While supplies last...
One for the collection
Two of my favorite dudes on the scene
Always bringing the visual stimulation
And she's just my type
Jonathan LeVine Projects is pleased to present Made To Stay, a solo exhibition of new work by Dutch artist Eric Basstein in what will be his debut solo show at the gallery.
“One of the biggest challenges facing a painter and his paintings is the test of time. Does it last, will it leave a mark, is it made to stay or will it fade away?” –Eric Basstein
Basstein’s paintings blend contemporary and historical references to create bold compositions that transcend figuration. Anthropomorphic silhouettes, which for this new body of work are taken from stills of ice hockey players, are overflowing with pop culture iconography, creating a collage-like composition that blur the line of abstraction.
Basstein is fascinated by the parallels between art and music, influenced by the likes of Velasquez, Caravaggio and Francis Bacon, as well as hip-hop by A Tribe Called Quest, MF Doom and Madlib. Similar to the way modern music is created by combining samples, paintings are constructed by building layers of imagery. Basstein’s process mimics this approach by appropriating and merging imagery from fashion magazines with comic illustrations and subjects from classical paintings. The end result is a graphic fusion of elements that play with perspective and society’s connection to popular culture.
A little shoot with the legendary Janette Beckman
Limited edition patches and pins by some of NY's finest.
Ai yo
Public Art Fund will unveil Ai Weiwei's unprecedented 300+ site exhibition Good Fences Make Good Neighbors across New York City's five boroughs.
Join us this Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 6:30pm at the Washington Square Arch for a special public preview of the exhibition with Ai Weiwei, our Director & Chief Curator Nicholas Baume, and other passionate friends and supporters of the exhibition.
Let us know if you can come, and share the event with your friends on Facebook!
And in case you missed it... Ai Weiwei took a walk around Washington Square Park with The New York Times, while gearing up for the opening of #GoodFences, the premiere of his new documentary Human Flow, and the opening of his curated film series (in partnernship with Wang Fen) at the Guggenheim, revealing: "I'm hopelessly in love with this city.”
Much love for these guys
Lakwena and crew finishing up the Bowery Wall
Finally getting some much needed diversity on the wall after the David Choe fiasco
My kind of show
GIFC: GOT IT FOR CHEAP
Monday, September 25th, 2017
5-9PM
The Hole
312 Bowery
New York City
Come check out original works on paper by over seven hundred artists!!! All works are size 8.5 x 11" and priced $30. First come first served; no previews, reserves or discounts!
OH MY GOD SO MANY WORKS ON PAPER I CANT HANDLE IT!!!!!
Organized by GIFC, these exhibitions have taken place around the world and this is the 2017 New York City incarnation. Seriously over seven hundred artists from unknown to well-known; including some of our buddies, too: Kembra Pfahler, Jeanette Hayes, Morgan Blair, Julie Curtiss, Josh Reames, Peter Demos, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Kate Klingbiel, Juni Figueroa, Eric Shaw, Graham Wilson, Johnny Abrahams, Alison Blickle, Royal Jarmon SO MANY MORE OMFFFFGGGGGGG
Bushwick all weekend...
Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) is an arts and culture festival hosted by the volunteer-run organization Arts in Bushwick. Most studios are open 11am – 7pm on Saturday and Sunday of the festival with opening night festivities on Friday night.
This celebration of our neighborhood’s vibrant community and local art scene is free and open to the public. Open studios hours vary per artist, so check our events calendar for precise locations and times.
BOS has been running since 2006 and is New York’s largest open studios event, encouraging thousands of Bushwick-based artists to open their doors and share their work. Additionally, visitors can enjoy a series of events, performances, and panels, coordinated by AiB.
Book It
Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines.
The 2017 NY Art Book Fair will feature over 370 booksellers, antiquarians, artists, institutions and independent publishers from twenty-eight countries.
Join us on Thursday, September 21 from 6 to 9 pm, at MoMA PS1 for our opening night preview. The evening will feature special live performances on the steps of PS1 by Upstate Music, BLONDES and Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip).
Entry to the Preview will cost $10, proceeds going to support NYABF17. The first 2,000 visitors to pre-pay online or to pay at the door (while supplies last) will receive a Ticket Edition by Emma Kohlmann.
Entry may be paid at the door or booked online at www.printedmatter.org until 12 noon on September 21st, 2017. If purchased online, you’ll receive your Ticket Edition when checking in at the Preview.
This year’s NY Art Book Fair will included an ever-growing variety of exhibitors – from the zinesters in (XE)ROX & PAPER + SCISSORS and the Small Press Dome representing publishing at its most innovative and affordable, to rare and antiquarian dealers offering out-of-print books and ephemera from art and artist book history, plus the NYABF-classic Friendly Fire, focused on the intersections of art and activism.
NYABF17 will host an array of programming and special events, including: The Classroom, a curated engagement of informal conversations, workshops, readings, and other artist-led interventions, for the eighth year running, as well as The Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference (CABC), in its tenth year, featuring two full days on emerging practices and issues within art-book culture.
HOURS AND LOCATION
Preview Thursday, September 21, 6-9 pm
Friday, September 22, 1-7pm
Saturday, September 23, 11am-9pm
Sunday, September 24, 11-am-7pm
MoMA PS1 is located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue,
Long Island City, NY
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NPR's What's Good with Stretch and Bobbitopodcast episode 10 with interviewee artist/painter José Parlá is now live! Listen to the audio on demand at npr.org/whatsgood or on iTunes.
Saturday 9/16 6 PM - 8 PM
Chesterfield Gallery 109 Norfolk St., New York, New York 10002
JM Rizzi
'Chromatose'
September 16th-October 28th
Chesterfield Gallery is pleased to announce Chromatose, JM Rizzi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Chromatose assembles a wide array of Rizzi’s recent work, from paintings to works on panel and sculpture.
Anchored by a mural of bright colors on the gallery’s back wall, a natural outlet for Rizzi’s gestural form of expression, the exhibition demonstrates his fluidity of genre. His recent body of work explores painting techniques that he has developed over the past decade, while expanding his ideas into wall hanging cut outs and a large scale arch made of aluminum and acrylic, which allows for his work to interact with light and create an entirely new composition on the floor.
A native of New York City, Rizzi originally began his artistic endeavors at a young age through graffiti and painting on the streets. While he identifies as an abstract painter, he has gained notoriety throughout the street art community with his murals and public commissions throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Inspired by painters from Abstract Expressionism such as Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Bradley Walker Tomlin, JM Rizzi also learned from the Automatic painting techniques of French artist André Masson. He most likens his paintings to jazz music, comparing the base color to the consistent walking bass line, with smaller sections acting as saxophone riffs, highlighting their distinct flavors.
In 2017, JM Rizzi recently completed two murals in Rockefeller Center in New York, and a 7,650 square-foot mural in Boras, Sweden.
Wasteland 2 Exhibition and Screening this Friday
Friday, September 15, 2017
Exhibition and Performances: 7:00-12:00am
Screenings: 9:00pm and 11:00pm
Wastedland 2 is a detritus-strewn, site-specific, immersive film installation transforming spaces into a three-dimensional post-apocalyptic graffiti wonderland. Questions of fate and self will collide with graffiti folk lore through wordplay, sculpture, artifacts, and characters – all centered around thematics from the existential fantasy film of the same name. Created by Andrew H. Shirley, and his actors and members of the notorious Brooklyn-based 907 graffiti crew – this environment allows the viewer to enter the psychology of the narrative, to identify and ultimately re-define the way one traditionally engages with film and artwork.
