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Lost & Found explores the usage of found materials and how artists choose to reinterpret the world around them.  Featuring the artwork of five very different artists, Adam Void, Alice Mizrachi, Curtis Readel, ELLE & John Breiner, their work both compliments and juxtaposes, as they express themselves through a myriad of techniques and approaches centering around artwork created from found objects.

Lost & Found Opening Reception:
Friday, January 13th
(show runs until February 5th)
6pm – 9pm

Mighty Tanaka
111 Front Street, Suite 224
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(F Train to York Street, A/C Train to High Street)

http://www.mightytanaka.com/

JANUARY 13, 2012 – MARCH 4, 2012
RECEPTION: JANUARY 13th from 6-9PM

Figureworks is pleased to welcome 2012 with a two-person exhibition by Ellen Emmet Rand and Ellen Emmet Rand, grandmother and granddaughter. The work in this show will combine Ellen Emmet Rand’s portrait paintings and drawings from the turn of the century with Ellen Emmet Rand’s new abstract collage paintings, which have been inspired from and created directly over a series of her earlier figurative paintings done in the 1990’s. Though these women have created quite different works in technique and subject, there is a remarkable similarity in palette, use of light, and a unified sensitivity to composition. These women, having come from very different generations, paths and circumstances, manage to share a unique bond of creativity and perspective.

FIGUREWORKS
fine art of the human form
168 North 6th St. (1 block from Bedford Avenue “L” train)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.figureworks.com
hours: Saturday and Sunday from 1-6PM

Opening Reception:
Friday, January 13th, 6-8pm

Jeff Bailey Gallery opens the New Year with a large group show of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography, an exhibition poised and eager to explore the color Grey in all its moody ramifications.

In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote that he had mixed 46 shades of grey that morning, just to get a feel for grey’s chromatic range. Our own Jasper Johns has been a master of grey since the mid-fifties. Younger artists use grey constantly, whether as graphite, in drawing, or as a mixed color in painting.

If black is at one extreme, and white the other, does everything that falls between qualify as grey? What makes one grey warm, another cool? Does charcoal belong to black, or is it really grey? Is photography’s nostalgia for black and white really a claim for the color grey? What if that rainbow is a bruise on the sky, as Nellie McKay asks in a song?

Thirty-seven artists, including Kay Rosen, Nathlie Provosty, Noah Post, Carol Diehl, Martin McMurray, Jennifer Coates, Wayne White, Audrey Stone, Cary Smith, Walton Ford, Mel Bochner and Will Yackulic—among many others–will address these questions by bodying forth their answers in new works.

And what of silver? Battleships? Gym-rat hoodies? Rockefeller Center? Clouds? The sidewalks of New York?

Jeff Bailey Gallery, 625 W 27th Street, New York, NY 10001

http://baileygallery.com/

Rachael Wren, Ethersphere, 2011, oil on linen, 20″x20″

January 21 – March 11, 2012 | OPENING January 21 6 pm to Midnight

Featured Artist Megan Berk will inaugurate RAC and kick off Recession Art’s solo shows with Weird Party on the Other Side of the Hedge, a show that explores the impulse towards heaven. In abstracted landscapes and altered architectural spaces, a sort of bright beyond is suggested where light meets shadow. These moments of possibility allude as much to the idea of heaven as they might to an idealized future, the idea of Summer before it has arrived, or the improbable optimism that drives creative progress. They seek to transform moments of desire, self-delusion, and optimism into form and color; In this way, they echo religious painting, though the icons here are taken from the glossy pages of architecture and lifestyle magazines.

