MG installing @ Dallas Art Fair

Mixed Greens is at Dallas installing for tomorrow's opening!




This year we are bringing Alex Exposito, Brad Greenwood, Howard Fonda, and Mary Temple. Those of you who are Dallas, please stop by and stay hello!

x MG



TAGS: artfair / dallasartfair / install / installation

Install & Deinstall @ MG

It is once again that point of the month where we say our goodbyes and hellos as we deinstall and install our shows. Due to the massive volumes of the work in both number and size, our good friend Sara Jo Romero from Schroeder Romero has visited us to help Rob deinstall!





Look at them closing the crate for Donna Dennis' Cabin like a boss!

Meanwhile, Katie Bell has been installing at the back space of the gallery with some help from Chuka.





Stay tuned for more install pics!





TAGS: deinstall / install / installation

Brad Greenwood Installation Day!

It's a busy day today at Mixed Greens!











Brad Greenwood's Unauthorized Biographies opens this Thursday, November 14th, 6-8pm.

TAGS: bradgreenwood / installation / mg

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

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


We're feeling extra social these days:

#crossingtheline
#mgsummershow
@mxdgrns




TAGS: exhibition / installation

Sink Beneath the Surface and Be Free

A quick glimpse at Jeila Gueramian's window installation, "Sink Beneath the Surface and Be Free" as she put on the finishing touches last night. We hope you'll join us for the opening reception this evening, 6-8pm at Mixed Greens.

TAGS: installation / window

Installation in progress

Leah Tinari's installation for Mars' Planet is underway.


As is Jeila Gueramian's window installation Sink Beneath the Surface and Be Free.

Join us tomorrow evening (May 30th), from 6-8pm at Mixed Greens to celebrate the opening of both exhibitions.

TAGS: exhibitions / installation

Upcoming in our windows: Ann Tarantino

Ann Tarantino's Topoanalysis opens this Thursday, March 21st at Mixed Greens. The intricate, laser-cut patterns in Topoanalysis will fill the windows, interrupting the colored light emanating from behind the glass.


Ann inspects every minute laser cut before they are installed in our windows.


And Chuka and Rob are busy sanding the walls to prep for Coke O'Neal's exhibition, also opening this thursday at Mixed Greens, 6-8pm.



TAGS: installation / windows

Mulroney installing: Preparing for Wednesday's opening

Mark Mulroney, with the help of his excellent assistant Lucy, is working on his murals for the opening of his solo exhibition this Wednesday at Mixed Greens.


And Rob's in the back gallery sawing the heck out of some 2x4's for our upcoming VOLTA booth.

Happy Monday.


TAGS: installation / mulroney

Matthew de Leon's "Window Dressing"

WINDOW INSTALLATION
Window Installation
Matthew de Leon: Window Dressing
January 10–March 16, 2013

“You know you are the first thing I’ve created in a really long time that made me feel like an artist.” —Jonathan Switcher

Mixed Greens is thrilled to present a site-specific installation by Matthew de Leon. Repeated large-scale portraits of the character Jonathan Switcher (played by Andrew McCarthy) will confront viewers passing under the Mixed Greens windows on 26th Street. For the first time, as viewers look in, their gaze will be returned.

In the 1987 movie Mannequin, Jonathan Switcher is a young, frustrated artist who has difficulty keeping a job until he makes the perfect mannequin. De Leon focuses on the moment in the movie when this antihero, downtrodden and depressed, views his creation in a department store’s window for the first time. The still frame de Leon recontextualizes is the moment Switcher presses his hands against the rainy window, ecstatic and inspired by the sight of the mannequin and the feeling that he is a real artist. When he believes in himself, his creation comes to life.

As a young boy, de Leon watched this movie repeatedly, in love with the flamboyant characters and the science fiction romance. As an adult, the film resonates with him in a different way. Switcher’s resiliency and the euphoria he shows when making art inspired de Leon to think about someone else, albeit a fictional character, whose art became his life.

The transformed, repeated image of Jonathan Switcher in the Mixed Greens windows refers back to the source’s medium as a film. The piece plays with this language of film and Switcher’s gaze. Typically an art viewer finds an object of his or her gaze, but here the gaze turns back on the viewer in a look of absolute wonder, joy, and epiphany. In Window Dressing, it is the West 26th Street viewer who is the artist’s creation and is brought to life in this contemporary Pygmalion story.

TAGS: installation / window

Join us this Thursday, 6-8pm @ Mixed Greens for COLOR SHIFT

OPENING Thursday, January 10, 6-8pm

Color Shift
curated by Jordan Tate
January 10–February 9, 2013
Opening: Thursday, January 10, 6-8pm
Artists: Arabella Campbell, Wyatt Niehaus, Zachary Dean Norman, Rick Silva, Kate Steciw, Sherwin Rivera Tibayan and Alex Walp






And don't forget to check out the newest window installation:

Matthew de Leon: Window Dressing
January 10–March 16, 2013
Opening: Thursday, January 10, 6-8pm

TAGS: installation / windows

Miami install

Steven is installing our PULSE Miami booth while Mark Mulroney works on his site-specific mural. We're nearly there!

Here's more reading on Miami:

Lehman Maupin talks about their Miami preparations.

Yet another Map service outlining the many events, art fair locations, etc., etc.

Some good advice on surviving "fairtigue" and keeping your FOMO in check.

TAGS: artfairs / installation / miami

Installation continued!

Annnnddd, the drawings are going up!


TAGS: installation / mazzalupo

Installation: Christina Mazzalupo's "Prognosis: DOOM"

In progress shots of Christina Mazzalupo at work on her site-specific wall drawing. Join us this Thursday, November 15th, 6-8pm at Mixed Greens for the opening reception!







TAGS: installation / mazzalupo