Naomi Reis: Unnatural Selection
Borrowed Landscape (Tropics of Africa, Asia and the Amazon via Brooklyn), Digital print on vinyl, 120 x 125 inches, 2013
Naomi Reis: Unnatural Selection
May 17 – June 23, 2013
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Opening Reception: Friday, May 17, 2013, 7 – 10 PM
Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 12 – 6 PM and by appointment
Unnatural Selection investigates nature and its representation: How have humans conquered and organized nature, both to understand it scientifically, and to use it strategically?
The exhibition opens on Borrowed Landscape (Tropics of Africa, Asia and the Amazon via Brooklyn), a large-scale vinyl print of a photograph taken at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. It captures the spectacle of a simulated rainforest contained within a glass dome; we know that it is an artificial environment, yet we suspend disbelief and for a moment are transported to a distant tropical rainforest, a place very few of us will visit in person. Together with mixed media collages, paintings, live and artificial plants, and botanical drawings that reference 19th-century scientific drawings in specimen trays, Unnatural Selection explores the pressure points where the natural world and the manufactured collide.
Naomi Reis was born in Shiga, Japan, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She was a recent Winter Workspace 2013 resident at Wave Hill in the Bronx, and will have an article in the Spring 2013 issue of Wilder Quarterly about the experience. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the IPCNY, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Blackburn 20|20, Lower East Side Printshop, Field Projects, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Exit Art. She is a graduate of the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania (MFA) and Hamilton College (BA).
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Tai Yin Ho: Such Stuff
Construction reliquary, 2013
TAI YIN HO
April 5 – May 12, 2013
[INSTALLATION PHOTOS]
Opening Reception: Friday, April 5, 2013, 7 – 10 PM
Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 12 – 6 PM and by appointment
Such stuff, the first solo exhibition by Tai Yin Ho, is made up of new and recent work on the topic of value and matter. Made of stone, mundane catalytic objects, and filler materials, the show’s small sculptural installations use the action of display to investigate stuff’s physical actuality and inscribed meaning.
The show’s title comes from the mouths of Sam Spade and Prospero — two fellows who had an inkling of the metaphysical allure of property.
Yin is a graduate of ITP at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, the London School of Economics, and Birmingham-Southern College. She contributes writing to Rhizome, and teaches at the School of Art, Purchase College and the Courant Institute, New York University.
Bushwick Open Studios
Join us when we’re open until 7PM during Bushwick Open Studios
Bushwick/Ridgewood Galleries Frieze Night
Installation view of Tai Yin Ho: Such Stuff
Please join us when we’re open until 10 PM next Saturday
As a complement to the Frieze New York Art Fair, the galleries and alternative space of Bushwick/Ridgewood would like to invite you to come out and visit on Saturday evening, May 11, 2013. All the galleries and art spaces listed below will remain open till 10 pm.
Bushwick/Ridgewood is a vibrant area that now showcases over 50+ galleries and alternative spaces, as well as hundreds of artists’ studios, and is an important creative center of New York City.
For information and questions, please contact TSA or go to www.BushwickDaily.com for more information
A map will be available at participating galleries.
Drinking/dining recommendations are available upon request.
Easy transport hubs:
L train stations - Morgan Avenue, Jefferson Street, Dekalb Avenue
J Train stations - Myrtle Avenue and Knickerbocker Avenue
Participating Galleries:
The Active Space, Agape Enterprise, AIRPLANE, ArtHelix, Associated Gallery, Auxiliary Projects, Blonde Art Books, Bull and Ram, C L E A R I N G, CCCP, Centotto, English Kills Gallery, Fuchs Projects, Grace Exhibition Space, Interstate Projects, The Living Gallery, Microscope Gallery, Momenta, Norte Maar, NURTUREart, Outlet Fine Arts, Outpost Artists Resources, Parallel Art Space, The Parlour, Picture Menu, Regina Rex, Robert Henry Contemporary, Sardine, Schema Projects, Secret Project Robot, The Shirey, Signal, Silent Barn, Slag Gallery, A Slender Gamut, Storefront Bushwick, Studio 10, SUGAR, Suite 217, THEODORE:Art, TSA, Valentine, Wayfarers, Weldon Arts
In Search Of…
Mike Peter Smith, Untitled (Cyclops), 2012
TSA is proud to present:
In Search Of…
Organized by Dustin Dennis, Amanda Lechner and Christopher Ulivo
Catalog essay by Stephen Tateishi
[INSTALLATION SHOTS]
February 22 – March 31, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, February 22, 2013, 7 – 10 PM
Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 12pm-6pm and by appointment
Please call to enter during normal hours.
