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Michael Brown / Installation view / Mike Weiss Gallery / 2013
In past installations, Brown presented banal household objects made from melted pop vintage vinyls by the likes of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, as well as a Coney Island scene strewn with stainless steel lawn chairs and crushed beer cans. Addressing the socioeconomic challenges rooted in his own New York geography, these exhibitions brought to light cultural norms, modes of production, and populations now displaced, while tapping into a broader analysis of environmental impact. Now, in his newest body of work, Brown presents a collection of skeletal sculptures and three-dimensional wall-mounted tableaux that bring together the same minimalist aesthetics and formal qualities of design, refined in form but ostensibly didactic.
Michael Brown / prototype III / 2013/ Graphite, ink, copper and steel on paper / 43.5 x 49 x 1.5 inches
In prototype I, Brown's perspective play pits common experience and collective memory against personal histories. Sourced from national park archives and executed to near photographic perfection, its graphite and ink sketchwork recalls the entrancing, textural paintings of Vija Celmins, rendering vast, untamed expanses of terrain. Inlaid with the same bulbous, dome-like sculptural forms found throughout the gallery space, the work envisions massive structures built into the landscape and recalls the synergetic work of Buckminster Fuller, perhaps embodying its own never-realized blueprint. As the receding horizons of mountain ranges, rolling plains, and tumultuous oceans push and pull away from their sculptural counterparts, Brown explores notions of space, zooming in and out on our past, present, and future.Michael Brown / Installation view / Mike Weiss Gallery / 2013In model for cell skeleton we encounter mechanomorphic, seemingly utilitarian forms that recall dwellings or primitive instruments, reminiscent of the architectural designs of Martin Puryear, or antiquated navigational instruments - compasses, sundials, and charts that stir our intrinsic desire to claim territory and orient ourselves. Reintroducing a sense of organic chaos found in nature, we find steel rods bursting from a single point, weaving through space, and scaling the human body - tenuous, malleable materials seemingly in the midst of transformation, like a cell moving through mitosis. Brown reminds us that what is manmade borrows its shape from the most basic forms of life, transcending his minimalist predecessors with a palpable human aspect. In an homage to simpler times, Brown poses questions of shifting cultural paradigms, forgotten histories, and their social impact.Michael Brown / prototype VI / 2013 / Graphite, ink, copper and steel on paper / 47.5 x 71.4 x 1.5 inches
While Brown's sculptures are distilled and geometric, they are not austere. Warm and dignified through their heavy patinas and familiar framework, their configurations take on utopian idealism, akin to ancient shrines or euphoric stained glass windows. There is a cycle of artifice versus nature triumphantly in reverse, like abandoned buildings reclaimed by nature. They are simple yet complex, motionless yet dynamic, ephemeral yet resilient; a fusion of seemingly disparate materials which optimistically find symbiosis.
Michael Brown / Installation view/ Mike Weiss Gallery / 2013Michael Brown (b. 1982; Poughkeepsie, NY) lives and works in Long Island, New York. He received his BFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2006 and was quickly inducted into the forefront of the contemporary art scene at the age of 25, showing alongside the likes of Rachel Whiteread, Walid Raad, and Adel Abdessemed. Between solo shows at Yvon Lambert and group shows with Zwirner & Wirth, his work has been reviewed to critical acclaim by heavy-hitters such as The New York Times and Artforum. His work is included in both public and private collections around the world, including The Beth Rudin deWoody Permanent Collection in New York, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, NY, the Rennie Collection in Vancouver, Canada, the collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin in New York, and The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation in Jersey City.for questions or more information, please contact Lauren Licata at lauren@mikeweissgallery.comor (212) 691-6899.
