2013 PUBLIC EVENTS Thursday, March 7 Events

Archive of The 2013 Armory Arts Week Schedule of Events:

Thursday, March 7 - Bronx Day & SoHo Night

BRONX DAY

We Are STILL Here: Art IN the Bronx

A group exhibition of work from artists affiliated with the Bronx Arts Alliance. Curated by Bronx River Art Center with guest curator Jeanine Alfieri, Fountainhead Gallery

Artists featured include:

Bronx Council on the Arts associated artists: Crash, Antonio Vicenty

Bronx Arts Space associated artists: Lizzy Alejandro, Mathew Burcaw, Skowmon Hastanan

Pepatian associated artists: Leenda Bonilla, Melissa Calderon, Marisol Diaz, Jose Ortiz, Rokafella

New work created through Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace Program in response to the landscape and the plant collections, including Francisco Donoso, Naomi Reis

Works from the Bronx Museum for the Arts’ Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program

Three works of Romare Bearden provided by MBSCC

5:00PM—8:00PM BxArts Happy Hour

Join the Bronx Arts Alliance for a social networking opportunity presented in conjunction with We Are STILL Here: Art IN the Bronx.

Live dance music provided by the Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) with support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Live spoken word performances courtesy of Nuyorican Poets Café.

Time: 11AM—5PM

Access: Open to the public

Location: Andrew Freedman Home 1125 Grand Concourse Between 166^th and McClellan Streets Bronx

Website: www.bronxriverart.org

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, JOAN SEMMEL: A LUCID EYE

Well known for the uncompromising feminist tone of her early work, Joan Semmel has turned her attention over the past decade to the process of image making. Photography has played a central role in Semmel's work since she decided to represent the figure in the early 1970s. However, Semmel's use of photography has often escaped the viewer whose attention focuses on the depicted image. In 2005, Semmel began to afford the viewer a glimpse into her method by aiming the camera towards a mirror, thus capturing the artist in the process of composing the image. Lately, using the camera and mirrors, Semmel has created a haunting series of self-portraits that evoke the passage of time. Organized by Antonio Sergio Bessa.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts,HONEY, I REARRANGED THE COLLECTION…

Created in 1986, the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection has assembled over the years a remarkable group of artworks that convey not only personal narratives but also incisive insights onto contemporary life. For this exhibition, we took inspiration from Allen Ruppersberg's ongoing series Honey, I rearranged the Collection initiated in 2000 and that puts in check the role of institutions, curators and collectors as the bearers of tradition and arbiters of taste. Overlaying different traditions, styles, and narratives, Honey, I rearranged the Collection presents an idea of museum as a restless play of combination.

Honey, I Rearranged the Collection… features artworks from the 40th Anniversary's 40 Years, 40 Gifts campaign, which has received support from Ford Foundation and the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, as well as as well as individual funders.

Time: 11AM - 6PM

Access: Open to the public

Location: 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx

Website: www.bronxmuseum.org

Bronx Art Space, Soles of the Bronx

Hand-painted, re-constructed, and photographed works by Andre Trennier, Sean Paul Gallegos and Osjua A. Newton.

Time: 11AM - 6:30PM

Access: Open to the public

Location: 305 East 140th Street, Bronx

Website: www.bronxartspace.com

Longwood Arts Project, In the Realm of Dreams & Fears

This group exhibition is organized by artist and guest curator Antonio Vicenty,inspired by his interest in horror/fantasy films. It presents recent phantasmagorical works in drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture and video by visiting artists from Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States. Participating artists include Pierre Ayotte, Patricia Ayres, Michael Paul Britto, Fernando Carpaneda, Kari Christensen, Shawn Conn, Steve Durham, Elisabeth Faraone, Julio Garay, Alba García, Mike Hrubovcak, Jayson Keeling, Steve Lewis, Claire Martial, Ivan Monforte, Owen Mulligan, Lucrecia Novoa, Peter Pier, Matt Pinyan, Radical Sem Dó, Johnny Ramos, Vertebrae33, and John Zhao. This exhibition marks Vicenty’s first time in a curatorial role.

Antonio Vicenty(Project Room): Curated by Longwood Arts Project, this is Vicenty’s first solo exhibition of his recent experimental film and photography. Inspired by his early childhood in Puerto Rico, Vicenty recalls visiting funeral homes and walking through cemeteries with his family to bury their loved ones. He uses the props, images, visual effects and photography from his infatuation with horror films resulting in experimental photography and films that are eerie, mysterious and scary, with elements of horror, fantasy, everyday fears and the inevitable fact of death through artificial, surreal and dreamlike means.

Time: noon – 6PM

Access: Open to the public

Location: Hostos Community College - 450 Grand Concourse (Entrance under the bridge) Bronx

Website: www.bronxarts.org

Organic Abstracts at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

‘Organic Abstracts’ is an outdoor installation produced by the West Harlem Art Fund in partnership with Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and the City of New York Parks & Recreation Department for Armory Week 2013. The featured artist is Dianne Smith, a native New Yorker whowas born and raised in the Bronx but now lives in Harlem.

