Woolga Choi

My works produced in New York during 2000′s represent my desire to escape from my works in Paris usually expressed vehemently; I secretly decided to refuse the bright acrylic colors stubbornly. I can hardly deny the fact that my working environment changed because I moved my atelier from Paris to New York. But, I was vividly aware of identity of the European fine art stagnated incessantly in tradition and conservatism. Nevertheless, I could not abandon my first images. The hither-to aboriginal and primitive fancy free expressions of images were planted too strong in my consciousness. So, my earlier works in New York for several years featured the intense lines on the black basis or the color layer created with numerous brushing. In particular, my lines were playing the role of creating some painting images more and more in order to express a playful emotion. The signs I used then, namely numbers and letters, highlighted and expressed a medium of spirit seemingly imprinted or dragged in our modern men’s consciousness, while approaching the painting forms in a modern way. The oil paintings which I began to produce on a full scale at my New York atelier in an old wooden building constructed during 1930 were the expressions of my will to search for a playful emotion or amusement incessantly or reilluminate the instinct of images immanent in our human beings’ psychology. The playful emotion is inherent in pleasure, grief and loneliness. My paintings will touch such senses at least to search for another modern moralism. Now, 5 years after, I am interested in line drawings in harmony with another expressive form or the thick matiere of color to represent the same images. I am looking for my own materials and my own forms of expression. Although every artist is obliged to do so, I will keep in mind Picasso’s admonition, “Imitation of others’ works would lead to another creation, but I do not paint again, imitating my own works.”

www.choiwoolga.com

Claudia Paneca

I create my artwork as a practitioner of what I call ‘The Essence Ritual’: a rite that engages the essence of being in relationship with itself and its environment. This ritualistic approach is my way to transform common notions of reality, perception and spirituality in a deeply subversive way of thinking, expressed through a personal vocabulary of images and symbols. I create imaginary characters and substances, working with physical materials and poetic text on a metaphorical level.

My work evolves in multiple series that are open processes themselves, like concentric circles unfolding in time from a creative core. Each series asks for specific materials, each one playing a role in the consciousness manifested as a big installation: my most vital and essential gesture. Art offers me freedom through its practice and becomes a healing process as well as a quest for knowledge of my own truth, the primordial untouched by words.

www.claudiapaneca.com

Richard Garet works interweaving multiple media including moving image, sound, live performances, and photography. He completed his MFA at Bard College, and was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Grant. He currently has an artist residency at Issue Project Room, NY, and previously completed a residency at Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, Arizona in 2006. Recent exhibitions and performances include: Never Can Say Goodbye at the former Tower Records Store; Sonochrome: an exhibition of recent works by Richard Garet, at the Public Trust Galllery, Dallas, Texas; Leervoll, Diapason Gallery; and previous exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Biennial Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; El Museo del Barrio, NYC; and more. His sound compositions have been published through sound based labels such as And-Oar, Non Visual Objects, Winds Measure Recordings, Unframed Recordings, Con-V, Leerraum, White_Line Editions, and Contour Editions. Additionally Garet co-curates with Louky Keijsers Koning, the monthly performance event LMAKseries, which integrates film, video, sound art, and media performance into the gallery’s mission at LMAK Projects in the L.E.S, NYC. Garet also currently directs the independent media label Contour Editions publishing works that explore the various possibilities of sound and light.

Richard Garet is interested in the phenomena found and produced in time-based media, and human beings’ relationship with both artificial and natural environments. His audiovisual exploratory steps are focused on concept and function, material and process, listening, viewing, and experience. Even though Garet’s work suits the standard gallery setting, many of his other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance. All of these modes are additional ways in which Garet’s work exposes the audience to real time explorations of audiovisual processes, emphasizing the experiential, the sensorial, and the active-reception of the body and mind. Richard Garet states, “when creating a piece I reflect on what the work is meant to accomplish, how it functions in relationship to the space, how it affects the audience, and how sound and visual content are connected to one another. These questions determine my choices and influence the direction of the work.”

History: The Invisible Dog opened in October 2009, a raw space in a vast converted factory building with a charmed history and an open-ended mission: to create, from the ground up, a new kind of interdisciplinary arts center. Over the last year, over 32, 000 people have attended our events: visual art exhibits; dance, theater, and music performance; film screenings; literary; arts and poetry; and more. Adaptation: The first principle of the Invisible Dog’s curation was that all artists should use the space… more

Sunday September 12th – 11am to 7pm
FARM CITY
The Fair is a wild new take on the traditional County Fair, a day-long celebration of art and food grown in Brooklyn! Festivities engage all the senses: hear live music performed by local Bang on a Can marching band Asphalt Orchestra; taste delicacies prepared by local chefs inspired by ingredients from Brooklyn farms; view specially commissioned work exploring the culture of agriculture by local artists; get a feel for materials needed to produce your own food in workshops by Brooklyn Food Coalition; participate in a Blue Ribbon Competition hosted by GreenThumb; and browse a marketplace with some of Brooklyn’s small-batch artisanal food purveyors curated by Greenpoint Food Market. Cap it off with The Food Experiments’ live cooking competition-Brooklyn Roots-featuring savory samples and refreshing drinks from Brooklyn Brewery, Six Points Brewery, Red Hook Wines, Brooklyn Oenology, Kings County Distillery and others . more info

Sunday September 12th – 11am to 7pm
ARTISTS OPEN STUDIOS
To celebrate and compliment the culinary events of Farm City, the 29 artists of The Invisible Dog will host a special Open Studios event. On top of opening their studios to visitors to view their art in the space it is created, artists will be serving up their own favorite flavors in the form of food and beverages. Come taste their art, come see their food at this multi-sensorial event more info

Thursday September 16th – 8pm – Premiere
PORTRAYED: THE UNBEARABLE BURDEN OF DECIDING WHAT TO DO BEFORE DYING
The Invisible Dog’s theatre space (located on the basement level) will host a new play, written by James Holland, directed by Michael Petraneck, and produced/featuring Marion Attal along with Lindsey Ashlen and Monroe Robertson. Portrayed tells the story of twins in their twenties, Mary and Trevor (Attal and Robertson), who literally have nothing in their lives, despite their quest for immortality and an undying determination to be grand at something. As a note, each evening the play will be told once in the American theatrical tradition, then again in the French tradition, essentially creating two plays from one. more info

Saturday September 25th – 6 to 10pm – Opening party
RICHARD GARET – ELECTROCHROMA
Co-presented by The Invisible Dog Art Center and Crossing the Line, artist Richard Garet will unveil a new immersive visual sonic installation called Electrochroma. In a dedicated room built in the back of the gallery, Garet combines kinetic light images from 16mm film, abstract imagery, electronic music, and a mist of fog to create an environment intended to generate experiential physical and psychoacoustic responses. The 52-minute projected installation, with a surround-sound symphony of molded experimentation, profound bass echoing, modulated frequencies, static noises, white noise, and sine waves, will play on the hour throughout the day. Electrochroma is a time-based contemporary landscape, created in a digital environment utilizing several software processes to generate and manipulate sound from the light-based image. The project continues the artist’s interest in the phenomena found and produced in time-based media, and human beings’ relationship with both artificial and natural environments. His audiovisual exploratory steps are focused on concept and function, material and process, listening, viewing, and experience. more info