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Fine Art Magazine | Hamptons International Film Festival World Premiere of MisFire: The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery
Fine Art Magazine | Hamptons International Film Festival World Premiere of MisFire: The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery
Fine Art Magazine
October 8, 2013
October 8, 2013
Jamie Ellin Forbes
Fine Art Magazine caught up in a recent phone interview with Whitney Ransick, director and co producer of Misfire: The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery. Ransick offered a fascinating history, a glimpse in to his unbiased, detailed documentary reportage. The filmmaker describes the inception of The Shooting Galley and how all involved rode the wave within the indie film industry to notoriety, which finally ends in the fiscal collapse of the production house. A fate other Indie film houses share Ransick states in general over time. It is the unabashed truth, innovative energy, and stellar changes in movie making for all moviegoers that makes the MISFIRE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SHOOTING GALLERY a must see film.
Whitney Ransick interviewing Jason Kliot (Open City)
Premiering at the Hampton’s International Film Festival Saturday Oct. 12, East Hampton NY, the feature length documentary, The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery, Ransick dialogues with passion and purpose, the voice of The Shooting Gallery community. He documents the cohesive evolution of this iconic facility, originally more of a communal experiment experience, as it is transformed into a multi million-dollar factory over time. Ransick notes the extensive projects developed at The Shooting Gallery along the way. It was astounding to understand the breadth and depth of The Shooting Gallery, a chiseled profile as an indie leader, fueled initially by collective creativity, as Ransick relays the story.
Mr. Ransick, with co producers Gil Gilbert and Bob Gosse in Misfire: The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery worked in tandem to weave a complex montage. The Film’s extensively edited insights touch universally on the creative tech revolution of the 1990’s through 2001.
Listen to Fine Art Magazine’s Jamie Ellin Forbes as she interviews Whitney Ransick, director and co producer of Misfire: The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery
| Director | Whitney Ransick Producer | Whitney Ransick, Gil Gilbert, Bob Gosse Synopsis | MISFIRE: The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery, is a documentary about the independent film company that rose to the top of the 90s film scene before financial risk-taking caused its spectacular crash. A universal story of young men with dreams who achieve too much success, it is the “Enron of independent films”. | SCREENING AT HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Saturday, October 12 | 2:15PM | UA East Hampton Theater 3
ROWDY TALK AT HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, October 13 | 10:00AM | Rowdy Hall |
In noted interviews, published articles, and photographs with Bob Gosse, Edie Falco, Ed Burns, and Ransick among others, “Misfire,” describes with great passion this indie film house meteoric rise up and eventual implosion.
The Shooting Gallery revolutionized the start up of the “indie film” movement. The production tenure arc roughly ran from, Sex, Lies and Video Tape 1989, (James Spader & Andie MacDowell)
Producer/DP: Gil Gilbert, Director: Whitney Ransick, and Producer: Bob Gosse.
Director/Producer :Whitney Ransick, DP : Derek Weisehahn
and later galvanizing success with Sling Blade, 1996 (Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, and John Ritter).
Film manufacturing ends in 2001. Within the burgeoning indie film industry The Shooting Gallery acted as an evolutionary catalyst, salted with improvisation and creative initiative. Misfire: The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery lends a voice to this iconic indie film house that revolutionized the times. Film aficionados, and all those who just want to be in the know, catch it when you can.
-Jamie Ellin Forbes
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Participatory City 100: Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013
10 am–noon Light Breakfast 10:30 am Remarks 10:45 am A Conversation about Urban Trends and Ideas with BMW Guggenheim Lab CuratorMaria Nicanor, BMW Guggenheim Lab Advisor Nicholas Humphrey, and New York Lab Team member Charles Montgomery 11 am–noon Exhibition Viewing
Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab
October 11, 2013–January 5, 2014
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th St)
New York City
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Running From Crazy
From Academy Award Winning Director Barbara Kopple and Executive Producer Oprah WinfreyRUNNING FROM CRAZYScreenings:Thursday, October 10, 4:30 p.m. – Regal East Hampton Cinema UA 2, East Hampton, NYFriday, October 11, 11:15 a.m. – Regal East Hampton Cinema UA 5, East Hampton, NYThe following filmmaker will be available for interviews:Barbara Kopple (Two Time Academy Award Winning Director)Running Time:100 Minutes Produced and Directed By: Barbara KoppleProduced By:David Cassidy Executive Producers: Erica Forstadt, Barbara Kopple and Lisa ErspamerExecutive Producer: Oprah WinfreyEdited By:Michael Culbya and Mona Davis Cast:M ariel Hemingway, Langley Hemingway, Dree Hemingway and Bobby Williams Twitter:@ RunningFromCrzy Rating:Not Rated Synopsis:Hailed as one of the most distinguished families in American literature, the Hemingways have always exposed both their bright brilliance and their harrowing secrets. Two-Time Academy Award winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple's newest documentary focuses on Mariel Hemingway, a granddaughter of the legendary writer Ernest, as she explores her family's disturbing history of mental illness and suicide. As a youngster, Mariel followed her supermodel sister, Margaux, into the acting world. Critics immediately praised Mariel’s natural talent, which created a deep rift between the sisters.
