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Recently Opened:

“Circulation: Date, Place, Events”
 Takuma Nakahira

Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Ave., NYC (bt W24th & W25th St)

first solo show of Japanese photographer Takuma Nakahira in the United States. “Circulation: Date, Place, Events” was first exhibited in 1971 as part of the Seventh Paris Biennale. Each day, for seven consecutive days Nakahira photographed, developed and exhibited approximately one hundred photographs. The photographs are random glimpses from Nakahira’s daily activities in Paris, including strangers’ faces, produce stands, subway platforms, street posters and even his breakfast setting. Developing the photographs each night, Nakahira exhibited them without omission the following day. Once the walls of the exhibition space were crowded with photographs, the artist spread them onto the floor. The resulting project presented a limited reality dictated by guidelines of “date,” “place” and “events.” A selection of approximately 75 gelatin silver prints produced from the original 35mm black-and-white negatives will be on view. - July 12

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thru June 16:

“Day is Long”
 Erin Shirreff

Lisa Cooley Gallery, 107 Norfolk St., NYC

For the past few years, Shirreff has explored the effect of mediation on our experience of form. In works that draw together the mediums of photography, sculpture, and video, she has explored how the body responds to moments that are largely imagined, and the uncertainty at the root of knowing something that has transpired in a time or place other than our own. An extension of these interests, the new body of work on view in Day is Long both reflects and speaks to ideas of process. The photographs, sculptures, and videos allude to the daily labors of a studio— repetition, vestigial form, documentation, remnants, blunt material fact. But of interest to Shirreff are the broader ideas at play: the twin acts of making and un-making, the burden of permanence, and what remains of an object once it is gone. Taken together, the works in the exhibition speak to a more general anxiety about finding one’s place within our moment in time.

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Just Opened: “Happy Little Accidents” Coke Wisdom O’NealMixed Greens Gallery, 531 W26th St., NYCOn October 29, 2012, O’Neal’s Red Hook studio suffered total destruction from Superstorm Sandy. Tools, books, completed artwork, and unfinished pieces were ruined. And yet, as the floodwaters receded, a series of old family slides emerged reborn. Instead of accepting them as lost, O’Neal rescued the slide sheets to scan and print. Once-crisp images are now cloud-like watercolors, often with distinguishable central details preserved. Air bubbles result in a fish-eye effect recalling the colorfully foggy nature of nostalgia and O’Neal’s compulsion to save the past.  - thru April 20

Just Opened:

“Happy Little Accidents”
 Coke Wisdom O’Neal

Mixed Greens Gallery, 531 W26th St., NYC

On October 29, 2012, O’Neal’s Red Hook studio suffered total destruction from Superstorm Sandy. Tools, books, completed artwork, and unfinished pieces were ruined. And yet, as the floodwaters receded, a series of old family slides emerged reborn. Instead of accepting them as lost, O’Neal rescued the slide sheets to scan and print. Once-crisp images are now cloud-like watercolors, often with distinguishable central details preserved. Air bubbles result in a fish-eye effect recalling the colorfully foggy nature of nostalgia and O’Neal’s compulsion to save the past.  - thru April 20

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thru Feb 9: “The Whoas of Female Tragedy II” Jaimie WarrenThe Hole Gallery, 312 Bowery, NYCIn photographs that explore different female stereotypes from both art history and celebrity culture, distorted through the internet’s bizarre juxtapositions, disposable imagery and memes, this new body of work features the artist and her friends in roles as diverse as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Easy E, The Virgin Mary, Lana Del Rey or Picasso’s Demoiselles D’Avignon.

thru Feb 9:

“The Whoas of Female Tragedy II”
 Jaimie Warren

The Hole Gallery, 312 Bowery, NYC

In photographs that explore different female stereotypes from both art history and celebrity culture, distorted through the internet’s bizarre juxtapositions, disposable imagery and memes, this new body of work features the artist and her friends in roles as diverse as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Easy E, The Virgin Mary, Lana Del Rey or Picasso’s Demoiselles D’Avignon.

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Opens Tomorrow, Jan 11, 6-8p: “What is Yours is Mine” Doug Weathersby (Environmental Services)DODGEgallery, 15 Rivington St., NYCsculptures, photographs and an installation documenting the past six months of a major collaborative undertaking: a series of studio visits and exchanges with artists who have exhibited at DODGEgallery—Dave Cole, Taylor Davis, Darren Blackstone Foote, Sheila Gallagher, Eddie Martinez, Jason Middlebrook and Cordy Ryman. During each visit, Weathersby learned about the artist and their practice, photographically documented their spaces and collected scraps and discards from the studio. In return, he offered to perform a task that would be helpful to the artist he visited; be it delivering art or cleaning up their space. Regardless of what he was given, Weathersby abided by one rule: he must use everything that he recovered from each studio in What is Yours is Mine. Using this unwanted detritus, including components of failed art works, Weathersby composed bizarre sculptures, keeping in mind the nature of each artist’s practice as he worked. - thru Feb 17

Opens Tomorrow, Jan 11, 6-8p:

“What is Yours is Mine”
 Doug Weathersby (Environmental Services)

