Downtown Night
The following institutions and galleries located in lower Manhattan will remain open late on Sunday evening with many holding special events.
6pm
Keren Cytter Show Real Drama
Cytter brings her latest theatrical production to The Kitchen for an exclusive two-evening engagement (40 mins ). Seating limited. The show will also take place at 6pm on Saturday 5 May.
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
+1 212 255 5793
info@thekitchen.org6–8pm
Andrei Roiter Opening reception with live music
Jack Hanley Gallery
136 Watts Street
+1 646 918 68246–9pm
Bidoun Bookshelf Launch
Join us for the launch of the Bidoun Bookshelf, a micro-bookshop in our storefront space on the Lower East Side in which we present and sell unique, rare, or otherwise compelling books from across the Bidouniverse.
47 Orchard Street
+1 212 475 01236–9pm
Julia Rommel Private view with artists
Co-hosted with Crystal, Stockholm.
Bureau
127 Henry Street
+1 212 227 27836–9pm
Mary Heilmann, Mary Mattingly,Tony Oursler, Hannah Sawtell (The Island), Alaina Stamatis, Lawrence Weiner Open studios and galleries
The Clocktower Gallery/ ARTonAIR.org
108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor
+1 212 233 10966–9pm
Noam Rappaport
James Fuentes
55 Delancey Street
+1 212 577 12016–9pm
Torsten Slama
Kimmerich Gallery
50 White Street
+1 212 226 00706–9pm
Pepe & Puntar’s Lucid Dream Lounge with special guests Performance by SKOTE
For their first collaborative installation, Sheila Pepe and Diana Puntar build a field of operation incorporating light, shadow, drawing and multiple sculptural elements.
Participant Inc
253 East Houston Street
+1 212 254 43346–9pm
Hans Schabus Opening reception
Simon Preston
301 Broome Street
+1 212 431 11056–9pm
Virginia Overton Closing reception
An exhibition of new sculpture and installation curated by Matthew Lyons.
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
+1 212 255 57936–9pm
Gilbert & George
Lehmann Maupin
201 Chrystie Street
+1 212 254 00546–9pm
Maria José Arjona Private view
New visual and performance work.
Location One
26 Greene Street
+1 212 334 33476–9pm
Jo Nigoghossian Late opening
Renwick Gallery
45 Renwick Street
+1 212 609 35356–9pm
Capital C Performance/cabaret
Ten artists will address the relationship between capital and culture through humor, seduction and play. Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
+1 212 431 5795
limited space: contact Kara Meyer km@storefrontnews.org6–9pm
John Armleder Private view
Special tour by curator Gianni Jetzer at 8pm.
Swiss Institute/
Contemporary Art
18 Wooster Street
+1 212 925 2035
limited space: contact Piper Marshall piper@swissinstitute.net6–9pm
Animism Drinks reception
Curated by Anselm Franke
e-flux
311 East Broadway
+1 212 619 3356
limited space: Mila Zacharias mila@e-flux.com7pm
Quentin Meillassoux Talk and book launch
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
+1 212 995 1774
post@miguelabreu.com7pm
The so-called “Alternative Space” talk
Artists Space has become synonymous with a certain historical notion of “the alternative.” This discussion between four panelists will critically reflect on what “alternative” remains, in the context of a seemingly pluralized institutional landscape, as well as an accelerated and diversified global market place. Special screenings of film trilogies by Duncan Campbell and Manon de Boer will take place on the evenings of Wednesday 2 and Friday 4 May. Please check artistsspace.org for more information.
Artists Space: Books & Talks
55 Walker Street
+1 212 226 3970
artistsspace.org
6–9pm
***White Columns 2012 Benefit Exhibition Special preview
Featuring donated works by over 75 artists, the Benefit Auction supports the programs of New York’s oldest alternative space.
Please visit whitecolumns.org for more information.
White Columns
320 West 13th Street
+1 212 924 4212
limited space: contact Jeff Eaton info@whitecolumns.org6–9pm
Xylor Jane Opening reception with artist
CANADA
55 Chrystie Street
+1 212 925 46317pm/8
Ryan McGinley Artist tour
Team Gallery
47 Wooster Street
+1 212 279 92198pm
Shimon Minamikawa Performance and screening
Co-hosted with Misako & Rosen
47 Canal
47 Canal Street, 2nd Floor
+1 646 415 771210pm–2am
Downtown Night After Hours
Special Guest DJs and performances
Santos Party House
96 Lafayette Street
santospartyhouse.comThe following institutions and galleries located
in lower Manhattan will remain open late on
Sunday evening with many holding special events.
