Chinatown Labor: Film Screening
Opens: Friday March 29, 2024, 6-8pm
As part of our current exhibition Color Photographs from the New Deal (1939-1943) which incorporates documentation of labor movements from the 1930's-40's and including material on the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance, Carriage Trade will host a screening of films addressing both contemporary and historical examples of labor issues in Chinatown. These films engage both the important history of the CHLA (…)
carriage trade's 15th Anniversary Benefit Event
Opens: Thursday October 19th, 2023, 6-9pm
Carriage Trade is enormously grateful to the Wooster Group's Kate Valk, Elizabeth LeCompte, Jim Fletcher and Andrew Maillet, as well as Paul McMahon for their efforts and participation in Carriage Trade's benefit event. Thanks also to the artists for their donation of the benefit editions, our 15th anniversary benefit committee, as well as all the contributors to past benefits, supporters, visitors, and artists we’ve worked with over the last 15 years (…)
carriage trade book fair
Opening: Friday, August 11, 2023, 6-8pm
Open: August 12 - 13, 2023, 12-6pm
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Art Against Displacement (AAD), The Baffler, Cabinet Magazine, Canal Street Research Association, Citygroup, Evergreen Review, Hallwalls, Hypothetical Books / Vortexity, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), Lubov / WPN, Kai Matsumiya, Montez Press, prompt:, 10GreenestWolgamot
Model Home (New York)
After Wisconsin Death Trip
March 16 – June 4, 2023
Exhibition Opening: Thursday March 16th, 6-8PM They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not been able to get a decent existence for their bodies? Upton Sinclair, The Jungle It is not red or blue, it is green (...)
Social Photography X
socialphotography.carriagetrade.org
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Gallery Exhibition:
December 8, 2022 - February 12, 2023
Catalog Launch / Closing Reception:
Thursday, February 16, 6-8PM
carriage trade
277 Grand St, 2nd FL
New York, NY 10002
Thursday-Sunday, 1-6pm
Presented against the backdrop of the twin meltdowns of a social media platform and a cryptocurrency, this 10th anniversary show of Social Photography comes at a time when the progressive reputation enjoyed by the tech industry might warrant some skepticism. While a (...)
The Poor Farm Model Home (Part One)
After Wisconsin Death Trip
Organized by carriage trade
Reopening Weekend: July 22 - 23, 2023
July 22 - Afternoon: Walkthrough of the exhibition with Peter Scott, followed by reception
July 23 - Afternoon: Artist talks with Peggy Ahwesh and Philip Vanderhyden
The Poor Farm E6325 County Road Bb Manawa, WI 54949 708-305-2657 They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls (...)
Untitled (hands)
June 23 - October 23, 2022
hand, one hand, a hand, hand in, in hand, right hand, at hand, hand to, hands on, left hand, by hand, to hand, on hand, hand over, free hand, hand me downs, upper hand, hand holding, hand held, heavy hand, open hand, little hand, join hands, hand wringing, dab hand, hand pollination, hand saw, hot hand, hand truck, hand game, hand bag, hand dryer, hand spinning, iron hand, hold hand, hand off, big hand, hand washing, hand hand signature, sleight of hand, third hand, hand rolled, learned hand, black hand, dead hand, hand grenade, hired hand, hand lens, first hand, hand out, hands up, hands down, helping hand, hand bell, second hand, invisible hand, hand tools, on the one hand, on the other hand, hand around, hand back, small hand(...)
The Yes Men
December 9, 2021 – April 29, 2022
The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.
- Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 1967
We tell you anything you want to hear. We lie like hell.
- Howard Beale, Network, 1976
(…)
Muntadas
CLOSED / LOCKED
September 23 – October 30, 2021
For those that remained in New York City in the early spring of 2020, it was like inhabiting a ghost town. Street life evaporated and daily life took place almost exclusively indoors. Relief from the deafening silence came only in the form of all too frequent sirens both close and far away. Talking heads now appeared from their living rooms, eager to reassure us with nightly updates on hand washing and disinfectants. The news was a lifeline, a mirror, and a means to either instigate or dispel rumor as imaginations ran wild in a moment of fear. Meanwhile (...)
