FADNYC SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: GREENPOINT OPEN STUDIOS
3 October 2014 • VC Maurer
Greenpoint Open Studios kicks off this weekend
Author: VC Maurer
VC Maurer, is an aspiring art critic, columnist, and art journalist. With a dual degree in Art History and Religious Studies, she also obtains a masters degree in Curating Contemporary Design from London, UK. Currently she lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, BK.
NYC ART PICS: Joel Meyerowitz @NRW_FORUM
1 October 2014 • VC Maurer
Pioneer NYC street photographer Joel Meyerowitz retrospective opens in Germany @Düsseldorf’s NRW Forum
FADNYC Top 5: ART BOOK FAIR
28 September 2014 • VC Maurer
Printed Matter presents the ninth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 26 to 28, 2014, at MoMA PS1, Long… Read More
Artist Spotlight With: Eric Inkala
9 September 2014 • VC Maurer
His birth name is Eric Inkala, but most people refer to him as: Ink. He draws, he sketches, he paints, he shoots and he is currently grindin’ in Brooklyn, NYC. Read more…
Josh Dorman’s ‘Whorled’ Opens September, 4th @RYAN LEE
4 September 2014 • VC Maurer
On view from September 4th through October 11th NYC’s Ryan Lee Gallery will host a remarkable solo exhibition featuring the large scale and multi-paneled paintings, graphite works, and hypnotic animations of Joshua Dorman.
NYC Opening: #thinkinginsidethebox Opens August 6th, 2014 @ConArtistNYC
4 August 2014 • VC Maurer
#thinkinginsidethebox is a new group show curated by Con Artist member Josef Pinlac, who will provide handcrafted works for visitors to pick up and explore.
Studio Visit With: Isaac Arvold
1 August 2014 • VC Maurer
Recently, FADNYC ventured into the streets of Bushwick to take a closer look into the acrylic works of Isaac Arvold. His upcoming exhibition ‘These Hands Are Monsters’ opens this August 14th, 2014 @Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen.
Don’t Miss: 2014 Summer Mixer @Joshua Liner Gallery until August 27th in the NYC
22 July 2014 • VC Maurer
Things are heating up in the NYC, and leave it to Joshua Liner gallery to put on a dope Summer mixer! Featuring a rockstar lineup of artists such as Andrew Shoultz, Guy Yanai, and Sam Friedman – this is a one of a kind exhibition not to miss!
GO SEE: Jennifer Abessira’ s Solo Show @Art Station in Tel Aviv
8 July 2014 • VC Maurer
For her first solo exhibition Jennifer Abessira, who is marked as one of the most promising young artists in Israel today, presents selected works from Elastique project on which she has been working for the last three years, as well as new works.
NYC Opening: Outside Upside Down @Robert Henry Contemporary on from July 11th- August 10th
7 July 2014 • VC Maurer
Inside Outside Upside Down, is an exhibition of the drawings and prints of Ann Stewart and the sculpture of Steven Millar that explores ideas about space, memory and perception.
FAD INTERVIEW: Israeli Artist: Jonathan Goldman
30 June 2014 • VC Maurer
“Art , for me, is the process of transformation and complete detachment from any goals, except of the ongoing encounter with the materials in front of me, the space in which they live and the rules and behaviors that I determine.”
ART NEWS: @HauserWirth and Schimmel to Open New Gallery Space in LA, January 2015
9 June 2014 • VC Maurer
In partnership with former MOCA director, Paul Schimmel, Hauser & Wirth strike again with the opening of yet another gallery space in LA.
DON’T MISS: ‘GLAZED AND CONFUSED’ @ Gallery Poulsen on until June 7th
1 June 2014 • VC Maurer
In this striking, one of a kind show, Brooklyn based artist Christian Rex van Minnen explores the techniques and styles of Old Masters’ oil painting while seeking out opportunities within the traditional layers and glazes of paint to create a confused stratum of form, content and meaning. The end result are paintings that marry opposing forces of harmony and dissonance, beauty and horror, meaning and absurdity.
