Mirelle Borra

Friend of HKJB and Berlin resident Mirelle Borra has recently completed a book documenting her project Walls of Separation.

Mirelle is currently crowd sourcing funding through Crowdbooks Publishing here.

Beginning in 2007, Mirelle began photographing the West Bank Wall between Palestine and Israel, the Tortilla Wall between Mexico and USA, the Peace-Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and the Berlin Wall. Investigating borders and segregation around the world through her photographs and videos, Walls of Separation is accompanied with insightful and critical texts from different authors on the universal topics of migration, borders and nation states.

"When some or all of the separation walls have been demolished, this book will then become a historic document, witnessing an important aspect of our current society and its dealing with conflicts." - Mirelle Borra

Mirelle Borra Walls of Separation

Book details :
Limited Edition of 500 copies
Format : 22 x 16,5 cm (8.66” x 6.497”)
120 color photographs
Offset print
The book is composed by 4 booklets, thread-stitched and glue bound together.
96 pages
Book cover with folded poster jacket wrap around : 44,5 x 84 cm (17.519” x 33.070”)

Bushwick Daily: 5 NY Times Articles That Changed Bushwick

From Bushwick Daily:

5 NY Times Articles That Changed Bushwick

By Katarina Hybenova

Call for Entries: ITSA SMALL SMALL WORLD @ Family Business

Marilyn Minter recently invited Hennesy Youngman to participate in an exhibition at Maurizio Cattelan & Massimiliano Gioni's gallery Family Business. Mr. Youngman is now inviting participants. Details below. Please expect your artwork to be damaged during the installation and duration of the exhibition. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Youngman, please visit his YouTube channel here.

Call for Entries: Hennesy Youngman Presents: ITSA SMALL SMALL WORLD

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Family Business

520 W. 21st St.

Chelsea, NYC

Artwork Drop Off:

Friday, March 30th - Sunday, April 1st, 2012

10AM-7PM

Opening: Tuesday, April 3rd, 6PM

Closes: April 16th

Patrick Meagher

Nice pic.

A dashing photo of artist & friend of HKJB Patrick Meagher from Silvershed in Artforum's Scene & Herd report Walking on Sunshine.

Ghost Face in Bushwick

Ghost Face

Bobby Redd Project Space

626 Bushwick Ave. at Jefferson St.

(1 block from the Myrtle JMZ stop)

Opening: Saturday, March 17^th , 6PM-Midnight

Featuring music by: Ice Machine & Swift and Rachel Mason & Little Band of Sailors

Artists: Andrew Ohanesian, Xaviera Simmons, Adam Parker Smith, Brent Owens, Kristof Wickman, William Powhida, Ben Godward, Amy Brener, Don Pablo Pedro, Nathan Gwynne, Audrey Hasen Russell, Fabian G. Tabibian, Fabio Ernesto Corredor and Steven Mykietyn. Curated by Dave Bates.

Additional information here.

Lionel Maunz at Bureau

Lionel Maunz: Receipt of Malice

March 3 - April 15 2012

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Bureau

127 Henry Street

NY, NY

Between Rutgers & Pike St.
F Train to East Broadway

bureau-inc.com

Big Sky Mind, Curated by Jon Lutz at Bull And Ram

BIG SKY MIND: HOLLY COULIS, ELISA SOLIVEN, MITCHELL WRIGHT

Curated by Jon Lutz

Opening: Saturday, March 17, 6-9 PM

Bull & Ram

270 Lafayette St., Suite 612

NY, NY

Big Sky Mind features recent works by Holly Coulis, Elisa Soliven and Mitchell Wright. Each of these artists approach a traditional genre – classical busts, painterly landscapes and intuitive drawings - in an overwhelmingly physical way. Though divergent in production and methodology, their works are as tactile as they are cerebral, abstractly and literally layered. Separately, these works exude personal visions of the most general notions: body, self, and environment. The group, though, is specifically aligned to embrace the multiple contexts that particular objects inhabit and to exploit these viewpoints as spaces for contemplation. big. sky. mind.

