Just to put things in perspective

Chance of being attacked by a shark: 1 in 11.5 million. Chance you will win the Mega Millions jackpot: 1 in 175.7 million.

(Thank you CNN for this handy factoid).

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Friday Fun Day: Hennessey & Family Business

We were greatly inspired by Hennessey Youngman's extended invitation for art submissions as part of the debut exhibition at Family Business. It's a small, small world a/k/a Clusterf*ck will be on view at the tiny Chelsea venue through April 16th.

Over the years we've been given one or two works of art that have hung on our office walls. It's time for us to give these little works some bigger and better exposure. So we have submitted these works on the artists' behalf to the exhibition.





Be on the lookout for two small dog paintings by Eric Ginsburg, and a small mixed media work by T.Joey Enos!


Heather & Courtney with the Pharaoh Hennessey himself.


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More installation shots

Read More to see a sneak peek....shhh...

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Rudy Shepherd: INSTALLATION!

It's that time again. INSTALLATION WEEK.

Rudy Shepherd's Psychic Death opens tomorrow, Thursday March 29th, at Mixed Greens.

Join us. And click READ MORE below to see more pics of the installation madness.


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conflict of interest

Can you say conflict of interest??

Oy. MoMA to Gagosian.

Oy Vey at MOCA's Pacific Design Center Branch. (But love you, fellow Norman, Cameron Silver.)

Oh say it ain't so. A MAC user writes a love letter to Windows 8.



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Spotted on the subway

Just announced yesterday (and ALREADY SPOTTED!) is the return of Poetry In Motion on the NYC subways. And the background image is a detail of Joan Linder's Green Weed (71st Street D Line MTA) left and right, 2011! Yay Joan! You'll be seeing it everywhere soon.

From the MTA's website: "Since 1992, when it first displayed an excerpt from Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," MTA's Poetry in Motion program has brought more than 200 poems or excerpts before the eyes of millions of subway riders and rail commuters, offering each a moment of timelessness in the busy day."

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West Collection Field Trip!

Click "Read More" below to see more pics from our day of adventure!

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SHOUT OUT: Artinfo

SHOUT OUT to Artinfo for their coverage of our upcoming project PARIS-SCOPE!

PARIS-SCOPE's first exhibition, James Reeder's The Mountain , opens Thursday, March 29th!

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PARIS-SCOPE: presented by Projective City & Mixed Greens

PARIS—SCOPE JAMES REEDER: THE MOUNTAIN
March 29 – June 2, 2012 Opening: Thursday, March 29, 6-8pm

Mixed Greens is thrilled to announce the start of Paris-Scope, a series of peculiar, collaborative exhibitions that give visitors to Mixed Greens a glimpse into Paris-based Projective City’s newest gallery space. Operating as a kind of alchemical experiment into the possibilities of “action at a distance,” viewers are able to peer into (but obviously not enter) the space both thousands of miles away and inches from their grasp—to mystically be both HERE and THERE simultaneously. The Paris-Scope series allows artists unprecedented control over the gallery space, and focuses on ambitious solo installations. The inaugural exhibition is The Mountain, a solo installation by James Reeder.

“I heard myself close my eyes, then open them.”
(Loys Masson, Icare ou le Voyage)

James Reeder’s subtle investigation of looming, portentous things lurking in our peripheral vision is a complex portrayal of both literal and psychological space. Behind us, as dark forms gather on various horizons, we feel a sense of ominous power and smell the scent of an approaching storm. Yet when we turn to confront these clouds, they have disappeared or shifted to somewhere we cannot quite see. Against these nameless, void anxieties, our defenses appear unsuitable, yet built with conviction and urgency.

Reeder’s ambitious work results from a complex process that includes drawing, sculpture, photography, and installation. Drawings lead to small constructions. Those constructions are often photographed and the photos recombined and incorporated into more complex constructions that once again include drawing. Spatial assumptions are routinely ignored, as miniature elements (a shard of glass, a scrap of wool, a crack in the pavement) take on momentous proportions, while glowering sources of massive potential energy simmer quietly in the corners.

