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Music by The NOUVEAU CLASSICAL PROJECT + Screening VIVA LA MUERTE by Fernando Arrabal is the first event introducing our Rabbit Summer program “MOVIES+JAMS”, which will happen every third Wednesday of each month from June till August.
It’s almost May, which means it’s almost time for the 2011 New York Photo Festival, an international event that happens to take place right in our backyard. We’ll be showing the works of 12 artists working in photographic mediums, as part of our ongoing Emerging Artist series of exhibitions. These are always highly intriguing and energetic shows and we encourage you to check it out this month, amidst the sprawl of venues in and around DUMBO the weekend of May 11-15. The artists featured include:
Danny Arenas
Will Arnold
Corrie Glenn Ferguson
Todd Jokl
Jason Kass
Knoll+Cella
Chrissy Lush
Alfredo de Matteis
Lynne Maune
Marsha Owett
Jun Pyo Kim
Aksel Stasny
Leigh Wells
Chito Yoshida
RABBITHOLEPROJECTS for the New York Photo Festival 2011. Opens May 11th, 6 - 9pm.
@9 months ago
This week we are heading to Brazil with the exquisite ‘Orfeu Negro’ by French Director Marcel Camus. The 1959 Cannes Festival’s Grand Prize Winner is famous for bringing to life the new samba style of the time, today known as ‘Bossa Nova’. Along side the colorful scenes of Carnival in Rio and the adapted greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, the soundtrack has since become an all-time classic. Looking forward to wednesday!
Event opens at 8pm (movie starts around 8:30)
FREE and BYOB!
![AL BAIO, Spooky Marshmallows, 2010, 48x48in
“Growing up, I never had many friends. I secretly envied all cliques I didn’t qualify for, no matter where their status fell on the totem pole of pre-school popularity.
To compensate for my lack of camaraderie in the real world, I aim to paint my ideal gaggle of goons. The technicolor toddlers in this body of work are unified by their attire as much as by their exaggerated facial expressions. Their rainbow regalia and their synchronized facial quirks become trademarks of their solidarity. As they peek out of their crayola-colored uniforms, they establish the exclusivity of their gang: not just anybody can be a member of this elite squad.
Each painting becomes a celebration of color as I aim to achieve chromatic harmony with every outfit and every monochrome backdrop (blame it on being a child of the ’80s). I don’t know about you, but I’d roll deep with a crew of painted bug-eyed babies any day. But I guess it's up to them to decide if I meet their standards.”
[from the artist’s statement]
WINTER 2011 EMERGING ARTIST SHOW. THU 03 FEB 11. 6-9p.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg018crT1W1qa8yuwo1_400.jpg)
AL BAIO, Spooky Marshmallows, 2010, 48x48in
“Growing up, I never had many friends. I secretly envied all cliques I didn’t qualify for, no matter where their status fell on the totem pole of pre-school popularity. To compensate for my lack of camaraderie in the real world, I aim to paint my ideal gaggle of goons. The technicolor toddlers in this body of work are unified by their attire as much as by their exaggerated facial expressions. Their rainbow regalia and their synchronized facial quirks become trademarks of their solidarity. As they peek out of their crayola-colored uniforms, they establish the exclusivity of their gang: not just anybody can be a member of this elite squad. Each painting becomes a celebration of color as I aim to achieve chromatic harmony with every outfit and every monochrome backdrop (blame it on being a child of the ’80s). I don’t know about you, but I’d roll deep with a crew of painted bug-eyed babies any day. But I guess it's up to them to decide if I meet their standards.”
[from the artist’s statement]
WINTER 2011 EMERGING ARTIST SHOW. THU 03 FEB 11. 6-9p.
![VIKA ADUTOVA, Monothematic Delusion of the Hand, 2010,
“Monothematic delusion of a hand is a mental illness in which one denies ownership of a limb. As a metaphor for illness taking over the psyche, the sculpture depicts a limb without the body, as if the delusion replaced the entire personality.”
[from the artist’s statement]
WINTER 2011 EMERGING ARTIST SHOW. THU 03 FEB 11. 6-9p.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg00s8wJ0S1qa8yuwo1_400.jpg)
VIKA ADUTOVA, Monothematic Delusion of the Hand, 2010,
“Monothematic delusion of a hand is a mental illness in which one denies ownership of a limb. As a metaphor for illness taking over the psyche, the sculpture depicts a limb without the body, as if the delusion replaced the entire personality.”
[from the artist’s statement]
WINTER 2011 EMERGING ARTIST SHOW. THU 03 FEB 11. 6-9p.
