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

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.

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Opening this Thursday: Jonathan Feldschuh in our windows!

Detail from Feldschuh's Large Hadron Collider, 2012

We are preparing for our newest window installation to go up today: Jonathan Feldschuh is installing his large-scale drawing in our West 26th Street windows. His expressionist renderings of the Large Hadron Collider are an interpretive vision of the famed particle accelerator during a particle explosion.

Large Hadron Collider provides viewers with a literal window into the invisible: a celestial event on a human scale.


In progress in the studio!

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Beth Krebs: Figure/Ground

Images from Beth Krebs' summer installation, Figure/Ground--on view at the Architecktur Museum in Augsburg, Germany (through October 28th).

You can check out her window installation Façade on view at Mixed Greens through November 10, 2012.

Click "read more" for more photos of Figure/Ground.

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A performance by Meghan LeBorious on Thursday, March 22nd

Mixed Greens is pleased to announce that in conjunction with her window drawing installation Emptiness & Its Implications, Meghan LeBorious, will enact a closing performance utilizing salt, chandelier crystals and light.

The performance will take place only on Thursday, March 22nd, from 7-8pm.

Download a press release for the window installation here.

Please contact me (courtney[at]mixedgreens[dot]com) with any questions regarding the event. Hope to see you there!

TAGS: performance / window