Saturday October 2nd – 6 to 10pm – Opening party
THE PSEUDONYM PROJECT
Ever since Marcel Duchamp posed for Man Ray as “Rrose Sélavy,” artists have used the pseudonym as a form of anonymity that allows complete freedom of expression. Art has increasingly become a commodity and artists’ names are branded to their galleries and institutions. As such, name recognition, as a means of branding, has become an all too important aspect of art. The Pseudonym Project playfully destabilizes the viewers and challenges them to confront their own reading and evaluation of a piece of artwork without giving them the security of knowing the names and thus, the notoriety of the artist. All of the participants – including the curator, artists and volunteers – have chosen pseudonyms in order to remain anonymous until the conclusion of the show. No one is trying to hide; instead, they are participating in a tongue-in-cheek dialogue with the viewer.The Pseudonym Project includes eleven emerging and established artists from the United States and abroad. These artists have been involved in many prestigious exhibitions including shows at the New Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, the New York Performa, the Tate Gallery in London, the Istanbul Biennial, the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art Vienna, the Berlin Biennial, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, and Galleria Massimo. Their names will not be divulged until the conclusion of the exhibition. This exhibition is part of The Invisible Dog PLUS-ONE Curation series. more info

October 21st and 22nd
BROOKLYN BETA
Brooklyn Beta just might be the most important thing on your calendar. Yes, much more important than your birthday. It is a new, two-day event being held this October in (are you sitting down?) Brooklyn. Brooklyn Beta is bringing together a small group of web designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and the like for a day of inspirational talks and lots of great conversation. There is also a pre-conference day of fun-filled workshops. They will be making photos, videos, and other conference content available on this site for those who can’t make it. more info

Friday October 15th
MACDOWELL COLONY
The MacDowell Colony awards Fellowships to exceptionally talented artists of all disciplines, providing time, space, and an inspiring environment in which to do creative work. Founded in 1907 by Edward MacDowell and Marian MacDowell, his wife, the Colony is now an international arts center of 32 studio buildings based in Peterborough, NH. Fellows receive room, board, exclusive use of a studio, and the benefits of working in a multidisciplinary community of artists. The sole criterion for acceptance is talent, as determined by a panel of experts in each discipline. The MacDowell Colony was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1997 for “nurturing and inspiring many of this century’s finest artists.” The Colony Fellows Reunion party is an annual event held each fall. It brings together former Fellows to socialize, reconnect, and raise money to help give other artists the residency opportunities that they have enjoyed at MacDowell more info

Wednesday October 27th – 8pm – Premiere
YANIRA CASTRO I A CANARY TORSI I WILDERNESS
Creating illustrious environments, Yanira Castro crafts worlds in unexpected places. Her newest work, Wilderness is a performance and audio installation with live piano performed by Michael Dauphinais. For this iteration*, Wilderness unfolds in a dark field set in a warehouse where the audience and dancers are contained. Ranging from stark and emotional to highly formal the work features performers Luke Miller, Peter Schmitz, Darrin Wright, Pamela Vail, and Kimberly Young with sound design by Stephan Moore and light and set design by Roderick Murray. more info

Saturday October 30th
NATIONAL THEATER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 10th ANNIVERSARY
A troupe of professional entertainers and theater makers, The National Theater of the United States of America contains seven members with countless collaborators. Created in 2000, they collaboratively conceive, build and execute works of theater through the dedicated convergence of our ideas, aesthetics, skills and passions. Through multiplicity of voice and vision, they create unified, intoxicating, space-specific theatrical universes which audiences complete. Together, they confront the culture and history that we all breathe, promoting multiple perceptions, questions and often producing conflicting conclusions. more info

Saturday November 13th – Opening party
RECESSION ART SHOW – WHAT IS THE WHERE?
Recession Art is an arts organization devoted to helping emerging artists show and sell their work while giving art lovers and collectors of all incomes an opportunity to buy original work at affordable prices. They believe that in spite of hard economic times, artists and art lovers don’t have to put their passions on hold! They aim to break open the traditional gallery model and make showing, buying, and enjoying art more accessible for people who have been hit by the recession. Recession Art is pleased to announce its fall 2010 show, What is the Where?, curated by Risa Shoup and Art Director Ani Katz. What is the Where? will show work by emerging artists responding to the relationship between location, identity, and perception. more info

Wednesday November 17th
ZERO FILM FESTIVAL
Zero Film Festival will return to The Invisible Dog Art Center again this November for the 2nd annual Zero Film Festival. Transforming The Invisible Dog Art Center into an engaging and novel screening space, the Zero Fest will hold nightly events featuring the best self-financed films the world has to offer. Zero Film Festival is the first and only festival exclusive to self-financed filmmakers, and is founded on principles of inclusivity and community. more info

December 11th – 12th – 13th
THE CELESTE PRIZE
The Invisible Dog is excited to host the final exhibition for the art competition The Celeste Prize, which is an international art prize and a network for arts professionals. Celeste Prize is organised by an Italian, non-profit cultural association, ‘Associazione Culturale L’Albero Celeste’, founded by Steven Music in 2005. more info

Saturday December 24th – 6 to 10pm – Opening party
THIERRY DREYFUS
The Invisible Dog is proud to welcome artist Thierry Dreyfus. Working with light for the past thirty years, French artist Thierry Dreyfus sees it like « a material that doesn’t settle on any surface but rather finds an echo in volumes. Light murmurs, holds back or screams; yet it remains silent ». Starting off as a light-assistant for the Opera back in the 1980s, he then collaborated on the long run with fashion’s most influential designers such as Helmut Lang, Rei Kawakubo (Comme des Garçons), Francisco Costa (Calvin Klein) or Hedi Slimane (Dior Homme)… In parallel, Thierry Dreyfus experimented with Light, ranging from two-dimensional photography to 3D objects and stand-alone installations staged in five dimensions : « If my images try to depict the suspension of time and its weightlessness, my objects play around the perception of light. As for installations, they explore light as a material, offering the visitor a mean to experience another state of being ».Since the reopening of Le Grand Palais in 2005 – which some 500,000 visitors lived through – all of Thierry Dreyfus’ installations have followed the same set-up in Paris, Versailles, San Francisco, Basel or Shanghai: a thread / frame of light that shapes and guides a participative audience, in a direct or indirect way. “Filling emptiness, playing with reflections and ‘mise en abime’, triggering the visitor’s attention to reach him intimately through a static or dynamic experience, are all recurring elements of my work.” October 2010, for the Nuit Blanche, he imagines a light-installation inside cathedral Notre Dame de Paris. more info

Yanira Castro | a canary torsi
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27th
premiere

Creating illustrious environments, Yanira Castro crafts worlds in unexpected places. Her newest work, Wilderness is a performance and audio installation with live piano performed by Michael Dauphinais. For this iteration*, Wilderness unfolds in a dark field set in a warehouse where the audience and dancers are contained. Ranging from stark and emotional to highly formal the work features performers Luke Miller, Peter Schmitz, Darrin Wright, Pamela Vail, and Kimberly Young with sound design by Stephan Moore and light and set design by Roderick Murray.

Oct 27 – 31, Nov 3 – 7 at 7:30pm Wed – Sun
Coffee and Conversation Oct 26 at 6:30pm
Post-Show Talk Oct 29 with Brian McCormick $20 – LIMITED SEATING

www.acanarytorsi.org

buy tickets www.dancetheaterworkshop.org

Wilderness is commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop’s Commissioning and Creative Residency Program with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, with additional support provided by Jerome Foundation. Wilderness is funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 21st
FRIDAY OCTOBER 22nd

Brooklyn Beta just might be the most important thing on your calendar. Yes, much more important than your birthday. It’s a new, two-day event being held this October in (are you sitting down?) Brooklyn.

