Showing posts with label The Bowery Gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Bowery Gallery. Show all posts

Thursday, March 14, 2024

The Bowery, KEVIN CHRISTY GHOST LADDER March 16–April 20, 2024



KEVIN CHRISTY
GHOST LADDER


March 16–April 20
, 2024

OPENING: Saturday, March 16th, from 6–8pm
86 Walker St, Tribeca

The Hole is pleased to present Ghost LadderKevin Christy’s second solo show with the gallery. 

With nineteen new oil paintings, Christy explores the human response to loss and the fleeting moments that often hold more meaning than we know. His compositions tell stories of action frozen in time with a healthy dose of wit and skepticism. Journalistic and reflective, they depict surrealist musings, haunting and humorous points of view and half-realized dreams of what could be.

"The images in the show represent a kind of visual time capsule of a moment not yet understood, but that I think will be looked back at as the tipping point before a fundamental shift in most of what we  think of as normal. But in the meantime most of society is still trying to grab hold of a ladder that’s not there. A “Ghost Ladder” essentially."

Exploring visual memory is a continuation of a yearslong practice for Christy: the absurdity of existence in our crumbling system, a societal decline. "Every form of information is harmful if you want to use it that way. The Truth is harmful. Lies are harmful. There are no parameters anymore. Everyone I know is freaked out. It's not even a specific age group.” 

While we all freak out, Christy seems sure. With his background as an actor and standup comedian he's got his lines down—or in this case, paintings. Each piece is succinct, both the direct one-liners and the more meandering story lines. The exhibition, too, has a beautifully clear and nuanced plot with the gallery set gladly in the 80s with shiny silver frames and pink walls. In Out of Town and A Room Full of Elephants we see the gleam of Ziggy Stardust and 80s album cover graphics across the canvas, the slight haze of iconic early Interview Magazine covers. A visual nostalgia accessible to those who weren't even there.

Kevin Christy (b. 1977) is a Los Angeles-based fine artist whose work has been exhibited at galleries in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles as well as Europe. He debuted at The Hole in 2021 with his New York solo Memories Are Weapons. Captivated by drawing from a young age, Christy refined his art practice at Pasadena Art Center College of Design. Christy is most well-known for his professional roles as an actor and stand-up comedian, two endeavors interwoven with his career as an artist. Christy’s work has been featured in publications such as The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Nylon and has an extensive interview with Ed Templeton in this month’s Juxtapoz. In addition to his media features, Christy has published an artist book under Cederteg Publishing titled, “Who’s Laughing Now.” 

312 Bowery, New York 10012
Wednesday - Sunday 12-7pm
(212) 466-1100 or poke@thehole.com

86 Walker Street, New York 10013
Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
(212) 343-3100 or poke@thehole.com

844 N La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles 90038
Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
(323) 297-3288 or poke@thehole.com
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Saturday, September 3, 2022

The Bowery, exhibits ANNE VIEUX MIRROR PROXIES September 6th - October 22nd, 2022


Anne Vieux
~reverie, 2022. Acrylic and ink on canvas, 63 x 55 inches, 160 x 140 cm


ANNE VIEUX
MIRROR PROXIES


September 6th - October 22nd, 2022

OPENING: Tuesday, September 6th from 6-8 pm at 86 Walker St.

 

The Hole is proud to announce our forthcoming exhibition of paintings and video by Anne Vieux: MIRROR PROXIES. 

For her second solo show with The Hole, Vieux extends and deepens the parameters of her practice, which centers on the longstanding artistic tradition of using tools wrong. She begins each large prismatic canvas by feeding holographic paper into a scanner, confounding the diodes in its CCD array. The resulting images are an explosion of refractions, which she reproduces through a rigorous layering of techniques, including hand-painting winding channels that mimic the effect of Photoshop's "heal" tool. Vieux’s new video work, which fills three walls of the rear gallery, uses animating software to bring movement to the digitally captured gestures that are the foundation of her painted works. 

Vieux is careful to alter her machine-generated images with the same logic and precision as the tech she deploys. It’s often impossible to tell which parts of her canvases are hand-rendered and which aren't, which are random and which are deliberate. And that is partially the point: from where we're sitting, at this hallucinatory junction of technology and human virtuosity, it doesn't really matter. 

This show comprises the artist's latest strategies for slowing the experience of the virtual while speeding up perception in painted space. It is a challenge, both to the flow of attention as mediated by our devices and to the way we’ve been trained to look at art. Distortions of light, distortions of time: in this body of work, each reveals a spectrum of possibilities.

Anne Vieux (b. 1985, East Lansing, MI) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute. Her recent shows with The Hole include Bio Tech (2021), Paper View (2019), Post Analog Studio (2019), and Command Field (2018). Other recent exhibitions include Phygital Reality(G Gallery, 2022), The Artist is Online (König Galerie, 2021), Tennis Elbow 73 (The Journal Gallery, 2021), and Unfamiliar Again (Newcomb Art Museum, 2017).