Limited transport will be provided from the Frieze
ferry terminal after the fair closes. For further
information please visit the VIP desks at the fairOpening Tonight (Washington, D.C)
CARCERAL | J.W. Mahoney @ Curator’s Office
April 28 - May 19, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 28
6:00 - 8:00 pm“Curator’s Office is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of artist, curator and writer, J.W. Mahoney. Long a singular and influential presence on the greater Washington, DC art scene, this new meditative body of image/text works on paper over panel is inspired by a recent dark and existential episode in the artist’s life: that of a brief imprisonment after an arrest.
The works evoke conditions of imprisonment, both physically and philosophically. Yet their lyricism belies the liberating flight within. Some are “portraits” of fellow inmates. Others are mood pieces from being in the cell or looking out from it. The exhibition has a soundtrack of prison-themed music including songs by Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, Bob Dylan, Bobby Fuller, and Bruce Springsteen.
Mahoney writes, “There are experiences that we humans sometimes have no control in - good ones, like love, and not so good ones, like surgery. Or incarceration. All the titles of the pieces here I wrote on paper the third day (of four) that I was in jail in Arlington, Virginia in the summer of 2011, not unjustifiably, after a DWI conviction. Paper was scarce, and the pen a surprising grace.
These “Carceral” pieces are semi-successful escape attempts, in a way, out of those conditions. Incarceration can’t be reconciled with, because it’s so objective - you’re locked in, up, and down. The fancy that awareness is “free” has to be registered as an abstract freedom, which it really is. I made myself remember the Tolle quote, above, when I was in my first holding-cell, right after conviction, newly belt-less and temporarily shoeless. It worked, mostly.
Incarceration is cruel and unusual punishment as far as I can see, for anybody who’s not really dangerous to us all. It generally feels to be a massively deep waste of time. This was a meditation retreat enforced by locks and weapons. These artworks came from that, and hopefully out of it - as visions from a restless third eye (as it exists), while the other two are generally seeing the six walls of one’s rectangular living space. These works are not about either catharsis or healing. Nothing can extirpate the experience of incarceration, nor are childbirth or combat ever really knowable except as personal experiences. But all may be doorways into the formless.”
J.W. Mahoney is an artist, writer, and curator based in Virginia. A graduate of Harvard University, he has exhibited his work in the United States for over 30 years. Additionally, he is an active independent curator who constantly encourages younger artists and assembles new and unusual contexts for their works. He writes for numerous publications, including Art in America, ArtNews, and Art Papers. He is an educator at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Mahoney is known and admired for his visionary mind and unusual eye and has had a tremendous influence on the cultural life of Washington, DC and its environs. His works are in the public collections of The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO; and The Artery Collection, Bethesda, MD.”______
Xiara XIV, digital print on Japanese paper mounted onto wood, colored pencil, 12” x 12”, 2012Janine Antoni, If I Die Before I Wake (mother’s hand meets daughter’s hand in prayer), 2004
Eyelevel BQE is proud to present: Collective 1050 & Innovando la Tradición will be conducting a workshop/ demonstration in ceramics along with an Intro to their most recent publication: “Barro y Fuego” at the Current Trade School Headquarters from 6-8 on 139 Norfolk #eyelevelbqe (Taken with instagram)
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VINCE CONTARINO
“Untitled (6)” print
“My work is concerned with exploring the possibilities of abstraction through drawing, collage, and painting. An important part of my studio practice involves searching for thrown away or discarded marks and pairing them with more deliberately constructed forms. While there is room for chance and discovery, I strive to operate in a middle ground that is neither restrictive or self indulgent, continually editing down the paintings to their most important elements.”
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LIMITED EDITION (#18 prints)
archival ink print on BFK Rives
8” x 10” (unframed)
11” x 14” (framed)
LISA IGLESIAS
“Protectorate”(print)“Rather than working in a linear path, the projects I make are based on constellations of association. Whether papier-mâché rifle, pencil drawing, or hand-made celebration banner, threads of renewal, re-historicization and futility weave throughout.
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EDITION OF 20
(original drawing: graphite on paper)
11x10” (unframed)
12x12” (framed)EMILIANO GRANADO
Time for Print box set curated by Alexandra NelsonEmiliano Granado’s latest project, Time For Print, is a catalog of portraits from Model Mayhem. It is a study of beauty and sexuality in the internet age. Time for Print refers to photographer/model work done simply for the advancement of individual portfolios.
JULIEN GARDAIR
ABCKL IS ABEFILTUU - drawing #10“In this world, hands could be teeth, could be eyes, could be hair, could be mouth… Forms grow free in drawings, live their transformations in animations and invent absurd subjects in paintings. All is moving back and forth, from the studio to the street and experience to imagination. A space in between where each viewer is welcome to make his own interpretation.”