We’re bringing together a small group of web designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and the like for a day of inspirational talks and lots of great conversation. There’s also a pre-conference day of fun-filled workshops.

We’ll be making photos, videos, and other conference content available on this site for those who can’t make it.

http://brooklynbeta.org/

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16th
8pm
PREMIERE

The new play by James Holland, Portrayed: The Unbearable Burden of Deciding What to do Before Dying, will be at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, in their newly renovated theatrical space, in the basement. Portrayed is about twins, Mary and Trevor, who as of yet have literally done nothing in their lives, and their younger sister Sarah’s attempt to coax them out of their current stagnant way of life. Holland’s work is a riley absurd exploration of the nature of choice, time, and how expectation clashes with reality. The play will be told then retold each evening, performed once in the American theatrical tradition, then again in the French tradition, with the two unique styles making two plays out of one. Rest assured neither the French nor American variation will suffer from a lack of authenticity with producer and duel Brooklyn and Paris resident Marion Attal and native Texan/Director, Michael Petranek at the helm. Live music will underscore both versions of Portrayed nightly, with original music tailored perfectly to accompany both the off beat nature of the show and to heighten the French and American styles of theatre.

www.portrayed.com

Tickets will be available for purchase on August 23rd at BrownPaperTickets

Show at 8pm
September : 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30
October : 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Except sundays at 4 pm and Saturday September 25 at 3 pm.
Running time is 1 hour and 30 minutes plus a 15 minutes intermission.

PLUS ONE CURATION

What’s the fun of an event if you don’t get to bring along a plus-one? What’s the point of being involved with a vital and forward-thinking artistic community if you don’t get to invite your colleagues, mentors, and creative crushes to the party?

Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center was conceived from the first as a new kind of art center: an unconventional community of artists working in all media and at all career stages, brought together by a mutual commitment to collaboration and collectivity. As such, the artists’ studios are integral to the project: for the 27 artists housed there, the Invisible Dog is literally home. They are the heart of the Invisible Dog, according to director Lucien Zayan, who wanted to honor their commitment to the unique spirit of the space in a way consonant with the center’s ideals.

To that end, Invisible Dog is proud to unveil its new curation series, PLUS-ONE CURATION, which challenges artists to stretch their visions of their roles as creators. Beginning this spring, and running biannually in spring and fall, PLUS-ONE CURATION asks interested artists working in the Invisible Dog studios to curate a gallery show. Working with the director, artists will develop shows that in some way respond to their experience at the Invisible Dog. But beyond that loose perimeter, the artist-curators are free to let their imaginations take the lead.

PLUS-ONE CURATION models a new kind of artist involvement in the gallery process. Where artists are too often encouraged to cultivate narrowness, PLUS-ONE CURATION asks them to pause and reflect on the contemporary art scene at large. Placing themselves on the other side of the artistic equation, the PLUS-ONE artist-curator must look at art with a different kind of attention, maintaining his or her unique vision while expanding notions of what should get shown and how.

MAY – JULY 2010: “If You See Nothing, Say Something,” which inverts the New York subway slogan to explore the wonder of the everyday discovery. Curated by Kiya Kim

OCTOBER 2010: “Pseudonym Project,” playfully interrupts the branding mechanism of contemporary culture: every artist included will chose a pseudonym instead of using his or her name. Curated by Gabriel Yozzo

SPRING 2011: Curators Steven and William Ladd

OPENING PARTY
SATURDAY OCTOBER 2nd
6pm

Ever since Marcel Duchamp posed for Man Ray as “Rrose Sélavy,” artists have used the pseudonym as a form of anonymity that allows complete freedom of expression.   Art has increasingly become a commodity and artists’ names are branded to their galleries and institutions.  As such, name recognition, as a means of branding, has become an all too important aspect of art.  The Pseudonym Project playfully destabilizes the viewers and challenges them to confront their own reading and evaluation of a piece of artwork without giving them the security of knowing the names and thus, the notoriety of the artist.   All of the participants — including the curator, artists and volunteers — have chosen pseudonyms in order to remain anonymous until the conclusion of the show.   No one is trying to hide; instead, they are participating in a tongue-in-cheek dialogue with the viewer.
The Pseudonym Project which is part of PLUS ONE CURATION SERIES includes eleven emerging and established artists from the United States and abroad.  These artists have been involved in many prestigious exhibitions including shows at the New Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, the New York Performa, the Tate Gallery in London, the Istanbul Biennial, the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art Vienna, the Berlin Biennial, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, and Galleria Massimo. Their names will not be divulged until the conclusion of the exhibition.

Curator: Gabriel Yozzo

www.pseudonymproject.com

51 Bergen Street is a three story factory building located in what until recently was an  industrial neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.  The history of this factory building reflects the history of this downtown neighborhood.

Although it is only one mile in distance from lower Manhattan, this area was still farmland as recently as the mid-19th century.  The reason for this fact is that downtown Brooklyn is physically separated from lower Manhattan by the East River. The downtown Brooklyn area began to slowly change by the mid-1800’s because of it’s close proximity to Manhattan, but at that time the people who lived in this “suburb” across the river were only able to get to work in Manhattan via ferryboat across the East River.

When the Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883, this enabled rapid development of downtown Brooklyn to take place.  When the New York City subway system was built in the early 1900’s and Brooklyn became accessible to everyone, then growth began to increase exponentially and the downtown area of Brooklyn close to Manhattan became very densely built and the population increased significantly.  Much of this rapid growth at that time was also fueled by the mass immigration from Europe between the 1890’s and 1910.

The factory at 51 Bergen Street was built in the late 1800’s.  Over the years it has been used for various things, including manufacturing, storage and parking.  On this block there were several commercial stores, including a blacksmith shop, and a factory which made cheese.  51 Bergen Street was purchased in the 1970’s by one Mr. George Zorbas, who was a former US Army Air Corp pilot during WW II.  After the war, he started his own jewelry and clothing business and eventually he owned several factories in downtown Brooklyn.  After purchasing the building at 51 Bergen Street, he consolidated his business there and made costume jewelry, belts, necklaces, small clothing items and a well known children’s item called the “Invisible Dog.”  Mr. Zorbas sold many of his products to stores like Macy’s in New York, and to other large department stores.  At the peak of production, this factory operated 24 hours per day with three shifts and employed 150 workers.

By the early-mid 1990’s, it became very difficult for this business to compete with low cost manufacturing in places like China and Mexico, so the business slowly dwindled.  For the last 10 years, the main product manufactured at 51 Bergen Street was the “Invisible Dog,” and this product was sold to places such as Six Flags Amusement Park and to Disneyland.

In 2004, Mr. Zorbas passed away.  He was known in the neighborhood as a kind and gentle old man who was loved by many people.  His estate attempted to operate the factory for a short while afterwards, but the remaining 5 or 6 workers were laid off by 2006.  The new owners purchased this factory in 2007.

OPENING PARTY
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25th
6pm

Richard Garet creates a new immersive visual sonic experience with his installation Electrochroma (2010), premiering with  at The Invisible Dog Art Center, September 25- November 28, 2010.

In a dedicated room built in the back of the gallery, Garet combines kinetic light images from 16mm film, abstract imagery, electronic music, and a mist of fog to create an environment intended to generate experiential physical and psychoacoustic responses. The 52-minute projected installation, with a surround sound symphony of molded experimentation, profound bass echoing, modulated frequencies, static noises, white noise, and sine waves, will play on the hour throughout the day.