Kopple's bold portrait of the Hemingways intertwines haunting archival footage from Margaux's personal family documentary with scenes from Mariel’s life today as she advocates for suicide prevention and strives to live a rigorously healthy lifestyle to combat what appears to be her birthright. Mariel’s courageous journey of acceptance and introspection allows her to view her family and turbulent upbringing through new eyes and, for the first time, accept them with a peaceful heart.All the best,Lee
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Herman's House
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Dear Friends,
It is with tremendous sadness that we must inform you that only three days after being released from prison, Herman Wallace has passed away this morning from liver cancer. We thought to share with you the entire text of the enewsletter which the Angola 3 Campaign sent out a short while ago with this news.
This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest personality in the political prisoner world. It is with great sadness that we write with the news of Herman Wallace's passing.
Herman never did anything half way. He embraced his many quests and adventures in life with a tenacious gusto and fearless determination that will absolutely never be rivaled. He was exceptionally loyal and loving to those he considered friends, and always went out of his way to stand up for those causes and individuals in need of a strong voice or fierce advocate, no matter the consequences.
Anyone lucky enough to have spent any time with Herman knows that his indomitable spirit will live on through his work and the example he left behind. May each of us aspire to be as dedicated to something as Herman was to life, and to justice.
Below is a short obituary/press statement for those who didn't know him well in case you wish to circulate something. Tributes from those who were closest to Herman and more information on how to help preserve his legacy by keeping his struggle alive will soon follow.
On October 4th, 2013, Herman Wallace, an icon of the modern prison reform movement and an innocent man, died a free man after spending an unimaginable 41 years in solitary confinement.
Herman spent the last four decades of his life fighting against all that is unjust in the criminal justice system, making international the inhuman plight that is long term solitary confinement, and struggling to prove that he was an innocent man.
Just 3 days before his passing, he succeeded, his conviction was overturned, and he was released to spend his final hours surrounded by loved ones. Despite his brief moments of freedom, his case will now forever serve as a tragic example that justice delayed is justice denied.
Herman Wallace's early life in New Orleans during the heyday of an unforgiving and unjust Jim Crow south often found him on the wrong side of the law and eventually he was sent to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for armed robbery. While there, he was introduced to the Black Panther's powerful message of self determination and collective community action and quickly became one of its most persuasive and ardent practitioners.
Not long after he began to organize hunger and work strikes to protest the continued segregation, endemic corruption, and horrific abuse rampant at the prison, he and his fellow panther comrades Albert Woodfox and Robert King were charged with murders they did not commit and thrown in solitary.
Robert was released in 2001 after 29 years in solitary but Herman remained there for an unprecedented 41 years, and Albert is still in a 6x9 solitary cell.
Herman's criminal case ended with his passing, but his legacy will live on through a civil lawsuit he filed jointly with Robert and Albert that seeks to define and abolish long term solitary confinement as cruel and unusual punishment, and through his comrade Albert Woodfox's still active and promising bid for freedom from the wrongful conviction they both shared.
Herman was only 9 days shy of 72 years old.
Services will be held in New Orleans. The date and location will be forthcoming.
For more information visit www.angola3.org and http://angola3news.blogspot.com/.
More information may also be accessed from these sources:
Democracy Now
Amnesty International
Times Picayune Greater New Orleans
Rest In Power Herman Wallace,
Angad, Lisa and the Herman's House Team
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