Installation happening now

Crossing the Line: Contemporary Drawing and Artistic Process
Artists: Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, Firelei Báez, Oasa Sun DuVerney, Sanam Enayati, Heeseop Yoon
opens Thursday, July 11th
@ Mixed Greens
6-8pm


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Kim Beck at Indianapolis Museum of Art

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Cameron Gray a Block Away

Cameron Gray’s most recent exhibition, Birth of a Legend at Mike Weiss reflects the instant, overwhelming and excessive nature of today’s culture. Pop images blink out of sync while fake fast food is strewn about. Gray’s reference to our world of internet addicts and media maniacs is countered with mainly retro imagery with a low-tech vibe.
The show is up until August 17th and if you like it be sure to check out these net artists: Petra Cortright, Rollin Leonard, and Nick V. DeMarco




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Just putting things together...

Crossing The Line: Contemporary Drawing and Artistic Process opens on Thursday!
Curated by Dexter Wimberly & Larry Ossei Mensah

with work by:
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
Firelei Báez
Oasa Sun DuVerney
Sanam Enayati
Heeseop Yoon





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Paris-SCOPE: Sanam Enayati

SANAM ENAYATI
{RE.SIDE...} YET AGAIN
JULY 11 – AUGUST 16, 2013

Projective City is pleased to announce {RE.SIDE...} yet again, an exhibition of new, large-scale sculptural works by artist Sanam Enayati. Enayati’s installation for Paris-Scope is in conjunction with the exhibition Crossing the Line: Contemporary Drawing and Artistic Process, curated by Larry Ossei- Mensah and Dexter Wimberly, on view at Mixed Greens Gallery in New York City. In addition to this being Enayati’s first exhibition with Projective City, this is also the first time Paris-Scope has been included as part of an exhibition at a separate location.

{RE.SIDE...} yet again fills the gallery space with an oversized, knitted sculpture and precariously large knitting needle, all washed in pink light. The interlaced mass references mark making and traditionally drawn imagery through Enayati’s use of thread and filament.

While in her studio, Enayati identifies one emotion, such as anger or love, and lets it transform and overlap with other emotions as she performs a series of “feminine” and “domestic” processes, repetitive movements, and obsessive behaviors meant to create a new, non-familiar space/reality. By repeating the motion required for knitting, for instance, Enayati investigates the physicality of basic human feeling. When the work is later installed in the gallery, the carefully controlled atmosphere and placement creates a simultaneously warm and anxious experience for the visitor, and serves as a document of what took place in the studio.

Sanam Enayati was born in the United States and raised in Tehran, Iran. She holds a BFA from the Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago, IL, an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and a Masters of Fashion Design focused on sociology and psychology from Istituto Marangoni in Milan, Italy. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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Nails Across America, Goin' Strong!

Congrats to Breanne Trammell--her road trip performance project, Nails Across America, was featured in this article on NY Daily News!

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Paul and Damon McCarthy’s Rebel Babble Dabble

Paul McCarthy and his son Damon are presenting a steady flow of shocking material in their show Rebel Babbale Dabble at Chelsea’s Hauser and Wirth. Just as you might expect from McCarthy, the Rebel Without a Cause inspired installation features James Franco spanking Paul, plenty of domestic abuse, and unglorified pornography.

If you're looking for more, Paul is also exhibiting at the uptown Hauser and Wirth and the Park Avenue Armory.


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Visual AIDS

Barton Lidice Benes, Brenda ,1993 (L); L.J. Roberts, Censorship Protest Mask , 2011 (R)

Not Over: 25 Years of Visual AIDS, installation view

Take a moment to read this review of 25 Years of Visual AIDS by the New York Times.

Visual AIDS was one of the first national initiatives to record the impact of the AIDS pandemic on the artistic community. This contemporary arts organization since its inception has been and continues to be committed to AIDS awareness and HIV prevention. The exhibition "Not Over: 25 Years of Visual AIDS" at La MaMa Galleria depicts the damage this disease has done to the artistic community and what it continues to do. The fight is not over.

If you would like to get involved, check out Visual AIDS website and be sure to visit the exhibition on display through June 30th.

And remember Art. AIDS. Action.

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Gallerist at Home

Mixed Greens Group Portrait

Be sure to check out New American Paintings's interview with the faces behind Mixed Greens!! See the homes and works of art of exhibitions coordinator Courtney Strimple and directors Steve Sergiovanni, Heather Darcy Bhandari, and Monica Herman.

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Film Fridays

Chuka's been busy working on some video footage of Leah Tinari's current show. This shot was from our interview with Tinari earlier this week. Stay tuned for some interviews with artists from our UPCOMING Crossing the Line exhibition, opening July 11th.

In the meantime, you can check out some of our other videos here.

AND MARK YOUR CALENDARS...it's starting to really feel like summer, which means it's time to COUNT DOWN TO SHARK WEEK.

TAGS: exhibitions / sharks / tinari / video

Jeff Koons vs. Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons has taken over Chelsea! Koons is exhibiting in two different shows at Gagosian Gallery and David Zwirner Gallery. He is exploring the big questions surrounding fame, money, and sex (as usual). These shows are very different, so make sure to check out both!

And he’s not done…

There will be a Koons retrospective at the Whitney in the summer of 2014!

Also...

As recommended by the Gagosian (security guard) check out this great new film!


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A Group Exhibition at James Fuentes

Be sure to check out the group exhibition, currently on view, at James Fuentes, featuring:

Conor Backman
Egan Frantz
Ross Iannatti
Parker Ito
Alison Knowles
Niall MacDonald
Asher Penn
John Riepenhoff with Emily Sundblad
Roman Schramm







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Jogging @ Still House

Boy, that Still House is off the beaten path. But we found it.


A few installation shots from Jogging's exhibition Soon, currently on view.




A gloomy day, after the storm.

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Breanne Trammell in PAPER Magazine

Screenshot taken from PAPERMAG.com

Check out PAPER Magazine's piece on Nails Across America!

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Kimberley Hart on the farm

Image courtesy of Times Union. Photo Credit: Paul Buckowski / Times Union

Fascinating article on artist Kimberley Hart's adventures in farming.

TAGS: hart / reading