~UNSUNG/GEORGE FERRANDI & JOHN ORTH/CINDERS

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88’s presents:
UNSUNG / NEW WORK BY GEORGE FERRANDI and JOHN ORTH
the show opened FRIDAY NOV 14, 2008 / 7-10 PM
and runs: NOVEMBER 14 – DECEMBER 28, 2008
CINDERS GALLERY – 103 HAVEMEYER – BETWN HOPE + GRAND – WILLIAMSBURG – BROOKLYN
HRS: WED-SUN 1-7 PM

PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING ARE JUST GOING LIVE – NOW.

. . . as we read the press release, we found it so entertaining, & informative – we’re putting it forth here, for all to enjoy !!

“WE invite you to come see UNSUNG, the first installation by the collective known as “88’s” – short for “88’s and good numbers” which is CB (short wave/citizens band/truckers radio) lingo for “Best Wishes and Regards”.
“The work in Unsung started with conversations concerning the current presidential campaign. Our plea for a massive paradigm shift had 88’s collective members GEORGE FERRANDI and JOHN ORTH contemplating what parts of their own psyches could use some serious shifting. They started with the imagery they associated with grassroots revolution – daggers, dynamite, pistols, the felled heads of toppled statues, and the closed eyes of innocents. Then they created, painted, cast plaster and carved wooden forms that relegate the physical violence of uprising safely to the realm of metaphor, but stil speak to a simmering volatility and to the potential for cataclysmic change.
“GEORGE FERRANDI moved to Brooklyn on September 10, 2001 and became a New Yorker the next day. She runs a small business called Saints alive, which restores statues for churches. On any given day, her studio is given over in equal parts to the broken bodies of saints and to the less refined, but equally fractured figures of her own making. JOHN ORTH splits his time between GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, where he tends to a succulent garden and a band names HOLOPAW on the SUBPOP record label, and Brooklyn , USA where he fleshes out his many creative projects and hangs on the arm of his lovely boyfriend, ALAN. On any given day, his house is given over to various whittlings, delicate stippled drawings, and stacks of song lyrics scrawled on Steno pads.
“The two met in GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA where George was a professor at the University of Florida. Soon after meeting,they organized an exhibit at an old old train depot. This was the beginning of over a decade of collaborations that have included several national shows, a traveling circus (Cloudseeding Circus of the Performative Object), a comic strip, and an unfortunate summer haircut.
“Their latest collaboration, the 88’s collective, is a celebration of their complimentary sensibilities and shared interest in delicately adorned pathos, B-movie violence, and small hyper-sexualized animals. They’re happy to have 88’s as a conceptual hook on which to hang the many hats of their creative efforts and to present UNSUNG – as the first of those.”

see: PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING !!

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~JASON YATES/FINGERED/opens to-nite !!

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JASON YATES/MARGINALLY FUNCTIONAL: FAST FRIENDS FOREVER – OPENS – SAT NOV 22 / 7-9 PM
PERFORMANCE BY MIRROR MIRROR
the show runs: NOVEMBER 22 thru DECEMBER 20, 2008
FINGERED – 255 McKIBBIN ST. – #207 – EAST WILLIAMSBURG – BROOKLYN – NY

A SURVEY OF LOS ANGELES-BASED ARTIST JASON YATES & HIS INFLUENTIAL SERIES – ‘FAST FREINDS, Inc.’ THE WORK SYNTHESIZES POP-CULTURAL HISTORIES IN THE FORM OF HIGHLY OBSESSIVE, LARGE FORMAT XEROGRAPHED & HAND-COLORED DRAWINGS COVERED IN NOVELTY STICKERS, GOOGLY EYES, REFLECTIVE MYLAR, YARN & GLITTER. THESE EXTREMELY LABORED, ONE-OF-A-KIND POSTERS WERE EXHIBITED FOR FREE FOR THE TAKING , IN PUBLIC SPACES ARUND HOLLYWOOD AND PROLIFERATED ON INTERNET SOCIAL NETWORKS SUCH AS MYSPACE, OFTEN PROMOTING GIGS FOR LIKE-MINDED BANDS SUCH AS ARIEL PINK”S HAUNTED GRAFFITI, BLACK DICE, and ANIMAL COLLECTIVE !!

for more info, see: FINGERED BLOG !!