Social Photography IX
August 5 – October 30, 2021
Now in its ninth year, Social Photography brings together cell phone pictures of participants from a wide range of disciplines, generations, and places. In the spirit of broad access to cell phone image making technology, the emphasis of the project leans toward sensibility and the anecdotal over skill and mastery of the medium of photography. (...)
Hearts and Minds
April 15 – June 27, 2021
A joint project of carriage trade and Rectangle, Brussels.
So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam, but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there.
-– Lyndon B. Johnson
Remarks at a Dinner Meeting of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., May 4, 1965
The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.
– Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness, 1899
(…)
Everybody Dies!
November 19, 2020 – February 21, 2021
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
– Euripides
Death don’t have no mercy.
– Reverend Gary Davis
The logic of unnecessary suffering and death is guaranteed by the news. Before the pandemic, before the explicit brutality revealed by cell phone videos, violence has long been sublimated through media ritual. If it bled, it led. (…)
Social Photography VIII
Online Preview Begins:
Sunday, July 18, 2PM
socialphotography.carriagetrade.org
Online Sales Begin:
Tuesday, July 20, 2PM
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Gallery Exhibition:
August 5 - September 30, 2021
Carriage trade is pleased to present Social Photography VIII, the eighth installment of carriage trade’s cell phone photography show. While Social Photography is not guided by an all-encompassing theme, each year’s collection of pictures becomes an informal archive (…)
PUBLIC IMAGES
April 18 - June 10, 2020
The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flaneur as phantasmagoria- now a landscape, now a room.
– Walter Benjamin
When faced with absence we resort to memory. The experience of the present, which normally includes making plans for the future, is currently on hold. The public realm, already hard to define, (…)
The Wooster Group
November 8 - February 16, 2020
When an emancipation occurs, lots of things are liberated, some good, some bad.
– Ron Vawter
I love that two-dimensional TV world. It’s not ambiguous, like film; I can feel the surface.
– Elizabeth LeCompte
Underneath each picture there is always another picture.
– Douglas Crimp
(…)
Social Photography VII
August 5 - September 30, 2021
First presented in 2011, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have become both a tradition and an ongoing survey of cell phone camera use. What began as a novelty medium seven or eight years ago now provides currency for the $100 billion picture mill of Instagram, which funnels 95 million images a day through its social media network via opaque algorithms that determine the order and context of what we see.
Fed into and viewed on a "slot machine" scroll where one might "hit the jackpot" of likes, cell phone pictures are largely experienced on our phones. When presented (…)
"One More - Billy Wasn’t Crying." Original Social Media Cartoons from The New Yorker
July 30 - August 30, 2019
Carriage trade is pleased to present an exhibition of original cartoons from The New Yorker related to social media and cell phone use in conjunction with Social Photography VII.
From its inception in 1925, The New Yorker’s cartoons have provided a steady supply of American cultural satire for close to a century. Commenting at times directly and sometimes more (...)
The Village
April 4 - May 12, 2019
"Be seeing you."
Salutation from The Prisoner
The Village draws its inspiration from the 1960’s science fiction television show The Prisoner, created in 1967 by actor/director Patrick McGoohan. The Prisoner depicted a dystopian community known as "the Village" which possessed a cheerful Disneyesque appearance that belied its function as a kind of Soviet Bloc society whose citizens are under constant surveillance. Assigned numbers in place of names upon their arrival, the identities of the Village residents are unknown to one another. With no way to determine whether one is interacting with a prisoner or guard, the residents acquiesce
into a resigned acceptance of their fate.
(...)
carriage trade book fair
March 2-3, 2019, 1-8 pm
Christine Burgin New Directions Common Notions INK CAP PRESS Division Leap Kai Matsumiya Office Space 2 prompt: Small Editions PDF null The Home School & The Song Cave
Denise Scott Brown Photographs, 1956 - 1966
October 25, 2018 - January 20, 2019
I’m not a photographer. I shoot for architecture - if there’s art here it’s a byproduct.
