I have yet to outgrow my childhood animism; I am sure that various inanimate objects have lives of their own in an alternate universe, or just when we’re not at home. This is especially true of chairs, stuffed animals and books. Painting these things is like putting on special glasses that allow me to see them “alive” even in daylight.

When I look at a shelf of books I see huge clouds of ideas stuffed down into humble packages. We people like to show off our books on shelves like merit badges, because we’re proud of the ideas we’ve ingested to make us who we are, and want to display our insides for others to see, hoping to make a connection or impression. I think this is endearing and charming, and also makes me feel a bit sad for us. And yet when I paint someone else’s bookshelf and they have some of the same books I do, I feel inordinately joyful about it, and about them.

On view at AG Gallery for the early Spring will be the work of four artists whose works are inspired by natures surrounding us and we would like to give our friends and neighbors the hint of spring breeze bit earlier.

Chris Carter | Aprile Elcich | Maria Montiel | Sasha Prood

Chris Carter has a long career as an artist and is actively creating many projects related to art and people. She lives and works in Califon, NJ. Her art spans from realism to the totally abstract, from illustration and architectural renderings to expanses of color fields. Her diversity includes the media in which she works as well as the sources of inspiration for her paintings, music, dance, mythology, textures and patterns. The common thread is her expression of movement through space, of the moment before as well as the moment yet to come.

Aprile Elcich is a graphic designer and collage artist from Toronto, Ontario. Aprile is forever grateful that she gets to create for a living. She has exhibited her collage works in Toronto and New York, and has been published in Cutting Edges, Kolaj, and How Magazine. She is also the founder of the well-loved collage blog Notpaper.

Maria Montiel is an artist/graphic designer specialized in textile design, with several years of experience in the field and with clients originating from Venezuela, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, among others. Originally from Venezuela, the study of Maria stands at Madrid, but she acknowledges that much of her influence comes from Latin American with it’s vivid colors and organic textures. However, the Iberian metropolis also defines some sight with experimental organized chaos and neon signs. Maria, comes from a home where art and architecture were a constant stimulus and now translate into a fresh and vibrant work of varied influences, where shapes and natural colors are bi-dimensional conception.

Sasha Prood grew up just outside of Philadelphia, PA and trained at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design, St. Gallen, Switzerland’s Schule fur Gestaltung and Cooper Union’s typeface design certificate program, Type@Cooper. She is a full-time freelance designer, illustrator and artist who currently resides in Brooklyn, NY filled to the brim with plants. Sasha creates hand lettering, illustrations, patterns and graphics using pencil, pen and watercolor with the computer. Thematically, her work leans toward the organic, natural and scientific with vintage, utilitarian and childhood influences. Animals, vegetables and minerals of all kinds are commonly found in Sasha’s illustrations, creating everything from logos to posters to apparel graphics.

Opening reception will be held on Friday, February 8, 6-9pm.

AG Gallery/About Glamour is open seven days a week, from 12pm to 8pm. For more information and press photographs please contact Chiharu Aizawa at chiharu{at}aboutglamour{dot}net or (718) 599-3044.

NURTUREart is pleased to present a solo exhibition by artist Siobhan McBride: Never While You’re Sleeping... . McBride’s paintings expose a visual code of tangible fragments and delusions that kindle slippery and mercurial memories. Rooms, furniture, and landscapes feel familiar and strange, creating places you might end up if you had no particular destination in mind. Through scenes that are quotidian and mundane in nature, a non-linear story emerges.

The paintings feel cordoned off, with sound tamped out, and although there is stillness, McBride’s compositions threaten to shift and collapse, elements tenuously and momentarily clinging together. There is a sense of distraction, a glance into a terrarium, a particular incidence of leaf litter, sunlight, and static. Here and there, surgical incisions delineate clear, taped off shapes that feel like they have been transplanted into the painting or could peel away, leaving a hole in the reality of the image, infusing the most topically docile with a sense of unease and anxiety.

