Painting Towards Happiness by Franklin Vivray

Jayson Musson aka Hennesy Youngman is now Franklin Vivray. In his new series called "Painting towards Happiness," Jayson channels his inner Bob Ross and absolutely nails it. Franklin Vivray talks about a variety of topics within art -- how it is perfectly acceptable to paint from photos now, how painting is NOT dead as long as mother nature still sings, how modern art is garbage, how Kafka is the worst, and how there is no wrong way to paint a feeling, all the while painting luscious, rolling hills with a minty green and a tree trunk with brown straight out of the tube.

Okay enough talking, just watch it. I've already watched it a thousand times. It is SO GOOD.



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WEDNESDAY VIDEO

For today's video blog, here are several stunning 3-D effects research + development samples:

MATT CHANDLER >>>

NAIAD sand RD from Matt Chandler on Vimeo.

Cloth RD from Matt Chandler on Vimeo.

JAEHO YU >>>

Crack - wip from YUJAEHO on Vimeo.

Forest - SitoA Render Test from YUJAEHO on Vimeo.

TAGS: 3-d / animation / chandler / d / jaeho / matt / r / simulation / yu

Over the Weekend + a Very Special Rob Carter Award

Several highlights from this past weekend's Dumbo Arts Festival >>>
Chelsea Knight's studio:

A fantastic public project in the street:

Saya Woolfalk in her studio:

One of our favorite video + performance artists, Shana Moulton at Smack Mellon:



And finally, we would like to honor Matthew Deleget at Minus Space with the highly cherished Rob Carter Award for exceptional storage organization:



TAGS: arts / award / carter / dumbo / festival / mellon / moulton / rob / shana / smack

MARK MULRONEY SCULPTURE ARRIVAL

We were excited to receive a drop off of new sculptures from Mark Mulroney this afternoon at Mixed Greens:



This colorful group will be featured at the Texas Contemporary in Houston, TX from October 10-13.

Check out this very recent video interview, recently featured in JUXTAPOZ:
Sex is Hard to Avoid, directed by Deanna Sheward & Luis M. Castañeda.

Mulroney talks about the uncanny, the beauty of a cheap joke, bodies and fluids, and cartoonish excess.




TAGS: contemporary / mulroney / sculpture / texas

Special Guest @ Mixed Greens

A very very special guest stopped by at Mixed Greens today!!
Pax, Monica's baby boy, slept, smiled, and did many other fun fun things with us. He even wore a matching shirt with Steven.




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Monday Video Playlist

Several sights for sore eyes on a Monday afternoon:

Alycia from Jae Matthews on Vimeo.

JAE MATTHEWS



LAVINA YELB

Robert Piernikowski - Siła from karolina glusiec on Vimeo.

KAROLINA GLUSIEC

Humanbeast—'Baluster' from Matthew Underwood on Vimeo.

MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

Look forward to a weekly guest-curated video playlist here at THE PIT from your new favorite intern ~*

Cheers,
Alessandra Hoshor

TAGS: animation / glusiec / matthews / underwood / video / yelb

Studio Visit with Katie Bell

Heather, Steven, and I paid Katie Bell a visit at her Sunset Park studio this morning.

Be sure to look out for her work in our booth at:

Miami PULSE
December 5–8, 2013.
The Ice Palace.
1400 North Miami Avenue. Miami.


Her work is currently on view in the group show Material at STOREFRONT Bushwick.



(P.S. Look forward to seeing much more of Katie Bell at Mixed Greens in 2014!)



-Mixed Greens intern, Delaney Allen-Mills

TAGS: artist / katiebell / miami / pulse / studio / visit

Opening TONIGHT!

Come and see Sonya Blesofsky, Hans van Meeuwen, and WonJung Choi from 6-8pm tonight. We're very excited for all 3 shows.

Oh... and be sure to root for Heather's husband on Million Second Quiz tonight!
http://www.nbc.com/million-second-quiz/#/live_from_nyc
#MSQRishiB

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RENOVATION: SONYA BLESOFSKY

SONYA BLESOFSKY
RENOVATION
SEPTEMBER 5 – OCTOBER 5, 2013
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 6-8PM

Join us this Thursday, September 12th, for the opening of Sonya Blesofsky’s second solo exhibition here at Mixed Greens!

Renovation is an exploration of the constant renewal and reconstruction of the temporal architectural structures in New York City. Inspired by a recent discovery that her DUMBO studio’s elevator had begun conversion from freight to passenger elevator, Blesofsky began to observe these alterations and modifications in detail, eventually examining remodeled and restored exteriors/interiors throughout the city. Within this inquiry, Blesofsky developed increased interest in the “visual evidence of a building’s evolution over time.” She writes, “I’m particularly drawn to makeshift architectural alterations and modifications that happen in an as-needed manner, as well as the layering that happens when architectural details fall apart and quick fixes are made around them.”

