Join BFP Creative at 119 Ingraham Street in the New Temporary Storage Galleries (ground floor) for the opening reception of their inaugural group show.

Hrönir: Un-Lost Things takes its name from Jorge Luis Borges’ short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. “Hrönir” are objects that, once lost, have been found–but they are duplicated and somehow affected by having been lost, or by having been found. The same missing pencil may be found by two separate individuals, with each finding a version of the pencil they expect to find. Hrönir are distorted by expectation and memory, but as personalized facsimiles of the original are valid and very real objects.

For the first group show hosted by BFPCreative, nearly 80 artists were asked to “recreate something lost,” effectively using art to manufacture something like hrönir in the real world. The resulting work ranges from heartfelt and tragic to humorous, irreverent takes on things lost.

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Recent photographs, sculptures, and videos by Adam Frelin and Rena Leinberger at Radiator Gallery.

By re-creating, displacing, and transforming seemingly familiar images, objects, sites, and actions, the artists construct distinctive narratives as well as explore the role of the mediums. With their formal qualities, these works subvert art historical conventions as well as cultural and societal expectations. The works conflate fact and fiction, past and present, and the natural and man-made environment. The title of the exhibition, From Within the Flesh of the World, is taken from Victor Burgin’s essay, “Monument and Melancholia” (2008).

Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 25, 6-9 pm
Radiator Arts
10-61 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
October 25 – December 13, 2014

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El Museo de Los Sures and the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) are pleased to present the exhibition “I use people for what I write” by artist and ISCP alum Itziar Barrio.

This exhibition is the outcome of Barrio’s three-month residency at El Museo, where she has initiated a series of works on desire and power. “I use people for what I write” includes cement sculptures, silkscreens on latex and video work. The notion of value is intertwined throughout the works by varying and repeating the form of a trapezoid referencing diamonds and gold ingots. Using the same materials in a second set of sculptures alongside parts of an Ikea chair, Barrio addresses concepts of mass production and popular design. Another work, “I’m a Writer,” uses printed text on latex and reconstructed phrases from the movie Basic Instinct (1992). Here, words from the film’s dialogue are removed to create a quasi-monologue.

The exhibition runs from October 22- November 19, Thursday-Saturday, 1-6pm.

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Picture Farm is proud to present the first show of the 2014 PF gallery season: Closed for Alterations by Matthew Lusk.

Matthew will be showing large-scale collages of tailor’s patterns on board, with mixed media elements and a treatment of acrylic and glaze with a faux-finisher’s graining comb. The works will be complimented by a large installation piece that will offer gallery denizens a bar to which “saddling up” would be the proper verbiage.

The info: here.

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There is a solid line-up of artists (9) represented in an exhibition at ventana244, this November 15 – December 20, 2013. Opening November 15, 6-9pm.

The artists: Chris Martin, Dona Nelson, Yevgeniya Baras,  Jackie Saccoccio, Russell Tyler, Maria Walker, Chuck Webster, Rick Briggs, and Jonathan Allmaier.

Curated by Rick Briggs

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