McBride's work tells elusive stories, fables without discernible lessons. The paintings are, in the artist's words, "...simultaneously, diagrams for understanding events from the past, and puzzles to decode experiences not yet had." All elements, objects, spaces, passages of paint have an awareness, and act as characters, each with intention and temperament. Every frozen view is a tableau vivant, everything has the potential to influence anything else, even emptiness. These competing intentions, agendas, factors of attraction and repulsion, create tension, a quiet and communal knowing. They remind us of the potential for things to be hidden in plain sight, that the painted image is very much alive and infinitely multiplying.

Your Future Begins Here

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The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest province. It came under Chinese rule in 1949. With few exceptions, artists and foreign researchers have been denied meaningful access to the rural areas in Xinjiang. Ross's close working relationships with a Uyghur anthropologist and a French historian focusing on Central Asian Islam have guided her more than eight-year exploration in the region. The extensive body of work from which this exhibition draws is rare in that it captures a time and place that is rapidly modernizing and transforming, as Xinjiang is now China’s largest source of untapped natural gas, oil, and minerals.

Ross’s work broadens our understanding of an understudied region at one of the world’s greatest cultural crossroads. At the same time, the conceptual and aesthetic dimensions of Ross’s photographs speak to the visual beauty, visceral ardency, and sacred gravity of these sites. The depth of Ross’s work will be enhanced by a book, Living Shrines of Uyghur China, to be released by Monacelli Press at the time the exhibition opens.

The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction.

Included in the exhibition are twelve recent monumental wall and floor sculptures, widely considered to represent the apex of Anatsui’s career. The metal wall works, created with bottle caps from a distillery in Nsukka, are pieced together to form colorful, textured hangings that take on radically new shapes with each installation. Anatsui is captivated by his materials’ history of use, reflecting his own nomadic background. Gravity and Grace responds to a long history of innovations in abstract art and performance, building upon cross-cultural exchange among Africa, Europe, and the Americas and presenting works in a wholly new, African medium.

Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui is organized by the Akron Art Museum and made possible by a major grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Brooklyn presentation is organized by Kevin Dumouchelle, Associate Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands, Brooklyn Museum.

NOoSPHERE Arts, an artist-run, nonprofit exhibition and performance venue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is proud to present EAT,an ongoing interactive performance by Kurt Johannessen, a pioneer in the field of Norwegian performance art.

Audun Eckhoff, Director of The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, writes: “As symbolic action, performance art – already in its expressive form – carries clear associations with rites and cultic practices. For many performance artists, the shaman stands as a cultural prototype: he is the initiated figure who performs cultic acts, the chosen medium between a god and its followers. Marina Abramovic’s many physically challenging actions can easily be associated with this tradition, in which the artistic performance appropriates features from propitiatory sacrifices. Joseph Beuys’ performances have also been characterized as rites, but on a transformed plane permeated with symbols. (…)

As artistic form, Kurt Johannessen’s performances contain clear minimalist elements, for there is a repetition of forms, actions, and geometrical and symmetrical structures. As historical form, Minimalism appeared in American art in the early 1960s, as a reaction against expressive art, the sort that claimed for itself intense or uniquely meaningful content. Yet Minimalism proved to be a useful tool for subsequent generations, not only as a means for reducing meaning and symbolic content, but also as a carrier of meaning and a tool for constructing new meaning. Through subdued and repetitive forms, minimalist strategies could help to establish a new credibility, on account of their reduced presumptuousness.” 