Electrochroma is a time-based contemporary landscape, created in a digital environment utilizing several software processes to manipulate image, sound, and translations from the film’s imagery to sound. The project continues the artist’s interest in the phenomena found and produced in time-based media, and human beings’ relationship with both artificial and natural environments. His audiovisual exploratory steps are focused on concept and function, material and process, listening, viewing, and experience. Richard Garet states, “When creating a piece I reflect on what the work is meant to accomplish, how it functions in relationship to the space and affects the audience, and how sound and visual content are connected to one another. These questions determine my choices and influence the direction of the work.”

Garet’s work interweaves multiple media including live performances, moving image, sound, and photography, exemplifying the core of Crossing the Line. He is the youngest of the three world-renowned, multi-generational, visual and sound artists invited to premiere sound-based works for the festival, alongside Ryoji Ikeda and Eliane Radigue.

This exhibition is co-presented by The Invisible Dog Art Center and  Crossing The Line

www.richardgaret.com
www.fiaf.org

Exhibition until Sunday November 28th
Thursday to Sunday 1 to 7pm
Tuesday & Wednesday: by appointment only
Monday: closed

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 12th
11am to 5pm

The Fair is a wild new take on the traditional County Fair, a day-long celebration of art and food grown in Brooklyn! Festivities engage all the senses: hear live music performed by local Bang on a Can marching band Asphalt Orchestra; taste delicacies prepared by local chefs inspired by ingredients from Brooklyn farms; view specially commissioned work exploring the culture of agriculture by local artists; get a feel for materials needed to produce your own food in workshops by Brooklyn Food Coalition; participate in a Blue Ribbon Competition hosted by GreenThumb; and browse a marketplace with some of Brooklyn’s small-batch artisanal food purveyors curated by Greenpoint Food Market. Cap it off with The Food Experiments’ live cooking competition—Brooklyn Roots—featuring savory samples and refreshing drinks from Brooklyn Brewery, Six Points Brewery, Red Hook Wines, Brooklyn Oenology, Kings County Distillery and others.

Co-presented by The Invisible Dog and Crossing the Line
Curated by Derek Denckla

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SUNDAY JULY 25th
from 1pm to 7pm

You are invited!  And anyone who wants to have some fun with us! The party will mark the end of our first season, as well as the closing of our current show If You See Nothing Say Something. Momo‘s solo exhibition located on the 3rd floor will also be closing.

Additionally, as a very special one-day-event, the Recession Art Show will inaugurate their new program of solo shows by presenting a piece by Recession Art Alumni Alison Wilder.  To be performed in The Invisible Dog’s elevator shaft, Wilder’s piece Why neutral conflates kitchen implements and celebration signage while doppelgangers provoke each other in the back yard. The installation includes sculpture by Alison Wilder, and video by Rachel Schragis and Alison Wilder.

We will provide free wine as a thank you for your generous ongoing support.  You are invited to bring anything you please!  Food to grill in our newly opened garden,instruments to play and sing for our friends (yes, singers and musicians are more than welcome!), whatever you would like.  The building will be open to all, including the exhibition space on the 3rd floor as well as the 1st floor space and the garden.

Also, be on the lookout for upcoming news regarding our exciting plans for The Invisible Dog’s 2nd season, starting in September! Come one, come all.  Please celebrate with us as we celebrate You!   You were integral to our achievements and we would love to show you our sincerest thanks for a fantastic season.  It is going to be a very fun day and we hope to see you there.

After all, you are a huge part of our success, so please be part of our party!!

WORKSHOP
From AUGUST 10th to 26th
Monday to Friday from 1pm to 5pm
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
AUGUST 27th & 28th

Thierry Thieû Niang, summer workshop!

Both young and old, professionals and amateurs, the boldest of the bold and the shyest of the shy are invited to join!
All we ask is for curiosity and a willingness to try something new…

About the workshop
FACES AND BODIES:  They are centered around movement, approaching dance with improvisations and compositions themed around faces and bodies.  Technique is not of main concern.  Groups of 15 to 20 people will be chosen by Niang to form groups of all generations [from 8 to 99 years old] and all backgrounds [dancer, musician, actor, fine artist... ] to ultimately create a piece to be performed.

The  workshop will take place for 15 days. Participants must register for a minimun of 5 days

5 days workshop: $100
Full workshop: $150

REGISTER NOW by emailing us at theinvisibledog.ny@gmail.com
and please include a resume or a short autobiography

This Residency is made possible by the generous support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York

Thierry Thieu Niang works as much with professional artists as children and amateur adults. 
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Dean Dalfonzo

I am interested in the interplay between genuine experience, emotion and fictitious representations. As artists, we visually invert, confuse, and unify artificiality and reality. It’s possible to juxtapose what is strange and inanimate and what is real, human and personal. Something exciting and exposed can become quiet and prosaic; something familiar and private can become spectacular.  Juggling these discordant perceptions can entertain us and help us question our public and private lives.

Anita Sto

Mixed media visual artist, photographer, graphic designer, craft artist and illustrator.
Born in Rome, emigrated in New York city, she begun to develop her artistic skills and creativity, blending any kind of Visual Art in with her cultural background. Her body of works reflects that main feature, as a multimedia artist Anita Sto works with a wide range of media – including literature and scientific researches – to express herself and communicate her social and politic environment.

I believe in what I see, and in that human chaos I look for a balance between full and empties, lines and spots, dark and light; My focus on the comprehension of Life persists throughout my works, across aesthetic, simplicity and the different media I employ. Drawings are my tool to take notes, photographs are visual compositions stolen from the everyday life.
I do Art, therefore I am.

www.anitasto.com

SUNDAY JULY 25th
11am to 7pm

Recession Art is expanding this summer to showcase the work of our alumni artists at our first Summer Solo Show.  Works Progress artist Alison Wilder will present her installation Why neutral in the Invisible Dog Art Center elevator shaft.  Why neutral conflates kitchen implements and celebration signage while doppelgangers provoke each other in the back yard. The installation includes sculpture by Alison Wilder, and video by Rachel Schragis and Alison Wilder.

Special Deal!

Aspiring Recession Artists who attend Why neutral will receive a coupon for $5 OFF their submission fee.

www.recessionartshows.com

Saturday June 26th
9pm

A shut-in, Tom Peeper, falls hopelessly in love with the girl across the street and must figure out a way for her to notice him. In his way is Lipshitz; his abusive, senile next door neighbor who will stop at nothing to thwart Peeper’s plan.

Directed by Mohammad Maaty

Written by George Perez, Starring Scott Tatman, Diane Batista & Richard Isaacs

Free Admission

www.peeperthemovie.com
www.munkytownproductions.com

FRIDAY JUNE 18th at 9pm

Spinning Lines Live Performance
by Megan Prince
A collaborative performance with Jess Anthony and Elinor Evans

In conjunction with the exhibition If You See Nothing Say Something

About “Spinning Lines”: Both transparent and solid, this site-specific string installation addresses the process of life while toeing the line between drawing and sculpture. Why is it that we make the same choices and walk the same paths? Sometimes we get stuck and forget we have a choice. The truth comes out in the old saying “Man is a creature of habit.” The seemly simplistic aesthetic evokes a personal search for each viewer leading toward introspection.

SATURDAY JUNE 19th
7pm

Zero Film Festival Presents an evening of films, music and fun.

Zero Film Festival alumni filmmakers have been asked to interpret their idea of humor for an invitational event on June 19th.  Featured films include the sequel to the audience choice award winning film, “Bay Rizz: To the Rescue”, Sunset Television’s latest installment, as well as films covering topics from pineapples to Sarah Palin’s wink.

