OLAFUR ELIASSON opens 'Your engagement sequence', 28 April-27 May 2006, at TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY. this was the inaugural show at her new space: 521 WEST 21st ST.
Born in Copenhagen, DENMARK, in 1967, Mr. Eliasson lives & works in Berlin, GERMANY.
April 28, 2006

TOM ECCLES, Executive Director, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, comes to town to attend the OLAFUR ELIASSON opening, 'Your engagement sequence', TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY, April 28, 2006. Mr. Eccles was appointed Executive Director of the CCS last July 2005.

RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA, on his way to the OLAFUR ELASSON 'Your engagement sequence' opening, TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY, April 28, 2006

'Your negotiable panorama', 2006. that's a 'basin of water' at the center. on the surrounding wall - a 'wavelike pattern of projected light' is manipulated by the visitors' movements. OLAFUR ELIASSON, 'Your engagement sequence', TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY, April 28, 2006

the exterior wall, with entrance/exit at left, 'Your negotiable panorama'. OLAFUR ELIASSON, 'Your engagement sequence', TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY, April 28, 2006

'The inverted mirror sphere', 2005, OLAFUR ELIASSON, 'Your engagement sequence', TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY, April 28, 2006

exterior, 'The uncertain museum', OLAFUR ELIASSON, 'Your engagement sequence', TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY, April 28, 2006

exterior, 'The uncertain museum', 2004. OLAFUR ELIASSON, 'Your engagement sequence', TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY, April 28, 2006

exterior, 'The uncertain museum', OLAFUR ELIASSON, 'Your engagement sequence', TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY, April 28, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA opened 'dirt, seed, glory', at atm gallery, April 27, 2006. the show ran from April 27 - May 27, 2006.
atm gallery

TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'music is love', 2005, ink drawing on paper, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA, ink drawing on paper, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'hair blush', ink drawing on paper, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA, ink drawing on paper, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'sweeter memories of a stuffed animal', 2004, ink drawing on paper, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'archer', 2006, ink drawing on paper, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'curious rainbow 1-6', 2006, print edition, courtesy HIROMI YOSHII Gallery, Tokyo. 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA, from 'curious rainbow 1-6', 2006, print 21/50, courtesy HIROMI YOSHII Gallery, Tokyo, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA, from 'curious rainbow 1-6', 2006, 21/50, courtesy HIROMI YOSHII Gallery, Tokyo, 'dirt seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA, from 'curious rainbow 1-6', 2006, 21/50, courtesy HIROMI YOSHII Galllery, Tokyo, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TRACY NAKAYAMA, from 'curious rainbow 1-6', 2006, 21/50, courtesy HIROMI YOSHII Gallery, Tokyo, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

Bill Brady of atm gallery, at the opening of TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

Jimmy Collins, TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

Gordon Terry, TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

on the right, Jonathan Black, photographer from Scotland, now based in NYC, where he is associate Editor of the new 'JOURNAL', out of the East Village storefront of the same name, with Laura Selfridge, at the opening of TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

RUSTY SANTOS, of the band, RUSTY SANTOS - he engineered 'SUNG TONGS' for ANIMAL COLLECTIVE. at the TRACY NAKAYAMA opening, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

Jesse Lee, of the band, ETERNITY SPANS, at the opening of TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm. April 27, 2006

Aaron Lovejoy, sitar player, for SEAN RILEY and MAN MOUNTAIN SUN, and others, at the TRACY NAKAYAMA opening, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

TAKA was the DJ. Taka is well known for his days at COLLIN DeLAND AMERICAN FINE ARTS Co., TRACY NAKAYAMA, 'dirt, seed, glory', atm, April 27, 2006

a solo exhibit by JORDAN SEILER. PublicAdCampaign is "an ongoing public art project dedicated to reclaiming public advertising space from commercial forces, and in doing so, questioning the nature and usage of our shared environment. These projects are a reaction to an experience of the public environment. A response to the deafening voice of advertising and its tendency to colonize public physical space and thus public mental space.."
The Canal Chapter aka 1134NYC

.."by replacing [& in this case - removing] public advertising with artwork, PublicAdCampaign temporarily alleviates [the deafening voice of advertising] while attempting to cultivate more personal interactions between public individuals. Though not public in its execution, the permanent removal of these public advertising structures for this show, satisfies the project's condition: trading public dialogue for a deeper individual investigation of our public environment." - the press release. JORDAN SEILER,'Removal Satisifies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14 - May 5, 2006

that being said, the great beauty of the project was not only the 'subversive hijacking' of commercial media property, but the end result: beautiful, minimal, non-verbal, abstractions - talk about a 'dialogue' solution to media over-saturation/colonization !

JORDAN SEILER, leans back against the wall, at the opening, one of his 'hijacked' and 'minimalized' pieces, at the right. 'Removal Satifsifies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006,

Jordan Seiler graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. He has since returned to his hometown of New York, NY, where he currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

from left, Bucky of 'ANIMAL MAGAZINE' with JASON WALL, co-founder/Director, The Canal Chapter, at the opening of JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisifies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

it was Bucky who hooked The Canal Chapter up with their main sponsor: RED BULL.

The Canal Chapter's other co-founder/Director, MIKHAIL SOKOVIKOV, in front of 'Insight', foam rubber, pins, string on individual metal frames - an array of smaller, white-on-white flat 'constructions' by JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

from left, Ash, with DJ JAE GLADY, at the JORDAN SEILER opening, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

'VISTA MEDIA', rubber, pins on metal billboard, JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

'VISTA MEDIA' (billboard) and 'VAN WAGNER' (phone booth) - the 'flat' square interweaving of the rubber strips, just visible in these photos. JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

'VAN WAGNER', the metal phone booth retained it's reflective surface on the exterior. the weaving of the rubber stripes was done behind the 'clear' panels.. JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

'VAN WAGNER', rubber, pins, string on metal phone booth, JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

'RECEPTASIGN', rubber slats, pins on a metal trash can, JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

'CLEAR CHANNEL', rubber, pins, string on metal light box (2 individual pieces detailed here), JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

'CLEAR CHANNEL', black variation, rubber strips in a 'flat' weave on a metal light box. JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

documentation station - monitors ran low-fi grainy video loops of the street 'abductions', with photos of site specific 'after-abduction' documentation, above them. JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

'MAX POSTS', rubber, pins on metal ash trays, interspersed among the video monitors, JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

photo documentation, JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisifes the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006

photo documentation, JORDAN SEILER, 'Removal Satisfies the Condition', The Canal Chapter, April 14, 2006