Viridian Artists’ 3^rd International Juried Photography Competition
Nat Trotman, Curator, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum

February 5 – February 23, 2013

Opening reception Saturday, February 9th, 4:00 – 7:00 pm

First Prize: Roger Generazzo  Second Prize: Jordan Sibley  Third Prize: Mark Dorf
Honorable Mentions:  Jodi Lynn Concepcion, Klaus Knoll, DeeDee Maguire 

Danielle Austen*Zel Brook*Jodi Lynn Concepcion*Manuel Cosentino*Lindsay  D’Addato*
Lauren Dishinger *John Eaton*Taylor Firestein*Roger Generazzo*Aimee Hertog*
Matthew Kaelin*Klaus Knoll*Jennifer Lin*Misha Macaw*Timothy Macy*DeeDee Maguire*
Mark Dorf*Freja Mitchell*Robert Moran*Ida Roden*Noah Rabinowitz*Chip Rutan*
*Jordan Sibley *Stafford Smith*Judith Stuart

Chelsea: Viridian Artists Inc. is pleased to present their 3rd International Juried Photography Exhibition. Curated by Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, Guggenheim Museum, New York. The exhibition opens February 5^th and continues throughFebruary 23rd, 2013. In celebration, a special reception will be held on Saturday,February 9th, 4:00-7:00pm.

This exhibition is a diverse gathering of twenty-five photographers from the United States and abroad. They share a common interest in capturing a specific moment and situation using the photographic image as a starting point with a variety of ending goals.  First, second & third prize winners are Roger Generazzo, Jordan Sibley and Mark Dorf.

Viridian Artist, Robert Mielenhausen, chair of the committee that organizes the Juried Photographic Competition at Viridian, invited Nat Trotman to serve as the Curator for Viridian Artists third annual competition. Trotman joined the curatorial staff of the Guggenheim in 2001 as curatorial assistant and holds an M.Phil. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he focused on performance, photography, and time-based art. In his role as Curator of the photography competition at Viridian Artists, he spent many long hours viewing over 500 images sent to Viridian from around the world.

In his curatorial statement, Trotman states: “Whether through their stylistic refinement, conceptual clarity, emotional power, or sheer beauty, these images offer a brilliant glimpse of what photography has to offer today”.

As part of Viridian’s mission is to give exposure to outstanding under-known artists, the gallery’s director, Vernita Nemec, selected the images of thirty-one photographers to be shown in an ongoing Power Point presentation during the exhibition. She states: “the multiplicity of creative expression in photography today is staggering – being uniquely creative in today’s digital & virtual worlds is no easy feat.”

“Director’s Choice” Winners include:

Geoffrey Agrons*Juliette Argent*Danielle Austen*Robin Becker*James Bell*Deborah Cahn* E.M. Castonguay*Virginia T Coleman*Gregory Colvin*Jodi Concepcion*Pierre Cook*Mark Dorf* Megan Douglas*Miska Draskoczy*John Eaton*Taylor Firestein*Cynthia Fleury*Erika Gagnon Miranda Gatewood*Roger Generazzo* Barbara Habenstreit* Flora Hogman* Jennifer Lin * Robert Moran*Marc Newton*Noah Rabinowitz* Jane Rothman* Mark Savoia * Jeanette Serrat Priscilla Smith*Denise Tarantino

Gallery hours: Tuesday through  Saturday 12- 6 PM

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 orviridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com

 Viridian Artists' 3^rd International Juried Photography Competition

Nat Trotman, Curator, Soloman R Guggenheim Museum

February 5 - February 23, 2013

Opening reception Saturday, February 9th, 4:00 - 7:00 pm

Danielle Austen*Zel Brook*Jodi Concepcion*Manuel Cosentino*Lindsay  D’Addato*

Lauren Dishinger *John Eaton*Taylor Firestein*Roger Generazzo*Aimee Hertog*

Matthew Kaelin*Klaus Knoll*Jennifer Lin*Misha Macaw*Timothy Macy*DeeDee Maguire*

Mark Dorf*Freja Mitchell*Robert Moran*Ida Roden*Noah Rabinowitz*Chip Rutan*Jordan Sibley *Stafford Smith*Judith Stuart

Chelsea: Viridian Artists Inc. is pleased to present their 3rd International Juried Photography Exhibition. Curated by Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, Guggenheim Museum, New York. The exhibition opens February 5^thand continues through February 23rd, 2013. In celebration, a special reception will be held on Saturday, February 9th, 4:00-7:00pm.