Denise Scott Brown
Carriage trade is pleased to present the exhibition Denise Scott Brown, Photographs, 1956 -1966, the first one-person show of photographs in the U.S. of this highly influential architect, planner, and theorist. As one of the first architect/ designers to acknowledge the significance of Pop Art (...)
Archive / New York, 1950 - 1970
August 3 - September 23, 2018
Presenting an informal archive of black and white photographs alongside cell phone pictures from Social Photography VI, the exhibition Archive / New York, 1950-1970, offers visual connections between images of everyday life from 20th century New York City and the moment-to-moment recording of 21st century experience via the cell phone camera. Drawn largely from lifestyle reportage of unknown and lesser-known photographers, this companion show demonstrates parallels and historical links to much of today’s cell phone photography, which, through an emphasis on sensibility, humor, and candid shots of the overlooked, reveal a latent presence of the photojournalist’s urge to articulate and document everyday life. (...)
Social Photography VI
July 10 - September 23, 2018
First presented in 2011, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have catalogued the rapid transformation of cell phone photography over the last several years. From a novelty medium existing between the voice and text functions of flip phones, to the smart phone as near physical appendage capable of recording and transmitting every waking moment, the cell phone camera now plays a pervasive role in many people’s lives. While Instagram tends to emphasize the medium’s social utility, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have tracked an alternate course, inviting participants and viewers to encounter these images in a format free of peer-generated tallies, while offering the option of a sustained look afforded by a gallery setting. Social Photography (...)
The Earth is Flat.
April 12 - June 10, 2018
Suspicion, vengeance, and irrationality have become the new norm. As in previous times of radical social change, zealotry and demagoguery surge as faith in the established order recedes. The collective pursuit of democratic ideals, built on Enlightenment principles never quite fulfilled, suffers waves of backlash, resentment built up from centuries of promise and disappointment. Democracy, gamed by the twin forces of privatization and media spectacle, is forced to watch its failures writ large, its susceptibility to rule by personality at last delivering the role of leader as farce. (...)
Picture City III
November 2 - February 11, 2018
Existing as much in fantasy and imagination as in its complex and contradictory realities, the "big city" draws millions of visitors every year who revel in its Oz-like qualities. Providing a stimulating and cosmopolitan backdrop for vacationers from across the globe, dreams of urban living are offered to those with ambitions to live out one of the many television and movie narratives in today’s multi-format media world. As the city’s "real life" neighborhoods and buildings are featured in many films, sitcoms, and advertisements, an aura of familiarity exists for those who can identify their significance as fictional landmarks.
Producing myths alongside its myriad goods and services, the city’s economy becomes indistinguishable from its imagery. Devoted fans of urban fictions anoint their favorite places, ushering in boutiques, bakeries, and cafes that satisfy an urge to displace the complexities of urban space into palatable fantasies of the lives lived by their idols. While the city’s conflicting social and political agendas perpetually vie for attention, its mythologies evolve over (...)
Bill Owens / American Icons
July 27 - September 17, 2017
Bill Owens is perhaps most well known for his iconic Suburbia project documenting the daily life of his friends and neighbors in a northern California suburb in 1972. Treating middle class experience as an anthropological phenomenon, Owens poignant and often funny images described the American suburb at a kind of midpoint between the wholesome optimism of Levittown and the ancillary effects of Vietnam and the looming recession. (...)
Social Photography V
July 11 - September 17, 2017
First presented in 2011 and now in its fifth iteration, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have catalogued the rapid transformation of cell phone photography over the last several years. From a novelty medium existing between the (then) more important voice and text functions of mobile phones, to the engine behind the gargantuan image processing mills of Instagram and Facebook, cell phone camera images have become a ubiquitous presence in our lives. Functioning as a benefit exhibition to help support upcoming programming at carriage trade, there is no particular theme guiding Social Photography V apart from how the cell phone camera is most often used. Both artists and non-artists email images from their phones to carriage trade which are then formatted, printed on 5” x 7” paper and sold online and in the gallery during the exhibition (list of contributors and details below). (...)