The installation, comprised of two sculptures, showcases a minimalist approach to abstract art, scaled large and reminiscent of works by Henry Moore who incorporated them into the local landscape and was heavily influenced by non-Western art. The works will not be made from traditional wood or metal but from repurposed materials offering a more direct and intimate experience for the artist. Viewers will be able to discover the sculptures on the grounds of Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, part of the Historic House Trust of NYC. The history of the site, located in the North Bronx, predates the American Revolution. Situated in the City’s largest park, the site was also selected because it is near a wildlife sanctuary and Orchard Beach.

The Couple will be two beautifully androgynous heads approximately twenty feet wide and ten feet tall at the highest point. The heads will rest on one another and be secured on to a rectangular base. They will be made from everyday discarded materials such as, packaging, paper, cans, fabric, magazines, etc. These items will be tightly bound together with string, rope, as well as a nontoxic polymer, and waterproof varnish. As such, the piece will be weather resistant. The materials and its connectors will create a colorful and textural work of art that will engage the viewer.

Flying High is a site-specific installation constructed out of brown butcher paper.The paper may be crunched, crumpled, rolled, twisted, interlocked, woven and manipulated,hanging between two trees. Its formations and sunlight will create patterns of shadows, as well as contrast of light and dark.

Time: noon – 5PM

Access: The Bronx Trolley will be making round trips to the museum leaving Piers 92/94 at 1pm and 3:45 pm Registration for trolley is required

RSVP: (718) 885-1461 info@bpmm.org

Location: Bartow-Pell Mansion, 895 Shore Road, Bronx

Website: www.westharlemartfund.wordpress.com, www.bpmm.org

SOHO NIGHT

MTA Arts for Transit – Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz

Download a free podcast to learn more about A Gathering, an installation by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz located throughout the mezzanine of Canal Street station. Dozens of birds (181 grackles, blackbirds and crows) cast in bronze transform the space into a subterranean aviary.

Time: Open Daily

Access: Self Guided

Location: Canal Street station, A C E train

Website: www.mta.info/art

CITYarts Mural: Tribute to Kusama: Art Infinity-Net

Executive and Creative Director Tsipi Ben-Haim and artist Jessica Diamond present: Tributes to Kusama: Art Infinity-Net, produced and created by CITYarts. This event celebrates the mural by Jessica Diamond and New York City youth at the Thompson Street Playground between Spring & Prince and Thompson & Sullivan Streets. Tsipi Ben-Haim and Jessica Diamond plan to be at the mural, along with a representative from CITYarts.

Time: 6PM – 8PM

Access: RSVP is required

RSVP: tsipi@cityarts.org

Location: Spring & Prince and Thompson & Sullivan Streets

Website: www.cityarts.org

The Dealer’s Perspective

Cura/genda is a series of limited edition itineraries curated and custom-designed by Opalnest and an invited group of cultural icons. With a successful launch during Art HK12 in Hong Kong, the 2nd edition arrives in New York in conjunction with the 2013 Armory Arts Week. For this programme, we will feature today’s prominent players shaping the Lower East Side art scene offering firsthand perspective on collecting and exhibiting art, and exposing the trade of art dealing. This tour is exclusive and will begin with a breakfast and introduction at Allegra LaViola Gallery. Lunch provided by Hotel Particulier. Co-presented with Artcards and Vickyh Destinations

Time: 1PM -6PM

Access: RSVP for tickets

RSVP: art@opalnest.com

Location: Various locations. Tour begins at Hotel Particulier, 4-6 Grand Street, NYC 10013

Website: opalnest-experience.com

The Not-For-Profit Visual Arts Institutions of SoHo Present SoHo Night

SoHo Night is an evening of extended exhibition viewing and special programs by the not-for-profit visual arts institutions in SoHo.
o Art in General (79 Walker Street) presents two New Commissions: Meric Algun Ringborg and Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova. Open 6PM – 8PM
o Artists Space (38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor) presents Frozen Lakes. Open 6PM – 9PM
o The Broken Kilometer (393 West Broadway) will hold extended hours. Open 6PM – 8PM
o CITYarts (525 Broadway, Suite 602) will hold extended hours. Open 6 - 9 pm
o The Drawing Center (35 Wooster Street) presents a conversation with Alexandre Singh and The New Yorker's Andrea Scott in conjunction with Alexandre Singh: The Pledge at 6:30PM. Open 6PM – 9PM
o Harvestworks (596 Broadway) presents MOORI, an interactive installation by Haeyoung Kim aka bubblyfish. Based on mobile technology and SMS. Open 6PM – 9PM.
o The New York Earth Room (141 Wooster Street) will hold extended hours. Open 6PM – 8PM
o The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation (526 LaGuardia Place) presents Nigerian Sculpture from the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation and Chaim Gross's sculpture and studio. Open 6PM – 8PM
o Recess (41 Grand Street) presents Rutherford Chang: We Buy White Albums, featuring a closing reception from 6PM – 9PM.
o Storefront for Art and Architecture (97 Kenmare Street) will open Aircraft Carrier, an exhibition that presents the radical transformation of Israeli architecture since 1973 and examines the American influence that made it possible. Open 6PM – 9PM.
o Swiss Institute (18 Wooster Street) presents Jon Kessler's The Web. Open 6PM – 9PM

