Simulacrum, Signs, and Stacks exhibit EXTENDED for the Williamsburg Gallery Association 2nd Friday Walk and the Northside Festival!
May 14 - June 14
Reception Friday, June 12th from 6-9p
Gallery open Thursday - Sunday, 12-6pm
through June 14th.
We've had some excellent recent press (and a collective audience review) for our off site Spring Season at CPR - Center for Performance Research, in Williamsburg Brooklyn and for our upcoming summer festival at MTA...
“…This was back in the 70’s. I was sitting with my dad and his friends in a cloud of blue pot smoke looking at cigarette ads for subliminal messages. That’s how I learned about photography—that there could be a lot of meaning packed into a photographic image, whether it’s real or not.” Thus began “SIGNS and the Language of Photography,” the final installment in Mt. Tremper Arts’s Thursday Night Lecture Series. The above quote is from Tim Davis, who along with Lisa Kereszi and Mathew Pokoik (who curated SIGNS) showed slides of their work and talked about how and why they photograph signs....
Audience Review
By Mika Dashman
Last night I attended a performance by dancer/choreographer Jonah Bokaer and poet Anne Carson. I have seen plenty of mixed-media performance events over the years and I find they often suffer from a certain imbalance, where one aspect of what is going on on stage captures the attention much more than the other. This was not such an occasion. In two pieces “Falling” & “Stacks” the choreographer and the writer collaborated with a sculptor, Peter Cole.
STACKS at Mount Tremper Arts
The stage was filled with stacks of cardboard boxes which were stacked, re-stacked, knocked down and manipulated in a a wide variety of ways by the dancers...
SIGNS
July 19 - August 31, 2008
Curated by Mathew Pokoik
Featuring: Tim Davis, Shannon Ebner, Lisa Kereszi, John Lehr, Christian Patterson, Mathew Pokoik, Zoe Strauss, Brian Ulrich, along with Stephen Shore and Walker Evans.
Additional resources about SIGNS and its artists will be posted throughout the festival.
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Stephen Shore
Amarillo, Texas July, 1972
5″ x 7.5″, C-print
Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York City