Witness My Hand
March 1st - March 24th, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, March 1st, 7-10PM
Curated by Georgia Elrod, Sarada Rauch and Baris Gokturk
A photo copier is a magic base. Originals go on top, endless copies come out of it. The structure of this machine is very simple: There are things on top that get to be copied, they are the originals. There are things inside, they are the raw material. And there are things that come out.
All pedestals are a form of frame, and it could be argued that they transform whatever is on top of them. Piero Manzoni made a series of pieces called Base Magica: A pedestal that a viewer could climb onto and become a sculpture. Manzoni also made a piece called Pedestal of the World: A pedestal, with that inscription on its base, turned upside down so that the world was on top of it. Lets re-imagine those pieces with a copier in the place of the pedestal.
A notary public has its origins in the role of scribe. A scribe was a recorder of facts, a copier and transcriber, and the notary public grew out of that. They now offer a service to the public--one of testifying to the originality of the mark. They “witness the hand”.
Inspired by copy centers and office spaces, Paul Ramirez Jonas explores presentation and re-presentation, function and context. A copy center is a social space where people come and go. They come with meaning they want to spread and publish, or they come with meaning they found and want to make their own. Thus, the copy center is sometimes a space to publish and broadcast, and sometimes it is a space for appropriation. Is the copy center the original, decentralized? Like a copy center, Heliopolis becomes a space to publish, broadcast, or appropriate.
Paul Ramirez Jonas’ selected solo exhibitions include Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; a survey at Ikon Gallery (UK) and Cornerhouse (UK); Alexander Gray Gallery (NYC); Roger Björkholmen (Sweden); Nara Roesler Gallery (Brazil); and Postmasters Gallery (NYC). His honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, ArtMatters, the Howard Foundation, the International Studio Program in Sweden, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, among others. He has built permanent projects in Cambridge, MA and a permanent public sculpture for the Hudson River Park, New York City. In 2010 his Key to the City project was presented by Creative Time in cooperation with the City of New York. Paul Ramirez Jonas is represented by Leo Koenig, Inc.
STRUCTURES OF FEELING
Painting, video, haptics.
with special guests CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MINOTAUR (in the Annex)
Curated by RACHAEL RAKES and LEO GOLDSMITH
OPENING: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, 7-10pm
CLOSING: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24.
Artist in Residence
Colter Jacobsen
January 9 - 26th
the alien light of the honeycomb/ alit from its premises (From the Golden West Notebook, Jason Morris). "Note on Sonnets: Why are we as human beings so sturdy? How can we conscion existence much less love? Is that why we have philosophy? Why deconstruct so innately? Is the sonnet form a form of abdication of reality? Because it is so neat & thus does have conclusion? Is poetry's method of conclusion disjoined to for instance the life of a bee?" (Bernadette Mayer, Sonnets). Scanning the long selves of the shore (Ted Berrigan, Sonnets). From the magicians midnight sleeve/ the radio-singers/ distribute all their love-songs/ over the dew-wet lawns./ And like a fortune-teller's/ their marrow-peircing guesses are whatever you believe (Elizabeth Bishop, Late Air)
Dineo Seshee Bopape
Erkan Özgen and Sener Özmen
Ji Hye Yeom
Susana Gaudêncio
"You could say that a reckoning has to be made with the coyote…” Joseph Beuys on I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974 .
Curated by Georgia Elrod, Sarada Rauch and Barıs Gokturk
When Joseph Beuys came to New York to live and communicate with a wild coyote in a small room he fascinated people. In I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) Beuys assembled a parallel mythology; through symbolism he proposed a different perspective on America, both current and historical. Using an alternative lexicon of ancient myths, he attempted, through his work, to "fix" or heal the rampant global effects of American foreign policy at work during that time. Following this lead, the works in Circled the Man extend parameters by investigating parallel mythologies at work today--traditional, political and otherwise. A show inviting expansion and insight, these are international artists whose work questions, navigates, or provides a broader perspective on political and social paradigms.
