{"id":516,"date":"2008-02-22T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T21:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/02\/22\/bipolart-faceliftopens-to-nite\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T17:29:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T22:29:18","slug":"bipolart-faceliftopens-to-nite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/02\/22\/bipolart-faceliftopens-to-nite\/","title":{"rendered":"~BIPOLART &#8216;FACELIFT&#8217;\/opens to-nite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/facelift_inv.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Facelift\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nIMAGE: &#8216;MODERN LIFE OF THE SOUL&#8217;\/COURTESY:BIPOLART<\/p>\n<p>BIPOLAR &#8216;FACELIFT&#8217; &#8211; A GROUP SHOW &#8211; CURATED BY ERIC LAINE<br \/>\nOPENS TO-NITE &#8211; FRI FEB 22, 2008 &#8211; 7-10 PM<br \/>\nthe show runs: FEBRUARY 22 &#8211; MARCH 17, 2008<br \/>\nCAPLA KESTING FINE ART &#8211; 121 ROEBLING ST &#8211; CORNER NORTH 5TH &#8211; BROOKLYN<\/p>\n<p>ARTISTS FEATURED ARE: MELANIE BONAJO, CLARE CHURCHOUSE, DAVID HENRY BROWN Jr., MARC GRUBSTEIN, KINGA KIELCZYNSKA, STEFFI LINDNER, MAROK, MOSCO, AUTUMN ROONEY, KRISTEN SCHIELE, ANIA SIWANOWICZ, MATTHEW STEINBERG &#038; CARLOS VALENCIA.<\/p>\n<p>BIPOLART IS AN INDEPENDENT &#8220;CURATORIAL OUTPOST&#8221; &#8211; LAUNCHED IN 2007 &#8211; BY ERIC LAINE &#8211; WITH THE GOAL OF &#8220;EXHIBITING DIVERSE WORK SIDE BY SIDE&#8221; &#8211; SO THAT THE RESULTANT &#8220;DIALECTICAL TENSION FROM SUCH A CURATORIAL PROCESS&#8221; leads to a &#8216;Bipol.art&#8217;  DISCOURSE. (!)<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s a good  example: the plant world visions of MODERN LIFE OF THE SOUL &#8211; which appears to be KINGA KIELCZYNSKA &#038; MELANIE BONAJO  vs. the hard edged urbanism of MATTHEW STEINBERG. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Bipolar___2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" alt=\"Bipolar # 2\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nMODERN LIFE OF SOUL, &#8216;Who wants to buy the Earth&#8217;, PHOTO\/COURTESY: bipolart<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/bipolar___3.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"450\" alt=\"bipolar # 3\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nMODERN LIFE OF SOUL, &#8216;after-the-aferlife&#8217;, PHOTO\/COURTESY:bipolart<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/bipolar___4.jpg\" width=\"361\" height=\"450\" alt=\"bipolar # 4\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nMODERN LIFE OF SOUL, &#8216;vision-quest&#8217;, PHOTO\/COURTESY: bipolart<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/bipolar___5.jpg\" width=\"366\" height=\"450\" alt=\"bipolar # 5\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nMODERN LIFE OF SOUL,&#8217;vision-quest II&#8217;, PHOTO\/COURTESY: bipolart<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/bipolar___6.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Bipolar # 6\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nMATTHEW STEINBERG, &#8216;La Guardia&#8217;, 10 x 10 ins., acrylic &#038; photo transfer on canvas, PHOTO\/COURTESY: bipolart<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Bipolar___7.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Bipolar # 7\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nMATTHEW STEINBERG, &#8216;Blue Triptych&#8217;, 16 x 20 ins., acrylic &#038; spray paint on canvas, PHOTO\/COURTESY: bipolart<br \/>\n(you might recall MATTHEW STEINBERG from the photo &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8216;WATCH OUT !! &#8211; 2 new local talents coming up&#8217; &#8211;  posted in the ERIK PARKER post &#8211; just below.)<\/p>\n<p>check out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolart.cc\">Bipol.art<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caplakesting.com\">CAPLA KESTING FINE ART<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMAGE: &#8216;MODERN LIFE OF THE SOUL&#8217;\/COURTESY:BIPOLART BIPOLAR &#8216;FACELIFT&#8217; &#8211; A GROUP SHOW &#8211; CURATED BY ERIC LAINE OPENS TO-NITE &#8211; FRI FEB 22, 2008 &#8211; 7-10 PM the show runs: FEBRUARY 22 &#8211; MARCH 17, 2008 CAPLA KESTING FINE ART &#8211; 121 ROEBLING ST &#8211; CORNER NORTH 5TH &#8211; BROOKLYN ARTISTS FEATURED ARE: MELANIE BONAJO, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}