Gallery News - July 2010
Oliver Herring on The Present Perfect with Art 21, now online
Watch Oliver Herring and Laurie Simmons in conversation with Robert MacNeil on The Present Perfect with Art 21, streaming on PBS.org. The event, filmed in front of a live studio audience at the 92YTribeca in June 2010, went beyond the traditional artist talk by involving audience and online participants, touching upon the role of everyday interactions with others as a part of both artists’ practices.
Gallery News - June 2010
Siah Armajani Receives McKnight Disgtinguished Artist Award
Max Protetch Gallery congratulates Siah Armajani, this year’s recipient of the annual McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist Award, honoring a lifetime of achievement by Minnesota artists. Armajani was nominated by an anonymous group of peers, and chosen unanimously by the five-member board as the recipient of the $50,000 cash prize, one of the state’s highest cultural honors. The Iranian-born artist moved to Minnesota fifty years ago as a student at Macalaster College and has since fused his political views of the Middle East in his sculptures and installations.
Read an article on Siah Armajani here from The Star Tribune
Oliver Herring and The Present Perfect with Art 21
Art21, PBS, and the 92nd Street Y Tribeca partner to present The Present Perfect, an interactive web-cast event with Oliver Herring and Laurie Simmons in conversation with Robert MacNeil on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 8pm.
The event is free and open to the public, but you are encouraged to reserve tickets in advance.
In preparation for the event, Oliver is looking for audience participation in two forms: 1) film your own performance and upload it to Vimeo, with the chance for your video to be shown live during The Present Perfect; or 2) film an original dance sequence and challenge Oliver and others to attempt it live! Learn more.
The Present Perfect
92YTribeca
200 Hudson Street
Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 8:00 pm
Gallery News - May 2010
Mike Cloud & Christopher Stackhouse: A conversation
In conjunction with Mike Cloud's current exhibition, Quiltmaking & Over Production of Opposites, Max Protetch Gallery is pleased to announce a conversation between Cloud and writer and artist Christopher Stackhouse. Please join us at the gallery at 4pm on Saturday, May 22 to hear the two discuss Cloud's recent work, its historical and theoretical contexts, and its relation to other recent and not-so-recent artistic practices. More...
Max Protetch is pleased to announce its participation in the Hong Kong International Art Fair
Max Protetch will be exhibiting at ARTHK10, the Hong Kong International Art Fair, May 27–30, 2010. We look forward to seeing you at booth H-02.
Hours:
Vernissage, Wednesday, May 26, 6–9pm
Thursday, May 27, 12-9pm
Friday, May 28, 12-8pm
Saturday, May 29, 12-7pm
Sunday, May 30, 12-5pm
Location:
Hall 3
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Wanchai, Hong Kong
+852 2918 8793
Gallery News - April 2010
Tobias Putrih at MASS MoCA
Simple Materials Are Transformed in Site-Specific Installations at MASS MoCA
Group Exhibition Material World Opens April 24, 2010
(North Adams, MA) Beginning April 24, 2010, MASS MoCA's second- and third- floor galleries will be transformed by a series of immersive, site-specific installations made from unexpectedly humble materials; the artists of Material World will use paper, plastic, rope, fishing line and more to alter the existing spaces or create autonomous environments within MASS MoCA's galleries. The exhibition reflects two trends in current art practice that have been evolving since the early 20th century: the embrace of non-art materials and the artwork's engagement with both time and space. Michael Beutler, Orly Genger, Tobias Putrih, Alyson Shotz, Dan Steinhilber, and collaborative team Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen are all known in part for their use of simple materials. Material World will be on view through February 27, 2011. More Info
Change in Ownership
Max Protetch Gallery announces that ownership of the gallery has been transferred to Edwin Meulensteen, formerly of the Netherlands. The Gallery will remain in New York, with Protetch continuing as advisor.
“This Gallery has a history of change and innovation,” says Protetch. “Under the leadership of Edwin Meulensteen, I'm confident it will continue to evolve and grow.“
“The Max Protetch Gallery has built a remarkable reputation for identifying and supporting visionary artists,” says Meulensteen. “I look forward to working with Max and the artists to continue that tradition, while extending the Gallery’s international reach.”
Chen Qiulin at the Nasher Museum of Art
Chen Qiulin is featured in Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art, currently on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University through July 25, 2010.
Siebren Versteeg at the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design
Siebren Versteeg's solo exhibition In Advance of Another Thing is on view in the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. In addition to new work, the show includes Boom (Fresher Aconcci), which is part of the museum's permanent collection.