DODGEgallery, 15 Rivington St., NYC

sculptures, photographs and an installation documenting the past six months of a major collaborative undertaking: a series of studio visits and exchanges with artists who have exhibited at DODGEgallery—Dave Cole, Taylor Davis, Darren Blackstone Foote, Sheila Gallagher, Eddie Martinez, Jason Middlebrook and Cordy Ryman. During each visit, Weathersby learned about the artist and their practice, photographically documented their spaces and collected scraps and discards from the studio. In return, he offered to perform a task that would be helpful to the artist he visited; be it delivering art or cleaning up their space. Regardless of what he was given, Weathersby abided by one rule: he must use everything that he recovered from each studio in What is Yours is Mine. Using this unwanted detritus, including components of failed art works, Weathersby composed bizarre sculptures, keeping in mind the nature of each artist’s practice as he worked. - thru Feb 17

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Opens Sept 6th, 6-8p:“Family Construction” Tim RodaGasser & Grunert Gallery, 524 W19th St., NYCRoda creates contemporary mythological portraits that capture the jealousies, intimacies, emotional dramas and conflicts, enigma of femininity, and identity struggles inherent in family —and serves them up with all their beauty, brutality, hilarity, and over the top theatricality for our voyeuristic pleasure. The exhibit is an extension of Roda’s 2010 “Games of Antiquities” also at Gasser & Grunert. - thru Oct 13

Opens Sept 6th, 6-8p:

“Family Construction”
 Tim Roda

Gasser & Grunert Gallery, 524 W19th St., NYC

Roda creates contemporary mythological portraits that capture the jealousies, intimacies, emotional dramas and conflicts, enigma of femininity, and identity struggles inherent in family —and serves them up with all their beauty, brutality, hilarity, and over the top theatricality for our voyeuristic pleasure. The exhibit is an extension of Roda’s 2010 “Games of Antiquities” also at Gasser & Grunert. - thru Oct 13

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Opens Sept 9, Sunday 12-2p:”Beautiful Evidence” Thomas AllenFoley Gallery, 97 Allen St, NYC (new L.E.S. location)This exhibition is the gallery’s inaugural show in it’s new location (after 8 years in Chelsea, the gallery will re-open in NYC’s Lower East Side). Thomas Allen on Allen Street. Get it?Allen’s signature use of cutting and repurposing book illustrations has not vanished.  Instead of the pulp fiction genre, Allen plays with 50’s era versions of clean cut youths and domesticated moms. His unmistakable talent for creating the illusion of 3D in photography with his deft cuts and crimps, establishes a magical world in which a boy and girl play tag creating their own kind of electricity, a milkman makes a very special delivery in space, young toughs play marbles with the solar system and a mother busily sews her own version of “string theory.” - thru Oct 14

Opens Sept 9, Sunday 12-2p:

”Beautiful Evidence”
 Thomas Allen

Foley Gallery, 97 Allen St, NYC (new L.E.S. location)

This exhibition is the gallery’s inaugural show in it’s new location (after 8 years in Chelsea, the gallery will re-open in NYC’s Lower East Side). Thomas Allen on Allen Street. Get it?

Allen’s signature use of cutting and repurposing book illustrations has not vanished.  Instead of the pulp fiction genre, Allen plays with 50’s era versions of clean cut youths and domesticated moms. His unmistakable talent for creating the illusion of 3D in photography with his deft cuts and crimps, establishes a magical world in which a boy and girl play tag creating their own kind of electricity, a milkman makes a very special delivery in space, young toughs play marbles with the solar system and a mother busily sews her own version of “string theory.” - thru Oct 14

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thru Oct 8: Rineke Dijkstra: a retrospectiveGuggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, NYC (at 89th St.)this retrospective brings together more than 70 photographs and five videos in a major mid-career survey, offering the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date. Since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture.

thru Oct 8:

Rineke Dijkstra: a retrospective

Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, NYC (at 89th St.)

this retrospective brings together more than 70 photographs and five videos in a major mid-career survey, offering the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date. Since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture.

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Opens Tonight, June 27, 6-8p: Simryn Gill + Nicole CherubiniTracy Williams Gallery, 521 W23rd St., NYCFollowing Gill’s inclusion in dOCUMENTA (13) and in anticipation of the Australian Pavilion for the 2013 Venice Biennale, the gallery presents Gill’s monumental work “My Own Private Angkor” – a series of ninety black and white silver prints – which will be installed in its entirety. Installed in the front gallery, Cherubini’s floor-based sculptures explore the artist’s non-hierarchical interest in process, surface, form and material. - thru Aug 10

Opens Tonight, June 27, 6-8p:

Simryn Gill + Nicole Cherubini

Tracy Williams Gallery, 521 W23rd St., NYC

Following Gill’s inclusion in dOCUMENTA (13) and in anticipation of the Australian Pavilion for the 2013 Venice Biennale, the gallery presents Gill’s monumental work “My Own Private Angkor” – a series of ninety black and white silver prints – which will be installed in its entirety. Installed in the front gallery, Cherubini’s floor-based sculptures explore the artist’s non-hierarchical interest in process, surface, form and material. - thru Aug 10

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Opens Tonight, June 27, 6-8p: “What’s the Point?” curated by Jeffrey TeutonJen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring St., NYC (bt Elizabeth St. and Bowery)a group exhibition featuring geometrically themed assemblages, paintings, photographs and works on paper by 19 artists. - thru Aug 4

Opens Tonight, June 27, 6-8p:

“What’s the Point?”
 curated by Jeffrey Teuton

Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring St., NYC (bt Elizabeth St. and Bowery)

a group exhibition featuring geometrically themed assemblages, paintings, photographs and works on paper by 19 artists. - thru Aug 4

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