It is the common practice of political entities, states and institutions with access to power to churn their respective mythologies, amplifying their raison d’etre and justifying their actions beyond ethical frontiers. The fabrication of such mythologies is followed by the aestheticization of their message sponsored by these very same machines. The individual, the artist, and the independent mind finds itself on the edge of these official narratives. This displacement at its best can result in an alternate current, an adjustment, and a healing. The artist can respond to the officially sponsored spin-of-authority with their own individual practice, placing a stick into the spinning wheel.
In Susana Gaudêncio’s 2008 work, Equestrian Project, the artist proposes the equestrian statue of D. Jose I, in Terreiro de Paco, Lisbon to be moved temporarily into the nearest desert.
A formal letter to the mayor of Lisbon with the request ensues.
In Road to Tate Modern (2003), Erkan Özgen and Sener Özmen travel on horse and donkey, in the fashion of Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Sancho Panza through the southeastern region of Anatolia.
During their journey, they ask people they encounter the way to Tate Modern..
In Wonderland (2012), Ji Hye Yom offers a mono-interview in an artificial exotic hole in the middle of snow in Finland,
spinning over desires to see other places to Finnish relations with Russia.
Like a contemporary sideways vertical roll, Dineo Seshee Bopape’s 7egg (2012) moves static imagery against a roughly shot video landscape.
With this stream she creates a new narrative and altered perspective on ordinary items.
Daniel Bozhkov engages in a wide variety of media, painting and performance as acts of resistance to institutionalized homogenization,
aiming his works to be more infectious than disruptive.
The show is curated by Georgia Elrod, Sarada Rauch and Baris Gokturk. Heliopolis is an artist run space in Greenpoint Brooklyn. The show runs from November 9th to November 30th 2012.
TESTING is a collection of sketches, failed casts, cancelled proofs, and other objects that could have become works of art but didn’t.
Please join us in a celebration of the preparatory and provisional aspects of artists' practices that often go overlooked.
(long) list of artists coming soon.
Organized by Bill Abdale
FRIDAY OCTOBER 5TH
7-10PM
Ken Walmsley was born in 1947 in Lancashire England. Since the age of six he has been examining the world through pencil, pen, and brush. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Ken Walmsley's paintings take the viewer on a journey toward their own divine nature by examining in detail the body, mind, and spirit that reveal the interplay of anatomical, symbolic, and spiritual forces. He carries painting beyond the appearance of the physical world through windows of color and light to realms that contain an intuitive combination of animal and plant spirit guides, archetypal symbols, and higher dimensional energies. These pictures are conceptions of light - the essence of fire, not as we see it in the material world but as the radiance of the inner being. His work fosters reflection in the viewer and emphasizes the act of "seeing" as a contemplative mystical practice.
The Walmsley family crest is the Lion. The Lion symbolizes the astrological sign of Leo, which rules the heart. Courage comes from the heart and from one's deep sense of personal authority, which creates the power to act in a way that accords with one's spirit.
THE WALMSLEY LION OPENS
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2Oth
RECEPTION 7 - 10PM
JOIN HANDS!
Of sitting amongst a sleeping audience"
- Hafiz
The notion that the earth is not an endless supply of raw materials has contributed to recent developments in sustainability, which take into account symbiosis and the conscientious handling of energy and material. The magician sees the universe as a living being, it's visible appearance veiling the real nature of it's co-creative energy. The artists included in "Do It Awake!" invoke primal elements and energies, the forces of nature and of the irrational, and dedicate their process to the sensory experience of the living body. Anthroposophy and the integration of spiritual aspects of the natural sciences as well as the expansion of these insights into philosophy can be experienced in the holistic and open experimental approach to the artists' chosen mediums. JOIN US!
Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from 1-6 or by
appointment.
Bowman whose work engages with the physical act of photography, its materials and processes. With his
most recent body of work, a series of collodion portraits and large scale cyanotype photograms, he aligns
his practice with photography's antiquarian avant-garde.