Tim Hyde at Federica Shiavo Gallery
Tim Hyde is included in the upcoming group show Does The Angle Between Two Walls Have a Happy Ending? at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome, April 29 – June 5, 2010.
Gallery News - March 2010
Oliver Herring's TASK across the Midwest, featured on NPR
Oliver Herring's TASK, an ongoing series of participatory performances that seek to involve and energize local communities, is appearing across the Midwest this spring in a variety of guises and incarnations. To read more about how TASK works and to find out how to bring TASK to your community, visit the TASK blog at
oliverherringtask.wordpress.com. Also, hear more on TASK from NPR atwww.wglt.org/newsroom/.
While TASK performances are more structured events organized by Herring and involving selected participants, TASK Parties are events that are open to participation by any and all. Often organized independently by communities and universities, word of TASK parties spreads virally. Participants engage in group performance and art-making in a celebratory atmosphere.
A major TASK Party will be held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill on March 20th. This event will be held at Gerrard Hall, a beautiful, old, bi-level building in the heart of campus. Also, after last fall’s West Bank TASK Party, a second, larger TASK Party is scheduled for Minneapolis, Minnesota. TASK Twin Cities will take place on April 20th, inside the Student Center at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). TASK Twin Cities is organized by Bethel University with help from MCAD.
A February 6 TASK Party at Illinois State University has led to plans to hold events at 10 new regional venues, including TASK Parties at Fieldcrest High School in Mimonk, Illinois on April 23rd and Lincoln College, Lincoln, Illinois on April 24th.
On May 15th, two TASK Parties are planned to be held simultaneously and linked to each other via webcam: Tisket TASKet in Columbus, Ohio and the St. Louis TASK Party at The University of Cincinnati DAAP, in St. Louis.
Hear more on TASK from NPR (Illinois). The segment was aired on February 24: www.wglt.org/newsroom.
Ann Pibal at The Suburban, Chicago
Ann Pibal will be the subject of a solo exhibition at The Suburban in Chicago, March 14 - April 25. The show will include a new series of works on paper that incorporate tape and collage.
Stay tuned also for more information about Pibal's upcoming show in the Max Protetch Project Space, April 1 - May 1.
Betty Woodman at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
As part of the multi-venue exhibition Ceramic Interactions: Contemporary Explorations of the Collections from March 31–July 11, Betty Woodman will premiere new work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Inspired by the Lansdowne Drawing Room, an 18th-century English period room that contains both real Etruscan and Roman vases as well as Wedgewood copies of them, Woodman has created an installation comprised of wall/relief and sculptural elements. These new works incorporate vases, images of vases, and architectural elements to create a theatre of multi-layered art historical reference and bold formal innovation.
This is one of 95 exhibitions that are part of INDEPENDENCE: The 44th Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference taking place in Philadelphia from March 31–April 3. The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA is serving as the onsite liaison and organizing body of the exhibitions program. For a complete list of programmed exhibitions, visit: www.theclaystudio.org
Also on view in Philadelphia will be Betty Woodman's solo exhibition at Locks Gallery, which runs from March 23–April 24. Woodman will give a gallery talk on the evening of Thursday, March 25, and there will be an opening reception on Friday, April 2.
Also, we are pleased to announce that Woodman will present an installation of new work in the Max Protetch Gallery Project Space in May. More news regarding this exhibition will follow in coming weeks.
Finally, we wish to congratulate both Betty and George Woodman, who will be receiving the Anderson Ranch National Artist Award this summer. The ceremony will take place on July 14; both artists will present an exhibition at Anderson Ranch to celebrate the award. For more information, please visit andersonranch.org.
Gallery News - January 2010
Saul Chernick at Franklin Art Works
Franklin Art Works is pleased to announce solo exhibitions by Megan Vossler, Saul Chernick, and Kwabena Slaughter. The exhibitions will open to the public with a reception on Friday, January 29, 2010 from 7 to 9pm. Vossler and Chernick will be in attendance. Admission is free.
Each artist's work addresses the dynamic relationships between figure(s) and landscape.
The exhibitions will remain on view through Saturday, March 20, 2010.
In the Project Space Saul Chernick: Devotionals
Saul Chernick's elaborate drawings display an exquisite use of line, executed in ink that appears like prints. Each drawing traverses this tie to the past yet remain solidly contemporary, through subject, composition or format.