We struggle to occupy Reeder’s spaces, yet they remain intimately familiar. In his words, “My photographs and installations attempt to merge perception and reality and fix the bits of evidence in mind as proof and confirmation.” This urgent desire for “proof” in the face of generally overwhelming natural phenomena, and the hubris of expecting an explanation of the world, is the mystery at the core of Reeder’s practice.

James Reeder currently lives in Bushwick, NY. He was born in Grand Ledge, MI, and graduated from Pacific Union College in CA. He has been included in dozens of exhibitions in New York and beyond. In the last two years, exhibition venues include Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; NURTUREArt, Brooklyn, NY; and Laundromat Gallery in Toyko and Brooklyn. Solo exhibition venues include Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY; A.M. Richard Fine Art in Brooklyn, NY; and ATA Window Gallery in San Francisco, CA. His work has been reviewed on artcat.com and his pieces have been reproduced in Photography Quarterly.

Projective City, under the direction of Benjamin Evans, aims to advance, promote, and make visible the work of emerging artists through an ongoing, flexible, and interconnected series of projects. Working on the assumption that bigger is generally worse, projects are for the most part designed to be smaller-scale and more intimate, aiming for personal encounters between artists, artworks, and audiences. Projective City’s gallery space is located at 34 Rue Hélene Brion, Paris 13eme, and, for the time being, through a peephole at Mixed Greens.

DOWNLOAD the press release here.


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SHOUT OUT: Earth911

SHOUT OUT to Earth911 for this great article about Jenna Spevack's upcoming exhibition, Eight Extraordinary Greens, debuting at Mixed Greens on May 3rd.

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Nice video of the VOLTA NY fair

For those of your who missed the fair...now you can feel like you visited it. Thanks to VernissageTV.

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Meghan LeBorious PERFORMANCE tomorrow night

Just a little reminder that Meghan LeBorious will be at Mixed Greens tomorrow night for a Closing Performance of Emptiness & Its Implications.

Meghan LeBorious @ Mixed Greens
Thursday, March 22nd
7-8pm

We'll see you there.

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Moving Matisse: The New Barnes

Wonderful video time lapse of the Barnes Museum's Matisse being reinstalled in the new museum location. Can't wait to see the new space!

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PARIS-SCOPE countdown

PARIS-SCOPE
James Reeder: The Mountain
opens March 29th @ Mixed Greens

Let the countdown begin.

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SHOUT OUT: Photograph Magazine

It's time for a quick VOLTA recap. What an excellent fair--such a manageable size and comfortable venue. We were pretty happy with the number of interested collectors and international visitors, not to mention the upbeat atmosphere. SHOUT OUT to VOLTA, and a big SHOUT OUT to Jean Dykstra at Photograph Magazine for this thoughtful mention of Julianne Swartz's work in our booth.


Steven and Monica hard at work in the busy booth (above).



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It's spring...things to do!

Besides spring cleaning, there are few things to add to your calendar this week:

Friday, March 23rd, 7-10pm at The Active Space: Documentary screening of Them F*ckin' Robots by Ine Poppe and Sam Nemeth. Read more about it here.

Keith Haring @ the Brooklyn Museum is now open, through July.

Tribeca Film Festival is around the corner (April 18 -29)...start reading up on it now.

Cherry blossoms?Brooklyn Botanic Garden celebrates Hanami for the entire month of April.

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Sonya Blesofsky @ Plug Projects, Kansas City

Check out Sonya Blesofsky's site-specific installation above, currently on view at Plug Projects as part of the Superstruct exhibition.

Sonya Blesofsky
Flood Crest, 2012
vellum, glue, graphite

PLUG Projects
“SUPERSTRUCT”
Work By: Stephanie Snider, Sonya Blesofsky, Brady Haston, Kirsten Kindler, and Juniper Tangpuz.
March 16 – May 5, 2012
Exhibition Opening: March 16, 6pm - 9pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 10am - 5pm and by appointment

Click 'Read More' below for more on the exhibition.