This exhibition is a diverse gathering of twenty-five photographers from the United States and abroad. They share a common interest in capturing a specific moment and situation using the photographic image as a starting point with a variety of ending goals.  First, second & third prize winners are Roger Generazzo, Jordan Sibley and Mark Dorf.

Viridian Artist, Robert Mielenhausen, chair of the committee that organizes the Juried Photographic Competition at Viridian, invited Nat Trotman to serve as the Curator for Viridian Artists third annual competition. Trotman joined the curatorial staff of the Guggenheim in 2001 as curatorial assistantand holds an M.Phil. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he focused on performance, photography, and time-based art. In his role as Curator of the photography competition at Viridian Artists, he spent many long hours viewing over 500 images sent to Viridian from around the world. 

In his curatorial statement, Trotman states: “Whether through their stylistic refinement, conceptual clarity, emotional power, or sheer beauty, these images offer a brilliant glimpse of what photography has to offer today”.

As part of Viridian’s mission is to give exposure to outstanding under-known artists, the gallery’s director, Vernita Nemec, selected the images of thirty-one photographers to be shown in an ongoing Power Point presentation during the exhibition. She states: "the multiplicity of creative expression in photography today is staggering – being uniquely creative in today’s digital & virtual worlds is no easy feat."“Director’s Choice” Winners include:

Geoffrey Agrons*Juliette Argent*Danielle Austen*Robin Becker*James Bell*Deborah Cahn* E.M. Castonguay*Virginia Coleman*Gregory Colvin*Jodi Concepcion*Pierre Cook*Mark Dorf* Megan Douglas*Miska Draskoczy*John Eaton*Taylor Firestein*Cynthia Fleury*Erika Gagnon Miranda Gatewood*Roger Generazzo* Barbara Habenstreit* Flora Hogman* Jennifer Lin * Robert Moran*Marc Newton*Noah Rabinowitz* Jane Rothman* Mark Savoia * Jeanette Serrat Priscilla Smith*Denise Tarantino

Gallery hours: Tuesday through  Saturday 12- 6 PM

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com

Ward-Nasse Gallery is pleased to present “Head Candies”, a new art series by Anthony James Coffey. The solo art show, self-described as “Pleasure for the Art Snob in You!” will include artworks from 2001-2012 ranging in various sizes, will be on display from February 5, 2013 through February 28, 2013.

In the “Head Candies” series, Anthony composes a vivid recipe of the visual excesses of today's world of TV, Internet and Print -- including, money, figures, landscapes, cars, and subway maps - with transparent layers of colors, creating a powerful imprint in the viewer’s mind. As an inventive exploration of popular imagery, “Head Candies” are a pure chaotic, random process of composition and color that invokes and inspires.

The opening reception for “Head Candies: Pleasure For the Art Snob in You!” will take place on Saturday, February 9, 2013 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. at Ward-Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012. The artist will be present.

About the Artist: 
Anthony J. Coffey, a New York City professional artist, was born in 1967 in Boone, North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston, a Bachelor of Science from Appalachian State University and also completed an Art Foundation Program from the Cardiff School of Art, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. He is represented by Green Tara Group, LLC.

About Ward-Nasse Gallery: 
Ward-Nasse Gallery, founded by Harry Nasse, has been a respected landmark in SoHo, and a place of opportunity for artists for over 40 years. The gallery first opened in Boston during the early sixties. It subsequently moved to New York City in 1970, where it continues to be dedicated to all artists at various stages of their careers. As an alternative space, attendance to the gallery's 2,000 ft. first-floor space has risen over the years to its current 15,000 visitors annually. All modes of contemporary art are exhibited, from traditionally executed works to more experimental art forms. Artists from across the country share walls with artists from Europe, Asia and South America.

Erma Martin Yost presents “Felted Fields,” hand-felted stitched constructions, as pictorial and poetic metaphors. Using felt as her canvas and thread as her paintbrush the magical mesh of fibers creates a language of symbolic images and archetypal forms. Some fields lie dormant where shadowy shapes shift mysteriously. Other fields burst with brilliant color and fertile life. In all of Yost’s work a strong sense of place and personal poetry emerge as she fuses her natural and inner worlds.