Featured works include a series of portraits on glass, shot using the wet plate collodion process on a large format
camera from the 1870s, and four large-scale cyanotype prints. The two processes, collodion and
cyanotype, engage with nearly abandoned photographic processes.
Cyanotype printing, developed in the 1840s, was first used to make photograms, photographic images made
without the use of a camera. By placing objects directly onto the surface of paper coated with light-sensitive
chemicals, a shadow of the object appears. Inspired by the collaborations of Sue Weil and Robert Rauschenberg,
Bowman placed his own body on the light-sensitive paper - the result, ethereal silhouettes,
shadowy self-portraits, where the body floats in and out of watery blue space.
Collodion, an early photographic process, first introduced in the 1850s, and noted for its ability to capture
microscopic detail, effectively replaced the daguerreotype as the most popular form of photography in the late 19th
century. The collodion process requires a glass plate to be coated, sensitized, exposed, and then
developed all within the span of about ten minutes. Bowman uses his camera to capture his friends - fellow artists
and musicians living and working in New York City. The resulting images, filled with imperfections,
blurred by chemical streaks, blotches, and tears, embrace the transmutable and uncertain nature of the medium
speaking out against the numbing uniformity of so much digital photography.
Chemical Portraits will be on view through Sunday August 26th. Heliopolis Project is located at 54 Huron Street in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Opening reception, Friday August 17, 2012 7-10pm. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from 1-6 or by
appointment.
Eric will be in the gallery to shoot portraits on the following days:
Saturday, Aug. 18 1-6pm
Sunday, Aug. 19 1-6pm
Monday, Aug. 20 – Friday, Aug. 24 by appointment
Saturday, Aug. 25 1-6pm
Sunday, Aug. 26 1-6pm
Bill Brand
Madison Brookshire
Kenny Curwood
Sandra Gibson
Pierre Hébert
Eric Ostrowski
Film, video, objects, and texts. Sounds and hued subjects.
Curated by Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes
Open every Saturday and Sunday, 1-6 P.M. and by appointment
A: You hear it, and it’s that very specific sound…of flesh, that makes me…[laughs] that squishy sound.
B: I’m trying to build these devices, going forward with these videos, for how to conduct an action precisely, like that.
A: The fact that it’s fluid, and rhythmic, is what makes it for me. I see that a little with you two guys. But it’s like this is a path.
B: When I was growing up, we used to get up every morning and feed a lot of horses, and it got to be more and more, to the point where we were feeding fifty horses a day. And I’d go down there with my brother and two other people, just going through these routines, taking care of them. There’s a lot of that in here too.
A: What camera did you shoot that with?
Steven and Joanna are pleased to present five lights, two shelves, several photographs, a collaborative book, and some lard for your consideration.
Dean Dempsey earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. His photoworks have been exhibited at several national and international galleries in North America, Europe and Asia. He has been included in over 15 reviews and publications; most notably he was featured for a cover story in the San Francisco Bay Guardian in 2010. Dean Dempsey is currently in a traveling group exhibition now at Light Work, and set to have a solo exhibition in the spring of 2012 in Milan, Italy at the MC2 Gallery. He currently lives and works in New York City.
THE COMING ENVELOPE #3
MV CARBON PRESENTS
OPENING SATURDAY MARCH 19th 7-10pm
Chris Martin is the author of Becoming Weather (Coffee House 2011) and American Music (Copper Canyon 2007). A chapbook/guidebook of new poems called How to Write a Mistake-ist Poem is also just out from Brave Men Press. He is an editor at Futurepoem and curates the response blog Futurepost.
OPENING FRIDAY FEBRAURY 18th 7-11pm
CLAUDIA PENA SALINAS
Review of "THE FOOL AND THE FISHES": Fecal Face
SATURDAY JANUARY 29th 7-10pm
paintings by M. Pernod
"You go into one of M. Pernod's rooms and it turns time off, with very relaxing results". - C.F. Gordon
Sonic sodomites Alfi & Waldi present LOOKING CLASS, an a capella 4 hour storefront display of facial sonifications.
Saturday the 22nd, 6-10 PM.
