Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
seven @ SEVEN
DAWN CLEMENTS (PIEROGI) •DIANA COOPER (POSTMASTERS) • BEN GOCKER (P.P.O.W) • HEW LOCKE (HALES) • EMIL LUKAS (BRAVINLEE) • GIL YEFMAN (RONALD FELDMAN GALLERY) • ANDY YODER (WINKLEMAN)
Expanding its model of a collaborative platform for presenting and experiencing contemporary art, SEVEN will hold its first New York area exhibition in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at The Boiler, April 28 - May 20, 2012. Launched in 2010 by seven galleries from New York and London (BravinLee programs, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Hales Gallery, Pierogi Gallery, Postmasters Gallery, P.P.O.W, and Winkleman Gallery), SEVEN is a unique initiative committed to presenting artworks on their own terms and providing an intimate, personal way to engage the viewer.
Seven @ SEVEN will present solo projects by one artist from each of the participating galleries. Featuring major installations, paintings and sculptures, the exhibition will fill The Boiler's cavernous space in a co-curated, dynamic presentation. This emphasis on cooperation rather than competition is a founding principle of SEVEN that truly puts the art viewing experience ahead of all other considerations.
Seven @ SEVEN will present solo projects by one artist from each of the participating galleries. Featuring major installations, paintings and sculptures, the exhibition will fill The Boiler's cavernous space in a co-curated, dynamic presentation. This emphasis on cooperation rather than competition is a founding principle of SEVEN that truly puts the art viewing experience ahead of all other considerations.
Entry to seven @ SEVEN is free. Opening party! Friday, May 4th from 6 – 9 pm. Special performances to be announced.
For more information, please email us at info@seven-miami.com or contact Joe Amrhein at Pierogi Gallery,
Below is a preview of highlighted artists:
BravinLee programs is pleased to present “Skin”, a large scale, site-specific sculpture installation by Emil Lukas. Emil Lukas’ work straddles painting and sculpture. Working with and exploiting simple materials in unconventional ways, Lukas’ work is like a forensic investigation. The aesthetic character of the art object is the byproduct of the artist’s working process seeking to reveal the evidence of the material’s essential nature. Reviewing an exhibition at Gorney Bravin + Lee, Ken Johnson wrote in The New York Times: “Emil Lukas's mixed media paintings might best be seen as rudimentary thought experiments. Like a boy scientist, Mr. Lukas keeps wondering where this or that improbable process might lead.” For The Boiler Seven@Seven project, Lukas will employ a simple, haiku-like process and transform a fundamental feature of the existing Boiler space and alter its distinctive character. He will preserve much of the original form and volume, of the space while obscuring and obliterating details of its recognizable aspects. “Skin” by Emil Lukas is produced in cooperation with Sperone Westwater Gallery.
BravinLee programs is pleased to present “Skin”, a large scale, site-specific sculpture installation by Emil Lukas. Emil Lukas’ work straddles painting and sculpture. Working with and exploiting simple materials in unconventional ways, Lukas’ work is like a forensic investigation. The aesthetic character of the art object is the byproduct of the artist’s working process seeking to reveal the evidence of the material’s essential nature. Reviewing an exhibition at Gorney Bravin + Lee, Ken Johnson wrote in The New York Times: “Emil Lukas's mixed media paintings might best be seen as rudimentary thought experiments. Like a boy scientist, Mr. Lukas keeps wondering where this or that improbable process might lead.” For The Boiler Seven@Seven project, Lukas will employ a simple, haiku-like process and transform a fundamental feature of the existing Boiler space and alter its distinctive character. He will preserve much of the original form and volume, of the space while obscuring and obliterating details of its recognizable aspects. “Skin” by Emil Lukas is produced in cooperation with Sperone Westwater Gallery.
Hales Gallery will present Chariots of the Gods, 2009 by Hew Locke. The work draws on Locke’s memories of the Museum of Mankind, London, an eclectic museum, which in its time focused on anthropology. The piece incorporates key exhibits from this museum including the famous Moai figure from Easter Island known as Hoa Hakananai’a, Benin bronzes, Buddhist masks, Inca mummies and Aztec serpents. Locke absorbs and reconfigures this exotic imagery turning them into a heretical motif that is both instantly recognisable and otherworldly. This mythical Coat of Arms mimics those of ex-colonial countries who adopted this Western way of identification.
Pierogi Gallery will present Dawn Clements who was born in Woburn, Massachusetts. Her powerful use of Sumi ink and ballpoint pen on small to large-scale paper panels is her primary medium and scale. She often cuts and pastes paper together to edit and compose a completed drawing, adding paper as necessary to create the desired scale. Through her active process, which is almost performative, the paper becomes distressed with folds, wrinkles, and seams.
