“Untitled” with Photographers Jimmy Fountain and Catherine Kunkemueller
Source:Jimmy Fountain and Catherine Kunkemueller
June 3 - July 9, 2010
In “Untitled” curator Erin Riley-Lopez brings together two technically superb photographers who capture the solitude, silence and poignance of a man-made world devoid of its human actors.
Two lone pillows stuffed uncomfortably on a motel closet shelf, a golden glow emanating from a Silver Stream trailer– Kunkemueller and Fountain amply demonstrate that beauty does exist in the quotidian, claustrophobic and creepy.
Karen Bausman: Envisioning the Wall at The Halls at Bowling Green
Manhattan’s 1811 Planning Commission gridded over timeworn Manhattan byways in a march toward orderly development. On the eve of the Commission’s work, Karen Bausman posits the question: without the geometry it imposed, what would navigation here be like? What if today’s routes from point to point were vastly more open-ended?
Bausman’s large-scale public installation The Wall Project invites spectators to engage such questions physically. The artist’s preliminary body of cut-paper assemblages and drawings questions the very notion what it is to occupy a space.
Organized by Astrid Persans
Bayeté Ross Smith: Passing at The Halls at Bowling Green
Organized by New York based writer and curator Kalia Brooks Bayeté Ross Smith: Passing was on view from Jan 28 - Mar 5, 2010.
In Ross Smith’s show, the artist takes the historic African-American cultural practice of the show’s title and expands it to a global context. By repeating the same few people’s images alongside varying personal data on simulated travel documents from multiple countries, Ross Smith challenges viewers to examine their presuppositions about race, nationality and gender. In the process, he seeks to reveal how globalism has exploded these notions.
Source
Glen Cunningham, Mark Dagley, Laura Fayer, Molly Herman, Lori Kirkbride, Ben LaRocco and Rachael Wren
Organized by Susan Ross and Melissa Staiger
April 22nd through May 28th, 2010
Source is organized by curators Melissa Staiger and Susan Ross.
The group show features work by seven contemporary abstractionists who share concerns of feminine influence, antecedent and identity.
Abstraction may seems like an outmoded relic to some. Yet Staiger and Ross have brought to bear not only a keen understanding of where it’s been but a positive sense of where it’s going. The result makes abundantly clear the extent to which even relatively recent styles are being freed from their presumed periods.
These seven artists all exhibit roots in the concept or experience of femininity–whether a 19th Century Swedish mystic, Palm Beach fashion designer Lily Pulitzer, the work of Helen Frankenthaler or the Yin-oriented Japanese aesthetics known as wabi-sabi. They each trace their work back to some decisively feminine factor.
The very diversity of influences the artists acknowledge belies the simplification of placing them all under the umbrella of “Abstraction”. The seven—Lori Kirkbride, Glen Cunningham, Mark Dagley, Molly Herman, Rachael Wren, Ben LaRocco and Laura Fayer—while all nominally abstractionists, range in approach from Kirkbride’s preoccupation with color and pattern to LaRocco’s almost mystical appropriation of forms from the psyche.