Featuring works by Ryan Mrozowski, David Humphrey, Amanda Lechner, Mike Peter Smith, Sean McCarthy, Jackie Hoving, Rachel Frank, Andrew Prayzner, Christopher Ulivo, and Leah Beeferman.
This exhibition brings together a group of emerging and established contemporary visual artists whose practices examine the realms of science fiction, mythology, alternative histories and other forms of creative speculation. We are interested in using the In Search Of… television program as a model for inquiry to generate a cross-disciplinary discussion of fringe explorations.
“In Search Of…” at TSA Gallery is the third installation from the expanded traveling exhibition, previously on view at the Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, September 6th - October 12th, 2012. Special events in association with the Rhodes College exhibition included a screening of the original In Search Of… TV series at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN, and a lecture by Dr. Steven C. Schlozman, author of “The Zombie Autopsies.” “In Search Of…” was also on view at the Art and Design Gallery at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS, November 11th - December 7th, 2012. “In Search Of…” is a fiscally sponsored project of Artspire, New York Foundation for the Arts.
For more information please contact TSA.
Night of video work by artists in conjunction with “In Search Of…”
Dustin Dennis, Untitled, 2012, Still
TSA presents a night of video work by artists in conjunction with the current exhibition “In Search Of…”
Saturday, March 30, 8:30pm
Video work by: Jonathan Ehrenberg, Timothy Hutchings, Molly Bradbury, Rachel Frank, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern (Tweets in Space), Brian Zegeer, Dustin Dennis, Leah Beeferman, Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey, Erica Magrey, and Christopher Ulivo.
Live musical performance by Baby Copperhead
Cool NEW Galleries Not to Miss during Bushwick Armory Night
See our mention in Bushwick Daily’s Armory weekend’s writeup here.
In Search Of… Mentioned in Free Williamsburg
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Always on the Verge of Waking Up
Ryan Mrozowski, Handlers, collage on paper, 2011, 12 x 10 inches
We hope you will join us for:
Always on the Verge of Waking Up
An evening of readings, curated by Erica Ehrenberg in conjunction with our current exhibition, “In Search Of…”
Thursday, March 14th, 8 PM
Featuring readings by: Erica Ehrenberg, Maria Rapoport, Nuar Alsadir and Anthony Tognazzini
When Fernando Pessoa writes in The Book of Disquiet, “I feel as if I’m always on the verge of waking up,” he seems to describe simultaneously a difficult attempt and a continuous process of renewal. The artists in “In Search Of…” and the writers who will read alongside their work relish the generative creative possibilities and the psychic knowledge that inhabiting states of tension and bewilderment make possible. Their work is “Always on the Verge of Waking Up” MORE, and more deeply, flinging open doors into the imagination as they go.
This reading will accompany TSA’s current exhibition “In Search Of…”, organized by Dustin Dennis, Amanda Lechner and Christopher Ulivo. Featuring works by Ryan Mrozowski, David Humphrey, Amanda Lechner, Mike Peter Smith, Sean McCarthy, Jackie Hoving, Rachel Frank, Andrew Prayzner, Christopher Ulivo, and Leah Beeferman, “In Search Of…” is on view through March 31, 2013.
Erica Ehrenberg is a poet and teacher. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, a poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. This summer she will be a poetry fellow at the Vermont Studio Center. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Slate, The New Republic, Octopus, Jubilat, The St. Ann’s Review, and Everyman’s Library Poetry series from Knopf. She currently teaches at Fordham University.
Maria Rapoport writes about real events using the tools of fiction with a focus on the strangeness and limits of perception. The first chapter of her memoir-in-progress was runner-up in The Iowa Review Awards. She has received honorable mention in New Millennium Writings and been published in The Iowa Review and The Pinch.
Anthony Tognazzini is a writer and musician. Recent work has appeared in Guernica, BOMB, Crazyhorse, Gigantic, Forklift Ohio, and TriQuarterly. His collection of short fictions, I Carry A Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such As These, was published by BOA Editions. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Robin Beth Schaer.
