hyde or die

STOREFRONT is pleased to announce On Display, a three-person exhibition curated by Hrag Vartanian featuring paintings by Sharon Butler and Cathy Nan Quinlan with sculptural objects by Joy Curtis.

On Display offers three challenging new perspectives on abstraction. Each artist employs familiar forms, but in different and idiosyncratic ways. Their work thus embodies an inventive and wide-ranging exploration of crucial elements of visual language: framing, illusion, and ultimately imperfection.

Hrag Vartanian is a Brooklyn-based writer, blogger, and cultural worker. He edits the art blogazine Hyperallergic.

A full-color catalogue with essays by Butler, Curtis, Quinlan, Vartanian accompanies the exhibition.

If you New Yorkers ever decide to listen to me on my suggestions of what to see in NY, this is the time. There is no place I would rather be than to see this show. It’s up through August 22 so you have a modicum of time to see it.

I hear that there will be free vodka at the opening, and on those cold NY nights, you need something to warm the blood, right?

August 06, 2010, 9:59am  

Do you know your MoMA?

July 16, 2010, 9:12am  

I’m not big on Renzo Piano as of late, so I haven’t really been paying attention to what is going on at the Whitney, so here are some links to people who have been.*

• Whitney trustees vote to build downtown.
• About the new building.
• Pretty good renderings to give you an idea of the project.**
• Three experts rethink the Whitney.  Real experts, not like me where I just have an opinion.
• What now for Whitney’s Breuer Building?

*This is as much for you as it is for me.  Whirlwind tour of knowledge.

**Surprise, surprise.  I don’t like it.

July 06, 2010, 1:39pm  

Nate Lowman and Klara Black’s new show is open until June 19th at Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 West 24th Street, New York. Photo Juliana Balestin

via purple-diary

May 14, 2010, 2:05pm  

Edward Kienholz Roxy’s 1962

There’s a whorehouse in Chelsea right now!

May 11, 2010, 3:10pm  

New York Gallery Week, a new initiative organized collectively by 50 Manhattan-based contemporary art galleries and 7 not-for-profits – spanning Chelsea, SoHo, the Lower East Side/Bowery, the Upper East Side, and 57th Street – will launch its pilot program in May 2010.

With a shared desire to refocus the art world’s attention toward the city’s long-standing exceptional gallery programming, a group of emerging and established galleries have come together with a mission to put the spotlight back on the galleries and the artists.

At its core, New York Gallery Week (NYGW) 2010 is a presentation of over 50 solo gallery exhibitions, along with an unprecedented concentration of scores of free events and programs, the majority taking place inside the galleries themselves. With NYGW’s members organizing themselves to offer this ambitious, simultaneous programming, NYGW offers unique access to a wide range of special gallery-produced artistic experiences in one concentrated period of time.

More here…

Apparently New York Gallery Week starts tomorrow…just found out about it today. 

Killer marketing guys.

May 06, 2010, 9:00am  

Albert Sunjoon Weaver

May 04, 2010, 1:09pm  

Do you know your MoMA?

I’m really enjoying this series on MoMA’s blog, Inside/Out, where they post details of different works in the museum so you can guess. No, I don’t know my MoMA, because I live in Los Angeles, but if LACMA or the Hammer did this…I might have a chance. 

Answers to last weeks quiz, here.

April 09, 2010, 11:45am