She describes her work as "a kind of visual diary of what she sees, touches, and desires. As I move between the mundane empirical spaces of my apartment and studio, and the glamorous fictions of movies, apparently seamless environments are disturbed through ever-shifting points of view."
Postmasters will present artworks by Diana Cooper. Diana Cooper is a Brooklyn based artist represented by Postmasters since 1998. Defying easy categorization, Cooper is known for creating dense, large scale "hybridized constructions," that transcend the childlike doodling of repetition, multiplication and absent-mindedness to create spatial units where spontaneity and control, chaos and order, joy and seriousness coexist. Recently Cooper began incorporating photographs into her works and the wall installation at the Boiler will combine fragmented photographs with three-dimensional elements, abstracted, but projecting an inherent sense of oppressive systems, networks, circuitry and surveillance.
"Cooper with her absurdist playfulness and Orwellian intimations, appropriates for herself - and her metamorphous creations - a unique place in contemporary abstraction"
- Lilly Wei, Line Analysis, Art in America, April 2008
"Cooper with her absurdist playfulness and Orwellian intimations, appropriates for herself - and her metamorphous creations - a unique place in contemporary abstraction"
- Lilly Wei, Line Analysis, Art in America, April 2008
P•P•O•W When you first went to "The Boiler" you saw a male model dressed up as a werewolf. To his left, sitting on a rug, two blonde children reclined beside a blonde female model. All three of their faces were covered in dark make-up meant to resemble dirt or coal dust. The children played with a ball and chain which was attached to the blonde female model’s ankle. During the photo shoot one of the children must have made a mistake in the way they were coached to pose because a woman in a polar fleece vest moved from behind the camera towards the child and said “You ruined the photograph.” P.P.O.W is presenting a site-specific installation by Ben Gocker entitled Bad Dreams.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts will feature knit sculptures by Gil Yefman whose inventive objects challenge the established order, questioning the validity of accepted norms within a changing world. He creates fantastic worlds in which characters with elusive sexual and political identity serve as alternative cultural heroes. In Blood Moon (2010), conceptualized while reading Rainer Maria Rilke's “Letters to a Young Poet,” Yefman parallels the possibility and nature of male menstruation and birthing through the creation of an artwork, with the fullness of the female period and birthing.
Winkleman Gallery will present a brand new sculpture by artist Andy Yoder. Known for his public commissions and large-scale, poetic works created via a thought-provoking matching of object and material, and frequently touching on the darker subtexts of our relationships with domestic objects and the symbols of suburban living, Yoder presents at SEVEN a hanging tire swing sculpture. The idyllic symbol of youth and leisurely summers is covered in fresh yellow wild flowers and suspended from a strong rope, but upon closer inspection reveals itself to be only half a tire, flat against a mirror, and it’s only an illusion that makes the swing appear usable. Andy Yoder has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to two invitations to the American Academy of Arts and Letters annual exhibitions (2003 and 2007), he has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Reykjavik Art Museum, and the Brattleboro Museum.
For more information, please email us at info@seven-miami.com or contact Joe Amrhein at Pierogi Gallery,
718-599-2144.
HOURS:
Saturday, April 28th: 12-8 pm
Sunday, April 29th : 12-6 pm
Tuesday-Thursday, May 1-3rd: 12-8 pm
Friday, May 4th: 12-9 pm **Opening PARTY** from 6-9 pm
Saturday, May 5th & Sunday, May 6th : 12-8 pm
Thursday –Sunday, May 20th – 13th : 12 -6 pm
Thursday- Sunday, May 17th - 20th: 12-6 pm
Twitter: www.twitter.com/sevenmiami
VIEW MAP- The Boiler 191 N. 14th St. Brooklyn, NY
For press inquiries, please contact Wendy Olsoff at info@ppowgallery.com or Magdalena Sawon postmasters@thing.net.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
PRESS RELEASE 2011
SEVEN, the pioneering collective project organized by the galleries BravinLee programs, Hales Gallery, Pierogi Gallery, Postmasters, P.P.O.W., Ronald Feldman Fine Arts and Winkleman Gallery will return to Miami for the second year, at a new location, from November 29 through December 4, 2011. With a focus on a collaborative, exhibition-like presentation commingling galleries and artists, SEVEN looks beyond the art fair model to create a new platform for viewing and acquiring works of art.
Inspired by the prevailing need for a more intimate, personal way to engage visitors during the Miami fair week, the members of SEVEN come together to create an environment where artworks may be experienced in a curated context and interested parties can have a substantial, quality interaction with the dealers. The emphasis on cooperation rather than competition relates to the founding days of these established, long-running galleries, which despite over 120 years of combined experience, remain true to the non-conformist, adventurous nature of their beginnings in the New York and London art worlds.