AMERICAN INTERIOR
April 27 - June 18, 2017
“The facts we hate, we’ll never meet walking down the road, everybody yelling, ‘Hurry up, hurry up!’ But I’m waiting for you, I must go slow, I must not think bad thoughts. When is this world coming to? Both sides are right, but both sides murder, I give up, why can’t they?”
[/I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts, X, 1983 /]
Upended by the November election results, the American political establishment has been (...)
Simon Linke
March 2-6 2016
Slightly smaller than one of Artforum’s full page ads, Simon Linke’s 10" x 10” paintings corrupt the clean graphic layout of their source through a full-on indulgence in an excess of oil paint. Replicating the ads as faithfully as possible while wrangling a robust, fluid material within an almost comically limiting surface area, Linke’s paintings exist as a near-perfect contradiction between boldly expressed market confidence and an artist’s potential alienation when faced with the pressures of producing a consistent product.
Arresting Artforum’s iconic monthly bulletins announcing the "new" in a relief of thickly applied paint, Simon Linke’s paintings express the ideal of stability where there is none, flipping the temporal nature of an exhibition notice on its head. Focusing largely on recognizable blue chip artists and galleries, the paintings’ compact size and precise articulation offer an ironic contrast to the overwhelming scale and volume of the contemporary art market from which their subjects are derived. (...)
Social Photography IV
An Exhibition of Cell Phone Photographs
Exhibition dates: November: 12th- 22th, 2014
Exhibition venue: Emily Harvey Foundation 537 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 12th, 6-9 p.m.
Closing Reception: Friday, November 21st, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday 1 to 7 p.m.
Carriage trade is pleased to announce its fourth installment of Social Photography, an exhibition that focuses on cell phone photography. Emphasizing no particular theme apart from how the cell phone camera is most often used, both artists and non-artists were invited to submit images (...)
Cutting Through the Suburbs
April 5 - May 25, 2014
By undoing a building ... [I] open a a state of enclosure which has been preconditioned not only by physical necessity but by the industry that proliferates suburban and urban boxes as a pretext for ensuring a passive, isolated consumer.
Gordon Matta-Clark
(...)
David Watson performs Parade
Tuesday February 25, 2014
Doors open at 7, Performance at 8pm
$5 at the door
David Watson has been a participant, observer and fan of New York City street parades. As an experimental musician he is drawn to the combinations of organization and disorder, sound and noise. This has led to him to making original pieces for three pipe bands in Hobart, Australia; a game (...)
Social Photography III
An Exhibition of Cell Phone Photographs
December 12, 2013 - January 18, 2014
Catolog Reception:
Friday, January 10, 6-9 p.m.
Social Photography III is the third installment of a carriage trade benefit exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. Emphasizing no particular theme beyond how the cell phone camera is most often used, both artists and non-artists were invited to submit images from their phones and email them to carriage trade. The images will be printed on 5” x 7” paper and installed in a grid in the gallery.
As cell phone cameras become more ubiquitous, their function continues to evolve. Encompassing the varied roles of snapshots, visual notes, discrete picture taking, or the immediacy of citizen journalism, the cell phone camera lacks the intentionality of a point-and-shoot, resulting in a more (...)
Enxuto & Love Anonymous Paintings
October 10 - November 24, 2013
Recovered from the depths of the online art platform known as Google Art Project, João Enxuto and Erica Love’s Anonymous Paintings betray the ambiguities inherent in the experience of visual art in the age of digital culture. Deliberately selecting the censored cast-offs that are blurred due to copyright restrictions, their project emphasizes the condition of the art object today as one of contingency, while revealing Google Art Project’s elevation of mass culture as an expansion of corporate culture’s influence over the comparatively "dusty" environs of the world’s great museums.
Billed as a democratization of culture, Google’s venture into the world of fine art is in (...)
The Pathos of Things
March 9 - May 19, 2013
Shop for a product. Buy the product. Touch the product’s screen. When things do mostly what we wish, they become invisible. When they frustrate our expectations, they’re dispensed with. In a world of objects that exist to service our needs, when something fails to function, (mechanically, aesthetically, indefinitely) it runs the risk of exposing our dependence on it, its failure a potential rupture in the seamless flow of our psychological mastery over the things around us.
