New works from my friend John Copeland///
Copenhagen Graffiti
Toys Crew, playing with The Dark Roses:::
Artist web// Jakob Tolstrup
Artist web// Tweb 76
Copenhagen Graffiti
Cannonball Press “As good as it gets”
In.flec.tion
In.flec.tion
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
Artists included in the exhibition:
Justin Allen, Kadar Brock, Michael Brown, Aaron Johnson,
Amy Myers, Mike Nemire, John Newsom, Don Porcella, Jason Repolle,
Andrew Sendor, Adam Stennett, Helen Verhoeven and Bryan Zanisnik
Marcia Hafif @ Newman Popiashvili Gallery
Newman Popiashvili Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Marcia Hafif. The gallery will be showing historic works – the Black Paintings from 1979-80 that were originally shown at Sonnabend gallery in 1981. Although Hafif has shown extensively in Europe and in the US for the past fifty years, this exhibition offers a rare opportunity for another look at Hafif’s early monochromes thirty years later.
Marcia Hafif published an article in Artforum magazine in 1978 titled “Beginning Again,” a catalyst for gathering artists under the title Radical Painting, which was the name of an exhibition curated by Thomas Krens at Williams College in 1984. The artists who were part of Radical Painting advocated a certain fundamentalism in painting – a stance that found more favor in France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, than in New York. Hafif wrote that “although [her monochromes] may have an undivided surface,” they were “not merely of one color in one undifferentiated plane, each painted exactly like another.” The four paintings in the exhibition are composed of Burnt Umber and Ultramarine Blue pigments. The closer we look, the more dissimilarities we see among them, and a certain imagery appears in each.
Marcia Hafif always underlined the “prime importance” of the hanging of a monochromatic painting – “A monochromatic painting does not hold a tight focus in that its own energy spreads out to areas surrounding it, which is one of the reasons why walls today are white or neutral avoiding the color harmony automatically set up between the painting and a wall color.”
Notwithstanding their history, these paintings offer us a powerful viewing experience.
At the age of eighty, Hafif continues to work between New York City and Laguna Beach, CA. Her most recent show opened in November 2009 at Kunstraum Alexander-Buerkle, Freiburg, Germany and she is scheduled for a show at MAMCO, Geneva in April that coincides with the publication of a catalogue raisonné of her Italian paintings painted in Rome, Italy 1961-69.
Beauty that lasts Forever::
Never a Dull Moment
White Walls is proud to present Never a Dull Moment, a group show curated by
iO Wright. Never a Dull Moment will transform the gallery into a cohesive
environment that embraces all mediums of creativity from sixteen artists.
Never a Dull Moment features Anthony Lister, Alessandro Zuek Simonetti, Jaybo
Monk, Angela Boatwright, Augustine Kofie, Dave Potes, Jonathan Darby, Ray
Potes, Remi Rough, iO Wright, Erik Otto, Cheryl Dunn, Armsrock, Dave
Schubert, Sam Ash and Clayton Brothers. iO Wright has chosen these artists for
their “get your hands dirty” and “donʼt worry just do” mentality. Without
considering outside forces, they are urged to continuously create and express
themselves. With shared roots in graffiti art, this group has a flare for action,
immediacy, and unpredictability. Never a Dull Moment exposes viewers to the
creative mindʼs raw inner workings and draws distinct parallels between everyday
immediate expression and fine art.
Never a Dull Moment will be a transformation of the gallery space into a chaotic,
organic environment close to the heart of the artistic process. Film, sculpture,
installation, and large-scale wheat paste can be expected from this multi media,
multi talented group of artists. Embracing the connection between photography
and fine art, Never a Dull Moment will meld the two together just as they are in
everyday life. Several artists including Jaybo Monk, Remi Rough, Erik Otto, Augustine Kofie
and Jonathan Darby plan to create a site-specific installation to
accompany their works in the gallery. The installation will no doubt be interactive
and multi sensory, with few white walls in sight.
iO Wright is a photography based artist, writer, and curator. Along with co-
founding the street art quarterly, Overspray Magazine, iO curated Climb in the
Back Window at Shadowʼs Space Gallery in Philadelphia in 2009. Keeping close
tabs on urban art, she has also interviewed such influential artists as Shepard
Fairey and Erik Foss. This exhibition is curated by iO Wright and sponsored by
White Walls, Hamburger Eyes, and New Order Magazine.