For information on available works please contact raymond@thehole.com

   

312 Bowery, New York 10012
Wednesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
(212) 466-1100

86 Walker Street, New York 10013
Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
(212) 343-3100


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Thursday, July 28, 2022

The Bowery LA, presents Top: film still from Pasiphäe, Witch Queen of Crete: A Glory Hole Origin Story, 2021. Courtesy of Ron Athey & Hermes Pittakos Above: detail of Apollo of Belvedere, 2022. Courtesy of Adam Parker Smith Gallery Weekend Los Angeles: RON ATHEY AND ADAM PARKER SMITH Thursday, July 28th from 5:30 - 8pm


Top: film still from Pasiphäe, Witch Queen of Crete: A Glory Hole Origin Story, 2021. Courtesy of Ron Athey & Hermes Pittakos
Above: detail of Apollo of Belvedere, 2022. Courtesy of Adam Parker Smith
 


Gallery Weekend Los Angeles:

 
RON ATHEY AND ADAM PARKER SMITH


Thursday, July 28th from 5:30 - 8pm

844 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles
 
For Gallery Weekend Los Angeles and in conjunction with Adam Parker Smith's ongoing exhibition, Crush, The Hole is proud to present a special screening of two short films by Ron Athey, the performance artist recognized as a founding father of the Cinema of Transgression movement of the 1980s. Gourmet French fries by Fried Out LA and draft beers by BRAMS Premium French Pilsner in our parking lot.


About the screening

Pasiphäe, Witch Queen of Crete: A Glory Hole Origin Story, Ron Athey with Hermes Pittakos. 9 minutes.
Entering the Forest of Acéphale, Ron Athey. 10 minutes. 

Ron Athey has been working at the vanguard of performance art for 25 years. Self-taught, his earliest work developed out of post-punk/pre-goth scenes, informed by the club actions of Johanna Went and the formulation of Industrial Culture. In the 1990s, Athey formed a company of performers and made Torture Trilogy, a series of works addressing the AIDS pandemic with the physical intensity of the 1970s body-art canon, such as COUM Transmission, Carolee Schneeman and the Viennese Actionists. His current body of work is largely inspired by the secret society of Acéphale, drawing parallels between pre-Occupation 1930s Paris and pre- Operation Spanner UK, responding to a reality where neo-fascism is mutating, creeping, and marching.



About the exhibition:

What is it about ancient statues that inspires breathless adoration, even occasional palpitations and fainting spells? For Crush, his fifth solo exhibition with The Hole, Adam Parker Smith poses this question in the form of five monumental marble sculptures, taking a drastic departure from his typical material and scale. The sculptures, which stand or rest at one cubic meter each, give the impression that the canon of classical statuary has been put through an industrial compactor. Such machined units as we know them are for shipping, stocking, stacking; like the square watermelons in Japan they are functional, disturbing. This ancient stone, from the same Carrara mountain owned by the same family as in Michaelangelo’s time, makes the sculptures faithful to their historical antecedents, but in this new form Smith interrupts our inclination to exalt in their presence, helping us to see these icons of mythology in a profoundly new way.
 

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312 Bowery, New York 10012
Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
(212) 466-1100 or poke@thehole.com

86 Walker Street, New York 10013
Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
(212) 343-3100 or poke@thehole.com

844 N La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles 90038
Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
(323) 297-3288 or poke@thehole.com
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Catch the Vickie Vainionpää 'Software' opening Thursday, May 12th, 6-8 pm at 86 Walker St



VICKIE VAINIONPÄÄ
SOFTWARE


May 12 - June 18, 2022

OPENING: Thursday, May 12th from 6-8pm

The Hole: Tribeca
86 Walker Street
New York, NY, 10013


The Hole is pleased to present Software, the debut solo exhibition of Montreal-based visual artist, Vickie Vainionpää. Starting with a generative computer script and ending as oil on canvas, the work depicts softly textured, organic shapes that fold and twist on themselves to create hyper-real forms reminiscent of microorganisms or intestinal tangles. Software will open May 12th from 6-8pm and remain on view through June 18th at The Hole’s Tribeca location 86 Walker Street. 

A continuation of Vainionpää’s “Soft Body Dynamics” series, the paintings in Software feature curvilinear shapes that bend and protrude, twisting into biomorphic forms that are non-representational yet familiar. 
With cool, fleshy tones and plush texture, these mesmerizing paintings exude a techno-optimism that binds the dual processes of code and paint. 

As the show’s title hints, Vainionpää embraces a type of cyborgism by uniting the virtual and the real, and exploring the symbiosis of humans and technology in a body of work that could only have been made through a collaboration between human and machine. Vainionpää’s Software celebrates the remarkable innovation in digital imaging tools and also our imaginations, showing us a glimpse of the amorphous hyper-reality that awaits us in the post-human future. Generated in code and rendered materially in paint, Vainionpää embraces the forward momentum of technology in a world that is, in the words of Alan Watts, “a marvelous system of wiggles.”

 
The exhibition will also feature the artist’s first immersive video piece mapped across three walls in the back “apse” of the gallery, titled “Dark Mode”. Contrasting Vainionpää’s traditionally light, ethereal, and optimistic style of painting, the video installation plays with colors, textures, and lighting that are moody and nocturnal. The 5-minute long 4k looping video is accompanied by a unique synth score written specifically for the project by Montreal musician Nick Schofield to create an immersive sensory experience. 

 
Email raymond@theholenyc.com for more information
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312 Bowery, New York 10012
Wednesday - Sunday 12-7pm
(212) 466-1100 or poke@theholenyc.com

86 Walker Street, New York 10013
Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
(212) 343-3100 or poke@theholenyc.com


844 N La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles 90038
Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
(323) 297 3288 or poke@theholenyc.com
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