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~PEANUT GALLERY/CURATED BY JOE BRADLEY/THE JOURNAL/to-nite !!

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PEANUT GALLERY – CURATED BY JOE BRADLEY – OPENS SAT NOV 22 / 6-9 PM
the show runs NOVEMBER 22, 2008 – JANUARY 7, 2009
THE JOURNAL GALLERY – 168 NORTH 1ST ST.- WILLIAMSBURG – BROOKLYN

featuring: RITA ACKERMANN, BRIAN BELOTT, DIKE BLAIR, CHIN, DAN COLEN, ERIN FIERST, JASON FOX, OTIS HOUSTON, EUNICE KIM, NATE LOWMAN, CHRIS MARTIN, KEITH MAYERSON, ELENA PANKOVA, LEIF RITCHEY, BILL SAYLOR, JOSH SMITH, AGATHE SNOW, MICHAEL WILLIAMS & B. WURTZ !!

. . . ” a peanut gallery is an audience that heckles the performer. The term originated in the days of vaudeville as a nickname for the cheapest (and ostensibly rowdiest) seats in the theater; the cheapest snack served at the theater would often be peanuts, which patrons would sometimes throw at the performers on stage to show their disapproval. The phrases “no comments from the peanut gallery” or “quiet in the peanut gallery” are extensions of the name…” (press release)


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UP-DATE: TUES DEC 9, 2008 – PIX FROM THE OPENING !!

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RITA ACKERMANN and AGATHE SNOW !!

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BRIAN BELOTT does his best ‘smooth crooner’ impression.

WILLOW GIBBONS
WILLOW GIBBONS

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LEIF RITCHEY

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LEIF RITCHEY, ‘Wishes’, 2008. Fabric, acrylic and stickers on canvas. 25.5 x 24 in. ($3,200)

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LEIF RITCHEY and JOE BRADLEY

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BRIAN BELOTT, collage.

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MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ‘The Freshmaker’, 2008. 30 x 30 in. ($4,000)

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ERIN FIERST

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ERIN FIERST, 30 x 39.57 in.

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MARK SCHUBERT, he shows with MONYA ROWE.

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JASON FOX, ‘Untitled’, 2008. 14 x 18 in.

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AGATHE SNOW.

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CHRIS MARTIN, ‘James’, price upon request

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NATE LOWMAN

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GABRIEL URIST and TOM HOHMANN of USA IS A MONSTER !!

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GABRIEL URIST designs custom jewelry & pendants – this is BIGGIE !! ($500).
see: GABRIEL URIST CUSTOM BLING !!

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the other interesting thing about Mr. Urist is that – he is wearing a custom-made hoodie that LEIF RITCHEY made for him.
apparently they were childhood friends back in the day, and TOM HOHMAN, too – in MICHIGAN.

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detail of the hood, on the LEIF RITCHEY – hoodie !!

at left, TOOYA !!
at left, TOOYA !!

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RITA ACKERMANN, ‘Bon Bon’, 2008, oil, acrylic and enamel paint on canvas.
30 x 40 in. ($45,000)

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CHRISTINE HARDY of art+commerce – photographers’ agents.
beside her: CHRIS MARTIN, ‘Smurfin’. 2007, mixed media. 38 x 48 in.
courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery. ($20,000)

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PATRICIA RIVERA and MAX FIERST !!

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PETE VOGL and JACK RITCHEY

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PETE PEZZIMENTI

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NOAH BREHMER, LEIF RITCHEY & PETE PEZZIMENTI

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MIKE PARE

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RYAN CHOWDHURY

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ORPHEUS KORSHAK

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AUREL SCHMIDT

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SALLY PAUL

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PETER COFFIN

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ELLEN ALTFEST.
beside her: KEITH MAYERSON, ‘Miles davis’, 2006, oil on linen. 26 x 34 in.
courtesy DEREK ELLER GALLERY. ($9,000)

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COLIN LANGENUS of USA IS A MONSTER

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GABRIEL URIST in front of DAN COLEN’S, ‘To be titled’, 2008, chewing gum on canvas. 24 x 30 in.
courtesy PERES PROJECTS

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EUNICE KIM.