dailyoperation.org

Frohawk Two Feathers at Morgan Lehman

Your Gods Are Impotent and Thus Their Defeat. (Failed Charge (Massacre) At Pic DuBois Colloquially Referred To As Mount Blood By The Locals) 1792
Acrylic, Ink, Coffee, Tea On Paper, 45 x 60 in (114.3 x 152.4 cm)

She Views Herself - exhibition in Paris

Thursday, 5^th of March – The date with a weird touch

As I sit in the train from Amsterdam to Paris on that very 5^th of march, to deliver my neatly framed photograph at Bank Oddo, where it will be shown in the exhibition “She Views Herself”, curated by Doris Kloster, from today until the 27^th of march, I receive a text message from my boyfriend at home. It contains the first bad news of today: In the early morning, he had gone to get a vaccination in preparation of his 3 months stay in at the artist residency Heden There in Yogjakarta, Indonesia. When he was about to walk out of the hospital, he suddenly fell unconscious on the floor. It was only for a short moment but still I am worried as hell and have no possibility whatsoever to help him.

At that moment, the second incident happens: the train comes to a sudden stop. It is snowing outside and we are somewhere in northern France, not too far from Paris. It is 09:15 am. The conductor announces that we have a slight problem in the engine then the electricity fails. There is no more air conditioning, no warm water for coffee, tea or baby food, the toilets fail without energy, too. Half an hour later, the conductor passes by personally since the intercom doesn’t work either and tells us that the engine has caught fire and they are trying to fix the problem. People around me start calling their business partners, they shift their appointments, call their loved ones, tell them not to pick them up from the station and so on. But everybody remains calm, even the small children. Actually, the atmosphere is not bad at all. We are all in the same boat – or rather train – and we know there is nothing we can do but wait.

Shortly afterwards firefighters appear at the scene. They have to climb down from a bridge with special outfits and fire extinguishers on their backs. The conductor passes by again to tell us it will take longer then first thought. The fire fighters are having trouble to put the fire out. There is movement on the bridge. Private cars stop, people get out and watch the scene. Later I understand that they must have been journalists.

admittedly the camera on my phone is pretty bad

but maybe you can recognize the fire fighter on the top of the stairs

Eight – 8 – hours later, the electricity is turned on again and we start moving in the wrong direction: away from Paris to the next train station. There, several camera crews and train employees equipped with water and food await us. Everybody has missed his or her appointments by now. For lots of people it does not make sense to continue into the same direction. They choose to take busses back to Bruxelles and continue to Amsterdam from there. But I still have to deliver my work at the exhibition space. So I continue still in the same train but with a new engine and arrive at 6:30 pm in Paris, where I learn that all trains back to Amsterdam have been cancelled for today.

After I install my work, I call up my friend Madeleine. She arranges a wonderful dinner and I stay overnight in Paris, which is not bad at all. When I skype with my boyfriend he tells me he is already recovering from his fall.

installing my work (in the back, a piece by: Andreia Sâmpăleanu)

When I take the first train the next morning, the people that had a similar fate as me, are all in a bad mood. Everybody who has lost his or her train the day before is grumpy and unfriendly towards the train personal. Of course, the situation is not nice. The train is overbooked for all the extra passengers. Lots of people cannot find a seat and have to stand. Everybody had to spend an extra night in Paris, which is not cheap if you don’t have a Madeleine (like me). But I find the difference to the mood in yesterday’s “catastrophe train” striking… Interesting how a day of bad luck can be experienced so positively. 

A Selection from 'Pencil in the Studio'

Pencil in the Studio is a blog by artist Maria Calandra. The blog consists of reports, commentary and images from studio visits with artists, mostly in New York, but ventures beyond the city, too. A large part of the blog are drawings that Maria accomplishes during the visit. Below is a selection of drawings from recent studio visits with artists Matt Jones, Rob Nadeau, EJ Hauser, Inna Babaeva and Jovi Schnell. All works are graphite on A4 paper.

Thanks to Maria for sharing these with the HKJBlog.