At least since the origins of consumerism, what we consume is not entirely in our possession. Moving beyond utility into belief, the "de-objecting" of things that occurs in advertising and branding seems to afford a special power to the objects in our midst. The things we acquire also exist as statements we (willingly or unwillingly) make in our role as users of a brand. A sneaker’s function (...)
carriage trade benefit
carriage trade’s 2012 benefit exhibition to raise funds for its upcoming programming will open on December 18 at 62 Walker Street. Artwork can be previewed Thurs.- Sat. from 2-6 pm, January 10-26. The benefit raffle will take place on January 29, 2013.
The number of tickets sold will equal the number of donated artworks. On the night of the raffle, ticket holders are entitled to choose an artwork once their numbers have been randomly drawn. The artworks will be presented anonymously, with the identity of the artist revealed after the ticket holder acquires the piece (...)
Family Portrait
October 19 - December 9, 2012
As the subject of An American Family, one of television’s first reality shows, the Loud family exemplified the "Margaret Mead effect" of the mediation of experience, where representation begins to influence behavior. Followed everywhere by cameras for seven months, emotional cracks and fissures developed from the constant surveillance, which peaked when Pat Loud asked her husband for a divorce on TV. Serving as a vehicle to represent and reproduce the values of society, the family is central to its psyche. Through television shows and advertisements, popular culture has combined to represent the family as central to "belonging," a unique group at the core of social obligation (...)
Archival Portraits
June 29 - July 29, 2012
Traditionally highlighting the unique personality of a subject, the genre of portraiture is at odds with the increasingly disparate quality of our current experience of the self. The popularity of social media and instant communication has meant much more frequent interaction between individuals, which favors brevity and is often disconnected from place. Now being available "anytime" takes precedence over one’s location, as the disengagement of context (where and how we encounter one another) from interpersonal exchanges poses questions for the ongoing relationship (...)
Color Photographs from the New Deal (1939-1943)
March 22- May 20, 2012
Largely forgotten until the mid-seventies when they resurfaced in the Library of Congress archives, the color photographs of the Farm Security Administration/ Office of War Information (1939-1943) document the later period of FDR’s New Deal, an ambitious series of government programs designed to address the brutal effects of the Great Depression on the social and economic fabric of 1930’s America. While the Library’s archive of black and white depression-era photographs is more familiar and more often reproduced, the color images, taken within three years of the invention of Kodachrome film, are striking for their rich, saturated colors and rigorously formal compositions. (...)
Social Photography II
A Benefit Exhibition of Cell Phone Photographs
December 6 - 22, 2011
Reception: Tuesday, December 6 | 6-9 p.m.
Closing: Tuesday, December 20 | 6-9 p.m.
Social Photography II is the second installment of a carriage trade benefit exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. Emphasizing no particular theme beyond how the cell phone camera is most often used, both artists and non-artists were invited to submit images from their phones and email them to carriage trade. The images will be (...)
POP Patriotism
September 22 - November 13, 2011
POP Patriotism, curated by Peter Scott at Momenta Art in September 2002, is being re-presented at carriage trade from September 22 to November 13, 2011. A note on the re-presentation of POP Patriotism in 2011:
In the panicked days, weeks, and months following September 11, 2001, many Americans were too overwhelmed to be aware of the way in which their fear was being appropriated by certain factions within government and business to further a set of goals, often having little to do with "security" or "freedom." An attack that seemed to "come from nowhere" stimulated an aggressive series of government policies and ad campaigns by businesses that reflected an acute (...)
Henry Codax
June 24 - August 13, 2011
Henry Codax 2011, acrylic on canvas, 84" x 84" (top left to bottom right), Untitled (blue), Untitled (light grey), Untitled (orange), Untitled (green) Installation View Henry Codax, carriage trade, 2011 Henry Codax 2011, acrylic on canvas, 84" x 84", (top left to bottom right), Untitled (pink), Untitled (dark grey), Untitled (yellow), Untitled (turquoise) Henry Codax 2011, acrylic on canvas, 84" x 84", Untitled (pink), Untitled (yellow) Henry Codax 2011, acrylic on (...)
