In Long Island City? catch the Free Public Performance in the Park! Sat, Aug 8 at 4pm. see Edisa Weeks / DELIRIOUS DANCES Randy James / 10HL PROJECTS

August 7, 2015

Norte Maar's Dance at Socrates: Week 1 of 3 Free Public Performance in the Park! Sat, Aug 8 at 4pm featuring NMDAS resident choreographers: Edisa Weeks / DELIRIOUS DANCES Randy James / 10HL PROJECTS Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Blvd @ Broadway Long Island City #fineartmagazine

Tagore Gallery to present a landmark retrospective of work by Edith Schloss (1919-2011),

NM announces major retrospective of Edith Schloss (1919-2011)

on January 22, 2015

Norte Maar is pleased to announce its collaboration with Sundaram Tagore Gallery to present a landmark retrospective of work by Edith Schloss (1919-2011), one of America’s greatest expatriate artists whose paintings, assemblage, collage, watercolors and drawings border on the bittersweet, fragile, intimate and naïve. Intrinsically linked to the milieu of Postwar American Art, every aspect of the artist’s eccentric personal iconography will be on view for rediscovery. This is the first show of the artist’s work in New York in twenty-five years. This exhibition continues Norte Maar’s mission of re-presenting the work of under represented emerging, mid-career and historic artists.

The exhibition will open with a public reception on Thursday, February 26, 6-8pm and will continue through March 28. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11-6pm. A lecture in advance of the exhibition will be held at the Art Students League, Tuesday, February 10, 7pm. More information on the lecture here.

Curated by Jason Andrew and organized in collaboration with the Brooklyn-based nonprofit arts organization Norte Maar, this exhibition represents the most comprehensive showing of the artist’s work, offering historic examples from all genres of her career beginning with early still lifes of the 1950s and painted scenes of Penobscot Bay in Maine, to seascapes from her beloved studio in Lerici, Italy, and finally to the mythological abstractions she painted up until her death.

The exhibition also includes a gallery dedicated to Edith’s friends and acquaintances, with work by Ellen Auerbach, Nell Blaine, Rudy Burckhardt, Joseph Cornell, Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning, Helen DeMott, Rackstraw Downes, Philip Pearlstein, Yvonne Jacquette, Fairfield Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Cy Twombly, Jack Tworkov and Francesca Woodman among others (full list of artists can be found at the end of this release).

Additionally a selection of ephemera including letters, photographs and diaries from the Edith Schloss Estate archive will be on view.

Art is a nourishment which is made from the fabric of our daily life but lifts us beyond it to make us see a world bigger than ourselves.—Edith Schloss, La Serra, 1976

What I really do is what any painter worth his salt has always done. I abstract color and line from life around me, and make another life out of it.—Edith Schloss

Schloss’ work is beautiful and explosive, moved at once by strength and lightness, by a vibrating breath contained in spaces that can be as small as the palm of a hand.—Toni Maraini, Rome, 2011

About Edith Schloss.
Edith Schloss is best known for knowing “everyone who counted in Manhattan’s legendary postwar art scene.” From the moment she was first introduced to Willem de Kooning by her friend Fairfield Porter, she became an integral member of the Chelsea New York art scene, which flourished around the New York School and included photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt (whom she married in 1947) and the Jane Street Group around Nell Blaine.

Born in Offenbach, Germany, Edith studied languages and art as a young student. In Florence she learned about the Renaissance and in Frankfurt she saw her first Van Gogh. In London, while working as an au pair, she learned English and was inspired by the great Greek sculptures at the British Museum, which also reinforced her dream to become an archeologist.

Edith Schloss, Ravenna, 1947. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Estate of Edith Schloss

During the London Blitz, Edith sailed to America in a convoy. Arriving in New York she met the political refugee Heinz Langerhans, who introduced her to Bertolt Brecht, prominent Communist Ruth Fischer and others. She listened to lectures by American pragmatists like John Dewey at The Cooper Union and other great thinkers at The New School for Social Research. There never seemed to be a moment when she didn’t consider herself an artist. “Somehow I always drew, made pictures,” she wrote. From 1942 to 1946, she studied at the Art Students League of New York with Will Barnet, Harry Sternberg and Morris Kantor.