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1. Jones' Studio, 2012

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2. Nadeau's Studio, 2012

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3. Hauser's Studio, 2011

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4. Babaeva's Studio, 2012

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5. Schnell's Studio, 2011

Pulau Ubin, Singapore

A t-shaped stone on Pulau Ubin, Singapore.

Sonja Gerdes at Elephant

Brucennial

159 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012

Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm 

Davina Semo @ Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam

Saturday, 25th of February, Davina Semo opened her first solo show at Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam.

She presents sculptures and pictures - objects I would instantly recognize as "visual art". As soon as I started reading the titles of her works though, I began doubting if it was really as simple as that. Her titles read like poems that comment the works. The experience becomes multi-layerd and multi-disciplinary.

Go and see it if you can:

http://www.gabrielrolt.com/exhibitionPR.aspx?pos=1

"HER DEPARTURES, LIKE HER MOODS, WERE UNPREMEDITATED AND ALWAYS QUITE ABRUPT" etched black mirror, enamel paints / 45.7 x 45.7 cm, 18 x 18 in / 2012

THERE ARE PLAYFUL ANIMALS AND THERE ARE ANIMALS WHO ARE ALWAYS WATCHING / Spray paint transfer on reinforced concrete / 147.3 x 30.5 cm, 58 x 12 in / 2012

SHE WANTED TO WORK HARDER AND TIRE HERSELF OUT SO SHE WOULDN'T HAVE TO LIE AWAKE AT NIGHT / Concrete coated aluminum diamond plate / 91.4 x 91.4 cm, 36 x 36 in / 2012

Cara Benedetto & Davida Nemeroff @ Young Art

In The Making

Roberts & Tilton

Lauren Luloff at Horton Gallery, New York

Lauren Luloff: Recent Small Works

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 1, 6-8 PM

Horton Gallery

504 West 22nd Gallery

Parlor Level

New York, NY 10011

Lauren Luloff's recent collage paintings bring to mind the sky, the worn floor of a textile mill, tea in an old porcelain cup and laundry drying in the sun. Her process is simple: first she stretches semi transparent fabric over stretcher bars, then glues swatches of fabrics and paints on this "ground". Nothing is hidden and everything is revealed. The process, laid bare, yields something mysterious; the work becomes hazy and atmospheric, like dawn or a memory of childhood. The fabrics simultaneously root and dislocate the painted colors, like Matisse who famously always painted with scraps of printed fabrics hanging around his studio.

Or perhaps they are a little like Rauschenberg's "Bed", the piece where he took his bedclothes and tipped them from horizontal to vertical, and magically the most basic and homely thing became art. Similarly, Luloff recycles and pays homage to her life and practice. A life lived just as much in the studio as in the outside world. The pieces of fabric here are, in fact, doubly recycled. Luloff scours thrift shops to find the "right" piece of bed sheet or old curtain. Back in her studio she will bleach or stain patterns and shapes into the fabric which, in turn, are glued onto her "paintings" both large scale and small. The pieces here, on these intimately scaled paintings, are the lowest common denominator, the tender pieces, saved from the dustpan after a day of work; like flakes of gold in a prospector's pan.

The works on display are glimpses into a life unfolding through painting and material. Luloff's work belongs in the lineage of such artists as the before mentioned Rauschenberg, as well as Joan Snyder, American heirs to cubism and artists known for wearing their hearts on their sleeves. There is also atmosphere in these paintings, not unlike painters and notable colorists Helen Frankenthaler or Mark Rothko. Luloff offers a constant contrast between the rooted objects of everyday life and the soaring ambition to transcend those very things.