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black spray paint on paper
18”x24” / ea
2011*this is a series of 20 drawings, for this edition of Eyelevel Focus VIII we selected two drawings, however, you can view the full series if you set an appointment with us to eyelevelbqe@gmail.com
LISA IGLESIAS
“Pattern”
“Rather than working in a linear path, the projects I make are based on constellations of association. Whether papier-mâché rifle, pencil drawing, or hand-made celebration banner, threads of renewal, re-historicization and futility weave throughout.” »
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EDITION OF 20
(original drawing: graphite on paper)
8x10” (unframed)
11x14” (framed)NICHOLE VAN BEEK
“shiftfloates”These paintings were made as part of series called The Subjects, much of which was included in The Teak Obsessions, a book of poetry by Geoffrey Young. The paintings are not direct illustrations of the poems, but rather provide a visual counterpoint. In these works I was striving to reach a balance between continuity (most being meditations on letter-forms) and variation in color combination, composition, pattern, and painting technique
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archival ink print on BFK Rives
8” x 10” (unframed)
11” x 14” (framed)TOM SMITH “Volcano (day)”
“My recent paintings combine two interpretations in one image, using multiple perspectives or filters through which we view things.” ____________________________________
EDITION OF 20
8x10” (unframed)
11x14” (framed)
Digital Collage created from cell phone pictures
Printed with acid free ink on BFK Rives. 2011IAN VANEK
Breadbowl Without a PawThe title is a play on “Rebel Without A Cause” by James Dean and “Rebel Without A Pause” by Public Enemy. In this case an interest edible structures and three legged cats lead us to this perfect title.”
GABRIELA ALVA C.
“Anti-trespassing configurations”
“When an object that does not belong is inserted into an every day scene, the ordinary elements warrant a closer look. I photograph compositions which evoke the strangeness latent in reality. I like to explore these instances, and come back to different landscapes. I am often drawn to those in Mexico, where the soda bottles that cover the rebar of fragmented homes, evidence for the hope of building a second floor. The dividing edges filled with crushed bottles, resonate with the alternatives used to reach safety, a beautiful but threatening sight.”
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EDITION OF 20
Collage, photograph print with acid free ink on BFK Rives.8x10” (unframed)
11x14” (framed)JEREMIAH MANDEL
“Celebration is a funeral for old ideas. The ones you come back to over and over until they are fleshed out, or not. This book turns those images to stone, solidifying them in whatever state they were found. A proper burial…”ANDREW C. ROBINSON
Riot Labels“This print is part of a larger project titled “Bloodlines”. These hand printed silk screens were run in a small edition and some were used as labels for bottles and vessels used to adorn art objects in a sculptural installation and a series of photographs.
“The labels and text were rendered in a loose gestural form in the spirit of the hands of artists such as Dubuffet and the content inspired by the graffiti of the Paris protests in May 1968.”
NATALIA PORTER
“Denture”
Denture
Digital drawing cut out
archival ink
Dim 4 1/2” X 3” (unframed)
8” X 10 ” (framed)
”“My training is in the visual arts and industrial design. These disciplines purposefully inform my work. The sculptures, installations and drawings, along with the functional objects and places that I have created all come about through an exploration of ideas that include a balanced experimentation between technological processes and traditional craft. With this in mind, it is important to recognize that I work in response to my surroundings, by interacting with the people, places and objects I come across that I alter in order to assign them expanded meanings and/or additional readings. I create objects and experiences that hopefully lead to critical thought, suggest new ways to perceive reality, and help reduce the boundaries that exist between art and design.”
COLIN MCMULLAN
Footprint Factory” I brought a set of printing blocks to the site (often on the sidewalk) in my shoeshine box. I waited for people to hire me to make a print for them. I worked for free. We would work together on the print. The person would sit in a chair, while I worked on my knees, inking up the blocks and getting everything ready. The person would step on each block to press it into the paper, leaving an impression. The person could choose a series of images to create a narrative, and sometimes people would tell me stories or things about their lives. When it was finished, the person would take the print and go on their way.” »
FANNY ALLIÉ
“numbness and tingling” - print
“In my mixed media, sculpture and installation work, the recurrent subject matter has been the body, especially fragmented body parts, acting as receptacles for storytelling.
I am using the memory of observed and experienced events especially those from my childhood and from the news, for creating installations.
Besides, I explore the notion of trace that indicates the existence of others and my own. Trace also shows the passing of time. Many of my projects suggest the course of time as they examine memories, past actions or incidents, and events that happened at a specific and recorded time.
In my practice, I have a strong interest in the handmade process. I have used several materials such as clay, papier-mâché (I make my own paste using flour, salt and water), fabric, wood, paper, plaster and chicken wire among others. In addition, I am also often drawn to natural materials, available in the every day life.”____________________________________
LIMITED EDITION (#18 prints)
archival ink print
8”x12” (unframed)
11”x14” (framed)
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