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EUNICE KIM’S piece on the wall – it was my favorite !!

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RITA ACKERMANN and BOGDAN TESLAR KWAIATOWSKI !!

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and, a face from the not so distant past !! JESSICA CIOCCI of PAPER RAD !!

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BILL SAYLOR, ‘Untitled’, oil and collage on paper, 24 x 36 in.
courtesy LEO KOENIG. ($3,600)
KATHY LO at right.

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DIKE BLAIR, ‘Untitled (Marcelline), 2006.
Gouache and pencil on paper. 10 x 7 in. Courtesy FEATURE. ($2,500)

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inside the THE JOURNAL back office – a poster of young TONY SHAFRAZI being arrested, from last year’s
‘WHO’S AFRAID OF JASPER JOHNS?’/URS FISHER & GAVIN BROWN EXHIBIT – has – place of honor !!

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as does a yellow PATRICK GRIFFIN – ‘button’ !!

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NOV 22, 2008




~ANDREW GUENTHER/F+V/to-nite !!

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ANDREW GUENTHER – LOOKING FOR CULTURE – PART III – OPENS – SAT NOV 22 / 6-8 PM
the show runs: NOVEMBER 22, 2008 – JANUARY 10, 2009
FREIGHT+VOLUME – 542 WEST 24TH ST – CHELSEA – NYC

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~MARK BORCHARDT & JOHN RIEPENHOFF/GREEN GALLERY

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MARK BORCHARDT: ALONG THE WAY – OPENING SAT – NOV 22 / 6-9 PM
THE GREEN GALLERY (WEST) – 631 E. CENTER ST. – 3RD FL – MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN !!

THANKS TO JOHNNY POP – for sending this our way !!

more info: the GREEN GALLERY

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UP-DATE: TUES DEC 9, 2008 – JOHN RIEPENHOFF – SENT US SOME PHOTOS !!

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MARK BORCHARDT and JOHN RIEPENHOFF at the GREEN GALLERY.

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the ‘JOHN RIEPENHOFF EXPERIENCE’ at ANGSTROM GALLERY, LA.
John writes: “I run several of these mini-galleries and the original is a permanent fixture at the Green Gallery in Milwaukee.”
note: guest artists provide mini-versions of their gallery exhibits – or something along those lines – inside the ‘head box’ !!

JOHN ALSO SENT SOME PHOTOS – BY MARK BORCHARDT:

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ALL PHOTOS COURTESY/GREEN GALLERY/JOHN RIEPENHOFF




~also of relevance to artists …

. . other news in the TABLOIDS – that now look so pure & fresh in comparison to the unwritten rules & anonymous contributors of the – dreaded – web !!

FROM THE NEW YORK POST: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22 2008

1. for those who like their Pirate movies raw, unscripted, in real time & about to really explode, and of course unlike the blue chip auctions – truly contemporary !! – no diss to JOHNNY DEPP – the NEW YORK POST reports, via the TIMES OF LONDON – that . . . the war zone on the SOMALI COAST is heating up !!
as all kinds of “armed men” are descending on the country’s pirate coast, “raising fears that a battle is looming over millions of dollars of ransom cash being demanded for the recently captured Saudi supertanker SIRIUS STAR.”
p.s. love that name !! hey, didn’t I already read this scenario in comic book – decades ago !!
CORRUPT FUTURIST HI-TECH CIVILIZATION taken down by desert rats & 3rd world desperados.

p.p.s. of course, artlovers just happens to have an artworld denizen stationed in the area, but JOSH HARRIS, PSEUDO.COM ex-millionaire & notorious downtown party thrower par extraordinaire – in ETHIOPIA – hasn’t been heard from – via the web – since the area really heated up, this week !! already MIA !! knowing Josh – he is: 1) either going down FINZI CONTINI style; or 2) following in the footsteps of that crazed maniac Marlon Brando played in APOCALYPSE, NOW !!; 3) he is the unwitting neighbor of a Bin Laden crew hide-out & is being held captive or; 4) the most likely – aliens have whisked him up to safety – choosing him as their no. 1 PRIORITY STARSHIP S.O.S. – over SCOTT HUG !!

