06 / Gallery Events

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Exhibition opening:  October 23, 2009, 6-9 p.m. with performances by Lilibeth Cuenca, Jeffrey Porterfield, Rachel Mason, and Mathieu Briand.

Incarnational Aesthetics brings together a number of contemporary artists who explore themes of interrogating and deconstructing the boundaries of public and private between self and other through means of embodiment or role play. The pieces in this exhibition turn inward using different means to represent, embody, and empathize with a specific person or entity, exploring the formation of subjectivity while testing its limits. Through performance, video, photographs, and works on paper, Incarnational Aesthetics problematizes iconic moments, underrepresented histories, the raced and gendered politics of representation, the focus of media culture on simultaneous idol worship and destruction, and the relationship of identity to the state.

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The New York Center for Arts and Media Studies (NYCAMS) is pleased to present a performance by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen in conjunction with the exhibition Incarnational Aesthetics, organized by Stamatina Gregory and Jenny Jaskey.

Under the title "How to Break the Great Chinese Wall," Cuenca Rasmussen presents an array of re-enactments of historical works of performance art. The title refers to "The Lovers, The Great Wall Walk" (1988), a performance by the artist duo Ulay and Marina Abramovic to mark the end of their twelve-year collaboration. For 90 days, the artists walked from opposite ends of the Great Wall of China before meeting one another for the last time.

By invoking this well-known farewell performance, Cuenca Rasmussen signals a watershed moment in her own work—a confrontation with performance history, gender politics, and concepts of authenticity through ruthless sampling and humorous reconstruction. A continuation of a performance begun at the opening of Incarnational Aesthetics, Cuenca Rasmussen stages a series of performances in rapid succession, including a reinterpretation of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-In (1969).

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New Form Perspective’s (N:F:P) Spring 2010 series will be presented at NYCAMS Gallery. Designer Gail Travis's Body Mapping series showcases a collection of interconnected clothing and accessories in cotton, linen, and fine jersey knits that utilize basic geometric and architectural forms. The Body Mapping concept emphasizes freedom of expression through change and connectivity by featuring fluid lines and curves that follow through the fabric shape in order to create a number of unique wearable options.

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The New York Center for Art & Media Studies (NYCAMS) is pleased to present the 2009 Student Art Show Any Thoughts or Questions? at the NYCAMS Gallery. Fifteen visual artists and four writers are pulling together work in a variety of mediums: animation, illustration, sculpture, installation, photography, poetry, and prose to produce Any Thoughts or Questions?.

Description: Post-Baccalaureate Fellow 2009 Nathan Blankenship selects John Hagen to curate a salon style exhibition of himself and his peers. This expansive and feverishly dynamic show will display the raw talents of several early and mid-career artists with a concentration on the transitional phases of seasonal flux and rebirth.

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Perceptible Systems spotlights contemporary artists who choose systems as a subject of their work. These artists dialogue with systems by allowing them to guide their methodical processes, and/or by exploring them in biological and sociological spheres.

Using or studying systems when making art could be called “faux-science.” It yields the fruit of an analytic mind not bound by the confines of the scientific method. The goal is to discover an underlying reality through repetition or a repetitive process, and then aesthetically dissecting that visual, physical data.

Description: The New York Center for Art & Media Studies (NYCAMS) is pleased to announce its inaugural community art auction. Select art will be on display in the gallery beginning with a Collector’s Preview on Friday, April 17, from 5-7 p.m. and concluding with a silent auction on Saturday, April 18, from 6-8 p.m. The pieces available for purchase represent the work of more than 30 artists including NYCAMS students, the Advisory Board, internship artists, and the larger NYCAMS community, and they range in cost from $20-$6,000. Please R.S.V.P. with l-bennett@bethel.edu to receive your bid number in advance.   > Auction Work List

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Dead Composition is a show with artists who are using a method of image-making discovered while filling the margins of high school notebooks, on the covers of textbooks, in secret sketch books—the images produced in place of history notes or chemical formulas. These artists are by no means making adolescent art; they have taken those image-making techniques and applied them to express mature ideas.

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Calvin College's downtown gallery, (106), is proud to present the inaugural NYCAMS Alumni Show. The works, juried by Yale University Art Gallery Curator Jennifer Gross and (106) Curator Kevin Buist, represent a diverse collection of young artists from around the country. The show features sculpture, video installation, drawing, photography, painting, and mixed media. The common thread shared by these artists is their commitment to engage in a meaningful dialog with contemporary art.

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Strand exhibits artists who create art within similar conceptual veins: they share an affinity for the hard within the soft, while exploring the potency of material. Similarly, the works share a poetic strength, which refers to both the physical environment and a broader sense of social connectivity.

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Portrait of Success as a Young Failure, curated by Bonnie Kate, addresses the redefinition of “success.” The show includes work from all over the United States, representing a sample of emergent painters, video artists, writers, sculptors, and photographers. In his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce lets the language of the story evolve with his main character, Stephen Dedalus, as Daedalus matures and attempts to dispense with his creative fetters. Likewise Portrait of Success as a Young Failure is an attempt to challenge our understanding of language and expression in the instance of “success” and its fertile ground for failure.

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The Really? exhibition features three New York-based artists, Wayne Adams, Julie Allen, and Jill Magid, who represent to the viewer elements of everyday experience with a surprising unfamiliarity. As our capacity, and even desire, to distinguish between reality and invention rapidly continues to dissipate, the artists in this exhibition employ their work, in part, to test their perceptual and conceptual capacities by creating false realities. In a world, and art world, often dominated by high-tech experiences, Adams, Allen, and Magid respond with low-tech experiments that trick the mind as much as they fool the eye.

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Opening reception Friday, April 28th 6-8 p.m.

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This exhibition highlights the work of nine artists who, in varying distinctive ways, create imaginary landscape worlds through the interplay of memory, fantasy and recent scientific trends. The title of the exhibition, Paramnesiac Landscape arises in response to the way these artists merge macro with micro, past with future and fantastic biological and technological discoveries as a means to evoke alternative, often hallucinatory, highly personal cosmologies. The media here ranges from painting, works on paper, sound video to installation. Each references filmic, computer/electronic/digital, or manufactured surfaces that recreates an overall effect of blurring virtual with physical space.

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(One Person Show)

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Compulsive Imagination features six contemporary New York-based artists who employ disciplined and determined mark making in their work. The drawings range in size and format, yet are all within the realm of structural abstraction. Textured and complex, these labor-intensive pieces demonstrate an almost mechanical level of control and composition. Working with graphite, color pencil, ballpoint pen, and ink, the artists display an impressive understanding of their material and the limits of their artistry.

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Shannon Holman, Jerah Kirby, Matt Kirby, Walter Shepard

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NYCAMS Grand Opening Ceremony with President Brushaber

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Opening of Gallery Space-NY Emerging Artists

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“56 Baton Blows+6 kicks+2 mins=11 Fractures” 6 Emerging Artists Respond to the Rodney King Beatings