Recession Art at CULTUREfix, 9 Clinton St NY, NY

http://recessionartshows.com

Megan Berk, The Very Big Field

Smack Mellon is pleased to present three solo exhibitions featuring new work and site specific projects by Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon. Tamara Gayer reconfigures and translates the geometry of urban landscapes into an intricate vinyl installation for her window project The Final Contraction. Covering all 24 windows with various colors and textures of vinyl, Gayer presents an alternate all-encompassing prismatic cityscape. Disorganized spaces, often hidden from public view by design, are the focus of Heeseop Yoon’s Still Life #11. Yoon provides a dramatic view of chaotic interior spaces using black masking tape on the gallery’s oversized 24′ x 60′ long wall. In the back gallery, Stephen Sollins presents Piecework, a series of large scale works on paper made entirely of collected mailing envelopes. Intersecting his mathematical approach with his interest in the sentimental, Sollins methodically assembles the recognizably patterned paper into the form of traditional American quilts.

Tamara Gayer, The Final Contraction

Stephen Sollins, Piecework

Heeseop Yoon, Still Life #11

Exhibition Dates: January 21 – March 4, 2012
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, January 21, 5-8pm

Smack Mellon | 92 Plymouth Street | Brooklyn | NY | 11201
http://smackmellon.org/

BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents The Bricoleurs, an exhibition at BRIC Rotunda Gallery featuring a range of Brooklyn artists who embrace the practice of bricolage and construct visual works from discrepant elements, creating new forms and imagery. Curated by Christian Fuller and Risa Shoup, the exhibition opens Wednesday, January 25 at BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton St, and will be on view through March 3, 2012. Admission to the gallery is free.

The opening reception is Wednesday January 25 from 7 to 9 p.m.

All artists in the show were selected from BRIC’s Contemporary Artists Registry, the oldest registry of visual artists in Brooklyn with more than 16,000 digital submissions from 800 artists. Founded in 1983, the Registry is open to artists living or working in Brooklyn; visit registry.bricartsmedia.org to view a range of artists’ work.

Bricolage is a term used in several disciplines to refer to the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of sometimes seemingly disparate things; a person who engages in bricolage is called a bricoleur. The range of work in this show includes: video, painting, collage, assemblage, sculpture and digital printing.
Christian Maychack Habitant, 2011
According to the curators: “We have chosen artists for the exhibition who pull together styles and materials that might otherwise appear disparate and unattractive save for the artist’s ability to combine them into one cogent, integral whole… With The Bricoleurs, we turn our analytical gaze more to the practice of creating bricolage less than the product, the bricolage itself.”

Artists featured in the exhibition are: Man Bartlett, Andrea Burgay, Danielle Durchslag, Alana Fitzgerald, Joseph Gillette, Max Greis, Cooper Holoweski, MaryKate Maher, Christian Maychack and Troy Michie.

Images: Danielle Durchslag, Relative Unknown 19, 2011

Location and Gallery Hours
BRIC Rotunda Gallery 33 Clinton Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Hours: Tues – Sat, noon – 6 p.m.
Directions: A/C trains to High St, 2/3 to Clark St, 4/5 to Borough Hall, R to Court St

About BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents contemporary art, performing arts and community media programs that reflect Brooklyn’s creativity and diversity. BRIC also provides resources to launch, nurture and showcase artists and media makers. We advance access to and understanding of arts and media by presenting free and low cost programming, and by offering education and public programs to people of all ages.
BRIC’s contemporary art exhibition program is supported by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Barclays/Nets Community Alliance; Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation; Lily Auchincloss Foundation; and Robert Lehman Foundation, in addition to numerous individuals. Learn more at bricartsmedia.org

BRIC also acknowledges public funds for its contemporary art programs from Institute of Museum and Library Services; National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York State Senators Velmanette Montgomery and Daniel Squadron; New York State Assembly members Inez Barron, Alec Brook-Krasny, Hakeem Jeffries, and Joan Millman; and New York City Council members Lewis A. Fidler, Brad Lander, Stephen Levin, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Albert Vann and Jumaane Williams.

Special thanks to lead sponsor for this exhibition: Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.

For more information, please visit bricartsmedia.org
Press contact: Colleen J. Ross, BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn,
cross@bricartsmedia.org 718.683.5629