Special surprise performance TBA. 2009 New York Audience Choice Award Winner Mike Rizzo’s latest film and retrospective:

“Bay Rizz: The Man For You”
Bay Rizz tells a personal story about how he became the Mayor of Bay Ridge Brooklyn. Through magical pizza squares and a pomp hair style he is able to tap into his inner super hero to showcase the lovely neighborhood and all the notable locals in a rap video parody. Bay Rizz takes us on his ravishing life account from angry elders to hot women plus much more.

www.zerofilmfest.com

SATURDAY JUNE 12th
7pm

Celebrating the release of their debut album on Henceforth Records

Performances by: Dither, Kathleen Supové, Nick Didkovsky, Elliott Sharp,  Matthew Welch, Loud Objects, Mantra Percussion, Redhooker, Love Like Deloreans, The Deprivation Orchestra of NYC

Dither Electric Guitar Quartet, New York’s rising force in contemporary guitar music, announces Dither’s Invisible Dog Extravaganza! in celebration of the release of their debut album on Henceforth Records. Dither will be joined by an eclectic community of collaborators to perform music that spans minimalism, noise, free improvisation, psychedelic synth-pop and the avant garde.
Highlights include Elliott Sharp performing selections from Octal for eight-string guitarbass, a solo bagpipe performance from progressive piper Matthew Welch, a collaboration between pianist Kathleen Supové and composer/guitarist Nick Didkovsky, and the Deprivation Orchestra of NY’s rendition of Eric km Clark’s Deprivation Music #1 for a large ensemble of hearing-deprived musicians! Dither will perform selections from their album, as well as the the world premiere of Eve Beglarian’s The Garden of Cyrus, Fred Frith’s Stick Figures performed by two players on six table-top guitars, and James Tenney’s rarely heard Septet for six guitars and electric bass.

$6 will earn you admission to the gallery, curious musical offerings throughout the evening, inexpensive drinks provided by Brooklyn Brewery, and a special reduced album price!

Press relesase Dither’s Invisible Dog Extravaganza – June 12, 2010

www.ditherquartet.com
www.henceforthrecords.com

From Thursday June 24th to Sunday June 27th
EXTENDED UNTIL JULY 25th
Opening Party Thursday June 24th @ 6pm
3rd floor gallery

with musical intervention by Michel Gondry, Becky Stark & Mc Paul Barman

The Invisible Dog Art Center is very excited to announce its upcoming exhibition featuring paintings by artist MOMO

If painting moves us, then Maurice Maréchal’s certainly fits the description: his paintings question, suggest, mislead our senses yet clear the way, though tortuous, to our pulsions. However, at a time where everything is classified and categorized it is difficult to label such works: crude and primitive, violent and abstract, Momo’s paintings, as he is known, ignore simple qualifications and genres. If one must find an answer to explain the facts, it is evidently to be found in the non-standard itinerary of this 40 year old artist: Maurice Maréchal is artistic director and graphic artist at the Bronx agency of which he is one of the strong figures since its founding. He did not feel a vocation for painting. It is life, the childhood of a kid with no roots, haunted by a brilliant and marginal father; the string of deaths amongst his relatives, death always lurking; the obsessions, the sex, saved by fatherhood and love… Painting becomes an atonement for the madness and  the doubts… And beyond it all lies a certainty. It is for all these reasons that the future work of Maurice Maréchal is so fascinating…

Free admission / Donations are welcome

www.momomarechal.fr

KIYA KIM artist & curator
Through my paintings, I speak out with my soul. While I am painting, I feel as free I possibly can feel. Things that I make in mixed media are often playful. They also show my curiosity about the world around me. Perfection is nothingness. Then I go on to just try and look within myself and enjoy discovering new ways to express my life as art. I want to look around and see what is in the world for as long as I live. And I have always been interested in the human spirit.  So in order to understand the human’s personality, way of thinking, concepts of fellowship, etc., I read one of book about pattern recognition. I was very impressed by that theory, therefore I am going to try to discover myself and other people while I create artwork as a method of pattern recognition. As I speak about my art, I don’t want to focus on one section because my life is unusual. What I want to say is that l live in the art now, and in the past, and in the future. www.kiyakim.com

ADAM  PARKER SMITH
Constructing the aftermath of invented ceremonies and transcendental experiences from materials mined from vernacular culture, hardware stores and inherited collections of fabrics, I mimic the human endeavor to understand the universe through a bizarre confluence of real events, daydreams and preexisting fables.  Through this combination, I establish psychological sites for disparate elements to congregate in environments that are simultaneously haunting, familiar and alien.  These tragicomic installations are private, uncensored, darkly humored and most often involve the direct participation of the viewer.
www.adamparkersmith.com

YOUNG PAIK
Most of my works are based on the concept of super huge sculpture land [not land sculpture], sculpture park, sculpture park, sculpture edifice and seabed sculpture park from Earth to Space. I enlarge the size of these in the reduced scale, transforming them into plastic forms in this way. After this, I combine them to create a unique existence. In tension and delight, I perceive a situation of contrary correspondence for macrocosmic world. www.youngpaik.com

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FRIDAY JUNE 4th
SATURDAY JUNE  5th

Omnivore becomes visible at The Invisible Dog
New York does not accommodate the timid, but it can reward the assertive -those willing to move beyond the familiar, those who know that exploration, whether through taste or distance, brings rewards. Omnivore recognizes this need for daring and has decided to use Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog for 2010’s classes and final party. The fit could not be more perfect. Once a factory that specialized in leashes for invisible dogs, the space -much like Omnivore,- responds to the changing demands and tastes of the city. Its sense of fun and its willingness to reinvent and redefine old spaces parallel Omnivore’s food philosophy. Together, the two will create an experience that appeals to every sense in ways only jeune cuisine can.

Friday dinner at 8pm [sold out]

SATURDAY JUNE 5th

11am to 4pm / $30 all day pass
OPEN MASTERCLASS with
Carlo Mirarchi [Roberta's, NYC] – Alexandre Gauthier [La Grenouilliere, France] – Petter Nilsson [La Gazzetta, France], David Kinch [Los Gatos, USA] – Gilles Choukroun [MBC, France]

9pm / $30*
THE LIVE COOKING NIGHT
Cuisine by the french young cuisine brigade
Gilles Choukroun, Eric Guerin, Philippe Hardy, Gregory Marchand, Jean-Luc Tartarin
Drinks by Nils Noren & Dave Arnold
DJ Justine D
* All you can eat  + 1 cocktail + 1 glass of wine

If you purchase both a ticket to the cooking classes as well as a ticket for the party,
the price is just $45!

download the MASTER CLASS program@the invisible dog here

download the PRESS RELEASE here

Book your tickets now www.omnivore.fr

THURSDAY MAY 27th
from 7pm to 11pm

Since 2007 maelström—a Belgium-based publisher, artist, agent of ideas and propeller of acts—has organized an annual fiEstival of poetry, theater, visual art and music in Brussels. This May, for the first time ever, maelström will ignite the cultural skies of New York City with a three-day creative party featuring such renowned artists as Jerome Rothenberg, Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris, and Dwayne Morgan, as well an international palette of phenomenal emerging artists, as we present The First Annual maelstrÖm fiEstival in New York City, May 27th thru May 29.

Thursday 27^th May – 7pm-11pm: The Invisible Dog $5 + bring your own chair!

Friday 28^th May – 6pm-8pm: Cornelia Street Café $7 + one free drink.