In 1945 Edith met Willem de Kooning through painter Fairfield Porter. It was a turning point. In turn she met the poet Edwin Denby, the photographers Ellen and Walter Auerbach and the filmmaker Rudy Burchkhardt. Elaine de Kooning became a staunch ally. “I happily absorbed the Chelsea climate apart from politics,” she wrote, “and I’ve settled down to paint for painting.” And she settled into loft living on West 21st Street.

Around the same time Edith met painter Nell Blaine. Together they spent “long winter nights listening to bebop records” and raced uptown and downtown “listening to Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Miles Davis in person.” Edith liked jazz for its “intuitive purity and improvisation,” qualities that became important elements in her maturing work. She joined the Jane Street Group, New York’s first artist cooperative gallery founded by Blaine, Hyde Solomon, Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Albert Kresch and Judith Rothschild. In 1947, her first one-person show opened at the Ashby Gallery.

In 1947, Edith married Rudy Burckhardt and the couple set off to tour Europe where they met Jean Arp, Meret Oppenheim, and briefly Giacometti, Brancusi and Max Bill. Upon their return to New York, she exhibited with the Pyramid Group and American Abstract Artists. Summers were spent with Fairfield Porter and his family on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine. This retrospective includes watercolors exploring the summers on the bays and shores of Maine.

In 1949, her son Jacob was born. One of the first paintings in the retrospective, Egg Eater, c. 1952, features a bird’s-eye view of a young Jacob standing before a breakfast table set with a scattering of white antique dishes including a bowl of fruit. It’s a naive painting with historical references yet the versatility of the composition demonstrates modern avant-garde ideas.

Edith Schloss (1919-2011) “Agon,” 2000, Oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 23 5/8 in. (70 x 60 cm). Courtesy Estate of Edith Schloss

Edith Schloss (1919-2011) “Air Mail,” 1966, Oil on canvas, 23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (60 x 50 cm). Courtesy Estate of Edith Schloss

As Abstract Expressionism took hold in New York and action painting grew more dogmatic, Edith set aside her figurative intensions and turned to collage and assemblage “because it was in an avant-garde technique it was considered alright by the abstractionists.” Assemblage bridged her interest in writing and art and for a time, she become better known for her boxes than for her paintings. In 1961, she was included in The Museum of Modern Art’s landmark exhibition The Art of Assemblage. These boxes housed the precious things she found on beaches and on walks through the city. Sailor or Countryman (1962) is a small cupboard containing rocks, a wood carving of a boat, and a sea horse.  Night Voyage: Homage to Joseph Cornell (c. 1962) is the perfect tribute to Edith’s friend, complete with a collaged gallery label from Cornell’s exhibition at the Charles Egan Gallery in the early 1950s.

Over the years she exhibited in New York at the Tanager Gallery, Green Mountain Gallery and Ingber Gallery.

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Cage Transmitted Continues with Simone Forti and more!