“In some respects I’m trying to see what happens when an older model of drawing is infused with contemporary ideas. In An Autumn Ride (2008), [above] the proportions of the paper are the same as a flat screen TV. This creates a visual tension because the artists who developed and practiced this graphic style would never have composed images to work with these dimensions… The narrative is similarly altered—it doesn’t quite hit the same notes a typical demon slaying might.”
Launch Party and Reading
Sand Paper Press invites you to celebrate the publication of new books by Arlo Haskell, Stuart Krimko, and Shawn Vandor.
January 21, 2010
7:00 - 9:00
Max Protetch Gallery
511 West 22nd Street
(between 10th and 11th Avenues)
Arlo Haskell
JOKER
"Arlo Haskell's quietly gripping poems conjure an ambience as temperate and welcoming as ocean air." –John Ashbery
Stuart Krimko
THE SWEETNESS OF HERBERT
"Stuart Krimko's poetry is ineffably light, intensely serious, and full of bewitching surprises. Each time I read him, I love the world again." –Harry Mathews
Shawn Vandor
FIRE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
Hilarious and humiliating tales of revolving-door lust gone awry, paeans to prostitutes, drug use, and sphincter failure; and strange encounters in the homes of Hollywood and Harvard stars.
Available now
from Amazon
and Sand Paper Press dot net
Gallery News - December 2009
Max Protetch Gallery is pleased to announce Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With, a major new installation project by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle opening at MASS MoCA Saturday, December 12. The project will be on view through October 31, 2010.
Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With is based upon Mies van der Rohe's uncompleted project, The 50x50 House (1951). In it a square structure open to view on all four sides through glass walls. The house will be constructed at approximately half scale and inverted, the ceiling of the original becoming the sculpture's floor, the floor becoming the ceiling, and all interior elements such as Mies-designed furniture and partition walls installed upside down. Gravity will seem held at bay. Also on view will be Manglano-Ovalle's Always After (2006), a film that serves as a prelude to the sculptural installation.
An exhibition of new sculptural work by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle opens at Max Protetch Gallery on Saturday, February 6. Turning the upside down 50x50 House into an aquarium, Manglano-Ovalle builds on the theme established in the MASS MoCA exhibition.
For more information on the show please visit MASS MoCA's website
Oliver Herring on The Present Perfect with Art 21, now online
Watch Oliver Herring and Laurie Simmons in conversation with Robert MacNeil on The Present Perfect with Art 21, streaming on PBS.org. The event, filmed in front of a live studio audience at the 92YTribeca in June 2010, went beyond the traditional artist talk by involving audience and online participants, touching upon the role of everyday interactions with others as a part of both artists’ practices.
Gallery News - June 2010
Siah Armajani Receives McKnight Disgtinguished Artist Award
Max Protetch Gallery congratulates Siah Armajani, this year’s recipient of the annual McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist Award, honoring a lifetime of achievement by Minnesota artists. Armajani was nominated by an anonymous group of peers, and chosen unanimously by the five-member board as the recipient of the $50,000 cash prize, one of the state’s highest cultural honors. The Iranian-born artist moved to Minnesota fifty years ago as a student at Macalaster College and has since fused his political views of the Middle East in his sculptures and installations.
Read an article on Siah Armajani here from The Star Tribune
Oliver Herring and The Present Perfect with Art 21
Art21, PBS, and the 92nd Street Y Tribeca partner to present The Present Perfect, an interactive web-cast event with Oliver Herring and Laurie Simmons in conversation with Robert MacNeil on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 8pm.
The event is free and open to the public, but you are encouraged to reserve tickets in advance.
In preparation for the event, Oliver is looking for audience participation in two forms: 1) film your own performance and upload it to Vimeo, with the chance for your video to be shown live during The Present Perfect; or 2) film an original dance sequence and challenge Oliver and others to attempt it live! Learn more.
The Present Perfect
92YTribeca
200 Hudson Street
Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 8:00 pm
Gallery News - May 2010
Mike Cloud & Christopher Stackhouse: A conversation
In conjunction with Mike Cloud's current exhibition, Quiltmaking & Over Production of Opposites, Max Protetch Gallery is pleased to announce a conversation between Cloud and writer and artist Christopher Stackhouse. Please join us at the gallery at 4pm on Saturday, May 22 to hear the two discuss Cloud's recent work, its historical and theoretical contexts, and its relation to other recent and not-so-recent artistic practices. More...