Saturday 29^th May – 7pm-9.30pm: Bowery Poetry Club $5 + Belgian specialties.

http://www.fiestival.org

LAST DAY
SUNDAY JULY 25th @ 7PM

The Invisible Dog Art Center presents the first curatorial program PLUS ONE curated by artist Kiya Kim (Korean, b. 1977), which features  artists Adam Parker Smith, Young Paik, Chong Gon Byun, Carolyn Salas, Eun Jung Hwang, Woolga Choi, Hong Seon Jang, Hee Jung Cho, Jason Peters, Julie Evanoff,  Kiya Kim, Megan Prince, Noah Klersfeld, Richard Jochum,  Sea Chang Chun & Thomas McKean

What’s the fun of an event if you don’t get to bring along a plus-one? What’s the point of being involved with a vital and forward-thinking artistic community if you don’t get to invite your colleagues, mentors, and creative crushes to the party?

Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center was conceived from the first as a new kind of art center: an unconventional community of artists working in all media and at all career stages, brought together by a mutual commitment to collaboration and collectivity. As such, the artists’ studios are integral to the project: for the 27 artists housed there, the Invisible Dog is literally home. They are the heart of the Invisible Dog, according to director Lucien Zayan, who wanted to honor their commitment to the unique spirit of the space in a way consonant with the center’s ideals.

The exhibition is generously supported by Namkwang Construction 

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Regarded as “a composer possessed of both rich imagination and the skill to bring his fancies to life” by Time Out New York, composer and bagpipe virtuoso Matthew Welch (b.1976) holds two degrees in Music Composition, a BFA from Simon Fraser University (1999), and an MA from Wesleyan University (2001), having studied with noted composers such as Barry Truax, Rodney Sharman, Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton. After locating to New York City in 2001, he has worked with a host of other artists such as John Zorn, Julia Wolfe, Zeena Parkins, andIkue Mori. The eclectic breadth of his interests in Scottish bagpipe music, Balinese gamelan, minimalism, improvisation and rock converge in compositional amalgams ranging from traditional-like bagpipe tunes to electronic pieces, improvisation strategies and fully notated works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra and non-western instruments. Since 2002, Mr. Welch has been running and composing for his own eclectic ensemble, Blarvuster, whose repertoire the New York Times has claimed as “border-busting music; original and catchy.” Mr. Welch has recorded for the Tzadik, Mode, Cantaloupe, Leo, Porter, Muud, Avian, Newsonic and Parallactic record labels.

Traversing Mad-hatten/ Blues for Seraut (Welch 1999/2000)
A modular network with limited sequential parameters that stamps a salient sameness within mutable materials from performance to performance, segues into Blues for Seraut, a new look at pointillism.

FRIDAY APRIL 23rd
from 6pm to 10pm

Curated by Steven and William Ladd

with the collaboration of
Miggy Buck, Liz Burow, Carlton Dewoody, Roy Glorioso, Alicia Kelley Lapp, Ethan Long, Shane Powers, Chauanda Tan & Ecosystems

The opening will be followed by a concert of Matthew Welch (Bagpipe)

more about here

INVISIBLE DOG ARTISTS OPEN STUDIOS
Saturday April 24th
Noon to … late

Come and join us at The Invisible Dog for a very exciting event. Our twenty-seven artists will be opening their doors to you once again. On April 24th, 2010 take the opportunity to see how our talented ones have grown and evolved since last fall.

They are the heart and soul of our art center and will be welcoming you from noon all the way till midnight.

WORKS PROGRESS RECESSION ART SHOW

Opening Saturday April 24th
6pm to midnight
throught May 2nd

Emmanuel Bernardoux is a french artist in  residency at The Invisible Dog until the 21st of May.
His artwork is on the thin line between realism and abstraction. Symbols, signs and small details build a jigsaw puzzle with his paintings he started 4 years ago, connecting each of  them in an encoded unfinished creation. His subjects are about religion, network between god and dog, sexual organs and a recurring well-known mouse.

The Invisible Dog inspired to him a short experimental film

http://maulbox.com

Based in New York, Xavier Roux is a postmodern artist who has developed conceptual artworks based on public participation. He has developed a brand name through Redseeds and proposes participative art projects to corporations. With Schlumberger he has created the Tree of Life, a giant set of sculptures, which incorporate drawings made by children from 26 countries. He has also created a participative art project aiming at connecting the universities from different countries. On the aftermath of 2001 Xavier Roux had “recreated” the Twin Towers using the grid of Manhattan avenues and streets and planting 4,000 giant Russian Mammoth sunflowers in the streets. Winner of the Panchiao International Art Competition he completed “The Swimmers” in 2003 – a 225 foot long glass wall representing transparent swimmers in motion. In 2007, Roux launched the Artist Studio Project in collaboration with the Yahoo Research Lab at Berkeley. The project was an experimental exploration of the role and place of the artist in our society. He has also contributed to Praxis Dreams & Possibilities show at The Whitney Museum in New York.
He is currently showing “The Ant” at The Invisible Dog in New York, a sixty foot long steel and nylon sculpture of a an ant based on 1943 French Surrealist Robert Desnos’ poem “La Fourmi”.

www.redseeds.com

The Invisible Dog Store
Grand Opening
Friday April 23rd – 6.30pm
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The Invisible Dog’s artists Open Studios!
Welcome to ….
Saturday April 24th – noon to midnight
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Recession Art is back!
save the date
Opening Saturday April 24th
6pm to midnight
throught May 2nd
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My dinner with Bernard Frechtman
a performance by Shonni Enelow
Friday April 30th to Sunday May 2nd
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THURSDAY APRIL 1st
6.30pm

After thousands of community screenings and grassroots word-of-mouth, FRESH has finally been released theatrically in NYC. FRESH is opening at the Quad Cinema Friday April 9th and is kicking off a long series of how-to workshops, farm to table dinners, lectures and tastings with a Wine & Cheese Reception at the Invisible Dog Art Center.

Ana Sofia Joanes, the director of FRESH, will be here at 6:30pm for this kickoff event to FRESH Week, so come by and say hello! Cheese and carbon-neutral, bio-dynamic wines from Paul Dolan vineyards will be featured.

FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.

Admission $25
At this event you will receive a movie voucher to see FRESH at Quad Cinema from April 9-15
(Please bring your own wine glass! Wine glasses will be available for $2 at the event)

http://www.freshthemovie.com/

from APRIL 24th to MAY 2nd

Recession Art is a new arts organization devoted to helping emerging artists show and sell their work while giving middle-income art lovers and collectors an opportunity to buy original work at reasonable prices. We believe that in spite of hard economic times, artists and art lovers don’t have to put their passions on hold! We aim to break open the traditional gallery model and make showing, buying, and enjoying art more accessible for people who have been hit by the recession. We believe that we can start our own art stimulus plan today!

Featured artists:
Megan Berk Amanda Boulton Zach Chupa Julie Floersch Emily Francois Katerie Gladdys Angela Jann Jonathon Kambouris Ian Trask Cubby West Alison Wilder Shawn Yu.

EVENTS

Sunday April 25th, Noon to 4pm: Bake Sale Brunch
Stop by Works Progress on your lazy Sunday and enjoy a cupcake while you browse the affordable art.

Tuesday April 27th, 8pm: Hot Movie Night
Recession Art screens an eclectic mix of short films from emerging filmmakers, curated by Jesse Wakeman. From provocative shorts and dark comedy to documentary and experimental sound pieces, Recession Art’s first-ever Movie Night has it all.