Through the use of found objects, layered wall drawings, blind embossing, paper sculptures and site-specific architectural interventions, Blesofsky creates a space of her own renovations, manipulating the gallery space into a material archive of its own history and evidence. In the work’s many stages, a truly complex and evolutionary process is presented, reflective of the constant shift and change of the city in which it exists. A microcosm is created in which the viewer is confronted with direct physical representations of time, in all its manifestations; from a column exposed, devoid of its plaster shield, to found baseboards and paint chips, standing alone as cells of an absent whole, to a large graphite drawing of a brick window, slowly peeling from the wall.

Sonya Blesofsky has shown extensively since receiving her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. Solo exhibition venues include Diego Rivera Gallery, San Fran- cisco, CA; Plane Space, New York, NY; Gallery Diet, Miami, FL; Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, NY; and Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA. Group exhibition venues include Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; SHO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY; Transformer Gallery, Washington DC; and Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA. She has been a studio artist at numerous residencies including the Artists Alliance Lower East Side Studio Program, The Museum of Arts and Design, Smack Mellon, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swarm Gallery, Dieu Donne Papermill, and Plane Space. Blesofsky grew up in Los Angeles County; she currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

- Mixed Greens intern, Delaney Allen-Mills


TAGS: 2013 / blesofsky / exhibition / exhibitions / renovation

Paris-SCOPE: Hans van Meeuwen

HANS VAN MEEUWEN
SENSE
SEPTEMBER 5 – NOVEMBER 9, 2013
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 6-8PM

Projective City is pleased to announce Sense, an exhibition focused on a singular, surprising, large-scale sculptural work by Hans van Meeuwen. The piece was conceived in direct reference to the gallery’s architecture and the viewer’s gaze.

When van Meeuwen was a teenager in the Netherlands, peepshows were an exciting topic of conversation. He remembers a striptease dancer talking about how she had a good idea of who was behind the peephole. Van Meeuwen was struck by this admission, and thought about both the comfort in supposed anonymity as well as the rush of confrontation. For Sense, van Meeuwen utilizes the voyeuristic nature of Paris-Scope by forcing viewers at Mixed Greens to literally peep through a hole in the wall to view his sculpture.

For years, van Meeuwen has worked to create figurative sculptures of disembodied limbs (tree, human, and animal) that astonish the viewer with their location and scale. Sense is no different. Our perception, our comfort as viewers from a distance, and our own bodily experience are all questioned with a simple look through a tiny viewer.

Hans van Meeuwen was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Art and Design. In 1987, he was a finalist at the very prestigious Prix de Rome prize for emerging artists. Van Meeu- wen has shown extensively in Europe and the United States including solo exhibitions at Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany; Kunstverein Baden-Baden, Germany; Galerie Deschler, Berlin, Germany; Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Belgium; Christinerose, NYC; Galerie Carla Stützer, Cologne, Germany; ADO Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; and the Durst Organization in NYC. Residencies include the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, NY. His public art has appeared at the Arte Luise Kunsthotel in Berlin, and is on permanent installation in public spaces in Amsterdam, Leeuwarden, Huizen, and Zeist, all in the Netherlands. Van Meeuwen currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

TAGS: hansvanmeeuwen / paris-scope / vanmeeuwen

Courtney is off to San Francisco :(

This week has been an exciting one. Sonya Blesofsky is finishing her install, WonJung Choi installed her window installation, and the Paris-Scope to Hans van Meeuwen's show is up and ready to go. But it's also a sad time for us at MG... Courtney has moved to San Francisco. We will miss her greatly! Here's a screen shot of her on the staff page for posterity. Tear.



TAGS: blesofsky / choi

What I did on my summer vacation - the guessing game!

Last week, Mixed Greens was closed while Sonya and Rob installed. Guess where the rest of us went on our summer vacations!

One of us was in Portland (check out a friend in his Poler sleep sack) and made a visit to Howard Fonda's studio.





Another was rambling through Walter deMaria's Lightning Field, where he almost bumped into James Franco!



And one was predicting the weather on the Florida coast!



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Installing

So far, the site-specific "renovations" are working! We've successfully exposed the original building columns. Extremely exciting stuff!

Sonya Blesofsky's Renovation opens September 5th, with the opening reception taking place on September 12th, 6-8pm. We'll see you there!

TAGS: blesofsky / installation

Sonya Blesofsky's

Stay Tuned: Sonya Blesofsky's Renovation will open to the public on September 5th, and we'll host an opening reception on Thursday, September 12th. The above photo was taken recently at Blesofsky's studio--she is preparing to install a variety of works on paper, including drawing, embossings, and site-specific architectural interventions.



Some of the research for the exhibition brought Blesofsky to early photographic evidence of the gallery's building: 531-525 West 26th Street!

Be sure to check it out.

Renovation will be on view at Mixed Greens through October 5, 2013.



TAGS: architecture / blesofsky / exhibition / installation

Murmurs & Incantations

Tickets are selling quickly--be sure to get yours here.

Some early buzz:

Playbill

NYTheatre

TimeOut NY

Theatermania




TAGS: murmurs / theater