Max Protetch is pleased to announce its participation in the Hong Kong International Art Fair
Max Protetch will be exhibiting at ARTHK10, the Hong Kong International Art Fair, May 27–30, 2010. We look forward to seeing you at booth H-02.
Hours:
Vernissage, Wednesday, May 26, 6–9pm
Thursday, May 27, 12-9pm
Friday, May 28, 12-8pm
Saturday, May 29, 12-7pm
Sunday, May 30, 12-5pm
Location:
Hall 3
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Wanchai, Hong Kong
+852 2918 8793
Gallery News - April 2010
Tobias Putrih at MASS MoCA
Simple Materials Are Transformed in Site-Specific Installations at MASS MoCA
Group Exhibition Material World Opens April 24, 2010
(North Adams, MA) Beginning April 24, 2010, MASS MoCA's second- and third- floor galleries will be transformed by a series of immersive, site-specific installations made from unexpectedly humble materials; the artists of Material World will use paper, plastic, rope, fishing line and more to alter the existing spaces or create autonomous environments within MASS MoCA's galleries. The exhibition reflects two trends in current art practice that have been evolving since the early 20th century: the embrace of non-art materials and the artwork's engagement with both time and space. Michael Beutler, Orly Genger, Tobias Putrih, Alyson Shotz, Dan Steinhilber, and collaborative team Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen are all known in part for their use of simple materials. Material World will be on view through February 27, 2011. More Info
Change in Ownership
Max Protetch Gallery announces that ownership of the gallery has been transferred to Edwin Meulensteen, formerly of the Netherlands. The Gallery will remain in New York, with Protetch continuing as advisor.
“This Gallery has a history of change and innovation,” says Protetch. “Under the leadership of Edwin Meulensteen, I'm confident it will continue to evolve and grow.“
“The Max Protetch Gallery has built a remarkable reputation for identifying and supporting visionary artists,” says Meulensteen. “I look forward to working with Max and the artists to continue that tradition, while extending the Gallery’s international reach.”
Chen Qiulin at the Nasher Museum of Art
Chen Qiulin is featured in Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art, currently on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University through July 25, 2010.
Siebren Versteeg at the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design
Siebren Versteeg's solo exhibition In Advance of Another Thing is on view in the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. In addition to new work, the show includes Boom (Fresher Aconcci), which is part of the museum's permanent collection.
Tim Hyde at Federica Shiavo Gallery
Tim Hyde is included in the upcoming group show Does The Angle Between Two Walls Have a Happy Ending? at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome, April 29 – June 5, 2010.
Gallery News - March 2010
Oliver Herring's TASK across the Midwest, featured on NPR
Oliver Herring's TASK, an ongoing series of participatory performances that seek to involve and energize local communities, is appearing across the Midwest this spring in a variety of guises and incarnations. To read more about how TASK works and to find out how to bring TASK to your community, visit the TASK blog at
oliverherringtask.wordpress.com. Also, hear more on TASK from NPR atwww.wglt.org/newsroom/.
While TASK performances are more structured events organized by Herring and involving selected participants, TASK Parties are events that are open to participation by any and all. Often organized independently by communities and universities, word of TASK parties spreads virally. Participants engage in group performance and art-making in a celebratory atmosphere.
A major TASK Party will be held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill on March 20th. This event will be held at Gerrard Hall, a beautiful, old, bi-level building in the heart of campus. Also, after last fall’s West Bank TASK Party, a second, larger TASK Party is scheduled for Minneapolis, Minnesota. TASK Twin Cities will take place on April 20th, inside the Student Center at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). TASK Twin Cities is organized by Bethel University with help from MCAD.
A February 6 TASK Party at Illinois State University has led to plans to hold events at 10 new regional venues, including TASK Parties at Fieldcrest High School in Mimonk, Illinois on April 23rd and Lincoln College, Lincoln, Illinois on April 24th.
On May 15th, two TASK Parties are planned to be held simultaneously and linked to each other via webcam: Tisket TASKet in Columbus, Ohio and the St. Louis TASK Party at The University of Cincinnati DAAP, in St. Louis.
Hear more on TASK from NPR (Illinois). The segment was aired on February 24: www.wglt.org/newsroom.
Ann Pibal at The Suburban, Chicago
Ann Pibal will be the subject of a solo exhibition at The Suburban in Chicago, March 14 - April 25. The show will include a new series of works on paper that incorporate tape and collage.
Stay tuned also for more information about Pibal's upcoming show in the Max Protetch Project Space, April 1 - May 1.