Friday April 30th, 8pm: Live Art! Night
Help WORKS PROGRESS go out with a bang at our first Live Art! Night. Featuring Matthew Silberman’s jazz saxophone stylings, Theatre Reverb’s off-the-wall performance pieces, Leslie Goshko’s hilarious comedic monologues, This is Just a work-in-progress dance piece by Stephanie Fungsang and Jeremy Finch, and Folk musician Isaac Gillespie. Live Art! Night has something for everyone.

Saturday May 1st, 4pm: Workshop’s 7th Annual Kentucky Derby Party
Recession Art is a proud sponsor of Workshop’s 7th Annual Kentucky Derby Party. We’ll be serving up mint juleps, beer, southern-style snacks, a hat contest, games, and of course the best place in town to watch the Derby. Contest winners will get gift certificates to purchase art from WORKS PROGRESS. Tickets are $20. Get yours today SOLD OUT!

http://recessionartshows.com

Free admission

Friday April 30th – 8pm
Saturday May 1st – 8pm
Sunday May 2nd – 5pm

My Dinner with Bernard Frechtman
by and with Shonni Enelow

directed by Josh Hoglund
video by Sunita Prasad
sound by David Herman
lights by Christine Shallenberg

My Dinner with Bernard Frechtman is a solo performance piece that blends theatrical, literary, and academic idiom. It charts the obsession of a graduate student and performance artist named Shonni Enelow with the midcentury translator and critic Bernard Frechtman, most famous as Jean Genet’s first American translator and literary agent, who killed himself in the mid-1960s. Shonni Enelow falls in love with Frechtman, and through her repeated attempts to contact his old girlfriend, the now-famous academic Annette Michelson, she explores the ghostly inscrutability of Frechtman as a metaphor for the desire for, and the impossibility of, total knowledge of either the object of study or the object of love. Serge Gainsbourg’s classic “Les Dessous Chics [Chic underwear],” on which the two parts of the piece hinge, crystallizes the paradox: chic underwear, the metonym for total exposure, is actually what prevents it.

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17 Ugly Years: A Performance Party for Ugly Duckling Presse
Wednesday March 17th
7.30 pm to midnight

To celebrate this new series, many artists, musicians, and performers will create events, dances, happenings, music, and experiences to help you party like it’s the fin de siecle!

See the slideshow here

Featuring:

Deville Cohen will install and perform “Flat Tire” a 3-dimensional living diorama;
Ellie Ga will do individualized Card Readings, based on her recent performance lecture “The Fortunetellers”;
playwright and performer Kristen Kosmas will do a one-woman 12-character performance of her play Hello Failure, recently published by UDP’s Emergency Playscript Series;
artist and musician Marisol Limon Martinez (from The Reading) will install and perform “Keyboard Convent,” an interactive keyboard performance;
Urara Tsuchiya will host a Naked Sewing Circle, where guests come naked and (with Urara’s help) sew the very clothes they wear for the rest of the party;
the Ashcan Orchestra will play music for violin, toy piano, glockenspiel, cymbal, floortom, toy organ, and deskbells;
You Nakai (whose scores are forthcoming from the UDP Emergency Playscript Series) will perform “Tria Partio Voki,” a solo musical composition for a party;
Jim Findlay performs a shard from his new work-in-progress “Botanica”;
members of the NTUSA will perform excepts from their new work in progress, The Golden Veil, by Normandy Sherwood;
visual and performance artist Gaël Peltier will perform “The Big Time,” in which the artist changes his own envelope by gaining weight, incorporating classic american comedy.

Also featuring Karinne Keithley singing requests just for you (with a ukelele), interactive pangolins by Jeffrey Joe Nelson, music by Joey Wyoming and Holiday Inn, video installation by Mike Taylor and Iki Nakagawa; films projected by Joel Schlemowitz; occasional dances by Laboratory Theater directed by Yvan Greenberg, an elevator performance by Filip Marinovich, and a new solo work by Japanese artist and punk musician Yoshihito Mizuuchi.

Refreshments will be served; imbibe them at your own risk, intellectuals!

Free admission Donation are welcome

www.uglyducklingpresse.org

THURSDAY MARCH 11th
7.30 to 11 pm

Supermachine Poetry Journal Launch Party. Featuring readings by Christian Hawkey, Genya Turovskaya, and others. Music by Body Actualized Control! For the past two years the Supermachine Reading Series has stood among the others as the hippest and most invigorating poetry series in the city. Having featured such visionary poets and writers as Trinie Dalton, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, and Matvei Yankelevich, Supermachine moves fearlessly into print with an aesthetic that is hopeful, immature, accessible, daring, cosmic, anti-slam poetry (duh!), anti-academic (thankfully), and many other things.

Contributors: Lindsey Boldt, Brandon Brown, Brent Cunningham , Christian Hawkey, Will Hubbard, Paul Killebrew, Noelle Kocot , Natalie Lyalin, Derek McCormack, Lee Norton, Douglas Piccinnini Genya Turovskaya Jeffrey Yang Matthew Zapruder

www.supermachinepoetry.com

Free admission

Giuseppe Stampone

Born in Cluses (France) in 1972,  and works  in Milan and in New York.
The artist has shifted away from personally defining the event, which was intimately experienced by the spectator, and now builds it up interactively with the viewer, basing it on considerations about present-day social and environmental issues.
The first of these was Acquerelli per non sprecare la vita [Watercolours Not to Waste Life], on safeguarding water resources. It involved 10,000 children with Progetto Mondo of the MLAL NGO, as well as Amnesty International, which both intend to extend the project to 30 countries around the world.

The Invisible Dog Elevator

Originally an antique looking freight elevator, Giuseppe Stampone turned the space into a unique art piece using quotes from Dante’s Divine Comedy, which is written on the walls of the shaft. Starting out in Hell on the first floor, the elevator lifts you up through Purgatory, up to Paradise on the third floor. This work was commisioned by No Longer Empty for the Grand Opening of The Invisible Dog on October 2009 and is part of the permanent collection of the Invisible Dog.

www.giuseppestampone.net

Jeff Amurao

Do you remember? what color was it? was it part of a dream or did it really happen?
photographs help us to remember. entwined in all photographic images is an eternal present captured as history, understood in an ever shifting here and now.
the truth of the event is as much a part of our present as of our past, and even the future colors what we see. photographs frame our memory and from them we cannot help but conjure emotions that are part fiction.

www.jeffamurao.com

Ian Trask

Ian Trask is an emerging artist living in New York City. As a sculptor, he explores the inherent aesthetics of material waste.  His compositions present the disassembly of salvaged, once-functional objects, and their re-assembly into aesthetically motivated arrangements.  He argues that one of modern civilization’s greatest tragedies is the abundance of waste that results from an out-of-control, consumptive materialism in an industrially advanced global marketplace.   By choosing trash as his medium he reduces the material demand he places on his own immediate environment while also suggesting to his viewers the importance of redefining how we look at our waste.

http://forkartist.mosaicglobe.com/

Megan Hershman

For the past few years, I have been exploring ideas of fantasy and illusion though the construction and fabrication of dioramas. After assembling these sometimes-abstract sets, I then photograph them using a large-format view camera to create images that evoke a sense of wonder. These scenes I photograph are built within the confines of the studio, allowing me to control most aspects of the space I am creating. The materials that are used are often objects that are found or made within the studio as well. I recontextualize elements that might be found in an actual surreal space such as light,water, or fog. These components shift the viewer’s consciousness and sense of place. By photographing these spaces I hope to emphasize the viewers relationship between perception and wonder.