PICTURE NO PICTURE
April 28 - June 12, 2011
No one seems to be sure what the decline of modernism’s cultural influence, beginning sometime in the 1950’s and 60’s, has led to. The return of narrative and ornament in the art and architecture of the 1970’s suggested an effort to break with the immediate past, but the privileging of rationalism as a guiding social order evident in the idea of markets finding their perfect equilibrium continues to dominate economic discourse, despite the occasionally irrational results. While architects like Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Rem Koolhaas seemed to have represented "a new way forward," the prevalence of a creeping re-modernism found in the ubiquitous Corbusier-like, double-height urban lofts sheathed in glass and filled with mid-century modern furniture confirms the continued appeal of modernism’s aesthetic essentialism.
(...)
Jef Geys Woodward Avenue
February 19 - April 3, 2011
carriage trade is very pleased to present Woodward Avenue by Jef Geys, a project first developed and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. This exhibition is a variation of Geys’ Quadra Medicinale, at the Belgian Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale, a collaboration of four of the artist’s friends who collected and archived “urban flora” in Brussels, Moscow, Villeurbanne, and New York. For Woodward Avenue, Geys asked the ethnobotanist Ina Vandebroek to collect weeds found on 12 ntersections along a thirty-mile stretch of Detroit’s main thoroughfare and document their properties (medicinal, poisonous, etc.). The results were collated into a multi-layered project (...)
Social Photography
A Benefit Exhibition of Cell Phone Photographs
January 19 - February 5, 2011
Wednesday - Sunday, 1-6 pm
Reception: Saturday, January 29, 6-9 pm
Organized to benefit upcoming programming at carriage trade, Social Photography is an exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. As cell phone cameras become more ubiquitous, their function continues to evolve. Encompassing the varied roles of snapshots, visual notes, discrete picture taking, or the immediacy of citizen journalism, the cell phone camera lacks the intentionality of a point-and-shoot, resulting in a more direct recording (...)
Another Green World
September 22 - December 19, 2010
The exhibition Another Green World intends to draw parallels between the genre of landscape and the current preoccupation with "green" in popular culture. While the romanticism of 19th century landscape tradition linked the sublimity of nature with the existence of God, it also lent inspiration for westward expansion and the underlying impulse of "man’s" dominion over nature. This mixture of the profound with the pragmatic speaks to a fundamental contradiction in society’s relationship to nature, as the unchecked use of natural resources clashes with the idyllic image of nature as a world "set apart" and untouched by daily life. The commercial appropriation of green imagery is the most recent manifestation of this contradiction, as "greenwashing" facilitates the smoothing (...)
Mistaken Identity
May 7 - July 18, 2010
While the genre of portraiture tends to feature clearly defined subjects, the portrait show Mistaken Identity focuses instead on the uncertainties of facial recognition and how misperception might affect behavior in everyday experience. Linking the concept of belief to what we can “know” about an individual’s face, the exhibition explores identification as a process influenced by the particular circumstances of any given encounter.
Commonly associated with detective stories and courtroom dramas, the need of proof of an individual’s identity also has a utilitarian aspect, as our memories for faces plays a significant role in the most mundane of exchanges. In the somewhat rare case of people with prosopagnosia (face blindness), friends and family are indistinguishable from strangers, so that the “context” of an (...)
carriage trade benefit
Saturday, April 17, from 6 - 10 pm
Raffle will begin at 7:30pm
carriage trade is re-opening as a non-profit at 62 Walker Street (near Broadway) with a benefit to raise funds for its upcoming programming. The artwork can be previewed from 2-6 pm Wednesday, April 14 - Saturday, April 17, the day of the raffle event. Tickets for the raffle are $125 and can be purchased through paypal and in the gallery the week of the benefit. The number of tickets sold will equal the number of donated works. On the night of the raffle, ticket holders are entitled to choose an artwork once their numbers have been randomly drawn. The artworks will be presented anonymously, with the identity of the artist revealed only after the ticket holder acquires the piece. (...)