SEVEN’s new location, a 15,000 square foot warehouse at 2637 North Miami Ave at NE 27th Street in the Wynwood district, situates the project in the heart of other major art fairs as well as walking distance to the Rubell Collection.
New this year are an outdoor installation space and a partnership with Creative Capital, which will present a large, interactive floor projection by Brian Knep, Healing Pool. Creative Capital, which provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects, is an ideal match for SEVEN and its founding philosophy.
Entry to SEVEN is free, and the opening reception will be on Tuesday, November 29, 1-8pm. The fair will be open from 11am to 7pm, November 30 through December 4. Updates and other information can be found at www.seven-miami.com and www.twitter.com/sevenmiami.
Below is a preview of highlighted artists to be at this year’s SEVEN:
BravinLee programs is excited to present new work by British artist Boo Ritson. Ritson paints people. Literally. She coats them with household paint and transforms her subjects into a variety of characters that she then presents as photographs. The gallery will also bring show a large new rope painting by Argentine Fabian Marcaccio who recently received the prestigious Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture. Marcaccio, who became well known in the 1990's, uses digital and industrial techniques resulting in large-scale environmental paintings, short animations, and "Paintants" that combine digitally manipulated imagery and sculptural form.
Hales Gallery will feature the work of Frank Bowling O.B.E. RA, the veteran Guyanese artist who began making abstract paintings in the early 1970s at a time when the prevailing trend was strictly formal works. His large-scale acrylic gel works differ in that they have always been linked to very particular geographical locations or strong emotional relationships, particularly with the British, American and Guyanese landscape. Hales will also feature works by Adam Dant, whose large-scale brush and ink drawings alongside cartographic and serial publications re-imagine the life of cities.
Pierogi Gallery will feature the work of Jonathan Schipper and Kim Jones. Jonathan Schipper will develop a new kinetic installation dealing with entropy, Slow Room. In this work, over the course of five days, a room full of furniture is pulled through a small hole in corner of the room in a slow-motion sequence of inevitable events. Kim Jones is known for his infamous performance persona, Mud Man, and his detailed war drawings. Pierogi will show a group of his war drawings and several sensitive wall sculptures.
Postmasters will present paintings by David Diao, who has a renewed attention from the next generation of curators and collectors, as well as new young galleries in Europe. Diao, who was born in China in 1943, re-configures images and motifs from modern art, architecture and design into luscious paintings of charts, patterns and personal history as an artist suspended between the East and West. They will also feature paintings and drawings by William Powhida, an artist bent on exposing the power dynamics in the artworld microcosm and the world at large. William Powhida: an idealistic master observer or an insufferable crank? Powhida's works polarize and lets us know there are things we just can't agree upon.
P•P•O•W will present a site-specific installation by Bill Smith who creates interactive sculptures that rely on his training in both art and science. His work synthesizes his acute observations of nature and an intensive approach to mechanical engineering, resulting in installations that exists somewhere between a highly sophisticated sculptural practice and the elegant mechanics of science. In addition there will be a monumental painting of a tenement by Martin Wong, whose estate P•P•O•W represents. Beginning in the early 1980’s, Wong started painting scenes from the East Village where he lived. Wong rendered the combination of painting and architecture, which evolved into a spiritual concept. Wong’s work will be featured in the permanent collection of MoMA in a re-installation opening on November 17th.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts presents a selection of the gallery's represented artists including new works by artists Rico Gatson and Yishay Garbasz. Gatson continues to focus his keen eye on the visual language and historical symbolism of American race relations, identity and blackness. Gatson recently exhibited a 15 year survey of work as the featured artist of Exit Art’s SOLO program. Garbasz’s work focuses on personal and historical transformation. Excerpts from three of Garbasz’s series will be exhibited. Becoming (2008-2010) is a series of weekly self-portraits taken for one year before and after the artist’s “gender clarification” surgery. The Fences (2004) depicts Israeli Palestinian separation barrier along the west bank from both sides. In My Mother’s Footsteps (2009) pictorializes the contemporary sites of her Jewish German-born mother’s journey though Nazi Germany’s concentration camps culminating in one of the infamous death marches to Bergen-Belson where she was liberated by the British forces in 1945. SEVEN partner Creative Capital will feature an viewer-interactive digital projection entitled Healing #1 (2003-04) by gallery artist and Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence, Brian Knep.
Winkleman Gallery will present new work by Jennifer Dalton, whose September exhibition examining the lopsided number of men vs. women guests invited on supposedly liberal TV and radio talk shows has generated a stir among the media watchers across the country. Also, the brand new video by legendary experimental filmmaker Leslie Thornton expands upon her celebrated Binocular series to explore the intersection of man's influence on nature as it affects other animals. "Sheep Machine" is a mesmerizing 12-minute video using Thornton's kaleidoscopic technique, shot in the highest peaks of the Alps, where a lazy ski lift makes an ominous, sci-fi looking backdrop for a herd of grazing sheep.