Special Viewing of Walter De Maria’s The New York Earth Room and The Broken Kilometer

Join Dia for a special viewing of Walter De Maria’s The New York Earth Room and The Broken Kilometer. The New York Earth Room, 1977, is an interior earth sculpture. It is the third and only existing Earth Room sculpture executed by the artist. The other two were installed in Germany in 1968 and 1974. The Broken Kilometer, 1979, is composed of 500 highly polished, round, solid brass rods, each measuring two meters in length and five centimeters in diameter. The 500 rods are placed in five parallel rows of 100 rods each. This work is the companion piece to De Maria's 1977 Vertical Earth Kilometer at Kassel, Germany.

Time: 6PM – 8PM

Access: open to the public

Location: The New York Earth Room, 141 Wooster Street, New York City; The Broken Kilometer, 393 West Broadway, New York City

Website: www.diaart.org

The Dealer’s Perspective

Time: 1PM -6PM

Access: RSVP for tickets

RSVP: art@opalnest.com

Location: Various locations. Tour begins at Hotel Particulier, 4-6 Grand Street, NYC 10013

Website: opalnest-experience.com

Chimera

What are social implications of becoming colorblind? For SOHO Gallery night Woolfalk will activate her installation at Third Streaming with a performance that explores what it means to become colorblind for a society of fictional women called the Empathics. The material culture and biology of the Empathics presented in the exhibition Chimera is the synthesis of diverse sources. Textile-based sculptures, paintings, prints, and installation combine Native American artifacts, Japanese kimono fabrics, West African textiles and regalia, Brazilian Carnaval and bumba-meu-boi costumes, Buddhist Thangka paintings, European illuminated manuscripts, and botanical illustration. This Empathic symbolism points to how distinct beings and material intermingle, impact one another, and can emerge fused and re-imagined. This wondrous process of hybridization inadvertently causes the Empathics to become colorblind and Woolfalk is interested in the positive and negative implications of their complex situation.

Time: 7PM – 8PM

Access: Open to the public

Location: 10 Greene Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10013

Website: www.thirdstreaming.com

SPRING/BREAK Art Show

Join us for the 2nd annual SPRING/BREAK Art Show, an exhibition celebrating the freshest curatorial voices of the city’s five boroughs. Located in Old School, a cultural center in Nolita, the large-scale exhibition repurposes old classroom spaces as gallery platforms within the historic building's 4-story expanse. Touting exhibitions by more than twenty of New York's most essential curators - SPRING/BREAK Art Show will feature the work of over 70 artists centered around a single theme. The exhibition, entitled New Mysticism, imagines a canon for formal spiritualism considering social and technological advances in the Future Age. Curators include Kyle DeWoody, Eve Sussman, Simon Lee, Maureen Sullivan, Angela Conant, Andrew Gori, Ambre Kelly, Amanda Schmitt, Cecelia Stucker, Tom Weinrich, John Morrow, Helen Toomer, Gabriela Alva C., Aurora Pelizzi, Natalia Porter, Adam Mignanelli, Theodore Barrow, Patrick Meagher, Elizabeth Clark and more.

Time: 6PM – 9PM

Access: RSVP is required

RSVP: rsvp@springbreakartshow.com or VIP Card at door

Location: The Old School, 233 Mott Street, New York City 10012

Website: www.springbreakartshow.com

Special Viewing of Walter De Maria’s The New York Earth Room and The Broken Kilometer

Time: 6PM – 8PM

Access: open to the public

Location: The New York Earth Room, 141 Wooster Street; The Broken Kilometer, 393 West Broadway

Website: www.diaart.org

TriBeCa Loft Atelier Presents Works by Master Italian Architect Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi, (1931-1997) was an Italian Architect who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas; Theory, Drawing, Architecture and Product Design.

Frank Gerard Godlewski, who worked in Rossi’s Milan Studio d’Architettura from 1979 through 1987 and curated Rossi’s first NY exhibition at the Max Protetch Gallery, will lecture on Aldo Rossi at TriBeCa’s Salomon Arts Gallery. He will present Rossi’s projects and show a private collection of his historic drawings, photographs by his daughter, Vera Rossi and other important material from this period. Rossi’s works to be exhibited - Teatro del Mondo, Teatrino Scientifico, Cimitero di Modena, Porta della Biennale of Venice, Scuola di Broni and more. Salomon Arts Gallery is proud to exhibit in their TriBeCa loft, works by Martin Abrahams, Robert and Lynn Bianchi, El Costell, Elizabeth Gregory Gruen, Brooke Larsen, Andres Martinez, Fernand d'Onofrio and Jay C. Lohmann. Curated by Paul Robinson.

Time: 5PM – 9PM

Access: Please RSVP

RSVP: info@salomonarts.com

Location: Salomon Arts, 83 Leonard Street, 4th Floor

Website: www.salomonarts.com

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