Felt, an ancient textile form, predates spinning and weaving by several thousand years. Nomadic peoples discovered felt when subjecting wool to heat and moisture, pounding it until it matted into a strong cohesive structure. They formed these densely packed fibers into durable objects ranging from the utilitarian to the religious, even constructing sturdy waterproof tents. Today felt is a favored medium for fiber artists and the commercial textile industry as wool is a versatile renewable resource.

This is Yost’s 19th solo exhibition at Noho Gallery. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design and was included in their “New Acquisitions” exhibit in 1995. In 2009 and 2012 Yost’s work was included in “Art of the State” at The State Museum of Pennsylvania. Also in 2009 Yost soloed at the Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters. Yost received New Jersey Council on the Arts fellowships in 1991 and 1999. Through the New Jersey Art Annual: Crafts exhibitions, her work has been exhibited in the Jersey City Museum, the Newark Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, the Hunterdon Museum, and the Morris Museum. Her work is included in twenty-one books, including “The Art Quilt Book” by Robert Shaw and “Object Lessons” published by GUILD, Inc. and juried by Michael Monroe, former curator of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. View Yost’s work at ermamartinyost.com

Erma Martin Yost presents “Felted Fields,” hand-felted stitched constructions, as pictorial and poetic metaphors. Using felt as her canvas and thread as her paintbrush the magical mesh of fibers creates a language of symbolic images and archetypal forms. Some fields lie dormant where shadowy shapes shift mysteriously. Other fields burst with brilliant color and fertile life. In all of Yost’s work a strong sense of place and personal poetry emerge as she fuses her natural and inner worlds.

Felt, an ancient textile form, predates spinning and weaving by several thousand years. Nomadic peoples discovered felt when subjecting wool to heat and moisture, pounding it until it matted into a strong cohesive structure. They formed these densely packed fibers into durable objects ranging from the utilitarian to the religious, even constructing sturdy waterproof tents. Today felt is a favored medium for fiber artists and the commercial textile industry as wool is a versatile renewable resource.

This is Yost’s 19th solo exhibition at Noho Gallery. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design and was included in their “New Acquisitions” exhibit in 1995. In 2009 and 2012 Yost’s work was included in “Art of the State” at The State Museum of Pennsylvania. Also in 2009 Yost soloed at the Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters. Yost received New Jersey Council on the Arts fellowships in 1991 and 1999. Through the New Jersey Art Annual: Crafts exhibitions, her work has been exhibited in the Jersey City Museum, the Newark Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, the Hunterdon Museum, and the Morris Museum. Her work is included in twenty-one books, including “The Art Quilt Book” by Robert Shaw and “Object Lessons” published by GUILD, Inc. and juried by Michael Monroe, former curator of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. View Yost’s work at ermamartinyost.com

In this group exhibit, GAS Gallery And Studio pays tribute to the photographic adage, "the best camera is always the one that you have with you."  The ubiquity of camera phones has allowed for the subsequent rise and evolution of aesthetic and artistic practices that celebrate the uniquely 'lo-fi' nature of camera phone images.  A common term used to describe this phenomenon is iPHONEOGRAPHY, defined as "the act or practice of snapping quick digital pictures and performing digital processing or sharing from within the mobile phone itself."(source: Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia)

Soft, fragile, playful, these images tease and blur the lines between innocence and knowing, between the daydreaming of young girls and the certain knowledge of women. Imagery as disparate as '60s Pop Art dresses and lush nature-worship echoing the Neo-Raphaelites come together; patterns intertwine and contradict as the seeming purity of childhood hides something more worldly, and a sophisticated gaze reveals, at second glance, something overwhelmed, unsure but curious: the ingenue as poetess, the creator as object d'art.

You're invited to an exciting, unusual Valentine's Eve soiree: On Feb. 13, come meet, mingle and converse with this show's artists at KGB Bar -- the famed East Village joint in the same building as the Kraine Gallery -- where the art-party goes on until midnight.