SERIOUSLY – usually a regular web correspondent – Last we heard from JOSH, more 2 weeks ago – he was telling us about Cal’s vampire death. ANDREW SMITH, recently back from visiting Josh in Ethiopia – says Josh was – “messing around in Ethopia’s national television system” – “trying to help them up-grade it.” !!
Andrew says, even then, just a few months back, if even that – he already felt “uncomfortable” walking in the ETHIOPIAN streets – but that Josh was completely “oblivious”.

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2. “An Astoria teenager was arrested after a straphanger snapped this cellphone photo (pictured) of him allegedly carving a graffiti tag on a subway window. Andrew Morello, 18, was allegedly etching the so-called ‘scratchiti’ into the glass of a N train window Monday when a rider took the picture.
The witness sent the images to the NYPD’s new “e-tips” Crime Stoppers service. Cops used the pictures to help them identify and track down Morello, who was charged with criminal mischief and possession of graffiti instruments.”

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3. and finally, last, but NOT least. we dedicate this Post item, found on PAGE 3 !! – to:
RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE – who put out that super great PRINTED MATTER – ARTISTS & ACTIVISTS – PAMPHLET:
‘THE SURFACE OF EACH DAY: QUESTIONS FOR COSMONAUTS’ !!

‘SPACE SPIDERS NOW WEB STARS’ !!

“HOUSTON – Spiders flying as an educational project (guess they can’t say – ANIMAL TESTING – its too IPC!! inpolitically correct) aboard the International Space Station seem to have the hang of weightlessness.
Their first orbital webs were messy, disorganized affairs. But a week into their flight, television images beamed back to Earth showed surprising progress.
“We noticed the spider made a symmetrical web.” space station commander Mike Fincke told ground controllers yesterday. “We’re really amazed that the spider could adapt to space so quickly.” – REUTERS

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~FUNNY/NOT FUNNY?/HOW’S MY DEALING !!

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FILE THIS UNDER: WHAT GOES AROUND – COMES AROUND – LIKE BLOW-BACK VOMIT – IN YOUR FACE !!

aka WHERE THERE’S SMOKE – THERE’S (USUALLY) FIRE !!

It’s not so much that it’s mean-spirited, though it has its share of sour grapes, NOR !! .. is it making a case for gallerists to start making their employees sign – confidentiality agreements !!

as much as it seems to be forum & only resort – for those who’ve been ripped off – or got bounced checks.
it’s a toss-up who uses it more – pissed off artists who are owed for work that was sold – and sometimes can never collect !!
. . . and gallery workers who issue warnings about galleries that make you wait forever to get paid, or worse bounce checks, or worse – are trust fund entitled snobs – who treat you like dirt !! !!

BECKY SMITH of BELLWETHER seems to have accrued the most comments – 20.

JACK THE PELICAN, and FREIGHT+VOLUME are UP IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, too.
and, 303 seems to have attracted a super ferocious – anonymous – web foe !!

THE WORST PUT-DOWN & ONE WE FEEL FREE TO HIGHLIGHT – AND VOUCH FOR – WITH 100% CERTAINTY – FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE – FROM HIS EARLIEST OPENINGS – & – WE HAVE NEVER WALKED – INTO THE SPACE – SINCE – !! – IS THE BITTER ONE – MICHAEL STEINBERG – HAS GARNERED.

so if that makes the other stuff credible – so be it !!
though obviously – there are just some sore losers in the mix, so don’t take it all at face value !!

the wish-washy takes on critics and curators – is the weak point.

the best rumor so far ?? !! – posted JUNE 7/2008 – by anonymous – “i hear nates leaving her” !!
with her – being – MICHELE MACCARONE !!

the YouTube offering at the top of the DEATHWATCH – is the most brilliant touch !!

so, ladies & gentlemen of the stodgey, street smart, unformed, or just plain uninformed, informed, inspired and wannabes !! – for better, or worse – I give you the link to the ratworld’s – oops, typo !!! I mean artworld’s dirty little secret – but one that, has everybody – on their toes !!

see: HOW’S MY DEALING !!!

and don’t miss the soundtrack – to their ‘DEATHWATCH’ – hit that FORWARD/ARROW – on their site, dumb-ass !!