![DAVE RITTINGER, Love Connections, 2010, extension cords, steel rod, nails, 16x18x5in
After a formal education in Architecture my interest and ideas have drawn me into the world of art making. I am an opportunistic experimenter employing my short attention span and curious mind into a diverse body of works operating across sculpture, photography, video, performance and installation. My works often tap into the psyche of objects, giving outdated passive aggressive appliances a chance at retribution for instance, or inviting musical instruments to be played through a human host. I am interested in employing objects, symbols and icons that may have a certain normalcy within culture, to be extracted and re-purposing to unearth suppressed feelings and or lost tendencies that are significant in critiquing or commenting on their place within culture. The objects or environments are reborn into conceptually animated works that provoke a new set of relationships to interpret and appreciate drawing metaphysical lines between multiple layers of meaning.
[from the artist’s statement]
WINTER 2011 EMERGING ARTIST SHOW. THU 03 FEB 11. 6-9p.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg4l2jSM461qa8yuwo1_400.jpg)
DAVE RITTINGER, Love Connections, 2010, extension cords, steel rod, nails, 16x18x5in
After a formal education in Architecture my interest and ideas have drawn me into the world of art making. I am an opportunistic experimenter employing my short attention span and curious mind into a diverse body of works operating across sculpture, photography, video, performance and installation. My works often tap into the psyche of objects, giving outdated passive aggressive appliances a chance at retribution for instance, or inviting musical instruments to be played through a human host. I am interested in employing objects, symbols and icons that may have a certain normalcy within culture, to be extracted and re-purposing to unearth suppressed feelings and or lost tendencies that are significant in critiquing or commenting on their place within culture. The objects or environments are reborn into conceptually animated works that provoke a new set of relationships to interpret and appreciate drawing metaphysical lines between multiple layers of meaning.
[from the artist’s statement]
WINTER 2011 EMERGING ARTIST SHOW. THU 03 FEB 11. 6-9p.
PETE WATTS, untitled (Alvarado Water Treatment Plant), 2010, graphite on paper over panel, 11x14in
RABBITHOLESTUDIO is pleased to present BLESSED IS THE INFINITE— a two-person exhibition of drawings and installations by Jason Bartell and Pete Watts. Rendered in meticulous detail, the works featured in the exhibi- tion explore the dynamic between order and chaos—creating a space that re- flects the entropic descent of organized systems, and the quiet emergence of order from the chaotic void. The imagery and techniques evoke the aesthetics of the sublime- the push and pull between attraction and repulsion. Scenes of destruction and entropy are rendered in exquisite detail, at once drawing in the viewer and confronting them with displays of overwhelming scale and power.
The Spring Edition of the Emerging Artist Show series and the New York Photo Festival both open this Wednesday, May 11th, 6 - 9 pm. The whole neighborhood will be packed with exhibitions of contemporary photographic works, so make sure to pay a visit this Wednesday evening for the opening reception.
Come check out new works from global artist Cannon Hersey’s Silk Route series. Mr. Hersey is an artist, curator, and founder of the organization CrossPath Culture. The exhibition opens tomorrow at 6pm at Rabbithole. Also featuring various works on paper and some exclusive limited-edition prints and t-shirts for sale.
CANNON HERSEY: Silk Route & works on paper
The photographs utilized in the silk route series were taken between 1997 and 2000 in China, India, Mongolia, Tibet and Nepal. The fabrics utilized within The pieces was collected between 19997 and 2009 and include an antique Chinese Jackets, 19th Century hand printed Tibetan blanket, Shanghai Tang Jacket, contemporary Indian and European silks collected by Mr. Hersey between 2006 and 2009. The frames were create by Cannon Hersey with a blacksmith utilizing architectural Bronze.
Works from this series are in the collections of Marilyn Oshman, Jim Figura, Felicia Murray, Ruth Seikevitz and Stanley Stern.
RECEPTION: Thu 07 APR, 6pm - 9pm @ Rabbitholestudio
And it was definitely winter… 10 below, to be precise. Thank you all for braving the icy, battered streets of Dumbosnia and having a drink with us.
Here are a few photos from last night.
MEL XILOJ, #1 Broken, 2010, 12x12in
WINTER 2011 EMERGING ARTIST SHOW. THU 03 FEB 11. 6-9p.
We’re really pumped to feature the following 10 artists, creating diverse works across the genres of painting, drawing, sculpture and video, culled from a pool of applicants in our seasonal open calls. These submission-based shows are consistently surprising and introduce us to artists we likely would not have met otherwise, and we discovered some very special works to show you this Thursday evening.
VIKA ADUTOVA / AL BAIO / ANDREW BOVASSO / MARCY CRUTHIRDS / SARAH KELLY / EUN GYEONG KO / DAVE RITTINGER / JOHN PAUL MORABITO / MEL XILOJ / ARIN YOON
@12 months ago“BLESSED IS THE INFINITE” Pete Watts and Jason Bartell 02-09 DEC 11
[exhibition photos]
