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Book Reading
(July 17th, 2008 at 7:00 pm)
Meg Cranston
at 192 Books on Tenth Ave at 21st Street, New York

Meg Cranston will read selections from Hot Pants in a Cold Cold World a collection of the artist’s work and writing from 1987 –2007.  Cranston will also read from Good Morning Evil Genius a tragic and humorous roman a clef chronicling the misadventures of the unnamed Evil Genius. The book is accompanied by drawings by the artist... (continued)



String Quintet for 2 cellos, 2 violas and a corpse
(30 March, 2008)
Joanna Malinowska


For this one-time performance piece, Joanna Malinowska commissioned the young Japanese composer Masami Tomihisa to create an original music score according to a set of instructions provided in an officially signed contract... (continued)


Silence in the Light (10 January - 28 February, 2008)
Noritoshi Hirakawa, Hiroshi Sunairi, & Arto Lindsay


From the well-known voyeuristic photographs of Noritoshi Hirakawa and the often narcissistic and self-effacing performances of Hiroshi Sunairi, the work of these two Japanese artists may appear to be driven by sexual curiosity and deviance. In this exhibition, however, it is clear how the artmaking of Hirakawa and Sunairi is enmeshed in a discourse relating political and earthly phenomenon... (continued)

Progress (7 November - 20 December, 2007)
Claire Corey


Claire Corey’s work consists of highly sophisticated hybrid paintings utilizing the tools of past and present to extend the dialogue of painting.  In so doing she questions our expectations of what is made using a machine and what it means to be painting with a computer today. She began with a traditional painting approach and in 1995 she produced her first computer sketches... (continued)


Like Lovers Do... (15 February - 17 March, 2007)
Ilias Papailiakis


The series of seven paintings makes reference to the ‘80’s pop song with the same title, and also historically ties in the religious notion of pieta. Each work is an 11 by 10 inch pencil drawing on wood; the crudeness of the medium and the artist’s use of chiaroscuro underscore the dark narratives evoked in these little panels... (continued)

Stories (Incomplete): A Project
(17 November - 23 December, 2005)
Sam Samore


This exhibition by Sam Samore featured new large-scale photographic works. With their extended horizontal formats, Samore’s imagery presents a hyper-wide-screen experience, redefining cinematic narrative in still form. Drawing from art historical and film references, Samore explores and expands notions of the allegorical and the dramatic... (continued)

 

 



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