*HOT TODDIES WILL BE SERVED FROM 8 - 10 PM*
Please enjoy a performance by FROSZE
Paintings by Joseph Ferriso
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY NOV. 20TH 7 - 10PM
Musical Interlude by Sweatshirt: Sunday, November 21st 4-6pm
“I used to really like Pablo Picasso” is a selection of recent, small-scale oil paintings and a large installation of miniature watercolors made over the past ten years.
The watercolors are random snapshots into an internal dialogue. Often made in one to two hour sittings, the watercolors vary from elaborate and precise to haphazard and wild. They serve as a journal of the past ten years, people, places, experiences, influences and documents of altered states. Though small in scale, these watercolors are made with the intention that the image size is infinite once inside the optic nerve. There will be 500+ watercolors on view from a growing collection of over 2000.
The recent oil on panel works included in the exhibition represent a complimentary practice to the watercolors. They are made with the same abandon and lack of direction. They grow from a color, a shape and seek to find unusual balances. They are custom framed by the artist as a way to complete their object-ness.
Joseph Ferriso is a New York City native who moved to San Francisco last year to explore the west coast.
Sweatshirt is a bi-coastal loose knit collective of untrained, playful musicians melding acoustic and electronic sounds to baffle and envelope. Started in 2010 by Joseph Ferriso and Jason Würm.
www.joeferriso.blogspot.com www.suncityprojectspace.com www.sweatshirtsounds.tumblr.com
"THE ORACULUM" BOOK RELEASE PARTY!
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH 6-9PM
Starring KENDRA URDANG///ELIZA SWANN///MARY AUSTIN SPEAKER///KARI ADELAIDE///LILLY BECHTEL///MONTANA RAY///SARA WINTZ
THE ORACULUM is an ongoing performance series that enlists people to perform various trance inducing activities such as head banging, chanting, mirror scrying, and suggestive hypnosis to encourage a state of transcendence and prophecy. This modern oracle attempts to celebrate the "irrational" or "feminine" aspects of wisdom and leadership that have been viewed as inferior in our contemporary understanding of Dualism. The Oraculum purports that illogicality and nonsense can be the catalyst for truths of great profundity. THE ORACULUM began as a collaboration between Eliza Swann and Kendra Urdang with Kendra Urdang playing the part of High Pythia in a performance at the St. Cecilia Convent. Her words to and from the Gods and Eliza Swann's images and installations around Kendra's words were put together as a book by PUSH PRESS entitled
THE ORACULUM.
Kendra Urdang graduated from Bard College in 2008 and now lives under a skylight in a South Williamsburg loft. She is a poet, a farmer currently with Raise the Roof Farms in Bushwick, and a doula. She volunteers at the Inwood House, a maternity residence for pregnant teens, is working on a chapbook, and is applying to farms upstate for the spring. She loves working with Eliza Swann and is so glad they are no longer florists.
Montana Ray is a candidate for a MFA in poetry and translation from Columbia University. Before pursuing this degree, Montana co-founded and ran an arts education company in Washington, DC. Her first published story "The Blessing" won Narrative Magazine's Under 30 contest. She lives in Brooklyn with her son Amadeus.
Mary Austin Speaker is a book designer and poet living in Brooklyn. She makes tiny book-like objects when she has time off from her day job, including two recent chaplets, In the End There Were Thousands of Cowboys and Abandoning the Firmament. New work can be found in recent or upcoming issues of Boston Review, New Orleans Review, Gray Tape and H_NGM_N. You can find her at www.maryaustinspeaker.com.
Sara Wintz's writing has appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Jacket, 6X6, Physical Poets and on Ceptuetics. She co-edited INVISIBLY TIGHT INSTITUTIONAL OUTER FLANKS DUB (verb) GLORIOUS NATIONAL HI-VIOLENCE RESPONSE DREAM: New Writing from the US + UK with Ryan Dobran, Justin Katko and Cristiana Baik in 2008.
