2012 PUBLIC EVENTS Sunday, March 11 Events

2012 Armory Arts Week Schedule of Events:

Sunday, March 11 – Lower East Side / Downtown

Anonymous Gallery Presents Casa de Empeño NYC

Anonymous Gallery recently opened a group exhibition at its Mexico City location titled, Casa de Empeño (HOUSE OF PAWN).The show is a group exhibition based conceptually on the function of a pawnshop and serves to examine current systems of economy, currency and exchange. In New York during Armory Arts Week, Anonymous Gallery will again re-examine the same concept; providing unique opportunities for collectors to purchase distinctive works of art through sale, loan or even trade. However, taking the concept one step further, the gallery will literally be creating a house of pawn. Using a 24ft 1964 Vintage Airstream trailer, Anonymous Gallery has re-constructed the original mobile-home interior to serve a retail purpose; stocking it full of distinctive art objects. Throughout the week, this house of pawn will be traveling to various Armory Art Week locations and opening its doors to customers who seek a unique experience with art and commerce.

Time: 2-8pm

Access: Free, open to the public (3-4 people will be allowed inside the trailer at a time)

Location: Various points around the City, check www.anonymousgallery.com/art/projects/current/cde-nyc for addresses.

New Museum Presents The Ungovernables, Second New Museum Triennial

The Armory Show guests are invited to The Ungovernables, the second New Museum Triennial. The 2012 New Museum Triennial features thirty-four artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives—totaling over fifty participants—born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never before exhibited in the US.

Time: 11am-6pm

Access: Open to public; complimentary access with VIP Card, $14 admission for Armory Arts Week visitors

Location: The New Museum, 235 Bowery

Website: www.newmuseum.org

MTA Arts for Transit – Ming Fay

Download a free podcast to learn more about Shad Crossing, Delancey Orchard, a large-scale mosaic by Ming Fay located on the Brooklyn-bound platform and mezzanine walls of the Canal Street station. Millions of pieces of glassmosaic make up lush cherry trees and the glimmering bodies of fish, creating an interior environment that harkens back to the neighborhood’s rich history and landscape.

Time: Open Daily

Access: Self Guided

Location: Delancey St– Essex St station, F J M Z train

Website: www.mta.info/art

“Memories of a City” a Brunch/Artist Talk with Miha Strukelj

LMAKprojects and Hilger Contemporary are pleased to present a brunch and artist talk by Slovene artist Miha Strukelj. Strukelj will discuss his current solo exhibit at LMAKprojects and is joined by curator Tevz Logar to discuss his work. The exhibit features an installation of murals and small drawings on panels throughout the gallery to address his perspective of the world. In his work, he reduces everything to a grid, contour and lines through his own methodology, his eye reacting to architectural settings combined with angular patterns that are contradicting and complex. Yet, he focuses on the humanist scale and centers in on the subjects emotion as well as setting the tone for the viewer.

Time: 12-2pm

Access: RSVP required

RSVP to: louky@lmakprojects.com

Location: 139 Eldridge Street (b/n Delancey and Broome)

Website:www.lmakprojects.com

Gallery Tours in the Lower East Side / Downtown

Join art world professionals for guided tours of Lower East Side / Downtown Art Galleries. Tour Groups will be leaving from the New Museum Lobby. Maps and gallery guides for self-guided tours will also be available on site at The Armory Show, at the New Museum and online at www.lowereastsideny.com. Tours are presented by the Lower East Side Business Improvement District.

Time: 12pm, 1pm and 2pm

Access: Due to overwhelming interest, please RSVP

Location: New Museum, 235 Bowery Street

Contact: 212.226-9010

Website: www.lowereastsideny.com

MAINTAIN RIGHT: A PERFORMATIVE INSTALLATION BY FUNNER PROJECTS

Maintain Right is a performative installation by the collaborative duo, Justin H. Long and Robert Lorie d.b.a. Funner Projects. On the hour, every hour, viewers can expect to witness and actively participate in a performance that creates various visual compositions with the use of an enormous crossbow, fulfilling Long and Lorie’s desire “to end mundane art experiences and make life funner.

Time: 1:30pm; 1:50pm

Access: Free, open to the public

White Box, 329 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002

Website: www.whiteboxny.org

Atrstr*k Presents: The Young Collectors Armory Show Reception

Artstr*k, a new collectors series, is hosting a reception on the eve of the 2012 Armory Show Vernissage dedicated to young and emerging contemporary art collectors. Taking place at Fig. 19, in partnership with sparkplugPR, the evening will feature a group of key artists and art world professionals. Fig. 19 is located directly behind envoy enterprises gallery, which is presenting a 3-part tribute series for the British post-punk group FadGadget featuring a group exhibition, music program, and documentary screening.

Time: 5pm-9pm

Access: Please RSVP

RSVP: armory2012@artstrk.com

Location: Fig 19, 131 1/2 Chrystie Street, NEW YORK, NY 10002

The Gabarron Foundation - Carriage House Center for the Arts

Location: 149 East 38th Street (Bet. Lexington & 3rd Aves.)

Contact: 212-573-6968; infoGF@gabarron.org; www.gabarronfoundation.org

Access: Free

Hours: by appt., M-F 9-5pm

Exhibition: Carol Brown Goldberg: Abstract Universe, March 8 - May 8, 2012; Opening Reception: May 8, 6-8pm by invitation

Spencer Brownstone Gallery: Straight Up

Spencer Brownstone Gallery is pleased to present Straight Up, HD, 7min, looped, 2011, a new video work by Berlin based artist Cécile B. Evans. In this piece the artist performs an interpretive sign language version of Paula Abdul’s 1988 number one single, “Straight Up”. It is, at first glance, an unencumbered cover of Pina Bausch’s Nelken (1982), in which a man spells out Gershwin’s “The Man I Love” in sign language as the soundtrack plays in the background, progressively picking up speed. Over the course of Straight Up, the choreography begins to deteriorate in parallel, becoming less precise, and more organic. As the piece progresses a series of glittery effects are implemented onto the composition, emphasizing this deterioration and further blurring emotional boundaries between the subjective and objective. Meanwhile, Abdul’s score, replaced by an adaptation composed by singer and pop- songwriter Mati Gavriel, culminates in an additional disorienting plane of removal between the visual and aural, the mental and physical, and the dramatic and real.

Time: Thursday March, 8 2012 | 10am – 9 pm

Access: Free, open to the public

Location: Spencer Brownstone Gallery, 3 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013

Website: www.spencerbrownstonegallery.com