www.meganhershman.com

Nemo Hoffman

Equations are the key to understanding my art. The sum total of my habits, vices and influential ideas calculated  through wood, metal and plastic in order to compute my aesthetic solutions.  These formulas culminate in three-dimensional pieces of perspective & self-reflection.
Nemo Andrew was born in Washington D.C. in 1976.

www.fauxmo.com

Eirini Vourloumis

Eirini Vourloumis is a freelance photojournalist and writer focusing on features and reportage. Born and raised in Athens, Greece she is currently based in Brooklyn, NY and is a contributing photographer for the New York Times and Polaris images. She is also a contributing writer for the NYTimes Lens blog focusing on documentary and photojournalism. She is interested in covering human interest stories and social issues.

www.eiriniphoto.com

Liz Burow

Liz Burow specializes in textile designs that consider the relationship between nature and the constructed world. Her latest work concentrates on blurring the line between indoors and outdoors, hardscape and softscape. Inspired by the topography and greenery of the natural world, Liz has created works that both respect and tease our efforts to domesticate the environment. Her felt-based wall hangings transform our city life into interior décor and discern the beauty of roads and interchanges; her textile designs toy with our urban landscape, transforming familiar symbols into unusual patterns. Liz’s work considers our impact on our public space, and conceives of ways of bringing this space into our homes.

Liz works in a multitude of creative areas, and makes artwork as well as site specific commissioned design work for architects, interior designers, theatrical productions and private clients. She also teaches design studios within the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her previous professional experience includes work as an architect for large cultural projects, set designs for theater and opera, interior and branding designs for the hospitality and entertainment sectors, and media graphic design. Liz earned her masters in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and her bachelor of arts in architecture from Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. She is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

www.lizburow.com

SUSAN WEINTHALER

I see it as the artist’s responsibility to recognize truths. One truth I have been exploring in my work is how complex systems are built by applying simple rules. My BITS are such a system. Each BIT measures 2” x 2”, is individually treated and magnetized, then placed en masse on a large sheet of steel attached directly to the wall. This simple mounting mechanism makes for infinitely variable compositions, as the BITS are not supposed to be static. Within these parameters, vastly different BITS have been made using a wide range of materials and treatments, but I have only just begun to explore the potential.  Art should have a life force. I am interested in different theories of the universe and am developing my BITS as an equivalent visual language in art through which I can better translate the world. Life is not rigid, why should art be?  Even though I work on distinct collections, ultimately I consider all of my BITS as one epic work of art with interchangeable parts where anything is possible.

www.weinthaler.com

SUNDAY MARCH 28th
6.30pm

Full Moon Vocalise bringing the Lakota Flute tradition to all New Yorkers in a celebration of the Ant  by artist Xavier Roux. Tiokasin Ghosthorse, seventh generation Lakota flute maker will play the flute. Francis Cholle will join him vocally and facilitate the group process. In this simple and profound ritual, called Vocalise, our voices inspired by the Lakota flute, join together and awaken us to all that is. The Lakota Flute entrains the voice, which in turn frees us from the dualistic nature of the mind. The Lakota nation is called the singing nation. Lakota people have long known the power of the voice on the human psyche, which latest cognitive science research has confirmed. Simply come with an open mind and an open heart to experience a deep sense of connection and renewal after this session. No vocal or musical training is required. Active participation can also be silent.

Free admission – Donation suggested $5

This event is organized by The Human Company Productions with the generous support of The Invisible Dog Art Center and artist Xavier Roux

Contact Francis Cholle
The Human Company Productions
francis@thehumancompany.com
1 917 539 3849

Eva Courch has photographed the month-long construction process of The Ant sculpture made from steel girders, nylon and polyurethane, beginning on day one and ending with the finished art work.

see the slideshow here

Gabe Benzur

Each thing in my paintings was put there deliberately, knowing that nothing real can ever be perfectly replicated, only interpreted. Paintings are constructed gradually through memory, aftermath, judgement, and analysis of dozens of references. Environment and expression are removed. Images are stripped down into re-organized reality, where what remains are the un-idealized and the subconscious. The final, distilled state of the image is always imperfect, but without distraction. I aim for simplicity.

We would like to thank our generous supporters:

Corporate Supporters

Guillaume Paturel – By-encore (NY)
Chez Joce (F)
Otherpress (NY)

with the generous support of the
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
& Association Les Amis de Robert Desnos

Donors
Floanne Ankah, Anne Mourier Attal, Stéphanie Arpage & Guillaume Paturel, Sabine Aslan, Corinne Bal, Philippe Barreaud, Gisela Blanc, Marianne Bron, Laura Bron, Chong Gon Byun, Kathleen Calabrese, Pierre Carava,  Martha Caroll, Florence Carmont, Marie Castro, Francis Cholle, Katharina Christl, Jay Cleary, Colin Clement, Simon Courchel, Eva & Régis Courchel, Catherine Courrier, Elisabeth Cros, Florence & Regis Degouge, Joëlle Deroy, Vincent Devisscher, Gina Diwan, Cito Dizon, Steven Feuerborn, Jeanne Fouchet & Richard Nahas, Isabelle Jouanneau Fertig, Jocelyn Guegnault, François Ghirardi, Muriel Guépin & Christophe Lemée, Judith Gurewich, Jason Hall, Michel Kelemenis, Taekyung Kim, Christine Lambert, Marine Laouchez, Jean-Francois Laugel, Jean-Pierre Lechevalier, Jean Lee, Brigitte Lemercier, David Liatti, Sara Lubtchansky & Gilles Seclin, Gael Malleret, Ella Marder & Daniel Horowitz, Germain Moyon, Marcelo Noverstein, Valentina Pace & Solo Houssein, Romain Pelleray, Julien Princiaux, Yasmeen Qureshi, Laurence Roucouly, Philippe Roux, Sophie Roux, Claude & Renée Roux, Arnaud & Beatrice Roux, Véronique Roux, Paul Rozek, Hugues de Saint Simon, François Servranckx, Clément Sobtejou, Charlotte Toulis, Aurélie Vaneck & Jean-François Salessy, Thomas Viguier, Emmanuele & Bruno Vinciguerra, The Windmill Factory.

Some donors wish to remain anonymous

The Ant has been supported by French Morning

Special thanks to Solange Cypel and Laura Bron who helped us for the fundraising campaign

Special thanks to Roy, Steve, Juan, Ramon, Tomas and Julio for their advise and help.

Without whom the construction of the exhibition would not be possible.

Donations are still welcome and deeply appreciated.Become one of our generous supporters whom have contributed to creating an exciting,
very talked about art piece.
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LAST WEEK! The Invisible Dog proudly presents The Ant in the main exhibition hall. Artist Xavier Roux was inspired to create the sixty-foot long sculpture by the poem written by Surrealist Robert Desnos in 1942. This touching piece consists of a giant ant symbolizing the trains transporting Jews and other nazi victims to concentration camps. The Invisible Dog  and Xavier Roux are deeply committed to this exhibition. We  have embarked in the adventure of assembling the material such as nylon balloons, foam boards, sound systems, etc.  It is fabricated from four elements, which are attached to a steel structure. The Ant is made of four giant translucent nylon balloons attached to a ton and half steel structure fabricated with the help of Juan Alfaro who worked with Louise Bourgeois on the making of her famous Spiders.

THE PRESS REVIEW ABOUT THE ANT

Open to public until May 2nd
Thursday through Sunday: 1pm.-7pm
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: by appointment only

Admission Free, Donations are welcome

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