I have had this same experience when I visit Luloff's funkily majestic Bushwick studio. The space she has created for her herself and her work is endlessly heartening to me as a painter. The capacity for this artist to make things with fabric, glue, and scissors and paint that are so uniquely her own, full of necessity, generosity and grace. This, suddenly I realize, maybe the very definition of painting and quite possibly love. -Wallace Whitney

Lauren Luloff (b. 1980, Dover, NH) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and a BFA from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Her work has been included in the notable exhibitions Painting Expanded at Tanya Bonakdar, New York; Not the Way you Remembered at the Queens Museum of Art, New York; and The Working Title at the Bronx River Arts Center, New York. The artist was recently profiled by Johnny Misheff in The New York Times T Magazine and has been mentioned in the Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, and Vellum. Recent Small Works is the artist's second solo exhibition with Horton Gallery.

Sean Montgomery - "Avant Garage" @ Laroche/Joncas

Bangkok, Thailand

Unholy Feet of Reclining Budha, Wat Pho

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Hypercolor, at Small Black Door

Hypercolor

Small Black Door

Opening: Saturday, February 18th, 7:00 - 10:00 PM

"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color." - Hans Hofmann.

“HYPERCOLOR” brings together a group of ambitious artists who’s practices are hinged on their unique relationship with the formal element. Each embrace a diverse palette, often full of high-key colors that both invigorate and jar their viewer. Though employed for different reasons, these artist's selection of color suggest an undeniable affinity to contemporary popular culture paying homage to the past while offering insight to the future.

Artists Lydia Ainsworth and Lara Gemmiti will perform “Aqua Aura”, a collaborative performance, the night of the opening from 8:30-9

Participating artists include: Liz Atzberger, Joe Ballweg, Saira McLaren, Ziad Naccache, Douglas Einar Olsen, Jamie Powell and Eric Sall, with a collaborative performance by artists Lydia Ainsworth and Lara Gemmiti the night of the opening.

What I Know, curated by Jason Andrew at NYCAMS

What I Know

NYCAMS (New York Center for Art and Media Studies)

Curated by Jason Andrew, Director of Norte Maar

Opening Reception: Friday, February 17th, 6-8 PM

February 17 - March 16

Michele Araujo, Liz Atzberger, Ali Della Bitta, Deborah Brown, Anthony Browne, Sharon Butler, Paul D’Agostino, Diane Fine, Hermine Ford, Ryan Michael Ford, Rico Gatson, Julia K. Gleich, Ben Godward, Tamara Gonzales, Mimi Gross, Brece Honeycutt, Andrew Hurst, Cooper Holoweski, Norman Jabaut, Lars Kremer, Ellen Letcher, Amy Lincoln, Matthew Miller, Jimmy Miracle, Constantine Manos, Robert Moskowitz, Brooke Moyse, Cathy Nan Quinlan, Sean Pace, Michael Prodanou, Kevin Regan, Jackie Sabourin, Patricia Satterlee, Mira Schor, John Silvis, Adam Simon, Andy Spence, Austin Thomas, Melissa Terrezza, Colin Thomson, Julie Torres, Marjorie Van Cura, Lindsay Walt, Letha Wilson, Audra Wolowiec

Laura Owens fruits & nuts @ Ooga Booga

Yunhee Min at Exercise Projects Canada

Exercise is pleased to announce its second exhibition:

YUNHEE MIN
Spectra: fixtures, attachments, and ornamentals

February 9—March 4

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 9, 7-10pm

Exercise
147 Main St.
Vancouver, BC
V6A 1B5

http://www.yunheemin.com/

http://exercisecanada.com/

Tops at President Clinton Projects

Tops

Opening Reception: Friday, February 10th, 6-9 PM

Open Space

44-02 23rd Street

Long Island City, NY 11101

Ivin Ballen, Josh Blackwell, Vince Contarino, Paul DeMuro, Dennis Farber, Amy Feldman, Stacy Fisher, Joanne Greenbaum, Michelle Grabner, Eric Hibit, James Hyde, Lucy Kim, Yasue Maetake, Fabienne Lasserre, B. Wurtz.

President Clinton Projects is pleased to present ”Tops,” featuring new work by 15 artists based in New York, Chicago and Baltimore. President Clinton Projects is a curatorial project founded in 2012 by Sun You.

For additional information, please contact Sun You at Sunyou728@gmail.com

Comedy night @ Night Gallery