STOREFRONT SPACE: New Space, Bushwick!

the creative team of Norte Maar launch a new project called:

STOREFRONT

first EXHIBITION:

NEW year, NEW work, NEW space:

January 2-Feburary 6, 2010

opening PARTY: Saturday, January 2, 6-10PM

HOURS: Sat-Sun, 1-6PM

featuring the work of artists we know, the artists we like,

and the artists we’d like to get to know better:

Roland Allmeyer Bill Adams Michele Araujo Deborah Brown Jeri Coppola

Judy Dolnick Hermine Ford Rico Gatson Theresa Hackett Arnold Helbring

Brece Honeycutt Andrew Hurst Norman Jabaut Mary Judge Justen Ladda

Ellen Letcher Amy Lincoln Mathew Miller Jimmy Miracle Brooke Moyse

Steve Pauley Olivie Ponce Kevin Regan Hilda Shen Adam Simon

Stephen Truax and Austin Thomas

STOREFRONT

16 Wilson Avenue

Brooklyn

DIRECTIONS: L train to Morgan. Four blocks on Morgan to Flushing. Cross Flushing to Wilson Avenue. Gallery located between Noll and George Street.

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STOREFRONT is a gallery project run by the creative team of Norte Maar. The gallery is an extension of the collaborative mission to encourage, support and present unique exhibitions and innovative performances while fostering community, artistic expression and raising the imaginative energy in us all.

happiness is generosity

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas. Today my thoughts are of gift economies. I listened to a great podcast about money, which included a discussion of gift economies and social business with Reverend Billy discussing sensuous economies and his gospel of no-shopping.

I think my work is about gift economy participation. To diverge a little bit from gifts but not entirely, I quote (below, written in all caps) from today's Tiffany's ad in the New York Times. Whether capitalism, "social capitalism," or gift economies, it's good to keep your options open.

HEAR THE HUSH ACROSS OUR CITY,
COZY FAMILIES, CHILDREN GIDDY,
LET PEACE AND JOY GUIDE OUR WAY
ON THIS MERRY CHRISTMAS DAY





image: Deborah Brown "Shoe Tree" and it is 48" X 60" from 2009

Gallery Treat!

I really fell in love with this show at A.M Richard Gallery in Williamsburg. I might have to buy some of Devon's Morandi's! They are amazing. Great gallery, wonderful exhibition!!

Devin Dougherty, Morandi suite (9 vessels), Raku ceramic, 6" x 10" overall, 2009.




Steve Keister, Xibalba (site specific installation), glazed earthenware, cement, wood, acrylic, paper, variable dimensions, 2009.

a Saturday Night Art Stumble

Here it is, go stumble:

You'll start on the lower east side, then Bushwick (which seems to be the 2 art neighborhoods)

meet at cuchifritos 6pm

1. Cuchifritos, 4 - 6 PM
120 Essex Street, Delancey / Rivington (inside the Essex St. Food Market at the South end of the building), 212-420-9202


2. 5 Year Anniversary of LMAKprojects
LMAKprojects, 6 - 9 PM
139 Eldridge Street, 212-255-9707

3. 2009 Artist of the Month Club Showcase
Invisible-Exports, 6 - 8 PM
14A Orchard Street, 212-226-5447

then out to Bushwick

4. Takayuki Kubota
The Laundromat, 6 - 10 PM
238 Melrose Street, 4th Floor, laundromatgallery@gmail.com

they should have snacks or you guys can go to Life Cafe

more shows in Bushwick:

Thingy
Occasional Projects, 7 - 9 PM
1182 Flushing Avenue, 3rd Floor, 718 865-6526

you'll end up at Norte Maar (I think our pal Anna worked really hard on this):

one night show at Norte Maar:

19th Nervous Breakdown
an immediate response
a spontaneous exhibition organized and curated by
Elliot Lessing
with special assistance from Anna D'Agrosa

OPENING PARTY:
Saturday, December 12, 6-10PM
exhibition continues for one day only, Sunday, December 13, 1-6PM

NORTE MAAR
83 Wyckoff Avenue, #1B
Brooklyn

image: norte maar

Hildur Asgeirsdóttir Jónsson: it only gets better

While in Ohio...I ate a lot and ALSO took a road trip to Cleveland. I went there to see Hildur Asgeirsdóttir Jónsson. Hildur took me on a tour of her work, some of it up at the William Bust Gallery, and even more to see at the Cleveland Clinic's esteemed art collection program. They commissioned her to do the pieces in the chapel, which are quite lovely. Hildur, quite the accomplished artist. It only gets better!

The Cleveland Clinic Work:

the Chapel at the Cleveland Clinic.

Hildur on view at the William Busta gallery.

Hildur locking up the William Busta gallery.

Then to her studio:

Hildur standing beside her embroidery series.

Veil-Nebula 12"x12", silk 2007

Veil-Nebula 12"x12", silk 2007

Embroideries.

More Embroideries.

Warpers.

Gorgeous!

Final studio view.