Betty Woodman at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
As part of the multi-venue exhibition Ceramic Interactions: Contemporary Explorations of the Collections from March 31–July 11, Betty Woodman will premiere new work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Inspired by the Lansdowne Drawing Room, an 18th-century English period room that contains both real Etruscan and Roman vases as well as Wedgewood copies of them, Woodman has created an installation comprised of wall/relief and sculptural elements. These new works incorporate vases, images of vases, and architectural elements to create a theatre of multi-layered art historical reference and bold formal innovation.
This is one of 95 exhibitions that are part of INDEPENDENCE: The 44th Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference taking place in Philadelphia from March 31–April 3. The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA is serving as the onsite liaison and organizing body of the exhibitions program. For a complete list of programmed exhibitions, visit: www.theclaystudio.org
Also on view in Philadelphia will be Betty Woodman's solo exhibition at Locks Gallery, which runs from March 23–April 24. Woodman will give a gallery talk on the evening of Thursday, March 25, and there will be an opening reception on Friday, April 2.
Also, we are pleased to announce that Woodman will present an installation of new work in the Max Protetch Gallery Project Space in May. More news regarding this exhibition will follow in coming weeks.
Finally, we wish to congratulate both Betty and George Woodman, who will be receiving the Anderson Ranch National Artist Award this summer. The ceremony will take place on July 14; both artists will present an exhibition at Anderson Ranch to celebrate the award. For more information, please visit andersonranch.org.
Gallery News - January 2010
Saul Chernick at Franklin Art Works
Franklin Art Works is pleased to announce solo exhibitions by Megan Vossler, Saul Chernick, and Kwabena Slaughter. The exhibitions will open to the public with a reception on Friday, January 29, 2010 from 7 to 9pm. Vossler and Chernick will be in attendance. Admission is free.
Each artist's work addresses the dynamic relationships between figure(s) and landscape.
The exhibitions will remain on view through Saturday, March 20, 2010.
In the Project Space Saul Chernick: Devotionals
Saul Chernick's elaborate drawings display an exquisite use of line, executed in ink that appears like prints. Each drawing traverses this tie to the past yet remain solidly contemporary, through subject, composition or format.
“In some respects I’m trying to see what happens when an older model of drawing is infused with contemporary ideas. In An Autumn Ride (2008), [above] the proportions of the paper are the same as a flat screen TV. This creates a visual tension because the artists who developed and practiced this graphic style would never have composed images to work with these dimensions… The narrative is similarly altered—it doesn’t quite hit the same notes a typical demon slaying might.”
Launch Party and Reading
Sand Paper Press invites you to celebrate the publication of new books by Arlo Haskell, Stuart Krimko, and Shawn Vandor.
January 21, 2010
7:00 - 9:00
Max Protetch Gallery
511 West 22nd Street
(between 10th and 11th Avenues)
Arlo Haskell
JOKER
"Arlo Haskell's quietly gripping poems conjure an ambience as temperate and welcoming as ocean air." –John Ashbery
Stuart Krimko
THE SWEETNESS OF HERBERT
"Stuart Krimko's poetry is ineffably light, intensely serious, and full of bewitching surprises. Each time I read him, I love the world again." –Harry Mathews
Shawn Vandor
FIRE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
Hilarious and humiliating tales of revolving-door lust gone awry, paeans to prostitutes, drug use, and sphincter failure; and strange encounters in the homes of Hollywood and Harvard stars.
Available now
from Amazon
and Sand Paper Press dot net
Gallery News - December 2009
Max Protetch Gallery is pleased to announce Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With, a major new installation project by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle opening at MASS MoCA Saturday, December 12. The project will be on view through October 31, 2010.
Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With is based upon Mies van der Rohe's uncompleted project, The 50x50 House (1951). In it a square structure open to view on all four sides through glass walls. The house will be constructed at approximately half scale and inverted, the ceiling of the original becoming the sculpture's floor, the floor becoming the ceiling, and all interior elements such as Mies-designed furniture and partition walls installed upside down. Gravity will seem held at bay. Also on view will be Manglano-Ovalle's Always After (2006), a film that serves as a prelude to the sculptural installation.
An exhibition of new sculptural work by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle opens at Max Protetch Gallery on Saturday, February 6. Turning the upside down 50x50 House into an aquarium, Manglano-Ovalle builds on the theme established in the MASS MoCA exhibition.
For more information on the show please visit MASS MoCA's website