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Loss of control: Dawn Kasper @ The Whitney Biennial

I smell something faintly aromatic…cedar..sandalwood. Mixed with burning. And once I turn the corner into Dawn Kasper's "environment" installation at The Whitney, I'm hit smack in the face with wafting fumes of incense. A crowd of visitors is shuffling through small objects in a case like it's a garage sale. But the museum guard is only feet away and seems unconcerned.

The wall label informs me that this installation, THIS COULD BE SOMETHING IF I LET IT, is the entire contents of the artist's bedroom and nomadic studio, moved into the Whitney for the duration of the Biennial. The artist will be making work, conducting studio visits, and playing music during this time. Again, according to the wall label. This stands in as a living sculpture and blurs the distinction between performance and preparation.

Suddenly the artist smelled what I smelled. "What is that? Wait, what is that?" And the proud visitors happily showed off the incense they'd taken the liberty of lighting. I watched as Ms. Kasper lept to the front of her nomadic studio space to put out the smoking stick because surely FIRE was not an intended outcome of this experiment.

Later I crossed paths with Ms. Kasper in the stairwell. She was joined by an exuberant and inquisitive visitor on a little walk around the museum. I overhead her lament the obvious: "It's not my stuff anymore in this context."


THIS COULD BE SOMETHING IF I LET IT, 2012
from the series The Nomadic Studio Practice Experiment 2009-
Three month durational performance and multimedia installation
Collection of the artist.

Dawn Kasper
b. 1977 in Fairfax, Virginia; lives and works in Los Angeles


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MUST-READS

Clifford Owen's final performance at MoMA PS1--"called for French kissing an audience member and demanding sex"! That is, until Kara Walker stepped in.

Ed Winkleman points to yet another fair I was unaware of this past week--the female artist only Salon Zürcher! Frankly, I love any article that quotes (my Wellesley sister) Hillary Clinton and any art fair that promotes women artists.

It sure would be nice to be in Masstricht today...TEFAF opens today. The Art Newspaper has prepared a handy guide for those of you visiting the fair.

Great list of artist residencies out today by Artinfo.com. Artists, it's application time!

Marina's Performance Art museum coming soon to Hudson, NY.








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SHOUT OUT: AMA for announcing Paris-Scope

Art Media Agency gets a SHOUT OUT for announcing our upcoming collaboration with Projective City:

introducing PARIS-SCOPE!
Opening March 29th @ Mixed Greens with an exhibition by James Reeder.

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Support Jenna Spevack's upcoming project

Eight Extraordinary Greens, coming soon to MIXED GREENS.

Support it here @ Kickstarter.

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My 4 Favorite Art Fair moments

1. The outdoor roof deck cafe at the Independent Fair. Nothing says art fair cafe better than sunshine, an Alexander Wang crowd, and edamame salad.

Click below to read more!

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"I am the bunny. You are the bunny."

Read Tom Clyde's first submission (the beginning of his new blog project) where he muses over Joan Linder's ink on paper drawing from her Rabbit series, 2004-2007.

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Mixed Greens @ VOLTA NY March 8-11

VOLTA NY [ Art Fair ]
7W 34th Street
New York, NY

Thu, March 8th - Sun, March 11th, 2012
Visitor Information here.

Booth C6 = MIXED GREENS

*presenting work by Julianne Swartz


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Planning upcoming exhibition

Heather, Chuka and Rudy work on plans for Rudy's upcoming exhibition at Mixed Greens. Busy week! Mark your calendars:

Rudy Shepherd
Psychic Death
opening March 29th, 6-8pm @ MIXED GREENS

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Way to go team!

We experienced the thrill of an emergency unwrap and rewrap session today--WAY TO GO TEAM! Job well done. TGIF.

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