November 9, 2012 Cage Transmitted Series Returns to Dumbo Arts Center: November 2012 Norte Maar and Experiments in Art and Technology once again pair up with Dumbo Arts Center to present three exciting Cage Transmitted Events in November. All events will take place at 7pm at Dumbo Arts Center (111 Front Street, Brooklyn). Monday, November 12 at 7pm An evening with Simone Forti Choreographer Simone Forti will talk about the 'permissions' that the work and working methods of John Cage have given her in making dances and in the creating and showing of the sound installations she has made over the years. Simone Forti is a postmodern American choreographer and musician who, throughout her nearly four-decade career, has created dances largely based on basic everyday movements. A noted dancer, Forti performed with Anna Halprin, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Trisha Brown and Robert Whitman. Musically she has collaborated with La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Terry Riley, and Yoko Ono. Simone Forti Photo by Carol Peterson November 16 at 7pm Cage Rethinks the Economics of Experimentation: an evening with Eva Diaz. Scholar Eva Diaz will trace how Cage, in collaboration with others like Merce Cunningham and Jasper Johns, rethought the economics of art as collaborative exchange rather than speculative capital. Cage's ideas in the early 1950s through the 1970s, led to the organization of events and implementation of new models inwhich the visual artist funded the performing arts. Eva Diaz is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art at Pratt Institute. Díaz's writing appears in magazines and journals such as The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Art in America, Cabinet, Frieze, Grey Room, and Tate Etc., and she is a regular contributor to Artforum. Her book on Black Mountain College, The Experimenters, will be released by University of Chicago Press in the fall of 2013. John Cage, Jasper Johns, and Merce Cunningham, July 3, 1989 Photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sander November 20 at 7pm Empty Words with artist Audra Wolowiec + musician Nate Wooley Known for her sculptures and text works that respond to how sound is experienced and transmitted, Audra Wolowiec will talk about her work, the influence of John Cage's 12-hour piece, Empty Words. Musician Nate Wooley will perform one of Wolowiec ‘scores’ on his trumpet, amplifying the transition from language to music.  Audra Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist from Detroit, MI, based in Brooklyn, NY. Through sculpture, sound, text and performance, her work explores the physical and ephemeral nature of communication, allowing experiences that merge the sensory with the conceptual. She received an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and has shown work at Norte Maar, Magnan-Metz, and Art in General. Her work has been featured in the Brooklyn Rail, Requited Journal, and Thresholds Magazine (MIT Dept of Architecture). www.audrawolowiec.com Nate Wooley is a Brooklyn-based musician who combines vocalization, extended technique, noise and drone aesthetics, amplification and feedback, to create an idiosyncratic trumpet language. He has performed regularly with such icons as John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, and Yoshi Wada. His work has been featured at the WRO Media Arts Biennial in Poland, Kongsberg and Copenhagen Jazz Festivals, and the New York New Darmstadt Festival. He is currently an artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room and just completed a residency at London’s Café Oto. www.natewooley.com Audra Wolowiec Photo: Katarina Hybenova Norte Maar News: Nov 1: "On female artists and To be a Lady”, by James Panero, The New Criterion Oct 13: "City of Women," by Thomas Micchelli, Hyperallergic Oct 25: "Bruce Dow & Allyson Strafella," by Paul D’Agostino, L Magazine Oct 27: Cage on Marley on Vinyl photo essay (facebook album) Norte Maar Suggests: Rebecca Goyette (aka Lobsta Girl) @ AIRPLANE 70 Jefferson Street, Bushwick Opening: Sat, Nov 10, 7-10pm SHOW #4: Bridget Mullen, Chris Marshall, Christopher Patch, Janice Sloane @ The Parlour 791 Bushwick Ave at Dekalb Ave, Bushwick Opening: Sat, Nov 10, 6-9pm Susan Smith, Mike Metz, Hewitson Kong @ Bull and Ram 1717 Troutman #226, Ridgewood Opening: Sat, Nov 10, 7-9pm Ellipsis: new work by Allison Somers @ Microscope Gallery 4 Charles Place, Brooklyn Opening: Fri, Nov 16, 6-9pm Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts 83 Wyckoff Avenue, #1B, Brooklyn, NY 11237 646-361-8512 | nortemaar.org

The Brodmann Areas: a new ballet from Norte Maar

The Brodmann Areas: a new ballet from Norte Maar   Apr 12-14 at 7:30pm Apr 15 at 2pm   Center for Performance Research 361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn   Directions: L Train to Graham Avenue (3rd stop in Brooklyn). Exit right out of turnstile, Left down Graham Avenue, Left on Jackson Street, Right on Manhattan Avenue   Purchase Tickets

produced by Jason Andrew directed and choreographed by Julia K. Gleich musical direction by Ryan Francis décor and costumes by Tamara Gonzales with collaborating artists: Paul D’Agostino Lawrence Swan Audra Wolowiec Margo Wolowiec and others   danced by Dylan Crossman, Michelle Buckley, Jace Coronado, Morgan McEwen, and Abbey Roesner _______________ The Brodmann Areas is a new ballet that dives literally head first into the gaps and synapses that define the 52 areas designating the regions of the cerebral cortex of the brain. Read More=>

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