VIEW MAP- 2637 N Miami Ave, Miami FL
For press inquiries, please contact Michelle Finocchi at michelle@michellefinocchi.com or 973-452-3283.
SELECT PAST PRESS
Daily Serving, Miami Art Fairs: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, December 10, 2010
Art Agenda, Art Basel, NADA, PULSE and SEVEN, Paddy Johnson, December 6, 2010
Miami New Times, Seven Miami: The Highlight of Art Basel, By Amanda McCorquodale, December 6, 2010
SELECT PAST PRESS
“There really are plenty of negatives about the fair format,” says Amrhein, and many of these – the strip lighting, the bad air, the endless “streets” lined with identical three-sided booths – will be familiar to frequent”
“Seven thoughtful, not-too-flashy New York galleries (Postmasters, Winkleman, Pierogi and others) combined efforts to fill a cavernous industrial space in Wynwood with a coop-style mini-fair called Seven.”
The New York Times, Art Basel Miami Beach Cliff Notes By Horacio Silva and Kevin McGarry, December 7, 2010
“A group of seven art dealers are shunning the usual December in Miami art fair circuit to organize an aptly named joint show called Seven, located a 24,000 square-foot space in the Wynwood Art District.”
Lindsey Pollack, Ta Ta Cramped Miami Art Fairs, Dealers Seek Another Way, September 28, 2010
“In the process of trekking from one designated fair to another during Art Basel Miami Beach weekend, one encounters a litany of individuals, vendors, and spaces trying to grab your attention from amongst the morass. In the Wynwood District situated along the walking path, (for those who hadn’t the patience to wait for the shuttle from Scope to Pulse), was one such space that was the gem of all of Art Basel.”
Daily Serving, Miami Art Fairs: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, December 10, 2010
“Hate art fairs? Seven is the Miami Art Fair antidote, as it’s hardly a fair at all. Housed in a converted warehouse, Seven New York based galleries (Pierogi Gallery, Hales Gallery, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, BravinLee programs, Postmasters, P•P•O•W, and Winkleman) join forces to create one sprawling exhibition.
Art Agenda, Art Basel, NADA, PULSE and SEVEN, Paddy Johnson, December 6, 2010
“Not only was this mini-fair filled with some of the coolest art of the week - particularly their video art - that bitter taste of classism was notably absent.”
Miami New Times, Seven Miami: The Highlight of Art Basel, By Amanda McCorquodale, December 6, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
PAST - PRESS RELEASE 2010
Since 2006, Pierogi Gallery, Hales Gallery and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts have presented a special exhibition in the Wynwood District during the art fair week in Miami. Defined by large installations and collaborative curatorial projects, the exhibition has consistently stood out among the multiple fairs taking place at the same time and been hailed for its “room to stretch out, taste and class to spare, and good stuff.”1
This year BravinLee programs, Postmasters, P•P•O•W, and Winkleman galleries will join the original three in a new 24,000-square-foot space in the Wynwood Art District. Called simply SEVEN, this expanded project looks beyond the art fair model to create an alternative platform for presenting and experiencing contemporary art.
Asked why they were expanding the effort this year, Pierogi Gallery’s Joe Amrhein replied, “Why not? We are not challenging the ubiquitous tradition of the 'Art Fair' but think we can improve upon it, especially in Miami with its unique possibilities. If you feel that most people who visit the fairs really want something that allows for a different, more comprehensive interaction, it shouldn’t surprise you that artists and their dealers feel the same way."
P•P•O•W’s Wendy Olsoff added, “"The chance to have our artists’ work in a dialogue with the other artists exhibited without the constraints of a three-sided booth is an interesting experiment, as well as a truly exciting concept.”
With a number of one-artist installations and collaborative project spaces, SEVEN has been conceived to provide an exhibition experience defined by the needs of each artist’s work. In addition, SEVEN’s second floor space will be an open zone for teach-ins, sponsored panel discussions, screenings, and gatherings both intimate and large.
Entry to SEVEN is free
SEVEN
2214 N. Miami Avenue (Wynwood District)
Miami, FL 33127
HOURS:
Tue Nov 30: 1-8 pm (opening reception)
Wed Dec 1: 11 am – 7 pm
Thur Dec 2: 11 am – 7 pm
Thur Dec 2: 11 am – 7 pm
Fri Dec 3: 11 am – 7 pm
Sat Dec 4: 11 am – 7 pm
Sun Dec 5: 11 am – 5 pm
Website: www.seven-miami.com
For more information, please email us at info@seven-miami.com or contact Joe Amrhein at Pierogi Gallery, 718-599-2144. In Miami at 917-348-8093
1 “Miami Madness,” artnet.com, Dec. 2, 2008
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