GROUP SHOW
OCTOBER 1ST - 24TH
MUSIC/VISUAL PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY OCTOBER 2ND 8-10PM
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH 7-10PM
RYAN COFFEY/SOME NEW SHIT
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH 7-10PM
RUSSELL DILLON
MARY DONNELLY
MATT HART
NATE PRITTS
E.A. Bethea makes comics, writes, collects records and ephemera, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
gentlebear.wordpress.com
OUR MONTHLY READING SERIES
GREG FUCHS
JASON MORRIS
JOHN COLETTI
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6TH 7 - 10PM
PLEASE JOIN US FOR AN EXTRAORDINARY GATHERING OF THE FILAMENTS! OPENING RECEPTION SAT. JULY 24TH 7PM - 11PM
LILLIE FURMAN
NIKKI ALEXANDER FLORES
MACHINE
SHAN RAOUFI
JANIE WOODBRIDGE
JOIN US THIS SUNDAY FOR A REVIVAL OF THE LEGENDARY JUNK SHOP MARTY'S COOL STUFF
AT HELIOPOLIS THIS SUNDAY JUNE 20TH 10AM - 6PM
"IF EDIE BEALE OPENED A STORE..." Check out this great review of Marty's Cool Stuff in the Village Voice: http://www.villagevoice.com/bestof/2006/award/best-public-junk-collection-492076/
WITTS AND DAVE MISHALANIE
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY JUNE 4TH 7-10PM
CURATED BY GEORGIA ELROD
THIS FRIDAY MAY 21 PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER FOR MR. BILL ABDALE
OPENING RECEPTION 7 - 10 PM
HERE NOW!
THIS SATURDAY MAY 15th 7 - 10PM
E. Swann presents SUPERNATURE PT. 1
A collection of small works dedicated to the investigation of man's relationship to nature as tension between the finite human body and the Absolute.
THE INDUSTRIOUS REVOLUTION
Almost overnight our world was transformed by the emergence of flat technology and 2.0 media. In “the industrious revolution” the artist uses the gallery as a reflective space for the viewer to slow down and experience an alternative tactile world- one meant for our senses. The work is a meditation on the process of production removed from technology. The artist creates an environment with her own hands and a home sewing machine, relying on time honored crafting methods that are both labor and time intensive.
We are invited to stay a while and make our selves at home.
APRIL 29TH & MAY 1ST THIS BELTANE JOIN US FOR: THE BIG BELL #4 RELEASE PARTY TWO PART READING SERIES
Thursday 7 - 10pm * John Coletti * Matvei Yankelevich * Ashley Powers * Jay Riggio
Saturday 7 - 10pm * Evan Rehill * Ann-E Wood * Leigh Gallagher * Ryan-Daniel Healy
THIS SUNDAY THE 28TH OF MARCH WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE OUR MONTHLY SMALL PRESS/READING SERIES Bring your records, posters, zines, editions, small press books, and other ephemera for our monthly book swap/sale. Starring special guest readers:
Jay Riggio
Mary Austin Speaker
and Kendra Urdang
Sunday March 28th 5 - 8pm.
Readers begin at 6:30
SATURDAY MARCH 6TH 2010
Come experience a night of Levitation of the Sun! Christian Toscano will be debuting her recent work on paper along with a limited edition album. The works on paper combine elements of collage, painting, embroidery and photo transfer. These pieces investigate reflections of the cosmos through pattern and a person's connection to them.
"With a sun disk in my ear I focused on all the internal sounds from beyond the sun disk. After visualizing the five flames spinning from the center, it opened and I past through this portal of light. Beyond the sun disk- a celestial wind. I carried this wind in my left ear where all the personality of myself resided. I went beyond the solar disk and drank in the solar light through my heart. There existed the ring of energy, the ring of love."
The album by Christian & Adam is the product of them harnessing and interacting with atmospheric sounds. These improvisational soundscapes are the product of being attuned to each other in combination with the sounds that always surround. With an emphasis on the use of vocals, harmonium, bells, guitar, flutes and vocals they aim to change your concept of time through experience in the moment.