Match the artists with their work and discover in person what motivates them, what makes them tick: the fears, desires and drives, their reasons for creating and being alive. And yes, there's liquor, too.

- Gregory Levine

Bubi Canal  Special Moment

Opening Reception: Friday February 8 from 7-9 pm
Exhibition runs February 8 - March 10, 2013


New York, New York, January 22, 2013 – Munch Gallery is pleased to announce Bubi Canal’s solo exhibition ’Special Moment’.

It is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City. A recent transplant but already a native, Canal has exhibited widely in Europe and has since brought his unique vision stateside.

Munch Gallery presents several of Canal’s most recent photographs, as well as select objects and video work, highlighting the singleminded focus of his aesthetic over a range of media. His photographs are exercises in saturated color and geometric form, a glimpse of a fantastical reality populated by benevolent monsters, playful mashups of human, animal and muppet. His creations are simultaneously plastic pre-fab and meticulously handmade, eerie and familiar, a fever dream from childhood.

‘Chrystelle’, Canal’s video is set against the striking natural landscape of his native Santander, his main character’s slick, vivid costuming surprisingly resonant with the vibrant elemental surroundings. At once alien and native, much like the artist himself, his work mimics life and his life is his work. He puts it best himself: “I like to create a new reality that remains connected with my life. I like opening doors onto the unknown and building something new.”


Born in Santander, Spain, Canal studied in Bilbao and worked in Madrid for several years before coming to New York in 2011. Canal is the physical embodiment of his work – magic in its purest form. His visual references range from the angular patterned sweaters and nostalgic toys of the 1980s to his icon, Michael Jackson. Canal mines his own experience, dreams, and pop culture for content and works primarily with those closest to him, not models or actors; an interior playland within an insular world.

Stina Puotinen/JAN 2013

Able Fine Art NY Gallery is pleased to present the works of Ryu, Young-Shin. As a contemporary Korean artist with a graduate degree in the Department of Western Painting, Ryu, creates a vibrant visual language that expresses the life that resides within humans and the link and bond we have to nature’s exuberant existence. Ryu’s paintings visually concentrate on the patterns and forms of trees and establish a connection and harmony between the viewer and nature. Ryu’s inspiration derives from the way humans respond to the world around them with impulse and movement. Her desire as an artist is to create artwork that functions to vitalize experience and expression by captivating attention and drawing the viewer in. 

Leung Chi Wo is a Hong Kong-based artist and was an ISCP resident in 1999. His multi-disciplinary artistic practice ranges from photography and video to text, performance and installation, and focuses on perception and understanding in communication within the urban context.

The exhibition Jonathan & Muragishi intends to recall the voice of the past in the present through the stories of two actual but fictionalized characters Jonathan Napack and Hiroaki Muragishi. They were two interviewees from an earlier project, Domestica Invisibile (2004-present), an exploration of psychological response and physical adaptation to often pre-defined and cramped domestic spaces in urban Hong Kong. Jonathan was a mid-career American arts writer, who witnessed the development of the Asian contemporary art scene, and Muragishi was a young Japanese multi-media artist from Sapporo, Japan.

In their interviews, they both spoke of their small apartments in Hong Kong and how they re-invented or re-purposed these tiny living environments. These interviews will be transmitted throughout the gallery in furniture and other domestic objects, invoking some of the spaces described by Jonathan and Muragishi.

Leung Chi Wo (born 1968, Hong Kong) graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2001, his site-specific project was exhibited in the first Hong Kong pavilion of the Venice Biennale. His recent exhibitions include the Busan Biennale (2006), Guangzhou Triennial (2008), “Lights Out” at Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo (2008), “Depot of Disappearance” at quartier21/MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (2009) and “No Soul For Sale” at Tate Modern, London (2010). Leung Chi Wo co-founded Para/Site Art Space in 1996.

Centering on the year 1993, the exhibition is conceived as a time capsule, an experiment in collective memory that attempts to capture a specific moment at the intersection of art, pop culture, and politics.

