past
Curatorial Projects:
Pool Art Fair @ The Gershwin Hotel, NYC: March 4,5,6, 2011
Hotter Than July @ NY Studio Gallery, NYC Jan 13-Feb 12, 2011
Review by New York Magazine art critic, Jerry Saltz
[untitled]
Culturefix July 16-July 26, 2010
In the 21st century, a question to ask is: Can the avant-garde still exist? Avant-gardes are transient and have an antagonistic relation to mainstream culture. Historically, the word brings to mind figures such as Dali, El Lissitzky, Picasso, Duchamp. But in this current climate, is it possible that art can be avant-garde anymore? At this point, haven’t we seen it all? Today artists are
constantly looking to the past to create the “new,” borrowing whatever they can get their hands on. But this gives art no room to breathe, culturally and politically. Art mashes with the mainstream and this results in a deadening of art.
Can there be such a thing today as “groundbreaking art”? Can art still “stick out its tongue” to mainstream culture? Can art revive the idea of the avant-garde? Perhaps the most important thing to consider these days is what time we are living in, creatively.
[Untitled] provokes you, the viewer, to consider these questions. Each piece within this exhibition will not only challenge expectations, they will ask you to question your own understanding of “the norm.” What kind of art do you want? How do you want it feel? Taste? Smell? How do you want it change you? How should it demand your attention? [Untitled] functions to create a forum for discussion, inviting viewers to engage in a new dialogue.
Jerry Blackman
Bruce Checefsky
Fred Fleisher
Mikal Hameed
Yuiliya Lanina
Christopher Lee
Leif Mcilwaine
Narcissister
Windows of Perception @ culturefix June 25-July 8, 2010
How we view aspects of our lives reflects how we view the world. Things are not always as they seem and the questions we may have are answered when we change our perspective or rather, our perception. It’s human nature to see things through our own filter. This exhibit features 6 artists who examine emotional barriers in order to push through them.
Exhibiting artists: Jim D’Amato, Carla Gannis, Tasja Keetman, Max Langhurst, Jen Mazza and Sadie Weis
courtesy of Jen Mazza
The Back Room Biennial @ LZ Projects LES, NYC April 2010
5 curators: Linda Griggs, Jennifer Junkermeier, Savannah Spirit, Lynn Del Sol, David Gibson
“X” Marks the Spot, March 2010
co-curated with David Gibson
Works of Abstraction
Exhibiting artists: John Mullen, Colin Kilian, Elizabeth Sullivan,
Peggy Bates, Matteo Callegari
Pool Art Fair, The Gershwin Hotel, Feb. 2010
BODY & OTHER
co- curated with David Gibson
exhibiting artists: Woody Batts, Amélie Chunleau,Chris Coffin
Ned & Aya Rosen, Kaeko Shabana, Angie Arlene Smith
Conrad Vogel, Al Wadzinski
Cornucopia, Oct. 2009
Exhibiting artists: Camille Altay, Jordan Buschur, Amelíe Chunleau, Ana Gomez, Lee Heekin, Hri Johnson
Yuliya Lanina, Maxine Nienow, Matthew Pandolfe
Kaeko Shabana, Olena Shmahalo, Rosemary Taylor, Jess Williamson
Bright Young Things-Veaux Gallery Chelsea, NYC April 2009
exhibiting artists: Katie Dratz, Michael Lindabury, Ryan Monaghan, Gregory Tong
STIMULI @ Veaux Gallery Chelsea, NYC March 2009
I opened a gallery for the purpose of exhibiting members of the site in Chelsea at 526 W 26th for 3 months.
Exhibiting artists: Woody Batts, thefactory101, Apple Price, Foe,
Liam Hanna-Lloyd, Moira McDonald, Lys Lydia Selimalhigazi, Andrea Thompson
The Veaux Launch Party @ Creative Pier, NYC Sept 2008
Veaux.org was a website I started for artists, photographers, graphic designers, illustrators and buyers. It was born from my senior thesis at Parsons and launched in July 2008 and laid to rest in July 2010.