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~FUNNY NOT FUNNY/BELLWETHER

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‘FUNNY NOT FUNNY’ – CURATED BY BECKY SMITH & ALLSION KOVE
runs: NOVEMBER 20, 2008 – JANUARY 17, 2009
with a SHOW CLOSING RECEPTION & PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2009 from 6-8 PM !!
BELLWETHER GALLERY – 134 10TH AVE – BTWN 18 & 19 STS. – CHELSEA, NY

featured in the show: TAMY BEN-TOR, PETER FISCHL & DAVID WEISS, DAPHNE FITZPATRICK, DANA FRANKFORT, SARA GREENBERG RAFFERTY, EVEREST HALL, JAMIE ISENSTEIN, RACHEL MASON, SHANA MOULTON, CHICHENG PENG, JESSE FINLEY REED, DAVID SHRIGLEY, MICHAEL SMITH, KIRSTEN STOLTMAN, RYAN TRECARTIN & LIZZIE FITCH, WAYNE WHITE, and CINTRA WILSON.

AND, FILE UNDER: – FUNNY, NOT SO FUNNY – ARTLOVERS INADVERTANTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE SPREAD OF A RUMOR – THAT BELLWETHER – WAS CLOSING !! – IT IS NOT !! & WE SINCERELY APOLOGIZE !!

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~LUCAS AJEMIAN & JULIEN BISMUTH/OPENS TO-NITE/FOXY PRODUCTION !

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LUCAS AJEMIAN & JULIEN BISMUTH – ‘LES LETTRES TRISTES’ – OPENS TO-NITE – FRI NOV 21 / 6-8 PM
the show runs: NOVEMBER 21, 2008 – JANUARY 10, 2009
FOXY PRODUCTION – 623 WEST 27TH ST – CHELSEA – NYC

FOXY PRODUCTION PRESENTS:
‘LES LETTRES TRISTES’ – a collaboration between New York-based artists
LUCAS AJEMIAN and JULIEN BISMUTH, that investigates the creative potential of detours through language, action and image. Taking the experience of distraction as their starting point, the artists discursively explore the experience of being diverted from ones train of thought !!
‘LES LETTRES TRISTES’ (The Sad Letters) refers to the LETTRISTES, the members of the avant-garde group, established in mid-century Paris, who used letters, hieroglyphics and other graphic symbols to create wildly experimental films, poetry, and art-wroks. Like a snapshot of LETTERISME itself, the exhibition combines key features of a number of MODERNIST movements, including Abstractionism, Dada, and Situationism, to generate a constellation of inter-related writing, video and objects.
for more info, see: FOXY PRODUCTION/AJEMIAN & BISMUTH


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~PETER SUTHERLAND/BLAME IT ON THE DOG !! OPENS TO-NITE at ATM !

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PETER SUTHERLAND – ‘BLAME IT ON THE DOG’ !! – OPENS TO-NITE – FRI NOV 21 / 6-8 PM
the show runs: November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 !!
ATM GALLERY – 621 WST 27TH ST – CHELSEA – NYC
HOURS: TUES-SAT 11-6 PM
note: gallery will be closed Nov 27 & Dec 23 – Jan 3.

ATM GALLERY – is pleased to present a new exhibition of PETER SUTHERLAND’S photographs, sculptures and videos.
Peter Sutherland’s work “employs some of the the techniques of traditional documentary photography to capture the hidden beauty of ordinary objects and everyday situations. He has released several publications and films, most recently – ‘Buck Shots’ – (POWERHOUSE BOOKS) and ‘TIERNEY GEARON: THE MOTHER PROJECT (ZEITGEIST FILMS).
He has exhibited in group exhibitions at RIVINGTON ARMS/NY, GUILD AND GREYSHKUL/NY, CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY/BERLIN, V1 GALLERY/COPENHAGEN and the traveling TINY VICES SHOW.
His solo exhibitions have been on view at SOMEDAY GALLERY/Melborne, MU/EINDHOVEN and GALLERY WHITE ROOM/TOKYO.
He is based in New York City”. check out his website: PETER SUTHERLAND !!

as well: on the occasion of this exhibit at ATM – SEEMS BOOKS will release ‘Blame it on the Dog’,
a limited edition photo book by PETER SUTHERLAND.
see: SEEMS BOOKS


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