DON’T MISS: ‘IN THE BEGINNING/ END STATES’ now on @Sgorbati Projects in NYC until June 21st
27 May 2014 • VC Maurer
Featuring works by Cory Arcangel, Alice Aycock, Ross Bleckner, and Iran do Espírito Santo, ‘In The Beginning / End-States’ is a group exhibition based loosely around the physical processes associated with the birth and death of stars.
Nadim Abbas @ArtBasel Hong Kong 2014
18 May 2014 • VC Maurer
How does one build a bunker in the sky? Hong Kong based artist Nadim Abbas, in collaboration with Absolut has successfully tackled this question by constructing a unique bar for this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong 2014.
DON’T MISS: Jazz Photography + drinks and drums in Harlem, New York tonight, May 17th @ Tikhonova & Wintner
17 May 2014 • VC Maurer
Featuring the work of four eminent urban photographers highly known for capturing the ups, downs and all the in-betweens of the quintessential jazz era, the late Hugh Bell, Jill Freedman, Ming Smith, and Ken Van Sickle have collectively brought to life dynamite photographic portrayals of the heart and soul of jazz.
DON’T MISS: BioART live painting in Brooklyn, NYC on May,15th
13 May 2014 • VC Maurer
How often do you get to paint with live bacteria, then make cocktails out of extracted pineapple DNA? Come out and check out an interactive workshop hosted by Bezalel university and Israeli artist Nurit Bar-Shai
DON’T MISS: ‘WITHOUT’ An Architectural Intervention Turned 4 Day Music Festival @FriezeNewYork, 2014
8 May 2014 • VC Maurer
Israeli artist Naama Tsabar and Editor in chief of Tom Tom Magazine, Mindy Abovitz have comprised a killer music fest running From May 8th- 11th! Read more to check the line up of seventeen must see bands to catch this weekend!
TOP 5 GALLERIES to catch @FriezeNewYork, NOT from the NYC
8 May 2014 • VC Maurer
Every year hundreds of galleries from around the world convene at Frieze to bring to light the top projects they have been working on and artists they have been working with so we thought we would provide you with a Top 5 list of the Globe’s edgiest galleries to catch that might not be from the NYC but are doing their ‘thang everywhere else and beyond…
Top 5 films to catch in the NYC this Spring season
4 May 2014 • VC Maurer
Spring has FINALLY sprung here in New York City & so has movie season. Fresh off the success of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the film scene here in New York is booming! From the rebellious director Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and James Franco’s Palo Alto to the biographical documentary of Roger Ebert- be sure to check out FAD’s top 5 for this spring/summer season
NYC OPENING: Kan Yasuda’s First US exhibition at Eykyn Maclean, opening May 6- June 27th 2014
28 April 2014 • VC Maurer
Working in an abstract vocabulary of smooth surfaces and sensually rounded forms with antecedents in the sculpture of Brancusi and Arp, Yasuda’s sculpture possesses the meditative stillness and tranquillity that may call to mind eastern philosophy or religion, but for Yasuda it is the ability of art to connect with mankind in general that motivates his practice.
DON’T MISS : ‘Seven/Video’ opening May 2nd- 11th @ The Boiler /Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC
25 April 2014 • VC Maurer
Launched in 2010 by seven galleries from New York and London, including: Momenta, David Castillo, bitforms, Pierogi, Postmasters, P•P•O•W, and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. SEVEN is a unique initiative committed to presenting artworks on their own terms and providing an intimate, personal way to engage the viewer.
REVIEW: John Gordon Gauld’s Third Solo Exhibition ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ @Salomon Contemporary
22 April 2014 • VC Maurer
Installation shot How does one begin to capture what it feels like to sail directly into the ambiguous, guided only… Read More
VIDEO: Ai Weiwei stars in secret crowdfunded sci-fi flick
17 April 2014 • VC Maurer
Sand Storm by filmmaker Jason Wishnow, imagines a not-so distant apocalyptic future, with Ai WeiWei starring as a water smuggler in a world where water is scarce. The short film was made in China over the course of the year, all while trying to keep the production under wraps and away from the attention of government officials.