Market Forces
Part 1 and 2
at Galerie Erna Hecey
May 28, 2009 - August 8, 2009
Market Forces, Part 1/ Consuming Territories, and Market Forces, Part 2/Consumer Confidence, were first presented at carriage trade in New York in the winter and spring of 2008, and will be shown together at Galerie Erna Hecey in Brussels in May 2009. A short excerpt from the original press release appears below: Market Forces addresses the euphoric consumer culture of the (...)
The Cult of Personality
Portraits and Mass Culture
at Galerie Erna Hecey
October 17 - November 29, 2008
Erna Hecey Gallery is very pleased to present the exhibition The Cult of Peronality, Portraits and Mass Culture.
As the U.S presidential campaign kicks into high gear, the exhibition The Cult of Personality, Portraits and Mass Culture investigates the relationship between celebrity and political personas within the context of mass media. In focusing on portraiture, a genre which privileges the relative psychological interest of its subject, this exhibition attempts to locate the manner in which the development (...)
Market Forces Pt. 2
Part II: Consumer Confidence
May 23 - June 29, 2008
"In the next months domestic political issues will be: a. As contentious as ever b. About the same with politicians still arguing c. Best ignored — as I do today" question from ConsumerConfidenceSurvey.com The consumer confidence index serves as a barometer of the nation’s collective (consumer) psyche, a monthly taking of the pulse that sheds light on the current mood and purchasing power of the American consumer. Responsible for roughly (...)
Market Forces Pt. 1
Part I: Consuming Territories
April 5 - May 18, 2008
“We never know where the consumer is going to be at any point in time, so we have to find a way to be everywhere. Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.” [/Linda Kaplan Thaler, Kaplan Thaler Group, New York ad agency/]
Market Forces addresses the euphoric consumer culture of the last decade that manifest itself in a seeming overflow of goods and services and an explosion of luxury housing development that (...)
The Cult of Personality
Portraits and mass culture
February 28 - March 30, 2008
“Someone said that Brecht wanted everybody to think alike. I want everybody to think alike. But Brecht wanted to do it through Communism, in a way. Russia is doing it under government. It’s happening here all by itself without being under a strict government; so if it’s working without trying, why can’t it work without being Communist? Everybody looks alike and acts alike, and we’re getting more and more that way.” [/Andy Warhol/]
Unlike the crude forms of thought control and idolatry found in Stalinist Russia and present day North Korea, the American media’s presentation of its leaders is predicated (...)
Out of Place
Organized by Peter Scott
UBS Art Gallery
1285 Ave. of the Americas NY, New York
Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
April 7-June 17, 2005
Engaged in regular pursuits of work and entertainment in the highly stimulating environment of today’s city, our response to the urban landscape is generally one of developing habits and routines. Often lost underneath the traces of our paths, which become well worn with repeated use, is an (...)
POP Patriotism
Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
September 7 - October 8, 2002
Offering artifacts of popular culture placed alongside the work of artists skeptical of America’s renewed devotion to its flag, the exhibition POP Patriotism addresses the implications of this recent trend. The explosion of patriotic fervor that first swept across the country last fall and winter, seemingly justified by the trauma caused by what occurred in September, has a less than wholesome side that appears to have little to do with a simple pride in one’s nationality. Focusing on the mass marketing of national sentiment and nostalgia engaged in by the media, fashion and entertainment industries, the artwork included in POP Patriotism reflects a skepticism towards the propagandist and commercial opportunism that has been so prevalent in the past several months.
(...)
NOBODIES HOME
a group show concerned
with living space and alienation
curated by Peter Scott
Momenta Art, Brooklyn
March 21 - April 19, 1999
Nobodies Home is a group exhibition concerned with living space and alienation. The exhibition takes its cue from the current celebration of "lifestyle culture" so prevalent in today’s news and entertainment media, where an endless parade of magazine and television spots seems to reduce the image of life to one of Martha Stewart’s hypnotic discourses on domesticity.
With television news offering tips on which supermarkets to avoid, and newspapers offering lengthy articles on how to find the right contractor for your Upper West Side renovation, the (...)