The social and economic landscape of the early ’90s was a cultural turning point both nationally and globally. Conflict in Europe, attempts at peace in the Middle East, the AIDS crisis, national debates on health care, gun control, and gay rights, and caustic partisan politics served as both the background and source material for a number of younger artists who first came to prominence in 1993. At the same time, an increasingly active international network of artists, curators, and dealers contributed to a burgeoning global art world, amplified by the nascent tools of digital information. Twenty years later, it is time to reconsider the events, debates, and histories that prompted dramatic changes in art and culture. The Clinton inauguration, the first World Trade Center bombing, the Waco siege, and the March on Washington for Gay, Lesbian, and Bi Rights and Liberation, and other flash point events all shaped new discussions about social progress and political action. With this backdrop, young artists from New York made their mark in major international exhibitions and artists from Los Angeles, Britain, Italy, and Germany debuted in New York and provided a new texture to an already dynamic scene.

“NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” draws its subtitle from the eponymous album that the New York rock band Sonic Youth recorded in 1993 and captures the complex exchange between mainstream and underground culture across disciplines, which came to define the art of the era. The New Museum’s exhibition will include a number of historical reconstructions of important installations and exhibitions from 1993, while other works will be revisited and reinterpreted from the vantage point of today—highlighting the ways in which certain actions, events, attitudes, and emotions reverberate towards the present. These works will sketch out the complex intersection between art and the world at large that defined the 1990s and continues to shape artistic expression today.

The exhibition will span all five gallery floors of the New Museum and will also feature an installation of Nari Ward’s iconic work Amazing Grace in the Museum’s Studio 231 space (January 16–April 21, 2013). The project was originally realized in 1993 in an abandoned fire station in Harlem. The exhibition will also feature reconstructions of major works by Félix Gonzaléz-Torres, Jason Rhoades, and other artists. Works by artists including Gabriel Orozco, Byron Kim, and Julia Scher, among others connect back to the New Museum’s own exhibition history and address issues like globalism, new technology, and identity politics prevalent at the time. Other artists presented include: Ida Applebroog, Art Club 2000, Alex Bag, Matthew Barney, Kathe Burkhart, John Currin, Coco Fusco, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Félix González-Torres, Ann Hamilton, David Hammons, On Kawara, Byron Kim, Alix Lambert, Sean Landers, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Suzanne McClelland, Gabriel Orozco, Pepón Osorio, Elizabeth Peyton, Steven Pippin, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Julia Scher, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Rudolf Stingel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nari Ward, Hannah Wilke, Jack Whitten, and several others.

The exhibition will include a fully illustrated catalogue with key historical texts and reflections by younger curators and writers on the impact of this pivotal moment in American culture.

Since the early 20th century, abstraction has been associated with so many artistic movements, from Suprematism and Constructivism to Abstract Expressionism and Op art, that it can no longer be defined by any one style or tradition. Indeed, abstraction exists now as a rich and varied trove of formal languages and ideas—an open source of inspiration that extends well beyond the boundaries of art. This exhibition focuses on the print medium, highlighting ways in which abstraction has played a generative role in works of the past decade. Featuring prints, artists’ books, and multiples from the Museum’s collection—by artists such as Cory Arcangel, Tauba Auerbach, Philippe Decrauzat, Liam Gillick, Wade Guyton, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, R. H. Quaytman, and Haegue Yang—Abstract Generation examines contemporary notions of abstraction through a range of contemporary practices.

Revered in his own time as a ‘monarch’ of painting, Piero della Francesca (1411/13–1492) is acknowledged today as a founding figure of the Italian Renaissance. In early 2013, The Frick Collection will present the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist. It brings together seven works by Piero della Francesca, including six panels from the Saint’ Agostino altarpiece — the largest number from this masterwork ever reassembled. They will be joined by the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Attendant Angels, his only intact altarpiece in this country. Piero della Francesca in America is organized by the Frick’s Andrew W. Mellon Fellow and guest curator Nathaniel Silver.